How to Repair With What You Have on Hand or GT5000 Fix the Fix.

[FlyBoy50]

The good times in America are over for good ! They only crank out cheap junk and fill the land fills. You defiantly have to get creative to keep things going !

 

[brandon7861]

You can't go wrong with a Gravely.

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

Reading that sentence made my right shoulder hurt.
Vineyard work, have to plow in-between the vines and the way then was called a french plow, almost no one used herbacides back then, too expensive.
(See below random poor web pic with the operator not even close enough to the berm to clean the whole thing)

See how he's twisted around looking at where the plow is?
The plow has to move in-between each vine, then pull back as it passes by.

(That also makes my neck hurt.)

Pictured is nice hydro setup,
The piece of rope tied to rops support is to pull it in case the trigger rod misses the grape stump it's hooked to a hydraulic valve that retracts the plow easy pezzy if you catch it in time.
If you don't catch it, the plow just rips the vine out of the ground leaving it hanging by the wire and mangles the stake next to it.
Lovely
The two we had were "vintage" spring and fulcrum designs that failed about every 3rd vine.
Takes about 4 times the effort to overcome the spring and get the plow to retract before carnage insued..
All day long
It finally got to the point where it was easier to just pull the dam rope on every vine because you really don't want to stop again and tear another one loose from the bent grape stake......

@Shadetree Mechanic

WTH were you 50 years ago?

Push a button psfsh what's the world coming too?

73
Jeff

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Fifty years ago, I was trying to fix my Tonka truck. I was 4 years old.

 

[BayouRadioAmplifier]

Fifty years ago, I was trying to fix my Tonka truck. I was 4 years old.

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yeah!
I remember growing up in Los Angeles late 60's to early 70's.
Tonka trucks built tuff. They had that "steel" symbol on them.
We trashed on them in a dirt spot in the back yard. hard to
break them.

Also remember them Schwinn bicycles, the Stingray, with
a "sissy bar" and that big flat slick tire in the back.
Built like a tank. how the frame was welded together,
and them front wheel forks.

 

[AudioShockwav]

the Stingray, with
a "sissy bar" and that big flat slick tire in the back.
Built like a tank. how the frame was welded together,
and them front wheel forks.

Don't forget the banana seat and 5 speed stick shifter

73
Jeff

 

[BayouRadioAmplifier]

Don't forget the banana seat and 5 speed stick shifter

oooh yeah! I remember all that.
two of us on one bike sometimes.
the banana seats had sparkle reflectors in the design.
and those type of handlebars were funny at the time.
and a five-speed stick shift on a bicycle, how revolutionary!
And go ride around on a warm Los Angeles Saturday afternoon,
after watching "The Monkeys" on a TV.

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

The big kids had those cool bikes. I had one of these, and I wore the front wheel out. But the back wheels were still good, I think they are in my parents basement.

 

[Cable Guy]

The big kids had those cool bikes. I had one of these, and I wore the front wheel out. But the back wheels were still good, I think they are in my parents basement.

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How I learned the mechanics of drifting, I forgot about that. The front wheel always busted first.

 

[FlyBoy50]

My first 2 wheel bike I picked off the dump with no chain or seat but had the seat post sticking up. Learned how to ride coasting down hill. ( Accident looking for a place to happen ) LOL & a corn hole possibility ! LOL

 

[AudioShockwav]

remember growing up in Los Angeles late 60's to early 70's.

My wife grew up in the LA area around that time, they used to live in a high-rise on Hollywood and Vine back in the 60's.
Her brother Tony worked at the Yellow Submarine on Harper and Santa Monica Blvd before he went into the Navy.
Hollywood was a different world back then....

73
Jeff

 

[BayouRadioAmplifier]

Hollywood was a different world back then....

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Yes, back then. as young kids in that area.
We used to ride our bikes to that Grauman's Chinese Theatre
and watch people get their plastic molded souvenir from
that machine outside. Ride over to The La Brea Tarpits, and we
went to an inside display, and were throwing rocks and sticks
into the dinosaur bones and got kicked out. And ride all over
that High School on the weekends that is around there (Fairfax?).
And we used to go into them apartment buildings, to the
below ground garages, get into the elevator with our bikes,
then go up to the roof and ride around. During the Watts Riots
we had to stay home and indoors. I was scared. Did not know
what was going on then.

So some 10- to 12-year-old boys just riding their bicycles
around Hollywood Blvd., The Sunset Strip, and all over.
I can't see that happening nowadays!

 

[AudioShockwav]

@BayouRadioAmplifier
Fairfax Senior Highschool, on Fairfax and Melrose ave.
They used to ride horses at Sunset Stables back then....
The glory days of Hollywood are gone now

73
Jeff