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Moving day for me too. Had about 15 bu of corn left in the wagon from the winter heat. Run about 8 5gl pails full to squirl and animal feed but still had a bunch left. Would not keep through the summer so had to dump it. Pulled the wagon into aCRP area next to some trees where we see wild life and left a pile there. Got the wagon pushed in the pole building with the 4 wheeler. Move some other things around so Mrs could get her car in next to my truck which opened op my work table bay in the garage. Always a pin to go all the shuffling but glad it is done one more time.
LOL!! They will all fit, but something has to go outside to work on something else. Long ways from your place to mine, but the old beater just might make the trip!
It got kinda weird this afternoon. Our daughter (the kid on the MTD in my avatar picture), came home for Easter last night. She lives about 400 miles east. She started sending panicky texts while I was at work. She was getting bitten by bugs while on our couch! Sure enough that dang couch is full of bedbugs! I guess it's good to have someone in your house that isn't used to being there. I don't sit there very often, and my wife only briefly every night. Son came over and they got part of the couch loaded in his pickup, and when I got home we loaded the rest. It was one of those corner couches with a couple of recliners in one section and a fold out bed in the other. Son and I headed for the dump and like a dummy I should have known it was closed! Where I work was closed too as well as all city offices. I had an overtime job today and was the only person at the wastewater plant.
Anyway, while they were vacuuming and sanitizing, I pressure washed the 4x8 rug from our laundry room as the kids had hauled it outside to make getting the couch pieces out easier. I usually wash it about this time every year anyway. Looks like my pressure washer needs a pressure washing! I washed the rug on the concrete patio then son and I carried it to dry, hanging on the pickup.
One of our daughters friends knew of a company that takes care of these bugs and my wife has contacted them to come assess the house. Fortunately visual wise anyway, the beds don't seem infested. They stripped them and looked while I was pressure washing.
Dang, weather gets nice finally and inside problems arise!
I don't know about anyone else here at home but I will be tired enough to sleep well tonight, even with the potential creepy critters! They still managed to get to Church tonight.
DAC
Hopefully you only had them there. They can be a son of a gun to get rid of
Well Doug. That’s not good. But sounds like you got it fixed. Allways something comes around when you don’t expect it. Happens to me a lot. You just start to get ahead and more things happen. Really hate it when troubles happen faster than you can fix them.
There no doubt in my mind that the 55 would make it. To my place. Hehe.
What is the yellow vehicle to the left in the picture.
Noel
There no doubt in my mind that the 55 would make it. To my place. Hehe.
What is the yellow vehicle to the left in the picture.
Noel
Time for Tempo to go to work. Spray it inside and out the whole house. Going to do it here this morning as the wind is not blow 40 mph. I think I would have taken that couch outside, pulled it apart as much as reasonable, and spray it down with Tempo from top to bottom, inside and out. Let it sit a couple days and spray it again. Another day or so & vacuum it good, move it back in, and use it. And NO I don't own an stock in Tempo, I just know it works and is safe.
Got 1018 Cub in the shop. Oil change, checked it over good, blades were new last year and were good to go, greased it, fueled it up and gave it a bath. Mrs took it out and mowed with it. Her mowing tractor. This morning the Bolens 775 come in for a front tire change. Tube is peeking through a crack about 3" long center tread so time for a new one. Mrs. yard donkey.
Exterminator got here about 11:30 and found a few in the spare bedrooms, and in our bedroom on the beds. He said that couch was definitely the source in our house for the others as they weren't really established well in the beds. Mattresses and box springs will be reuseable. He will be back in two weeks to do a progress checkup.
I sure know what you mean Noel! This deal will end up costing upwards of $2500 with replacing the couch and extermination. Probably more.
I will have to see if Tempo is available around here. My shop gets those darn roly poly bugs sometimes and I would love to see them die! They aren't too bad this spring for some reason. The couch was not salvageable once a person looked closely at it. Daughters arm is chewed up pretty bad from those bloodsuckers.
Wife and daughter loaded the back of the Denali with 55 gallon garbage bags of laundry and headed for a laundromat in town. Must have been a dozen of those bags with mainly bedding in them. They are still working on that. I'm doing household loads here and we (son and I) just got done moving furniture back, vacuuming and assembling beds.
Time for a cold beer!
DAC
I worked part time for an Ag Chem company. Attended a presentation promoting Tempo when it first came out. Very impressive. It is highly concentrated and if I remember right takes 16 ml for a 3 gal. mix. It is not cheap, like about $35 US for about 12 -14 oz. but it goes a long way. Fine spray is all you need. Have to find someone going to the States and have them pick up up a bottle. Bootlegging has been done for hundreds of years and still goes on today.
Sounds like your on the up hill side of the situation Doug. We got fleas in the house once, came in with the dog and spread before the Frontline got to them. Set a bomb of some kind off and left for a day and that seamed to take care of them. Heavy vacuuming and lot of laundry of course.
Yeah we are pretty much done with cleaning, Roger. Not going to get a new couch until the final inspection is done. Still need to hang new curtains that were touching the couch but the old ones were sprayed and we're leaving them alone until the inspection too.
Thanks for the advice, Rad! Your wife suggested about the same thing as the exterminator said. There are a couple pairs of my steel toed shoes that weren't washable that may have gotten infected but I put them in the dryer for the heat to kill any possible bugs too. Washed the coveralls and shirt I wore to unload the couch sections in hot water this morning then dryed them in the highest heat setting too.
Hopefully we pass the inspection two weeks from today.
DAC
Sorry I forgot to answer your question Noel @Propane1 . That is a 1970 GMC Jimmy 4x4. The first year of the Jimmy. It was my Mom's. She bought it a year old in 1971 and drove it for 30 years. I drove it off and on until 2005 when it became a very slow project.
Did I ask if you ever found a 4 barrel intake for the Rambler?
DAC
working on my Cub 129, thought it was rolling right along, until I discovered that I don't have the cork gasket that I thought I did, for the hydro to rear end seam.... crap.
IF I can figure out the problem with the original hydro off of the 129, I can put that onto the 1650 rear end and then I'll have a hydro and rear end for the 2nd 129, a machine that I was gonna part out and scrap like I did the 1650.
I just ordered a new driveshaft for this tractor, already have a new engine side driveshaft coupler because the engine side of the original shaft is so worn down.... I already have a new engine side coupler, bought that back when this 129 came home.
there's a guy 15 miles from me that has a bunch of random Cub parts including the "cylinder blocks" and pistons with swash plates out of an identical hydro, on Ebay….. inflated to compensate for eBay's seller charges.
IF I can figure out the problem with the original hydro off of the 129, I can put that onto the 1650 rear end and then I'll have a hydro and rear end for the 2nd 129, a machine that I was gonna part out and scrap like I did the 1650.
I just ordered a new driveshaft for this tractor, already have a new engine side driveshaft coupler because the engine side of the original shaft is so worn down.... I already have a new engine side coupler, bought that back when this 129 came home.
there's a guy 15 miles from me that has a bunch of random Cub parts including the "cylinder blocks" and pistons with swash plates out of an identical hydro, on Ebay….. inflated to compensate for eBay's seller charges.
Doug. Ya my son got a cast iron original 390 intake for it. Works much better than the aluminum high rise that he had on it.
He also took the Holley off and put on a carter carburetor. This is what came on those engines when new. The carter works good.
That jimmy would be a rare vehicle in my parts. 350 in it ?
Noel
He also took the Holley off and put on a carter carburetor. This is what came on those engines when new. The carter works good.
That jimmy would be a rare vehicle in my parts. 350 in it ?
Noel
Trying to put a lower ball joint in my sister's GMC Sonoma last night, fighting my tooth and nail. No air tools and I'm doing it in the grass....that's the only place the wrecker could drop it. Couldn't move it cause lower ball joint was basically MIA, not sure how she drove on it that long before it finally came apart.
I will also be rebuilding the Motorcrap carb on my son's F350 this week, he pulled it off last Friday with out asking when I would have time, now it's sitting in out carport dead and in the way.
I will also be rebuilding the Motorcrap carb on my son's F350 this week, he pulled it off last Friday with out asking when I would have time, now it's sitting in out carport dead and in the way.
I was always told if you need help with something put it in the way.