Recent content by Gary Olson

Not quite correct. I went looking to keep some contractors honest. Most counties have no county codes; but follow Missouri State building codes. Missouri follows ASTM blah blah blah codes. That being said, out here no one pulls out a bureaucrat for every little bit of work; or lack thereof...

Nope, found the service manual. Specifically shows getting a special tool for lapping the valve seats; and cleaning the valve mating surfaces for the seats. The owners manual stated to set the valve gap, and lap the top of the valve stems but the service manual said only gap the valves properly.

The Bad Boy mower manual says the Kawasaki engine needs a lap the valve seats, clean the combustion chamber, and lap the valve clearance soonly. I haven't lapped a valve or seen a combustion chamber in a few decades; and it was a V6 Mustang. Anything twiggly I need to know?

Yep, yer hardware is full of fuzzware. And dirt and people oil and cookie crumbs. Take it apart, clean the wheel, blow out the whole inside and outside. Reassemble.

That is the only way to learn. Now when using the loader, I always have a full 45 gal sprayer tank on the 3pt. When the L2501 feels like a rocker, I know I have hit the limit. And enable 4WD. Spun the back wheels in the highway drainage ditch last week because I did not want to make multiple...

The dirt pattern is the key. The left glove has a parity matching glove on the right. The other rights have very difficult applied dirt patterns to build parity on a left glove. The left gloves are getting the dirt parity correct in the dirt dimension.

Around here a hydraulic pounder pushes the metal post into the ground. No digging, no back fill. T-posts between the corners. You can do fancy stuff with the corners and wood if you want. Or make corners the old fashioned way: create a 48" round cage and fill it with rocks. Lasts decades.

Back and knee problems working in buildings with concrete floors. I switched to a European type shoe, Ecco, which is designed with more walking and less driving. Knee problems disappeared; took some time to adjust to the different foot ergonomics. The leather work shoes lasted a decade at least...

Do not dismiss the part "accounting engineers" contribute to bad design and implementation. Have you ever listened to and "accounting engineer" randomly decide to take 10% out of a project element?

I kept telling one of my techs to take off those chain bracelets and necklace when changing batteries on the closet UPS. One time I did not reiterate, his bracelet shorted across a battery. Only a 7Ah 120v battery in serial with another battery. But fried the pretty off; and tripped the UPS...

KillAll has 3X the glyphosate as standard weed killers. I just keep KillAll and dilute as necessary.

Pffft 3 miles. Nearest town is 12 miles away. I get 12" rain; town gets8". Town gets hail; we get sunshine. Town temperatures are always 8F different -- up or down depending on wind direction, phase of moon, etc And the TV newscaster is way off.....

5 inches of rain rearranged the driveway gravel. Put the gravel back where it belongs with the bucket. The previous owner put in flower bed mounds directly in the path of the natural drainage path. Now the runoff rearranges the driveway gravel. Dug a drainage across one loop of the drive and...