What Did You Do Today

The dang weather has turned wintery, bit of a chill, and rain.....

Been getting out into the workshop a bit, but spending most of my time wearing the in the deskchair :(

I'll put some pics on later of some of the stuff I've been doing out in the shop.
 
larryRB said:
We left Saturday running over 800 miles to Ironton Ohio. Visited there, drove to Columbus, visited their zoo, left there and went to southwest side of Cleveland. Will leave here tomorrow and be home late tomorrow night.
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You were within 2-5 miles of my house depending on which route you took to get to Columbus.
 
We ran new england down to the Jerssey Pike, three exits and across 78 to 81 just north of Harrisburg PA, 81 to Md, across MD, I know it as US40 now it is Interstate 68 or something, to 79 in Morganstown W.VA to 64 in Charlestown west to Huntingto, across the river to 52, visited around Coal grove/Ironton area, 52 to Portsmouth, 23 north to Columbus, actually Grove City. To the zoo in the nortwest corner of colubus, back to columbus, up 71 to Brunswick Hiils, stayed three nights and two days here, left Brunswick hills at 630 this morning and pulled in here (sturbridge MAss area) right at 530,. a 12 hour run done in 10 1/2 hours.
 
Larry you were also only about 4 miles from my house. I live just off Rt. 50 in Chillicothe. Chillicothe is about halfway between Portsmouth and Columbus. I take 23 to work everyday in Columbus.
 
You missed me by 100+ miles. I'm a couple hours from Columbus, Huntington and I79 in WV @ Fairmont. :D
 
The main reason we stopped in the Ironton area is that years ago, we bought a 133 acre farm outside Ironton. Stayed there one year, sold it off in chunks, and moved back here,, I thought I would like it there, but, this wasn't to be,, IT is an unusual way of living if one is not use to it, Those who live or been through that area enough would know what I am saying, Our intent was to visit those who we sold to. Only one alive today,, The one who bought the biggest chunk at 88 acres, HAve a step son living in Gorve City, and a really close friend who visits us 4 times a year who needs specialists doctors in Boston, After 10 years of his 4 times a year visit, we finally stayed at his home in Brunswick Hills, southwest of Cleveland.
 
Okay, so what is everyone doing today?
The forum is really quiet so you all must be up to something GOOD. :D
 
Doc said:
Okay, so what is everyone doing today?
The forum is really quiet so you all must be up to something GOOD. :D
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Not very good here. The data center moved one of my servers from one rack to another yesterday morning at 2AM. part of a reconfig of the power system. They managed to afu the dns entries for 23 sites :pat:

Here's me and the data center manager :bash: :bangin:

still waiting for a couple of domains to re-propagate and trying to resolve a new problem in that some sites can now be accessed by their domain name but ftp to either the domain name or ip won't work. Where's the smilie of banging your head against a brick wall?

Doc, you may be the only one here who understands what I am talking about but it's something that should have been so simple to have it go so bad.

Jim
 
Yep, been there, done that, got the Tshirt. :D
Two times this exact same thing happened to me. This past move went A-OK. So, the good thing is they are learning from their mistakes.

Hang in there Jim, you'll get em all back up ....hopefully real soon.

Sounds like you might just have to restart the FTP service on those with no FTP access.
chkconfig --list | grep ftp
if it is set to off, then it will not restart on reboot.
do a:
chkconfig ftpd on
then
service ftpd start
most Linux FTP services have the ftpd (d for daemon) Whatever yours is called in the chkconfig will be what the service is called. Hope this helps .....
 
I mitched off work early, came home to prep for a guy that was goming with a JCB to re trench our soakaways in the lower garden... my beautiful lawn to be torn up...:unhappy: ... My own fault, when I ran the grey water pipe line from the house, I never put in a grease trap between the house and soakaway, so within 5 years, the perforated pipe laid in the soakaway had filled with what apears to be washing powder??? A white sludge substance...
Anyway, back to the story..... the guy never turned up so I had some time to kill. I brought out the kubota, hitched up my 4ft core aerator and ripped hell out of the lawn in the top garden. Half a dozen passes at least in all directions. I LOVE THE KUBOTA!!! When I used to do the aerating with my other machine, I couldnt load too much weight on the aerator as the belts would slip and generally I'd get shunted around... It really used to struggle... but now.... he he he... loads of weight, unreal core depth with about 150lbs of weight on the tray... The kubota chugged away like it didnt have a load on the back at all.
Finished that in about an hour and then I pulled the rake around to break up the plugs a bit... then put out about 10lbs of no2 lawn seed (a fescue mix). Then pulled the rake around some more to work it in... I even got to use the headlights..!!!
The lawn now looks like shite but it will come good in a few weeks. Need a bit of :umbrella: now and I'll be happy...

(Before you start to worry for me, we have a different climate over here thanks to the gulf stream. I could plant seed in December and it would sprout in 2 weeks and grow fine...) Mith will agree... Hell, I even have to mow the lawn through the winter months, granted, not as often but at least every 2-3 weeks to keep it tidy...

Quincy
 
Doc said:
Sounds like you might just have to restart the FTP service on those with no FTP access.
chkconfig --list | grep ftp
if it is set to off, then it will not restart on reboot.
do a:
chkconfig ftpd on
then
service ftpd start
most Linux FTP services have the ftpd (d for daemon) Whatever yours is called in the chkconfig will be what the service is called. Hope this helps .....
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Thanks but they got it all fixed while I was looking for something I could fix myself.

turns out they moved both the primary and redundant routers (the ones that connect to the outside world AND moved the dns servers the same evening. It's a wonder anything worked.

One thing I need some help with. While discussing the situation with the manager ( remember :bangin: ) I bent the draw bar for my tractor. Anyone got an anvil and big hammer I can borrow?

Doc, you want to partner with me on a new book? How to Destroy A Data Center in 5 Easy Lessons?
 
Qunicy, the white sludge might be fat, nasty either way.
When do you finish mowing? Reckon I'll be into December this year.
 
I am work on case ingersoll 222 so it need new piston and rod so I hope I can finish that in November.

If you don't know what case 222 look like so here pictures for you. You see red garden tractor that one I am work today. You see blue ward garden tractor I am consider sell that for 300 dollars it work good but I can't have 3 tractors because MY Dad don't like many tractor he want me reduce to 1 but I told his john deer stx38 is for main mower but case is for plow snow or yard work.

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Why I am work on kohler engine for case 222. Here pictures.

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Mith said:
Qunicy, the white sludge might be fat, nasty either way.
When do you finish mowing? Reckon I'll be into December this year.
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Nasty is right Mith..

Finish Mowing? I dont. The last 2 years I've been mowing right though. The winters here have been so mild lately the grass still grows. It does slow a lot but it gets clumpy so I have to mow about every 2-3 weeks to keep it looking good.
I usually do my aerating this time of year just to break up the summers compaction.. In early spring I'll aerate again and fertilise.. Along with a regime of spreading sulphate of iron and sand.
 
Brian, I cant speak for Quincy, but here we spread sand to help loosen up the clay. If you fill the holes made by the aerator it helps the drainage.
 
bczoom said:
If I may ask, why sand?
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The sand IS for clay, same as Mith. I have some areas in my garden that suffer from bad compaction. Very heavy clay. For the last couple of years now, I have been spreading out sand as part of an aerating program. To be honest, the stuff i use is more like grit than sand. 2-3mm (1/16th) inch sand, Paving companies use it for bedding in cobble stones/set stones over here. It IS making a difference though. A few years ago, I went to my local golf club greens keeper to ask his advice about the problems I was having with my lawn. He showed me the stuff they use for their greens. They use fine washed sand for the putting greens (and LOTS of it!!!) but for the areas where golfers have compacted the soil from walking on it, they aerate and lay down the coarse grit. The grit is brushed into the cored holes and helps to keep the soil "open".
I used to have vast areas of thin grass where water would lodge in the winter months. Following this I would have prolific moss and weed problems. This year was the first year I noticed an improvement (after about 3 years of sand spreading)... I was beginning to become doubtful of my efforts until recently...
The greens keeper did say it would take about 5 years to start making a difference... he was right.

What I would like is a PTO driven spreader for putting out sand, fertiliser, seed.... that may be on my letter to santa this year.....

I am envious of people with loose sandy soil...

The sulphate of iron is for moss control. I dilute it and spray it onto the lawn in late autumn and again in early spring... Cheapest most effective solution I have found.
 
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