A Random Fact About You...thread 51

hahahahaha thats awesome. Muffler belt lol.

"I chop wood, I carry water, I tend the Earth, This is my prayer."

Be thankful.

 

Another thing I did today to the Wood Rat... No photo yet. Both front tires have never had air in them as long as I've had this thing. The tires are stout enough to not really "need" air in order to roll and steer normally. They have tubes in them but both have some rather nasty slices in the sidewall. I aired up the right side the other day and it holds air... The left side had no valve evident. So today I pulled that tire and took it off the rim... Tube was in there and holds air. Valve stem was ground down quite a bit from bouncing around inside the tire for a zillion years but still held the valve insert and at just the proper angle can be inflated. So I did a Frankenstein stitching of that sidewall cut, which was about 2 inches long, using heavy nylon strand, glued a large radial tire patch on the inside and put it all back together.... Now I have air in both tires.... and a bitchin' scar in the sidewall. Gonna do the right side sometime soonish... It's not as bad but should be done so the tube doesn't bulge out. Tubes are heavy duty truck types and proudly state "Made In The U.S.A." on them.... Damn shyt's old man. I think the tires, "General" brand, are original 1957 vintage.


Big deal now is to get the steering sorted and add a chain tensioner to the front/long chain so I can properly adjust the rear chains... You can't buy sprockets for this thing anymore. If I break or wear out a sprocket the tractor is toast. I have to replace a bunch of zerk fittings that are busted off too.


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Cute... During the brunt of the last storm to pass through Erin walked the length of the greatroom, looking around at all the lightning and hopped into her cage for safety...


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lady on the news that was anti vaccination until she was finally persuaded to get her kids shots last week

too late

11 kids whooping cough


whoops



also.......saw an ad on kijiji

2 awesome female dutch exchange students need ride to ottawa



if I was a wee younger I would jump all over that ad



and



apparently dutch people are taller than everyone else in Europe .....who knew?




finally

good morning

 

Good morning....stumpy. lol

 

Looks like we may be rained out here. Booms come down as soon as we see lightning. I guess we do need the rain though.

And I think I have figured out what is slowing down this house remodel. Perhaps if people showed up to work before noon...things might move along a little better.

 

On and off thunderstorms all day... Large hail tonight. Better find a place to stash my car.




"Racing exhaust" on the Wood Rat is getting complicated.... but it's going to work. Back in the day stuff like this was available in autoparts and hardware stores because go karts and mini bikes were very popular.... Now? forget it..... Innovation and do it yourself are dead.

 

lol go cart story back when we was teens. friend and I decided to take the go cart over the mckees rocks bridge.

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bridge was fucked up back then, now it has a new deck, it was full of pothole and breaks in the expansion joints . I was sitting on the back giving it gas cause the throttle cable was broke.. then we hit a pot hole in the middle the bridge and broke a tire rod < ironically the same thing happened to me a full size car on the same bridge in almost the exact same spot. so we spun out a little bit with the tire rod wheel straightened out on its own but was wobbly with bad steering , but straight seemed to work out. trail of cars behind us..

as we get to the end of the bridge we get the light and I can just see this go-cart zooming across every time I sit there the lights today. the cobble stone road gave us trouble to get up and we got off the cart and walked it , there is an auto garage just up the hill a little bit.. the silly kids we were walked into there with our go-cart and asked them to repair it. "you guys got a tire rod end?"< I think that every time I go by the place .. the guys at the garage fixed our car for free, they just took a piece of metal rod and put a couple holes in it and away we went. back across the bridge .. nuts.

 

I don't even like cars...but need them to get to places here...nothing is in walking distance.......well, unless you want to spend most of your day walking to and from the grocery store with a grocery cart. My mom did that......for a time, but the gorcery store was closer to her than it is here.....before she just became a hermit and locked herself in with her going blind eyes....

anyway, got a nice Kia here that is good on miles...before they went crazy with their prices, and this one is nicer than ones i see being sold now for bigger prices....and a second hand buick to run animals around in,. that is on its last legs, so i guess another second hand animal car will have to be bought at some point....money keeps being put into the Buick, as it is a great car......

 

With property like this more than one tractor is needed... Mower or two, a plow, hauler for wood/soil/rock/whatever, etc. etc. Was the same way back in California when I had that 8 acres outside of Yosemite. Trying to do it all with the same machine is madness. You spend half your time swapping attachments/implements and never get any work done. Trying to explain this to someone that's never done it... They think you are crazy. Now I need something with a front bucket loader like a Bobcat but want to stick with older tractors... There were a few 60's models that had direct drive and a front end loader attachment. Need to find one of those in the weeds somewhere. All the newer stuff is junk, just like anything else these days.



Wood Rat is in the garage for overhaul and the car is in the shed's carport because of that hail storm headed this way.


I'ma need a nap....

 

Alright............ Back to work.

 

We ended up working today. The rain slowed down to a steady drizzle.....we ride!!

Orison.....that's a sweet bridge! It would be a blast to fly across it on a go-cart! I can't believe I lived through some of the dumb shit I did when I was a kid.

 

yes big bridge......growing up...no one could make the corner at the bottom of banner hill without first breaking

I tried and wiped....I cant imagine how many kids wiped out on the lawn of the house right at the bottom.......when I go back and look these days it looks like nothing

 

nice bridge yeah,, its over a mile in one direction .. we had to drive the go cart thru the neighborhood and no cops to be found. was good times.. Ive not crossed that bridge on foot in over 20yrs, but when we was teens we would go over to Belview to score some tang , be out all night long weekly. cant even imagine doing that today... ode to be young again.

 

I remember that we used to pull each other on skateboards with ropes behind bikes. A friend got a new moped and we decided that he would pull me on my bike. We took a road out of town and we were going pretty fast (for a bike)...maybe 18-20 mph. We went around a curve and there was a huge pothole in the road. I hit it and went over the handlebars. Somehow my leg got twisted in the frame and pulled the bike over me when I hit the pavement. I had so much road rash and I thought my leg was broken. It hurt so bad. I tried to ride back into town but could only pedal with my uninjured leg. My friend offered to pull me with the moped again....which I promptly declined to do. Funny thing....we're still friends and he doesn't remember that at all. I remember it like it was yesterday.

 

Neighbor kid had a minibike and it was all cobbled together pos... The one time I got to ride it the "throttle cable", which was just a piece of electrical wire that you pulled on with your right hand, came off the carb. That thing went wide open throttle, brakes were just a scrubber brake, a piece of metal that rubbed on the back tire, worthless. So I'm blasting down the street approaching the intersection of a main road that was usually pretty busy trying to find a place to ditch it.... Zoom, right between two cars on the main road, still looking for something and I ended up plowing into a leftover snowbank... Too bad it was all frozen ice with salt and gravel mixed in. I went over the bars and landed on my back in that dirty ice/snow/crap.


Guy was bitching at me for wrecking his bike and I'm pulling salty gravel out of my arms and back...

 

So I'm making a header flange for the Wood Rat... The threads in the block are pretty borked. Besides the threaded mounting there was an optional bolt on mount for a different type of muffler. You used to be able to buy this stuff, like I mentioned earlier but even the old minibike/go kart sources have nothing. So I got a 3/4 inch threaded flange and 2 inch pipe section from the plumbing parts at the hardware store, exhaust is all plumbing parts on these things. I cut down the flange to fit. Drilled two holes to bolt it to the block with cap screws. Lots of grinding, filing and fitting to get it to work. The pipe does go into the block a little bit but I couldn't get it far enough through to actually start to thread but it should be okay. Test fit was good.

I got some 2000 degree putty that I have yet to work into the back side of this piece, it's made for exhaust systems. That will be smoothed into the flange and make a flat gasket surface with the pipe still fitting into the exhaust port about 1/8 of an inch and about 1 3/4 of threaded pipe sticking out for the rest of that exhaust system too attach to. It won't look much different than the picture I posted earlier but it's going to be solid... I want to make a bracket that takes some of the weight of that whole exhaust and have it bolt to the top of the engine too.

Another option I have is to make the exhaust go down through the chassis and turn it into a sidepipe instead of a stack... Either one would be cool.

Which would look better? Stack or sidepipe?

 

personally id make a honda muffler fit it...or a walker 22022.....im not big on noise

 

This isn't really very loud...

 

good nite foks

 

Crazy day in the neighborhood.

A lady and her German Shepherd got attacked by 2 Presa Canarios.

The facebook group I manage for the neighborhood watch has blown up today!

The owner of the Presas is on a cruise and was having a dog sitter take care of the dogs which were not supposed to be taken anywhere out front. They were to only be taken into the back yard and put on their cables.

The lady that got attacked walks the German Shepherd everyday and had no reason to think those dogs would be out.

She had to go by ambulance to get her hand sewn up. Her mom had to take the German Shepherd to the vet because it's ear and legs were torn up.

Two men were out when it happened and had to get the Presas off the lady and the Shepherd.

The Presas were impounded and the owner is still stranded on the cruise unable to reach the dog sitter.