MS290 starting issue

Speaking of work, you will be surprised by the number of Americans that have given up looking for work and are trying to get by on what they can earned. I have recently watched through a series of videos of a man in Texas and what he is going through. He is a skilled machinist. He is looking at losing his home even though he planned a year in advance of losing his job. He has been out of work since Jan. 18. The US doesn't count people who have gone through all their benefits and still can not find a job. The idea is to make it look like the US economy is great when it is not; it is close to collapsing folks.
I have a friend in SC that lost his job; the company fired several hundred employees for various reasons to avoid the benefits. He tried to get the unemployment office to look into the company but they ignore him and told him no benefits for you since you were fired. So he is working part time jobs hoping he can survive until he can go on early social security benefits next March.
I have looked for employment; not lately and I guess I should. I have registered with many unemployment agencies, both 40 miles from me and locally. One year I applied at Big Lots (look them up online if you don't have one near you) during the Christmas hols; rejected and I went into Big Lots later and saw one of the hires trying to make a career stocking paper towels on a shelf; I have seen sloths move faster. I could have stocked the shelf in a few minutes and been on to the next task. However, they did not want me.
You tend to get discouraged after awhile.

 

If you (not you in particular but you meaning a job applicant) have any sort of smarts about you, just a little drive, and any form of education besides middle school, Big Lots, mcdonalds, wally world, and places like that don't want you because they know that as soon as you can find better work, you will leave them.

Cleaning houses can make good $ if you get the work yourself. And it's usually recurring income. That's what you want....not a 1 time hit.

Go door to door in the "nice" neighborhoods. Dress nice. Take a flyer or business card. Have cleaning stuff in the car with you. Say you will start right now and that you NEED the money. People like to feel like they are "helping" you, even though you are earning it fair and square.

 

I have worked at cleaning flats after the attendants moved out; I worked for a company when they needed extra help. It was hard work; you would be surprised at the filth they leave behind. More than once I have seen the toilet covered in dried urine, dried around the base of the bowl and running across to the tub and down the side of the tub. Of course a house would be different; people take better care of stuff they own. I would not clean houses unless I could be bonded and I don't have the money for that or insurance. "Oh my, my 10 grand diamond ring is gone, the cleaning lady took it." That was a real story; sort of since I don't have the details; turns out the woman was trying to scam insurance. No, I really don't want to clean occupied houses. I cleaned my brother's house once as a favour because he did not want strangers in his house; his wife was so damm nit-picky that I was glad when it ended.

 

You are over thinking it imo. Tell them you can't afford insurance or to be bonded. Be honest. You'll be surprised who offers you work. Even without the above. How do you think little kids get mowing jobs? You think they have insurance?

And you said "you don't want to clean houses".

I won't say what I want to in response to that, but I will say that nobody wants to work. Nobody. But we all get up everyday and do whatever the hell is necessary to improve our lives and bank accounts. No matter how bad it sucks...rise and grind.

 

No, it is not the work, I have done worst jobs than cleaning houses. It is this new age we are living in; seriously, the woman that I worked for cleaning flats said absolutely no to any occupied flats for the same reasons I say no. An empty flat has little in the way to damage; I did drop a light cover; plastic, that the heat from bulbs had caused to become brittle; shattered in a thousand pieces. My boss covered that. Take the house cleaning for my brother, his wife had the top of the TV cabinet covered in nick-knacks. She wanted all of it removed, clean the top, and all the junk put back. Heaven help me if I broke anything. Maybe if I developed a contract for the homeowner to sign. For one, I don't move stuff to clean anything. Bathroom counters are usually covered in all kinds of crap. All that has to be removed, cleaned the top; wipe it down, put it all back. Maybe coming in and cleaning the tubs and toilets; anything that needs to be clean has to be cleared of anything. Bocefus78; if you have not clean a house, you know know what it really means.

 

No, I say most want some kind of work; sitting on one's arse can become old; unless you love the crap on TV and I don't; the TV is rarely turned on in this house. If I hated work I would not have flower gardens or veggie gardens because they are a hell of a lot of work.

 

You don't have to use the condenser...it'll run without it, at least long enough to test your theory, even long enough to get some wood cutting done until you get new parts. The points will eventually burn up without the condenser...and any nearby radios or TVs will experience static "noise". Unhook the condenser and try it...

 

I still can't believe the saw isn't fixed and a pile of wood cut since the post started, back around April 10th. Even if it is hard to start, it should still run well once it's going, so blast down a bunch of trees and limb/buck them up. Then worry about the tractor. Your tractor only needs to run for one day if all the wood is cut.

Isn't there another saw that was donated to you that would work? I have a dinky saw, and cut everything with it. It might take longer, but it still gets the job done. Wood burning is only self sufficient if you deal with it yourself.

 

How many times do I have to say the saw runs; it may be hard to pull but I can get it started; I worry about the recoil later. Right now I have wood sitting in the woods that I need to haul out; I need to get the tractor running. damm thing was running great, starting great, when I parked it after spring ploughing.

 

...still sounds like dirty points to me...you have an ohm meter correct? Have you checked to see if the points are providing ground to the coil when they close?

 

Maybe you need to give it some plough medicine?

 

Are we sure the tractor is a fire issue? Like it's not fireing? I can't remember now but the plug wires have no fire if you put them close to metal and crank it? Just ask to make sure that it's not out of time or some fuel delivery issue since you said the carb has problems.

 

I wasn't aware that you had a season worth of wood felled/limbed/bucked and waiting for tractor rescue.

 

I don't understand this; I am guessing it is a pun but not sure what the reference is. I enjoy a good pun but don't understand this one.

 

Well, not sure how much but that red oak needs to be up here and split and stack and there is a poplar that is felled and bucked (is it bucking when you cut to firewood length?). And there is a small white oak that was cut to clear a road back to the red oak that I am now to scared to take the tractor across the incline; will wheel barrow the red oak down the first hill. So yes, there is wood down cut to length that needs hauling up so I can split it and stack it.

 

Holy in living color meme batman
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Then I don't get the joke; I know it was a joke because of the laughing icon. I figured plough was the word play in the pun but I didn't get it.

 

Perhaps if I always referred to cows as coughs it would help with the joke??

Just trying to get you americanized and out of the england mindset!