Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Snag Newsgroups: rec.crafts.metalworking Subject: Not quite metalworking but ... Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 09:08:07 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: <100cpkb$113bt$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 16:08:14 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9b0beee2f724b1c100ef9ad805fc7cee"; logging-data="1084797"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/WFu9oFlhJSz7c1BtGa4LE6U7pvOaF7Pw=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:TUaedMtK+GAOxXYIryCywxGvEWg= Content-Language: en-US X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://reader80.eternal-september.org:119 X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 250518-2, 5/18/2025), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Bytes: 2035 I guess spinnin' wrenches is metalwork of a sort . And I'll be doing some over the next few days/weeks . Weather permitting I'll be picking up a new to me tractor ... It's a Yanmar YM1500D , a 'compact tractor" that's still small enough to get into the woods to drag logs out for firewood . It's powered by a 2 cylinder diesel motor and comes equipped with a Bush Hog branded finish mower deck . It's been sitting for several years , but the motor turns over by hand and it has compression so it shouldn't be that hard to get it going . Oil on the dipstick is clean and shows no sign of water in the crankcase , but the fuel tank has some water , probably from condensation . Get the fuel system sorted out and change fluids and filters is where I plan to start . -- Snag We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people won't be offended.