Truthfully, I've done some jury rigging in my time. My Brother HATES it when I jury rig something. Even when I spiff it up a little. It still works. And I have a garage full of things that I look at and say to myself "I'm going to need that some time".
This morning the boy decided to work on the 17yr old toaster oven. The door wouldn't stay closed on its own, he pulled all the screws off the back and couldn't get it loose. I came and took off 4 screws from just inside the unit and it all came right apart lol. Then we found the problem, a broken spring. It was about 3/16-1/4" and about 2" long with a hook on one end and then a long straight piece(about 2") on the other with a hook on the end, it was broke right where the long piece connected to the first wrap of the spiral(spring part). I just bent a loop into each side of the broken area and connected them, since it's always under slight tension it doesn't really need to be a one piece spring. Got it all back together and it works perfectly
. Not sure where I could have gotten a spring for it, but I'm sure I would have spent more time looking online for one than it took to rig the old one up as we did. If it works for another yr, I'll be more than pleased with it. Need to buy a backup just like it if we can find one, it's been a nice kitchen tool
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My Chipper calls for greasing all the zerks every 8 hours.
3 times a day seems a little excessive
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I miss Larry too, think about him and some of the other great guys we've lost thru the yrs often.
that is the funniest thing I seen in 2022
way to end the year on that chipper. My wife looked at me and asked wtf are you doing on your phone. I said I'm learning about highly valuable black walnut trees
There's another one too
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Figured someone may not have seen it, it is some funny stuff for sure, until you have to deal with the people who post ads like that in person, then the video is a great teacher of how to deal with them.
I've had to tell various people that I don't think the job is a good fit for me currently, mainly because they are too high maintenance of people, or expect a low price for dangerous work and then would be upset if you get the job done quickly. I've found if they start telling me how they'd do it, I just need to walk away from it, that or I tell them an hourly rate and tell them they can work with me, what's $100 an hr if it will only take a few right
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Good info! Many big name tractors are manufactured overseas now. No getting away from it, and while many claim to made in USA. They are simply assembled in the USA, but actually made overseas. I haven't heard anything bad about LS and I'm not one to jump on the big orange or green or whatever ban wagon because of a name, but hey. Thats just me.
To each his own.
Certainly don't do it for the name, do it for the color, go orange
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