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Post by fuzzyruttin on Aug 29, 2020 7:13:20 GMT -5
Worked on... getting outta dodge
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Post by milly on Aug 30, 2020 8:08:11 GMT -5
I can see why Yolanda won't let me near new gadgets. Just got the battery mower out. The back roller is clacking away. Then just as Yolanda came out I emptied the grass box in the compost pile and she said what you doing. I was trying to connect the grass box to the wheelbarrow. Must stop thinking of more than one thing at once.
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Post by 90GTVert on Sept 3, 2020 8:12:37 GMT -5
Lawnmowers, lawnmowers, lawnmowers. Just mine. They won't stop breaking. The old mower has needed a choke cable, throttle cable, wheel bearings, deck repair, deck wheels, belt and broken pulley replacement and routine maintenance of blades, oil, filters, etc... all in thee last couple of months. As soon as one thing is fixed, it tears something else up this season. It doesn't even cut that much grass.
I started cutting grass on the newer mower last night and it started to sound like a helicopter when put under load. Low on power and the sound just reminded me of one cylinder being weak or dead. Switched to the old mower, which luckily made it through once cutting just fine for a change. I checked spark on both cylinders, then changed the plugs just hoping it could be that simple. When I removed the plugs, one cylinder's plug is wet and one is dry. I've also noticed some oil smoke on startup on occasion for the last month or so. It appeared to lessen after an oil change, so I was optimistic that maybe the oil was just thin even though I was within the maintenance time table. I'll do a compression test later. I'm really hoping this doesn't turn out to be a big issue, but it doesn't seem so good.
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Post by FrankenMech on Sept 3, 2020 9:28:13 GMT -5
I have had enough of everything growing in the summer heat. I don't do so well in the heat and humidity. The thing with flowers for the pollinators planted by the Ex is wearing thin and the weeds are horrible. Is there a place I can buy an industrial size 55 gallon barrel of concentrated Roundup and a flamethrower for cleanup? My lawnmowers are in the same shape as Brent's, they all need work. I don't like working on lawnmowers while dripping with sweat and my pants falling down from water weight. Can I just call in some A-10's loaded with napalm and do away with me and the house repairs too?
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Post by 2stroked on Sept 5, 2020 15:50:40 GMT -5
I have had enough of everything growing in the summer heat. I don't do so well in the heat and humidity. The thing with flowers for the pollinators planted by the Ex is wearing thin and the weeds are horrible. Is there a place I can buy an industrial size 55 gallon barrel of concentrated Roundup and a flamethrower for cleanup? My lawnmowers are in the same shape as Brent's, they all need work. I don't like working on lawnmowers while dripping with sweat and my pants falling down from water weight. Can I just call in some A-10's loaded with napalm and do away with me and the house repairs too? j Hey there Frank, go to a tractor supply store or some similar shit and get a 2½ gallon jug of GlyStar or Cornerstone. Shit is fucking amazing. Takes a few days, but it won't come back. I've sprayed about 60 gallons of the mix this season, just takes two sprays a year to keep the weeds down. Not cheap, but well worth it if you have a large yard and lots of weeds.
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Post by 2stroked on Sept 5, 2020 15:58:52 GMT -5
New drive belt, motor to deck belt, and deck timing belt in the I1042 cub, three 22 inch blades on the old hand made pull behind mower, oil change for the MF 135GS tractor, new hydraulic oil and filter in the MF 1635. New wheel bearings in the 18ft trailer, lots of mowing
Cut this year's berry brambles out of the fields so next year's can get more sun, been so busy in the gardens I haven't had time to scratch... Picked a half bushel of tomatoes this morning, and another half this evening. Picked two and a half bushel of beans in between that.
Wind got to my sweet corn, so I had to take tobacco sticks (4ft 1x1 square posts with points cut on both ends) and tied it up. Been a hell of a week.
The green bean patches have produced thirteen bushel plus what I picked today, so fifteen in all this year. Should double that by end of season. My watermelons are getting close too, it's been a chore just to remember to flip the things around every day or two to stop flatspots.
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Post by FrankenMech on Sept 5, 2020 20:37:42 GMT -5
My problem with weeds is the flowers that are under them. If I spray anything it kills the flowers also. I don't even know the names of all the flowers, the Ex planted them.
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Post by oldgeek on Sept 5, 2020 23:17:46 GMT -5
My problem with weeds is the flowers that are under them. If I spray anything it kills the flowers also. I don't even know the names of all the flowers, the Ex planted them. Aren't flowers just pretty weeds? Asphalt doesn't need cutting.
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Post by Steve B on Sept 6, 2020 9:29:17 GMT -5
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Post by FrankenMech on Sept 6, 2020 10:48:29 GMT -5
I have often threatened to just cover the yard with green concrete.
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Post by aeroxbud on Sept 6, 2020 11:43:16 GMT -5
I have often threatened to just cover the yard with green concrete. Astro turf is the answer.
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Post by FrankenMech on Sept 6, 2020 13:46:56 GMT -5
Hmmmm, I used to have a friend that laid that stuff professionally in stadiums but he moved to Floriduh.
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Post by 90GTVert on Sept 7, 2020 19:12:11 GMT -5
I finally checked compression on the riding mower. 145-150psi in one cylinder. 30-35psi in the other. Just out of curiosity, I checked the service manual. It says 64psi is the service limit. It does ~150psi on what I assume is a healthy cylinder, and you should just leave it if it has 64psi. Nice.
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Post by oldgeek on Sept 7, 2020 19:45:54 GMT -5
I finally checked compression on the riding mower. 145-150psi in one cylinder. 30-35psi in the other. Just out of curiosity, I checked the service manual. It says 64psi is the service limit. It does ~150psi on what I assume is a healthy cylinder, and you should just leave it if it has 64psi. Nice. Maybe it's one of them valve thingys the 4 pokes have? Hope its not contagious and the other side loses compression too.
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Post by 90GTVert on Sept 7, 2020 22:24:35 GMT -5
Maybe it's one of them valve thingys the 4 pokes have? Hope its not contagious and the other side loses compression too. The plan is to check the valves first. Don't think I'll be that lucky. When we got this mower, I thought a Kawasaki motor sounded fine. Always had Briggs or Kohler before and I never remember engine issues. We'd wear out decks and steering and everything else and the engines would still run like a top. Doing some searches, there seem to be a lot of issues at lower hours with these Kawasaki mower engines.
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