What did YOU do today?

["Risky Bizness"]

I set on the board for a cancer organization. Today we will be putting together gift bags for Christmas, then begin delivering them. It's a balmy 8* here this morning.

 

[racsan]

9 degrees here. only got 2” of snow yesterday but had to go out & play in it. I wasn’t expecting the tractor to start but it did, took a few seconds to build oil pressure & a good 10 min before it wanted to run at a idle with the clutch out.

 

[Uncle Gump]

9 degrees here. only got 2” of snow yesterday but had to go out & play in it. I wasn’t expecting the tractor to start but it did, took a few seconds to build oil pressure & a good 10 min before it wanted to run at a idle with the clutch out.

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The real art is how none of your pictures have your foot prints in the snow...

Pretty tricky

 

[JoshT]

Went to get new tires on the F-150 at Sams. They had the best price I could find and free install. Ordered new tire sensors when I ordered the tires last weekend.

"we can't replace your tires, your lugnuts are swelled too much to get a socket on"

I took dad's F-150 to the tire shop a couple months ago to get the air topped off because I was busy and didn't feel like dragging out the stuff from the shop. Guy running the pressure machine tried to tell me that the ones on this truck were bulged too. I just shook my head and left once he did his job.

It's a 21 F-150 with less than 20k miles on the odometer at the time. Now I'm not going to say that lug nuts can't bulge, but it isn;t going to be on a low mile, 4 year old truck, that has never seen real winter weather. Besides, he didn't have shit on him to be able to check for "bulge" with, just read off what that little handheld device he was carrying said. I'll still buy my tires at that place, but the stupid shit that they try to upsell on...

The real art is how none of your pictures have your foot prints in the snow...

Pretty tricky

It's AI, it's all AI. There is no tractor, there is no Rascan, it's just AI.


Seriously though, those are great shots.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

This and tire shops typically over tightening lug nuts is why I have my own tire machine. I didn’t really want to get into doing tires, but I got really tired of headaches. Now if there’s a problem it’s on me.

Dad has one but won't take over a 16 or maybe 16.5 wheel. My 18's need not apply.

I doubt his bubble balancer has the die for the goofy F-150 wheel bolt pattern either.

 

[racsan]

The real art is how none of your pictures have your foot prints in the snow...

Pretty tricky

I deliberately got off the other side of the tractor, walked behind it then out i. the yard to try & avoid that very thing. About froze my fingers since I had to have my gloves off to take pictures.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Dad has one but won't take over a 16 or maybe 16.5 wheel. My 18's need not apply.

I doubt his bubble balancer has the die for the goofy F-150 wheel bolt pattern either.

The Coats 10-10 that I own half of is like that. 14-17” rims and it’s best if they are steel rims. I got tired of that real quick and found a used rim clamp machine that will do up to like a 20” rim and up to a 36” tire.

For balancing I’ve gone to ceramic or glass beads in the tires. I have discovered that you want round beads though. I tried one of the commonly available ones that the one local tire shop uses but they were tiny glass blobs and they don’t seem to balance right. Think being really small and not round hinders their ability to spread out and do their job via centrifugal force. If you have your own tire machine, they last pretty much forever as long as you don’t have a blowout. The set of ceramic “off-road” beads (Innovative Balancing) that are in the tires of my F-150 have been in 3 sets of tires so far and are likely going in a 4th set at some point.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

The Coats 10-10 that I own half of is like that. 14-17” rims and it’s best if they are steel rims. I got tired of that real quick and found a used rim clamp machine that will do up to like a 20” rim and up to a 36” tire.

For balancing I’ve gone to ceramic or glass beads in the tires. I have discovered that you want round beads though. I tried one of the commonly available ones that the one local tire shop uses but they were tiny glass blobs and they don’t seem to balance right. Think being really small and not round hinders their ability to spread out and do their job via centrifugal force. If you have your own tire machine, they last pretty much forever as long as you don’t have a blowout. The set of ceramic “off-road” beads (Innovative Balancing) that are in the tires of my F-150 have been in 3 sets of tires so far and are likely going in a 4th set at some point.

Dad's is a Coates 1010 also.

I had hoped to sneak up on a set of 17" painted alloys before I needed tires but didn't get it done. These have the fake chrome stuff so I am kind of leery about tearing them up.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Dad's is a Coates 1010 also.

I had hoped to sneak up on a set of 17" painted alloys before I needed tires but didn't get it done. These have the fake chrome stuff so I am kind of leery about tearing them up.

Yeah, that fake chrome stuff always looked like a problem waiting to happen to me.

Supposedly the 1010 will do 17” rims and with care you can do alloys on it, but the biggest I’ve ever done is a 16” on it and without modifications the bead breaker can damage alloy rims. I was going to build an adapter that I saw to do alloys with it but ended up just finding a rim clamp and calling it a day. I wanted to unload the 1010 but my buddy that owns half of it doesn’t. It’s not very useful for anything newer these days. Good machine and very simple though.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Yeah, that fake chrome stuff always looked like a problem waiting to happen to me.

Supposedly the 1010 will do 17” rims and with care you can do alloys on it, but the biggest I’ve ever done is a 16” on it and without modifications the bead breaker can damage alloy rims. I was going to build an adapter that I saw to do alloys with it but ended up just finding a rim clamp and calling it a day. I wanted to unload the 1010 but my buddy that owns half of it doesn’t. It’s not very useful for anything newer these days. Good machine and very simple though.

Dad loves his for old tractor and implement tires, it hardly sees a regular vehicle wheel lol.