Wehner Homestead
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Yep! Still favors them over swine to this day!
Senile Texas Aggie - comic relief for the rest of you
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Yep! Still favors them over swine to this day!
greybeard
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Oh.the irony...That is probably good because your comic relief often involves breakage or near breakage
https://www.backyardherds.com/threads/bruces-journal.34651/page-185#post-571726
RollingAcres
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Ridgetop
Herd Master
I think STA is rushing to catch up to the rest of us in our near disaster misses. He has already experiences a lot in just a short amount of time! Senile_Texas_Aggie You are an overachiever!
Bruce
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True, we "late to the game" folks don't have near as much time to make all those mistakes!
Ridgetop
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I am impressed by the speed with which you are catching up! 
greybeard
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Nope. Didn't have to,tho more than that I won't say. To be honest, she did it all and I'm both lucky it was that way and I'm glad of it tho I do have to confess, for the first few months it was rough and I was glad when she finally slowed down some..., if ya get my drift. That day I met her, I was 42 and she hadn't quite turned 28.
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Senile_Texas_Aggie
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Wednesday morning my wife and I decided to continue working on clearing out the overgrowth and thinning the trees in the woods next to our driveway. It was really cool and humid that morning. We were able to work several hours thanks to the coolness. But the lack of a grapple made moving the cut trees slow work. So yesterday I decided that we would no longer work at clearing the woods until the grapple is repaired. Instead, I decided to do a lot of the little chores that I had been postponing until we had finished the woods along the drive.
The first thing I did was to convert the overhead lighting circuit from 240V to 120V by moving the white wire from one of the 240V legs to the neutral bus. I then turned the circuit back on. The LED lights still worked but the mercury vapor lights no longer came on. That was no real loss as I planned to remove those lights anyway and replace with LEDs (which I had already purchased).
Next, I decided to see if I could determine what was wrong with the Gator. It has been running poorly for a couple of months now but with it having been so hot and with my wife and me focusing on clearing out around the pond and now the woods along the driveway, by the time we finished working I just was not interested. But with our taking the day off from working in the woods I decided it was time to try to figure out what was wrong with the Gator. I had bought a spark plug voltage check tool, as I was thinking that maybe one of the 3 ignition modules was weak. The first cylinder I tried was OK. But when I checked the second cylinder, I noticed that the spark plug boot looked burned and was cracked. The light bulb went on -- I wondered if the spark was leaking out of the boot to ground. When I wrapped the boot with electrical tape (just as a check) and put the boot back on the spark plug, then the Gator started and ran just fine! Doh! I had changed the plugs earlier and had failed to notice the cracked boot. So later yesterday I drove to Fort Smith to get several items and stopped at a John Deere dealership while there and bought a new set of spark plug wires. So now the Gator is back in top shape again!
Today I installed the LED lights in the shop. I had plans of doing more but straining my back putting up those lights made me decide to take a break and I checked to see what was going on here in BYH!
Here is a picture of the sunrise we saw this morning:
Senile Texas Aggie
The first thing I did was to convert the overhead lighting circuit from 240V to 120V by moving the white wire from one of the 240V legs to the neutral bus. I then turned the circuit back on. The LED lights still worked but the mercury vapor lights no longer came on. That was no real loss as I planned to remove those lights anyway and replace with LEDs (which I had already purchased).
Next, I decided to see if I could determine what was wrong with the Gator. It has been running poorly for a couple of months now but with it having been so hot and with my wife and me focusing on clearing out around the pond and now the woods along the driveway, by the time we finished working I just was not interested. But with our taking the day off from working in the woods I decided it was time to try to figure out what was wrong with the Gator. I had bought a spark plug voltage check tool, as I was thinking that maybe one of the 3 ignition modules was weak. The first cylinder I tried was OK. But when I checked the second cylinder, I noticed that the spark plug boot looked burned and was cracked. The light bulb went on -- I wondered if the spark was leaking out of the boot to ground. When I wrapped the boot with electrical tape (just as a check) and put the boot back on the spark plug, then the Gator started and ran just fine! Doh! I had changed the plugs earlier and had failed to notice the cracked boot. So later yesterday I drove to Fort Smith to get several items and stopped at a John Deere dealership while there and bought a new set of spark plug wires. So now the Gator is back in top shape again!
Today I installed the LED lights in the shop. I had plans of doing more but straining my back putting up those lights made me decide to take a break and I checked to see what was going on here in BYH!
Here is a picture of the sunrise we saw this morning:
Senile Texas Aggie
RollingAcres
Herd Master
That sunrise picture is beautiful!
Nothing much here in BYH, we've just been "hijacking" your journal and talking about how we met our significant other. Come to think of it, you didn't tell us yet about how you and Mrs. STA met (if you did, I must have missed it).
Nothing much here in BYH, we've just been "hijacking" your journal and talking about how we met our significant other. Come to think of it, you didn't tell us yet about how you and Mrs. STA met (if you did, I must have missed it).
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Senile_Texas_Aggie
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I want to announce to the BYHers following this journal of a new award called the "@greybeard Zinger Award(tm)". It is to be awarded to anyone who receives a pithy observation (a "Zinger") from our very own Mr. @greybeard! I was tempted to award it to Mr. @Bruce when Mr. @greybeard made the observation "Oh.the irony..." above. But then I figured that wouldn't be fair to Mr. Bruce when if I were to go back in my own journal I would find many such Greybeard Zinger Awards! After all, my journal is a target rich environment! So I will start with myself, telling a story for which I am fairly certain that Mr. Greybeard will have an appropriate Zinger response.
Earlier this morning I decided to sharpen the chains on both the chainsaw and the pole saw. The chain on the pole saw had come off the bar, so I took the pole saw apart, cleaned out all of the saw dust, put the chain back on the bar and reassembled the pole saw. I then decided to sharpen the chain. This particular chain has two teeth in succession oriented in the same direction, and I normally start sharpening there so that I will know when I have sharpened the entire chain when I encounter those two teeth again. Well, this time when I started to sharpen the chain I could not find those two teeth. "That's weird!" I thought. Oh, well, I decided to mark a tooth with a black marker and begin sharpening. There was something about the sharpening that did not seem right, although I could not put my finger on it. I had almost sharpened all of the teeth in a given orientation when it finally hit me what was wrong -- I had put the chain on backwards!
As the initial recipient of the "Greybeard Zinger Award(tm)", I have created this picture/symbol as a distinguished marker for each of us who will receive this award:
So, Mr. @greybeard, what Greybeard Zinger are you going to award me with?
Senile Texas Aggie
So I will start with myself, telling a story for which I am fairly certain that Mr. Greybeard will have an appropriate Zinger response.Earlier this morning I decided to sharpen the chains on both the chainsaw and the pole saw. The chain on the pole saw had come off the bar, so I took the pole saw apart, cleaned out all of the saw dust, put the chain back on the bar and reassembled the pole saw. I then decided to sharpen the chain. This particular chain has two teeth in succession oriented in the same direction, and I normally start sharpening there so that I will know when I have sharpened the entire chain when I encounter those two teeth again. Well, this time when I started to sharpen the chain I could not find those two teeth. "That's weird!" I thought. Oh, well, I decided to mark a tooth with a black marker and begin sharpening. There was something about the sharpening that did not seem right, although I could not put my finger on it. I had almost sharpened all of the teeth in a given orientation when it finally hit me what was wrong -- I had put the chain on backwards!
As the initial recipient of the "Greybeard Zinger Award(tm)", I have created this picture/symbol as a distinguished marker for each of us who will receive this award:
So, Mr. @greybeard, what Greybeard Zinger are you going to award me with?
Senile Texas Aggie
