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 (DIR) Post #B6rbkOaIS8KHooXjDE by yngmar@social.tchncs.de
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       #SidequestSunday! Making a trailer hitch for the lawnmownster.You can buy those, but they are made of cheese and have some weird hitch that only fits the matching cheese trailer and none of mine.Getting to play with the new cold cut chop saw. It really doesn't like long flat cuts and you can't clamp the piece rotated when cutting mitres. The solution is to clamp it with a spacer so the workpiece ends up further out on the curved part of the blade.#TrailerHitch #Lawnmower #DIY #Metalworking #Cutting
       
 (DIR) Post #B6rbkP0WsbJH8Aog6K by yngmar@social.tchncs.de
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       Silly little details that take forever, but then who wants to leave the ends open for grass and dirt to get in.#Welding #TrailerHitch #Lawnmower #DIY #Metalworking #Homestead
       
 (DIR) Post #B6rbkPMVYstIEL6EMK by yngmar@social.tchncs.de
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       Almost ready for testing. The critical part was a method of quickly attaching and removing the hitch.I've changed from my original idea with the hooks a bit and made two welded bolt adapters that remain on the frame. The rod at the top gets seated in the grass collector bag arms, then is swung down for the tangs on the frame to meet the bolt adapters and secured with two wingnuts.It's quite sturdy, I've stood on it to test 😁As usual, all made from scrap metal found around the farm.#Welding #TrailerHitch #Mownster #DIY #Metalworking #Homestead #ScrapMetal #SalvagePunkj
       
 (DIR) Post #B6rbkPewSLdV9Vix5k by yngmar@social.tchncs.de
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       Test drive successful, apart from a potato crate falling off the trailer and getting crushed while I was enthusiastically zooming around the yard with a huge trailer behind the little mownster 😖Put some rust converting primer on over night and then it shall get orange paint so I can see it and because there's some left from the pallet fork project.#TrailerHitch #DIY #Metalworking #Homestead
       
 (DIR) Post #B6rbkPynGXW2950o2C by mcSlibinas@mastodon.social
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       @yngmar orange in lithuanian is „oranžinė“ and in old lithuanian „morkava“ which is "carrot-like".Doesn't matter yet good to know™
       
 (DIR) Post #B6rbkQCGSSI6orJZ20 by piggo@piggo.space
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       @mcSlibinas @yngmar ah of course the colour existed before someone imported oranges for the first time 🤔
       
 (DIR) Post #B6rcNam14HZ2uqiOqe by piggo@piggo.space
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       @mcSlibinas @yngmar I wonder about Czech. We have ryšavý but it's more reddish, i think. Yet foxes and marigold surely existed since forever. We have native mushrooms that are orange, too
       
 (DIR) Post #B6rcRE5zKGENjwn1iS by mcSlibinas@mastodon.social
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       @piggo @yngmar but what color was before carrots?! 🤔
       
 (DIR) Post #B6rcREJoUrI2QpG4GW by piggo@piggo.space
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       @mcSlibinas @yngmar carrots also weren't always orange. There are all kinds of hues