Last Chance To Visit The McLeansboro Viaduct!

 Look up Marx Brothers Viaduct if you don't understand the reference. Groucho aside, if you try to drive through there during a heavy rain, you will know Why A Duck!  You'll never make it on a chicken!

Harvesting Wheat Between The Storms

It seems like it is raining every day lately, but now the forecast is for four or five days with sun and no rain. Nobody wants to rut up a field, but every rain on ripe wheat degrades it, so folks get nervous.

Punch And Crunch That Cabbage!

 Susan is growing some beautiful cabbages this year in the garden. She cut up twenty pounds for the crock, I added salt and punched and crunched. It is down in the basement now for six to eight weeks with our kraut rock pressing it down. 

Tuesday Torque: 1915 Mogul 8-16

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Thank You, Merle!

 

It's Always Something!

 We were gifted a nice little mini-tiller with a Honda engine, but it hasn't been used in many years. Rather than try forcing it to run with a clogged up carburetor, we just ordered a new carb along with new fuel lines, because the old ones are hard and shrunken. It should be up and running this week if I can get an hour or two to swap in the new parts. Back To The Old Grind!

Plumbing, A Difficult Blessing

 Changing the kitchen sink's faucet means replacing the shutoffs first. A one hour job takes all day!

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Weekend Steam: Southern Indiana Antique Machinery Show, This Weekend!

 SIAM got rained out Friday, with 2.8 inches in 1/2 hour, but tomorrow is bound to be better. There are lots of gas engines, tractors, old cars, a few steam engines working, and much more. North side of Evansville. Be There!  Here's Andy Glines' Huber pulling the sawmill a few years ago.

Day Lily Success!

Susan's day lilies have been hammered by deer every spring, but this year they are being left alone. I don't know why, because deer are in our yard on a daily basis. It is great seeing these old friends. 

 

 

Stop And Smell The Basswood Flowers!

Tuesday Torque: Rumely Oil Pull Details

 Have you ever noticed this on Oil Pulls? The big 30-60s are started from above by the operator pushing the flywheel clockwise with a leg. That always looked risky to me, but I guess it is OK. The smaller Oil Pulls are started from the ground by spinning the flywheel counter-clockwise, as in the following video. (Please don't grind the gears. Pull the clutch out, wait for the parts to stop spinning, and then engage the gears.)

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BONUS VID! Rumely Oil Pull Winch Tractor!