SuzukiSavage.com /cgi-bin/YaBB.pl General Category >> The Cafe >> Do you ever, uh........ /cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1443137825 Message started by raydawg on 09/24/15 at 16:37:05

Title: Do you ever, uh........ Post by raydawg on 09/24/15 at 16:37:05 Golly, seems I forgot the question..... Oh yea, do you ever seem to wonder how you got as far as you did in life? I ain't talking about GIANT things with major significance, in your life, no, just little things like where you hid the kids Easter eggs, type things? I ask because yesterday I thought I better mow the lawns.... Normally, we are pretty much through with new growth, and things really go into a dormant phase her on the island.... But it has been a strange year. After a way hotter and drier summer, than normal, late summer rains brought about an almost spring like rush of growth... The lawn was about to go from measuring in inches, to feet.... I got the Honda out, and like a Honda, she readily fired, even after sitting a month or so.... The grass was the deep green color, the kind that smell really, uh....GREEN, and wants to stain everything it touches.... Anyway, got it all cut, now I just needed to finish the edging and walks with the gas whacker... No problem, I bought a brand new one this summer, a more $$$$ model cuz I was tired of the lessor $$$$ crapping out. I went and pulled it like I always did....no start. Gee, maybe bad gas from sitting, not sure. Pulled some more.... No start.... Fiddled and tried again.... No start. darn Now I am too tired from pulling to trim anyway, so I just hang it up and go inside.... After the bad gas, and my outboard motor carbs, and generator carbs too, I am thinking I will have to pull this carb and clean it too... I get home today from work, look at the fresh mowed lawn that looks like CRAP cuz it ain't whacked.... And decide to go out to the shed to fix the whacker. Cool. I think to myself, maybe I just got a little to rambunctious on that pull string when it didn't start up right away, and flooded it, or sumtin.... Won't hurt to give it a few pulls before I tear into it, ya know, just to make sure. I pick it up, and I notice something on it I didn't remember seeing yesterday.... What the heck. I know its been well over a month since I used it, but dang, seems like I would surely remember this piece of the weed whacker   :-/ :-/ So.... I switch this new discovery from off, to, on, pull..... and  ::) You guys ain't gonna take the keys away to my Savage are you  :-[

Title: Re: Do you ever, uh........ Post by old_rider on 09/24/15 at 16:40:18 Nope, not as long as you remember its YOUR savage, and don't just drive it off because there are a set of keys in it. :) :D

Title: Re: Do you ever, uh........ Post by springman on 09/24/15 at 16:51:44 Raydawg, it's just part of getting older. I still don't think that is as bad as looking for your glasses and after five minutes of looking for them, you find that you have them on. Yeah...I'm talking about a friend, not me.

Title: Re: Do you ever, uh........ Post by raydawg on 09/24/15 at 17:26:33 3734362D2A2329252A440 wrote: Raydawg, it's just part of getting older. I still don't think that is as bad as looking for your glasses and after five minutes of looking for them, you find that you have them on. Yeah...I'm talking about a friend, not me. How odd is that, we know the same guy  ;D

Title: Re: Do you ever, uh........ Post by old.indian on 09/24/15 at 17:57:15 I'd normally say something rude about Quapaws all being a wee bit slow, but after trying to start the Thumper with the kill switch on...... :-[

Title: Re: Do you ever, uh........ Post by verslagen1 on 09/24/15 at 18:12:32 Yeah, I met a guy once that pulled one of them things till he was blue in the face.  I told him to look for a switch too.

Title: Re: Do you ever, uh........ Post by Kris01 on 09/24/15 at 18:15:44 2427253E39303A3639570 wrote: Raydawg, it's just part of getting older. I still don't think that is as bad as looking for your glasses and after five minutes of looking for them, you find that you have them on. Yeah...I'm talking about a friend, not me. That's funny! I tried to take mine off the other day and wasn't even wearing them!  :-? :D

Title: Re: Do you ever, uh........ Post by justin_o_guy2 on 09/24/15 at 19:07:05 I try really hard to not even think about hunting my cap when I was in the Air Force.

Title: Re: Do you ever, uh........ Post by old_rider on 09/24/15 at 19:23:12 You guys are funny! I was going to go riding today on the thumper.... but um, someone moved my keys! So I took the sportbike ::)

Title: Re: Do you ever, uh........ Post by JutMan on 09/24/15 at 19:23:29 Like someone who was in a big hurry to leave work... Jumped on, got all situated then after trying unsuccessfully to get the neutral light to come on figured to just start it in first.   OMG, the battery is dead.. I am screwed.. Tried to push start, no good. Finally when to to see if I had switched it to PARK by mistake which killed the battery, then realized that I never actually turned it to on. Ok, so you miss ONE freaking step in the process... at 4:00 p.m. with all the ladies from work watching you like a complete moron.

Title: Re: Do you ever, uh........ Post by justin_o_guy2 on 09/24/15 at 19:34:21 Ouch,, at least you didn't drop it.

Title: Re: Do you ever, uh........ Post by Kris01 on 09/24/15 at 19:58:40 605F5E674B442A0 wrote: ...with all the ladies from work watching you... That's when we are at our dumbest!  ;D

Title: Re: Do you ever, uh........ Post by youzguyz on 09/25/15 at 02:32:51 I really feel sorry for ya'll.   I never forget anything. I have a method that helps me remember all these little things that you have to keep in place to make your life smooth. You should try it sometime..

Title: Re: Do you ever, uh........ Post by raydawg on 09/25/15 at 03:20:45 6C7A606F72606C6F150 wrote: I really feel sorry for ya'll.   I never forget anything. I have a method that helps me remember all these little things that you have to keep in place to make your life smooth. You should try it sometime.. GREAT....thanxs!

Title: Re: Do you ever, uh........ Post by Dave on 09/25/15 at 04:00:26 I had one weedwacker incident this year.  Before I used it I added fuel, and then went to work.  After a few minutes it stalled, and for the next 15 minutes or so it would start/stall, run crappy.  I finally decided that it must have a carb problem that was not going away....so I walked back to the pole barn to put it away.  That is when I noticed the little white plastic piece laying in the gravel.....the inside of the fuel cap had fallen out when I put fuel in it - so the cap was not venting and allowing any air into the tank. I took the fuel cap off, put the vent piece back in......and it ran great!

Title: Re: Do you ever, uh........ Post by Drestakil on 09/25/15 at 04:41:14 The first two things to go when you get old is your memory and ... uh... Well, I know there are two.

Title: Re: Do you ever, uh........ Post by Kris01 on 09/25/15 at 12:40:14 Dave: I did sort of the same thing with my boat. It carries 2 6-gallon plastic gas tanks. After filling them up and hauling the boat to the lake, I turned the key and it fired right up. Ran just long enough for me to be confident that everything was going great and then it died. It took a few minutes to realize that I hadn't opened the vents! Life needs an instruction manual sometimes.

Title: Re: Do you ever, uh........ Post by Ed L. on 09/25/15 at 16:56:27 I'm always looking for the priming bulb on the power equipment that doesn't have one or forgetting where the choke is on the pressure washer.  :D

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