What's up today (bullchiting) thread.

That would really suck having to depend on someone else for clearing while your out of town. OTOH, I'll bet he felt just horrible that he didn't get it cleared in time.

The truck damage is not really a big deal - irritating yes, but not an issue that ruined my day. I have the car to get around in, and since I'm working from home, I don't have to get out very often anyway. I'm more irritated that for the rest of the winter I'll have to scrape/clear frost, ice and snow off the truck. I have gotten soooo used to not having to do that. OTOH, I won't have as much snow blowing to do as I can park the truck closer to the house so won't have to clear the entire "driveway" thru the yard.

 

I w

I went by our local Dollar General and the parking lot hadn’t been plowed at all and it had 2’ of snow in the parking lot. I bet they didn’t pay their plow guy!

 

That ain't good. Hope your truck is ok.

 

Actually thats good luck.
Windshields are cheap fast and easy to replace.

 

Yesterday late afternoon I recovered the last of the wood that I split and couldn't fit in the last trip, mostly because I had the splitter in the trailer taking up some space, so I got that, and cut the elm rounds that were too long before into 16-17" rounds. I split that and it made 1 layer of splits on the 4x8 trailer bed. I wanted to get more, but I had to work on the Sportsman ATV. It was only running on choke, and not great. I replaced the fuel filter, but that wasn't it. Kind of figured that, but it was at least a shot to save from R&R of the carburetor and cleaning that. Oh well.

My buddy got home from work and we tag teamed the carb removal. I worked on one side of the ATV, him on the other. Took the carb out, and yeah. It was dirty. It's a mikuni CV carb and after we got it out, my buddy went to town on the carb with brake cleaner. We found that the slow jet was clogged. It wouldn't unclog with cleaner spray, so he took a wire tie from a garbage bag and used that really fine wire to clear the orifice. That did it.

We reinstalled the carb after putting the carb back together. Then tried out out after I got all the parts put back on the ATV.

Success! It runs great now. It runs as good as new now. Now I can get the rest of the box elder and white pine to clean up my buddy's field. Plus whatever firewood I want to get from my woodlot and his dad's 24 acres.
I also got my AR 15 bore sighted so that's all set to sight in.
I didn't get home until 9pm, but it was well worth it.

 

Good thinking!
Another good source of a small gauge "poker" is a small piece of stranded electrical wire...can strip a length, ferret out one strand to the side and go to town...easier to hold onto and keep track of too! Also, different size and brand wires will have different gauge individual strands for different size jets...some small engines have VERY small holes in the low speed circuit jets!

 

I came up with a new use for the hot ash buckets today. It’s working pretty well.



The steps off the deck face north and the ice does not like to melt out at the bottom. I hate putting salt down cause it gets tracked into the house. Chipping ice sucks. This is a much better solution.

 

My favorite is taking a strand of stainless wire from a wire brush with vise grips. I haven’t found a jet that won’t go thru.

 

That works until you get distracted and leave the pail of hot aches there. Lots of decks and homes have gone up in flames due to pails of ashes left on them. I would be too impatient to wait for the ice to melt. I wonder if you could use something like those covers they put on car windshields when you anticipate a storm. then just pull them off once the storm has passed.

 

The pails are on the asphalt, away from the wood.

 

The wind could easily carry an ember. I have a friend that burnt his house down just like that. Not trying to nag but it happens.

 

finally got the Bronco running again today. Fuel gauge hasnt worked since midway through Obama's first term....and apparently I ran it out of fuel. No idea how that could have happened. I suspect that someone may have siphoned it, theres no way that I ran through that much fuel on a 100 mile round trip and a few trips to the dump.

 

I tried a piece of aluminum mig wire, and that was too big. Good idea on the single strand of wire from non solid electrical wire. We had that too, but didn't think of it, or need it. It was smaller than the smallest drill bit we had.

 

That would've worked better. It took a while to get the tie wire through. It wanted to bend. But it worked. That ATV runs perfectly now. Next I need to order about $60 or so in parts to fix the bayou. Those seals, clamps, and bellows are expensive.

 

It's nice to have your tools operational again, isn't it? You use your bronco to haul wood, right? I use the ATVs in the woods to do the same.

 

I use a sewing needle they work very well as they don't bend easy.

 

Even better of a solution is to shovel the snow away before anyone walks on it. Keeps it from getting packed down and building up. For those wood steps, I suggest a plastic shovel without any metal strip along the bottom.

I found it best to keep at it no matter how small of a snowfall.

 

I got a stiff broom works for me..

 

Another good idea.

I just ran across some floral wire in the futility drawer in the kitchen. That would work too. I doubt my buddy would have a sewing needle or floral wire at his house though. Her does have basically every kind of tool available, which I know I appreciate.