Nobody has to tell me the roads will be slippy when it snows.... If it wasn't for sensatioalizing, the weather channel wouldn't have anything to say.
What a difference a day makes! Yesterday the water was a few feet from the stacks and several feet from the white shed. Today the stacks and shed are in the water. Trouble is my Kubota is in the left side of the shed and my new splitter is in the right side! The plan was to get them out today, because the rain is over for a few days and the river wasn't cresting until Wednesday, and bring them up to the house and leave them outside. Oh well the best laid plans of mice and men.....l think my losses are going to be greater than I though....
Looks like it. But the second problem is my kayaks, which are out of the picture, have floated about 50 yards out where the water is too deep to walk out and retreave them. I've got to get to a friend and borrow his to retrieve mine and to get into the shed. By then; who knows!
Well, the house is safe and the wife and I are safe and in the end that's all that really matters, isn't it.
Man Ralph boy, I'm sad to here all this! I'll pray things work out for you. Is there anyway to get the Kubota to higher ground? As expensive as they are, I think I'd figure a way to get to it.
That would be fun! Logs cut and loaded on a barge at walt s GTG, floated down to Ralphie Boy s to be cut at GTG part 2! (just hafta make sure eatonpcat doesn't fall in the crick!)
Well, the Kubota is safe by a couple inches but the splitter motor was submerged for probably 10 hours but the ram stayed above water so its saved. Nothing a new motor won't fix. Some folks lost their and all their possessions. I'm no mechanic; anyone close want to help me replace a splitter motor?
Drain the oil, let it drip out for a day to get all the water out. New oil. Drain the bowl on the carb. Check hydro oil for water also. The big cap on the tank has a pinhole in it for a pressure relief. Then fire it. If no fire, probably needs a coil. I doubt it needs a motor. Glad Yall are safe. Thats what matters.
Bocefus said correctly but let me add some things if I may... I'm no super mechanic but i've seen "Alot" of outboards under water and brought back to life fairly easy. What we do here is after you drain the oil, fill the whole motor with K-1 or Diesel and slowly pull the engine around "not fast". Blow out the gas tank and lines and dump some Isopropal or denatured Alcohol in the carb and tank, rinse then blow out the engine everywhere with compressed air real well. Let the engine dry off a bit and give it a light spray with something like WD-40 of as such. Add fresh oil, fresh gas and it "should" start right up, That motor should be fine. I've seen this many times here on the coast. I had a lawn mower several years back we did the exact thing to, still running to this day!
I would like to add - replace air cleaner element, - drain and clean fuel tank, - clean and dry spark plug, - You can even flush the engine with diesel fuel to wash out some of the muddy water. That motor should be ok Ralph, I have seen many dirt bikes get dropped in river crossings or deep bog holes (including my own once) and we always got them going again! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Sure feel for you Ralphie Boy. Hope the water does not come up more but perhaps you should get that tractor out just in case! Good luck on the splitter. I think that wood will be fine if it doesn't float away.
It's out. The water missed the motor by a couple or inches. The new splitter's ram stayed out but the motor was under water all night. Only about 15 hours on it.
