The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SEVEN

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[CindyDawg]

Talk to Rose, our horse thread mechanic.

[Inge_CAV]

"Sincerely"

"Sissy"

Heh!

: )

[Inge_CAV]

Ya mean her horse has airbrakes???

I had a horse once that was called an airhead.......

[Rose of Sharn]

My guess wasnt far off!~ Nice pic! would make a great chicken house! : )

[CindyDawg]

Well Sarah Lee sure does. She came out of the trailer, braked and ....well , she's no air HEAD! :')

[Rose of Sharn]

I will Not accept that label! I HATE working on cars and vans. Anyhow the big ole trucks you get here in the USA are not found in the UK! A big difference to hauling the engine out of a mini to hauling the engine out of a F350!
I had to work on my vehicles because my mechanic wouldnt do it he wanted me to learn, so handed me the part. I couldnt afford to go eleswhere so I learnt the best i could.
BTW I LOVE the big trucks you have here! : ) and that really IS a nice truck, joking aside Cav!

[Inge_CAV]

Well, actually I used to call them Inter-state-national Farmalls.

If it has hydraulic brakes ... you are welcome to make a chicken house with it.......... : )

[Rose of Sharn]

Glad she got home safely! : ) Bet you are happy she's back!

[Inge_CAV]

LOL!

[CindyDawg]

Yeah. Me too. She got here just in time. An hour later and it was storming here.

[Inge_CAV]

Thank You!

It is easy to work on your own truck ... if you have the proper tools. That is the secret which makes it easier and air driven impact wrenches are a must have tool for trucks.

[Rose of Sharn]

LOL I have found that jumping up and down on a wrench to turn a bolt doesnt help any other than give you a sprained ankle......and swearing at them doesnt loosen them up much!
Kicking a tire and grabbing a beer from the fridge works great........you soon mellow and dont give a monkeys about some heap of metal! : D

[Rose of Sharn]

Yeah, but those air driven tools that tighten bolts so hard, dont help you much when you are sitting on the side of the road trying to take off a blown tire with a piddly little tool that comes "free' with the truck! I Curse all and sundry when that happens!

[Rose of Sharn]

Oh! Our workshop is FULL to the brim with tools.....we have every tool under the sun......apart from the one you need! LOL

[HairOfTheDog]

Doesn't need any kind of brakes if it don't run ;~D

[HairOfTheDog]

Finishing up on the pasture mowing! Curses on me for letting it get this overgrown with weeds... We sprayed some weed killer on the scotch bloom... So now we'll keep the horses off it till we get some rain on it. ecurbh off there in the distance is trying to get the sprayer to work. It only has a gallon capacity, so... like the mower, we just don't have a big enough tool for the job. It takes too many trips back in to re-fill. We're not yet ready to manage 20 acres. :~D

Finishing up the last little bit mowing!

This little Dove has something wrong.... they normally don't let me get this close, even at the bird feeder. I thought about trying to catch her and see if I could tell what was wrong, but she eventually flew away. Don't know what was up with her.

A lizard we found while mowing!

We also saw several field mice scampering away when we approached with the mower... should take Gidget with us out mowing, she'd like that! Oh well.... they're welcome to live.... out there. They just can't live in my barn.

[CindyDawg]

I saw that tag on your mower and it reminded me... Last weekend when I was mowing I started noticing warnings. They were all over the mower and gas can. The funniest one , was on the plastic shield. It said not to mow without shield on the shield. How is anyone going to see it if it isn't there?!

[HairOfTheDog]

LOL! Sometimes, when I'm feeling rebellious, I start it without having my foot firmly on the little footpad.

[CindyDawg]

Oh, that's bad lol but I tie the bar so I can move stuff without killing the engine.

[HairOfTheDog]

Heh... Mine's not that bad, the bar only disengages the blade, it doesn't kill the engine when you let go... so you can move it around it self-propelled without the blade turnin'.