What have I been doing this week? Well I’ve done some mechanic work, dirt work, and some fun stuff. The mechanic work I’ve done has been taking off and cleaning the carburetor on my four wheeler and then putting it back on, as well as getting my new used truck to crank. The dirt work I’ve done has been digging ditches, digging out a pond, building a dam and working on a dirt road.
I got a four wheeler through a trade a few weeks back and I needed to change the fuel filter and clean the carburetor. So I finally got around to it this week and changing the filter wasn’t bad but taking the carburetor off was a little difficult. The filter I just had to take some hose clamps off and take off some hose and slide the new one in then put the hoses back on, very easy. But the carburetor wasn’t so easy because you had to take off the throttle cable, choke cable, fuel line, vent line, and the air intake. Then I put it in this stuff that dissolves all the gunk in it and then left it overnight. Then the next day I had to remember where everything went to put everything back on together, but overall not bad. Then I got to go and get my new used 1992 F-150, which looks pretty amazing with the tool box, two tone, chrome brush guard, Chrome bed handles and a few others. The only problem is the battery was dead, the rear end is out of it and a busted tail light. But I got to go through and check the fluids and after that I put a charged battery on it and she cranked right up.
The dirt work this week has been pretty easy this week. I’ve mostly just dug the pond out which I was wanting to do and I built the dam which was needing to be done. But I dug a ditch around our graveled tent sights so when the rain comes in it won’t get so muddy, I did that with an old JCB backhoe. And it was a pretty good strip of ditch I had dug. Then I kinda gave one of the dirt roads a slope on it so it didn’t feel so narrow going in, then I flattened it so water wouldn’t puddle. I also moved some dirt piles out of a spot we were going to till so we could do that. I also spread some topsoil over some clay spots so then when we tilled it it would mix in and it wouldn’t be straight clay. Then I tried my hand at tilling for a little bit till the tractor started getting a little warm so I had to let it cool down and by then it was time to call it a day.
So that’s been my week. It had its ups and downs but it was pretty good overall. I’ve been busy but I’ve been doing what I enjoy doing, but it still tires me out so at the end of the day I’m ready for bed. The highest point of my week was probably getting my new used truck and getting it turning over the first day.