Good morning all and happy Friday Eve.

 

Eye candy Chris, pictures please!

 

How about current pictures of your F1?

 

Good morning Andy, Brett and those to follow.

Brett I'll take some pictures today.

 

Good evening Oregon and everyone everywhere else.


Long day. Long story, but the blade on the back of my L245 tractor went away. Got a replacement blade from the farm that was for the old F9, not the L245. Had to make mods to make it fit the L245 Cat-1 3 point. Got it mounted and somewhat functional but5 still have a little work to do on it. One thing I discovered was that while my sister and brother-in-law were using my tractor, they bent the heck out of the adjustable side link. So, that has to be replaced. A year old battery is shot and I'm not sure the alternator hasn't been burned out. Guess I'm going to be a mean old SOB of a brother the next time they want to borrow anything of mine. Well, the tractor is too far away now so that won't be an issue in the future.
Anyway, I can jump start the tractor, got the blade mount brackets modified enough that I can plow snow with it if the snow comes before I can finish what I need to get done to it. Speaking of snow, I'd better check the antifreeze protection in the tractor.

 

Good night Ford Drivers'. I'm up way past bed time.

Brett here are a couple of pictures of the new shed in progress.
It's a small shed for the side yard.

 

Morning all, looking good Chris.

 

Happy Friday!

Got the fuel tank, sending unit, and fuel lines sorted this week. Still need to clean & paint engine parts to install. New U-joints and driveline painted now…





Jim - How does that rear blade function in comparison with a box scraper? I have a box scraper and bucket but not a rear blade.

 

Good morning Andy, Brett and....

 

Morning all. Still in the post vaca depression mode but reality is hitting hard. This week was hectic to say the least after being gone a week and then preparing to be gone for basically 5 weeks starting monday. Thank goodness for technology that will allow me to continue to work away from the office.

Today the mission is to add lift struts to my camper. Once that's done my camper project is done. Well except I need to build some saw horses for it before I take off the truck.

Hammer down!

 

Good morning Oregon and everyone everywhere else. Up to 40°, clear and sunny. Had a number of visitors just after midnight last night.

Been out this morning walking the woods and taking in the serenity. There was a little of tracking involved there. Just curiosity as to where the elk are coming from and where they are going to. The state has built game fence all along Hwy 97 in our area with game tunnels under the highway every so often. Peoples driveways here all have oversized cattleguards out at the highway to keep animals from crossing through the gates. They still have some animals getting onto the highway, so ODFW/ODOT have hung game cameras on the fence at our gate to see if they are jumping it or just how they are getting by the cattle guards. Not sure how many other gates they done this with.




With the rear blade I can do more with angles like ditch clearing and 'plowing' snow.

I could use a box blade/scraper for a small area and if I had a gravel driveway (which I don't - its asphalt) I would probably go get another box blade in a heartbeat. But the area I could use one now is too small to justify the expense. I'd probably never use the shanks on a box blade. I' will probably pickup another small harrow bed .

These videos explain it better than I can. A little long, but some great information.

 

I went with cross member plywood Rich. If I want to take them with me, I can easily disassemble and lay them out in the bed of the pickup like a single piece of plywood setting the camper on top of it, thus not taking up space elsewhere. Not ideal for travel, but functional.

 

I have looked at those and if I took my camper off the truck at camp I'd do that. My camper isn't made to be used off the truck hence why I've been packing it around for 6 weeks while I fix and upgrade stuff. my jacks are manual also so I don't lower it once off the truck. I have a nice redneck support system I use that consist of a large wire spool and a couple pallets. I found a u-tube vid of some nice ones made with 2x6s that I'll adjust the legs length on. that should be more than adequate.

I finally wrapped up the last project of installing some exterior gas lift struts on the camper. I'm getting old and hurt too much to push that roof up somedays. sadly, I think I over did it today. I managed to hurt myself in mexico. Damn wet tile is slippery and I body slammed myself good on day two. I think I bruised some ribs. Lucky that was all that happened. The good thing is you can go to the pharmacia and get whatever pain relief you need or want. Been taking mega doses of Aleve and have been feeling pretty well. Didn't take any today and all the twisting and turning is now killing me. Oh well my mind is clearly in the 25-30 yo camp however my body begs to differ.

 

Good evening, Oregon and everyone everywhere else. A very nice day today and we got a number of things done. Really not looking forward to going back to the valley on Sunday, but the Warden has 3 doctors appointments and a class reunion and I have to meet with the hunting crew for final prep and travel plans to Wallowa County for our deer and elk hunts.

Rich, we'll have to compare notes on who can abuse their bodies the most. My brain keeps telling the rest of me that I'm not a day over 28. To help with that, the VA has given me an Rx for prescription strength Ibuprofen.

I was out on the tractor today making a Rhubarb Patch down by the Rec House and I almost bucked myself of the tractor coming up the hill from the river with a full bucket of river bottom dirt.to add to the rhubarb bed I was making. Gave myself a pretty good whiplash and certainly stirred up the adrenalin. Darned Sage Rats! had undermined part of the hill and the tractor started bogging in the loose sand-ash-dirt around their mounds, I'm going to have to watch for that up here. The rear wheels started spinning and digging in the soft loose dirt and then grabbed and bucked up out of the hole. I'm glad I had a heavy bucket of dirt with the bucket fairly low. If it weren't for that it felt like she could have gone over backwards with me in the saddle. Although, I suppose the blade on the back might have prevented that. It bucked enough that a lot of the dirt flew out of the bucket landing on and thoroughly covering the front of the tractor and me.

Got some horse manure from the neighbors and some steer manure we brought up from Lowes in Mac. Used the blade and the bucket to dig a trench type hole. Dumped the manure along with the river bottom soil in the trench and mixed it up thoroughly then shoveled out about half of it. Put the "Wisconsin to Oregon via the Oregon Trail" Rhubard we dug at the farm onto of the bed in the trench. Then put the rest of the mix in on top. Covered that with the regular sandy-ash-dirt and watered it all down. We'll have to get a bail of straw and get it covered before the snow hits. If it survived the trip, the transplant and survives this first winter, we should have rhubarb forever along with my GGG grandmothers' cobbler recipe.

So then just to round out the day, since the weather was cooperating in outstanding fashion, I decided I would try to at least partly "de-sisterize" my tractor. She and or her husband had taken the cover off of it in the tractor shed on the farm and I guess it was too much work to put it back on. They cleaned barns with it because their tractor didn't fit as well in the stalls and put it away without cleaning all the muck off of it. And of course, without the cover it was the perfect target for the birds, including pigeons in the rafters. So, she won't be using my tractor again any time soon. It's now far enough away that shouldn't be an issue.



I don't have my pressure washer up here yet, so it had to be done the old-fashioned way with elbow grease and person power. So, I raised the bucket to get in under some of the that dried muck in the front axle area and the bottom of the front of the tractor. I knew I had done that and I knew I was going to have to come out from under it stooped over. Well, I let the situation get the better of me and was so busy cussing certain people out for leaving it in the condition it was that yep, spaced it, stood up, turned around took a step and connected at the hairline on my forehead. Didn't knock me out but certainly sat me down for a few.. We have wonderful ice cold well water here and running the hose over my head was a godsend in this case.

Anyway, got it halfway cleaned up and spruced up to the point I won't be embarrassed if someone sees it. The Rx Ibuprofen is doing its job too. Actually, I thought the old girl cleaned up pretty nicely. A lot better than I was expecting without the orbital tools.

 

Good evening Rich, Jim and....

Didn't make as much progress on the shed as I wanted too. Still have to roof and build doors.
Using cedar fence boards as siding.