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Tied Down
Apparently one of the tractor front tires has something in it... went flat and popped it off of the bead on the wheel. Sigh.
Okay, let’s go fire up the air compressor and figure out if we’re doing the flammable liquid thing or the ratchet strap thing...
Wait, where’s the air compressor? Awww crap, it’s over at the hangar...
Okay screw it. Park the tractor and deal with it later. Go get the riding lawn mower which is slower and sucks, but will get the job done...
Click. Awww man. Forgot to plug it into the battery tender months ago... when I moved it to a better parking spot out of the way in the garage for winter. Idiot. three year old battery, toast.
Let’s jump start it. Pull Subaru up to garage, jumper cables...
That worked. Let’s go mow!
Mow a little around the driveway and get that done. Want to go through the livestock style gate to do the fenced part... but I have to get off the mower to take the rubber strap off of it and unlatch and open it.
Wait a sec. If I get off of this thing it has a safety interlock attached to my butt / the seat. It’ll shut down. Grrr. I could just go get a 5 gal jug of gas to set on the seat, but ...
Drive it up next to the garage just in case and let’s kill it and see if this battery took any charge at all, maybe I’ll get lucky.
Click. Awwwww **** it. I’m going inside now and making some dinner. Fix BOTH of these damned machines tomorrow.
Spent evening looking at $15,000 new compact tractors. $20,000 with new attachments. Looked at ZTRs and realized there’s a very large quality jump between big box junk and commercial.
Got over it. Well, not really. Mad. But what’cha gonna do? Not spending $20K on a tractor that mows three times a year and moves snow no more than that either. Even a cheaper-ish ZTR is total overkill.
I just need mow the area around the septic system... decided not to push it and have it pumped out next week, since it’s probably about time. Don’t really enjoy the idea of finding out that it needs pumping out, the hard way.
If I can’t get that stupid tire back on the wheel, the last time that happened the local Green Tractor Place (Deere) wanted stupid money to put a tire back on and whined about my old bent wheels. Mostly trying to sell me a new tractor, really.
Wonder what the neighbor with the $35,000 Deere would charge to mow? Might be cheaper to pay him to do it for the next ten years. LOL.
Okay, let’s go fire up the air compressor and figure out if we’re doing the flammable liquid thing or the ratchet strap thing...
Wait, where’s the air compressor? Awww crap, it’s over at the hangar...
Okay screw it. Park the tractor and deal with it later. Go get the riding lawn mower which is slower and sucks, but will get the job done...
Click. Awww man. Forgot to plug it into the battery tender months ago... when I moved it to a better parking spot out of the way in the garage for winter. Idiot. three year old battery, toast.
Let’s jump start it. Pull Subaru up to garage, jumper cables...
That worked. Let’s go mow!
Mow a little around the driveway and get that done. Want to go through the livestock style gate to do the fenced part... but I have to get off the mower to take the rubber strap off of it and unlatch and open it.
Wait a sec. If I get off of this thing it has a safety interlock attached to my butt / the seat. It’ll shut down. Grrr. I could just go get a 5 gal jug of gas to set on the seat, but ...
Drive it up next to the garage just in case and let’s kill it and see if this battery took any charge at all, maybe I’ll get lucky.
Click. Awwwww **** it. I’m going inside now and making some dinner. Fix BOTH of these damned machines tomorrow.
Spent evening looking at $15,000 new compact tractors. $20,000 with new attachments. Looked at ZTRs and realized there’s a very large quality jump between big box junk and commercial.
Got over it. Well, not really. Mad. But what’cha gonna do? Not spending $20K on a tractor that mows three times a year and moves snow no more than that either. Even a cheaper-ish ZTR is total overkill.
I just need mow the area around the septic system... decided not to push it and have it pumped out next week, since it’s probably about time. Don’t really enjoy the idea of finding out that it needs pumping out, the hard way.
If I can’t get that stupid tire back on the wheel, the last time that happened the local Green Tractor Place (Deere) wanted stupid money to put a tire back on and whined about my old bent wheels. Mostly trying to sell me a new tractor, really.
Wonder what the neighbor with the $35,000 Deere would charge to mow? Might be cheaper to pay him to do it for the next ten years. LOL.