Larry Robinson
45 posts
Nope, not ornaments. My friend is going through the house where her grandma and aunt lived their whole lives and finding weird stuff. Apparently these are solid and very heavy; too heavy to hang on a tree. What are they
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Actress Kristen Stewart says "Trump's policies are basically forcing me to leave America"
Got some comforting words for her?
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Do you agree with Tim, Joe, Jimmy and Gavin?
Yes or No ✋
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@MikeRollinsSIP @DeeWayneGrindz Are you sure that D’Waynes truck? I thought I saw him the other day driving his new van!
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WOW!!! JUST GOT A CALL FROM A VERY RELIABLE SOURCE (TOP LEVEL) THAT DONALD TRUMP IS FURIOUS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM (GOVERNOR OF THE FREE WORLD) HAVE COMPLETELY “HIJACKED” THE NEWS ON HIS “BIG SPEECH DAY” WITHOUT EVEN TRYING. FOX NEWS IS WALL-TO-WALL COVERAGE OF ME AND MY “ROAD SHOW.” MY RATINGS ARE THROUGH THE ROOF! MUCH BETTER THAN DOZY’S. PEOPLE ARE NOW SAYING THAT I SHOULD DELIVER THE SPEECH INSTEAD OF TRUMP’S “STATE OF THE SNOOZE.” I WOULD CRUSH IT. EVEN WITH DYSLEXIA. ESPECIALLY WITH DYSLEXIA! UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE, I DON’T NEED THE TELEPROMPTER (VERY ADVANCED SKILL, VERY RARE). I MEMORIZE. IT’S CALLED PREPARATION. LOOK IT UP, DON! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! —GOVERNOR GCN
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@MikeRollinsSIP @SIPGrinders1902 Sometimes the BEST things in life are worth waiting for.
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If you hear someone say “we created a problem that didn’t exist” or “we’re already hitting the bullseye” show them this poll.
At @SIPGrinders1902 we’ll never settle for “good enough.”
It goes BEYOND QOC & ACA: it’s “what’d take to get it to cut & WHAT’S IT TAKE TO MAINTAIN IT?”
Sure, you can put a new knife on a bedbar w/ a smile or a twist in it, grind the knife touch-touch, get it to cut, send it, & the QOC & ACA look fine. We did that at SIP for 108 years. That’s a Top Fuel Dragster engine. We got it done quickly & back out the door. It did the quarter mile in 3.6 seconds at 343mph - but now we gotta rebuild the block after each run. Cool.
Instead, I’m gonna fix the twisted bedbar, make sure the pivot bolts aren’t bent, measure the front face thickness of the knife for uniformity, grind the knife parallel to the pivot bolts, check front face uniformity again, dial in my angles on the knife, grind the reel straight & cylindrical w/in .002”, make sure the rollers are cylindrical & don’t have runout, make sure the roller bearings are solid, make sure the bottom of the rollers are parallel to the bottom of the straight & cylindrical reel, & then make sure the frame isn’t twisted. I’m also going to TRACK all of this & write it down. I just blueprinted my cu & I built a NASCAR engine - to do 210mph for 600 miles. I’m not in the cutting unit game for quarter miles.
And you know what? All that work I did in the winter? It SUCKS. It takes TIME. But that’s the price for quality. I don’t want the cutting unit back in here. I’m lazy in the grand scheme of things. I only wanna do this work ONE TIME, UP FRONT.
So now, when your fairway mower comes back in on the lift & 2 of the 5 CU’s don’t cut on one side and you just can’t get it without tightening up the knife too much… you decide “Mannnn, I gotta grind ‘em.” or “I’ll just lap ‘em in.” Either way you go: you have to take a good bit of material out of 2 of them because cut was trashed on one side. Sure, you can still get them to cut when you’re done. But that took YOUR TIME & MATERIAL. Both cost money.
MY fairway mower goes on the lift at the same time & it’s still cutting beautifully, all the way across, on all 5. It mows for another 2 weeks. Maybe even another month. I’m now eating my ice cream sandwich, attacking my preventative maintenance program & mopping the floor.
My point is: grinding parallel & putting in all this work isn’t about QOC & ACA. It never was. It has ALWAYS been about EFFICIENCY. It’s about uniformity & repeatability. It’s about diagnostics - because once you have everything the same: IF anything goes wrong… it sticks out like a sore thumb. It’s about the SECOND grind & the THIRD grind - when the knife comes back in & I barely have to emote any material to get it sharp again. THAT’S the drug. It’s about guys like @chyman_g saving 6 knives & $600 in a season bc his knives are cutting & lasting longer.
The uniform carpets on fairways & pool table felts on greens are the icing on the cake of an efficient shop operation.
I’ll leave you with one of my favorite lines. A line that I’m now gonna add to Cutline is King: “The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.”
Mike Rollins@MikeRollinsSIP
📊I'm well aware that this question is relative to operation - i.e. budget, manpower, tools, resources, & overall attitude & culture of the whole team (from top, down). But PERSONALLY - as an Equipment Manager or an Agronomist - which mentality do you gravitate toward?
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Sunny Hostin thinks Trump supporters are regretting their vote: “I bet you there are a lot of people that voted for Trump that wish that Kamala Harris is in the White House.”
I don't know a single person who regrets their vote. 🙄🙄
If it weren't for Trump, they'd have NOTHING to talk about. 🤣
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🚨 BREAKING: White House FIRES BACK at Rep. Maxine Waters showing up to a violent anti-ICE protest and saying, "We're going to fight you every inch of the way!"
"Waters is quite possibly the Lowest IQ individual to ever walk the face of the Earth." 💯
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@TrumpsHurricane Reverse your gonad removal surgery. It’s not working for you!
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Who else agrees that Biden, without a doubt, was absolutely a better president than Trump could ever be? #FundHealthcareStopICE
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