anybody ready for winter?

gab

Well-known Member
I've been at it for close to 6 weeks, scrubbed, press. washed house, pulled most of my junk out and washed it and tidied the sheds up a bit. Changed oil in my Super C and snowblowin Wheel Horse. One more job before the blade came off and blower went on, walnut harvest, hate the dam things. Spent about four days cleaning/waxing wifes car and my truck. Drained/replaced gas in generator, what's the chances, Generac with a Tecumseh engine and Champion plug started on second pull, hasn't been fired in a year. Got the blower and chains on. I just polish the chrome, works just as good as NGK plugs and fancy gas. Cleaned all my eaves troughs except one last Saturday, haven't been getting around good since, got my knees and bulged disc fired up, wearing belt hurts, been wearing sweat pants all week. Still got one eaves trough to clean, one set of chains to put on and tomato cages to pull out of the recent mud. More I'd like to do but not in the last couple days of mid 30s temperatures.
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Oh yes those IH blades work so nicely. I have one that is mechanicaly all very nice but would work better if sandblasted and painted;). I need to flip the cutter edge on it. Rounded corners. You have a really b8g problem with all of your equipment. Toooo shinny. I needed to put sun glasses on. Just joking. Everything is very pretty and neat. I can show a little project I rescued and just got done blasting and painting. This is an original Simplicity trailer forom 1952 and is an absolute tank! It even has a foot brake on it and a swivel hitch. The hunter green paint is a =Rustoleum industrial stock color of Hunter Green. The color on the tounge, left is fresh paint and right is 65 years old. Next spring the rest gets painted. With one inch axles you can load upto 700lbs. on her. Those wheel bearings have a one inch hole and are one inch wide roller bearings. Beast! Painted that metal stool too. Snow white painted legs and Hot Red seat. Sweet!
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For being "Physically Challenged" you've done a [i:a3ab30c932]bang-up[/i:a3ab30c932] job!! :wink:
Please forgive the humor - just got finished with a HUGE amount of very depressing paperwork.

Yup, lookin' OK here also. If things keep up this well, I'll be all ready for this Winter by the year 2083! :shock:

Your home and your 'toys' are amazing - they truly are. You deserve to be proud of all that, and all that you've accomplished. Well done, sir!
 
It all looks nice!

That's quite a pile of walnuts. An Amish family spent two days here on the farm, picking up walnuts. They have a hulling machine, then they ship the hulled nuts to some place in Missouri for cracking and picking the meat out.
 
Went to a lot of auctions before I found a small point IH blade in decent shape. The sale bills just say IH blade because that's what it came off of, never say if big or small points, home made junk or from some Arkansas short line manufacturer.
 
Got the firewood split a while ago. Got the snow blower on the Cub Cadet. finaly got that figured out today. Got propane in the barrel. Still aint got the blade on the four wheeler. Went to put it on the day before yesterday and one of the "ears" that hold the skid pan to the atv frame is broke off. Off to a friends to be welded. Hopefuly this week yet. Got my Carrharts out of the closet. Mostly ready for winter.
 
For NW Al I have done most things, not to your extent though. Reminds me that I need to gas and crank my generator also. What do you do with the walnuts?
 
I'd take that Jan. average but don't care for hurricanes and humidity. Even took the cover off my snowmobile last week just to see if I could figure out what I used to see in them things but fun didn't come to mind.
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When they dry out a little and I get my nerve up I'm going to burn them, I'm scared to death to light a fire, can be perfectly still until I get one going and the wind comes up plus there's a 50 acre bean field to the west and south of the yard and probably over 100 acres of corn just to the north.
 
Notice I didn't snap any picts. of the inside of the garage or my shed/shop, now that I think about it I did clean up about 3 feet of a 12 foot bench a while back.
 
Pretty robust looking trailer, don't understand the braking concept though. Notice you got a cat standing in your wet paint?
 
I picked up my snow tires today that I'm putting on my car. Been thinking about putting them on both the van and my car, gotta drive my Ollie home for snow duty. Still gotta sweep my chimney out and get more wood pellets bought. And put all the other stuff away, get the garage cleaned out...the list goes on.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
Naa, the paint is that shiney. That is Tigger. The cart was for one of those big old Simplicity two wheel tractors with like a 16hp. castiron block Briggs engine. The brake was so you could stop the darn thing. The cart should have a stamped steel seat on it. Same one used on the gravely sulkie. I just love fixing up neat old stuff. Guess you have the same habit too?
 
You have some really nice toys, but I hate it when people use bad language on this site.
You know, that word that starts with "w" when it gets cold and we get snow and ice and freezing rain.
I have everything ready to go, such as it is. I am trying to get a garden tractor with hydraulic lift
running so I can push snow without needing to visit the chiropractor after.
 
About ready for winter of 2016, not 2017. And don't want to see it come, do not like winter.
 

Ready for winter?!! Shoot man! I'm just getting caught up to spring...1996!!! :lol:

Good job all around. I have to say though, I haven't waxed a car since the early 1980's. I've read of people here that actually wax their tractors! Must be a different world than where I am.
 

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