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Just did annual maint on a cub cadet Z that was serviced by the dealer last year. Had to almost destroy the oil filter to get it loose. Spark plugs were in WAY to tight. Washers on plugs were smashed way too flat. Impact finally got the blade nuts off but had to replace the nuts because the...

Ordered a Hogue grip for my Super Redhawk from Amazon. First one I got was for a Super Blackhawk. Second one was for a Redhawk. Gave up and got one from Midway.

Hahaha🤣

How 'bout them KC Chiefs?

Still trying to figure out which will end the world first. An asteroid or global warming or politicians. Time to see how much bottled water, cans of spam and toilet paper I have.

I would bet lunch the belt was routed wrong around a belt keeper. Just sayin'

Everyone is entitled to their version of the truth.

I have an old screwdriver I rounded off that I use with WD40.

Folks make that mistake all the time.

Ok.

I guess I will find out. After I figure out why the goofy clutch doesn't work he wants me to see about getting the 16hp briggs running and putting it on the crawler. He wants electric start. Not a single wire on the crawler so I have to fab up all the wiring.

I may have a very similar pooped on pro saw on the scrap pile. Let me take a look and see if it is the same.

Guy dropped this off today. Mead Mighty Mouse crawler. From '59 or '60. Has not run for many years. Lots of stuff to work on. He has 2 of these.

In the 80's my wife's little town in west BFE still had manual long distance billing through the operator till General Telephone was consumed by Ohio Bell. You had to tell the local operator what your number was and the long distance number you were calling and she timed the call and wrote it...

Toby and joe Diffie were two of my favorites. Can't stand the new so called country stuff.

The real question is did he have a man bun?

How hard do you run the engine? Does it run poorly? Smoke? Many folks mistake a rich mixture for spark plug(s) being the incorrect heat range for how the engine is operated. If an engine is operated where the spark plug(s) tip is not reaching about 900 degrees F it will not be in the self...

At a place called brookville lake it always sounds like frying eggs near the power line and most nights you get a nice purple light show. And you usually see about a hundred sea gulls on the wires pretty much anytime.

He may have the gasket wrong blocking the impulse hole

Pretty much every non OEM numbered belt customers have purchased and want me to install has been wrong. They have no idea some belts are measured on the inside and some on the outside. A, B, C belts vs 3L, 4L, 5L belts. Clutching vs non clutching application. Different angles. Some belts can't...

I have replaced a bunch on the briggs sump gaskets. The stens gaskets are thicker than the OEM. Haven't had one of those fail yet.

Pretty much what he said. And when anything "green" is subsided we all get the privilege of paying for it whether we like it or not. "Does the government subsidize EV cars? Average direct subsidies from federal and state governments amount to almost $9,000 per vehicle over 10 years while...

Actually the opposite.

I have no problem with people driving EVs but if I have to pay road use taxes so do they.

All depends. The fan belt on my 1975 IH 184 is still the original and so is the drive belt on my 1972 Sears ST12. Neither are kevlar covered. I have had JD mowers in the shop 20 years old with original belts and have had 2 year old mowers in the shop with bad belts.

Years ago I was offered a job as an independent contractor installing and settling up internet at hotel properties. Would pay over $150k a year. After self employment tax, fica, health insurance etc and being on the road 5 days a week living out of a suitcase and only home on weekends the hourly...

Every state has a fuel excise tax to fund roads. You bet your azz the EVs need to have an excise tax for road use. I'm all for equality.

I use 10 battery tenders on stuff in the barn every year. Beats buying $100 deep cycle batteries every year.

I have worked on lots of John deere mowers with batteries 8 and even 10 years old. They do cost more but they last longer than most other batteries.

Lots of these stories on utube

The Cohen scrap yard near me won't take an EV. A friend was looking to get an EV till his homeowner insurance told him they would drop him.

Don't know about that. They have 2 chargers. The 220v fast charger at the house and the 110v "mobile" one built into the car that charges very slow anyway. I do know that the heat pump heater/AC unit went out a few years ago and it was around $4000 to fix it. It is a 2015 and the battery only...

A friend has a nissan leaf. She says when it gets really cold out, like now, it charges about 1/3 as fast as normal. I guess it is time to go out and fire up my average V12 5 ton tank truck that I can't see out in front of and go run down some unsuspecting pedestrians while burning a gallon of...

Back in the 50's my father worked at the Sorg paper company. They had their own generators powered by diesel engines. He said you could walk into the powerhouse with a fluorescent light in your hand and would light up very bright where you were touching it.

Psssst. Don't tell the lawn mower police but I may have accidentally misread the chart. <Wink wink>

I was approached to be a warranty shop. After seeing what their process was and what they paid flat rape for repairs I told them no thank you. I would rather not be a nonprofit shop.

First check the oil level and that it does not smell like gasoline. Disconnect the sparkplug wire, strap down the the engine brake bail at the handle. Turn mower on side and try to turn engine with the blade. Can't turn? Turns gritty? Turns smooth?

Yeah $600/mo got me a plan with a $7000 deductible. I didn't qualify for a discount.

Went on medicare at 65. I was paying over 600 a month for insurance from the marketplace from 61 to 65.

Good luck. That is a lot of stock to whittle down. I just stock a couple thousand so I can close the shop fairly easily when the time comes. I turn 66 1/2 in a few months so I can file for my SSA benefit without them penalizing me for making money. At least I will get back some of the money I...

Don't you have something like $40k in parts?

You must be in eastern KY. My father was from eastern KY and worked in a Blue Diamond coal mine. He said the dirt was so bad it wouldn't grow weeds. That bluegrass stuff was for the rich people in western KY.

Solar is the answer https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/solar/hail-storm-destroys-solar-farm-in-nebraska/

Problem solved. No place to put the wrong fuel in battery powered equipment. It's for the greater good.

I consider myself fairly handy but compared to the craftsmen that came before me I don't know jack.

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Yeah, those millions of champ plugs in Briggs engines never work.

Maybe this will help them stock the RC12YC plugs they haven't had in stock for a year.

Anybody else get the sparkplug email from stens?