Ferguson TO 20 . Great little machine . The 8n needs some work before I can use her again .

 

Yes sir, great little tractors. I love the Ferguson's and the 9,8 and 2ns. Simple too.

 

I got out the little bitty electric mower today and attacked the side yard.
It did a pretty good job, and tomorrow I'm going after the rest so that I can burn brushwood in the back lot.

Maybe this year I'll have a yard to be proud of again...

 

Time to turn the mater patch . Think I will do more of a garden this year , If my back holds out ! The wife is better after her shoulder surgery , she may be able to help out more . Spring has Sprung ! Time to get to work outside ....

 

Indeed - I got out there and made some inroads on the "FUNGLE" (Funky Jungle) around my place. The (and I'm not making this name up) "MOW JOE" electric 20" mower I have now did a good job of clearing a lot of the back lot, and ripped a reasonable circle of clear firebreak around the pile of brush I need to burn in the back.

I can saturate it with a hose and be safe on a windless day in the near future eliminating the cut junk I have piled up. I bet my neighbors will be pleased...

The pole saw got a workout (and so did I - it's a miniature chain saw at the end of a long shaft) hacking up the long branches, as well as the bushes I planted so long ago around the back deck. I also used it to chop down some of the vines holding a lot of the CRAP together.

If I get an op to have a friend shoot pictures while I use it - you'll have a better idea.
Before it was over I felt like somebodies cousin Nunzio from Chicago had worked my whole body over with a baseball bat...

The last thing I did today was check on the pressure being put out by the fuel pump I installed in the tank of the Suzuki Swift car I have been focussing on - it maxed the test gauge set (SUNPRO) at 100PSI - which I am not sure is normal.

The pump I installed is in theory an OEM exact replacement for a pump intended to deliver 40PSI...

It ain't no JEGS or SUMMIT massive pump on steroids, or so I thought.

Whatever, whoopee ding, so long as it pumps at least enough, ya know?

 

If that was dead headed pressure , I could see that . If you are tappin in line of flow ... you have a restriction in the return ckt . Too much pressure ain't good .

 

It may be designed to provide overkill - I have no idea what happens when a good regulator is in the circuit.

I also wonder what happens when there is usage (flow) and regulation bleeds back into the tank.


Again it seems like overkill - but that can be a good thing, IE:

It's better to have it and not need it -
Than to NEED it and not HAVE it


Pressure and flow are not the same thing - they can be likened to amperes and voltage in an electrical circuit


Visualise this: I STOPPERED the end of the fuel line with the gauge.


That is what I read as pressure, got it?


I wanted to know how much pressure the pump was delivering.
~Not the volume, and not with regulation.


The pump can only deliver so much flow - and in other circumstances (in operation) conditions will be different.

~ I hope....


I should have been a scientist - I thought it would be simpler and much more fun to be a goddamned hotrodder!


But that's just silly old me

*Bernouli's law is a pain in the backside

 

Theologian missed a bet when he turned down "Woola"

~She has become the most amazing character, and also the best trained Pup I have ever had as a friend and mascot. She is a HAPPY pup, and can be counted on to never disgrace herself in the house

My fuzzy - my baby girl

Also my RED DOG FROM MARS, at need...

I think she is over her adolescence, and sticks to me like crazy glue as she always did.

I can't help thinking that with Rufuss gone she is ten times the dog he once was, and portable. Woola can travel with me...

 

Nothing like a great companion!

 

Cool stuff to share, that I found along the way to what i will do about the screws I use in the throttle body

(I'm on hold now while longer screws and a bottoming tap in 10X32 are on their way)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...7235B0EAC2AAB4

There's a lot of stuff I didn't know that LOCTITE made, or how to use it - especially how to take apart things that had been assembled with basic loctite.
The key is to apply HEAT to the fasteners, and a big soldering iron like a weller pistol-type is one of the answers.


*FOOTNOTE on posting YOUTUBE Playlists, be sure and turn off "AUTOMATICALLY EMBED MEDIA" in the options below the post screen, or they will jack up. They are not the same as a single video, they will try to open a page inside the forum page and that doesn't work

 

Mater patch is almost ready .

 

I've got sprouts starting up in some outdoor seed planters, and did a brush burn-off to clear the way for my corn and melon patch.

I think I want to wait until after some incoming rain storms to put seeds out there though, I wouldn't want them to wash up out of the ground.

 

Good afternoon Tennesseans...enjoy your Sunday.

 

Praising, eating and eggs!

 

Today, Easter Sunday 2015 -
I burned off enough brush to open up my #2 garden and planted it so far with five fifty foot rows of Glass Gem corn and planted I'm not sure how many watermelon seeds around the edges that will grow plants that will fill in the space between the corn stalks with big green and white juicy sweet goodies, at the same time they make it hard for weeds to grow.

Once the corn is at one foot or so tall, I plan to also go back in and plant beans in amongst it all. The beans will not be harvested, (except maybe a few here and there) but will provide nitrogen support in the soil for the other plants.

-They will not be trellised. It is intended that they climb the corn stalks as they grow.

The corn type is a heritage "Indian Corn" that is to be allowed to grow, and ripen until the stalks turn brown. The ears are picked when they are seed stock, and will be offered to the local community as holiday decorations or future seed. I paid no attention to what color the seeds were that I dropped in the holes, they are a full range of many colors. From my reading and research, this is a traditional corn of the Cherokee Nation.

Colored Corn is also sacred in rituals of the Hopi and Navajo Nations, who sort the colors and grind them to be used for sand paintings used in medicine rituals.

This concept garden is intended to be almost entirely left alone, no matter what happens, to test out ideas presented by Masanobu Fukuoka in his book "The One Straw Revolution".

When the crop is done for the year, a "Cover Crop" of other things will be planted in the space for the winter. The notion is that the over winter "Other" will provide 'Green manure' that will enrich the soil.

At the same time, I will chop and drop right where it came from, all of the corn stalks and chaff to be returned into the ground.

The Fukuoka concepts include NOT TILLING THE GROUND - it is suggested that the ground should become what nature intended, rather than have beneficial organisms and soil textures disturbed or damaged.

There will BE NO CHEMICALS, neither fertilizers or pesticides used - this also is forbidden in this test. If it is to be true to the suggestions of Masanobu San, all must fulfill their own life cycles undisturbed.

It is the ultimate expression of "Hands Off Gardening" or either "Lazy Man's Farming" whichever you prefer...


May the Creators blessings from my efforts on this of all days be many, and benefit my friends and myself.
~AMEN






This should be both interesting and colorful...



*I have enough seeds left to start another row or two - but they will be reserved to fill in gaps where some of the seeds fail to come up.
**I placed them a foot apart, in rows two feet apart.
***Little fear of washout - the planting depth is a full inch.


~There should be two cobs per plant, at the far end



"Be BOLD in your enterprises - expect nothing, but treasure everything"