The land provides.....

 7:54 am - Friday - January 30th - TWW - 26° F, humidity 27%, cloud cover 1%, wind 7 mph out of the east by northeast.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 58° F.  The view this morning.....

.....the EcoWorthy dual axis solar panels tilted today at 8:05 am....the earliest in a long, long time.  And on this date in 2019 TLE and I were visiting Meteor Crater located between Flagstaff and Winslow, AZ just off I-40....

.....we were staying at the Winslow, AZ Elks Lodge for a few days.

Our first task of Thursday morning was to get the Ford 420 diesel tractor restarted, so we could move it to the CONEX area where I was planning to take apart the entire fuel system to find out why fuel is not moving through the system as it should.  The other day when we were finishing the RV site for Phyllis' Newell it stopped running again right in the middle of the entry road.  As we worked on trying to get it started it became clear that no fuel was leaving the fuel filter assembly.  Since we couldn't get it started (fuel starvation) we decided to start taking apart the fuel lines from the fuel tank to the fuel filter.  I had to cut the fuel line coming out of the fuel turnoff valve as I could not get it removed from the valve.  Before we could remove the valve we had to empty the tank, so TLE brought out two 5 gallon diesel cans, and using our fuel syphon removed about 7 gallons.  Once that was done we removed the valve and discovered the problem....the valve was clogged with debris from the tank.  I used a flashlight to inspect the tank interior, and it looks pretty clean on the bottom, but I found some sort of pneumatic air compressor fitting laying on the bottom of the tank.....    

.....how on earth did that get in there?  I was able to remove it, and then headed back the trailer with the fuel line and valve.  Since I had to cut off the end of the fuel line that entered the valve I'll need a new compression fitting to make it whole again....I could not save the old one.....

What the other end is supposed to look llike

The compression fitting I had to remove to 

unscrew the valve from the fuel tank

.....I ordered a box of various sizes of brass compression fittings off Amazon, so the tractor will be sitting out on the entry road for a few more days.  Below is the fuel shutoff valve....

....this is where I found the debris which was clogging the valve.  Before I reinstall the valve I will flush out the tank to be sure there is no more debris hiding in a corner that will reclog the valve.

Next TLE and I raked up all the debris left over from the fallen pinyon pine, and restacked the rock pile.....

....last winter when we removed the old fiberglass corrugated roofing from the greenhouse we saved the best pieces in anticipation of installing them around the foot of the fence which surrounds the greenhouse growing area to keep out animals, mainly rabbits, which are able to squeeze through the welded fencing.  Once again, the land provides.  Thursday we finally began to install them....

....we managed to install just two panels, but we now have a plan on how to affix them to the welded fencing.  We used a hoe to dig out the dirt along the fence so we can bury part of  the panels a few inches below the surface.  We'll work on installing the rest of the panels Friday morning.

We began our work day around 11 am, and the time just flew by Thursday.  Before we knew it the tiny hand was on the 3, and it was time to call it a day.  I think that's the longest work day for us since back in November when it was still warm.

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