Chestnut Posted July 27, 2020 Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 Anyone have the link to the gas can spouts some one posted. I have 6 gas cans and 5 out the nuts are broken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom King Posted July 27, 2020 Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 I'm sure it's in my bought list on ebay. I'll look. Here's the thread. Since I posted this thread, I've become less than happy with the vents, and found some better ones. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom King Posted July 27, 2020 Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 Here's a current link to the spouts. I still like the Midwest cans, with the good gasket design the best, but since I fixed the tractor, I've stopped using the 5 gallon cans, and went back to my 100 gallon tank for diesel-needed the tractor with the loader fixed first. https://www.ebay.com/sch/webwings/m.html?ssPageName=&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2654 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tom King Posted July 27, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 I just bought some of these vents from Amazon, but haven't had a chance to swap them yet. These do have a little cap you can lose, but I'm pretty good at keeping up with stuff, and the caps look like tire valve caps. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07ZT3GPKR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I bought one other type, off ebay, several years ago, but never got around to trying it. edited to add: can't find it-might not be available any more. It was similar to the ones in the Amazon link. All the plastic, snap in vents leak, and they get so they're harder than they should be to snap them closed. I'll see if I can find a link to the vent I bought off ebay. When drilling the plastic cans, a brad point bit works a lot better than a twist drill, for making a pretty hole, without distortion. Still haven't painted this tractor, but it's done a lot of work since I took these pictures. Still using the offroad diesel from this fillup at $1.44 a gallon. Replaced the aggravating alligator clips for the 12v pump with nice SAE plugs mounted to the machine screw posts on the new marine batteries in the tractor-work first time, every time. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted August 9, 2020 Report Share Posted August 9, 2020 All of a sudden I can view the Public Forum or the Community forum but not both at the same time. I refreshed my iPad a couple of times but to no avail. Anyone else having this problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark J Posted August 9, 2020 Report Share Posted August 9, 2020 @Coop I just tap the blue "Wood Talk Online" banner and get both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted August 9, 2020 Report Share Posted August 9, 2020 Up until last night, that’s all I had to do. Must be on my end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post legenddc Posted August 11, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted August 11, 2020 Anyone else perk up on work calls anytime someone says "dovetails" or is it just me? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeslayer Posted August 13, 2020 Report Share Posted August 13, 2020 So not much reported on the national news but Monday central Iowa had a Derecho (inland hurricane) many counties are reporting 97 % power out, 3 million acres of crops damaged or destroyed, winds reached 112 mph in some areas, crews from all over are here trying to put the power grid back together, lots of homes and property destroyed across the state from the center all the way to the eastern border, gas is hard to find as the stations have no power , our daughter and family are coming to stay, power slowly coming back but it going to be a while yet, thanks to all the power company people who are working 24/7 to get thing back to normal 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkinneb Posted August 13, 2020 Report Share Posted August 13, 2020 5 hours ago, treeslayer said: So not much reported on the national news but Monday central Iowa had a Derecho (inland hurricane) many counties are reporting 97 % power out, 3 million acres of crops damaged or destroyed, winds reached 112 mph in some areas, crews from all over are here trying to put the power grid back together, lots of homes and property destroyed across the state from the center all the way to the eastern border, gas is hard to find as the stations have no power , our daughter and family are coming to stay, power slowly coming back but it going to be a while yet, thanks to all the power company people who are working 24/7 to get thing back to normal Sorry to hear that! The damage that I saw on the Benchcrafted Instagram feed looked devastating(I assume same storm) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted August 13, 2020 Report Share Posted August 13, 2020 Another unfortunate side effect will be loss of "social distance" for a lot of disrupted households. Covid has surged so much here that the local authorities have decided to cancel in-person school openings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted August 14, 2020 Report Share Posted August 14, 2020 2 hours ago, wtnhighlander said: Another unfortunate side effect will be loss of "social distance" for a lot of disrupted households. Covid has surged so much here that the local authorities have decided to cancel in-person school openings. We have several school districts in our area and they are split pretty much, 50-50. The majority, regardless will start the first three weeks online. Not sure what three weeks buys ya? @treeslayer, you didn’t indicate if you guys had any damage or power outage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark J Posted August 14, 2020 Report Share Posted August 14, 2020 When they say power lines are down in Iowa this is what they mean: 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted August 14, 2020 Report Share Posted August 14, 2020 Mark, you apparently are in Iowa now? Are you and your family being affected by the crap we’re seeing going on in Chicago? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark J Posted August 14, 2020 Report Share Posted August 14, 2020 Nope, not in Iowa. That photo was posted by a friend on another forum. We did get a less intense version of the same storm, but our home and neighborhood were not badly effected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeslayer Posted August 14, 2020 Report Share Posted August 14, 2020 No damage here @Coop, just heavy rain we got lucky 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legenddc Posted August 14, 2020 Report Share Posted August 14, 2020 I didn't realize derechos got so big until this storm. We had one in my neighborhood about 8 years ago a few weeks after we moved in to our first house. One literally went straight down the street 30' behind houses. It twisted off the tops to a few trees but thankfully no one in our neighborhood was injured. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestnut Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 On 8/13/2020 at 4:37 PM, treeslayer said: So not much reported on the national news but Monday central Iowa had a Derecho (inland hurricane) many counties are reporting 97 % power out, 3 million acres of crops damaged or destroyed, winds reached 112 mph in some areas, crews from all over are here trying to put the power grid back together, lots of homes and property destroyed across the state from the center all the way to the eastern border, gas is hard to find as the stations have no power , our daughter and family are coming to stay, power slowly coming back but it going to be a while yet, thanks to all the power company people who are working 24/7 to get thing back to normal My cousin lost their house. House is still standing but has sever water damage. Insurance is covering everything. They are currently working on trying to figure something out and in the mean time have had to move in with their parents. My cousin's husband is a lineman for one of the power companies in the Cedar Rapids area so he'll be busy. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark J Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 Glad that apparently they were not injured and that insurance is stepping up. Maybe it's just my perception, but it seems odd to me that I've heard much more about Cedar Rapids here on the forum than I have from the TV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkinneb Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Mark J said: Maybe it's just my perception, but it seems odd to me that I've heard much more about Cedar Rapids here on the forum than I have from the TV. I know right! I don't watch the news, haven't in two decades, but I do stay in touch online but there has been very little out there. I saw it first on Benchcrafted's Instagram feed even searching for it doesn't yield much. It looks totally devistating from the pics I've seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeslayer Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 Yeah it’s really bad, 1/3 of the whole states crop is gone, our daughter on the east side by the river just got their power back after 7 days, the media obviously have more important things too do and aren’t reporting much at all, Cedar Rapids took a really big hit but it goes from DesMoines all the way to the Mississippi and beyond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G Ragatz Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 I don't watch much TV news, but the New York Times has done three stories on the storm and its impact over the past week. The first, which ran right after the storm was fairly brief. The one that ran a couple of days ago was a pretty extensive article - including lots of photos (in the on-line version). What a mess - best wishes to all with the recovery! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/us/midwest-storm-farms.html 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkinneb Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 59 minutes ago, G Ragatz said: I don't watch much TV news, but the New York Times has done three stories on the storm and its impact over the past week. The first, which ran right after the storm was fairly brief. The one that ran a couple of days ago was a pretty extensive article - including lots of photos (in the on-line version). What a mess - best wishes to all with the recovery! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/us/midwest-storm-farms.html Thanks for sharing! That was very insightful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted August 22, 2020 Report Share Posted August 22, 2020 What could be worse than having a hurricane come up your front door? Maybe two in one week? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Askland09 Posted August 22, 2020 Report Share Posted August 22, 2020 The neighbors behind us lost a pretty big tree that destroyed 2 parts of our fence. Also lost a few shingles during the Derecho, but in all honesty we got pretty lucky. We were w/o power for 7 days and I know many folks in Cedar Rapids and surrounding small towns are still w/o power. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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