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Way cool, sounds like you’re having a blast & doing great things, now to convince your department to send you to the FBI academy 😱😱🤔😁😁

That'd be cool but something tells me that'd be a good while before they'd ever consider such a thing. Even the chief hasn't done that. I've got an ALERRT recertification in a couple weeks, and I was asked if I'd be interested or willing to go to a crash investigator / reconstructionist course - our crash investigator recently left the department so we don't have anyone who has taken such training. I'm alright at math, but not great at it. What I'd really like to do is take more CIT courses and get mental health officer certification, and get more in depth investigation courses.

Crash investigation is a good field to learn. It also has potential for a good income if you leave police work. Insurance companies have been known to pay big bucks to get their own investigations done when it comes to the prospect of paying out a heavy loss.

Pulled all but one of the pins on the Kubota loader today, cleaned them and reinstalled them. What a dry rusty mess. Very impressive handwritten maintenance records but whoever was doing it before me was better with a pencil than a grease gun. Learned through trial and error, mostly error, that some pins were easiest to deal with when the hydraulics relaxed, some needed a light load to r&r.

Pulled all but one of the pins on the Kubota loader today, cleaned them and reinstalled them. What a dry rusty mess. Very impressive handwritten maintenance records but whoever was doing it before me was better with a pencil than a grease gun. Learned through trial and error, mostly error, that some pins were easiest to deal with when the hydraulics relaxed, some needed a light load to r&r.

I've got a Kubota diesel zero turn that I'm trying to get working again - been down for a season because it kept destroying drive pulley on the deck. A piece of chain got sucked into it while I was cutting in the ditch toward the end of 2024. Been a royal PITA since - I've gone thru 3 pullies, two belts, and now I've got to do a starter. It also has a hydraulic fluid leak and I've got to take the body off to replace a $2 fuel hose. I feel your pain about pins - there's also a bunch of semi-hidden or just hard to reach bolts that when I look at it, I think to myself "why does this need to be *here*"

When the mower runs tho I love it.