Hill Top adventures
- Thread starter Shorty
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The job that was lined up for this week is just a couple miles from the hospital. So this morning my wife's friend picked up my wrench mover (youngest son) at 5:15, dropped JR off at another friend who will make sure he gets to school. Then I took my wife to the hospital for the day. Dropped her off and headed to work. A couple hours of emptying my mind sure was refreshing.
Yesterday JR wanted to mow the back yard. He must have been really bored.. A flat tire on a holiday nixed that idea. A leaky tube looking old as the hills, definitely should get a new one. So this evening went out to the hardware store to get a new one. And the tube shelf was almost empty and the box with the size I wanted empty. Ask a sales guy if they have any back in the storage. He says good luck, everything is back ordered. Uh oh, not what I wanted to hear. I want to hear JR mowing. So it got a patch which will likely give out right before we finish mowing on a Saturday after the stores close. Little tire sure didn't give much room to slip the tube back in.
JR came over to me today n says, the tractor sounds different. Hmm, what will it be this time? At least he let me know about it. Sounded like the muffler was loose so I said it should be ok to run. When it cooled down I opened it up to find the end cap half off.
Upon hearing that JR was ready to go again. For some reason, it sounded like he would lug the engine down and open the throttle.
It gave a nice rumble, not quite the bark of a straight pipe. Of course pops had to give him a hard time about working it to be louder. "Dad, you must have been hallucinating" 
As my uncle says, that apple didn't fall far from the tree.
Upon hearing that JR was ready to go again. For some reason, it sounded like he would lug the engine down and open the throttle.
It gave a nice rumble, not quite the bark of a straight pipe. Of course pops had to give him a hard time about working it to be louder. "Dad, you must have been hallucinating" As my uncle says, that apple didn't fall far from the tree.
Got the potatoes all dug today. I didn't have a large amount planted this year. I think it was only 20 pounds of seed. But the yield was definitely more than last year. Mostly medium and small, not many of the size that makes a great baking potato. I had planted in wet conditions and hilled them way too wet. Sure made for hard digging today. Picked the last meal of fresh corn also.
Today's agenda was to tear out an old freight elevator to make way for a new one. The car was stopped at a weird place between floors. We figured out how to move it by hand and dropped it to the bottom.
The old cable drum gear box that we spun by hand.
And the shaft filled with demo from the top floors.
The old cable drum gear box that we spun by hand.
And the shaft filled with demo from the top floors.
JR passed his hunter safety course this week. So now he is all jacked up about hunting and trapping. I am hoping to get him more into trapping to give him more time in the field. Hoping to start by going after rodents in the neighboring fields. But he has big dreams of deer hunting too. But all my guns were sold to pay for med costs. Not sure how this will work yet to give him his dream.
The crops in the fields next to my place are coming off. And until the next crop gets planted in a couple weeks, I have room to cut firewood. The farmer said to cut all that I want, he needs to clean out the whole tree line to make room for new soil conservation plans.
I meant to take a pic. I worked on Hilltop Rd all day today.