Today I got a "tune up kit" for a honda G160 engine that's on my portable air compressor. All I wanted was the carb. But the kit came with a lot of other parts, including a fuel filter that screws i nthe bottom of hte tank. You have to remove a lot of stuff to get the tank off! So I took it all apart, but it all back together and it still won't start. No change from before. So I took it all apart again and replaced the coil. I shoullda just shot gunned it and replaced all parts while I was in there the first time.

The symptom is it would fire intermittently but not run. I thought it was a fuel problem.... But carb needed replaced anyway becuase it was leaking out the float bowl. I mean for $21 it's not worth my time to diddle with a carb. $21 got coil, plug, fuel filter (which was leaking), gas line, clamps, air filter and spark plug. Ethanol gas is TERRIBLE for carbs but oh boy are they cheap.

I love the "see a puddle, step in the puddle" moment

9 tons of lime today half spread by them in an open pasture and ill spreqd the rest with my tractor.

.....and the lime was wetted for transit here so it wouldn't blow off the truck.... and it's too damp to spread in my spreader. I can only load about 100lbs at a time or it compresses into clumps. We're getting a tarp to go over the pile and let it dry a few days.

Is that the pretiest notch you ever did see? The kobalt 18" 80v chainsaw is awesome.

Pollen-pocalypse has begun

My normally dark blue truck is now green.

One of our German Shepherds was with me at the pond yesterday. he's the "grumpy old man" personality. Zhere vill be no nonsense around zis dog from ze other dogz.... so he waded out into the water up to his shoulder and then started bouncing around like he was a puppy.... he came out of the pond quite happy and refreshed! Maybe a little non-sense today. We shall see.... lol

I was looking at the terms of netmetering for another neighbor 30 minutes away... His co-op will allow net metering and they say two things: 1)They do not pay out for excess power. OK, this is understandable. 2) they reset the account in JUNE. This is nuts for the consumer. If you have any overage "on account" then they wipe it out in june and you enter the summer starting from zero.

Let me explain.... highest energy draw is heating and cooling... In jan/feb and July/aug we tend to pull the most power. In april/may and oct/nov we make lots more power than we need and it can be exported to the grid for our later use. So you spend the spring banking up excess power and BLAM the power company wipes out your account just in time for your air cond to come on. Lovely.

Grid tie is less and less appealing.