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Great job!
Looks good! How many km's on that Ranger?
Have you looked at the new Rangers from Ford? My wife was looking at them, they seem pretty nice. Pricey though.
Shotgun wedding, there is 193,000 kilometres on it. I’ve had it for 8 1/2 years or so. Was 47,000 k on it when I got it. Yes have looked at the new ones. Have the same colour and basically the same off road package and extra cab style like mine at ford here. But. At 42,000 plus 15% HST tax, it’s a lot out of my price range. Very nice truck. Not fussy on the 4 cylinder thou. Small V8 in one would be great.
Noel
Noel
New rangers are priced out of sight. I wanted an extend cab 4x4 base model. 36k. Back years ago 15k would get a work truck model 4x4 long bed..
In order to line up the front and rear after getting the BGB in I got a couple bolts and cut the heads off and ground a taper on them and used them for aligning the sections together to make it easier to get the bolts started. Forgot to take my camera with me.
Yesterday I mowed about 4 acres, today I gotta do 2 more, but gotta play Indy 500 pit crew 1st, there's 4 gt's there (one of my ariens, 2 cub 1200s and a cub 1250.
I ran my ariens most of yesterday til it shredded the belts from the PTO to the shaft drive for the deck, finished for the day with lightning in the sky and a tornado warning flashing on my phone with one of the 1200s, I blew the belt on the other 1200 2 mowings ago, and the support strap busted on the 1250 3 mowings ago, have been carrying it in the truck with me ever since, I hate going out there being down to 1 machine. The property owner likes to put the gear drives in 3rd and mowing with the deck all the way up, never gets it all in 1 pass, usually when I go out there gotta go over everything 2x, this year he is quarantined in an old folks/rehab center, management won't let anyone out or they can't come back because of this virus crap.
He also has several junk cars parked just "where ever" and never mows within 10 feet of any, or the buildings, I wind up getting right up to them, yesterday I spent 2 hours with a push lawnboy getting around the house and garage in grass taller than the engine on the mower before I even got on the ariens
I ran my ariens most of yesterday til it shredded the belts from the PTO to the shaft drive for the deck, finished for the day with lightning in the sky and a tornado warning flashing on my phone with one of the 1200s, I blew the belt on the other 1200 2 mowings ago, and the support strap busted on the 1250 3 mowings ago, have been carrying it in the truck with me ever since, I hate going out there being down to 1 machine. The property owner likes to put the gear drives in 3rd and mowing with the deck all the way up, never gets it all in 1 pass, usually when I go out there gotta go over everything 2x, this year he is quarantined in an old folks/rehab center, management won't let anyone out or they can't come back because of this virus crap.
He also has several junk cars parked just "where ever" and never mows within 10 feet of any, or the buildings, I wind up getting right up to them, yesterday I spent 2 hours with a push lawnboy getting around the house and garage in grass taller than the engine on the mower before I even got on the ariens
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Been fooling with pull rope starting 'toys the last few days. Got a 20" mower running good and one Ryobi weedeater. Two Bolens (MTD built) refuse to start (have fire, even carb cleaner isn't helping). This morning I put a new carb on an Echo trimmer and a Poulan blower. I'll wait till after lunch to see if they fire off. My shoulders are sore from yanking those ropes.
Well just getting back from the jungle, finished mowing everything out, didn't feel like laying in mud, so neither machine that needs belts got touched, put the muff back onto the 1250 and ran that one, almost 2 more hours of seat time, the last time we did it I had my wife with me to run a machine, we were outta there in less than 3 hours, didn't have to remow any of it though, and we did go wide around the house, garage and a couple of the cars, which is what I spent 2 hours with the lawn boy on, yesterday. In the last 3 days I have 10 hours out there, my wife came with Friday, we raked out what we could from the high grass along the 1 side of the garage, and around 2 cars, the property's owner and s one of those hoarders you see on TV, but he's been letting me store my extra GT stuff in one of the buildings on the property for several years, is the only reason I even go out there/and in addition to keeping the place looking like someone's around, I want to keep the over growth away from "my" building to keep the varmints away, so I don't have them making nests in my stuff.
Friday night before dark we filled the bed of one of my trucks over halfway with random trash, and found a dumpster on the way home to deposit it into. Between yesterday and today I have 8 hours not counting drive time (28 miles away from home) into Just mowing. Wife has had to work yesterday and today. I uncovered more that needs to find a dumpster by mowing close to everything, it honestly looked better in spots, overgrown.
We let it go 2 weeks and got 9" of rain in that time as well, and another 2" yesterday after I left. I was chopping up corn stalks like crazy in a couple of spots, he is surrounded by corn field on 3 sides
Now finally got home, and have a 01 Chevy pick up on my lift to put brake lines on to. Belongs to one of my neighbors.
Friday night before dark we filled the bed of one of my trucks over halfway with random trash, and found a dumpster on the way home to deposit it into. Between yesterday and today I have 8 hours not counting drive time (28 miles away from home) into Just mowing. Wife has had to work yesterday and today. I uncovered more that needs to find a dumpster by mowing close to everything, it honestly looked better in spots, overgrown.
We let it go 2 weeks and got 9" of rain in that time as well, and another 2" yesterday after I left. I was chopping up corn stalks like crazy in a couple of spots, he is surrounded by corn field on 3 sides
Now finally got home, and have a 01 Chevy pick up on my lift to put brake lines on to. Belongs to one of my neighbors.
Picked up the wife from work and drove to Indiana where we can go inside sit down and eat instead of eating take out in my truck.
I have spent 2 days cursing and finessing the trannyin my Ss12
Had a pulley lose a weld, then found a broken bolt under there, then found the others on that side were wallored out and loose.
The tranny was finally reassembled and is ready for reinstall. The monsoons came to prohibit that, tho.
Had a pulley lose a weld, then found a broken bolt under there, then found the others on that side were wallored out and loose.
The tranny was finally reassembled and is ready for reinstall. The monsoons came to prohibit that, tho.
Fixed it.
Looks good, she's got to feel better too
Working on a 2012 Sears YT4000. This thing has many issues, but they want it fixed. 3 of the 4 tires won't hold air, one front tire is bald due to the worn steering. One deck spindle had the lower bearing lock up and broke the housing off. Need I say more? About $250 in parts so far! It ain't worth too much more than what I add my labor in to it all!
Done ! YT16H Ford ready for grass cutting. Fixed a hole in the deck, greased the deck bearings, put wheel bearings in front left wheel, greased and oiled the tractor, checked tire pressure and oiled pulleys and steering components. Thought it was already other than the wheel bearings. Oh, boy. Was I wrong. Any way. Ready as I can get it. But we never know until we start using it.
On to the LGT 100 Ford tomorrow.
On to the LGT 100 Ford tomorrow.
