Summer Sojourn, Day 17

On our way to the fair we stopped by Mike's place and found him pondering a lack of internet to his house—the modem and primary router are in his shop, as it has a clearer line of sight to the broadcast antenna on a silo, about a mile distant, and there's a Cat 6 line buried in conduit to the house.

Fortunately, he had a test set, which showed a break in one of the lines, but crimping on new connectors didn't fix the problem. Also fortunately, only two (of the four) twisted pairs in the cable are actually used, so we created the T-568-M (for Martin) standard, isolating the green pair and got him up and running.

This took way longer than it should have, and since rain was predicted for mid-afternoon, we delayed our fair visit for another day.

Just as that rain was getting serious, this rig showed up to spread some fertilizer on the newly harvested hay field.


The mystery machine needs a fuel tank, and the fuel tank needs custom mounts. (The tank's been empty long enough that there was no hint of vapor therein.)





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