CntryBoy777 - The Lazy A** Acres Adventures

[greybeard]

Seat switches on any mower brand made by MTD are easy to trouble shoot. It's a normally open switch, meaning the contacts in the switch are open (off) when operator is in the seat. If in doubt, unplug the 2 wires where their terminal connects to the seat switch and the unit should start and the pto switch should work if the problem is the seat switch. On many non MTD mowers (Kubota for instance) the seat switch is a normally closed switch. On those, to trouble shoot, you would stick a U shaped wire into the seat switch terminal to jumper it..for testing only of course.

 

[Bruce]

On those, to trouble shoot, you would stick a U shaped wire into the seat switch terminal to jumper it..for testing only of course.

Of course!

Geez Fred, those blades look so bad you probably didn't even recognize the new blades as the right ones! Sorry it was such a PITA. Been there, done that, just not with the garden tractor. If you want to make some good ol' @CntryBoy777 lemonade out of that situation, consider that you don't need to use it all winter to blow snow after mowing season is over If you think fixing something this time of year is no fun, it is WAY less fun when you can't do the work with gloves on and can't feel your fingers without the gloves.

 

[Latestarter]

Well Bruce... I would think/hope that the garden tractor is now retired from pushing snow... With that 4 wheel drive tractor and FEL, you now have the equipment to do it up right. Now, you just need to build a nice heated bldg to keep that diesel powered tractor in so that you can get it started at sub zero temps.

 

[CntryBoy777]

There is a whole lot that I'm thankful for @Bruce and certainly can add those to the list....I've been under a car during cold here replacing the clutch while it was snowing, so I do know about numb hands and fingers playing with metals and the burn that comes when they thaw out. I'm thankful too, that there is much more room to work on the mower than any vehicle made today.........I just couldn't imagine being in that kind of climate other than to visit....it just isn't my cup of tea and am thankful that the south hasn't sent me packing as of yet.....

 

[Bruce]

Well Bruce... I would think/hope that the garden tractor is now retired from pushing snow... With that 4 wheel drive tractor and FEL, you now have the equipment to do it up right. Now, you just need to build a nice heated bldg to keep that diesel powered tractor in so that you can get it started at sub zero temps.

I don't push snow, I throw it. I might revisit that when the garden tractor gets old but it is only maybe 3 years old now. Not getting a blower for the real tractor. WAY too much money. If I were cleaning roads and people's driveways for money I would consider it.

Not building a heated tractor shed either! The barn needs a bazillion $$ of work to get it back to "pretty good". Don't know if that will happen.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

DH plugs our tractors in before he goes into work in the morning so they are ready to use when he gets off that night if he needs to use one of them...

 

[CntryBoy777]

I got both of the fields cut today, but had to wait til noon for the grass to dry and not long after I parked the rider the moisture sent this way by the Texas "clan" arrived and is suppose to hang around til sometime Monday....with the cooler temps the grass sure won't be growing very fast. It was a fairly windy day and that always has the goats on edge. Gabbie insisted on going outside last night a little after midnite, so I got dressed to take her out and when she went thru the door she began raising Cain....it was all I could do to hold her, but then I heard what she was alerting to....coyotes..so, I let her bark and sniff around....checked on the Boys and they were both laying on the deck...watching her...they have learned to heed her alerts and have seen her chase other animals away from their pen and have relaxed quite a bit around her.....especially since we don't allow her to run and bark at them thru the fence. I was looking forward to the Bluegrass Festival in town today, but when I got up the knee and foot was too painful to go and walk or stand on to it....I just took a pain pill and cut grass.....
I have been searching to find out what kind of grass this might be..... ......I know it is just the seed head, but if anyone can help, I'd sure appreciate it.....

 

[Mike CHS]

I don't recognize that one.

 

[Baymule]

Looks like quack grass.

 

[CntryBoy777]

....HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!....to our Gabbie.....she is a year old today, but it is rainy and 48° outside right now.....it will have to be an inside kind of day.....