Again another slow day. As I mentioned yesterday, I cleaned the water maze. Today I got to clean another part of the filtration system, the sump screen. This is where all of the larger "crap" is captured before it goes into the maze for "purification". If we had a backhoe on site I probably would have had to clean the "pit" which is sorta like a septic tank. All of the heavy "crap" settles to the bottom and the liquid flows off for "purification".
After that job, I started working on a John Deere X500 riding mower. It is a relatively simple task, just a service (similar to a lube, oil, filter change on a car), tire repair and a pulley replacement on the mower deck. Oh-did I mention that the deck had about 50 pounds of grass clippings on it. It just about filled a garbage can. I will probably finish this mower tomorrow.
About half way through the mower service, I was sent out to deliver a rotary disk mower about 20 miles away. Before leaving, I was given the instruction manual and spare blades for the mower. Guess what, I forgot to take them with me. I guess the salesman will have to take it to the owner. Oh-well.
When I got back from the delivery, I found out that there was a production crew in the store creating a video for the stores website. Ten minutes before they wanted to video the shop area it suddenly became urgent that I was to fill the shop with tractors. Well because we are slow we don't have a lot of tractors in the shop, so I brought every customers tractor in. This amounted to two compact tractors, two new tractors with boom mowers attached and a New Holland articulated tractor. Ten minutes later, out they go.
Now back to the X500 for about twenty minutes before end of the day. This was just enough time to sharpen the mower blades and get them installed.
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