u/stulti_auri

So, having successfully cured my first cut, I'm getting ready to cook some snus, so I need to do some processing. Please show me your shredding and grinding equipment!

i don't have enough karma to post in the fairbanks sub lol

trying to get into house and/or pet sitting as a side hustle bc i need a little extra money. i don't really know anyone outside of work and it seems like most websites aren't worth the time. was curious if anyone had any recommendations on how to advertise. also taking ideas for other flexible side hustles. doordashing is not worth it up here.

I lent my trimmer to a "friend", who brought it back DOA a few years ago. Wife decided we needed to develop a re-wooding 1/2 acre field into an apple orchard and a few garden rows. So in the last few weeks I've sunk about $250 into rebuilding the old walk-behind string trimmer (HU625HWT). I rebuilt the motor with new cam, cam gears, oil flipper, gaskets and seals; new carb. New cutting head because that was completely buggered. I put a new shroud on the outside, the old one had been completely shredded by the "friend" not cutting the strings to the proper length.

So I got about three hours of mowing out of it and it spit the belt. It was old and dry rotted and the idler return spring was dangling in there with one of the hooks snapped. So I bent one loop of the spring into a new hook and remounted it on the chassis. Managed to find a replacement belt in town, installed it, I believed correctly by routing it around the V-pulley and captured on the flat pulley. I got about an hour and a half and it shredded and threw the new belt.

So does anyone have any advice, or a diagram that shows how to route the belt through the idler? I'm about to go at this thing like a gangster, like the copier in Office Space.

Anyone else seeing entire workday outages on GCI? Three weekdays in a row now! No comment from GCI at their office or on the phone. They just say "planned" upgrades and maintenance.