I've cut wood a little each day since Wednesday until today. My splitter had a bad tire so I tried some tire goop from Rural King and to my surprise it fixed the small leaks in the weather cracks and around the bead. I have a new tire for it but I wanted to try this 1st. I then repaired the bracket under the gas tank that holds the throttle linkage, it had broken at the bottom and the vibration made the throttle control impossible. I changed the oil and split a little bit of wood mainly for a test run, all seems ok. Some parts showed up for my MS311 that I'm rehabbing and I made good progress with it until I found that I need a new worm gear for the oiler. I brought a small 4 wheeler trailer load of hickory from my honey hole and dumped it close to the hen house that is soon to be a wood shed. Pretty productive day for an old man.
My neighbor died a couple of years ago, he was over 95 years old. Til the last week of his life, would hear a chainsaw run for about an hour a day. He was always doing something. I envy him and try to be like that also. Good for you. It isn't what isn't done, it is what you got done.
It feels good when you get caught up on all that maintenance. I guess it's a little more confidence that everything will be running smoothly. It's never a waste of time! Nice work, bang !
When you have chainsaws, hydraulic splitters, lawn mowers, weed eaters, tractors, or any number of other things the maintenance has to be done. Even cars and trucks.
To me there is nothing more annoying than start using something and it doesn't work properly. I try to stay on top of things to minimize the frustration but still have things go wrong, probably because all my stuff is like me...... old.
I just went to start my push mower, I use it to cut around the swingset and a few other tighter spots that it's harder to get with the ride on. Pull.cord came out, so I reformed the maintenance task of throwing the cord back in the shed and pushing the mower in behind it. Maintenance complete
Besides routine service, I need to spend an almost entire day every spring and fall switching from mowing to snow plowing equipment with the tractor, storing/taking out of storage 2 mowers, putting the snow tires on the car, freeze proofing the pressure washer, turning the water off in my unheated garage, cleaning the septic tank filter, greasing, and probably a few other things I can't think of now-wow I'm getting tired thinking about it! It always happens the last week of October and when we get spring break from school. It is a good feeling when I am done!
It's about time to winterize the mowing/trming equipment but with the warm weather the grass is still growing Add to the warmth we got much needed rain yesterday and today so I can't get the summer stuff put up yet. I have a zero turn, lawn tractor, 2 push mowers, 2 string trimmers, a tiller and a bush hog on my old 9n. Maybe I need to join a lawn equipment hoarders group lol
It's been very wet here for the past week and a half. The roads thru the area that's being timbered was 3 to 4 inches of powdered dirt in places due to the drought. I was able to cut a few hours a couple nights last week and some Saturday morning. I got a good bit of spignut hickory and some walnut cut and I have maybe 3 truck loads on the ground including the white oak I cut earlier. Got a heavy but short rain this morning so I may be on hold again for awhile.
