slipshod
05-11-2005, 05:53 PM
This is one date I will remember for quite some time. On this day I broke everything I touched. What started out as a sunny day full of promise quickly turned to a pile of poop. I drove over to the farm and removed my tiller from the John Deere and installed the pulverizer to do a job for a customer, all was still .well. Next I backed the truck up to the trailer, hooked it up, and went to put down the ramps. That is when I noticed the right rear tire blew out the sidewall, just sitting. I had no spare so I drove it up by the shop, removed the wheel and headed back to the house to get a tire I had there, things are not too bad yet. Now my truck has been running great since the new injector pump went in four days ago, so I was not thinking truck problems. Got my tire mounted, balanced, put back on the trailer, even pulled the drum and took a look at the brake on that wheel. Next I loaded the Deere on the trailer, tied her down, and headed home, all set I thought for the next morning's work. I got about three miles from home and was turning on to U.S.20 when the truck sputtered and stalled. It refused to start and I was on a major Highway with my rear end on the road. I got lucky a young fella stopped with his one ton Ford and pulled the whole thing onto the shoulder. We tried everything both of us knew to get my truck running, no luck. This kid was nice enough to pull me back to my house so at least I was no longer broke down on the highway. After I got home, unloaded the tractor, pulled the trailer into the yard, and the truck, I went in the house only to learn that the washing machine bit the big one. Went and got a new coupler for the washer put it together and tried it. Well needless to say it is toast! The transmission is locked up on it. Now I am thinking to heck with this I am going on line and tell my tale of woe to the tactor guys. Ha was I wrong, the computor promptly told me that my modem had no conductivity, even a call to the service center could not fix it. Being a patient man I decided I would make a pot of coffee and watch baseball on TV with my wife. What? I must have been dreaming as the coffee maker decided May 10 was a great day to spring a leak. OK this was getting a bit much even for me, so I put water on to make the wife a pot of tea. Went to pour the water into the pot and the tea kettle is leaking around the spout.
UPDATE: May 11, 2005
The truck puzzled me all night as I had filled the tanks on it and only went about 175 miles, the gauge read over half full. As it turns out the rear lift pump is dead so none of the fuel in that tank is getting transferred, about an $80.00 fix. Filled the front tank, bled the pump, it runs great again. I took back the core from the injector pump I bought, got the $100.00 deposit back. Will be enough to buy the lift pump. Stopped at Rosa's on the way home and bought a new washing machine, $500.00 or so. When I got home my youngest was there and we got it installed and the old one out of the basement. The old one was 5 years, 5 months, and 5 days old, a Roper, junk. New one is an Amana. We are using the coffee maker out of the motor home for now,and the wife has a spare tea kettle.
Did I mention in the mail today I got a bill from my lawyer? For filing a deed that is still not done since February. May 12, 2005 will be a better day, after all it is my birthday.
UPDATE: May 11, 2005
The truck puzzled me all night as I had filled the tanks on it and only went about 175 miles, the gauge read over half full. As it turns out the rear lift pump is dead so none of the fuel in that tank is getting transferred, about an $80.00 fix. Filled the front tank, bled the pump, it runs great again. I took back the core from the injector pump I bought, got the $100.00 deposit back. Will be enough to buy the lift pump. Stopped at Rosa's on the way home and bought a new washing machine, $500.00 or so. When I got home my youngest was there and we got it installed and the old one out of the basement. The old one was 5 years, 5 months, and 5 days old, a Roper, junk. New one is an Amana. We are using the coffee maker out of the motor home for now,and the wife has a spare tea kettle.
Did I mention in the mail today I got a bill from my lawyer? For filing a deed that is still not done since February. May 12, 2005 will be a better day, after all it is my birthday.