So what did you do today?

[edisto]

I made cookies!



43" bar on the 076. I was working back what was left of the tree that fell onto our house during hurricane Helene:





I worked it back to where it is hung up on the pecan that kept it from falling through the house. I guess the next step is to take it off of the stump and see what happens. The rest of it is in the neighbor's yard, so I made sure that they were OK with me taking it off of the stump.

 

[Woodwackr]

Slacker all day. Watched the KOH off-road race
Started at 8am...only 2 finishers so far. Most attrition I've ever seen. The guys whose car literally broke in half...used ratchet straps, zippies, winch line and bubblegum to get it "fixed" enough to limp it back to the barn. I was expecting a helo...

 

[heimannm]

We spent most of the morning cleaning up the shop, in the afternoon put the Lombard/Dynamark back together.







Mark

 

[Bill G]

Today I went back to my old college for the annual farm show.
This is what I found.
What a sad situation!!! The parking lot is empty because the college is on it's last legs. That pic is looking to the east. There is another dorm behind the ones shown. Those dorms used to house around 4000 students. Now they house ZERO.



In 2012 they imploded a dorm.

In 2017 they imploded another.

 

[Hinerman]

Spent a large part of Saturday in a lift trimming a couple dead limbs on one of my trees and taking down a tree for my neighbor. My neighbor and I were going to split the cost of the lift ($300). At the end of the day my neighbor gave me a check for $600!!!

 

[Stem]

not finished, but weekend project was moving junk & cleaning up at my parents. we had some leftover crusher run so I graded things off & extended the driveway from around the front of the pole barn. moving my log stash up to higher ground so I can split wood on dry land.

 

[Bill G]

That is a nice tine bucket for the New Holland. I wish I had like that for my Bobcat.

 

[pbillyi69]

i havent done diddley squat.... on vacation on the oregon coast. so all we have done is go out for breakfast.

its sunnt and cold only 300ft to the beach might go for a walk in a bit. might not. petfect

 

[heimannm]

I rebuilt some primers from the Walbro/McCulloch flat back primers today. Dirty work.



But it is rewarding when they work again.



Mark

 

[nbbt]

Kept the wood stove fed. Went from -28f to +3f for todays high and back to -23f or so again tonight.
Best part is the furnace hasn't run since early afternoon, and I'd put even money on it not running much tonight either.

 

[davidwyby]

Went hard all day

 

[heimannm]

What is the rotary kiln/dryer used for?

Mark

 

[davidwyby]

What is the rotary kiln/dryer used for?

Mark

Sugar beets into sugar. 5,000 tons a day or some crazy thing.

Doing this again :

 

[Nutball]

Sugar beets into sugar. 5,000 tons a day or some crazy thing.

Doing this again :

How did you finish getting the shaft out, on a lathe? Any improvements to the shaft design to hep prevent future failure?

 

[heimannm]

Oilseed processing plants (soybean, Canola/rapeseed, sunflower seed, etc.) use those frequently for conditioning (heating) the seed prior to processing, and as meal dryers at the end of the process. They are steam heated with bundles of steam tubes inside and rotary couplers to supply the steam and remove the condensate. Alignment of those wheels is pretty important for both wear, and to keep the rotating drum from walking uphill...

Mark

 

[davidwyby]

How did you finish getting the shaft out, on a lathe? Any improvements to the shaft design to hep prevent future failure?

Too hard…press.

Yes, someone made that shaft wrong, no radius at the steps/shoulders.

 

[Woodwackr]

Been cleaning 2 359s and two 200t parts saws after disassembly. 200s are full tear downs and will need a fair amount of new parts to complete. One 359 is in fantastic shape so will get partially stripped , cleaned, mm and reassembled. The other has a lot of hard use judging by the piston wear so will get a piston kit, seals, cleaning, some mild porting, mm and back together. Both were runners.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Today we maxed out the chipper.

 

[pbillyi69]

that

Today we maxed out the chipper.



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that doesn't look like very much fun now

 

[Woodwackr]

Today we maxed out the chipper.



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That's gonna be interesting to fix...