I can’t hardly wait to see what kind of fresh bullshit I am going to find out about today as I check the news here and there.

This is just retarded.

I saw this about ten minutes from my place.

The boy done worked up an APPETITE!

It has been way too long since I opened the place up.

Tons and tons of things have happened since the last one and there is so much coming in the near future that no list could be complete.

What’s been going on in your world ?

Also please share any tips, tricks, old fashioned ways that we should bring back or even just a recipe if you want.

I would really like to see the lurkers step up here and if nothing else, let us know what current conditions are in your area.

I’m going to post a sort of strange video here to open things up.

It may wrinkle a few noses but give it a chance, I really think this is a damn good idea and it’s cheap too.

Alrighty then, jump right in and don’t be bashful.

D’OH!!

I don’t know if it was my eyes or my failing memory.

Because ya know, it’s just too easy to take a picture, right?

Like this maybe?

After busting my ass all day, I came home and tried to take a nap but no dice.

The NFL Draft is going and The Wifely Unit and The Kid are jumping up and down and yelling like the fucking house is on fire.

So out in the garage I went.

I was trying to see what kind of contortionist bending I am going to have to do to mount fender brackets on that little trailer when the skies opened up and it started pouring. So I scurried back inside for cover and passed that 220 Volt motor some very generous readers gave me a while back that needs to be mounted on my Smithy 3 In 1 lathe combo.

You know, the one that has been bugging the shit out of me every time I see it.

For the last three months or so.

Then I remembered that the adjustable bracket I had ordered for this little project had come in.

A little digging and pretty quick I am sticking the studs into the holes on the motor when I discovered the issue above.

WTF I muttered to myself.

So I take a closer look.

Again I mutter to myself,

I needed a bracket for a 143T motor frame.

What did I order?

Son, ofabitch.

Now I has choices.

Two of the four holes actually line up.

I can either reorder the fucking thing, at $45 or I can get creative.

Yeah, you get one guess.

You guessed right.

There are a couple of really thick washers underneath to even it out and let it clamp more evenly and tighter.

It’s not going anywhere.

One step closer.

There is still a long way to go yet and I have a full plate this weekend yet again.

By the time I got done playing with that, including the brief rest after work, I just put in another 11 hour day.

I got up at 5 and came in the house at 7.

I busted ass today at work too, wrestling with some big ass iron pieces, 4 of us trying to put this huge expanding cone thing back together.

Think giant drill chuck but it expands instead of closing up.

Each section of the thing is basically like wrestling an engine block standing on end.

All 4 pieces have to come together at the exact same time, slowly walking them back and forth on the floor until they are all right next to each other and a center section with dovetails all around it has to slide down inside each piece at exactly the same time.

They have to be tilted back to get the dovetails started and have I mentioned they are really fucking heavy?

4 guys wrestling the bastards and another one running the crane to drop the center piece in.

Needless to say the thing is wore the fuck out and it took several tries to get it back together.

Now tomorrow we get to mount the heavy bastard on a six inch shaft sticking out of a giant gear box and then lift that whole thing up, set it down in a pit on a sliding table mount and then laser align a big electric motor to it.

Loads of fun.

At least it’s Friday tomorrow.

We shall see how much energy I have left after I get home from that.

The list is still very long and I have an absolute shit ton of things to do Saturday.

No rest for the wicked eh?

Those little lights in peoples heads that mean HEY WAIT A MINUTE!

Moderna asks regulators to OK its COVID-19 shot for kids under 6

The amount of people who have died “Suddenly”, the strokes, blood clots, heart inflammation, miscarriages etc. etc. haven’t been reported on enough to catch some of these fucking morons attention so Moderna and the rest of them are still trying to kill off as many as they can before the whole scam blows up in their faces and they get hunted down like the murderous bastards they are.

Not only am I never taking this Death Jab but if I had a kid and you came at them with that fucking needle they would need a mop, bucket and squeegee to clean up what was left of you when I got done.

Feast or Famine, right?

For the last 5 years I have been wanting a Riding Lawnmower and The Wifely Unit kept shooting me down.

All at once it’s OK for me to get one because she finally figured out that her Dad can’t do it anymore and there isn’t anyone else available, except me, of course and I literally can’t walk behind a self propelled mower to cut the grass on a quarter of an acre of lawn that is on a hill with two levels anymore.

I wouldn’t last five minutes.

If you have been following along with my adventures and the absolutely crazy generosity of some folks, you will know that I now have not one, but two, John Deere riding lawnmowers outside.

One I got running and it works, the other has the engine torn apart but is otherwise good condition.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot about the little trailer that my buddy gave me too.

So Plan A was for me to get one running, fix the trailer and then drag the thing 75 miles back and forth to the Father In Laws as needed.

Plan B was to fix both of the things and then take one over there to leave and use as needed.

Plan C was Plan A with a twist.

Fix one and drag it back and forth and turn the other one into a Yard Dog tractor.

I guess that means as of today, I am on Plan D.

I was talking to some guy at work about riding mowers and he asked me if I wanted to buy that one.

For $150.

He said his wife told him to go buy a new one.

He has 5 acres and doesn’t like to mess with them.

He has a Husquvarna rider also but the crank is snapped on that one and I don’t want anything to do with that.

He says it still has a good seat on it and he is going to give that to me.

This one ran last Summer and he parked it when he got the new one.

It even came with two brand new blades still in the plastic.

It needs a battery right out of the gate but not only did it come with the plastic tote style double bagger set up, it even has a key!

No WAY!

Hell that Bagger set up is worth what I paid for the whole show.

The thing looks to be in pretty good shape so I am hoping it won’t take much to get it going.

When I get it up to snuff I am dragging it over to the Father In Law’s place and dumping it off.

That would be a huge problem taken care of and would take the pressure off of me having to thrash that motor back together or drag the one back and forth all the time.

Now I will be able to take my time.

I may still just swap the engine that runs on to the the better mower and go from there.

I has possibilities now.

Thank you Jesus, what a heck of a deal and a huge break my way that I really needed.

Update;

Nope, The Wife freaked out.

Says her dad absolutely won’t allow a riding lawnmower to sit around anywhere.

He has a basically empty garage, a quarter of an acre with two sheds on it and nope.

She still wants me to drag a fucking lawnmower back and forth 75 fucking miles every time he needs his damn lawn mowed.

Fuck me.

Looks like I either fix and use this one or sell the fucker.

Somehow this whole deal sounds a bit unreasonable to me.

Maybe I’ll wait and see who jumps up and volunteers to mow that yard before I do anything else.

I would most certainly do business here.

Leigh makes me look like a Piker when it comes to wrenching.

You should see some of the nightmares this guy has fixed.

This one however, puts him way above anything I would even attempt.

This is a 1986 Jaguar XJ6 that hasn’t run since 1998.

BEGONE PRINCE OF DARKNESS!

“BFYTW“..

Outfuckingstanding sir

My hat is off to you.

He had all kinds of troubles getting this thing going, including finding out some “Lucas” module was in fact a repackaged GM product, and that Jag had some really funky fuel injectors.

Yes sir, his membership is set.

For life.

Fuckin’ WordPress, what a pain in the ass.

I tried to upload that video SIX TIMES.

I had to convert it from an MP4 file.

WordPress won’t load MP4files.

I converted it four times before I hit the winning conversion.

FACE PLANT.

Take a wild assed guess at what I just paid for this little dinky generator battery.

I’ll make room on the floor for whoever guesses close.

It dropped my jaw.