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Ronno6

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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

So the question is does a spring sitting under tension with uneven angles of the spaces between them mean the spring is damaged, likely has less tension as a result and could be my problem? I think I know the answer...already ordered a new spring.

If the spring was designed that way, it should be fine (I've seen engineers do some weird stuff over the years, and springs are kind of a black-art anyway.)
If the spring is close wound, it should have a designed amount of preload.....requiring a specified amount of force to begin to separate coils.
I do not believe this to be something that can be altered between specific coils.
If the new spring is close wound or coils are evenly spaced it is a good bet that yours is damaged and the culprit..........
 

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Re: TWO YEARS ON THE BOARD (and we're gonna make it home tonight...)

Skipper, you really ARE going DOWN and EAST !!

"Favorable winds and fair seas" loses all meaning when you are submerged ............

Run silent and run deep, Skipper..........

Ron,

Thank you amigo.. Hey check out "Hunter Killer", pretty good movie. My brother-in-law (who also served on the boats) and I went last Tuesday. It's fairly accurate (well except for a few farfetched occurrences - gets rather crazy at the end.. but that's the movies, right?)

I used to keep my fingers crossed that the diving alarm would sound when we were transiting in heavy seas in those old diesel boats. They are miserable buggers to ride on when it's rough.. "Punching holes in the Ocean." Ugg... Kinda like going over Niagara Falls in a big barrel. Nice and peaceful once you were down a couple hundred feet, I don't care how rough it was topside. Of course we never did submerge when it was really rough, but that's another story.

How's your inards doing? (Shoot me an email..)

Roger
 

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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

I want y'all to know I loves me some bacon BUT I HATE wild hogs. Went to check on the farm after all the stormy weather we had the past few weeks and it seems that the hogs decided the pasture was their new play ground. Looks like someone tilled up the land. Guess it is the hickory trees, grubs and bugs they wanted. The Bride and I ended up stretching 300 of 500 feet of hog wire fence to try to keep the hogs out of the pasture and the house I am a seriously hurting puppy and that was over the weekend when we worked. Here are some pics from the game camera I set up
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I throw in the fox picture because it is cool to see. Deer, hogs, armadillo and the fox all at different times.
Tom

Damn son, lets go HOG Huntin'!! I love hunting hogs! Biggest one I ever got went 270 lbs but my ex's-cousin's-son got one that went 413!! A buddy and I used to hunt 4,500 acres down in San Mateo, FL. It was a big ranch that had fields and cattle on it.. If that fence y'all put up isn't electrified or buried a couple feet underground, you are just going to find it lifted up and dug under.. Hogs are powerful buggers. Like four-legged bulldozers.

Chops and good country sausage, man alive I'd go for some that right now!!

Have gun will hunt! Give me a call!

Roger
 

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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

WOW !
Though there is/are a member or 2 who display porcine tendencies from time to time,(and MANY vulpine)
These are the first actual SWINE we have witnessed here!

Porcine AND Vulpine - I love it! How about Hardpine and Softpine?
 

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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Porcine AND Vulpine - I love it! How about Hardpine and Softpine?

Got some Southern Yellow Pine branches littering my yard in the wale of yesterday's blow.
Oak and hickory branches as well.......
 

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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Damn son, lets go HOG Huntin'!! I love hunting hogs! Biggest one I ever got went 270 lbs but my ex's-cousin's-son got one that went 413!! A buddy and I used to hunt 4,500 acres down in San Mateo, FL. It was a big ranch that had fields and cattle on it.. If that fence y'all put up isn't electrified or buried a couple feet underground, you are just going to find it lifted up and dug under.. Hogs are powerful buggers. Like four-legged bulldozers.

Chops and good country sausage, man alive I'd go for some that right now!!

Have gun will hunt! Give me a call!

Roger

Roger the big issue with hunting them is tnat they show up when they want not when I am there. My wife has seen more hogs duri g tne day then I have. I will drop em when I see em.
 

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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Morning Ted, Stayers and Newbies.
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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Roger the big issue with hunting them is tnat they show up when they want not when I am there. My wife has seen more hogs duri g tne day then I have. I will drop em when I see em.

Good man Tom, but it sounds like maybe your wife ought to be the one hunting them! Early morning is always good, but if there isn't much hunting pressure, they'll show up whenever they feel like it, just as you say. When we were hunting in San Mateo we had a butcher who would process them for us. At first he wanted so much per hog, but the second day we went there with the truck bed full of them we struck a deal with him for so much per pound. He made the best sausage! I sure do miss hog hunting. The first one I ever shot was only ten feet away from me! I could hear it coming and it popped out of the palmetto right in front of me, I never even got the rifle shouldered! I just swung it from the hip and fired when it seemed right. Shot the bugger right through the heart.

My buddy got attacked late one afternoon when he ran into a sounder of piglets and the mother spotted him. She charged, popping her jaws and he never got his Steyr to his shoulder either.. But he stopped her in her tracks. He was pretty shook up when I caught up with him.

Good times, good eating...

Roger
 

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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Got some Southern Yellow Pine branches littering my yard in the wale of yesterday's blow.
Oak and hickory branches as well.......

Hickory. I wish we had some of that up here. I'd like to get some to work with. It has about the same density as oak, but is harder than either oak or ash which I often use to make tool handles from. Ash is tough as hell though, especially if you are bending the handle like with a shovel or hoe or splitting maul.

Another wood I like to use for chisel handles is Osage Orange. (a.k.a. hedge, bois d' arc, bodark, horse apple and others). it's very dense and turns nicely, but that doesn't grow up here either.

Here's a 2" wide 'slick' with an osage orange handle and a desert ironwood cap I made.

Roger
 

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