Archive through December 10, 2010

[dfrisk]

DONALD - When I buy air tools that I know I'm going to use a L-O-T, I buy I-R or CP. I know I can get them rebuilt and have a new tool after many many years. My first CP 1/2" impact, #734 is between 25 & 30 yrs old. Still works O-K, but it just doesn't have the muscle that SON's IR Thundergun has. Stuff my CP won't budge SON's IR spins right off... but you don't want to touch the bolt or nut for a minute or two, it'll be so hot it'll raise blisters in a second! BT-DT with a deformed 3/4"NC hex nut for my Farmall wheel weights.

The little P-C 3/8" butterfly wrench is "disposable", when it stops working I'l toss it away.

 

[sblunier]

I gave up on the air powered butterfly wrenches and went straigth to the 1/4" drive coordless impact. I've had 2, a Ryobi 18v and a Craftsman 19.2v (both Ryobi made). The Craftsman gets up near 100 ft-lb and is THE NUTS for working on Cubs!!! No hose, easy, small, powerful.......I use it for everything!!!!

 

[dfrisk]

STEVE B. - SON just got one of those about two wks ago. And for the life of me I can't remember what brand it was. Gutsy little thing! They use them a LOT at his new job. He builds road graders now for a company around the Quad-cities.

Arw you supposed to get any snow from this system blowing thru this weekend? The first few flakes just started falling here within the last half hour. Weather-guessers are thinking eight to twelve inches here. Most of it tonight.

 

[tteague]

OK yall, I got a chance to get a QA-36. What can you tell me about these blowers and will it fit a 147?

 

[thoffman]

Tommy Skilling on Ch. 9 said 6-10 inces for today/tonight/tomorrow, now this am they saying 2-4 inches. Go figure!

 

[dfrisk]

TOM - Last I heard three hrs ago you were in the 5-8" range.

Our one weather guesser here in Madison who's ALWAYS wrong said 1-2 inches this weekend yesterday AM. He might end up being right ONCE!

 

[mhomrighausen]

Timothy T. Yes, the QA 36 will fit the 147.

It waa 39* two hours ago and raining when Fancy and I took our usual morning bunny/squirrel check around town. A little over an hour ago this is what things looked liked.

Total is around a half an inch. the temperature is supposed to fall and be single digits tomorrow and the next couple fo days. I may have to get the Keepsake 1650 out and clear a couple of sidewalks.

 

[lrehm]

THoffman, what do you expect from weather guessers? They need to hype the weather to justify all the money spent on radar.

To tell the truth, today I'm happy they are down-scaling the volume of snow. I need to drive up to Two Rivers this afternoon to pick up a backup QA-42A thrower.

 

[dtanner]

Dennis Frisk
I went to NAPA and got me some impact sockets for the new IR 2115 TIMAX.The book says 250 forward and 300 reverse at 1500 impacts per second. I thought I would break the sockets I got as a set from Sears many moons ago ,so I could not believe the price for these impact sockets. The price was $19.00 to $21.00 a set with a liftime warrinty.

 

[mhomrighausen]

Okay so Charlie's French brochure translates to something like this.

In the brochure above, you will recognize the specialists McCormick. It also indicates the presence of a modern workshop and knowledgeable technicians. Finally, he indicated the agent Mccormick pieces, only one who can repair your entreien or by purchasing the original pieces Mccormick. In addition to that are your door. There are over 11,500 such dealers in France.

With that I may just go play in the snow before the temps fall.

 

[kharvey]

Just in from cleaning up the first 8 inches of snow. Weather man say 4 to 6 more with high wind and dropping temps.

 

[aaytay]

Last night when I came home from work this sidewalk out behind our garage was shoveled down to bare brickwork. Now it reads like this...

As you can see in the background, it's STILL SNOWING!!!!!!!

I just got back from picking up our daughter from her friends house. In the 2-1/2 miles I saw 3 cars in the ditch and got stuck in our 3/4 ton Suburban on a heavily drifted county road. The last snowdrift that got me twisted the truck sideways as I came from my 15mph crusing speed to a stop. There I was digging my truck out while cross-wise in the middle of a white out county road! Talk about moving quick!

Don-
I'll try to shoot some pics of the #450 doing it's thing so you can live vicarously.

I may be a couple days though because the winds are howling and the weather-guessers say it's only gonna get worse.

Kraig-
When was the last time you've seen a snow-storm like this around our area?

Steve-
I can think of one thing you don't use that cordless impact on.....

 

[hsell]

Anyone have instructions of how to mount the windbreaker cab on the original cub cadet or a picture from the rear so as to see the brackets mounted.......Thanks Howie

 

[tteague]

The guy said that the QA-36 fit on his 129. I would guess someone rigged it or changed the mule hook up to make it fit? I'm Buying it anyway... Just hope I can easily transform it back to narrow frame...

 

[dfrisk]

TIMOTHY - Almost sounds like it must be a QA-36A blower, adjustable for both a NF & WF CC.

My QA-36 I bought 25 yrs ago was modified to fit on a 149 and I modified it back to fit on my CC 72. It's not real hard, easier if you have a welder but if not all it takes is bolting on a couple pcs of angle iron onto the mounting bracket and drill/tap four 3/8" NC holes, or weld 3/8" hex nuts on the back sides of the angle iron.

Just make sure you get all the pieces & parts.

 

[dtanner]

Home of the Plow Special

Art , That would be great to see your 450 blowing the white stuff. We probably won`t get any snow till January. Its sure holding off here and we are to go to + 13 this week with rain.I will repair my rock shaft pin on Monday as the wife has plans for me with holiday trim.Have fun I wish I was there to run that blower for you lol.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Art, just a couple days ago I mentioned about not needing drift cutters or an extension to the top of my QA42...

I could sure use them both today!! I just got in from about 4 hours of snow removal and I'm not done yet. Well, actually about 1.5 hours of that was swapping out the PTO clutch. I had one good spare clutch but it was for a brake style until I spent a little quality time with one of my angle grinders.

Here's what the PTO used to look like, the one in the lower right. The one on the upper right is the one that was on the 125 the one on the left is a bad one that has a stuck set screw and with messed up threads. This is an old photo I took of my PTO collection last spring. Note that the formally brake style PTO has two triangle springs and two friction discs. I hope it can hold up to the Killer Kohler, this is the 3rd PTO that I've had on it. The weather guessers were saying 12 to 18" for us, not sure how much we have but when I went to the shed to get the PTO and tools the snow was up over my knees.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Howard, here are some photos that Craig Carney took at a RPRU several years back.

 

[hsell]

Thanks Kraig that will help....

 

[dfrisk]

KRAIG - about 20-30 minutes ago the local weather said our area could get up to 14 inches depending on when the drizzle we're getting now changes to snow.

If we don;t get some more snow really soon the ground will be bare!