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Brian F(IL) 
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 Topic: Repairs, then seat time
Posted: 01 Aug 2011 at 12:59pm |
Went out to the farm to mow yesterday morning while it was still cool. Instead, found a dead battery (almost 5 years old) in the CA that needed to be replaced first. By the time I drove 10 miles to Auto Zone (local NAPA was closed), got a new $95 battery, cleaned up the cables, etc. It was already getting hot outside. But, the new battery did the trick and then I spent the next 3 hours listening to that sweet engine and sweating my @!* off.
All in all, a good day.
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Jeff Z. NY
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Posted: 01 Aug 2011 at 1:11pm |
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WOW!!!! That must be a really good battery.
I have a 1000/850 in my car and it was only 79.00.
Sweating my %%% off up her also.
I'm also sweating pipes today. LOL
Wife want's the washer in a different place.
I said there are no pipes over there.
She said put pipes there I've seen you do it before.
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Posted: 01 Aug 2011 at 1:51pm |
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Jeff, you never let a wife know all your capabilities. If you do she will have a need for them all the time. Unless your wife is like mine and makes me learn capabilities I never had before. ( Well if you can do this then I know you can do that).
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Jeff Z. NY
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Posted: 01 Aug 2011 at 2:03pm |
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You got that right!!!!
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Bee
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Posted: 01 Aug 2011 at 2:08pm |
 junkman wrote:
Jeff, you never let a wife know all your capabilities. If you do she will have a need for them all the time. Unless your wife is like mine and makes me learn capabilities I never had before. ( Well if you can do this then I know you can do that).
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I just make sure I end up with a new tool out of every one of her requests...yep honey looks like I'll need a TIG welder to fix that drippin faucet...
Edited by Bee - 01 Aug 2011 at 2:10pm
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John (C-IL)
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Posted: 01 Aug 2011 at 2:59pm |
Bee wrote:
I just make sure I end up with a new tool out of every one of her requests...yep honey looks like I'll need a TIG welder to fix that drippin faucet...
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I'm with you there, my wife wanted the barn remodeled and a new roof put on the cattle barn. I ended up with a Genie S40 bucket lift and a new framing nailer. My mother-in-law wanted an addition on the house and I got a backhoe.
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junkman
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Posted: 01 Aug 2011 at 3:10pm |
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John, those are some awful big toys I mean tools. You must have a very understanding wife. Mine could see through that a mile away.
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Dipstick In
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Posted: 01 Aug 2011 at 3:13pm |
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Junkman if you'd paid attention he never told her, she said she had seen him do it. He needs to only do things when she's at the beauty shop or somehting!!!! LOL
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John (C-IL)
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Posted: 01 Aug 2011 at 3:33pm |
junkman wrote:
John, those are some awful big toys I mean tools. You must have a very understanding wife. Mine could see through that a mile away.
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Well, my wife said if the grand daughters were going to go to tractor shows with us we had to have two bedrooms so I got this! ;-)
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Don(MO)
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Posted: 01 Aug 2011 at 6:29pm |
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Just keep them coming guys I'm taking notes here. lol
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Posted: 01 Aug 2011 at 7:21pm |
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I actually just got done with a $30,000 kitchen makeover for the wife. Took me almost a year with months of 10 12 hour days. and all I got out of it was a few dewalt hand tools and such and a lighter wallet. My wife must be cheap. I will have to show here what guys like John gets, maybe, just maybe she will be more understanding. NOT
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Posted: 01 Aug 2011 at 8:45pm |
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My wife had the guilts for having to work a few 60 hour weeks and not being home much. So she bought plane tickets, rental car, hotel reservations and paid for my parts at Hutch. The weekend started with Friday and Saturday at GOO in Hutch and Sunday at a car museam then lunch at Hooters at the mall of america. and she didn't even want to go shoping awile we were there. What she didn't realize is that i realy didn't miss her when she was at work.
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Don(MI)
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Posted: 01 Aug 2011 at 9:06pm |
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This 25 year old young guy is takin notes too! hehehe
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Posted: 01 Aug 2011 at 9:20pm |
Bee wrote:
junkman wrote:
Jeff, you never let a wife know all your capabilities. If you do she will have a need for them all the time. Unless your wife is like mine and makes me learn capabilities I never had before. ( Well if you can do this then I know you can do that). |
I just make sure I end up with a new tool out of every one of her requests...yep honey looks like I'll need a TIG welder to fix that drippin faucet...
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I just ended up with one of those chipper/shredder machines under similar circumstances. I was informed that there are some dead trees that need to be run through it...
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"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford
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Brian F(IL)
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Posted: 02 Aug 2011 at 1:51pm |
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I guess the battery was only $83. I forgot the $12 core return.
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Osage_Orange
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Posted: 02 Aug 2011 at 2:14pm |
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John: You are soooooooooo thoughtful. Bet your wife is impressed! :)
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Why is there never time to do it right the first time, but always time to go back and fix it?
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MilesGray (CO/KS)
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Posted: 02 Aug 2011 at 2:38pm |
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Ummm... should we really be telling all our secrets here? My better half reads these too! Now I have a list of all the things I can't get! LOL!
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Miles Gray (CO/KS)
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