The Daily Yardman Thread

[Roger B]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

AHHhhh yes the steering box ..... well it was kinda squirrely, But, they called to say they had another box and to bring the truck back in, so I did, ..... ALL is fine now, drives good, still a tiny bit of play in the wheel, but I think if I change the "rag-joint (steering coupler) that will take care of that.......

I knew they were replacing the first replacement steering box, they didn't have to do that again did they? We don't want you going 'left' when you should be going 'right'... Know what I mean?? (That one is for you Ron.)

 

[Roger B]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

MOSTLY in Mexifonia, and East coast states North, of North Carolina ALL the New England states... the NON-Deplorables are striving to be the HMFWIC, They abhor the word "LOSER" .. BUT... they do give out participation trophies !! :laughing:..:laughing:

Boo,

Although I appreciate your rapier wit, my subtle intent with that question was to ferret out just where in the USA Darryl hangs his hat.. His Avatar is somewhat nebulous in that department..

Rog

 

[Roger B]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Yup, Boobala got it. Connecticut. It's what I call a false sense of propriety.

Ahhhhh, there we go! CT!! I have lived in New London (I guess that would be obvious) and Pachaug. The other half has a cousin in Old Lyme and "Zoomie" one of my old Chief of the boat's lives nearby. I like stopping off in Portland to see what Wayne Carini has in stock at his F40 shop.

You anywhere near any of that?

 

[Roger B]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Well I just exercised my own false sense of propriety and texted a fellow landscaper to let him know that both of his mower operators were operarating with no eye protection and cigarettes hanging out of their mouth. But I know him and know that he's rarely out in the field anymore to see what goes on. One guy even had a white tank top on, lol. That guy seemed to just be wandering around the lawn with no method and put down banana stripes on a high-end lawn.

Edit:. And I just called another local landscaper who I hardly know about what I observed their hardscaping crew do as they were finishing up for the day. Absolutely meticulous application of polymeric sand and cleanup. They even moved the dump truck to blow off the road properly and blew any dust from their sidewalk install off of the lawn. Everything looks perfect!!!!

Darryl,

Having a "Good-Ole-Boy' network with similar companies as your own is always a good idea. As an electrical contractor for nearly 40 years, I also networked with carpenters, plumbers and the like. We used to have a secret list of "No-Go" customers that we all shared. As most of us were high-end outfits anyone on that list had a hard time locating a quality company to do their work.. Screw us once, shame on you, screw us twice - well that ain't gonna happen..

Rog

PS: The best part of working for yourself (or at least owning your own company) is having the ability to tell that PIA customer to go take a flying leap.. Know what I mean??

 

[Roger B]

Re: RONNO has "out posted me"!!

The housing has been de-rusted and Ospho has been applied....

Ron,

When I saw this I had to go look up Ospho and discovered that it is just what I "was" looking for. I just pulled the wheels off my boat trailer to have the tires flipped to even out the wear when I noticed the 'swing arms' on the ends of the torsion axel had rusted again after my recent (last year) trailer maintenance. I had wire brushed them and applied a zinc rich spray paint.. Pretty much to no avail, going by what they looked like now! So I tried to find POR-15 a buddy out in ND told me about. It's expensive and wasn't locally available, so I settled on a spray product by Loctite. I let that dry for a couple days and then applied a rubberized undercoating spray, which I don't have much faith in, but couldn't think of anything better. The arms are cast iron and very prone to rusting and corrosion. Would Ospho stop that? What would you apply over it, considering that they get submerged in salt water numerous times each year.

Roger

 

[Roger B]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Something wrong with that Boobala fellow...

I'm tellin' ya, he's a secret misogynist..

 

[Roger B]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

LMAO! Winter is coming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88PGJ7Bqx9Y

HOLY CRAP!! There are NO neighbors like that in Maine! (Well, rural Maine anyway) They'd be shot!

 

[Roger B]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Morning Ted, Stayers and Bewbies.
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Chuck,

You are going to be responsible if I have a heart attack! But that's alright..

Roger

 

[Roger B]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Nice and cute feet also........... I saw a girl about 20 or 21 yesterday at Tobacco Plus that looked like this, but her feet had some bad hammertoe going on........

Beau:

Hmmmm a foot fetish, huh? Well, I've always said, "Whatever blows your skirt up!"

 

[Roger B]

A whole entire page, all to myself!

Where in hell is everybody this morning? I just filled an entire page all by myself.. I guess I'd better go crawl back under my rock and rest..