[sixball]

Looks great from here! A useable piece of equipment, good job!

[Essex_29]

Yes, that looks really good!

[sammons]

Lol "Houston...  we have a problem". The 4" of rain we had this week done her in. l started digging the tunnel in 1983 collapsed about 7 feet long  out of the 15' running length. I noticed a couple years ago that the water coming of the nieghbors round top had started to run under my deckagon grainery, last year i could see under it was going down the 15' deep main shaft. Put it on my mental things to do list. I relaced all the timbers in '98, the hard clay down there was still perfect. Haven't looked down there since 2007?

Saturday morning i had a hole about 3' outside the grainery. I called Tom and he happened to have about 7 yrds of dirt on his '58 Viking so he dumped that out lastnight. Came over about noon with his Case "Construction King" backhoe/loader. Not near enough dirt to do the job. I started throwing tire/wheel combos down the main shaft while he made a quick sand damn in the creek bed and started moving sand up. Put 8+ yards in, pushed down worked around and got all except the last 3' out of 15'. It was hard as a rock on the northend where the water hadn't got. Pushed a bit of sand into it, tamped everything down with the backhoe then the dirt and packed it.  15 yards of fill, problem solved

[sammons]

With the chassis swap on my old mower complete, i started cleaning things up. Got a quick buff on paint, still have to wax it up. Decided that all the black plastic stuff needed dyed. No matter what i put on it, (Back to Black, vinyl dressing, silicon, etc), nothing lasted more than a week and back to fade. So i pulled them off, scrubbed it all and dyed it with Duplicolor's vinyl/fabric dye. Much better, hope it lasts a while. With a white paint pen i actually got the numbers painted back on. Don't know if it'll last but sure looked better. Got my new Marylin Monroe steering wheel knob on the fresh refinished steering wheel😁

[TFoch]

Looking great!

[sammons]

Gonna be nice this spring to mow with everything on the chassis tight again. The steering was severely worn, hard to turn and wondering and to mention front spindles bent. The deck lift arm was shot also. Donor was a fairly low hour one. Now i'll have to finish putting donor back together, it will just pull my trailer.

[sammons]

Three stepps forward..... 😡  I had the mower all back together. I thought i'd better get some gas and fire it up since the weather was warm enough to open the windows to check it out.  Turn key to on heard the usual kick of carb solenoid, then to start.... nothing. Checked battery again for full charge, 12.7v. First thought was ign switch may not have gotten plugged in all the way. When we did the chassis swap, i swapped in my V-Twin, my wiring harness. I did not swap out my ign switch, or any of the safety switches. Started with ign switch, even cleaned it first and all the connections with a brush and electronic clearner. Nope nothing. Now i have to check all the safetys. I'll have to pull the deck back out to get to the brake/clutch safety,  pull the battery, tray and support to get to the blade safety etc. Looked on youtube for ideas, several guys are checking all by cutting the mag/coil wire to ign to  check for continuity between all switches with the "beep" function. Had to pull top cover to verify the coil wires, still not testing out.

Seems like the doner mower was running, but the farmer had cut and bypassed all the safetys. I'm guessing he had a bad one now. Sure wish i would have thought of that first while doing the swap🙄

Had to bail on it to go to my new Dr.  Had to find another as my buddy retired. Guess he was 6mo older than me. So i had to re up everything and transfer all records etc last month. Get all nrw blood tests for comparison to last years.  Went in to get my test results etc, new Doc says all ok and that they verified Rheumatoid Arthritis, and laughed, i said really😁  Then i asked what my rheumatoid factor number was now... 18yrs ago it was 458, normal people are +/- 15. My new number 650. I told her i kinda feel like its that high😅   Anyway all good just a click or two up on A1c from me trying to gain weight over the last 14 months. She said i could stop now and lay off the fatty stuff . I did gain 26lbs. 

Now... back to the mower today, maybe!