So if you didn't do anything airgun related what did you do today?

[avator]

Mowed the barn acre with the Snapper this morning. It did a great job even in the wet grass.
One front tire went flat and the other was way low. When I finished (after running out of gas once  ) I brought it to the shop and pulled both front wheels off.
I cleaned the bead on the first one and put a ratchet strap on it to squeeze it to the bead and aired it up. It seems to be holding. Not so much for the other one. I cleaned the bead on that one and aired it up. I could hear the air coming out. I put some water on it and found the valve stem leaking. I think there is dirt and grass in the seal of it. I don't have the tool to pull a new stem in so I'm just going to run it down to my buddy Pete's tire shop. Maybe I'll pick a bucket of wheel weight lead for casting while I'm there.
I'll do that tomorrow, that way I'll know the other one don't have a slow leak.

[Matchstickshooter]

 Watching FB video of my town under water from storm last night!

 Lyndonville Vt.  drone video.

[Lt. Dan]

Mowed the barn acre with the Snapper this morning. It did a great job even in the wet grass.
One front tire went flat and the other was way low. When I finished (after running out of gas once  ) I brought it to the shop and pulled both front wheels off.
I cleaned the bead on the first one and put a ratchet strap on it to squeeze it to the bead and aired it up. It seems to be holding. Not so much for the other one. I cleaned the bead on that one and aired it up. I could hear the air coming out. I put some water on it and found the valve stem leaking. I think there is dirt and grass in the seal of it. I don't have the tool to pull a new stem in so I'm just going to run it down to my buddy Pete's tire shop. Maybe I'll pick a bucket of wheel weight lead for casting while I'm there.
I'll do that tomorrow, that way I'll know the other one don't have a slow leak.

Congratulations getting the Snapper up and going. Glad to hear it has enough power after the engine swap.
I just recently put a plug in one of the front tires on my zt. Seems like every year there is another leak.

[Blowpipe Sam]

I got out of bed around noon.  So far today that has been my big accomplishment.

Thank you all for the kind words about my art.  Drawing and painting is my way of dealing with stress.  This is a particularly stressful summer.

But on the upside I’m getting a heck of a lot of art work done!

[avator]

Mowed the barn acre with the Snapper this morning. It did a great job even in the wet grass.
One front tire went flat and the other was way low. When I finished (after running out of gas once  ) I brought it to the shop and pulled both front wheels off.
I cleaned the bead on the first one and put a ratchet strap on it to squeeze it to the bead and aired it up. It seems to be holding. Not so much for the other one. I cleaned the bead on that one and aired it up. I could hear the air coming out. I put some water on it and found the valve stem leaking. I think there is dirt and grass in the seal of it. I don't have the tool to pull a new stem in so I'm just going to run it down to my buddy Pete's tire shop. Maybe I'll pick a bucket of wheel weight lead for casting while I'm there.
I'll do that tomorrow, that way I'll know the other one don't have a slow leak.

Congratulations getting the Snapper up and going. Glad to hear it has enough power after the engine swap.
I just recently put a plug in one of the front tires on my zt. Seems like every year there is another leak.

Not being able to just leave stuff alone, I went back out to the shop and was able to get a brass tooth brush with Dawn on it and got in there and scrub around the valve stem. I scrubbed and rotated and rinsed and repeated. Then I did the same with some alcohol on the tooth brush and clean best I could. I dried that all off and put the ratchet strap on to squeeze the tire to the bead. I aired it up and it seems the leak is gone. I put it back on the mower and checked it an hour or so later. Both tires seem to be holding air now.
This is one of the up sides to retirement.. when you get a notion to do something, you just go do it instead of trying to squeeze it into the weekend.

[bReTt]

Finished setting up a fence to protect our blueberry plants from Millie… 🙄😆

[Matchstickshooter]

Watching FB video of my town under water from storm last night!

 Lyndonville Vt.  drone video.

Here's my town..this morning...

https://www.wcax.com/2024/07/11/crews-searching-driver-swept-away-floodwaters-find-submerged-vehicle/

[A.K.A. Tommy Boy]

Watching FB video of my town under water from storm last night!

 Lyndonville Vt.  drone video.

Here's my town..this morning...

https://www.wcax.com/2024/07/11/crews-searching-driver-swept-away-floodwaters-find-submerged-vehicle/

Wow Wendell, that's bad.

I hope you are OK.


Best Wishes - Tom

[NorCal David]

Thank you all for the kind words about my art.  Drawing and painting is my way of dealing with stress.  This is a particularly stressful summer.

From a local cafe. The one one the left is for you, Captain.

[Blowpipe Sam]

Thank you all for the kind words about my art.  Drawing and painting is my way of dealing with stress.  This is a particularly stressful summer.

From a local cafe. The one one the left is for you, Captain.

Heck!  I like all three!

[Frank in Fairfield]

PeeWee had his fingernails clipped.
He is getting fat.
8.1 lbs:

[Sqrl Klr]

Bill I've seen people pull stems into wheels with pliers and vice grips. Good you got it solved either way.

That one drive tension pulley was a beyoch yesterday but it didn't put up much fight at all with my 3ft "insister" pry bar today. It's a pulley not tensioned by spring where you have to pry tension into the pulley mounted by bolt to it's slide rail then tighten it in place which is a garbage design. Got my mother's yard mowed good afterward. Still can't tell where the left trans is leaking from slowly so that will be a chore for another day but I cleaned it off at least.

[Back_Roads]

 Finished up making a berm to keep the pumpkin patch from getting washed out again, packed leveled and seeded. The patch was apple trees just this spring, I tore them out as we have planted many new ones that are going into production now.

[2A Georgia]

Spent the day in the HRV Atlanta to Greensboro and trying to pull over and remote work.  Wishing I had a tin of pellets and a Yong Heng with me....I am in a RedRoof to be cheap for this event and thinking I might finally be too old for RedRoof..it was loud but just now went silent.  There was a rentacop at the lobby when I checked in don't know if that's good or bad...

[avator]

Pulled a pump up sprayer or of the shop that hasn't been used in a few years. It was here when we took over the place so I'm not sure what it was used for. I'm sure it was either fertilizer or weed killer. I dumped the contents out in the woods and left it upside down to drain. I'm going to clean it out this morning and mix up some vinegar weed killer and spray the fence line.
I do have a few gallons of weed killer in the atv mounted sprayer but I don't want to use that because of the dogs. I used to do the ditch line with it where the dogs couldn't get to it.
The vinegar, salt, and Dawn mixture won't hurt them and it's cheap. It that don't work well enough I'll go with a bleach mixture.

[Matchstickshooter]

Watching FB video of my town under water from storm last night!

 Lyndonville Vt.  drone video.

Here's my town..this morning...

https://www.wcax.com/2024/07/11/crews-searching-driver-swept-away-floodwaters-find-submerged-vehicle/

Wow Wendell, that's bad.

I hope you are OK.


Best Wishes - Tom

 Thanks, Tom.   We're okay.

[Madd Hatter]

Pulled a pump up sprayer or of the shop that hasn't been used in a few years. It was here when we took over the place so I'm not sure what it was used for. I'm sure it was either fertilizer or weed killer. I dumped the contents out in the woods and left it upside down to drain. I'm going to clean it out this morning and mix up some vinegar weed killer and spray the fence line.
I do have a few gallons of weed killer in the atv mounted sprayer but I don't want to use that because of the dogs. I used to do the ditch line with it where the dogs couldn't get to it.
The vinegar, salt, and Dawn mixture won't hurt them and it's cheap. It that don't work well enough I'll go with a bleach mixture.

Try this
amazon.com/45-Pure-Vinegar-Concentrated-Industrial/dp/B0D18ZLWW8/ref=asc_df_B0D18ZLWW8?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80814291856439&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=m&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584413765214653&psc=1

[bReTt]

Finished up making a berm to keep the pumpkin patch from getting washed out again, packed leveled and seeded. The patch was apple trees just this spring, I tore them out as we have planted many new ones that are going into production now.

I always appreciate you sharing pictures and videos of your day James.  Thanks for including us in your daily life! 👊🏼

[avator]

Man... that's quite a distance to travel for each bucket load.

[Blowpipe Sam]

I took the memsahib to any early morning doctor's appointment and then we went shopping and had lunch at Chicken Salad Chick.  The memsahib loves the place and I think it's acceptable.  I had the chicken salad BLT sandwich and it was decent.  We went to Hobby Lobby which usually doesn't have what I'm looking for but today was the exception.  I bought a big pad of tracing paper, a new 80 Lb. cold press sketch book.  Some 140 lb. hot press Bristol board, a kneaded eraser, six drawing pencils, and an eraser shield.  $68.  There ain't no cheap hobbies anymore.