I just like being able to pull in my own garage and not have to lay on concrete. I occasionally do side work but not nearly as much as I used to. Lately my "payment" has been trading labor for helping get the house in shape. I buy the supplies for that, other party buys their own car parts, I put them on, they in turn help me with the house. No cash changing hands
What are you currently working on??
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And it doesn't take much to do that!
Yeah I'm bummed Noel, but you will pull up the slack on the pictures again soon!
Still a lot of things going on here, but nothing really tractor related or exciting!
DAC
Big toe to the inside little toe to the outside lol, seriously Noel it 1/8" narrower on the front of the wheels than the back.
So more done to the MF 14. Just have to remove the broken hydraulic cylinder, that raises and lowers attachments. Picked up the fittings today to join the hoses together at the tee fitting on the cylinder. Then the cylinder can be removed and repaired. This cylinder may never go back on, because I don’t use the mower deck any more. But you never know what the future will bring.
Oops, the last two picture just kinda jumped in there.
Noel
Oops, the last two picture just kinda jumped in there.
Noel
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Measure at the rim, not the tire just in case you hit a bump or dent in the tire. I like using a folding ruler with the slide.
Now the pics are back! Looks like more tractors than cars go on the h@!$t!
I've never seen a MF14 or 16 before besides pictures----long list of never seen in person tractors. Think I like the idea of hydraulic lift better than electric but never dealt with that either! I've always had lever lift---LOL!
DAC
So dry around here that the mud room addition is settling away from the house after I put the fire wood in. I put 2 4X4's under the side next to the house when we put the basement in. Run them down to the footing as I figured that side would settle from the back fill. It stayed but the out side is settling and pulling away from the house so have to jack it back in place again and add more blocking. PUlled a search light RR signal back straight again after it started to lean bad to one side. More dry ground issues and not enough concrete under the base. 2nd time in about 10 years that happened.
Menards finally got my garage doors in that I ordered over a month ago..... I have one almost up, on a break to eat....
plain old 9x7, nothing special except I wanted chocolate brown like the ones they are replacing.... this on the attached garage.
this is long overdue, the old tracks somehow have lots of bends and twists up toward the 90*, the bottom panel liked to pop out of the track often as teh bottom rollers pass by/// , these were cheapie steel non insulated doors that I glued foam board to the inside of 15+ years ago, never have fit teh jamb or the tracks right....been trying to seal the air out that comes in around the edges for too long now.... One door busted a spring about 4 years ago, we never go in/out that one anyways so I didnt care.... when the door that I use all the time snapped a spring and I went and guessed (too stiff) and bought new ones, had to vise grip it shut since or it would auto-open as soon as I released it, as I was looking at the tracks and hardware as I put those new springs up I realized just how "shot" that door really was....... these have the single wound spring on the header instead of the 2 springs parallel to the horizontal tracks like the old doors had.
When I built my "big" garage back in 06 (before I outgrew that one too) I asked a buddy what brand to get for doors, he said "Clopay". Dont go any where else. Menards sells "Ideal door" which is exactly who makes Clopay. The store dont say anything but once I saw the new doors on the trailer today in the daylight I saw that my new doors had both names on them.
My old ones are/were Wayne Daltons, which I have heard many people complain about since back when I built the big garage.... saying tehy are a "cheap brand", "don't hold up", "parts and service isn't good" and more...... today was pretty nice, tomorrow is supposed to be a preview of January, I'm off Tues. so I will probably put the 2nd one up then......
Once I got into the tearout, I realized the old jambs were showing their 53 year old age..... (like me) so I wound up ripping those out and made another trip to town, replaced the jamb lumber with treated.....what has happened with the price of lumber? I have plenty of new 2x6s in the big garage attic but not treated wood..... I rediscovered where I had patched the old jamb material (the bottom 2 ft or so) years ago, and Id rather put it back as 1 pc now that I have the door out completely/ and being that the driveway concrete is formed around the door jambs, it does have some ground contact so I feel better upgrading to treated......
plain old 9x7, nothing special except I wanted chocolate brown like the ones they are replacing.... this on the attached garage.
this is long overdue, the old tracks somehow have lots of bends and twists up toward the 90*, the bottom panel liked to pop out of the track often as teh bottom rollers pass by/// , these were cheapie steel non insulated doors that I glued foam board to the inside of 15+ years ago, never have fit teh jamb or the tracks right....been trying to seal the air out that comes in around the edges for too long now.... One door busted a spring about 4 years ago, we never go in/out that one anyways so I didnt care.... when the door that I use all the time snapped a spring and I went and guessed (too stiff) and bought new ones, had to vise grip it shut since or it would auto-open as soon as I released it, as I was looking at the tracks and hardware as I put those new springs up I realized just how "shot" that door really was....... these have the single wound spring on the header instead of the 2 springs parallel to the horizontal tracks like the old doors had.
When I built my "big" garage back in 06 (before I outgrew that one too) I asked a buddy what brand to get for doors, he said "Clopay". Dont go any where else. Menards sells "Ideal door" which is exactly who makes Clopay. The store dont say anything but once I saw the new doors on the trailer today in the daylight I saw that my new doors had both names on them.
My old ones are/were Wayne Daltons, which I have heard many people complain about since back when I built the big garage.... saying tehy are a "cheap brand", "don't hold up", "parts and service isn't good" and more...... today was pretty nice, tomorrow is supposed to be a preview of January, I'm off Tues. so I will probably put the 2nd one up then......
Once I got into the tearout, I realized the old jambs were showing their 53 year old age..... (like me) so I wound up ripping those out and made another trip to town, replaced the jamb lumber with treated.....what has happened with the price of lumber? I have plenty of new 2x6s in the big garage attic but not treated wood..... I rediscovered where I had patched the old jamb material (the bottom 2 ft or so) years ago, and Id rather put it back as 1 pc now that I have the door out completely/ and being that the driveway concrete is formed around the door jambs, it does have some ground contact so I feel better upgrading to treated......
Lumber prices are insane. 2x4x8 is 7.31 at lowes right now. Before all this started there were 2.25.
I just bought 4 sheets of drywall and it was 10 something a sheet. Only up a dollar or so.
I had plans to put a deck extension on the back of the house but after seeing it was going to cost 3 times what it would have cost a year ago I passed.
I just bought 4 sheets of drywall and it was 10 something a sheet. Only up a dollar or so.
I had plans to put a deck extension on the back of the house but after seeing it was going to cost 3 times what it would have cost a year ago I passed.
Guys at work said studs are 8-9 bucks a piece here! Don't know how anyone can afford that!
I can't get any more tractors since I have no where to put them! I hate them being outside so unless I was to somehow invent more indoor storage I just can't! I'd sure love to ride a 14 or 16 for the heck of it though! Probably going to haul home 3 LT's next spring but they are already outside so it won't hurt for them to be outside here.
Worked on some sticker designs for a while then tore into the front brakes on the '04 Jeep that my wife got from her uncle. There were a couple of stuck caliper slides but other than that still in decent shape for 219,000 miles. New rotors, guides and pads. Hope to do the rear tomorrow.
DAC
I can't get any more tractors since I have no where to put them! I hate them being outside so unless I was to somehow invent more indoor storage I just can't! I'd sure love to ride a 14 or 16 for the heck of it though! Probably going to haul home 3 LT's next spring but they are already outside so it won't hurt for them to be outside here.
Worked on some sticker designs for a while then tore into the front brakes on the '04 Jeep that my wife got from her uncle. There were a couple of stuck caliper slides but other than that still in decent shape for 219,000 miles. New rotors, guides and pads. Hope to do the rear tomorrow.
DAC