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A small rant on shit all breaking at once

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Like I said a rant of shit breaking all at once in the spring on a small farm.

Chainsaw -broken
Tiller- broken
Weed whips as in plural- broken
Tractor- broken
Mower- broken
Power washer - broken

Some of this shit is close to the end of service life , I do t think any of the stuff is that serious, it’ll just take time and money to figure it all out and fix it . Time is short now and money is never what it should be.
Shit just don’t last like it should used to or like it should .
Fuck Shit Damn
Rant over - for now .
 
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I would swear that everything being disposable today and shit constantly breaking is just another part of the globalist plan to drive the little guy fucking insane with frustration.

Nothing lasts anymore
paying someone to fix everything is too expensive
parts can be expensive
worse yet, parts unavailable
buying new shit all the time, not feasible

These days, for things I rely on daily, I need spares on the shelf
everything is a made in china piece of shit designed to wear out fast
 
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Things are supposed to go wrong "in threes." I guess you are doubly lucky.
 
We need to know what brands of equipment you bought so we can help. Help as in make fun of the brand you have.

I understand the feeling though. The shower handle broke, the sprayer in the kitchen stuck on, the dishwasher is goofing up, the heater core in the 3+3 started leaking. Etc. And I can’t blame it all on the kids.
 
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Such is life. My to do and or fix it list is long as fuck. Do something every day...sometimes a few things. And be happy you're still above ground. Rinse and repeat until you're called home.
 
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Remember: TWO IS ONE AND ONE IS NONE...

ALWAYS have a backup to everything, or as many essential pieces of equipment as possible. Do you have extra secure and climate-proof storage space? Backup items and spare parts needed to fix various stuff can be kept unopened, or tested and repacked on pallets and shrink wrapped and labeled until you need them. Just make sure rodents and insects will not find a way to get into the packed items and cause potential damage.

Years of shooting black powder, as well as working in construction, has taught me to literally keep a mini storehouse of replacement parts/tools etc., so as to keep everything on the front line in continuous operation.
 
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After a week of being down, and 4 good parts replaced...I finally figured out that the brake Interlock switch was causing my lawnmower to sit there dead as a door nail yesterday.

Got it running again, and managed to knock down the forest of a yard in front of my house. Pulled it back in to refuel...motherf#cking switch was completely dead and so was the mower again. So I have part #5 on order and broke the old one in a fantastic temper tantrum that I thought I was mature enough not to have anymore.

It's not the money...it's that these things always seem to coincidentally occur in groups, and at the least opportune time.
 
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diggler1833 said:
After a week of being down, and 4 good parts replaced...I finally figured out that the brake Interlock switch was causing my lawnmower to sit there dead as a door nail yesterday.

Got it running again, and managed to knock down the forest of a yard in front of my house. Pulled it back in to refuel...motherf#cking switch was completely dead and so was the mower again. So I have part #5 on order and broke the old one in a fantastic temper tantrum that I thought I was mature enough not to have anymore.

It's not the money...it's that these things always seem to coincidentally occur in groups, and at the least opportune time.
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Bypass it and keep on cutting.
 
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You all sound like my customers!
Spring is shit show time for turf .
Some of you need to lean about fuel stabilizer and how to use an electrical tester.
 
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Bryan W M said:
You all sound like my customers!
Spring is shit show time for turf .
Some of you need to lean about fuel stabilizer and how to use an electrical tester.
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That's would take ALL of the fun out of spring, see how much fun the OP is having.

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the little orange choke lever on my weed eater broke off the other day, I feel your pain.
 
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Blue Sky Country said:
Remember: TWO IS ONE AND ONE IS NONE...

ALWAYS have a backup to everything, or as many essential pieces of equipment as possible. Do you have extra secure and climate-proof storage space? Backup items and spare parts needed to fix various stuff can be kept unopened, or tested and repacked on pallets and shrink wrapped and labeled until you need them. Just make sure rodents and insects will not find a way to get into the packed items and cause potential damage.

Years of shooting black powder, as well as working in construction, has taught me to literally keep a mini storehouse of replacement parts/tools etc., so as to keep everything on the front line in continuous operation.
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And store everything IN THE DARK. Light eats these plastic parts up quickly. They'll fade, then crumble.
 
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Parts ordered for the weed whip ,gonna try to get the starter on the tractor today- need some trouble shooting 2nd starter fried in less than a year .

Chainsaw back up and running- little carb clean/tune and sanded the little burr off the bar .
The other saw can wait .

Now this fucking tiller - I’d scrape it if it wasn’t 3 years old . Every problem imaginable.
 
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Check your distributor make sure its not kicking back. 🤣🤣🤣

Seriously though. What is the visable condition of your battery cables and have done voltage drop tests on your battery cables.
 
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What kinda tractor? Are the starters actually "fried" or just no workie? If the starters have "Bosch" on them, there's your problem.
 
Man vs machine -I’m losing
Man vs nature - also losing apple and pear trees in full blossom- and grapes just starting to leave out had 23 degrees this morning. Wasn’t supposed be be anywhere near that cold .

Now not so much bitching as just throwing hands up and saying “what else ya got for me?!”
 
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DarnYankeeUSMC said:
Bypass it and keep on cutting.
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Fortunately, I have that on hand as bypassing the brake interlock switch was how I figured out it was the faulty part. I don't really like leaving the bypass on there though when the wife occasionally does the cutting.
 
It must be all about the stars and the positions of the planets…

But seriously, the ides of March, through the ides of April brought the following issues up for me:
- truck passenger side door, quarter panel, wheel, tire, and front bumper wrecked when guy pulling a trailer with heavy equipment on it pulled right into me suddenly when I had no place to bail.
- washing machine electronics died while a full load in it. Add to that the boiler valve used for cold water supply has bad seals and couldn’t be shut off. New washer and a bitch of a repair for the boiler valve.
- dog ripped two toenails off running around in the woods. Broke them clean off, quick and all. Ripped the toe web also. A vet bill.
- woke up last Thursday to a sheet of water in four rooms. Water pipe leak under the slab.

I totally get the feeling of “Let me up, I’ve had enough!”

But I dealt with each issue as it arose and saved my bitching until after I was done and then had a scotch or bourbon.
 
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nagantguy said:
Man vs machine -I’m losing
Man vs nature - also losing apple and pear trees in full blossom- and grapes just starting to leave out had 23 degrees this morning. Wasn’t supposed be be anywhere near that cold .

Now not so much bitching as just throwing hands up and saying “what else ya got for me?!”
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A couple of my plums were in full bloom about a month ago. We hit 14 over night. My Asian pears had just started to open their blossoms. It could still drop but there is a pretty good fruit set on my Asian pears still. And still some fruit on plums. I figured I would likely loose the entire tree. Two of my cherries I though had been killed to the rootstock bloomed for the first time too. I was about to cut and over graft them this winter. Still might. It could just be the rootstock blooming.
 
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lash said:
It must be all about the stars and the positions of the planets…

But seriously, the ides of March, through the ides of April brought the following issues up for me:
- truck passenger side door, quarter panel, wheel, tire, and front bumper wrecked when guy pulling a trailer with heavy equipment on it pulled right into me suddenly when I had no place to bail.
- washing machine electronics died while a full load in it. Add to that the boiler valve used for cold water supply has bad seals and couldn’t be shut off. New washer and a bitch of a repair for the boiler valve.
- dog ripped two toenails off running around in the woods. Broke them clean off, quick and all. Ripped the toe web also. A vet bill.
- woke up last Thursday to a sheet of water in four rooms. Water pipe leak under the slab.

I totally get the feeling of “Let me up, I’ve had enough!”

But I dealt with each issue as it arose and saved my bitching until after I was done and then had a scotch or bourbon.
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Betelgeuse is about to go supernova any minute now and it may have been hurling bursts of energy this way for quite some time already. Interesting stuff. And perfectly normal on a geological time scale. It is concluded that without this natural periodic nuking, DNA on Earth would not have acquired the necessary mutations in order to produce the wide scale of life we have now.

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When it rains it pours

Atomic_Lobster said:
Everything is made to break
I hear it all the time
I'll just go buy a new one
Can't take the time to fix it
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Or it's not meant to be repaired. My washing machine broke last year, I took it all apart, there was only a couple pieces it needed but the price of them was over half the price of a new machine. Machine is over 10 years old so I opted for a new one.
 
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Taylorbok said:
When it rains it pours


Or it's not meant to be repaired. My washing machine broke last year, I took it all apart, there was only a couple pieces it needed but the price of them was over half the price of a new machine. Machine is over 10 years old so I opted for a new one.
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In laws combination washing machine/dryer just broke. Hallelujah! Stupid thing took forever to run a single load. My wife hated having to use the stupid thing when we went to visit. Getting separate machines to replace it.
 
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nagantguy said:
Parts ordered for the weed whip ,gonna try to get the starter on the tractor today- need some trouble shooting 2nd starter fried in less than a year .

Chainsaw back up and running- little carb clean/tune and sanded the little burr off the bar .
The other saw can wait .

Now this fucking tiller - I’d scrape it if it wasn’t 3 years old . Every problem imaginable.
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Please tell me you're from Minnesota..

I've never heard of a weed whip anywhere else. They're weed eaters or string trimmers.


And I'm guessing you can't get good gas anymore? Might try the cans at the hardware store in the fall as the last fuel for the season.

Gas engines will put up with a lot. They don't like not working. The most problems I've ever seen is engines that sit.
 
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Bigfatcock said:
Speed queen for the win. On year 14 with no issues.
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That's what I ended up buying. TC5.

Last one that broke was a GE under warranty and I still went and bought the SQ.

I now have a BNIB GE washing machine in my garage if someone is shopping. :ROFLMAO:
 
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That's what I ended up buying. TC5.

Last one that broke was a GE under warranty and I still went and bought the SQ.

I now have a BNIB GE washing machine in my garage if someone is shopping. :ROFLMAO:
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If I were in the market I’d get a TC5 and a DC5 and call it good for the next 20 years or so.
 
chevy_man said:
Please tell me you're from Minnesota..

I've never heard of a weed whip anywhere else. They're weed eaters or string trimmers.


And I'm guessing you can't get good gas anymore? Might try the cans at the hardware store in the fall as the last fuel for the season.

Gas engines will put up with a lot. They don't like not working. The most problems I've ever seen is engines that sit.
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Not Minnesota but born in the upper peninsula of MI. Weed eater is a brand ; if we have that brand that’s how we say it .
And actually me and my buddies all say weed whittler .
And yes good gas is harder to come by . But in the fall I run them dry and run some sea foam through.
Nothing will fuck up a small engine faster than old separated gas .
 
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Not Minnesota but born in the upper peninsula of MI. Weed eater is a brand ; if we have that brand that’s how we say it .
And actually me and my buddies all say weed whittler .
And yes good gas is harder to come by . But in the fall I run them dry and run some sea foam through.
Nothing will fuck up a small engine faster than old separated gas .
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This stuff just works
 
If a combustion engine doesn’t run right, it seems like revving it to redline and a little beyond helps clear it up.

That’s what they do in the trailer court anyways.
 
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