• Got the Contributing Memberships stuff finally worked out and made up a thread as a sort of "How-To" to help people figure out how to participate. So if you need help figuring it out, here's the thread you need to take a look at -> http://www.corvetteflorida.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3581 Thank you, everyone! Rich Z.

Rain today

Heavy wind and rain chased us out of Nashville almost to Atlanta on Wednesday night. Then everything was fine in Orlando and Lakeland but by the time we made it back up to the state line a huge storm met us there on 75. And there was a major crash in the northbound lanes at the border so we had to take a detour. But we made it around that after we got to Valdosta and got home without encountering any more rain, although it was quite windy. Woke up at 3 AM to heavy rain, wind and frequent lightning! Enough wind that it blew a 6 foot deck box with 10 gallons of gasoline in it across my patio and one of my wife's potted plants off the front porch! No major limbs down though and no loss of power.

This electric company stays on top of things up here. We seldom have a power outage and even when a huge branch from one of our Pecan Tree's fell on the main wire coming to the house, they were here within the hour. And that was on a Saturday! And they had us going again in an hour. So much better than when we lived in Tallahassee.

We will see what today brings. :ok_01:
 
We got a lot of wind Thursday night but apparently it was minor compared to the Tallahassee area. Rich, how are you making out in Crawfordville?
 
No appreciable damage here, but Comcast was out for about 24 hours. Had the top of a cherry tree snap off and land on top of a palm tree, but I used the tractor to pull it off. I got alerts on my phone of an extreme tornado warning. I heard there were three that touched down. A friend east of Tallahassee said he heard the characteristic "freight train" noise nearby and had about 10 of his big oak trees get the tops snapped off of them. And I heard that Woodvile got damage. Oh, my friend east of Tallahassee said he was without power and they were guestimating that it could be 3 to 4 days before it was restored.
 
Yeah, my brother lives on the east side of Tallahassee and he's still without power. He had a 100 year old Oak get toppled over in front of his house too. I saw some arial video of Woodville and it looks like one of the hardware stores lost the roof. It's like a hurricane came through the area a month or two early. It might be a year to remember with the weather.
 
Would never know it rained anywhere on the planet here. Never even any clouds and i hate it more and more. Gotta move no matter what. My part of FL will become like the ME area of the world with no rain at all as winters go away. This is insane since i moved here in 04 as i see less and less rain each year.
 
It is kind of unusual for us to get rain this time of year. Normally this has been the dry season for us. We have a flood watch in effect from Monday afternoon through Tuesday.
 
Rich Z said:
It is kind of unusual for us to get rain this time of year. Normally this has been the dry season for us. We have a flood watch in effect from Monday afternoon through Tuesday.
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It appears the "Tornado Alley" has moved a bit closer to us recently. Texas, Missouri and Arkansas were getting these storms for the past month or so and now I guess it's our turn! Looks like I'll be driving through this stuff this week, starting this morning in Alabama.:shrug01:
 
I got 1.01" of more rain overnight. Looks like another front coming through momentarily..
 
Another 2 1/2 inches yesterday. I had a Pecan tree leaning since those bad storms last week and with all this rain and the ground saturated, it finally fell Friday night. I cut it up and stacked it for use in my smoker. And while I was at it I cut down two Pines that had succumbed to Pine Beetles and stacked them to burn. That grapple on the tractor made such easy work out of this! :dancer01:
 
85vette said:
Another 2 1/2 inches yesterday. I had a Pecan tree leaning since those bad storms last week and with all this rain and the ground saturated, it finally fell Friday night. I cut it up and stacked it for use in my smoker. And while I was at it I cut down two Pines that had succumbed to Pine Beetles and stacked them to burn. That grapple on the tractor made such easy work out of this! :dancer01:
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:ok_01: Yeah, the grapple sure does come in handy, doesn't it?
 
85vette said:
Well worth the $2600!
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No doubt!

My 3rd function is down for now. The "open" valve appears to be stuck, so I can't use the grapple nor the tree puller. So I have the bucket back onto the front. Then one of the hydraulic functions on the back has an excessively loose piston in the module. It is not the actuator lever itself, as it is tight. It is the piston or whatever actually going into the hydraulic block. Will said he will pick up my tractor on Tuesday morning and take care of the problems.

I moved the hydraulic hoses from the hydraulic top link to the other couplers so I could at least use the top link with the land plane, which I have mounted there now. I can still use the wood chipper, as it has it's own internal hydraulic system, so doesn't need the hydraulics off of the tractor. But the flail mower had a cylinder running off of hydraulics so I can move the mower a foot or two laterally when I need to. Not a big deal if it was a problem with lateral motion, however. But since the problems are under warranty, I want to get them fixed.
 
I've had no problems with the equipment or the hydraulics but I was mowing some small trees down about three weeks ago and I recall backing into a stump on the right side of the bush hog pretty hard. It caught the right side skid on the front of the bush hog. Anyway, no problems until last week when I was almost done moving those trees I'd cut down with the grapple, when the right side of the bush hog started dragging the ground.

Apparently I bent the pin that holds the lower three point hitch on the right side and it broke after I kept using it. After I looked at the broken pin it was apparent that it was made from cast metal. Not really a surprise but you would think that those pins would be made from something more durable.

Anyway, I broke it so on Monday I sent my dealer in North Carolina an email explaining what I had done and he ordered a new pin, mounting plate that I bent and new bolts and washers from the warehouse in Georgia. It arrived via FedEx on Wednesday! Pretty amazing! So when I get home tomorrow I'll swap those parts out. I thought $151.00 was a bit high for the parts but with the Biden economy, I guess that's just how it is. I'm really impressed with this dealer. But from what I hear, the one in Alabama that I'll be using for service is good too. :dancer01:
 
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