Eugen, when I stick weld most of the time I wear a mask. When I Mig and Tig weld I usually do not. When I do grinding I wear one. Today I was making a tongue for a lawn aerator to pull it with my lawn tractor. It was just a few welds so I didn’t use a mask. Harry
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If I learned nothing else during covid, it is that mask should have been part of my tool chest years ago. A short list of reasons is, metal grinding dust, welding smoke, tool grinding cutting mist, saw dust, farts, feild dust while driving tractor, cotton fiber dust,. All of these are byproducts produced in various professions I have spent huge amounts of time in. Coming home from work with a clean nose is a joy.
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Nice summer evening for me and son to mess around in the shop.
My little tiller has gotten to where it won’t run unless the choke is on full. This is a little 5HP Briggs&Stratton. I pulled carb and cleaned it out. Now it runs with out the choke. We’ll see how long it lasts.
I had an old rusty machete I gave to son. He cleaned it up and painted it. He did a fine job! I couldn’t get a picture but right about dark we had a couple of bats flying around us! First time I’ve seen them around here. They are quite acrobatic!
My little tiller has gotten to where it won’t run unless the choke is on full. This is a little 5HP Briggs&Stratton. I pulled carb and cleaned it out. Now it runs with out the choke. We’ll see how long it lasts.
I had an old rusty machete I gave to son. He cleaned it up and painted it. He did a fine job! I couldn’t get a picture but right about dark we had a couple of bats flying around us! First time I’ve seen them around here. They are quite acrobatic!
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Bats (when they are outside your house) are quite cool to watch - certainly help with mosquito control.
It's been a few years now, but we had a string of late night incidents of bats flying around inside the house... nothing like being woken up at 3am on a work day by the cat crashing around the house trying to catch a "flying mouse" - Dad gave us a butterfly net from the dollar store one year, it proved to be the best way to catch and release the little guys...
It's been a few years now, but we had a string of late night incidents of bats flying around inside the house... nothing like being woken up at 3am on a work day by the cat crashing around the house trying to catch a "flying mouse" - Dad gave us a butterfly net from the dollar store one year, it proved to be the best way to catch and release the little guys...
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@JSinMO sound like indeed that was a great evening working on light projects. Must be making you feel good to see junior working on stuff with you. I know myself hope to see my two boys do stuff like this with me in the future.
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I really does make me happy to see him working on projects. I’m sure your boys will be out there with you too!
I tried the tiller out today and no choke needed! The engine does want to surge and hunt a little bit but I got good results!
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That soil looks very well tilled Jeff!!! excuse the grammar
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Well the cavalcade of rusty gold continues! Tonight I went and picked up a John Deere #39 sickle mower, some assembly required. .
I intend to try to get it working again and try it on the 2N Ford for 2nd cut hay. If it’s too far gone for that it still has a lot of good parts to keep my # 38 mower running so either way it’s a win! - Eugen
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Jeff, I love it! You must have some big magnet in your truck, all that iron keeps following you home! well done! I'll tell my all the cool kids are doing it, I want that too!
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Your right there has been quite a few things that followed me home here of late! I just keep stumbling into these situations where people just want this old stuff gone and I just can’t say no! Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one that sees value in these antiques, so if you want some rusty gold too I say come on in the waters fine!