How did you spend your day?

I spent the morning finding the correct belt for my JD. The afternoon was working on my flail mower. I must of had 10 pounds of thin wire wound around one end of the blade drum at one bearing end. That happened yeaterday. On the way to the trailer to take my tractor, and mower home, the alternator beating went out. That's why I neede a new belt.I had to remove the bearing and after much cutting and prying I finally got the wire cleaned out. I lost a whole day mowing. Tomorrow is another day. Stan

Got the lawn tractor un-stuck from the back yard where it has been for the last 3 days & spent the the afternoon mowing.

Vern

First day to plant corn around here. central In.What a time to have A Fib and not feel like going full tilt.

drilled and tapped the rear housing for the final drive on a OC 46 for helicoils

Fixed the instrument cluster on my pickup. Cleaned it out, put on new rotors and pads, and gave it an oil change. Then pulled the school bus out of the ditch. Mostly just sat in the shop, and watched it rain.
David

Drilled the last 3 rivets out of the Ranger's frame so I can mount a new spare tire pan. Then scraped and brushed every inch of frame I could reach and hit it with Rustoleum. Figured new shocks were probably a good idea while the bed was off so I did that too.
Then restacked the remainder of last year's firewood. Got the axe head stuck hard in a piece that I was trying to trim down, had to use the wedge and sledge to get it out. Gave up at that point, that piece will meet the chainsaw tomorrow.

Picked up a new axle for an old trailer, and intalled it. Then, I formed up a 17x21 patio in front of the house, although I did shoot the elevations for it yesterday. Finally, I mowed a little until dinner was on. Tomorrow is the day I'm dreading, fill a little with gravel, layout rebar and pour 2 yds. BLAH!!!

Watching it rain. Day 2. It's never done that before here.

Finding copper buss bar through a metal supplier for a bank of testers. And ordering it.

Machining aluminum plates for a hot job for some test fixtures.

Machining SS 304 billet for a magnetizer sample holder.

Selecting aluminum plate and billet for 2 new calibrators that my company is making. Also ordering G10 epoxy based Garolite for these machines, and selecting SS 304 billet too.

Chores this morning, then this afternoon I made some branding irons for a friend. Been hitting it pretty hard, so I took the rest of the afternoon off, since it was raining and I couldn't do anything outside. It's going to get real busy when it dries up.

Spread two loads of fertilizer on hay ground. Brought over the neighbor's boom truck to unload a sand screen so I can screen wood ash before I spread it. Screened part of a load, but the fertilizer Co. took their spreader back before I could use it. Hopefully they will let me have it again tomorrow, supposed to start raining AGAIN Saturday.

Helped with chores for the first time in a few days as nick took care of everything while I was planting.
I did some paper work and helped get the planter switched over to start planting beans in a day or so weather permitting.
Took a little crop tour on the way to lunch and saw that guys have been and still are replanting that early corn that didnt make it up.
I got the 495a planter ready to put away now that we are done with it for the year. It is our sweet corn, indian corn and pumpkin planter.
Helped nick put some more wheel weights on the 4430.
Then we had a new calf tonight to catch, tag and vaccinate before moving him and his mom to the other lot.
Got in the house about 7:45pm. Turned on the tv and found they are playing a encore of todays cubs cards game and we are watching it now.
Wrigley says the weather is a little warm for his taste allready!
bill

Lessee, watched my son find out his feed trailer is an inch too tall for the shop door. Checked out an apartment in town for a young man who is coming for the summer. Came home and changed the planter over for beans. Watched the lumber yard's building crew replace the 2X8 that was snapped on the top of the shop door sill. Drove the 1086 in the shop, removed and disassembled the alternator to replace the regulator. Froze my buns off mowing lawn after supper when it started drizzling. Sat down at the computer to type and post my daily diary. Last job of the day is to twist a top. Jim

Spent the day jackhammering out a waterline that is encased in concrete. When line was put in we had to cross a creekbed using a rock saw. They then poured concrete in the groove to cover it up. What a pain.

Had the privilege at work of removing the water pump from a 60 series Detroit Diesel engine with an EGR cooler on it! I don't think you could put any more parts in that space! Also removed the turbo oil drain pipe/adaptor to fix an oil leak while all the other stuff's out of the way. Got home and took the weed eater to the yard and killed about 15' of trimmer line! I don't trim the whole yard close but 4 or 5 times a year- too much of a redneck. Ain't found no cars yet! My daughter comes home from college for the summer Saturday, so the house'll be a little noisier for a while!

Took my morning dose of pain pills, went to work loaded 8 containers with medical film bound for China,Pulled 4 orders for customer pick up went to lunch, loaded 8 more containers of the same material bound for Japan. Unloaded 4 of the finished product to be stored until sold to a medical supplier, and took my afternoon pills, then did my daily paperwork. Came home about 3 hours ago.....

Started my day by getting off work at 2am, came home and slept til 6:30am. Had some breakfast and continued setting up my reloading bench. Went into town to pick up textbooks for summer classes and have lunch with my sister and her husband, decided to kill a little time and look at new trucks. Came home and mowed the yard, made supper, then out to finish putting the front hubs back on the Oliver 770. Just cleaned up and kicking back to have a chat with Captain Morgan.

Got out to the farm at 6, installed the new exhaust pipe on the Ollie 88, went to the field to plant beans at 8;00 done at dark, now having an adult bewerage and grilling a chiken!

Started of by writing two big checks to the IRS
then order a set of injectors and a used connecting rod for a 2290 Case.
went out in the field and fixed a JD 7000 planter and looked at a Agco 9455 hydraulic leak.
after lunch the sun was shinning and i had no parts so I sat my self down in a customers CaseIH 9250 and ran the chisel plow for the afternoon, there is nothing like ripping up some ground to clear your head.
Tonight I had a cold one and watched two bull calves playing, bucking and jumping, one born on Easter and one on Mothers day.
Overall I would say it was a good day!
now i have to figure out why a Case 2294 blew a key switch fuse and he replaced the fuse but the tractor won't move

Finished my last 90 acres of beans today.Sprayed a couple of fields then started on the nieghbors 80 acres of beans.

9 oclock tonite I hear a swish of air and the front tire was flat on the planter tractor.

50 acres of his left to plant and 70 acres of my beans left to spray and I can call it a spring.

I think my spare is ready to go so I'll start where I left off tomorrow.

Helped put the table back on the G&L bar at work & indicate it in, only to have to pull it back off after measuring it and finding it still had a .006" belly in the middle.

Then helped take the table back off and set it in our double column machine again so Mike could reface it again. We added some cross key slots to the table for fixturing purposes and we're facing it to make it flat again and take out all of the dings and gouges in it.

Got home and started cutting the lawn, only to have to race back to the shed with the lawn mower ahead of the downpour I saw coming. Got a portion done, but still got about 1 1/2 hours to go, plus trimming & mowing around the house with the push mower.

Donovan from Wisconsin

I spent most of the day working on paver patio, gotta get it done by the end of June for the 4th. Mowed some of the lower areas, haven't even thought of firing up the tractor for plowing the garden, it will need at least another week of dry weather. :^(

Spent half the day trying to find insurance coverage for our farming operation.....seems we don't fit into any good category with small acreage vegetable sales as well as custom farming....add in customer access to your fields (U-pic), salmonella outbreaks, hayrides during pumpkin season and a lot of farm equipment sitting around where kids can access them and they get scared!

Spent the day trying to get helicopters ready for flight back to US. At least it"s not very hot in Mexico City.

Had breakfast in town, got my eyes checked. Yeah, I can still see! Ran a few errands and picked up soybean seed. Came home and plowed with my 48 JD D and 3-16's until 5:30. Got rained off once. Grabbed a quick bite, went to a trustees meeting at the Elks, took care of a friends dogs(35 mile round trip) and came home. Gonna finish a toddy and call it a day. Who says being retired is boring?

Spent a lot of the day finishing fencing the garden. Prior to the fence, rabbits ate 16 broccoli plants the first night. I've been covering them every night. Can't wait until dawn to see if the fence kept them out. Also planted pickles, cukes and sunflowers.

Larry

Disced the garden and planted some beans,corn and tomatoes, then afternoon worked on sickle bar of mower and greased it and baler and rake.

About 1/2 done planting corn, it rained all day yesterday, & conditions were pretty wet to start with.... Typical farmer-anxiety on that, you all know how a person feels.

So yesterday I drove 80 miles to go shopping for an item, which the farm supply store people that were on duty didn't know anything about, and the 2 people that _may_ know something about it were both at lunch until - sometime, not sure when. We all hemmed & hawed for a while, and I said maybe I can look up the machine on-line for review, and come back some other time. So they read off the web site to me which I could see for myself (web site name and machine itself ad manufaturer name were all different so it wasn't an 'obvious' sort of web site easy to remember....), but I didn't have a pen and neither of the staff offered to write it down for me or offered a pen or nothing. Just kinda looked at them for a bit, they looked back at me with blank stares, I thanked them, and left. Got to my 'point' there where it's best to just leave.

Went to the closest JD dealer to my farm on the way home, needed 12 rivots to put a fertilizer disk together. This dealership became part of a large group a few years ago, and became more intigrated into that a year ago I heard - not so good service any more is what I hear. So, it took a long time to look up the rivots on the computer. (1.25 by .25 rivots, should be in a drawer where the rivots are all kept, but we live in a computer world....) and he asks for my name after he finds everything he needs and gets the rivots. Huh, well, you're not in the computer, you bought here before? Well yea, probably been close to 2 years, as last year I got lucky & didn't need any planter parts, but sure get parts every now & then, got disk & plow parts in the past too. Looked again, & I'm just not in the computer, he was just dumbfounded - I said I mostly pay cash or check, so not sure how that affects your computer records. Then he says well, it doesn't really matter, other than if you're not in the computer he has to charge me sales tax, but not a big deal on a small amount like this.

And he looks at me.

No offer to put me in the comuter, not sure he knew how, not really sure of anything anymore. So I paid for the rivots & the tax. And truely that was not a big deal. But I didn't bother asking about the 5-bottom vari-width plow they have out on the lot, like I was going to. No use trying to bother with an attitude like that. I ain't paying sales tax on a whole plow, and didn't seem any interest in trying to work with me on a small sale, I'm not gonna bother trying a big sale.

Just kinda went home feeling grouchy. Ain't no sevice out there any more is there. Nothing anounted to a big deal, and I don't have any problems at all compared to most, but still felt pretty grumpy by the end of the day.

That was my day.

--->Paul

I thought that they had you fixed!?

Shocked twice but never held.

6:30 AM to 6:30PM in the 4960 John Deere pulling a 4600 gallon Jamesway manure tanker Plan almost the same thing for Saturday, after me and my 86 year old buddy go out for breakfast. It's finally drying out here in Central NY. Probably 150 acres of corn in 150 to go. The boss was pulling the corn planter all day but he didn't quit early like me.

Did a trade with a bud,,, I got to implements in exchange for installing upper and lower ball joints in his 01 Dodge ram 1500 2X4 he supplied the parts,,, mounted and balanced 4 new tires on it and 4 new shocks,,,I had forgot just how tuff those rivets are to drill out,,, they had me sweating bullets... Its a job I wish on no one... To make matters worst the front shocks bottomed out on a test drive so had to figge that out,,, he got shocks for a 4X4,,, One day spent in ell a week is bad enuff,,, started the week out with a driveabilty issue with a 97 Ford E350 V10...

Took most of 3 days to straighten it out,,, One day of it cuzz the new MAF sensor was defective... That's 4 days of ell...

5th day was not much better,,, chased a engine noise in a 02 ranger 3.0,,, even went as far as to remove the trans and look for a cracked flywheel,,, a no go... I ran out of blessings from the customer...

That's why I like to work on a tractor in my spare time,,, its setting their on all 4's look'n at ya and most of it is assessable with out much disassembley...

Tdy, Just cut grass at the House ... But Gotta bushHog next Week! Larry KF4LKU