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Here's mine... Mower quit--a very unusual thing for this mower, a Chris-Cut (the bigger one with the seat that you steer with your feet.) Assuming it was water in the gas (again! Local gas station seems to sell about 15% water) I pulled the sediment bowl. Well, the gasket was so old it came off in chunks, so the mower started leaking gas badly when I put it back together. Spent 2 hours tonight carving my own gasket because nobody around here carries a bowl assembly that fits the tank (wrong size fitting.) Hauled grain for the bulk of the day. Start of the 3rd load, start the tractor, kick in the PTO, hear a snap and watch the PTO shaft spin, but the auger ain't turnin'. Assumed the chain drive at the top was the problem. Nope, both bearings at the top were spinning. Apparently I snapped the actual auger shaft. Fortunately it's close to the top so it'll be easy to get to... Once I figure out how to get the top end down to where I can work on it. I'm thinking a hitch pin through the tine on the fork I've got on a skid loader, with the loader raised as high as it'll go. Oh, and I'll probably be working on a step ladder, for even more fun. Switched to the vac. This was a $100 destined-for-scrap vac that was salvaged. With no specs (Dunbar Kappel model #7) we put a 540 shaft and belt arrangement on it from an ArtsWay feed grinder. Well, turned out it's supposed to run off a 1000 rpm shaft. Got an adapter for the end. But today the tractor was running way too hot at 1000, so I pulled the adapter and dropped back to 540. Took almost 3 hours to load a wagon. Oh, and the hoses won't reach the back of the bin, so I have to move the vac closer in the morning. That's gonna make getting a wagon under it a real trick. Even before that, I used a bin sweep to move the grain to the auger after it quit running by gravity, but plugged the heavy extension cord in on the drying bin some distance away. I swear I've done this before... But today it was somehow about 3 feet short. Ended up running it back to the house and out the back door. But that brought the flies in--and I'm lucky the fridge didn't kick in, because that would've surely blown a fuse. Finally I get to the car. I'm thinking of starting a new thread for this one. Light keeps blinking at me, saying low coolant. But I checked, the radiator's full and the overflow tank is well supplied also. But this car has a special fill procedure--you have to bleed the air a couple places if you add antifreeze. Done that a couple times. So I'm guessing it's a sensor. But it's got a separate fuse for "Secondary cooling system" and I'm not sure if the sensor on the radiator is necessarily my problem. The lady somehow managed to blow out the brakes on BOTH of her cars this weekend. The ford had a rusted out brake line to the right rear wheel, the buick blew the brake cylinder in the left rear wheel. And what idiot designed that ford, anyhow? About a dozen bends in just shy of 6 feet of brake line! Oh lovely. Absolutely lovely. That engineer should've been strapped up in a pretty white coat and heavily medicated! grrr... Ah, the fun life on the farm!
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