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small talk
Meet a friend here, just a small talk after busy work,the friend come from different culture , different views.....will be fun and relax.....
whether can find him /her from here?
whether can find him /her from here?
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How's Your Day Going?
My day has been great. Feeling good and ready for whats to come.
How is your day going?
How is your day going?
I can never please the whole world.
I can never please the whole world.
What one finds good, the other finds useless.
There will always be someone who criticizes me; there will always be someone who admires me.
I just have to do what I feel I have to do.......
What one finds good, the other finds useless.
There will always be someone who criticizes me; there will always be someone who admires me.
I just have to do what I feel I have to do.......
New tire
So about two years ago one of the tires on my 1953 Super C tractor finally blew out. It took months to find a used one of the proper 11.2 z 36 size at a decent price.
In Oct 2014 I located one in Arizona and had it shipped to me. By the time it arrived winter was well underway. Changing these tires is, according to the factory repair manuals, since the tire and wheel weigh well over 150 pounds empty, is a 2 person job. Therefore doing it alone took a awhile,
At last when the job was done towards the end of the spring 2015 I took the tractor out for a test drive. I barely managed to complete one circuit of the house before the other rear tire blew out with a whoosh. Said tires are kept filled with a chloride anti freeze mix to increase the rear end weight by about quarter ton on each tire/wheel, so a blow out is a wet affai
Needless to say this did not mske me happy and viewers of my videos will now understand why in 2015 I mowed with a walk behind DR mower instead of just using my 6 foot bush hog being pulled behind my tractor. Both flat tires are or were original Farm Chiefs sold on the tractor to the original owner more than 60 years ago (worth noting that the tires on my pick up truck (which at the request of an inspector because they are finally beginning to show cracks) I will finally be changing out later this week were made in 1997)). So I can't complain too much I guess. Like everything else International Harvester made or sold those tractor tires were made to last and they did. One gave 60 years of hard use before finally leaking and the second went 61 years.
This tim, not also needing a new wheel like I did for the last flat which was salt corrosion related, I decided to locate a new wheel of the proper pattern and size. Alas Mohawk Tires vanished in the 1970s and International Harvester ceased operations as a tractor maker in 1982. It seems in all the world only one company still markets that size of tire and it ain't cheap. So the tractor got a second year off while I pondered what to do. I had even placed the tractor up for sale at one point but new buyers backed off when a little research showed them the cost of a brand new tire to replace the one with a blown sidewall (my hand easily fits into that whole and I will check for snakes when removing it). So last week I bit the bullet and ordered a brand new tire online for only $550 online (which price is $100 cheaper than the J Deere dealer wanted for one of the same make).
Add another $60 for a new inner tube. I will whenn installed probably use a pure glycerol based automotive anti freeze rather than a chloride based mix like the original owner did. That way the next owner of the tractor won't have to ever worry about the steel wheel corroding a half century from now.
Yesterday in the middle of the storm which brought tornadoes and floods (3 Virginians killed by a tornado, one person drowned in a flash flood and still thousands without electricity) my new tractor wheel arrived. A tip of my hat to the driver of the freight liner who delivered it cross country.
This time around the process of mounting it on the tractor may be a little slower as this time I have to mount the tire on the wheel first. Having done the task once before I don't anticipate too much trouble pulling the old wheel off this time. It is similar (but harder) to changing a truck tire but I am already pondering the installation of the rubber onto the wheel and may wuss out and ask J Deere to do that piece for me.
In Oct 2014 I located one in Arizona and had it shipped to me. By the time it arrived winter was well underway. Changing these tires is, according to the factory repair manuals, since the tire and wheel weigh well over 150 pounds empty, is a 2 person job. Therefore doing it alone took a awhile,
At last when the job was done towards the end of the spring 2015 I took the tractor out for a test drive. I barely managed to complete one circuit of the house before the other rear tire blew out with a whoosh. Said tires are kept filled with a chloride anti freeze mix to increase the rear end weight by about quarter ton on each tire/wheel, so a blow out is a wet affai
Needless to say this did not mske me happy and viewers of my videos will now understand why in 2015 I mowed with a walk behind DR mower instead of just using my 6 foot bush hog being pulled behind my tractor. Both flat tires are or were original Farm Chiefs sold on the tractor to the original owner more than 60 years ago (worth noting that the tires on my pick up truck (which at the request of an inspector because they are finally beginning to show cracks) I will finally be changing out later this week were made in 1997)). So I can't complain too much I guess. Like everything else International Harvester made or sold those tractor tires were made to last and they did. One gave 60 years of hard use before finally leaking and the second went 61 years.
This tim, not also needing a new wheel like I did for the last flat which was salt corrosion related, I decided to locate a new wheel of the proper pattern and size. Alas Mohawk Tires vanished in the 1970s and International Harvester ceased operations as a tractor maker in 1982. It seems in all the world only one company still markets that size of tire and it ain't cheap. So the tractor got a second year off while I pondered what to do. I had even placed the tractor up for sale at one point but new buyers backed off when a little research showed them the cost of a brand new tire to replace the one with a blown sidewall (my hand easily fits into that whole and I will check for snakes when removing it). So last week I bit the bullet and ordered a brand new tire online for only $550 online (which price is $100 cheaper than the J Deere dealer wanted for one of the same make).
Add another $60 for a new inner tube. I will whenn installed probably use a pure glycerol based automotive anti freeze rather than a chloride based mix like the original owner did. That way the next owner of the tractor won't have to ever worry about the steel wheel corroding a half century from now.
Yesterday in the middle of the storm which brought tornadoes and floods (3 Virginians killed by a tornado, one person drowned in a flash flood and still thousands without electricity) my new tractor wheel arrived. A tip of my hat to the driver of the freight liner who delivered it cross country.
This time around the process of mounting it on the tractor may be a little slower as this time I have to mount the tire on the wheel first. Having done the task once before I don't anticipate too much trouble pulling the old wheel off this time. It is similar (but harder) to changing a truck tire but I am already pondering the installation of the rubber onto the wheel and may wuss out and ask J Deere to do that piece for me.
Online auctions where you can confiscate guns for cheap
The best way of preventing crime is buying up all the cool guns so the criminals don't buy them. Well it is a theory anyway. I practice this by attending online auctions and bidding competitively.
Here is a 1930s civilian air traffic control pistol. Woe to the pilot in Weimar's Germany who improperly filled out his flight plan forms. This specimen is what is called all matching in that every small part has a serial number that matches the serial number of the gun. Often with the passage of several decades some parts get swapped out as they wear out.
Mark of the Air Traffic Control agency (called the air surveillance police in the pre-Hitller Germany).
A 1917 DWM 'Artillery Luger' with it's shoulder stock, the harness, a 32 round snail drum magazine, the snail drum loader device, a more sedate 8 shot magazine and of course the holster. All gun parts matching including the magazine. These pistols were initially marketed so Imperial Army troops assigned to artillery could defend themselves against attackers more efficiently than with a bolt action rifle. Quickly the superiority of these shorter weapons over long bolt action rifles for fighting in the trenches was realized and the 32 round magazine was made. This led, in a 1917 German Infantry manual to the first ever use of the term Assault Weapon. The first German shock troops whose mission was to sneak into enemy trenches at specific pre arranged spots and capture a trench at that specific place were usually armed with these instead of rifles, grenades, daggers and the first flame throwers. The first ever German sub machine gun, the MP-18 also initially used the snail magazines, but stick magazines of less complexity were soon developed. The snail magazine uses both a wound clock work spring and also a more traditional straight coil magazine spring working in tandem.
Many Artillery Lugers were destroyed after the war per the Treaty of Versailles, and of course there was therefore no more use for the snail magazines or the shoulder board stock/holsters.
DWM, Vickers, Switzerland, Stoeger, and a few other firms made about 1.5 million Lugers between 1902 and 1930. Another half million were made from 1930 rhrough 1943 by Mauser and other German firms. After WW2 France confiscated most of the spare parts from Mauser's factory and made another 40,000 or so for their own forces. East Germany, Switzerland and some other countries continued to use their old Lugers into the 1960s before spare parts finally became an issue.
These days even poor condition Lugers with no matching numbers often sell for around $1.000 US. Those in perfect condition or with historical owners often command 6 figures.
Here is a 1930s civilian air traffic control pistol. Woe to the pilot in Weimar's Germany who improperly filled out his flight plan forms. This specimen is what is called all matching in that every small part has a serial number that matches the serial number of the gun. Often with the passage of several decades some parts get swapped out as they wear out.
Mark of the Air Traffic Control agency (called the air surveillance police in the pre-Hitller Germany).
A 1917 DWM 'Artillery Luger' with it's shoulder stock, the harness, a 32 round snail drum magazine, the snail drum loader device, a more sedate 8 shot magazine and of course the holster. All gun parts matching including the magazine. These pistols were initially marketed so Imperial Army troops assigned to artillery could defend themselves against attackers more efficiently than with a bolt action rifle. Quickly the superiority of these shorter weapons over long bolt action rifles for fighting in the trenches was realized and the 32 round magazine was made. This led, in a 1917 German Infantry manual to the first ever use of the term Assault Weapon. The first German shock troops whose mission was to sneak into enemy trenches at specific pre arranged spots and capture a trench at that specific place were usually armed with these instead of rifles, grenades, daggers and the first flame throwers. The first ever German sub machine gun, the MP-18 also initially used the snail magazines, but stick magazines of less complexity were soon developed. The snail magazine uses both a wound clock work spring and also a more traditional straight coil magazine spring working in tandem.
Many Artillery Lugers were destroyed after the war per the Treaty of Versailles, and of course there was therefore no more use for the snail magazines or the shoulder board stock/holsters.
DWM, Vickers, Switzerland, Stoeger, and a few other firms made about 1.5 million Lugers between 1902 and 1930. Another half million were made from 1930 rhrough 1943 by Mauser and other German firms. After WW2 France confiscated most of the spare parts from Mauser's factory and made another 40,000 or so for their own forces. East Germany, Switzerland and some other countries continued to use their old Lugers into the 1960s before spare parts finally became an issue.
These days even poor condition Lugers with no matching numbers often sell for around $1.000 US. Those in perfect condition or with historical owners often command 6 figures.
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