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Propane1 said:
Reedb66. Hehe, If you eat potatoes and bread, cut back on those, and that will help with the steering trouble. I did that and have lost 15 lbs or so. Its amazing how much easier it is to put my boots on now. Hehe. I never had one of those wash board bellies.

Noel
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I've seen lots of posts of you growin' potatoes and cookin' them too----not to eat them would be a crime! I'm supposed to stay off them too but love them too much.

We've had an air fryer for nearly a year. Have yet for the wife to use it unfortunately.

DAC
 
Air fryer, if it’s the same as what we got, it’s just not the same as oven fried. Ya I know about the me growin the potatoes then not eatin them. I love potatoes. I have not stopped eating the potatoes, just eat less. I have a buddy who I gave potatoes to, he and his wife don’t eat any now. Lost a good customer, who I gave potatoes to. And I mean gave. Most of the potatoes I grow, I give them away.
Next year I will grow less. People seem to be not eating as many potatoes as they use to.

Noel
 
Picked up the new machined part for the belt tension slide on the IH Snow Thrower. Also ordered the 4.5" "B" belt pulley and they have the belt I need in town. Thursday morning will have a few hours while the turkey fryes in the fryer to get the threaded rod handle welded back on, make a castle nut just cause I have the time and have everything ready to go on the first nice day. Thrower is operational now but with the wrong belt and not holding my breath on the home brew tensioner slide.
 
When I grew up meat, potatoes and gravy was the basic meal twice a day. But we were working farm people back then. I still liie my meat, taters & gravy but cutting back on everything. Big problem is the chip snacks I like to have about 4 pm. Helps the cutting back but don't think it is in the right way. I don't think the eating is the problem, it is the lack of exercise between meals. Walking helps some but not nearly as much as good old fashion work.
 
Back to work today but the last 4 days have been spent between 2hospitals. I took my wife in for outpatient surgery on Friday, 2 miles from my house, and the next 3 at a hospital in Chicago 55 miles away, watching her brother die. He had a cancer called multiple myeloma. Discovered 2 years ago at stage 4. I can't get my mind back on track.
 
Propane1 said:
Air fryer, if it’s the same as what we got, it’s just not the same as oven fried. Ya I know about the me growin the potatoes then not eatin them. I love potatoes. I have not stopped eating the potatoes, just eat less. I have a buddy who I gave potatoes to, he and his wife don’t eat any now. Lost a good customer, who I gave potatoes to. And I mean gave. Most of the potatoes I grow, I give them away.
Next year I will grow less. People seem to be not eating as many potatoes as they use to.

Noel
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You have potato bugs to feed!
 
Haven't had any time after work lately to finish up the MF8E as afar as the home-made wheel weights but no snow to speak of so far. I'll just throw the chains on it and run it like 20 plus other years.

Friday night and Saturday morning we had freezing rain and about an inch of snow on top of that. When I have to deal with conditions like that I'm too lazy to scrape windows on my old trucks and have a 1995 Camry sitting here. I grabbed the drivers door handle and it broke off since the door was frozen shut. Got one ordered once and realized it was for a '97 and newer. Got that order cancelled and the right one is coming now, along with paint. Then the washing machine ordeal got delayed a bit. The bearing and seal kit I bought came with the "common" seal, and of course our washing machine is what they call the "oddball seal". It's no problem to exchange, BUT it will be after Thanksgiving now before we have a washing machine again. Glad we have plenty of clean clothes until then!

DAC
 
Well, daughter showed up this afternoon to hang out for a couple days----with her laundry! She's sol for that, probably until Sunday! Poor kid may have to go to a laundromat---LOL!

DAC
 
Don't you love it when they bring "a few things to wash" and ends up being 4 bags full. Daughter has her own washer and dryer. Don't need any dressers as the dryer serves that purpose. Lot of times I have seen the granddaughter with two different socks on but guess a lot of kids are doing that now days. Kind of like in inside out sweat shirt phase., shirt collars turned up, etc.
 
Got a load of gravel Weds, tired of walking/driving in mud going to barn. It's been probably 20 yrs since it got any gravel. Much nicer, need another load at least to finish up in front of barn for vehicle and trailer parking. Poor trailer and Durango were crying, I think they gave me 3 ton.

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Before

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After with my 2 helpers. I had to use some of it in some other spots of drive or I would had covered more area.

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dodge trucker said:
gravel never covers as much area as you hope it will. Then it packs down, making that issue worse.
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This was a gravel drive years ago, just the grass and leaves have made it muddy over years. I could probably scrape an inch or so off and get back to gravel, but for now, Anything is better than nothing.
 
had to change the radiator in my car today as it was getting too hot towing the tandem trailer with a small load scrap metal and such running good again , the old rad had a hand full of rusty sludge in the bottom of the one end tank of it as i flushed it out to see on the concrete ,

during the week i replaced the rear lights on the tandon trailer to LED lights and welded the one light bracket up that was damaged and replaced 2 U-bolts on the rear left side axle of the trailer too

Also i started to build a steel frame cabin (hut ) for up the mountain reason for all steel because , bushfires and white ants which are bad in this part of the country IMG_20181122_151836.jpg IMG_20181122_151917.jpg size is 12'6" x 4'8" x 7' high , later there will be another one the same size and they be bolted together to make 9"4" wide IMG_20181123_162110.jpg IMG_20181123_162129.jpg IMG_20181123_162753.jpg
IMG_20181123_162811.jpg i'm using the cheap type scissor jacks to level it after i tow it up the mountain 8 jacks around it and be 2 in the middle underneath , the 2 trolleys gives it 4 wheels to transport still have to weld a hitch on it yet ,

i did build it all kit form but had no need too , not as heavy as i thought the chassis is 3x2 C channel steel and all the frame steel is 1"1/4 pipe and the floor is 3 mm sheet plate , update progress to come to come

Shane
 
Worked in Seard again yesterday, still fighting the stalling issue. Replaced all fuel lines, filter, installed new pulse pump then it wouldn't start. Pulled carb and found needle seat was twisted. Removed it and it was swelled,....ethanol :mad: installed a rebuilt carb i had, it's flooding. Seems the seat in that one was slightly too small. So gotta find proper seat and needle for these carbs. Snow is gonna be flying soon, I maybe shoveling
 
Today, I put tubes in the Deere 828 walk behind snow blower, and in the front of the GT19 snow blower tractor. Cannot believe 3 yo Sno Hogs on the front of the Ariens (that I pried onto those rims myself when they were new) are so much more dry rotted than the 20 yo ones on the walk behind. I started noticing the cracks in the Ariens tires over last winter which was the busiest that tractor has been in any season in 10+ years, as it sat a bit with me and it had previously sat for many years with the PO under a bench. Must have been one tall bench.
I aired up those tires last Friday so I could bring it home, the LF was flat over the summer, the RF has more recently gone flat, and in 3 days of sitting in my garage since I got it home, the RF was on the rim again. the LF was still up at that time.
and the Deere, it wouldn't seal and take air out in storage. "screw it".... tube em.
I also replaced a hose from the Sunstrand to the rear end that had been leaking, replaced the filter and put what oil I had onto the shelf back in it. That trans and rear end has had its oil changed now at least 3 times in about 25 hours of run time. after probably never having been changed from new, due to hose replacement and leak plugging..... I had to put 4 qts into it to get it to move, and the PS to actually steer, a week ago.
then put new wheels on the MTD 2 cycle paddle snow blower and fired it up for the 1st time in 3 seasons.... (spring summer fall)
it apparently got dropped at one time and broke at the hub.
 
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