What's everybody doing?

GT 14 wrote: OCD to the Max

Who me?

What's going on up your way Nappy? It's been snowing like mad here for an hour already. They called for 1-3 inches starting at 1PM and it's 1PM and we already have 3 with no sign of stopping for hours. The pic doesn't do it justice, but if you look between the house and garage you can't hardly see the highway right in front of me, it's really coming down...

Round 1 of the mule drives are mostly apart. The steering wheel remover setup I made for the press a few years ago worked great on taking off the mule drive pulleys and all of the bad pulleys for round 1 are off. Nice thing is it also saves all the spacers and I can get both pulleys of in about a minute. Some of them do the popping thing when coming off like a steering shaft, 1st one that did that scared the daylights out of me lol. I knew some of them were tight but not that tight.

There were a lot more good ones that don't need anything than I thought there would be, the ones on the pallet are good and the ones on the workbench only need pulleys, knobs, clips, or a little work on freeing up the adjuster. I'll get more into them after the next batch is all apart and see how many I can make from all the parts.

The rest of them are out of the 4 wheel wagon and on a cart, round 2 starts tomorrow.

Round 2 of the pulleys are done. Now it's time to deal with the ones that need a little work on the bench. The heavy artillery (torch) is out and everything is ready to go. Speaking of my torch,,, I own all of my own tanks in the shop and they said the o2 tank had to be re-certified last time it was filled. I said ok no problem, then it came back green, what the!? It had been stripped and painted WH red when it left and looked great but they said it was common to blast them and paint o2 tanks green. They said next time just let them know to leave it red but I still have to redo it lol.

Anyway,,, I have the metal bench set up for fixing whatever, then a drive goes to the cart to get the threads rechecked, the pulley shaft cleaned and lubed, then whatever it needs put on it. They will get all the good used pulley's until they are gone then the rest will just get spacers and the nut and put up on the pallet for someday.

Slowly but surely they're getting done, there are a lot more on the table than I thought. I think I have close to enough made up so after I do a few more everything will still get freed up and apart, then bigger parts prob just set on the pallet and small parts in a Fastenal bin for parts.

The last pic is thankfully the only one I found like that but it takes a special kind of, uh, person to do that type of stuff...

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I think they found the right person.

You know some of those peeps too that just say turn up the impact huh lol.

The last of the adjusters are freed up and cooling down. They will get dealt with after lunch then I can move on to something a little more fun. I didn't think so many of them would be good or almost all of them could be saved for some kind of use. The pallet will be pretty much full when these are on there. Wonder how many more are on the tractors sitting around here, hiding somewhere, or at the farm... One things for sure, no shortage of them around here.

One more thing done and out of the way.

They barely all fit on one pallet, then there was some room on the pallet next to it for the belt guards so it worked out good.

Only problem now is even after doubling the amount of pallet rack shelves last Summer I'm out of pallet rack space, again lol.

Here's the latest Covid - "Deltacron". I read a lot of news and most of the reliable and early news is here, I check it out every morning and evening. Jpost.com

Deltacron Variant

Well we don't have colds or flu anymore, so there's that.

They forgot to tell us the flu and colds mysteriously went away lol.

I usually have iHeart Radio Up! or iHeart80's playing in the shop all day and the 80's station has some phrases that I think I'm gonna make a phrase for the day from on occasion.

Phrase for today is "Don't you monkey with the monkey"