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Mon, 15 May 2017 22:44  |
Ken Burton
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Registered: January 2004
Location: Hebron, Indiana
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I planned to clean out my coach and pack it to go to the work rally this the morning. I got up and my wife told me she buried the zero turn mower in the mud and I needed to go drag it our of there. I got out my John Deere tractor and towed it out with no problem. Then since I had the tractor out I decided to move some big tree parts from an Oak that blew down 3 or 4 weeks ago. Laurie had sawed it into 10 or 12 foot lengths, so I could push and drag the large parts over to the burn pile. Well one of the branches got away from me and smacked a hydraulic hose on the front bucket. Now I had hydraulic oil blowing all over the place and because of the uneven lift I almost turned the tractor on it's side. I went to three hydraulic places and finally a JD Deere dealer. 60 miles later I was back with my $35.00 14" hose. That repaired, and tree parts moved, I now had to clean all of the oil off of the tractor and also the mud off of the zero turn.
At 5 PM I headed to the bank and it was closed when I got there. So I went to one of their ATM's a block away to get $300 for the rest of the week. Well after trying 3 times to get money out of the thing it finally gave me $280 in good 20's and 1/2 of the final 20. After an hour on the phone, customer service credited me for $20 and told me to get an envelope and put the 1/2 20 in the night deposit. I drove to the airport terminal and got an envelope planning to leave it at the banks on my way home. When I came out of the terminal, my Blazer quit again just like it did in Bean Station. So now I had to get one of the guys from the airport with the large pickup to tow me to my hangar .6 miles away. The Blazer is now in the hangar and the GMC is at home. It was 9 PM when I got here so I quit for today and decided to start all over tomorrow packing and cleaning the GMC. Luckily it is only about a 3 hour trip to Blaine's tomorrow.
Maybe things will go better tomorrow and I'll make it to Blaine's without incident before dark.
I'll probably end up replacing the in tank fuel pump in the Blazer when I return next week.
Heather where are you? I have another fuel pump for you to change. Maybe she will stop by and change it while I am gone. It also needs a worn pitman arm replaced.
I'm getting too old for this stuff.
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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