themechanic
Oklahoma is OK
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Where I live the deed restrictions only said that you could have a 3 car garage but a hobby/work space was allowed so the building got a double wide single door in the front and a 10 footer in the back. There's no mention of sq footage though Caught deputy dawg's attention since the building is 52 feet long and he gave me a ration of crap starting with wanting to see my permit. It was hanging on the entry door and he didn't even notice it and told him to go to the city inspector's office and pull it up. Things when downhill from there but I outlived him.Their 2000 sq ft house is almost an identical floor plan as ours.
Both houses were at one time owned by friendly competing electrical contractors.
One still lived there when I moved in, and built that garage the first/second year I was there (right before he died).
(I never saw that man without a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other)
Speculation is that since he was a contractor, the sq ft was fudged and not "caught" until too late.
The only deed restriction in our pre-1980 development is that a garage can't be more sq ft than the residence.
Used to could find parts for my 1984 Gravely garden tractor on Ebay but they seem to be drying up. I need to replace the PTO shaft coupler and the last one I saw on Ebay was a used one for 250 and thought that was too pricey....and that was awhile ago.Working on replacing the clutch in my 4010 JD. The was no adjustment left in the clutch so I thought I would replace it over this winter. Come to find out the old farmer that I bought it from either never owned a grease gun or didn't know you had to grease the throw out bearing for the main clutch and the PTO clutch. The throw out bearing had locked up and it cut the end off of the tube it mounts to and was just hanging on the shaft to the trans. It was actually still working. Usually when this happens it cuts the fingers off the pressure plate. The throw out bearing for the PTO sounded like it had gravel in it. Got in there and found out the rear main seal was leaking so had to replace it, and at some time the pilot bearing had gone out and the end of the trans shaft had a groove cut in it about .100 deep. So I had to remove the clutch housing from the trans to replace the trans shaft. Found evidence of some pretty shoddy work performed at some time as the crank had several nicks where the wear sleeve for main seal mounted, and there were nicks in the trans shaft where the seal runs for the trans oil. Has cost considerable amount of money to fix but it will be like new when I'm done. This tractor is a 1962 model and you can go to the dealer and still get all the parts to fix anything on it.
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Well I got out to the shop, but not to do what I wanted. Not sure if I'm glad or sad that I never sold my Daughter's old practice beam for the 50 bucks I had it listed for last year. Something I put together quickly for her some 25 years ago when she was headed towards Olympic level gymnastics. Wasn't sure until I ripped the carpet off, but it's some nice wood and is going to become the fireplace mantel if I can make it work..
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Traveling across the land, over a month on the road... and a month to go....
What an incredible country this is!
That's really cool, but where's the pichers?
Yeah....make wit da pichers.That's really cool, but where's the pichers?
A slip of the tongue....??? Even my spellchecker picked up on that one.Got back home at 12:30, ate lunch and went for a walk with Sumbit.