{"id":190,"date":"2015-04-04T21:11:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T01:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homeownerman.com\/wordpress\/?p=190"},"modified":"2017-03-15T20:34:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T00:34:39","slug":"broken-belts-and-bamboo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/homeownerman.com\/wordpress\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Broken Belts and Bamboo"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we last left Homeowner Man, our hero was dangling precariously from an extension ladder in a rain storm.\u00a0 This week, Homeowner Man finds himself flat on his back underneath a John Deere LT155 lawn tractor.\u00a0 Having had an untimely run in with a wayward tree stump, Homeowner Man came up on the short end of the fight, breaking the mower timing belt in the process.<\/p>\n

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Upon inspection of the damage, Homeowner Man noticed a fraying drive belt and bravely decided to proactively conquer this problem while addressing the matter at hand.\u00a0 Undaunted by the closure of the nearest John Deere parts store in the wake of a sagging economy, Homeowner Man plays the waiting game by ordering the parts online, unwilling to pay expedited shipping.<\/p>\n

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The grass was unfazed by the inability to be maintained and continued to grow in a manner resembling its larger cousin, bamboo.\u00a0 Doing a quick calculation in his head, Homeowner Man realized the beauty of the neighborhood lay in the balance between the news brought to him by the UPS tracking site and the unrelenting biomass.\u00a0 He reached out to his associate, Neighbor Man, to borrow his lawn mowing device.\u00a0 This kept the grass at bay, and Homeowner Man affected a small repair on Neighbor Man\u2019s machine to alleviate the vapor lock situation.<\/p>\n

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The parts finally in hand, Homeowner Man began taking the necessary steps to repair his lawn mowing device.\u00a0 Piece after piece was removed, some requiring superhuman strength to unbolt and others requiring the agility and contortion skills of Yoga Man (who strangely has never been seen in the same place as Homeowner Man) until hours later all obstructions were removed and the drive belt was accessible.\u00a0 Requiring his super-human intellect, Homeowner Man managed to re-assemble all of the pieces and not have any left over.\u00a0 He required the assistance of Wife Girl (who some have suspected is more than just a superhero sidekick for Homeowner Man) to re-attach large springs.<\/p>\n

After installing the mower deck timing belt, which was responsible for the whole adventure in the first place, Homeowner man re-attached the deck and turned the key.\u00a0 With a roar of a Kohler engine and a whirr of blades, Homeowner Man made the yard safe for man and beast alike.<\/p>\n

Thank you, Homeowner Man, for restoring truth, Justice, and straight grass lines!<\/p>\n

[Originally posted May 3, 2011 on FaceBook.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we last left Homeowner Man, our hero was dangling precariously from an extension ladder in a rain storm.\u00a0 This week, Homeowner Man finds himself flat on his back underneath a John Deere LT155 lawn tractor.\u00a0 Having had an untimely run in with a wayward tree stump, Homeowner Man came up on the short end … Continue reading “Broken Belts and Bamboo”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[10,12,9,11],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeownerman-episodes","category-uncategorized","tag-diy","tag-home-ownership","tag-humor","tag-superhero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/homeownerman.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/homeownerman.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/homeownerman.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/homeownerman.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/homeownerman.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/homeownerman.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"http:\/\/homeownerman.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/homeownerman.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/homeownerman.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/homeownerman.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}