The post whore thread.

[brutal]

Got the carb and fuel tank on the Gravely cleaned up. After doing a few rudimentary searches I've been able to determine that a lot of these tractors have been converted to electric start. Mine has a starter bolted on with a different belt pulley that has a sproket to hold a chain for the starter to turn. It has a foot switch to start, and a button on the handle that I think might be a kill switch to turn it off. It also has a little generator to charge the battery.

I watched a video and saw a guy with one without all that added stuff, and he starts it by wrapping a cord around the pulley and pull starting it that way. I have an extra pulley, but didn't know what it was for, and it's the factory pulley for starting with a rope.

Anyway, with a charged up car battery, the starter does nothing, even when I jump it with a screw driver. I even fashioned my own pull start and used some starter fluid to see if it would try to kick over. Everything is a flop at the moment, but I've gained more info and have more things to trouble shoot. Namely the starter, starter switch, relay if I can find one, and the plug wire seems faulty.

What I'm getting at is I was thinking about starting a thread about it on here. It's not guns, but I've been having a pretty contentious relationship with this site for a while, and all the best threads seem to be some sort of build/info thread that has nothing to do with politics. Everyone checks them out, everyone is polite, and people get to flex their knowledge muscles.

What do you think? Tractor rebuild thread?

We used to rope or crank start everything before all this fancy recoil starter and electric starter stuff...

The first snowmobile we got was a rope start. Single cylinder Kohler engine in a Sno Bunny.

I broke my wrist when a snowmobile engine backfired while pull starting it at a 90* angle. I broke my arm crank starting an old Allis-Chalmers tractor improperly. Always start with the crank up...

[Gman]

We used to rope or crank start everything before all this fancy recoil starter and electric starter stuff...

The first snowmobile we got was a rope start. Single cylinder Kohler engine in a Sno Bunny.

I broke my wrist when a snowmobile engine backfired while pull starting it at a 90* angle. I broke my arm crank starting an old Allis-Chalmers tractor improperly. Always start with the crank up...

Well don't go around kick-starting any motorcycles. You don't need any leg injuries to add to those.

[MrPrena]

Fake news. Bruh

[MrPrena]

Wow. I just came from sushi place in Lakewood, and met my friend who I haven't seen since 1996. He was helping out his friends there until they find a chef.

We both do not live (nor lived) in Lakewood, and i happened to meet him there. He looked the very similar since high school. I cant believe he recognized me with all the weight gain and mask.

[brutal]

Fake news. Bruh

Say again?

[OtterbatHellcat]

Last weekend, I reached out to an old friend that I raced with in the early 90's. It was a good call and we shared some memories that were pretty cool.

[OtterbatHellcat]

Watched another tarantula tonight..scaling the front door. MF'r ate shit from damn near 7 ft. and hit the ground hard, I thought he was dead. He moved after a few minutes, but sat still for another 15. Then he was back to moving around, but leaking a clear fluid from a few leg joints. Google survey said it's a fluid that heals accidents and is also used during molting.

Giant spiders....something new for me.

[Gman]

Giant spiders....something new for me.

You can keep those. None for me, thank you.

[Irving]

I've always heard they can die from a fall as short as 6". I watched my wife freak out and slam dunk our daughter's spider into the cage when it jumped up her arm and the spider is fine though.

If you found that spider dead later, I wouldn't be surprised. If it lived some more, I wouldn't be surprised.

The kid at the pet store told us that male tarantulas live about 5 years, and females about 20. Good thing my brother bought my daughter a female...

[Great-Kazoo]

I've always heard they can die from a fall as short as 6". I watched my wife freak out and slam dunk our daughter's spider into the cage when it jumped up her arm and the spider is fine though.

If you found that spider dead later, I wouldn't be surprised. If it lived some more, I wouldn't be surprised.

The kid at the pet store told us that male tarantulas live about 5 years, and females about 20. Good thing my brother bought my daughter a female...

they're fairly docile as pets. the ones we had would crawl up your arm, to sit on your shoulder. Well they were nice pets, til the cat decided to take them out of the cage and play hockey with them. Once dead their exoskeletons will stay the same, if you spray some clear lacquer on them.