After having set up the expanded micro irrigation system in the garden all the way up to the Dog Kennel Greenhouse, the grounds have been getting a little mushy due to the extra water being sprayed in the different raised beds. As a result I decided to spread more gravel, trying to make a path going from the central area of the garden all the way over to the Greenhouse. I had already spread a lot of gravel at the central point of the garden where it's been mushy for the longest time. I also managed to get gravel spread around the five drum planters along the Greenhouse, as well as the other planters near the greenhouse and the fence. With this load of gravel I wanted to finish the path going over to the Greenhouse so we won't have to worry about slopping in mud as we walk through the main corridors of the garden. The path that I was laying was a few feet wide so I decided to continue with this same diameter path all the way to the Greenhouse area. Even after reaching the gravel patch that was laid along the drum planters, I was able to lay some more gravel to connect to the other gravel patches that were laid to cover the grounds going in front of the Greenhouse gate and the path that was laid between the rows of raised beds. At least now the areas that we frequently walk through are covered in gravel. I'll of course continue to expand the paths to try and cover the grounds up to and around the raised beds. Now with the gravel done it was time to finish up the last thing that I had to do on the John Deere Utility Tractor. I had to replace the fuel pump and do some tweaking on the carb after getting the machine running previously for a short time. The tractor ran long enough to get the thing down to the house before it started sputtering due to fuel starvation. Well after putting the new fuel pump on and firing the thing up again, the machine ran, but it had a bit of a hunting idle issue. Even when I tried to manually manipulate the engine governor lever, it would not act right. Sometimes it would run pretty good, sometimes not. To help remedy this problem a little bit I adjusted the idle screw all the way in, basically turning the idle "up", where the throttle won't be able to close up too much. Now while under normal circumstances this should have an engine racing, these small engines with the integrated/internal governor actually control the RPM's via the governor lever with a minimum of influence from the actual carb throttle. Well after doing this bootleg "fix" the engine really doesn't have much of a hunting idle anymore and I can still throttle down if I so desire. However the engine runs shittier when the throttle is down so for all intents, its best to run this engine at full throttle. Besides, vehicle speed is controlled by the pedal on fluid drive transmission, not the engine throttle. This way the engine can be kept at a fixed RPM whether the tractor is driven slow or fast (which isn't really fast). So for all intents and purposes, the John Deere Utility Tractor is ready for utility use around the compound and grounds.
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