The post whore thread.

[Great-Kazoo]

For us AZ folks. The one the spouse uses, daily.

https://www.amazon.com/Birds-Arizona...s%2C240&sr=8-1



For the CO peeps, one of the many

https://www.amazon.com/Birds-Arizona...s%2C240&sr=8-1

[MrPrena]

Was today idiot's FULL MOON? I had 2 crazy idiot going near crazy. 2nd one was so crazy that, even my wife asked me if I am carrying.

[buffalobo]

Buffalobo, my suggestion is to start with a good field guide. The only one I recommend for a primary guide is the Sibley Guide to Birds, 2nd edition. Other guides can be useful for further study but this is the best. https://www.amazon.com/Sibley-Guide-Birds-2nd/dp/030795790X

If you want more detail about hummingbirds I recommend A Field Guide to Hummingbirds of North America: https://www.amazon.com/Field-Hummingbirds-America-Peterson-Guides/dp/0618024964

Sibley will give you enough to ID most birds. I don't use any particular ID websites but there are countless ones out there. A good friend has http://www.hummingbirds.net, and it's pretty good.

In Colorado, hummer ID is pretty simple as there are only two breeding species normally found in the state, the Broad-tailed Hummingbird of the mountains, and the Black-chinned Hummingbird of the plains, suburbs and dry mesas. Broad-tailed can be seen anywhere in migration. A very small breeding population of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds is likely present around Lamar.

The only other regular hummingbird species are the migrant Rufous Hummingbird and the Calliope Hummingbird. With rare exception both are seen only in the fall or southbound migration beginning around July 4 through mid September.

So, search on the four regular species and you will have ~99.9% of the hummers in CO. As you delve into the ID you'll find that each species, sex and age have different characteristics of plumage, flight pattern, wing sounds and vocalizations. That's where the fun and challenge is. I usually can ID CO hummers to species and sex and sometimes age with my eyes closed as they fly by from their wing sounds and vocalizations alone.

Oh, if you know of any other species in CO, I want to know about it. Part of my work is documenting rare, out of range and out of season species.

Good luck!

Thanks

[Irving]

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?

[Graves]

Just send it, Stuving.

[Irving]

High five. You still work with Paul? Never got around to meeting up with you in person.

[Great-Kazoo]

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?

Why not. It's called GD, for a reason.

Post it and they will read, your sheet metal thread was good. Besides it's nice to see you youngsters, restoring machinery.

[Graves]

High five. You still work with Paul? Never got around to meeting up with you in person.

Not anymore, I moved in a slightly different direction as far as wrenching goes. I work field service on heavy equipment for another giant dealership.

[Hummer]

Took a drive to Cedaredge to scope out the birds at Fruitgrowers Reservoir. Lots of geese, herons, cormorants, grebes and ducks, several Bald Eagles and about 40 White Pelicans, more pelicans than I've ever seen on the Western Slope. Then a drive over the Grand Mesa. Here's a view of some of the 300+ lakes on the mesa.

[Gman]

We saw what looked like a flock of white pelicans in the wetlands east of Couer d'Alene, ID this past weekend.