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Just finished messing with a finicky coleman stove, good thing I brought an extra so we could make food.... Ate, then messed with the one that didn't want to cooperate, got it going good now. Suction tube that pulls fuel from the tank must have been partly plugged. I took it apart and cleaned it, reassembled at the picnic table and now it works.
Then put new mantles on 2 of the lanterns, got holes in them from last campout til now working good now.... All lit fine last nite though.... I forgot about the 2 still left in the pop-up camper from August, I brought 2 from the garage besides. I thought I only had the 2 in the truck with me/ winds up I have 4 white gas lanterns out here. And some how I see that I have 4 stoves along.... 3 white gas and 1 cheater propane version.
I like to put lanterns at the corners of my site especially sites like this one that has parking blocks around on 3 sides, my wife has a tendency to fall on flat ground anyway, so we can see where the step off points are. And I still will grab a lantern when I head off to the shower house as we did when we were kids.
I also have one of those fold up ovens that get set on the coleman stove, and finally got my wife to try making something off of one of those. Just corn bread, but it was good.
Got some crescent rolls to go with tomorrow's dinner for the oven and some pillsbury cinnamon rolls for the oven for tomorrow morning.
We're trying to do like when I was a kid, we never ate out in town when camping. We made food in the rain today. I wanted to move our cook stuff to one of the camp pavilions to cook and eat under, but Donna thought it would stop... It did, right as we got done. Usually we wind up eating out about half the time when we're camping.
I always have 2 coleman stoves at camp/
1 to cook on and 1 to heat water for cleaning up afterwards, getting hot while we cook and eat.
Our buddies we camp with in August at the apache camper round up for some reason made comments this year about us "camping in the 1800s" since we're the only ones that bring coleman white gas stuff.
About half have them supposedly but haven't used em in years. Why not?
As I was a kid nobody hardly ever went camping without Coleman stuff.
Then put new mantles on 2 of the lanterns, got holes in them from last campout til now working good now.... All lit fine last nite though.... I forgot about the 2 still left in the pop-up camper from August, I brought 2 from the garage besides. I thought I only had the 2 in the truck with me/ winds up I have 4 white gas lanterns out here. And some how I see that I have 4 stoves along.... 3 white gas and 1 cheater propane version.
I like to put lanterns at the corners of my site especially sites like this one that has parking blocks around on 3 sides, my wife has a tendency to fall on flat ground anyway, so we can see where the step off points are. And I still will grab a lantern when I head off to the shower house as we did when we were kids.
I also have one of those fold up ovens that get set on the coleman stove, and finally got my wife to try making something off of one of those. Just corn bread, but it was good.
Got some crescent rolls to go with tomorrow's dinner for the oven and some pillsbury cinnamon rolls for the oven for tomorrow morning.
We're trying to do like when I was a kid, we never ate out in town when camping. We made food in the rain today. I wanted to move our cook stuff to one of the camp pavilions to cook and eat under, but Donna thought it would stop... It did, right as we got done. Usually we wind up eating out about half the time when we're camping.
I always have 2 coleman stoves at camp/
1 to cook on and 1 to heat water for cleaning up afterwards, getting hot while we cook and eat.
Our buddies we camp with in August at the apache camper round up for some reason made comments this year about us "camping in the 1800s" since we're the only ones that bring coleman white gas stuff.
About half have them supposedly but haven't used em in years. Why not?
As I was a kid nobody hardly ever went camping without Coleman stuff.
The 2020 curse continues----! Seriously, at least you have a bunch of new stuff now!
DAC
Going to be a great looking tractor, Rick! Looks like a pretty durable one too. I've never actually seen a MM garden tractor before.
DAC
I still have white gas lantern and stove too. I fire them up every fall in case a power outage happens during the winter, but the last time I actually used them for any real length of time was the early October 2013 blizzard. Power out for 28 hours. Had hot food and good light! I'm down to the last half gallon of Coleman fuel. Ain't it strange how a can of white gas never spoils but a gallon of gasoline starts to sour in a couple months?
DAC
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Last night of being on call. I did get some 270 GMC parts boxed up and shipped to Maine today! Long ride! Washed the new to us Jeep and have parts coming in to do the brakes. I have a new serpentine belt, oil, filter and valve cover gasket and new grommets to install. Next weekends plan. Already did a few simple things, air filter, windshield wipers, radiator cap and hood struts. Wife got the title transferred and they tax on the blue book value even though it was gifted to her by her uncle. Oh I put our new plates on it today too. Guess we're legal.
DAC
DAC
Yup. Last time we went camping was in August. We were really thinking hard about staying an extra day because the weather was great, we didn't run ourselves broke and we didn't feel like going back yet. But we did. And that Monday when I got home from work I found a huge limb down on the house. I'm still fighting state farm over this. And during that time we were out of power, about 32 hours but by the time I got home and got as much of the mess cleaned up as I could and got around to firing up the generator it got run about 27 hours straight. Funny how many neighbors now have their own generator since that storm that never did before it.
My coleman lanterns got a pretty good workout that couple of days til power returned.
In fact I have a neighbor (70-ish yo or so) that acted like she's never seen one, thought these lanterns were just the coolest thing, and wound up asking to borrow one for the 2 nights that we had no power.... I was able to run a few lights in the house, didn't try to light up the whole thing because I wanted to be sure I had enough reserve so as to not short the fridge and stand up freezer of the juice they needed, but this neighbor has no generator.
I only have about a dozen of these lanterns and at last count about 7 of the stoves
Not included is the 3 burner version that went MIA a couple of years ago.
Most recent stove I bought 2 towns away for $10, brand new and never been used, never had gas put in, still had the manual wrapped up around the fuel tank, can tell by the burners condition they have never seen fire.
My coleman lanterns got a pretty good workout that couple of days til power returned.
In fact I have a neighbor (70-ish yo or so) that acted like she's never seen one, thought these lanterns were just the coolest thing, and wound up asking to borrow one for the 2 nights that we had no power.... I was able to run a few lights in the house, didn't try to light up the whole thing because I wanted to be sure I had enough reserve so as to not short the fridge and stand up freezer of the juice they needed, but this neighbor has no generator.
I only have about a dozen of these lanterns and at last count about 7 of the stoves
Not included is the 3 burner version that went MIA a couple of years ago.
Most recent stove I bought 2 towns away for $10, brand new and never been used, never had gas put in, still had the manual wrapped up around the fuel tank, can tell by the burners condition they have never seen fire.
I was going to wait until Wednesday, but the forecast was calling for more wind than today. So I reconstructed the paint booth and top coated more parts today. Of course as soon as I had the gun cleaned up I found three small parts left over, and a thin looking area on the back of the transaxle. It is something I can touch up later. I counted 48 components today. Except for those three parts I should be done painting and able to start assembly soon. Rick
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Ya failed to mention where you got the swing set from.
Jab jab jab poke jab
Not tractors...as a matter of fact,everything but tractors it seems.
Traill95 was kind and gracious and generous enough to gift the old swing set to me.Ya failed to mention where you got the swing set from.
(Actually he just wanted it out of his way)
RickI have a friend like that. We are constantly giving each other things that are in our way. I'm not so sure some things haven't made it back to the original owner.Traill95 was kind and gracious and generous enough to gift the old swing set to me.
(Actually he just wanted it out of his way)
Serviced another one today. A yard works. The sliding jack came in handy again to grease the front spindles and wheel bushings. And three more to do. LGT 100 Ford, MF 14 and more work on the Case 446.
Noel
Noel
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I'd say yours is going to look every bit as nice! It's coming along great!
Oops. I have another mower to do. It’s at our house. Just a tin lawn tractor, but it needs service too. It works great, very little troubles, cuts wonderfully, very easy on gas and steers so easy, you’d think it was power steering. So I’ll have to take it to my sons place Monday hopefully. Got it for free 8/9 years ago. Don’t use it all the time, but has been mostly trouble free. Two flats I think. Wouldn’t start once. Bad gas.
Noel
Noel
