Emery update and pics....for Rusty
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Comments (12)Hi pawneepapa, That bent hammer surprises me. My hammers are all straight, and they have been through a lot of use. Something strange must have gotten into the chamber to bend that hammer like that. My leading corners are rounded and I should rotate the hammers, but they are all straight. You can avoid having a load of stuff set up and cause a belt smoke at the next startup by letting the chamber clear out pretty good each time before you shut the machine down. I learned the hard way not to operate my machine at night. One evening I was trying to finish a pile of stuff I was shredding for a new a compost pile and dusk became dark and I could still see to feed my "Mighty Mac", so I continued chucking stuff into the feed hopper. Then, all of a sudden there was a loud noise, a terrible clatter, and fiery sparks and light coming out the holes in my screen and out the feed hopper as well. I reflexively killed the engine and let it coast to stop. I made sure there were no fires in my product or the chamber, and waited until next morning to survey the damage and figure out what went wrong. I had to drop the screen to empty the chamber, and I found a great big rusty piece of scrap metal that had been marked up pretty good. I was afraid that serious damage had been done, considering all the sparks and fire that had spewed from my machine, so I cleaned out the chamber and inspected the interior. There were some scratches and marks on the interior of the chamber, but I couldn't see any hammer damage or rotor damage, so I closed up the screen and did a short trial run and everything seemed fine. I had been sweeping up old leaves, rotten twigs, and deadfall from the local forest floor and apparently that old piece of metal, possibly a bolt, was mixed in with that. On another twilight feeding occasion, a lemon-sized granite rock got in the chamber, causing a horrible noise and a quick shutdown. In a sense, that was worse than the bolt, because the swinging hammers did a pretty good job of breaking up the granite rock, and the fragments were almost as sharp as glass. I had to discard the product that was contaminated by the broken granite, because I didn't want that sharp stuff in my garden. Incidentally, breaking granite emits a little "fire", but nothing as brilliant as the steel bolt. That was a real fireworks show. Hopefully I learned my lesson about not feeding my MacKissic in low light conditions. I still occasionally disintegrate a little rock while shredding, but limestone type rocks break up with no sharp edges or serious damage to the machine. I have heard that someone put oyster shells through a MacKissic hammermill to produce a product for his poultry flock, with the only ill effect being a deafening noise. But I have to say, your bent hammer makes me wonder if someone didn't accidentally drop some kind of steel tool in your machine while it was running. Or start it up with a tool in the chamber. Anyhow, if it is working, don't fix it. You might straighten the hammer when you do flip the hammers at some later time. Did you get the manual for your machine? You are supposed to grease the main bearing fairly often -- every ten hours of use if I remember correctly. There should be a zerk that greases the main bearing. ZM...See MoreUpdate from me....also
Comments (23)I am sure my husband probably wished I just bought shoes. I am wearing a pair of sneakers from the thrift shop, that cost $3.99, and my horse, Val, is wearing (or will be again as soon as I can get the farrier out) a set that costs $175. And he gets new shoes every 6 weeks. I get "new" ones when I completely wear out my old ones, and back to the thrift shop I go for them. I am not complaining. My shoes aren't important to me....although, I am wearing some pretty high dollar shoes, but I wouldn't pay that much for them new. I am happy that I can put shoes on Val. My horses mean everything to me....See MoreAn attitude of gratitude
Comments (45)popping back up to remind us to have an attitude of gratitude. Two for today? Doncha love it when God, the Universe, etc. comes together and backs you up on a life lesson?! I'm so happy Son texted me from university, and was ending it with "I'm thinking about skipping class [just one] today. I'm dead-tired" "You can be tired in your dorm room or you can be tired and listen. I suggest you get it over with? but it's your life and your grades" "Should I suck it up and just half-a$% it getting ready?" "Suck it up!" 30 or so minutes later "The teacher opened class by pointing out that there were a bunch of people missing... but there's an extra credit assignment today that they're missing out on" end of class "I may be dead tired, but we had a Jeopardy (his favorite and mine too. We watch this every night in our house, competing with each other) game in three groups, and according to my group members and THE PROFESSOR [his emphasis], I 'carried my group'. HE^% YEAH! I got six points of extra credit and didn't gain an absence. Guess that answers my question: no matter how tired I am, I should suck it up and go to class. Even if that means putting a hoodie on over a dirty shirt and wearing a hat to hide messy hair" ____________________ The other was watching James Cordon carpool karaoke. It was just such a blessing to see Sir Paul being so gracious and down to earth. Carpool karaoke...See MoreUpdate on baby donkey and pics from today
Comments (38)Marilyn, I didn't see an update about Emery. I was intending to ask about him when I wrote the post earlier today, but got interrupted as I was typing, and sidetracked. How is he doing? And your other horses, too. I can't speak for anyone other than myself, but I never tire of reading about your animals. Especially when you post pictures of them! Dogs and horses are my very favorites, but I really love (almost) all animals. And donkeys are quickly moving up the list. I tried to find the post about Emery, went back four pages, couldn't find it, could you direct me to it, please? Rusty...See Moremarilyn_c
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