Garage Gazette
General Category => GENERAL DISCUSSION TO INCLUDE OFF TOPIC => Topic started by: slip knot on August 05, 2018, 10:46:37 AM
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I started a thread on the other site but its done. lets try it again.
What did you do today?
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I found out the other GG site is done so I gained an extra space in my browser toolbar :)
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This is what I did last weekend
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Wow, that's beautiful.
Here's mine from yesterday. Just south of Dunlap, Tennessee
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Just sitting around counting my toes.
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Just sitting around counting my toes.
What did you come up with?
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Went to the Alamo city motorplex for some IHRA bracket racing last night. The tracks an hour and half away. so it was a late night for me. my butts been dragging all day.
The track was pretty nice. I haven't been to it before. I'll be going back.
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Just sitting around counting my toes.
What did you come up with?
As he uses his fingers to count, he couldn't get past 9
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Had a very social weekend. Did a service call on Saturday morning, appraised some tools for a widow at noon, went to an annual party of a high school friend. Sunday went to church, visited my Mom and celebrated my MIL's 85th.
Oh, put about 50 miles on the motorcycle. Been riding it some lately.
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Phil, how's K5?
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Too hot here,,100 degrees in the shade to get out in it.I do my work early in the morning and then it is time to go inside or to the store.
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I've had an ad on Craigslist, trying to sell my truck...…. :o I didn't know that many idjits knew how to use a phone.
The dealer told me he didn't want it. didn't even make me an offer. ::)
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Phil, how's K5?
K5 is fine. Actually saw him last week. He diagnosed my EGR on my 97 chevy and replaced it. Have to get it through emissions by wednesday.
He is struggling with dating, only finding the Psychos lately so he is getting comfortable being a bachelor.
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The wife saw a ground squirrel eating tomatoes off a plant on the back deck yesterday. A neighbor brought a live trap over today and I baited it with peanut butter and honey and it was caught in the trap within 45 minutes. It died and I don't know if it had a peanut allergy or lead allergy. It is now in the ditch on the far side of the property and something will grab it before morning. Trap is reset to see if there is more than one. >:(
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LOL. We could use a few more smileys
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This is what I did last weekend
Beautiful pics! Thanks for sharing them!
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Couple service calls, now I'm home with AC cranked. Want to go out to shop and work on Mustang but no AC in there.
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I went on a site visit to one of our projects
https://youtu.be/vqe1BgqUm_0 (https://youtu.be/vqe1BgqUm_0)
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I do not miss the days of dressing like a road cone at work. ;D
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Stuck in the house, temps outside are 107-109 the past couple of days. Can't even work in the shop. Even with the little AC it's just too dang hot out there.
Rarely do temps reach 105 once the monsoon starts in earnest - this year it's been quite dry and thus sizzling. Can't even visit pawn shops for tools - no AC in the Toyota makes for a roasting drive. And then there's the dreaded seat belt sweat!
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Bruce's real feet.
With some eye bleach to clean up after
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Don't be that way Jabber.
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Dam Jabber, I can’t unsee those feet.
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I do not miss the days of dressing like a road cone at work. ;D
We wear orange on the railways and yellow if it's civils/roads.
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We wear orange on the railways and yellow if it's civils/roads.
I am back to working in water and waste water plants (wear it all started for me). I love it and since the company I work for is on the smaller side the safety feels more like a culture and not a religion. Its nice being able to boot a guy out that's an unsafe idiot and not making everyone else pay for some other dummy.
I understand hard hats, gloves, glasses, and safety toe but some of the safety stuff is crazy. Go to work in a petrol/chem plant, they dont mind if a group of guys sit and do nothing if some college grad who graduated 2 days ago deemed it "unsafe" but will not help to resolve the situation.
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I fixed a Canon camera that had a stuck shutter. It is my trusty old Canon 60D that I bought new in 2011. The internet sent me down a few rabbit holes until I found a simple fix that worked.
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1775/43933983051_33c15de1d9_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/29Wi9wp)Kalanchoe leaves (https://flic.kr/p/29Wi9wp) by Noel Hankamer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/), on Flickr
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You beat me to restoring this thread... Cool beans
I sold a bag of old tools at work in two hits. A dozen 50 year old screwdrivers and a toothless rusty hacksaw. Less crap at home to never use.
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The wife decided that I had put off reflooring the laundry room long enough. We redid the kitchen floor back before Easter. Now she's wanting the laundry room to match the kitchen. ::) I told her I thought I had till next Easter to get the flooring done..... We all know who lost that argument. :(
Good to see you back Strik.
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Ahhh GG is back!!!!
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We treated our son and others to a nice dinner at a steakhouse last night, so today is a lazy day. When I woke up from an afternoon nap, I saw my cat, Skinny Minnie had the same idea !
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/933/43284756744_f3763f7f5e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/28WVGao)Napping cat (https://flic.kr/p/28WVGao) by Noel Hankamer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/), on Flickr
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Went fishing.
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Nice fish. How did it taste?
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Haven’t cooked it yet. I will let you know.
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I spent the better part of my day inveting a steel doorframe out of steel studs on my shoppette. Then at HD getting caulk i discovered they sell damaged steel studs at half price and grabbed four at just about a buck each.
Those became the panel stiffeners for my future doors. They do not straighten out well but can be made usable.
It moved forward today because I borrowed an electric drill to set anchors in cement posts. Hand drilling them would be endless.
Only had to stop for running out of materials.
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Went to AG Progress day (big agriculture manufacturer show)
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Rewired and re-organized my home office to install some more HAM gear. I collect and run a vintage Heathkit SB - series HAM station.
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Mama is updating the kitchen. We had granite counters put in a few years ago, she has painted and trimmed the walls. We put up a new range hood last night so she can now start on the back splash. Once that is done, the only thing left is the flooring which will likely wait till she is done painting the rest of the first floor then the hardwood gets redone and new flooring in the kitchen
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Just got back to the office after traveling all week. 4 states and jobsites in 3 days was a whirl.
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Mama is updating the kitchen. We had granite counters put in a few years ago, she has painted and trimmed the walls. We put up a new range hood last night so she can now start on the back splash. Once that is done, the only thing left is the flooring which will likely wait till she is done painting the rest of the first floor then the hardwood gets redone and new flooring in the kitchen
Pictures?
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Ran the shop alone for my first time cause my boss wanted to use a vacation day... Kinda cool.. Closed the shop up came home
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Went with Mandy, Sam and Brother-in-law to local steam and agriculture show
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I called in dis-interested this morning so's I could finish the laundry room floor. The local dirt track is gonna have some good races this weekend and I'm gonna need a yard pass. ;D
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Had the 1956 Mercury Montclair hardtop out for a spin today. Forgot to take a picture outside, will do next time I have it out.
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That's certainly a cool mercury.
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I did a day at work then got home to relax. A paint bubble on the wall turned into a missing patch of stucco. Just to be irritated by that is too much so I made stucco and patched it back up and painted it.
Got everything but the supplies and mess picked up before the lady of the house declared bedtime.
One more wall to prep and if I can make money stretch a full repaint is coming.
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Nice Mercury. Like the paint
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The colors are ivory and tangerine.
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The colors are ivory and tangerine.
Looks great, the pinstriping on hood is cool also. Like to see some more pics when you get a chance
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Took the cat to the vet for her yearly shots. The wife finally got to see her turn into a demon when the vet gave her the shots and clipped her nails. It's quite the transformation! Now she's looking as if nothing ever happened!
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Layed low the last few days, somehow aggravated my left side SI joint, lower back. Its not to bad unless it is :) Not sure what movement touches off the pain but I took a step in shop yesterday and almost went down. Feels better today. Filled the hot tub which helps the back once I can soak. Started doing some stretches and exercises. What gets me is I have no idea what I did to set me off.
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Layed low the last few days, somehow aggravated my left side SI joint, lower back. Its not to bad unless it is :) Not sure what movement touches off the pain but I took a step in shop yesterday and almost went down. Feels better today. Filled the hot tub which helps the back once I can soak. Started doing some stretches and exercises. What gets me is I have no idea what I did to set me off.
Man I really feel for you! Not much worse than lower pack pain, absolutely polarizing!
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I have been spending money on building a shoppette door. It is not strong nor burglar resistant but it is rain proof on the 2nd floor. It takes direct storm blow on that wall. Days of working and trying to engineer this on a pauper's budget has been a challenge. So thrilled to get them hung and painted.
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Another...
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Had oldest Grand daughters 8th birthday party on Sat. It was at Sweet Frog which is a frozen yogurt place where you pour your own yogurt and add any of 20+ toppings and pay by the ounce. I forgot how good coconut is on ice cream.
Sunday was the wife's family reunion. It was fun but we always drive separately as I am done in 3 or 4 hours and she is good for 8
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First night with the shoppette doors and a five hour blowing rain at them probably before the paint fully cured.
Dry as a cork inside when I checked. Sswweeeetttt!
No more ugly ragged tarp.
Not bad for 1/8" plywood, light structural and oil base paint. And dome drywall screws. Not recommended for Florida hurricanes or tornado alley homes.
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First night with the shoppette doors and a five hour blowing rain at them probably before the paint fully cured.
Dry as a cork inside when I checked. Sswweeeetttt!
No more ugly ragged tarp.
Not bad for 1/8" plywood, light structural and oil base paint. And dome drywall screws. Not recommended for Florida hurricanes or tornado alley homes.
Bravo on success! Well done in meeting your objectives too!
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Thanks. I am just thrilled it passed the test even before I can finish the weatherstrip seal.
My lady loves the clean look when closed. The biggest win of all.
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Thanks. I am just thrilled it passed the test even before I can finish the weatherstrip seal.
My lady loves the clean look when closed. The biggest win of all.
They look good and will keep the honest people out.
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Someone threw away a very recent 20" kids bike in really great shape that just needed a few minor adjustments and a new tube, so $4.50 plus a little bit of time and we have my little 2nd cousins first big boy bike ready for when it's time for his dad to teach him to ride.
He's only about 3 so he's not quite ready yet.
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Then there's the antique-ish Tremont pipe wrench I cleaned up a while back, I've decided to give it to my Plumber uncle to display so I took an old cheap DOE and turned it into a little stand to help it display on a shelf.
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Was headed to town this morning and saw a plume of smoke start to go up. Turned out it was a field of wheat burning and I could see a couple combines and trucks headed away from it. The FD managed to hold it to
9 20 acres and I saw a combine working it again this afternoon. Luckily at 11am the wind hadn't kicked up yet or it would have burned through the field and hit the open range 1/4 mile below our house and really taken off.
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Yesterday I went to meet a tool buyer and had to wait about an hour. At least he showed ( many Facebook buyers don't ) , and I had taken a few other wrenches he may have wanted and he did buy a few more than he planned !
While I waited, I did manage to shoot some pictures, not moving more than ten feet from where I stood.
Today I am going to a planning meeting for a November Art Walk that our local art society has each year.
These are the photos I shot yesterday-
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1832/29286031987_fca05910a4_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LBUyZZ)Transformers (https://flic.kr/p/LBUyZZ) by Noel Hankamer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/), on Flickr
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1862/30354276098_317e0655e3_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/NfiAKU)Hawaiian Ti (https://flic.kr/p/NfiAKU) by Noel Hankamer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/), on Flickr
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1890/30354286638_c4314260fa_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/NfiDTC)Gate Stop (https://flic.kr/p/NfiDTC) by Noel Hankamer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/), on Flickr
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1857/29286042607_2b288e8fec_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LBUCa6)Drainage (https://flic.kr/p/LBUCa6) by Noel Hankamer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/), on Flickr
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Damn, that transformer mess looks like downtown Kabul -- LOL
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Damn, that transformer mess looks like downtown Kabul -- LOL
It does , doesn't it ! It is on the edge of town and I bet it has been overloaded to cover the expansions there.
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It still looks better than Strik9's neck of the woods. :o
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You kinda get used to spaghetti off the posts. The utility guys do 98% of it for us.
The triphase is near always clean and perfect but cable/phone/110 service is more creative.
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We have smoke from the fires in California here in Maine, its quite noticeable
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Last week we had Sahara Dust here in the Texas Gulf Coast.
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Last week we had Sahara Dust here in the Texas Gulf Coast.
That crap made my sinus' run like a fire hydrant.
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Just spent a good part of the day in the shop dealing with stuff. Getting ready to head to dinner and going to the flat track MC races at the fairgrounds. The neighbor's son will be racing in the expert class.
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Picked squash again today, planted four kinds of winter squash this year, butternut, Canadian butternut, sweet Greek butternut and acorn. So far I have picked about 100 of all varieties combined. First picture is my shop bathtub----don't know where to put them. Second picture is a sweet Greek butternut, it weights 5.5 pounds.
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The shoppette is only 5' wide so I had to plan how to prep for the floor to ceiling shelves on the back wall. 2nd coat paint on walls and blue paint on floors . I have about three gallons in that bucket of mixed up tail ends of years of painting here. It ended up baby blue and sticks to greased glass. Nasty stuff but wears well.
Shelves will be 12" deep by 5' spaced about a foot apart going all the way up. Vertical I have 11' up so I can get 55' squared. Into 5' square of floor. Makes for a bigger workbench.
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Washed the bike yesterday, then took Sam to his first baseball game. He behaved perfectly for all 9 innings!
Today I went on a ride with a group of friends.
(Please let me know how these pictures are posting. I'm posting them through Flickr APP on my phone. All I'm see is a link to click on. Do the pictures display for everyone else or just links?)
https://www.flickr.com/gp/156223713@N08/1SayKU
https://www.flickr.com/gp/156223713@N08/0m6E4c
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Just the links. They do connect to the image if clicked on.
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Muddy- On Flickr select the share button and choose BB code, and copy it. Then post directly in your post when you are done writing the post.
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Worked on a forklift mast I am re-earing to fit a different machine.
Actually played a game of how many grinder can I use on one job, and how big of a hose and lead bird's nest can I make.
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Greyson
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Sunday, made wife breakfast. Dressed to go mow the yard, 30 seconds into walking out to the mower, started raining. Grass to rank to mow when wet. Had 5 separate rain showers move through. Did get the new fuse box in the barn, ( well, a used fusebox), that powers the air compressor in the shop. Filled up my carry tank went around and pumped up a half dozen tires on excess vehicles I have sitting around. Sure wish radials would hold air more than ten years. Wife wasn't feeling good come evening so supper for me was a can of Dinty More beef stew.
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Muddy- On Flickr select the share button and choose BB code, and copy it. Then post directly in your post when you are done writing the post.
Is that on the mobile app or through the deskop website. it doesnt give me the BB code on the app
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Works on the desktop version.
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good looking kid you got there Mudman.
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Its month end and I have been busy as hell. Gathering data and moving it around for billing and approvals. I dont see how accountants survive, if I did this every day I would take a long walk off a short pier.
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Its month end and I have been busy as hell. Gathering data and moving it around for billing and approvals. I dont see how accountants survive, if I did this every day I would take a long walk off a short pier.
My wife is an accountant...and at times it gets nuts!
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Works on the desktop version.
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Nice looking young man you got their Muddy. You and Mrs Muddy will have your hands full.
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Lil Mud is getting cuter all the time
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About time for lil muddy to start driving a tractor isn't it? ;D
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About time for lil muddy to start driving a tractor isn't it? ;D
He has a pedal tractor (and a pedal Harley) waiting for him.
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About time for lil muddy to start driving a tractor isn't it? ;D
He has a pedal tractor (and a pedal Harley) waiting for him.
Got my son the spread front axle 8n Ford pedal tractor. I figured the tricycle front on some of the pedal tractors might be more inclined to tip over for my boy. I started him on his pedal tractor when he was too little to sit in the seat as designed and reach the pedals so I altered it by installing a strap of steel between the seat and the tractor which pushed the seat closer to the steering wheel and the pedals.
I also got him the tow behind two wheel wagon to tow behind. Later he would load his little sister in the trailer and tow her around. When he outgrew it I stuck the tractor and the trailer in the attic to wait until he has a little nipper of his own. Just way too cool to not keep for the next generation.
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Just got home from helping the wife's boss move his gun safe. Luckily it was still on the shipping feet and right where I had put it when I had delivered it 2 years ago. I took my die lift and pallet jack and that make it a breeze to load it on the trailer and unload it. Place it on the back of the trailer with the die lift and pick it up with the pallet jack to drag it forward on the trailer.
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That is too easy,,,, no smashed fingers? or feet?
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That is too easy,,,, no smashed fingers? or feet?
Nope, I am a firm believer in having the proper tools and equipment to do the job. Brains over brawn. ;D
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Helped move a gun safe one time, pretty big one. One of the guys helping suggested tipping it back and putting pipes under it. Worked like a charm. My lift gate did the rest
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Dead Nuts, I like to use the right equipment too, but, whenever someone tried to assist me, somebody ended up with something pinched. Usually from someone that has no brains and too much brawn,( Here I'll just lift this end, no,,, stop STOP... Pulled an upright piano, upright deep freeze, and washer dryer up basement stairs, with a cable come along, would not let BIL help.
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Spent most of the day waiting for parts for a wiper motor repair. Tomorrow maybe?
Got home to take another swipe at getting all my shit into my shoppette and keeping enough order to keep working on it and find what I may need.
Just 60 square feet of floor is going to need a lot of vertical storage.
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New mirrors on the '15 Nissan Frontier. It's a crew cab long wheelbase truck with the 73" bed, the factory mirrors just weren't cutting it.
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The new ones are telescoping:
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I like them better than stock, but they're a bit on the large side. Might see if I can modify them so that their closed position removes the visible telescoping bit between the housings.
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Typical spring weekend, beautiful day yesterday and pouring with rain today.
Yesterday I started the day around dawn taking some marketing photos for our stormwater designers for a major tender.
Late morning I met up with a friend taking photos at the Mount Main Beach. The surf was up so got some good photos. Spent the afternoon editing photos and napping.
Today I've just mucked around achieving nothing.
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Hi Rural53, those photos are stunning!
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Hi Rural53, those photos are stunning!
+1 -- love those pics as well
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Went to a little 1/4 mile dirt track down in Corpus Christi yesterday. They were running ASCS sprint cars. :-\ Them things is scary fast. Made for a late night tho. my butts dragging today.
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Not much yet today, but Friday night i went to a high school football game. Our granddaughter is on the drill team. I took about 300 shots and culled that to 45 or so!
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8)
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Great pix and I like the T-shirts that is a priceless shot.
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The granddaughter took that one. When she is not at school, drill team, or choir, she likes to use one of my cameras.
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So another generation of photographer. That's nice to see.
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Very cool Papaw.
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After a fun market run I installed a light fixture and stretched a tarp into a window hole. Try to keep some rain out.
Digging in the lumber pile I found a mucked up paint roller and just for fun tried to clean it up. All that old dried paint kept it near perfect. Even for a low end who cares model. Not that I need another but it was free.
Painted a 2nd coat on the shoppette doors early in the day so the sun could cure it. They are 3mm plywood so keeping ahead on the rainproofing is a bit critical. Now they should be fine for a few months.
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Great photos Papaw.
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I've been cleaning up my 3/8" transport chain collection. I'ts grown over the years, and time to thin the herd. I've sold 3 20-footers as of late, some needing some touch-ups with the welder and grinder to make them presentable again. Some had been pieced together from 2 remnants by prior owners, and all needed a good polishing by dragging them behind the riding mower on the property. I let those go, and somehow having 10 still left in the collection I bought another one off Ebay (close to the house), and bypassed the shipping for a sweet deal.
Those China chains simply do not measure 3/8" and while to Harry Homeowner, they will do the job, they just don't impress me. Give me a well patina'd vintage chain over an import yellow chromate version stamped with China on the links anyday.
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Just curious- What does a good chain sell for these days, if you are willing to say.
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Well, its kind of like, how much is a 1" combo wrench. Its all about new, vs used, vs brand, vs premium, vs economy. With chains, there is the grade factor, which the vast majority of sellers don't know or care about. Rusty used ones seems to go for $40 to $80 for a 20 ft section. I only haul my vintage tractors, and an occasional vehicle on a gooseneck. Since I am not DOT controlled, I dont have to worry about inspections.
If buying used, inspect every link.
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In the Missouri Ozarks at farm auctions 20 foot chains usually go for about $20.00 as long as they have good hooks.
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Yeah, I get about $20 for a 20 foot chain if it has hooks. To get more then that is has to be a newish USA chain and look good
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Once the cad plating or the tag comes off the value really drops. TxDps looks really hard at rusty chains. Clean newer chains get a pass.
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I sat on the bench outside enjoying the cool air due to the storm in the Gulf. I hope folks in Mississippi don't get hammered.
I noticed that the grandkids left a ball in the net of the kiddy goal. I got out my old Canon 5D Classic and a 100mm macro lens and shot this image.
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1879/29542851367_4716b137b9_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/M1AQsk)Ball in Net (https://flic.kr/p/M1AQsk) by Noel Hankamer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/), on Flickr
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Had to drag my trailer up to Carson City to pick up a curio/china cabinet that one of our members donated to our chapter. That thing is solid oak and heavy and was two pieces. Removed all the glass from the top unit and then it was light enough for two of us to carry it out the door and out to the trailer. Pulled the three 2" thick doors off the bottom unit and then the 2 of us could carry it.
It was only a 3 mile trip back to the airport and we moved out our old display case and set the new one up. We had to take down our coffee cup racks due to the height of the new cabinet and ran a mile down the road to the helper's house to use his radial arm saw to cut the two racks into four and go back to remount them between the entry door and cabinet. I'm sure we'll hear about mixing all the cups up tomorrow night at our meeting and potluck and at our Friday lunch.
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Condition report on new to us forklifts. Not that much fun. Was also a heat index of 101°. About 90° in the shop. Go through lots of water.
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Today I mothballed the shop as the boss is on vacation for the coming week. Took tools inside and did some cleaning.
Made a phone call and lined up a week of work in another shop to not lose a payday. Went to get my son after school and we went home.
A long weekend ahead and then a week in the oil baths of a diesel shop. If the money wasn't badly needed....
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Took delivery of the new ride. ordered July 7, showed up today. Almost a month sooner than promised. :-*
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Nice aluminum can!
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Nice looking truck. Diesel? Gas?
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Gas, no emissioned diesel for me.
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I guess the diesels are a lot less attractive these days especially with the premium price.
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Took delivery of the new ride. ordered July 7, showed up today. Almost a month sooner than promised. :-*
So have you figured out what they left off in order to get it to you so much sooner?
*grin*
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I honestly think the 90 day wait is a scam to sell you one off the lot. But all they had on the lot were diesels. No way I'm paying $9k extra for a POS emission diesel. With my driving history it would take 23 yrs before the diesel costed out. I just don't think these rolling computers will last that long.
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I guess the diesels are a lot less attractive these days especially with the premium price.
Yep. It's trickled-down to the used market too, at least for Dodges around here. I've been looking on and off for many years for a donor truck for a drivetrain to shoehorn into my '82 crew cab shortbed. Ideally I'd find a '93 club cab longbed since they have the same wheelbase so I could just transfer everything in the drivetrain between the motor mounts and the rear leaf springs, but a regular cab donor truck would do the job. Unfortunately even the most clap-trap, worn, rust-belt-relocated heap with a leaky injection pump is going for several thousand dollars. I simply can't justify that kind of money.
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For years I wanted a Rabbit diesel pickup but they go for insane money around here and have through the roof since the smog deal. Same with the W123 Mercedes especially the turbo diesels. So I've pretty much given up the idea.
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Took delivery of the new ride. ordered July 7, showed up today. Almost a month sooner than promised. :-*
I got this in March
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I got this in March
Congratulations! Looks like a nice truck but it seems to be designed for downhill driving.
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I recall Batman and Robin scaling buildings at that angle. Seems it could speed up the process of catching bad guys....eh?
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Nice ride Heiny. Magnetic was one of the options I looked at.
My Brother has a F150 with the ecoboost and he gets great mileage. But when he wants to tow something he calls me.
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It gets good mileage, but I don’t buy much gas cause the company pays for it. ;D The heaviest I tow is my camper and it pulls it fine. I think Ford has the most comfortable and quietest ride of all.
I am done with pictures. >:(
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Ford really does have a very nice ride - nicer than the Ram. Haven't been in a late model Chevy/GMC so I can't compare.
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The ride is what really impressed me on the Super Dutys. The F250 with a 10Klb GVWR a solid front axle 4X4 and its damned manageable on our crappy roads.
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Your posted photo tells me that it has a SUPER parking brake!
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Found out today that the Super Duty doesn't fit in the parking garage at MDAnderson in Houston. The tires touch both lines. cant get the doors open. :-[ :-[
Wound up double parking it. ;D
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Way to make friends. :))
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Ran across this at lunch time.
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When I got home I assembled a jigsaw puzzle (new Supertrap muffler). Then I went to replace the four into one collector on the VW engine buggy so it can go to it's new owner. Rang the V-Dub Shop and ordered some new pipes.
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I took the rear axle off this.
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Then prepared this to go in its place.
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I painted more of the trim on my porch. 2/3's of the way done with just the porch. This is one drawback of having an old house.
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How long did it take to do the swap?
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How long did it take to do the swap?
Actual swap probably an hour and a half drop to final tighten. I had help getting it back over the springs. Then changing thr E brake cable to the good one required mixing up some parts. And s wheel cyl started leaking just as I hoped to finish the first side. Tomorrow for the finish. Adusting and bleeding to go after it is assembled.
Feels weird. In the diesel shop I am the automotive expert.
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Pretty good time on that. Did you reuse the U bolts?
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Not a coastal vehicle so the underside is pretty much free of rust. We were able to use near all the hardware.
The replacement axle was poorly stored but genuine low miles. It even has good brake drums.
So nice to do one right.
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The first diff I pulled was on a 63 or 4 Falcon. The bolts came but I worked pretty hard at it and immediately bought a long handle 1/2 ratchet.
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The 18" breaker bar was laying in the dirt next to me during this. I did grab at the shop tools some to try to make this go smoothly.
He has mostly Wurth tools on top and it really makes blind picking easier than the regular job shop. My own kit is not well picked for yellow junk. Big yellow stuff....
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Good tools make the job better. Limited experience with Wurth but I hear good things from a Wurth fan boy.
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Can't trust the fanboys... next up some idiot will be loving on Oxwall and claim they made some usable tools.
The white GMC has tires and functional hydraulic and cable brakes. I need a helper to bleed them when the guys return.
I never want a job that has me changing E brakr cables all day. The axle runs quiet at high and low rpm both forward and reverse. I win. If I can get the brakes tight.
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Crap day, tried but didn't get much accomplished. Forklift at work kicked my butt, then made one pass with the mower and it started pouring!
Oh and I broke a chunk out of one of my teeth. I hate the dentist.
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... Oh and I broke a chunk out of one of my teeth. I hate the dentist.
Hope the tooth isn't too unpleasant to fix.
I don't mind the dentist but I should. The one we went to as kids didn't believe in using anesthetic on kids - he'd work on hot teeth.
I got him back though and good - I dated his daughter in HS. :D :D :D
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So far I have done nothing but emergency work to prep for huracun' Florence. I have 3 different projects in the foretasted path, one of the projects was suppose to go through its final performance test. It hard to test the performance of a waste water plant when the weather man is forecasting "biblical" flooding. :o
Hope this storm doesn't pan out but its not looking good.
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How far did you have to connect the e-brake cable toward the front of the truck? My truck needs one, but I don't want to replace one through the floor pan of the cab.
Actual swap probably an hour and a half drop to final tighten. I had help getting it back over the springs. Then changing thr E brake cable to the good one required mixing up some parts. And s wheel cyl started leaking just as I hoped to finish the first side. Tomorrow for the finish. Adusting and bleeding to go after it is assembled.
Feels weird. In the diesel shop I am the automotive expert.
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Under the cab drivers side there is a coupler. Push out the spring clip and push the cable end to the center. If in the rust belt grab two big pliers and wreck the metal clip. Replace it with new. This is a GMC Sonoma but even Ford Rangers have a very similar system. The cable from pedal to under cab stays intact.
Its at the rear axle ends the fun begins.
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Just got back from dinner at the steakhouse at the local casino. The president of the company the wife works for treated 7 of us to dinner. He and the plant manager of the home shop were out here all week to announce some changes. The wife is now in charge of the plant as the plant manager is returning to the home shop after 17 years to be close to his parents and family. The ribeye was fantastic. ;D
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Prepped the left side of a backhoe tractor to get the lift arm lower hydraulic pin fixed. The welds cracked where it mounts the frame. When reassembled new pin and bushings with a solid mount. 5 hours to going home!
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Those old pins make great hammers.
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I could get dozens and don't need any more hammers. I actually got rid of most of the pile of hammers.
I made really good progress on the shoppette. Lots of wet paint in there when this pic was taken.
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Coming along quite nicely. Ready for you first project.
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First project: turn one outlet into four.
Mostly for the phone charger and the over bench light.
I just used crap left over from home repairs to do this one.
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Did a bit of tinkering in the garage and mowed the lawn.
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Just got home from a quick trip to Denver and back. 600 miles back to the Omaha area. Got a rental Impala, set the cruise a touch over the 75 speed limit, and got blown off the road by half the traffic. Was doing 82 for awhile. Saw a bunch of hot rods, seems there was a flathead engine, hillclimb somewhere in Denver. With summer winding down, there were dozens of boats being towed. One really caught my eye, a large, ( very large) sailboat, home port > Kona Hawaii! Was being trailered east bound on I-80, bet there is a story there. This had to be at least 40-50 ft, with a beam of 12-13 ft.
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Kona. good times. Wish I was there now.
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Back to regular programmed life in my proper job. Cement floor instead of oily mud. But no solid roof. Lol!
Feels good. Funny how an utter transplant from a completely different place can be at home in more than five little parts of this city. The neighbors all know me and it seens like when Norm walked into Cheers. Everything was just right.
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I made when for the front gate.
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It's crude and ugly, but it works.............. mostly.
It rolls closed much better than open for some reason.
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Forgot to post Sunday.....Sam turned one year old!
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Happy Birthday Sam!!!
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Happy Birthday Sam. Wow, 1 year old already.
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happy b-day sam!
poor kid, looks like he didn't get any gifts!
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soybean harvest started full bore today. knocked a load out last night and finished an 85 acre field today. looks like i may have another one ready for tomorrow.
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Slow day at work so the boss has me do an oil change on his lady's car. Trying to put the plug back in the alu oil pan I discover it is stripped.
Oh shit....
In my tote are every spare plug we have fron junk engines so I start trying them until one rides in correctly and seals.
Both from the Chevrolet family but different source countries so same thread but just a hair bigger to bite in the damaged pan.
We are relieved to have resolved that so easily.
Two years of carrying them around finally paid out.
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Slow day at work so the boss has me do an oil change on his lady's car. Trying to put the plug back in the alu oil pan I discover it is stripped.
Oh shit....
In my tote are every spare plug we have fron junk engines so I start trying them until one rides in correctly and seals.
Both from the Chevrolet family but different source countries so same thread but just a hair bigger to bite in the damaged pan.
We are relieved to have resolved that so easily.
Two years of carrying them around finally paid out.
I love it when things work out like that!
You carry a special tool or some handy helper you've made for years - then finally comes the time you can use it. So satisfying!
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I Fixed an oscillating fan, just a quick 10 min job but I always like when my tools get called into action no matter how small the task.
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happy b-day sam!
poor kid, looks like he didn't get any gifts!
Yeah right!!! You should see the pile of boxes in our recycling bin!soybean harvest started full bore today. knocked a load out last night and finished an 85 acre field today. looks like i may have another one ready for tomorrow.
Wow, soybean harvest?!! Most guys have only begun chopping silage! Seems late this year. I would think here by mid October the combines will start rolling.
Have to ask Mandy what she thinks since she's in the fields every day.
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I was in the shop all day until a neighbor called and said there was a fire in the ag fields across the road. Fourth or fifth fire in the last 3 weeks where the wheat or some grain was growing. The wind pushed it through the stubble very quickly and into the sagebrush. I drove down to the end of the road where the neighbors were gathered watching it. One neighbor was sitting on his big front end loader and said he was ready to cross the road and drive through the barbed wire fence and making a fire break if it started coming our way. I didn't think to take a pic until it was getting under control.
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rain day, look out for pics!
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Had one of my favorite lunches today, fried egg plant and sweet pepper sandwiches. Wife says "Yuk food" so have to cook it myself. How did I put up with it for 61 years????
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Had one of my favorite lunches today, fried egg plant and sweet pepper sandwiches. Wife says "Yuk food" so have to cook it myself. How did I put up with it for 61 years????
None for me thanks...........
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Had one of my favorite lunches today, fried egg plant and sweet pepper sandwiches. Wife says "Yuk food" so have to cook it myself. How did I put up with it for 61 years????
Actually kinda sounds good!
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Fried eggplant is the bomb. >:D
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soybean harvest started full bore today. knocked a load out last night and finished an 85 acre field today. looks like i may have another one ready for tomorrow.
I hear soybean farmers are taking a big hit with the tariff war with China. Hopefully it's not affecting you much, SK.
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I began getting a headstart on my Halloween costume, I have found that a good scare is noteworthy and I get more trick or treaters than I might otherwise.
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I made this from some thin sheet metal so wihile it's super flimsy and could bend like nothing ( it has the right look and is strong enough for a one time costume use ), it's still a thin piece of metal so I made sure there's not one single sharp edge.
I don't chase kids or anything, but I just like to have a really scary costume,
I probably go a bit overboard with the details many won't notice to just hand out candy, but thats how I am.
Too many people buy store bought costumes that are lame, and too many kids wear Spiderman and princess costumes.
It seems Halloween is becoming a bit too commercial and all the scare factor is fading away, so I always like to go all out with my costume.
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I went to the Cherry Blossom Festival in town this morning. My friends brought their C10 with the 502 crate motor in it over (first photo). Edited photos then took some painkillers (still waiting for an appointment with the specialist to get my knee fixed) and had a nap this afternoon.
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Info sheet for the gasser on the trailer.
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One of our surveyors from work came and got some aerial photos of our race track for me today. Looked after the track while a couple of guys did some practice laps. Later some of the local 4wd club turned up and pushed an overgrown track open for us that we want to use in an enduro race we have coming up.
1. Drone
2. Our track
3. 42" tyred 4x4 buggy. 4.0L Lexus/Toyota V8 on Landcruiser diffs
4. It is four wheel steer
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Rear steer on that buggy? Is that reclaimed land that had been logged? Great pics.
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Rear steer on that buggy? Is that reclaimed land that had been logged? Great pics.
Yes the buggy has rear steer. The front steers normally with a steering wheel and the rear steers with a joystick. When you let the joystick go it returns the wheels to centre.
The land is part of a 1,700ha (4,000 acre) park owned by the two local councils, Tauranga City Council and Western Bay District Council. Tauranga, and the Western Bay, have been growing at a phenomenal rate. The local rifle range, clay bird club, model aeroplane club and horse trekking area all got gobbled up by housing developments, both urban and rural residential. It got more and more difficult for these clubs to try and obtain land to operate so, in an unusually moment of fore thought and planning, the two councils got together and bought 1,200ha of production forest about 17 miles out of town. They soon added another 500ha to the park. The park has resource consents for basically all outdoor activities.
The park operates on a three levels, public facilities - off-leash dog exercise area, equestrian tracks, running, walking, mountain bike and motocross tracks; club activities with exclusive leases - Deerstalkers Assn rifle range, clay bird club, model aeroplane club, a club motocross track and the motorsport area we are part of; and commercial activities - high ropes area.
The area we are in is a 370ha (900 acre) area lease called Te Matai Motorsport Park (Te Matai being the name of the area and one of the roads bounding the area). We have a sub-lease for our track. The Te Matai Motorsport Park is run by an incorporated society (not for profit organisation). The Motorsport park sub-lease areas - our track, two radio controlled car tracks, an auto cross track plus and area of undeveloped tracks that the 4wd club have access to. There is also five miles of formed rally roads, with plans to increase to 12 miles and a large gravel area used for parking, car club events etc.
That is a long winded way to answer your second question, yes the land is harvested production forest. The large heaps are pushed up pine sash etc. These areas have been replanted in pine trees that are about six feet high.
In the motorsport area there is about 40ha (100 acres) of production forest that we can't access. There is 100 ha (250 acre) of mature pine forest with rally roads and other tracks through it that we can use.
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Wow. that seems like a pretty sweet deal. Lots of area for fun. Not much public area here in Tx. and what little is available is all off limits to every kind of fun imaginable.
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We dropped the trans from a severely battered '81 chev pick up to replace the starter gear ring. Had to bolt the steering box and front bumper back on just to stop the biggest rattles and clunks.
Tomorrow we try to put junky dumpty back together again.
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Started working on a new lamp for the front porch. The lamp that was there when I bought the house was original, but still on the knob and tube system, and none too safely wired at that. The safe replacement works but is ugly as sin. So, I found an old light in an antique shop, that looks appropriate to the house, but needed a new base. Put that together today and got everything ready. But I am going to need to drill a 4" hole for the replacement box and the between the joist hanger I have on hand is missing a part. So, I am putting it off until tomorrow. Pics to come.
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My hanging lights are all on cobbled up bases and most had to be rebuilt with new sockets. This one is an old bleach bottle in a metal frame hung by a wire loop off the cover plate of the box in the ceiling. With a halogen bulb it really gets pretty. I just tried to keep the cobble hanging it discrete.
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Working on my 96 Chevy pickup, replacing spring U bolts on rear axle. Truck is backed up to my garage. Got the wiring tore apart in the garage, so can't use the air compressor right now, to run the impact. Wanted to fill my carry tank with as much pressure as my old compressor up in the shop can do. Only got to 50psi, found a leak in the hose. Cut another piece of hose, nipple wrong size, to go in my shut of valve. Found another nipple, and dropped the hose clamp, was going to use. Went to the garage, found another clamp. Got that together, found the quick disconnect on the hose I was going to use is stuck. Dug out another piece of hose. Found the lost hose clamp. Got pressure up to 110psi, impact would not budge the nuts on the U bolts. Tried it again and the quick connect on the hose blew off. Gave up and cut off u bolts with DeWalt grinder. About 2 hours for ten minutes work, sound normal?
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Working on my 96 Chevy pickup, replacing spring U bolts on rear axle. Truck is backed up to my garage. Got the wiring tore apart in the garage, so can't use the air compressor right now, to run the impact. Wanted to fill my carry tank with as much pressure as my old compressor up in the shop can do. Only got to 50psi, found a leak in the hose. Cut another piece of hose, nipple wrong size, to go in my shut of valve. Found another nipple, and dropped the hose clamp, was going to use. Went to the garage, found another clamp. Got that together, found the quick disconnect on the hose I was going to use is stuck. Dug out another piece of hose. Found the lost hose clamp. Got pressure up to 110psi, impact would not budge the nuts on the U bolts. Tried it again and the quick connect on the hose blew off. Gave up and cut off u bolts with DeWalt grinder. About 2 hours for ten minutes work, sound normal?
No I always just cut them to start with. In the north it’s a waste of time to try and take the nuts off.
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If I was still working in the shop, would have cut them off immediately. Just trying to save one or the nuts, being too thrifty, when it is my dime
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If I was still working in the shop, would have cut them off immediately. Just trying to save one or the nuts, being too thrifty, when it is my dime
I always grab the torch and first heat them myself. That might be the wrong thing to do, but it is what I have done. I suspect it is wrong and steals the temper from what I am sure are hardened bolts.
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So, I installed this
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So it now looks like this out front
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(Sorry about the sideways pics, I have been using Tinypic.com and while free, it only puts up landscape format and won't let you resize. Does anyone else have a better photo host thats free?)
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So, I installed this
(Sorry about the sideways pics, I have been using Tinypic.com and while free, it only puts up landscape format and won't let you resize. Does anyone else have a better photo host thats free?)
I use Flikr. https://www.flickr.com
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Got my tooth fixed tonight. Hopefully it's just because of being just done but it's more sensitive then before. Maybe he dug a little too deep and got through some where else to the nerves.
Why is it that your teeth always bother you more after seeing the dentist then they did before?!!!
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Why is it that your teeth always bother you more after seeing the dentist then they did before?!!!
Job security Mud man, job security. if they fix it right you wont be back for a while. cant make no money that way.
I got an allergy skin test scheduled for tomorrow. He'll be making $$$ off me for the next few years. Frkn miserable not having any allergy meds for the past 5 days.
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Today was a lot of fun, really. We were ready for bed at 1AM, and the lights went out. Called the power company, nobody else had called, but they would check it out. Heard the truck go by, and got a phone call to ask if they were on, and on steady. Sure were, only it was 2:45. After going around and shutting off the lights now burning brightly, could not get to sleep. Tried, then wife wanted a shower, and we had to be on the road by 8 anyhow. Made it to first doctor appt. at 9, sat there 90 minutes, and had to leave to make next dr. appt. Then got a quick bite, to get to dialysis by 12:30. Parked in a shady spot, read and slept for the next 3 hours. Got home with a pizza, and too beat to do anything. Am thinking I will sleep good.
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Today I've been working on an old crown logo Craftsman manual reel mower.
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I had a handiman customer last week who's has some security issues - wondered if I had any ideas about helping her make her second floor condominium more secure. Never figured I'd ever be a security specialist but, you go where the work is. A door jammer for the front door, sliding window locks for her kitchen window.
She has two sliding glass patio doors that she's concerned about. Told her, "Look, nothing is 100%. if someone determined to get in, they will. All you can do is make things more difficult for the intruder. They're basically lazy - if they come to a place that's got any difficulties, they'll usually move on, as there's plenty of easy targets."
I've designed a metal-conduit type of door stop that I have in my sliding door (there's now a security door on the outside, so, it's kinda redundant). But it's cheap, easy to make and use, and has almost no permanent alterations to the door frame so she can have it and it won't be a problem if she goes to sell the condo. We'll see if Ace Hardware can understand my drawings and dimensions. It'll cost her if I have to watch them make it or buy the raw materials and fab it at my shop. She can buy something similar off of Amazon for $18 each, but the cost of steel tubing is so cheap it'd be better for me to get it for her.
One end of the rod is held up by a self-tapping screw on the stationary door, and the other end is notched to mesh with the handle attachment brackett, preventing the door from being slid open even if left unlocked.
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The notched end is more easily seen in this shot. $5 worth of scrap and about 30 minutes work, and one can only get in by breaking the glass. Which is not quiet. Someone tries doing that is going to get a baseball bat (or worse) in the head. :(
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Put the first coat of resurfacer on the deck this afternoon -- what a job! I'll let it dry until tomorrow and then add the second coat. This Deck-Restore stuff is great! Fills cracks and holes and after two coasts it'll be like a new deck. It goes on slow, and boy!!! does my old back hurt after five hours of rolling that paint. Second coat should go faster -- hopefully!!
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Got the reel mower back together, now I just have to come up with some sort of solution for the missing roller.
It had been found in a trash pile and that's probably why, that or a case of " big boy mower " syndrome.
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Hick, get two 6" rubber wheels with the bearing for a 3/8" axle. Bolt and spacers to the rear slots that adjusted the roller heights. I did that to one so I could flip it backwards and walk it on the road wheels job to job. It works perfectly.
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George, I use broom handles cut to fit, dropped in the bottom rail. My four sliders have near no effective lock when not broken. Two are broken.
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Hick, get two 6" rubber wheels with the bearing for a 3/8" axle. Bolt and spacers to the rear slots that adjusted the roller heights. I did that to one so I could flip it backwards and walk it on the road wheels job to job. It works perfectly.
That could work.
I'll see what I can figure out with what I've got laying around first.
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I worked all day and got nothing done. >:(
Started the day off working on the wifes disappearing fountain project. Got rained out of that before noon. 1 1/2in. rain this morning.
The axles on my cattle trailer are jacked up so I've been working on swapping them out. I've got a good set that were under a horse trailer. really nice axles just 6.5in too wide. Cut them down and was trying to weld them up and :-\ I cant see the weld. WTF???? Then I remember that's a new hood and the magnifier hasn't been put in it yet. ;D Got the axles welded together and hung on new Ubolts and springs. But one of the wheels doesn't fit.... yup 3 ford wheels and one chevy wheel. :-[ :-[ will get a new hub coming tomorrow.
Nothing completed and I worn out.
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Thats funny. I spent half the day doing long unfinished jobs and half the afternoon getting other jobs started so I could finish them faster next week.
Puttered some in the shoppette getting some details like fixing a folding chair and hanging fine art in it.
The upper rear patio painting is FINALLY finished and the lower completely done with touch up paint to hide kid and water damages. Having the whole place painted white inside and out helps.
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George, I use broom handles cut to fit, dropped in the bottom rail. My four sliders have near no effective lock when not broken. Two are broken.
Yeah, that works if the sliding door is using the inside rail (and the stationary door is on the outside). My slider uses the outer rail, with the stationary door is in the inside channel.
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Yeah, that works if the sliding door is using the inside rail (and the stationary door is on the outside). My slider uses the outer rail, with the stationary door is in the inside channel.
The slider on the outside rail is a very poor design security wise IMO. I like to run a series of screws part way in the header to prevent the door from being pried up and pulled out. Still the AL/glass doors are not great security although a smart bad guy won't intentionally break the glass but an amateur or druggie will. Bonney that was a very clever solution.
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At my house it's just a board with a handle on it that drops right Into the track, not that anyone in their right mind would break into a house with a 64lb pitbull.
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The wife and I went on a short road trip Friday before last and it was sort of a disaster ! We were going to a small town here named Egypt, just because it was there !
Trouble was the two maps I used were useless, and the mapping app on my phone was confused as well.
After a few wrong turns and a small argument with mama, we went to Wharton, Texas instead for lunch.
We did see that Wharton County Courthouse and the famous TeePee Motel. We also saw some cotton bales in Needville , Texas.
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1945/45041190101_18caa0157b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2bC8SB8)Wharton County Courthouse 2 (https://flic.kr/p/2bC8SB8) by Noel Hankamer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/), on Flickr
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After our recent screwed up outing, the wife and I and a friend went to Birraporetti's in Friendswood, Texas to see a band called The Grateful Geezers. We had last seen them twenty years ago, and though some members have changed, the entertainment was superb ! They sing and play oldies, country, blues, rock, and R&B tunes.
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1975/44993612832_a687ecc544_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2bxW2xo)Lead singer Mike Duffy on the spoons (https://flic.kr/p/2bxW2xo) by Noel Hankamer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/), on Flickr
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1906/45041391291_42e5da3f19_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2bC9UpV)Lead Singer Mike Duffy crooning (https://flic.kr/p/2bC9UpV) by Noel Hankamer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/), on Flickr
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1918/44130423645_f51ee53163_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2aeDXtc)Lead Guitar Cliff Faldowski (https://flic.kr/p/2aeDXtc) by Noel Hankamer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/), on Flickr
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1925/44130419475_f13b11271c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2aeDWei)Drummer Steve Allison (https://flic.kr/p/2aeDWei) by Noel Hankamer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/), on Flickr
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1910/30106186347_7039e00521_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MSo5jp)Master Bassist Bill Rowe (https://flic.kr/p/MSo5jp) by Noel Hankamer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/), on Flickr
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Cotton is still king along the gulf coast.
Bucees is about the only stop I make in Wharton any more.
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A busy day in the shop tearing down a Sentra front end and putting it back together. Two other cars passed through also which is a really good day at our shop.
got home to stain and seal more curtain rod parts and get them ready to istall tomorrow.
Some midnight tin bending in the shoppette for yet another silly brainfart idea. The joy is I have my place far enough away from sleeping beauty where I can play at any hour without waking anyone up. I will need more junk tin soon at this rate. i am close to buring up the last big chunk.
The dream is real and its hard to grasp some days. I have my hidey hole.
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On the way to get some blood drawn, I shot these photos of grain elevators. One in Black and White, and one to show how nice colors are in the "Golden Hour" .
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Nice photos Noel.
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Nice photos Noel.
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You guys do take some killer pics for sure!
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Big day, closed on 1/2 section of land, timber and pasture.
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Big day, closed on 1/2 section of land, timber and pasture.
Congratulations!
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Big day, closed on 1/2 section of land, timber and pasture.
1/2 section. you got room for a huge shop. :)
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Today it didn't rain, been coming down for the last week, just enough to not get much done. So this afternoon I got back to my pickup with the rusted brake line. Had found a compression sleeve in the 1/4 inch line from someones old repair. Compression sleeves are not for the high pressure of a brake system, double flares only. Problem is that the crossmember is in the way, just enough room to get my hands in there to cut, the tube and flare it. This is back inside the channel of the frame, not great access. 3rd try got a nice square double flare, even remembered to put the fitting on the tube first. Hour of flat on my back, with head down somewhat brought on a 5 beer hangover type of headache, so had to quit for awhile. Right can't handle beer anymore. Glad that job is done.
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Big day, closed on 1/2 section of land, timber and pasture.
Buying or selling?
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Bought it, turned out to be 323.05 acres, so I got 3.05 acres free. Within a mile of my ranch. Has a big hay field, main reason I bought it and will lease it out for hunting. Hunting leases in this area for around $10.00 per acre a year and taxes on it are less than $1.00 per acre a year.
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Made a crock pot full of shredded pork to take to the airport for our monthly meeting and potluck. Just had a good hour of rain with some heavy rain coming down. This is the first soaking rain we have had since spring. Big puddles on the property while it was raining good and the ground is so dry it has soaked it all up. I hope it has reduced the fire danger a little.
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Bought it, turned out to be 323.05 acres, so I got 3.05 acres free. Within a mile of my ranch. Has a big hay field, main reason I bought it and will lease it out for hunting. Hunting leases in this area for around $10.00 per acre a year and taxes on it are less than $1.00 per acre a year.
Sounds like a nice little passive income producer
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the boss came in early today and we had the auto stuffed back in the Honda by noon. All assem led and ready to test run by 2. Owner refused all other details it needs and just went for the main swal oil leak leaving a bunch of stuff foe paying double and triple labor.
Whatever. His car his rules. It could have been cheaper for him. Its like living in the land of half assed repairs and knowing the results long term.
Other than that a lot of progress for a change feels good.
I have been carrying a phone around several years and only using it for calls. Today I finally tried to post a picture from it and it worked great. I have no idea why it was never attempted before.
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Blue Angels just landed at our local airport for the show this weekend. I'm surprised they came this early but maybe they just wanted to get out of the Bay Area where they performed for San Francisco Fleet Week.
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I wouldn't be at all surprised if you get a few free airshows from them. I used to work in San Diego a lot at a facility across the street from Miramar AFB. The Blue Angeles would practice all week before the airshows and if I was there that week got to see them up close. Very cool to see.
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I did some work today on a 1981 produced Benjamin 342 multi stroke air rifle I got the other day.
The keyed rivet in the pump linkage was broken, but suprisingly once I replaced the rivet with one i had on hand and gave it some oil it pumps up strong and holds air over night.
I did all that on Saturday, today I gave the wood a basic refinish by sanding off the old varnish and giving it some coats of BLO.
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I just wanted it clean it up a bit while still keeping it honest, not that I have an iron to steam the dents out with anyways.
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Chased down a rear tail light problem on my '88 Mazda before the annual inspection today. It's refreshing to work on older cars sometimes because everything isn't controlled by some intermediate module or the main computer. Grabbed an old 12V Snap-On test light and traced the circuit with powers/grounds to find a corroded ground wire rubbing on the frame. Quick fix with a soldering gun and it was "good to go!"
One thing that occurred to to me as I was splicing the harness is that in the "old days" the manufcaturers used a much heavier gauge wire in their harnesses. Compared to modern cars, the contrast is very significant. Saving a few dollars on copper and weight is NOT necessarily progress in these new, overly complex modern harness designs.
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Do the newer cars even use copper wire?
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Yesterday's adventures.
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I was actually working
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Interesting Japanese made crescent. The other side says Chrome Vanadium and Japan.
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Worked, then came home and went for a walk with the family (Mandy Sam, and Max)
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Blue Angels practiced twice today. We are 2-3/4 miles from the runway and about 300' higher in elevation. Sorry for the lousy pics but when they are moving fast in poor lighting and zoomed a little the phone doesn't take the best pics.They give you an idea of what we get to watch from the back deck.
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Painted the deck railings with stain and water proofing. Still have some more to do tomorrow and I’m feeling the lower back right now.
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This morning I drove the 25 miles up to Lake Tahoe to get some Powerball and Mega Millions tickets. Nobody in line ahead of me as usual at this little gas station less than 1/2 in from the state line. That was far enough into that state for me but I still left the carry at home. It is not worth the risk of even having it properly locked up empty and magazines and ammo in a locked container in the bed of the truck. ::)
No lotto here as the casinos don't want any competition.
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Watched a Dodgefiatlanciaalpharomeo vision go home after a rocker panel repair. Not a horrible car really despite a sketchy family tree.
A Lancia body with Fiat power and Dodge electronics... what could go wrong?
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A Lancia body with Fiat power and Dodge electronics... what could go wrong?
Seems like a perfect marriage
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Watched a Dodgefiatlanciaalpharomeo vision go home after a rocker panel repair. Not a horrible car really despite a sketchy family tree.
A Lancia body with Fiat power and Dodge electronics... what could go wrong?
Never heard of a Lancia, had to Google it.
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Never heard of a Lancia, had to Google it.
Lancia has been brought over a couple times last I believe was in the 70's. The last good one had running boards and a crank.
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Buy a new Dodgy Vision and you can own a new one. You like Mopig so it might be a good choice.
Honestly it isn't really a horrible car compared to the French Nissans.
Lancia could make a car that rusted out in five years in the Sahara. The had some sporty stuff but the bodies turned to a brown stain and four tires while you were shopping.
Watched a Dodgefiatlanciaalpharomeo vision go home after a rocker panel repair. Not a horrible car really despite a sketchy family tree.
A Lancia body with Fiat power and Dodge electronics... what could go wrong?
Never heard of a Lancia, had to Google it.
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Steve's right. Back in the late 70's and early 80's Lancia was Fiat's performance sports car division. The brands shared many components and engines. Both were susceptible to electronic failures and prone to major body rot problems. Fiat pulled both Lancia and their Fiat brand from the US market in the early 80's.
That said, when tuned and maintained, the damn things were excellent handling and performing sports cars. Unfortunately many American customers had the same maintenance mindset with a Lancia or Fiat as they would with a Ford or Chevy; change the oil every now and then and forget about it.
Lancia dominated on the European rally circuit for many years. They had much less money and only FWD cars and still managed to beat the pants off of the Audi Quattro teams.
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They had much less money and only FWD cars and still managed to beat the pants off of the Audi Quattro teams.
Now that is impressive
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Well the 04 Astro is beginning to show it's age in several areas.
Had the rear door stops showing severe wear. Bad design, soft steel hinge that flexes every time and are now failing to hold the doors open. (In the pic you can see how the paint has flaked off due to the steel flexing). Can't remove them, as one time the wind snatched a door out of my hands and it flipped around 180 degrees and dented the door! >:(
So I removed the passenger side (which gets used slightly more) - the door stop was almost fatigue-cracked all the way through. Couldn't undo the 3 bolts, because the nuts on the other side are tucked in behind the plastic tail light shell. Had to break my way into there, remove the nuts and stop, and fashion something that would work and not flex. Found a shelf brace at Ace of the right thickness and basic shape (4$ and tax!!!), and after a couple of attempts got a pull design that seems to work well. Will give it a workout for a couple of weeks - if it appears to hold I'll make another one for the opposite door.
Also thinking of converting the van to full personal use so it'll be a hippy/camper van. :D Good for short trips or get out of dodge situations. So need to rig up a handle and lock so the rear doors can be opened from the inside. Little engineering there. Then I'll draw up plans for a layout.
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Changing the front struts on my 09 Ford F150 because one spring had broke, so changing them both. Had to separate the top ball joint, wound up cutting the nut off. Had to separate the sway bar and wound up cutting that nut off to. Now going to the store to buy more nuts. The bottom nut on the strut itself is a 30mm and has 300lbs of torque. I hope the other side goes better. It's suppose to be a 1 1/2 job. In a full shop maybe but not in the driveway.
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Changing the front struts on my 09 Ford F150 because one spring had broke, so changing them both. Had to separate the top ball joint, wound up cutting the nut off. Had to separate the sway bar and wound up cutting that nut off to. Now going to the store to buy more nuts. The bottom nut on the strut itself is a 30mm and has 300lbs of torque. I hope the other side goes better. It's suppose to be a 1 1/2 job. In a full shop maybe but not in the driveway.
I always figure double the amount of time they say. I am no pro wrench, though very well equipped I am still no pro so I figure twice the amount of time.
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Stood in line for 30 minutes this afternoon to vote. Talking with the election watch and she said they are getting a thousand people a day. Damned impressive turnout for a mid term election.
Now to mount up 4 trailer tires that Amazon delivered. ;D Chinamee 10plies. only the best for my cows. ;D
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Some more paint on the cherokee patching and a Venture van in for tune up and suspension work. I got the front back under it ready to align before I left.
Makes for a lazy morn to wake up slowly at work. The boss ia usually quute late.
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I sold a bunch of antique wrenches of the beat up variety to a shop that had no big wrenches. Now he has big heavy duty anti-bling wrenches and on the cheap. For a change it was hard to sell the 3/4" and smaller. Weird.
I have not even offered metrics yet until the one guy sees them.
Not a challenge to sell dbe or metric combos but these big old carbon steel things are for targeted buyers at best. 80 years in and more to go. Lol!
I am happy to own 8 less tools as they are tomorrows market money. Sweet!
We did some car repairs today too but I forgot what we did.
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Installed my rebuilt PS pump on the Mazda truck, and changed the oil on the wife's Traverse. A good afternoon's work in the garage. It was cold and rainy out, but the garage was nice and warm
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Baked a honey bread and had my parents over for lunch for my mother's birthday.
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Not today, but Saturday, spent the evening at the Metallica show....
Awesome 2+ hour set.
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Cut up two 35 foot electric poles into five seven foot posts each. Co-op left them for me when they changed out a couple of poles on my ranch. Good day to have forks on the JD.
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Drove into Omaha today, ran some errands. Ate at Cracker Barrel, played the golf tee game, got down to 3, then 2 then 1! Stopped at the big antique mall. Limited myself to .5 hour walk thru. Found a Vise Grip belt pouch, with a five inch Nebraska made Vise Grip in there for $6. Mainly wanted the belt pouch. Got a battery for my back up car, and changed oil in my Jeep, all before dark.
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Got my air compressor mounted back up on the loft it lives on. Darn pump locked up last week, apparently you need to check the oil in them :-[
Being mounted on a loft frees up floor space but makes maintenance harder. Replaced the pump and all is good to go.
Sad thing, I missed out on a fairly new 80 gal IR compressor from a living estate I picked 2 months ago. The compressor sells for about $1500 and they were asking $600. I offered $400 as an open offer if they couldn't get it sold. They let it and the balance of the tools go to an auction house I recommended and the auction company dropped the compressor. My buddy told me they bent the flywheel (pulley). I wonder if it wasn't the shaft they bent. My buddy says he wished he had taken my offer.
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Brake job at work.
Gave the dog a bath.
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Mama said Sam is so cute and i have to agree :-*
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Mama said Sam is so cute and i have to agree :-*
+1 -- He seems like a very well adjusted and happy little boy. Time flies so fast at this stage; enjoy the ride Tim.
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Thanks guys, we really are lucky and he is a very good kid, always smiling, sleeps through the night, he listens very well for his age (13 months) and barely fusses. Hopefully he decides to stay this way!
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Been busy getting set up for an Art Walk we have twice a year. I will selling photo prints.
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Started Saturday with 13 pregnant boer goats, yesterday there were 21 babies running around. Mass confusion trying to figure out who came from who.
5 months ago Billy was a very busy boy.
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Picked up the wife from work and headed to the old courthouse to vote. I hoped it wouldn't be busy since it is Halloween and I was right and we walked right in and voted. I love it when a plan comes together.
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Installed a new starter on my newer Gator today, should have been an easy job. However, couldn't get to one of the bolts without removing other parts and the easy job went to hell. Got it done.
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I'm a machinist. Currently working in a pretty large operation.
I'm running a small Okuma MX45VAE three axis cnc vertical machining center (mill). I do exclusively hard milling on heat treated A2, D2, and S7 tool steel parts. These parts are 54-58 Rockwell and chew up the tooling.
About half of my work I finish, mostly thread milling and helical milling slip fit dowel holes (+/- .002", +.005"/-0, etc). The other half of my work is "semi-finishing" parts for the jig grinder, which finish the press fit dowel holes +.0002"/-0.
I have to hold parts to pretty tight locational tolerances however. +/-.0002" very common, occasionally +/-.0005" or +/-.002".
Each part usually takes more time to indicate than run. In a production setting this gets tedious. I have only worked in job shops in the past, with a much wider variety of work, so this is a change.
For example, parts I ran today are precision ground adapter discs. They have a variety of different types of holes in a circle, dowel holes, tapped holes, counterbored holes, etc. I first put an undersize gage pin in my drill chuck, and lower it into hole I will cut, which roughly clocks the part. The part is unclamped and against stops, just move til the pin drops.
I then screw in two widgets called thread locators into two tapped holes (assuming they will thread in, threads do weird stuff in heat treat, thats why I have an assortment of carbide taps). These locators have a threaded end, a small knurled ring, and then a small precision ground post that lets you accurately indicate tapped holes. I indicate these posts alternately and give the part small taps until posts are on location within .005", and then I clamp the part down.
Then get a different indicator and pick up the datum (usually a ground ID or OD) and try to get as close to dead nuts as I can. The best I've seen is about .0001" TIR, I don't know if the grinders can do any better. Set that point as zero, and hit cycle start. Then 5 minutes later...do it again.
Pardon the rambling.
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Thanks for the description of your work. I was a happy camper about 15 years ago when I discovered I could turn heat treated punches and dies 58-62 Rockwell with ceramic inserts. I kept heat treated P&Ds on the shelf in a range of sizes and could turn them to a size the customer wanted fast. It beat taking a roughed out P&D to heat treat and then grind to finished size after H/T. We offered punched blanks, circles and holes to .005 call out in any size and could do tighter if needed.
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Moved some junk around and got junk ready to go to auction.
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Is that B John Deere going away too? Never seen a mechanical lift blade like that.
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I finally got a chance to sleep in till noon! Been working way too much.
Once I got out of bed I went outside and shoveled the huge dump of snow we got the day before. Then I washed, gassed up and put the Miata away for the winter. Cleaned up the garage and did some yard winterizing stuff.
The wife made an awesome turkey dinner and then I fell asleep in my recliner. Now it's quarter to two and I'm wide awake.
I really need to catch up with you guys here. All work and no talking to weirdos makes Bruce a boring guy.
Work usually slows up in winter so I'll have more time to hang out with you degenerates! lol
Hope everyone's doing well.
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I really need to catch up with you guys here. All work and no talking to weirdos makes Bruce a boring guy.
Work usually slows up in winter so I'll have more time to hang out with you degenerates! lol
Hope everyone's doing well.
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@ coolmercury ; and the easy job went to hell. That's funny.. seems to always happen. It is said two things we cannot avoid. Paying taxes and dying, I know of three myself .
@ Muddy ........ The tractor is in really nice shape looks new..what year is it?
Had the pleasure of operating an A model mid 60's. Shifter between the legs on the floor, no synchros in the gear box LOL.
My uncle farmed in Indiana, grade A milk cows and corn. Country side, and farm equipment dealers were all green. Had the combine, manure loader, disc plow, and a bucket that I remember
Would go up every summer and work.
Your son sure has grown ..... !
Pep
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That old JD looks good. don't see many with that blade setup around here. we don't have any of the white stuff to push around.
We went to the final races of the year at our local dirt track. its a memorial event for one of the drivers who passed away a few years back. lots of money gets put up and lots of cars showed up. 144 total. made for some really good races but it was a long night. Sport mod A main wrapped up at 0200. we,ve been having a lot of rain in the area so the parking was fun. Got to use the new trucks 4x4 feature. it worked ;D
Bruce :: good to see ya posting again. I was wondering what you been up to.
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No the B isn't going anywhere, it was my grandfather's and was one of 3 B's that farmed roughly 250 acres for close to 40 years.
It is a 1948 I restored it in his honor unfortunately he passed before seeing it completed.
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No pics, but spent yesterday fighting the rear brakes on our '01 Yukon XL. both of the rear calipers were sticking, causing the inside pad to wear on the rotor.... Well the driver side the inner pad was gone, and one of the bolts holding the bracket on, the head stripped on me. A bit of fighting with the angle & die grinders, I managed to get a Hex back on it, and tapped a socket on and finally got the bolt out, after heating the bracket with a propane plumbing torch for 20 mins. A trip to the Hardware store (once the step daughter got home) and $2.15 later I had a new M14x40 bolt to put in.
The brackets were all cleaned up once I finally got those god forsaken T55 headed slider bolts out after stripping not one but two T55 bits, even with penetrating fluid on them. (the second one, I just cut the sliders since the calipers were getting replaced anyway) Thank god the replacement calipers came with hex headed guides. Had to beat the driver side rotor off of the axle, when the pass side slipped right off, go figure.
In all it was like 5 stinkin' hours to change just the rear brakes. I'll wait for the next decent day to do the front ones next.
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Bruce, good to see you posting. I was worried about you. I would hate to see all the abuse revert back to me :))
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Bruce, good to see you posting. I was worried about you. I would hate to see all the abuse revert back to me :))
LOL Phil!! :D :D :D -- Nice to see you back up and runnin' Bruce.
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Yesterday I took my cat to the vet to get her spayed and innoculated .
She was a stray that adopted us a few months ago, despite my wife's allergies. I tried to get her in a carrier back then, but failed.
Then she got pregnant and had 5 kittens, so 7 more weeks passed. We were able to give away all the kittens, and I managed to get her in the carrier and took her in.
She is now fixed, has her shots, and is microchipped. Her name is Skinny Minnie because though she is about a year old, she is extremely skinny and weighs only about 7 pounds.
She is now home resting, eating, and being spoiled.
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Remarkable coloring very striking kitty.
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Remarkable coloring very striking kitty.
+1 very nice looking kitty!
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She is what is known as a Tortoiseshell , or Torty . A type of Calico that is almost always female.
Like Calico cats, it is said they are "born pregnant " !
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Came home from work, after supper I started working on one of Sam's Christmas presents.
I'm going to repaint this pedal tractor for him. Not going to be a goodfellow type restoration, just something to look nice.
As I was a little boy once, I know this thing is gonna get beat! Maybe when he's an adult bill do a full restoration.
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Cool project Muddy!!
If you did a GF resto,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,he'd be too big to ride it by the time you got it done :D
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Very nice Muddy. I'll bet that is the first tractor you've been able to set on your work bench for rebuild.
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Yesterday I took my cat to the vet to get her spayed and innoculated .
She was a stray that adopted us a few months ago, despite my wife's allergies. I tried to get her in a carrier back then, but failed.
Then she got pregnant and had 5 kittens, so 7 more weeks passed. We were able to give away all the kittens, and I managed to get her in the carrier and took her in.
She is now fixed, has her shots, and is microchipped. Her name is Skinny Minnie because though she is about a year old, she is extremely skinny and weighs only about 7 pounds.
She is now home resting, eating, and being spoiled.
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Beauty!
Our "Nichee" (she found her niche in life with us) showed up as a starving stray over 15 years ago and the vet figured she was about a year old at the time. After bringing me some freshly killed rodents and showing herself to be completely gentle when mishandled by our then 2 1/2 yr old daughter, she had found her permanent home with us. Fantastic cat, companion and friend to us all.
She went outside early this last Sunday evening, curled up on the lawn and went to sleep for the last time. We laid her to rest in our garden last night.
I think strays manage to find the family meant for them...I hope you and Skinnie Minnie enjoy many years together!
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Well, finally got the indoor operating handle for the rear door installed today. Had to do everything by hand. It doesn't look half bad, and interfaces with the existing door mechanism. Now gotta get to work on a lock/unlock knob, and finish the drivers door stop.
Kinda a necessity if I'm going to convert the van from work to personal use. I'm aiming for a 60's hippy look! :))
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Today, got my auto mechanic card up to date. Yesterday, took my 96 Chevy pu for a 100 mile trip, and off and on had a severe vibration. After a few miles no vibration at 65, but at 45 it was bad. Coming out of town it started at 55, then disappeared. Checked for mud in the wheels, nope. Wheels all tight. So figured it must be a U-Joint. Chevy has 207,000, and didn't look like the joints had ever been touched. Got my shop all plugged with projects, so have to work outside. This morning it was 25 degrees, with forecast of snow coming. Dressed warm, and laid out cardboard to slide under the truck. The four 7/16s headed bolts on the rear shaft were not too rusty. With the gas tank real close, and the drift shaft being aluminum, could only fit in a box end wrench. Rust penetrant on everything, especially the U joint caps. Took a little over an hour to get the four bolts out, not much room to turn a wrench, and looked like thread locker on them still. All four needed encouragement of a 3 lb. hammer. Then could not budge the shaft from the differential flange. Tapped, pried, talked sweetly to it. Couldn't whack the shaft too hard being aluminum. One does not want to distort the holes the U joint cups reside in. Fired up the compressor, then went hunting up at the old shop for my long hose. Found it after 10 minutes, snapped on my air chisel, with hammer tool. A quick rat-a-tat, and the shaft practically fell off. As I figured two of the cups were stuck pretty good. Ones at the front felt fine. Soaked it all in penetrant and went in the house to eat and warm up. Snow might be on the way so back on with the Carhartt coat, and didn't have much trouble at all driving out the cups from the aluminum shaft. Cleaned up the holes, especially the groove the snap ring goes in, got out the new U joint I bought yesterday on my way home, then it all went downhill. Counter man gave me the wrong one, not even close. So, since that parts store is 30 miles away, decided to try the little store in my hometown here, which is only 10 miles away. . Grabbed my phone and billfold, and watching the closing in sky, made the quick trip in. They had one, and made sure by comparing it to the one I just removed. Sky getting darker, is already past 3, beat feet back home. Things went scarily easy putting the new joint in. Got the snap rings seated, then smacked the end of the shaft a couple times, which freed it up to turn. Slid back under the Chevy then back out, removed billfold from hip pocket,, in with the shaft. With oil on the bolt threads, was able to use my old flat ratchet wrench. Snugged it all down, gathered up the tools, and put things away. I use a little box for tools and fasteners when out on the ground, and I loaded my billfold in with the tools. Picked up the wood blocks behind the wheels, and put the PU back in its usual spot. Now seeing a few flurries. Got in the house,, plugged in my phone, and no billfold. Back to the shop, nothing on the tool box, and billfold wouldn't fit in any of the drawers. Checked the grass outside, nothing. Back to the house, nope, not anywhere. Back outside, checked to see if I left it in the PU, nope. Walked the path to the house slowly, and just as I grabbed the stair rail, found my billfold in the big slide pocket of the Carrhart coat. Fed the animals, remove the muddy boots, and clock on the wall said 5PM, little over 5.5 hours for a 90 minute job. All I have to do now it return the first U joint. Glad I wasn't on the clock trying to make a paycheck on this one. Got to get a hoist, in my shop.
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Sounds like a normal day around here. >:(
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Sounds like one of my days !
I once went to change U-Joints on my 98 Sierra- those that come with no zerks, and when I tried to knock them out like we used to do in older trucks, they wouldn't budge !
After watching me bang on them for a while, my neighbor came over and told me they had plastic rings holding them in !
Just a few hits with the torch and the plastic just oozed out. Two or three hours for disassembly and 30 minutes for reassembly.
Thinking about t, those -joints are still on the shaft and serving me well after a couple hundred thousand more miles.
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Came home from work, after supper I started working on one of Sam's Christmas presents.
I'm going to repaint this pedal tractor for him. Not going to be a goodfellow type restoration, just something to look nice.
As I was a little boy once, I know this thing is gonna get beat! Maybe when he's an adult bill do a full restoration.
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Awesome. My son has the Ford 8N version of that tractor. He is almost 8 so probably only a few years left to play with it. He likes hooking his wagon to the back of it.
AJ
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Sounds like one of my days !
I once went to change U-Joints on my 98 Sierra- those that come with no zerks, and when I tried to knock them out like we used to do in older trucks, they wouldn't budge !
After watching me bang on them for a while, my neighbor came over and told me they had plastic rings holding them in !
Just a few hits with the torch and the plastic just oozed out. Two or three hours for disassembly and 30 minutes for reassembly.
Thinking about t, those -joints are still on the shaft and serving me well after a couple hundred thousand more miles.
Years ago I made that same mistake when trying to change the u-joints on my 1986 GMC. Sadly, I did not give up trying to press the u-joint out until I actually cracked and broke in half a very nice quality old vise, (a big vise too) One of the few times in my life I resorted to cheatering the handle and I know well that if I kept pushing it I was going to break that vise which sadly I did. Only afterward did I find out about needing to use a torch on that kind of u-joint.
I have never again resorted to cheatering the handle on a vise and never will. That was about 25 years ago and I knew better when I did it.
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Years ago I made that same mistake when trying to change the u-joints on my 1986 GMC. Sadly, I did not give up trying to press the u-joint out until I actually cracked and broke in half a very nice quality old vise, (a big vise too) One of the few times in my life I resorted to cheatering the handle and I know well that if I kept pushing it I was going to break that vise which sadly I did. Only afterward did I find out about needing to use a torch on that kind of u-joint.
I have never again resorted to cheatering the handle on a vise and never will. That was about 25 years ago and I knew better when I did it.
What brand of vise was it?
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I always wanted one of those peddle tractors when I was a little skinner. Now I've got a back yard full of tractors.
Woulda been way cheaper to have gotten that out of my system way back then. ;D
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Came home from work, after supper I started working on one of Sam's Christmas presents.
I'm going to repaint this pedal tractor for him. Not going to be a goodfellow type restoration, just something to look nice.
As I was a little boy once, I know this thing is gonna get beat! Maybe when he's an adult bill do a full restoration.
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I am working on a similar project for our son. I went to the dealer to buy one for his birthday and promptly went on the hunt for a used one. At $457 for a new one it wasn’t to hard of a choice. Pictures to follow
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I always wanted one of those peddle tractors when I was a little skinner. Now I've got a back yard full of tractors.
Woulda been way cheaper to have gotten that out of my system way back then. ;D
Made me laugh ........... that's to funny ;D
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I have never been happy with the results of the shifter console cover and boot. The cover bright diamond plate, not a fit the conforms with the interior. Boot was not siting in the cutout correctly, fed up, yanked the console, start over.
Out of ideas was the hold up, made a first pattern, located the console cover mounting bracket. Drill and tape the screw holes for mounting.
I'll finish and install everything tomorrow, will look factory instead after market. Complement the interior and look like it belongs..... will see
Pep
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The project was simple. Drill a hole through a 5/8" bolt, so I can run a hairpin clip through it and keep the nut captive. It's a tractor implement application.
Well, 3 broken (and embedded) drill bits later, and 6 "entry points" into the bolt, and I finally got one through to the other side (lets not worry about it being off-centered), despite using a drill press and marking the entry and exit points.
Sheesh...I am a swiss cheese drilling failure on such a simple task.
No pics...that would truly be embarrassing.
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Not an easy task. Last time I ground a flat spot where I wanted the entry hole and ran a die back over the threads after. Allowed me to centerpunch where I wanted the hole so the bit didn't dance all over.
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J.A.F.E.----You are smarter than you look in your picture!!! :))
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Finished the console upgrade, couple of process shots.
Looks like it belongs.
....... better
Pep
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yeah that looks better.
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J.A.F.E.----You are smarter than you look in your picture!!! :))
I get that a lot.
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Had a birthday party for some family members.
Sam was "driving" the grain truck.
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He's driving, because he was the only one sober ;D, or training for the future? :D
Cute kid and better looking than his father :-\
Cheers,
Pep
Thanks Slip Knot
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Sam is growing like a weed! -- handsome little guy
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Not an easy task. Last time I ground a flat spot where I wanted the entry hole and ran a die back over the threads after. Allowed me to centerpunch where I wanted the hole so the bit didn't dance all over.
That is the way to do it. What grade was the bolt?
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Last night the wife pulled it off again as usual. We went the Country Club Restaurant for dinner and I was surprised when 4 friends walked in the door to join us. She always pulls something off for my birthday even though today is my birthday but the restaurant is closed on Sunday.
I had the Opakapaka (Hawaiian Pink Snapper) which I never had before and it was great. We also ate Basque style which is family style and they bring out endless salad, soup, beans and fries. It also included tongue stew, which is fantastic, a carafe of red wine, ice cream and coffee. You don't leave that place hungry for sure.
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Happy birthday DeadNutz!!!
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What grade was the bolt?
Grade 8 I think.
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Went to gun show not expecting to get anything....
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^^^^22 Ruger? I have one of them
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Thanks J.A.F.E. There were a few less candles on my cup of ice cream at the restaurant. ;)
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^^^^22 Ruger? I have one of them
Yep Mark1 had one when I was younger, traded it, missed it, so I bought this one.
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Years ago I made that same mistake when trying to change the u-joints on my 1986 GMC. Sadly, I did not give up trying to press the u-joint out until I actually cracked and broke in half a very nice quality old vise, (a big vise too) One of the few times in my life I resorted to cheatering the handle and I know well that if I kept pushing it I was going to break that vise which sadly I did. Only afterward did I find out about needing to use a torch on that kind of u-joint.
I have never again resorted to cheatering the handle on a vise and never will. That was about 25 years ago and I knew better when I did it.
What brand of vise was it?
I don't recall. I just remember it was a good one, something like a Reed or other such quality brand. The only brands that I know it was not are Wilton and Columbian. It was a quality old timer with little wear.
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^^^^22 Ruger? I have one of them
Yep Mark1 had one when I was younger, traded it, missed it, so I bought this one.
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I had one myself years ago. I sold it and never regretted it either. One of the only firearms I ever sold and did not later regret.
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There were a few less candles on my cup of ice cream at the restaurant. ;)
I should think so. I'm under the impression you're pretty young.
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^^^^22 Ruger? I have one of them
Yep Mark1 had one when I was younger, traded it, missed it, so I bought this one.
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I had one myself years ago. I sold it and never regretted it either. One of the only firearms I ever sold and did not later regret.
How come? Can't see it that was a performance problem? These guns are highly accurate and reliable.
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Started sanding..... My least favorite part
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If I was doing more than one, would think seriously about a Harbor Freight sand blaster. Sanding by hand, takes too much fun out of a project.
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Need a lot of air to run a sand blaster. I know I don't have enough in my shop.
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If I was doing more than one, would think seriously about a Harbor Freight sand blaster. Sanding by hand, takes too much fun out of a project.
Use liquid paint stripper (not around a pilot light on water heater or furnace) it will work great. Finish with steel wool or sandpaper.
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I have a large blast cabinet from TP Tools that I used for years restoring cars. Needs at least a continuous 90 psi to work correctly.
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My HF bead blaster runs best @50-60psi.
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Looking good Tim! Sam is gonna flip when he sees it.
320 is great, but before you prime or paint, run a small test on a hidden section of the tractor to make sure the new coat doesn't lift the original base coat. I've seen spray can primer and lacquer-based primers and paint enamel reducer lift and krinkle older paint finishes. Better safe than sorry.
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Haven't done much the last few days, but I did get a shot of my cat, Skinny Minnie sleeping in a box.
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Big day for me.
Took a years leave of absence and rolled the toolbox to another shop after 25 years.
I'm with the same company... just building scenery instead of props and special fx.
It's less artsy and more fartsy but just as difficult. And a scary decision at 52 years old.
Wish me luck
...Rob
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Thanks for the tip Ray!
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Big day for me.
Took a years leave of absence and rolled the toolbox to another shop after 25 years.
I'm with the same company... just building scenery instead of props and special fx.
It's less artsy and more fartsy but just as difficult. And a scary decision at 52 years old.
Wish me luck
...Rob
Best of luck Rob. I moved jobs in the early 2000s at age 50. It was worth it -
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Big day for me.
Took a years leave of absence and rolled the toolbox to another shop after 25 years.
I'm with the same company... just building scenery instead of props and special fx.
It's less artsy and more fartsy but just as difficult. And a scary decision at 52 years old.
Wish me luck
...Rob
Best of luck!
Shaking tings up once in a while is a good thing. And you're lucky you get to go back after a year.
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I refurbed a hose bibb, cleaned and serviced my new Shop Craft drill, added a seal to a watertight matches container, and finished installing the theft plate inside the door on my van. Pretty productive day!
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Big day for me.
Took a years leave of absence and rolled the toolbox to another shop after 25 years.
I'm with the same company... just building scenery instead of props and special fx.
It's less artsy and more fartsy but just as difficult. And a scary decision at 52 years old.
Wish me luck
...Rob
Good luck!
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Good luck and I hope it goes exactly as planned Rob.
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Best of luck Rob,
At 53 and considering the same course. I understand where your coming from. Been in this field for 30 yrs and ready to see something different.
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Best of luck Rob.
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Good luck with the new position, Rob!
At 56 I know retirement from the Navy is just around the corner, and probably sooner than I was thinking. I've been setting up a new business for the last year and can relate to the trepidation.
As for today, I went for an MRI due to my knee. Recent injury, probably a miniscus and hoping it will mend itself. That MRI machine's a noisy demon of a monster...I barely got any sleep!
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As for today, I went for an MRI due to my knee. Recent injury, probably a miniscus and hoping it will mend itself. That MRI machine's a noisy demon of a monster...I barely got any sleep!
I know how that is, lay in one last month. My miniscus is definitely torn. Now waiting for an appointment for them to operate.
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Rob, I am betting the change of scenery will do you good :)) Good luck!! What caused you to make the decision?
Rural and Bug, I had a meniscus repaired about a decade or so ago. Results were great. Incisions were sore but decreasingly so for 2 months. Keep the knee up and iced and all will go well. And yes the MRI is noisey
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More a what I've done this week. Sunday I opened the track up so a guy who had just bought a RZR could run it.
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Jason and Dyson bought their RZRs as well. Another couple of mates turned up and it turned into fun afternoon of driving. I got to have a drive of the turbo RZR (blue one). It is quite different to my N/A version (170hp vs 110hp).
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One of the guys arrived in this. A 2012 Holden GTS (Holden Commodore), #1 of 15 built for the 25th Anniversary of the Commodore. It is the only one of the 15 with a factory installed 6.2L supercharged Walkinshaw Racing V8. It is 550kW (740hp). It will shred a set of tyres in 7.2 seconds and accumulate speeding tickets with uncanny ease. For sale this week for only $150k (US$102k).
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Spent Monday and Tuesday in class for NZS 3910:2013 Conditions of contract for building and civil engineering construction, about as exciting as it sounds. Monday night headed to Jason's workshop. Some new gear has arrived. Pro-tools notcher and bender.
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Wednesday on site to look at a small job we designed. Upgrade of a road that a new school is being built at the end of. Before photo (last year) and one on Wednesday.
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Spent the rest of the week trying to catch up after loosing two days at the beginning of the week. It is now Friday and this is the view off the deck at work as I have a beer.
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Rural, that Holden looks sweet. So when are you taking delivery?
I have a question. The road to the school looks like a great improvement. How do the people in the neighborhood take change like that? Here,some folks would be complaining about the traffic, stealing a foot off their lawn etc?
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Thanks for sharing those great pics and stories Rural; -- much appreciated!
That Holden being as light as it is, coupled with that monster engine, must be a sight to see.
We had the same platform in the US about 10 years ago (Commodore platform) known as the Pontiac G8 and Chevy SS. They didn't get the high HP engine as you described above, but had some serious V8 power options -- some making in the mid-400's HP. It was a "wolf in sheep's clothing" -- but didn't sell well in the US market.
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Rob, I am betting the change of scenery will do you good :)) Good luck!! What caused you to make the decision?
Thanks everyone for the good wishes!!!
FF: I didn't like the quality of work we were putting out due to poor managerial communication. ;) Was that subtle enough?
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Strung copper across the floor, wife loves it ;D from the router to my computer, turned off the WI-FI and configured the Ethernet network. Computer, to switch, two other ports, one weather station computer, the other terminates at new modem/router/WI-FI hardware.
Like a copper internet connection, solid steady speeds, WI-FI, suffers some from interference. Any air broadcast signal does, just the way it is. With everyone sporting WI-FI these days, adds to the congestion ........ think traffic jam @ rush hour and things slow down.
Folks talk about ISP's throttling back network speed, I cannot prove that. Copper remains the same all day everyday. However I can detect speed changes and connection stalls on the WI-FI, 2.5 and the 5gb channels.
Now I have the Ethernet running, it's time to run the cable below the floor. Will not be to bad, have one hurtle to over come. There is a 2 x 10, 7ft in from the front edge of the garage wall. It spans between two floor joices of the bedroom floor. I must drill a hole in the lower corner to get the cable in the bedroom and up thru the floor.
So I'm building an 8ft drill bit in the morning and will have my way with it. talk about a single use tool bit .....LMAO it will look like a lance :-\
Enough rambling, report back later
Pep
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The installer who put my alarm system in had a drill bit @6ft long.1/2 in bit with a 3/16 spring steel extension, really flexible too. I was checking it out and he asked if I wanted it, seems it was getting dull. Sure I wanted it. after he left I sharpened it and have saved my butt with it a few times.
Do you know how hard it is to sharpen a 6 ft long drill bit?? :o
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I have a question. The road to the school looks like a great improvement. How do the people in the neighborhood take change like that? Here,some folks would be complaining about the traffic, stealing a foot off their lawn etc?
There are bound to be some complaints, people are people. These houses have no legal access to this road so have never really used the roadside grass. The whole city is growing at about 10%+ a year. In 2004 when I started working in Tauranga the population was about 100,000. It is now 140,000. When I got involved in this project six months ago the view behind where I took the photo from was of kiwifruit orchards. Now there are roads and they have built the first few new houses. The kiwifruit orchard behind the hedge on the right is about to be cleared for housing as well.
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The installer who put my alarm system in had a drill bit @6ft long.1/2 in bit with a 3/16 spring steel extension, really flexible too. I was checking it out and he asked if I wanted it, seems it was getting dull. Sure I wanted it. after he left I sharpened it and have saved my butt with it a few times.
Do you know how hard it is to sharpen a 6 ft long drill bit?? :o
Greenlee makes them with spade bits on them also
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The installer who put my alarm system in had a drill bit @6ft long.1/2 in bit with a 3/16 spring steel extension, really flexible too. I was checking it out and he asked if I wanted it, seems it was getting dull. Sure I wanted it. after he left I sharpened it and have saved my butt with it a few times.
Do you know how hard it is to sharpen a 6 ft long drill bit?? :o
Greenlee makes them with spade bits on them also
I used to sharpen a lot of those. Twist drills, spade, and auger style.
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There are bound to be some complaints, people are people. These houses have no legal access to this road so have never really used the roadside grass. The whole city is growing at about 10%+ a year. In 2004 when I started working in Tauranga the population was about 100,000. It is now 140,000. When I got involved in this project six months ago the view behind where I took the photo from was of kiwifruit orchards. Now there are roads and they have built the first few new houses. The kiwifruit orchard behind the hedge on the right is about to be cleared for housing as well.
On if the main reasons I’m back to working for a company that only works on water and wastewater plant projects. We always seem to work out of site out of mind. As long as the water comes out of the tap clean and the toilet smellers go away nobody complains. I have worked on road jobs like that and the crazy shit home owners try to pull is mind blowing.
One tried to sue me personally (I was an employee of the contractor) because I didn’t put her drive way approach in the way she wanted on the city property she didn’t own.
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Got the cable run done, pulled two cables. Bit worked great, problem was the hole in the floor I was after. Was on the the other side of the floor joyce. Sometimes even measuring 50 times you can still get it wrong . LMAO
So pressing on got everything in order, network is up. I'll clean the garage, work bench and every other corner the wood chips rained on. Poking holes for the wire to pas overhead tomorrow,.
I can tell you this I would not want to do data center cable runs and termination for a living. PIA :-\
I'll happily stick with the server side of things ..........
Pep
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Yesterday took some junk to the auction.
Today went to an indoor range with some family, to do some target practice.
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I got a small easel that a local painter had discarded. My 5 year old grandson shows extraordinary artistic talent, so I decided to fix it up for him. The swing out back leg was missing so I used a bamboo backscratcher to replace it.
The best part is that I got him out in the shop to help. He did well holding it ( with Papaw's help ) to thin it out with the belt sander. Didn't tell him it was for him, but when he gets it for Christmas, I hope he remembers working on it with Papaw.
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I got a small easel that a local painter had discarded. My 5 year old grandson shows extraordinary artistic talent, so I decided to fix it up for him. The swing out back leg was missing so I used a bamboo backscratcher to replace it.
The best part is that I got him out in the shop to help. He did well holding it ( with Papaw's help ) to thin it out with the belt sander. Didn't tell him it was for him, but when he gets it for Christmas, I hope he remembers working on it with Papaw.
Great job Noel! That boy will remember these times well into adulthood. I vividly remember "working" with both my dad and grandpa at an early age. It's burned into my memory and I was in hog heaven. Even at that young age I somehow knew it was a special time.
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On if the main reasons I’m back to working for a company that only works on water and wastewater plant projects. We always seem to work out of site out of mind. As long as the water comes out of the tap clean and the toilet smellers go away nobody complains. I have worked on road jobs like that and the crazy shit home owners try to pull is mind blowing.
Almost all my work is on the road. I haven't done a pure green fields job since 1997 (trade waste pump station for a new industrial subdivision). I have done a couple of road jobs in the last seven years that were over 50% green fields. Working away from the public is great.
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So tidying up the loose ends has now led to a reorg of the floor plan and some light tool storage, funny how that works. Need to grab a power strip from work, they are discarded or soon to be from older server racks removed. They are a real clean look with an on/off switch, lighted ;D even and built in 15amp breaker.
For those who don't know what the "F" I'm talking about. I post a picture, when making space for the lathe. Installed one on the wall to the left of the mill.
So see when I post a shop in always in motion this is what I mean. Do one thing different and problems show up. Address them when noticed and correcting, a better shop will evolve.
It's magic,
Pep
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Very true Pep. One thing moved means other things moved when cleaning, reorganizing and de-cluttering a shop. The end result is often even messier and more disorganized than it was starting out before you make it back to the final version of improved/re-organized.
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Cleaning a shop often makes it messier, or at least puts things where you can't find them !
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With family coming in for Thanksgiving this week is home prep - fun shop time is out. Lots of cleaning and prepping the house for guests - geez the honey-do list is quite long.
Gas water heater was grumbling and thumping at me so drained it and flushed it out in preparation for tons of showers later this week. Man did alot of grainy yellow stuff and this white-blue gelatinous chunky material come out. (Guess it's been awhile). The water company recommends draining the water heater once a month, but I can't see wasting 30 gallons of HOT water per month in the desert. Just doesn't make sense to me.
Well, I'm done for today - got 4 to-do items crossed off the list. Tomorrow I'm back at it - try to finish it up.
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Cleaning a shop often makes it messier, or at least puts things where you can't find them !
This for truth.
Every year we host a big Easter event at the house. I clean up all my projects and put them away. I cant find anything afterwards.
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Yep, we are hosting Thanksgiving, about 25 people. And we are in the middle of having the main floor painted. We are getting there but it won't be perfect and I really don't care :))
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Yep, we are hosting Thanksgiving, about 25 people. And we are in the middle of having the main floor painted. We are getting there but it won't be perfect and I really don't care :))
The older I get, the less I seem to care.
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This year for Thanksgiving we are going to a restaurant with some friends. No prep, no cleanup and no finishing the house (I am in the middle of some remodeling projects myself).
Place we are going is an old fashioned leather and dark wood steakhouse and most likely I'll be having prime rib and be thankful I'm not having turkey (even though I do like it quite a bit).
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I'm sitting at the office...(been since 5am) and I seem to have developed a case of WTFamIheresoscrewitallitis..... Luckily I only need to last till 3:30 today and from 5 to 11am tomorrow.... them Enjoy the time off till Monday the 26th... Oh wait... I have two 8 hour round trips in the car to take the boys to their Father for the holiday..... :-[ :-[
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I'm sitting at the office...(been since 5am) and I seem to have developed a case of WTFamIheresoscrewitallitis..... Luckily I only need to last till 3:30 today and from 5 to 11am tomorrow.... them Enjoy the time off till Monday the 26th... Oh wait... I have two 8 hour round trips in the car to take the boys to their Father for the holiday..... :-[ :-[
Sounds like me any day I walk into the office these days!
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This year for Thanksgiving we are going to a restaurant with some friends. No prep, no cleanup and no finishing the house (I am in the middle of some remodeling projects myself).
Place we are going is an old fashioned leather and dark wood steakhouse and most likely I'll be having prime rib and be thankful I'm not having turkey (even though I do like it quite a bit).
That sounds great - can I join you?
Aww heck, all the prep and cleaning here is done. I might as well stay put. :-[
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That sounds great - can I join you?
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Absolutely. It's in Burbank literally across the street form Burbank Studios.
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We are heading back to Indiana to let little man play with his grandparents. I am trying to to talk my wife into letting me stay home and work on the house but I lost that argument before I opened my mouth.
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LOL - JAFE you guys are on the same page as us. We've had the family over to our house for almost 25 years, and this year we had enough. My wife and I ordered a pre-cooked Thanksgiving meal (including the pies for desert) for 10 people from Cracker Barrel. They have a new catering option (in our area) and we decided to give it a shot. We pick up Wednesday and just reheat on Thursday.
Instead of cooking and frying the turkey's, this year I'll be sitting on the porch with a glass of wine and a cigar. Life is good!!!
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That sounds great - can I join you?
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Absolutely. It's in Burbank literally across the street form Burbank Studios.
The only restaurants I'm familiar with are the rather famous joint where the celebs and wannabes hang out. Also that famous German restaurant on Alameda where Olive crosses. Enjoy your prime rib.
I picked up a Costco spiral cut ham yesterday and want to keep it simple with just the 2 of us.
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I'm cooking the whole turkey day dinner for wife and another couple. Its fun for me and everyone enjoys it. I don't even eat some of the food I cook :)
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I'm in awe of you muddy that you work on forklifts. The times I've had to work on mine I always lose skin off my knuckles and arms. I'm also not enough of a contortionist to reach some of the bolts. I have to find out why my brakes failed and fix them. :(
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I'm in awe of you muddy that you work on forklifts. The times I've had to work on mine I always lose skin off my knuckles and arms. I'm also not enough of a contortionist to reach some of the bolts. I have to find out why my brakes failed and fix them. :(
Lol that’s all I work on for the most part.
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The only restaurants I'm familiar with are the rather famous joint where the celebs and wannabes hang out. Also that famous German restaurant on Alameda where Olive crosses. Enjoy your prime rib.
I picked up a Costco spiral cut ham yesterday and want to keep it simple with just the 2 of us.
I'm sure some celebs go there besides Burbank Studios Lakeside CC is next door and Lakeside has a lot of celeb members. Never been to the CC don't play golf and they wouldn't let me in anyways.
I was reading about how the spiral cut hams are made and the guy that invented the cutter that does it. Pretty interesting process.
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LOL - JAFE you guys are on the same page as us. We've had the family over to our house for almost 25 years, and this year we had enough. My wife and I ordered a pre-cooked Thanksgiving meal (including the pies for desert) for 10 people from Cracker Barrel. They have a new catering option (in our area) and we decided to give it a shot. We pick up Wednesday and just reheat on Thursday.
Instead of cooking and frying the turkey's, this year I'll be sitting on the porch with a glass of wine and a cigar. Life is good!!!
The nearest Cracker Barrel is in Victorville which is about 80-90 miles east of here. There is a local grocery chain that makes prepared holiday meals and they are excellent. Turns out it's not much different cost wise between the precooked and the do it from scratch.
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Tranny jobs look way scarier than they are. It's nice to be able to just pull it as a unit right out the front.
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They are rotten things to work on, with wicked cramped quarters. I'm glad you're out there to keep the material handling world rolling.
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Nice work Tim -- keeping industry rolling seems to be a much better job proposition than working in an automotive shop these days.
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Man, I'm glad I don't have to work on those things daily. :-\ Everything is big and heavy. my back hurts just looking at it.
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I'm in awe of you muddy that you work on forklifts. The times I've had to work on mine I always lose skin off my knuckles and arms. I'm also not enough of a contortionist to reach some of the bolts. I have to find out why my brakes failed and fix them. :(
As far as your brakes, if you have good pedal there's really only a few things it could be....
Your shoes are wet, either from wheel cylinder leaking or axle seals leaking.
Or your shoes could out of adjustment or just be plan worn out.
The brakes on a forklift are almost identical setup to an automotive drum brakes system.
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Tranny jobs look way scarier than they are. It's nice to be able to just pull it as a unit right out the front.
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They are rotten things to work on, with wicked cramped quarters. I'm glad you're out there to keep the material handling world rolling.
Greyson
Yeah they really appear more intimidating then they are. Once you start digging in they get easier as you go.
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Nice work Tim -- keeping industry rolling seems to be a much better job proposition than working in an automotive shop these days.
I don't think I would be happy in an automotive shop.
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I'm in awe of you muddy that you work on forklifts. The times I've had to work on mine I always lose skin off my knuckles and arms. I'm also not enough of a contortionist to reach some of the bolts. I have to find out why my brakes failed and fix them. :(
As far as your brakes, if you have good pedal there's really only a few things it could be....
Your shoes are wet, either from wheel cylinder leaking or axle seals leaking.
Or your shoes could out of adjustment or just be plan worn out.
The brakes on a forklift are almost identical setup to an automotive drum brakes system.
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I was moving crates around on and under the pallet rack and blew a hose on the mast and then the brake pedal went to the floor. I was 40' deep into the shop and left a trail of fluids all the way out the door. Thank goodness for an epoxied floor as a couple of hours mopping the floor it was nice and clean with no stains. The forklift is a 4000# TCM.
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I'm in awe of you muddy that you work on forklifts. The times I've had to work on mine I always lose skin off my knuckles and arms. I'm also not enough of a contortionist to reach some of the bolts. I have to find out why my brakes failed and fix them. :(
As far as your brakes, if you have good pedal there's really only a few things it could be....
Your shoes are wet, either from wheel cylinder leaking or axle seals leaking.
Or your shoes could out of adjustment or just be plan worn out.
The brakes on a forklift are almost identical setup to an automotive drum brakes system.
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I was moving crates around on and under the pallet rack and blew a hose on the mast and then the brake pedal went to the floor. I was 40' deep into the shop and left a trail of fluids all the way out the door. Thank goodness for an epoxied floor as a couple of hours mopping the floor it was nice and clean with no stains. The forklift is a 4000# TCM.
Sounds like you blew a brake line.
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K5 and i pulled the motor out of my lift a few years back to replace the flywheel. Got it done, not quickly but we did get it. Glad I had another fork lift to lift the counterweight off and to move the lift around and yank the motor out. I don't care to work on them either but I also hate to pay a shop to work on it for me.
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Man, I'm glad I don't have to work on those things daily. :-\ Everything is big and heavy. my back hurts just looking at it.
These are the baby ones lol.
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I don't think I would be happy in an automotive shop.
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I’m not happy in a MHE shop. I haven’t been doing it long but it’s already pretty boring. The only real challenge is working in tight spaces. ???
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DN, your brakes shouldn't be too terrible unless they're like an old clark warehouse solid tire model and the brakes are inside the transaxle housing. It's easiest to chuck almost everything and order fresh new parts all the way out. I just did brakes on mine in August. It was around $600 in parts for aftermarket. The hardest part was the adjustment because the 250lb tire has to come off to access the adjuster hole. That and coming up with a couple big metric seal drivers. Other than that, it's just a greasy mess. Bounce the axle shaft out with a hammer, unscrew the preload nut, and pull the drum off the spindle.
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DN, your brakes shouldn't be too terrible unless they're like an old clark warehouse solid tire model and the brakes are inside the transaxle housing. It's easiest to chuck almost everything and order fresh new parts all the way out. I just did brakes on mine in August. It was around $600 in parts for aftermarket. The hardest part was the adjustment because the 250lb tire has to come off to access the adjuster hole. That and coming up with a couple big metric seal drivers. Other than that, it's just a greasy mess. Bounce the axle shaft out with a hammer, unscrew the preload nut, and pull the drum off the spindle.
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Greyson
Yep just did a Clark like a couple of weeks ago.
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Had to straighten up the garage a little to make room for my new firewood rack. I got this from a neighbor for $40 who was selling it for an elderly friend. These shipping/receiving racks are over $500 new. It will sure beat the wood sitting on the floor getting spiders and leaves and scorpions and other assorted crap blown in by the wind. Fortunately I put the boot shelf high enough for it to fit under.
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Finally snagged a cylinder head for the 8oo ford tractor. The old one was cracked in several places and the machine shop didn't think it would lockstitch too well. Finally found one that wasn't crazy money. Took a chance that it'll pass a magnaflux and can get the old Ford out of the shop. if I can remember where all the parts go/went. :-[
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One day I noticed a palm seedling taking root by the outer pool area....
I should'a pulled it right then and there
10 years later it is 20" at the base, and 20' high
No place to get my machinery in there
Years of topping it didnt kill it
Out comes the hose to soak the ground
Out comes the chain coffin jack
Tilt to the left by anchoring to another stump (that should have been pulled as a sapling)
Tilt to the right by anchoring to a full grown queen palm I dont care for
Crack go some of the anchoring roots
Repeat several times
Out she comes, probably a full 1,000 lbs
Out comes the chainsaw and makes a messy mess (but its now in small chunks)
Out comes the beefy hand truck to wheel it to where I can get it to the front loader
Outta gas, off to the station
Truck and trailer are blocking my exit out of the back yard
Truck wont start (sheesh, dang diesel that gets running only every 5 months or so)
Charge the batteries (one is bad) , still not enough poop to spin at speed
Out comes the spare monster group 49 battery that runs my winch
3 batteries and jumper cables, and charger set on boost, she lights up. Yaaaa
Move the other cars in the driveway to clear a path to the street
Out goes the first load to the neighborhood dumpster brought in for "community cleanup" this week
3 palm loads later (and waiting till 6am) before I trek through the neighborhood with the loader.....
Job DONE!
I like playing with that loader ;)
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Never seen a curved wheel cylinder before.
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Never seen a curved wheel cylinder before.
That and look at how big it is in relation to the shoes.
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Never seen a curved wheel cylinder before.
That and look at how big it is in relation to the shoes.
They're rated to stop and hold 15K+ lbs on a 15% min grade and do it repeatedly two shifts a day for a 10k-20k hour service life. So yah, it probably overbuilt compared to other things.
Greyson
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They're rated to stop and hold 15K+ lbs on a 15% min grade and do it repeatedly two shifts a day for a 10k-20k hour service life. So yah, it probably overbuilt compared to other things.
Greyson
Looks like serious stopping power there.
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They're rated to stop and hold 15K+ lbs on a 15% min grade and do it repeatedly two shifts a day for a 10k-20k hour service life. So yah, it probably overbuilt compared to other things.
Greyson
Looks like serious stopping power there.
Stop on a dime and give change back!!!!
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They're rated to stop and hold 15K+ lbs on a 15% min grade and do it repeatedly two shifts a day for a 10k-20k hour service life. So yah, it probably overbuilt compared to other things.
Greyson
Looks like serious stopping power there.
But no power brakes lol.
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What’s the biggest forklift you’ve ever seen?
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RE: Biggest
I don't know if they'd classify as a forklift, but I've been around a few LeTourneau log loaders at mills. They are diesel/electric and use giant magnetic retarders for braking.
(http://www.vannattabros.com/2006add/tee3.jpg)
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I've also worked with a friend doing a tranny on a old CAT 988 mil-surp forklift, which is a standard front end loader with a 25 ton forklift mast.
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RE: Biggest
I don't know if they'd classify as a forklift, but I've been around a few LeTourneau log loaders at mills. They are diesel/electric and use giant magnetic retarders for braking.
(http://www.vannattabros.com/2006add/tee3.jpg)
credit Rob Vannatta for pic
I've also worked with a friend doing a tranny on a old CAT 988 mil-surp forklift, which is a standard front end loader with a 25 ton forklift mast.
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Yeah, I haven’t worked on a 50k yet, we have a couple in our yard though. Don’t know what they need done.
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Yeah I've never seen that big in person!
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Broke a 6 point, 3/8 drive craftsman socket that I've owned since the 70s. Rusty 3/8 bolt, 6 point 9/16 just went round and round. Pounded the 6pt 1/2 on and heard snap. oops. I then pounded a 12 pt 1/2 drive Craftsman on . that worked fine :D
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Froze my ass of putting away the cold box and freezer delivery at work and when I got home is just crashed for a few hours.
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First home grown eggs since the hurricane blew down the coop and the bobcats ate the hens. >:D they good.
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First home grown eggs since the hurricane blew down the coop and the bobcats ate the hens. >:D they good.
There is a country song somewhere in that statement....
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First home grown eggs since the hurricane blew down the coop and the bobcats ate the hens. >:D they good.
There is a country song somewhere in that statement....
Nah, he hadn't said anything at all about Momma, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting drunk.
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Nah, he hadn't said anything at all about Momma, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting drunk.
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Good ole DAC.
He probably could have come up with a song about the bobcats and hurricanes but they wouldn't be able to play it on the radio. :D
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Good ole DAC.
He probably could have come up with a song about the bobcats and hurricanes but they wouldn't be able to play it on the radio. :D
Wouldn't be his first song that couldn'y get radio airplay ;D ;D ;D
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Did a rear main seal on a reefer unit.. I'm toasted
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Isn't that the wrong color primer? :))
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Isn't that the wrong color primer? :))
The experience I've had, is darker primers seem to work better with lighter colors.
John Deere actually used yellow primer on their tractors back in the day. Would get people all excited think they had an industrial model. When in reality they just had a tractor with the paint gone.
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Got my driver's license renewed today in advance of my 76th birthday next month.
The DL office here in our town closed some time ago, so I had to go to Texas City yesterday . That is the quickest place get this done but there was a line outside the door. I waited outside about 45 minutes, then another 25 inside, only to find out that I had to have an eye doctor confirm my vision ! I had interocular lenses placed in both eyes in 2016 and thought that was it. NO- They want me to check every year.
Went to the eye Dr this morning and he filled out the form after an eye exam. No need for eyeglasses.
Took the form back to the DL office and after another 30 minute wait in line, got everything done .
One reason I mention all this is because my uncle renewed his DL at 96 , but went back in 97 and turned it in. He said he didn't care to drive anymore and he had a 60 year old son to drive him where he wanted to go. Besides, he lived in Philadelphia and could use the train.
I hope to live as long as he did. He made 100 a couple of years ago, then died.
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Finally figured out a way to lock/unlock the rear Astro door from the inside. tried 3 or 4 different methods - none worked. Then tried the simple, no frills method - and had it done in about 45 minutes. Guess I was overthinking things. :-[ Need to finish the knobs and handle covers and that job will be done.
been mentioning converting the van to a personal, "camper" style of van to friend and family. Everyone seems to think it would be a worthwhile project. So with the rear door solved it'll be that much easier if I go thru with the conversion.
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Found a picture of the brake set-up on that old Clark I didn't month or so ago.
Reduction gear with the brake built in....
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Would it have killed them to put a place to screw a lift eye on that unit? That's one thing CAT has down, there are lift points on every piece over 25 lbs. It sure is nice to balance something like that final drive on the crane while you beat on it to pull it.
Greyson
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These I got under with a jack and just slide them in and out.
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Gorgeous Stearman there Justin. I miss flying those as there is nothing like the wind in your face and bugs in your teeth. I can't think of a better location for a party than an aviation museum.
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Yes those are some nice fliers ... nicely restored.
Pep
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Worked did some grocery shopping, now relaxing in the recliner watching James Bond.
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Mandy and I moved the gun cabinet I redid into the bedroom today.
Her great grandfather built it. You can tell it was awhile ago as my scoped rifles don't fit perfectly. Also my wingmaster's barrel is a tad long and takes some finagling to get it in.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181209/2307e2e4b4bc5e31f3441ce9ba36796a.jpg)
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The finished cabinet came out great muddy. Nice job.
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Crawled around underneath the front end of the Astrovan to grease all the zerk fittings. Had to lift the sides one by one to get enough clearance to get over the front tires for the top ball joints. Only one fitting I couldn't reach. Next time it's in the auto shop I'll have them zap that one.
Although one of the passenger sway bars squirted out orange liquid when I pumped in the grease. Right underneath where all the coolant had been leaking out during the summer. That or rust. Either way it ain't good. :-\
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Went to the Motorcycle Club Christmas party. Sam met Santa. Last time he saw santa he was 3 months old.
Then we came home and put the lights up out side. I really hate hanging lights. When we were done Mandy stood back and smiled. That's about the only reason I do it.
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Looks good. wanna come do mine now? ;D I'll smile the whole time you hanging lights, not just when you done. ;D ;D
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Looks good Muddy, I did mine last week.
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Transmission job at work. Sometimes you wonder whatakes people put money in to a pile of scrap.
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Made a little ball driver rack for the lathe
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Tractor is looking good Tim! Sam is really going to like it.
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First coat of color. Gave to be careful with the yellow tends to be a bit runny
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Lookin good. Are you going to get the John Deere decals for it?
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Cold weather is not helping, thin coats, will speed the drying so you can build the paint up. Will take a bit more time, less sag.
Looking good santa's helper is doing great.... I must ask, are you going to do any detail on the motor, that would be tits...
To answer the thread, configured 8 servers for a cluster, organizing my bookmarks on the home machine.
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Yep I have a new seat, and the decal set on its way. I'm also going to get at least one new tire.
As awesome as a detailed engine would be .... I'm not that great with fine details. Plus on the real tractor and when the pedal tractor was new the engines are all JD green.
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Yep I have a new seat, and the decal set on its way. I'm also going to get at least one new tire.
As awesome as a detailed engine would be .... I'm not that great with fine details. Plus on the real tractor and when the pedal tractor was new the engines are all JD green.
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None of those old pedal tractors had engine color different than the rest of the tractor. If that tractor still has a functioning pin and hitch a tow behind trailer would really set that off. I got one for my sons when I bought his years ago. I kept both the tractor and trailer for him for when he has kids.
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Great job Tim!!! That will be a family heirloom for certain. Nothing says Christmas like -- "....my dad built it for me!"
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Yep I have a new seat, and the decal set on its way. I'm also going to get at least one new tire.
As awesome as a detailed engine would be .... I'm not that great with fine details. Plus on the real tractor and when the pedal tractor was new the engines are all JD green.
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None of those old pedal tractors had engine color different than the rest of the tractor. If that tractor still has a functioning pin and hitch a tow behind trailer would really set that off. I got one for my sons when I bought his years ago. I kept both the tractor and trailer for him for when he has kids.
I have some old barn wood that I'm thinking about building a "hay wagon" for it.
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Put on the Christmas lunch at the wife's work. It will wear you out putting a killer meal together for over a dozen machinists. I got meat/cheese trays, a big shrimp tray and 2 of the big pumpkin pies from Costco and a variety of breads and condiments as the guys really like building their own sandwiches, macaroni and potato salads, chips, veggies and the secretary made a big pot of chili.
I got home and had to wash all the serving utensils platters and bowls. The bonus is we don't have to go shopping this weekend as I brought home a nearly full meat/cheese platter, bread, shrimp, vegetables, lettuce and chips. It is going to be chef salads for us tonight in a little bit.
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Got the cylinder head for the 800 Ford tractor back from the machine shop. Now to go find all the parts that have been kicked around for the last few months.
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Not much productive work is getting done in my office today. Annual Christmas Trail completion between sections is underway.
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Structural guys have gone with a penguin theme.
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Planners and architects a heaven theme.
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The infrastructure team, my section, are a bit muted this year after winning six of the previous seven years.
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Geotechs are playing the Grinch card and not playing.
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We got invaded by kids and dogs.
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The industrial guys decided that a BBQ for lunch was in order.
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Last coat went in tonight. Will let it sit by the furnace for a few more days then assemble and decal.
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3pm Friday and that is us for the year.
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Again, far from a goodfellow restoration. I'm sure it's going to see abuse if the boy is anything like me... Will get tires after the new year. Some odds and ends, but pretty much finished (as if a project ever truly is "finished)
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That looks great.
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Looks awesome!
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That looks fabulous Tim. Sam will flip over it --
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Was a better day than Wednesday, that was the day I couldn't find the keys to my tractors. Was in the process of having my son bring me his keys. Until, when walking from the machinery barn to the house my German Shepard sniffs around and I look at him and my keys are hanging out of his mouth. :)
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Muddy, looks great. Make sure you post a picture with him driving!
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Muddy, the little tractor looks good, Wont be long and he'll be driving yours. ;D
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Raining here today. Made cheese cake for tomorrow's Christmas lunch. Reverse seared T bone steak, chips and saurkraut for Christmas Eve dinner.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181224/5c50596dd87af617f4df91ae3fc2d77c.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181224/125e1651000cac3b9166cdc9db21352c.jpg)
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Damn -- just got up, had breakfast and now I'm hungry again. Great looking Cheesecake Rural. I'm a sucker for a good cheesecake -
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Sam realized we didn't have cookies to leave out for Santa! So him and I made a double batch of chocolate/peanut butter chip cookies!
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Good job Muddy. now don't eat them all before tonight. ;D
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Sammy loves his tractor!
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Priceless pic Tim. I'm sure that will be the first of many tractors.
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Just realized I posted the picture with the dogs nose in it :))
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Sam looks very happy,,,,,,,,,,,,,well done
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That little guy looks like he's having a ball -- well done dad!
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Muddy, your posts are so great, the pics with Sam, especially with his new tractor! So beautiful!
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After he finished his breakfast he ran right over to it and crawled right on it! (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181227/26b7b89659225621b20dd27a3e9bca2b.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181227/170238d7b3901453d5d0b9a1e07cf210.jpg)
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Better be getting those new tires in, Sam will have those old ones worn out in no time
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Better be getting those new tires in, Sam will have those old ones worn out in no time
He won't have time to wear them down on pavement, muddy will have that boy hitched to a plow turning dirt before New Years day! :))
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That is a sight for sore eyes! Perfect "boy" gift -- next few years you need to find him an old-timer erector or train set. Erector sets especially are/were great boy gifts before they all learned to sit behind a computer console.
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Great pics Muddy, That smile is what makes Christmas fun
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Better be getting those new tires in, Sam will have those old ones worn out in no time
He won't have time to wear them down on pavement, muddy will have that boy hitched to a plow turning dirt before New Years day! :))
Time for a mini pull sled. ;D
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I was on Sammy duty today. So didn't get a whole lot done. Got the basement swept.
Also put up some peg board to organize my motorcycle equipment instead of it lying around on the futon.
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Spent the day smoking briskets and pork butts with the good BIL. A fun day catching up on things.
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It was a nice warm day, so I changed the oil on the entire family fleet. Also while Mrs GF is out of town, I washed her car and thoroughly cleaned the inside as well; it needed a good cleaning.
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Had a blizzard all day yesterday. Spent the afternoon putting a Vintage Air Frontrunner accessory and serpentine setup on a Chevy 327 that will be going in our '60 IH pickup. Swapped a couple different sets of valve covers onto the engine too just to see what looks good. I'm not a fan of the t-bolt hold-downs, but they are handy for just holding the covers in place when swapping things around.
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A Chevy to repower the IH? That radio looks great in there!
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You've got a good looking youngster, muddy!!
The little 266 V-8 in our IH was long since locked up when we found it. Since our intention was to build more of a hot rod than a restoration, it was an easy decision to swap engines. I'm probably making 3 times the power of the IH engine for less than half the money to rebuild the IH. The IH engine is still on hand if I want to build it in the future.
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If you could have driven my 72 Travel-all, you would be on the look out for a four barrel 394?. But you can't go wrong on that Chevy. Interesting belt drive unit, never seen one.
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at least its an old school chevy. not one of these LS swaps.
Headed to Austin this morning to get the BIL on a plane home.
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Scott,
I'm with you on the T bolts, 50, early 60s, always lose and leaking. 327 should pep that IH right up.. Does the water pump rotation change on the serpentine setup? Vintage Air tells me you;re installing AC, the Frontrunner accessory and serpentine setup. That include the water pump, pretty slick ?
What's locked in the old motor, broke rod, old rusted sitting in the weather, or unknown at present?
Pep
Had a blizzard all day yesterday. Spent the afternoon putting a Vintage Air Frontrunner accessory and serpentine setup on a Chevy 327 that will be going in our '60 IH pickup. Swapped a couple different sets of valve covers onto the engine too just to see what looks good. I'm not a fan of the t-bolt hold-downs, but they are handy for just holding the covers in place when swapping things around.
Scott
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Scott,
I'm with you on the T bolts, 50, early 60s, always lose and leaking. 327 should pep that IH right up.. Does the water pump rotation change on the serpentine setup? Vintage Air tells me you;re installing AC, the Frontrunner accessory and serpentine setup. That include the water pump, pretty slick ?
What's locked in the old motor, broke rod, old rusted sitting in the weather, or unknown at present?
Pep
Had a blizzard all day yesterday. Spent the afternoon putting a Vintage Air Frontrunner accessory and serpentine setup on a Chevy 327 that will be going in our '60 IH pickup. Swapped a couple different sets of valve covers onto the engine too just to see what looks good. I'm not a fan of the t-bolt hold-downs, but they are handy for just holding the covers in place when swapping things around.
Scott
Pep, we are not sure what is causing the IH engine to be stuck right now. The Vintage Air kit included a new, short waterpump. And yes, it does rotate "backwards" from a standard pump. Not a big deal since we are going to run a big electric fan. The kit is high quality and its reflected in its price. :o But, our heads don't have accessory holes and we would have been purchasing all the accessories anyhow. By the time we would have rounded up accessories, pulleys, brackets etc and tried to make it all work together, it made a lot of sense to bite the bullet and go with a kit that included everything and was engineered properly from the start.
I'm a fan of the IH V-8s and have experienced them in Scouts, pickups and trucks and know first-hand the torque they produce and how bulletproof they can be. In this application though, the Chevy made a lot of sense from a money, horsepower and weight standpoint. Also, I'm not sure how well our Mustang II front end would have liked holding the weight of a big IH 345 or 392. :o
Scott
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Waking up to out first deep freeze of the season. (Well, "deep" for us desert dwellers). My thermometer is holding at 30, but around the city they were forecasting temps down to 26. And every year they gotta tell people cover their pipes, bring in their pets, and check the carbon monoxide detector. The mountains around the city have snow (16" at last count), and the highs are not going to get much above 50 for a week. Roads are probably slick too, meaning every nutjob driver out there is going to be sliding around on their way to return gifts. Tonight is supposed to be a deeper freeze, so, I'll be on freeze watch with all the preventative measures in place.
Nothing like what it was about 6 years ago though when it dipped to 18 at the house. Pipes froze, the neighbors pipes burst, I was playing helpful neighbor with my trusty hair dryer defrosting valves before hundreds of gallons leaked. Got a plate full of brownies out of it. ;D
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....... Pipes froze, the neighbors pipes burst, I was playing helpful neighbor with my trusty hair dryer defrosting valves before hundreds of gallons leaked. Got a plate full of brownies out of it. ;D
Remember the good ol' days when we used to use our arc welders to thaw frozen copper or iron pipes? -- Those were the days!!!
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got my new service truck. Loading it back up is a pain in the butt. Lots of stuff not going back and some new stuff going on.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181229/ac05b29f6cfb9002013914f51c121c34.jpg)
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Nice looking rig, Walrus!! 8)
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Nice ride.
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Beautiful truck Walrus -- 8)
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Really nice. I like the color.
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That truck does look good.
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Walrus.
Just curious, how many miles you clock a year ?
Truck looks up to the job, is amazing things found transferring equipment from old to new.
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Walrus.
Just curious, how many miles you clock a year ?
Truck looks up to the job, is amazing things found transferring equipment from old to new.
Pep
30,000 to 40,000
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I watched the Houston Texans win today and am now cooking a roast for supper.
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Saw this lol.
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Carbohydrated :))
No thanks, I much prefer fuel injunction
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I bet that Caprice be stylin with 24's on it. ::)
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You mean the 24s don't come in the deal ... well that does it had cash in hand.
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Cleaned the lead screw on the lathe, came up with a fast way for that. Going to do it after every turning secession for the future, it's that simple. Always vacuum the thing before the lights go out, a few minuts more wont hurt.
Oiled all the machines and gave them a going over, milled some cast wheels so that made a mess, not big, small wheels.
Of course I spilled oil......... I have come to the conclusion that's way to change oil.
NY resolution #1
Next time I start the job, spill some oil right after the tools come out. Get it over at the beginning.
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You're right pep. Can't do a job without spilling the oil. Just like I always rap my knuckles to get the blood flowing before reaching into a tight area with the tools.
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24’s are nothin, 36’s are where it’s at.
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Somebody dun stole his tires, left it sittin on the rimz :D
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Went to a New Year's day auction----mostly older car stuff, but some tools. My best buy was a NOS set of four Cadillac Eldorado wire wheel hubcaps 1980-82 for the grand sum of $7.50---Really!!
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Sorted and scraped 150 lbs of drops. found some shit I did not know I had ........ On vacation been organizing and cleaning up some Round 2its that needed attention. Installed power strips, all machines have power on demand, no more extension cord roulette.
C:-) < what is this clicked the word Police ?
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Back to work today. Reality comes hard lolx
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Ride 'em Sam! -- Looks like he had a blast.
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I just got comfortable in the recliner enjoying a roaring fire in the wood stove when the signal went out on the TV. Put the warm clothes and snow boots on and went trudging through the snow and howling wind to brush off the satellite dish. Winter is so much fun. >:(
Muddy, Sam looks like he enjoyed the farm show.
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I always show Mama Sam's pictures, and of course she loves them. Today she asked, do you think they will have anymore? ;D
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Our local museum asked me to shoot some photos of the building because we have recently moved Nolan Ryan's statue there from in front of the City Hall. Ryan grew up in Alvin, Texas and became one of the best baseball pitchers of all time.
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As a way to lose weight I've started riding my bike again. A bit gun shy since I crashed on it 4 years ago.
Anyway noticed the rear cluster dragging. Swapped it out for now with another one I had and somehow managed to get the lock ring off (I don't have the special tool for that - will have to make one out of an old socket). Took it apart and found some rust! :-\
Don't know how water got in there when it's packed with grease. Cleaned and scrubbed it all out, and reassembled with new lube. And I managed to have a ball bearing or two roll off the work bench :-[ , so, had to fill in the spots with spares I have. Took and hour and a half! Geez - I'm getting slow in my old age. :o
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I always show Mama Sam's pictures, and of course she loves them. Today she asked, do you think they will have anymore? ;D
At least one more is in the plans. I Wouldn't mind three, a girl next in the middle and then another boy. That way the girl has a big brother to watch out for her, and little brother to pick on but nature works it's own course.
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Dealing with a strange vibration in my 96 Chevy pickup, it comes and goes, above 45mph. Was nice out and picked up some of the winter trash in the yard.
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Going to make a batch of Bailey’s Irish cream donuts with my daughter - anything that has Bailey’s and Guiness stout in the mix must be good
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Going to make a batch of Bailey’s Irish cream donuts with my daughter - anything that has Bailey’s and Guiness stout in the mix must be good
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My mailing address is - Noel C Hankamer xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx !!! :)
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LOL -- Sorry Noel -- I'd send you some, but my daughter and her friends ate three batches already.
Also --- I blanked out your address in case spammers or other ID hungry miscreants are active on the site -- no use taking chances these days.
Just in case you and those handsome grandkids want to treat yourself -- Here's the recipe:
Donut:
1 cup Flour
1/3 cup Cocoa Powder
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/4 tsp Salt
1/2 cup Guinness Extra Stout
1 Egg
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup Sugar
1/3 cup melted Butter
Glaze:
1 cup Powdered Sugar
1-2 tsp Bailey's Irish Cream
2 tsp Water
Preheat oven to 325F.
Whisk together flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt.
In a large bowl, whisk together Guinness, egg, sugar, brown sugar, and butter
Stir dry ingredients into the wet until just combined. Spray doughnut or cornbread pans with nonstick spray.
Fill each cavity 2/3 full.
Bake for 12 minutes, and let cool
Combine all glaze ingredients and stir until blended.
Dip the top of the donuts in the glaze and place on wire rack to dry.
They're absolutely delicious -- even for a guy like me who's sworn off of sugar. BUT you have to make an exception some of the time ;)
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Dealing with a strange vibration in my 96 Chevy pickup, it comes and goes, above 45mph. Was nice out and picked up some of the winter trash in the yard.
Check the carrier bearing. My 98 would go thru them every 50K.
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One piece driveshaft, so no carrier bearing. Had both driveshafts out, Ujoints ok. Spun the front wheels to check CVC joints, OK, swapped out both front tires with spare, no change. Tires been on 20K miles, were balanced when installed.
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Spent the day cleaning up the workbench. about every 6 months you go in and cleanup. one of my projects has been a comprehensive 1/4 drive box set. I need a few individual sockets. Where do you guys go for singles now that Sears bit the dust?
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My local Lowes has open stock on CMan sockets and wrenches. Not sure about screwdrivers. The socket selection looked limited but I just kinda saw it didn't really pay any attention.
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I'll give them a try. thanks.
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Oof
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One piece driveshaft, so no carrier bearing. Had both driveshafts out, Ujoints ok. Spun the front wheels to check CVC joints, OK, swapped out both front tires with spare, no change. Tires been on 20K miles, were balanced when installed.
wheel bearing? Not likely given your description.
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Today was day 3 of getting my garage ready for the workbench.
It's storming here with pouring rain and Gusty winds, so I have to do everything with the garage closed which means a lot of shuffling things around since I can't really take much out of the garage.
If it was just some rain I'd put the EZ-UP In the driveway to put things under but that's not going to happen, so I've just gotta do my best to put everything where it's going to be beforehand so I have somewhere to actually build the thing.
I could wait for the weather to cooperate but i have to get it done while the garage is straightened out or it'll just get all messed up again ;D
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The plan is to go shopping tomorrow and build it on Friday, hopefully I'll have the garage ready by the end of the day tomorrow.
This is where I plan to put it, it's going to be 36" tall X 64" long X 30" deep.
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H & S, is 36" tall going to be a comfortable working height for you? I have no idea how tall you are so I guess you know what will work for you.
I have never seen 8" of snow melt so fast before. The wind has been blowing pretty hard all day and the temp is 49 degrees at 1:45pm. I just cleared enough snow this morning for the wife to get out of the garage and for the short legged dog to get into the yard to do his business. I have been out clearing slush and have dry concrete out to the shop now.
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H & S, is 36" tall going to be a comfortable working height for you? I have no idea how tall you are so I guess you know what will work for you.
I have never seen 8" of snow melt so fast before. The wind has been blowing pretty hard all day and the temp is 49 degrees at 1:45pm. I just cleared enough snow this morning for the wife to get out of the garage and for the short legged dog to get into the yard to do his business. I have been out clearing slush and have dry concrete out to the shop now.
I'm a short 5'6" so while 36" may normally be a couple inches low I plan to do most of my work sitting on a stool, the only standing work I plan to do would be at my vice which will be an additional 9" height at the jaws.
The vice may even be a bit high to sit at.
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36 does sound a little tall. But it depends on what you are comfortable working at.
My benches I built were 32 and I am also 5'6".
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36 does sound a little tall. But it depends on what you are comfortable working at.
My benches I built were 32 and I am also 5'6".
I played with 32 and it seemed a bit short.
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HnS,
Another point of reference... I'm 5'11" and my bench work surface is 34"h. I never use a stool. The top of my vise jaws are 9" above the work surface, or 43"h. I can comfortably work at my vise and drill, grind, cut, file, bend, or weld. Another point, I have a 1" thick rubber mat in front of my bench... that makes me 6' tall.
When I built my bench I played with it a lot. I jacked it up in 1" increments and then put various objects (lawn mower, carburetor, alternator, tricycle, wagon, beer, etc.) on the work surface. I then did a few operations on each object (i.e. loosen/tighten bolt, screw/unscrew a screw, drive a pin out and in. All this to test the suitability of the finish height. In the end, I left the work surface at 34". For me it was a good compromise height. And, I could always slip a 1" x or 2" x board under the legs if I needed it for a special project. So far, I haven't needed to do this in the 22 years since I built it.
Yet another point of reference... I have a second bench I built just for mounted power tools. I have a smallish bench drill press, a bench arbor press, and two bench grinders mounted on this bench. I have a peg board above this bench where I hang my angle grinders, corded drills, cordless drills, cordless impact driver, soldering gun, glue gun, heat gun, equipment toolage, grinding wheels, wire wheels, sanding disks, cut off disks, etc. This particular bench is 8' long, 42" tall, and only 18" deep. This bench is tall so I can stand up straight and can see what I'm doing with the bench mounted power equipment. It may sound crazy, but it works very well for me. The smaller hand-held power tools typically get used on my regular work bench, or on the garage floor, or out in the driveway. I also have some folding saw horses and a half sheet of 3/4 plywood that I can use as a temporary fab table in the garage or driveway.
So, plan your bench(s) well and think about work flow and the tasks you're likely to be doing in your garage. And, don't forget about electrical outlets, power strips, and task lighting.
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HnS,
Another point of reference... I'm 5'11" and my bench work surface is 34"h. I never use a stool. The top of my vise jaws are 9" above the work surface, or 43"h. I can comfortably work at my vise and drill, grind, cut, file, bend, or weld. Another point, I have a 1" thick rubber mat in front of my bench... that makes me 6' tall.
When I built my bench I played with it a lot. I jacked it up in 1" increments and then put various objects (lawn mower, carburetor, alternator, tricycle, wagon, beer, etc.) on the work surface. I then did a few operations on each object (i.e. loosen/tighten bolt, screw/unscrew a screw, drive a pin out and in. All this to test the suitability of the finish height. In the end, I left the work surface at 34". For me it was a good compromise height. And, I could always slip a 1" x or 2" x board under the legs if I needed it for a special project. So far, I haven't needed to do this in the 22 years since I built it.
I'm glad I abandoned my very first thought of 42", I went down to 32" which seemed too short.
34" would be fine to and I think my measurements may actually give me a 34" height all said and done.
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Out shopping today and making my HD run.
With all the wood, the screws, and the pegboard my total was $70 and change.
I thought about buying peg for the pegboard, but I've got just what I need to make them at home.
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I thought about buying peg for the pegboard, but I've got just what I need to make them at home.
I did a whole write up of doing just that on the old site. like this.
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Pics to come tomorrow, but my workbench is done.
I cannot pinpoint the exact problem area, but one side is about 1-1/2" less on the depth than the other ( obviously something is shorter , but I don't know what ). I believe it's probably the fault of the guy at home Depot who did the cutting, but it is what it is.
If it were perfect it wouldn't suit me anyhow.
I could probably take a bunch of screws out and make some kind of correction, but I already made some adjustments when I was putting it together.
All in all it seems sturdy enough and is level, that's the most important part I suppose.
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After being stuck in the office for the last two weeks, I went out with my maintenance contractor to a large steel plate culvert that is getting a concrete lining in the base due to corrosion. The lining will come up to the horizontal row of bolts. The culvert is dammed off at each end and the stream flow is carried by the two 2' pipes hung off the roof.
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Upstream dam
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Mini excavator in the culvert to dig the sand and silt out. There is about 2' of material in the bottom of the culvert.
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Contractor's Isuzu Elf work vehicle. No F350 type vehicles here.
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The two 2' pipes are running nearly full.
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In the wholesalers (booze shop) tonight; made in Lithuania, exported to the USA and re-exported to the bottom of the world for me to go "that's interesting" and buy one.
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Rural, amazing those 2 ft pipes carry all that water. Digging the Elf. Makes perfect sense. We have no vehicles in the states like that, that I am aware of. F350s and bigger abound and it makes me wonder if we are not missing out on some economy
Hofferwood, digging the pegboard set up. I to am a big believer in pegboard over a bench but mine aren't near as full as yours. When you are grabbing tools, do you ever feel its too crowded
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Having the air handler unit in the attic being replaced today.
The unit is Carrier and was Installed in 2006. The coils were leaking refrigerant.
We use the electric heating coils in it to heat the house in the Winter.
This works super.
The workers are still here, and it's getting close for them to turn the unit back on!
We're all bundled up in jackets and it is 35 degrees outside now. The first freeze will be tonight!
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Hofferwood, digging the pegboard set up. I to am a big believer in pegboard over a bench but mine aren't near as full as yours. When you are grabbing tools, do you ever feel its too crowded
Thanks Phil, and no doesn't seem overcrowded. In fact I can look at a glance, and notice what's missing. :)
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Still getting the garage situated.
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I'm not done yet, but it's a start.
I have more wrenches to hang, but I need some S hooks doe the smaller ones and I need some more screws but the hardware is closed today for a big thing their having for a local police woman that was recently KIA.
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That came out quite nice. Well done!
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Looks good on the workbench. Glad you decided to build your own. What a learning experience for you to do that. Are you glad that you built it yourself?
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Good work! -- ya did good
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Nice work, so work well for you! Have a place to lay thing out and work is a great addition to any garage.
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I have used the pegboard hooks from ...DuraHook locking peboard system. It uses screws to keep the hooks from falling off the board.
I got mine at Menards
TR
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Looks good on the workbench. Glad you decided to build your own. What a learning experience for you to do that. Are you glad that you built it yourself?
Yeah I am, not just because I did it but also because one size fits all doesn't always fit everyone.
I measured and use a square and level, but it still didn't turn out perfect so it must be the fault of the guy at home Depot who cut everything for me.
I'm sure my math wasn't perfect either.
The pegboard hooks I made aren't great, so I'm going to have to figure something else out there when I can.
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hickory n Steel
Hell yeah looks good, aren't you glad you made it yourself.... thumbs up!
Tonight, for me took the coupe out for a short spin. Checking out the new electric vacuum assist pump for the brakes.
First shot the old and new pump, sounded like a machine gun when pulling a vacuum. Imagine the sound of a 12v portable tire inflater, cause that what it is with a check valve.
Learned of a new vain style pump in use on new cars. Master power brake in selling this pump, a plug and play version... how about 450. And the kicker, if it fails it must be returned to them for repairs.... can you see not driving the car for at the very least 3 weeks .... no thanks
Being this was a stock GM pump, hunted one down, 125 from GM. Gathered some fittings, check valve, relay and pressure switch. Some quick mounting bracket building and we have a new quiet vacuum pump.
Its the little things that matter LOL
Success ....
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Just sitting around counting my toes.
Damn....no wonder you’re so into shoes :o
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Making a big pot of Pinto Beans to go with the cornbread I will make later.
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Didn't do much, cut up some fire wood and reorganized a bit. Just waiting for this "big storm" to come through.
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I put on my points, tight pants, hardly reknowned and am at the Bob Seger concert in Columbus OH.
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I went to the hardware store for some hooks and found these Crawford locking peg hook assortments, they come with these little black thingies what lock them in place.
I also picked up a second Stanley 10-499 on sale for $5.
Oh and my SAE NAPA USA combos came in.
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Looks great!
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Looks great!
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Thanks.
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Looks like you've started to really that slippery slope you were so afraid of.
Welcome to the club!
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I went to the hardware store for some hooks and found these Crawford locking peg hook assortments, they come with these little black thingies what lock them in place.
I also picked up a second Stanley 10-499 on sale for $5.
Oh and my SAE NAPA USA combos came in.
I'm guessing the total to this point = what the HF thing would have cost ....spending wisely I'd say.
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Looks like you've started to really that slippery slope you were so afraid of.
Welcome to the club!
Tell me about it.
My current plan is to just start acquiring sockets of which many sizes and drives I need, but there's always lots of good deals on ratchets to be had on ebay.
Hell I keep looking at this inexpensive trio of Kobalt USA ratchets that are tempting me, but I know they're obviously just a crsftsman QR with a different handle shape.
I'm not exactly happy with my old proto 3/8 round head flex for most situations, but the sockets are more important if I can control myself .
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I went to the hardware store for some hooks and found these Crawford locking peg hook assortments, they come with these little black thingies what lock them in place.
I also picked up a second Stanley 10-499 on sale for $5.
Oh and my SAE NAPA USA combos came in.
I'm guessing the total to this point = what the HF thing would have cost ....spending wisely I'd say.
For just the work bench, pegboard, and hooks I'm at about $80.
Bot since the HF came with a light I guess I should count the $30 it cost me for new bulbs and florescent starters for that overhead light.
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Depends on the era of Kobalt. The early stuff was Williams - the ratchet guts were the same as Snap-on. Later stuff you're correct it's Danaher/Craftsman.
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Depends on the era of Kobalt. The early stuff was Williams - the ratchet guts were the same as Snap-on. Later stuff you're correct it's Danaher/Craftsman.
These are later ones, you can see that they're literally just a raised pannel Craftsman with a different handle.
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Man some of you guys worry about the craziest shit regarding hand tools ........guts of a ratchet ? :D
Funny reading some of this stuff, I mean were the hell do you find the lineages, is there a DNA test?
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Man some of you guys worry about the craziest shit regarding hand tools ........guts of a ratchet ? :D
Funny reading some of this stuff, I mean were the hell do you find the lineages, is there a DNA test?
I don't really care about the guts , I've just experience the tear drop qr ratchet enough and want to try ones I haven't.
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Man some of you guys worry about the craziest shit regarding hand tools ........guts of a ratchet ? :D
Funny reading some of this stuff, I mean were the hell do you find the lineages, is there a DNA test?
Sometimes that is needed pep. Just because it looks good on the outside doesn't outweigh what's on the inside. Take my first wife for example...….
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Man some of you guys worry about the craziest shit regarding hand tools ........guts of a ratchet ? :D
Funny reading some of this stuff, I mean were the hell do you find the lineages, is there a DNA test?
Sometimes that is needed pep. Just because it looks good on the outside doesn't outweigh what's on the inside. Take my first wife for example...….
Your word is good enough for me, I'll pass ;D
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I went to the hardware store for some hooks and found these Crawford locking peg hook assortments, they come with these little black thingies what lock them in place.
I also picked up a second Stanley 10-499 on sale for $5.
Oh and my SAE NAPA USA combos came in.
I'm guessing the total to this point = what the HF thing would have cost ....spending wisely I'd say.
For just the work bench, pegboard, and hooks I'm at about $80.
Bot since the HF came with a light I guess I should count the $30 it cost me for new bulbs and florescent starters for that overhead light.
The feeling of a job well done, and the satisfaction of knowing you built it yourself is worth more then anything at HF.
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started spraying the front lot for stinging nettle. During the drought I bought some hay from Colorado. it had a little surprise in it. >:(
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Warmed up a little today, and used my 460 IHC to turn my pickup around. No helping hands around here now, and got a level yard so it went ok. Fuel pump went out 15 miles from home last week and it came home on a rollback. Been below freezing since, and wanted to point the box into the sun. Reason for this is, last time the fuel pump quit, discovered there was an access door cut in the box floor. Under the bedliner of course. Maybe by the weekend I can replace the intank pump.
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In the middle of swapping out window regulators on the coupe. They have been slow since day one, time passes and some things get better. It's time to get in there, straighten out, not mine the mess that was left behind. The car had speakers in the doors now gone long time. All the cutting to install the regulators and speakers were done with a cutting torch, not a straight cut line found.
HotRods always have these little hidden messes to deal with. LOL
The passenger side almost mocked up, because of the butcher job on the inside of the door. Making sheet metal mounts that will attach to the mess. Not going to reinvent the wheel here, meaning the torch cutting will remain as it stands, but will stiffen things up.
It will make the regulator assembly structurally more ridged. Before the motor would twist back and forth as the window was raised, loosing torque. Have have new glass being cut for each door, fun little project with a good reward head.
Pick up the glass as promised at the end of the week, passenger side should be completed, and on to the drivers side. Of course that install will go quicker because I have templets made.
Pep
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Back to the culvert lining job today. The contractor is going to shotcrete tomorrow.
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One of the guys I race with rang me when I was out of cellphone coverage, so instead of ringing him back I stopped in to see him at work. He does precision & CNC machining, hydraulic ram servicing, repair & manufacture and industrial gearbox servicing & maintenance. He has lots of toys.
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Top of Lake Rotorua looking back towards the town of Rotorua.
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It was a bit warm. That is 93F.
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Nice pics Rural but you better stop and get petrol.
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muddy,
OUCH!!!! Better put the sharps away and stick to the safer tools.
Take 2 aspirin, chase it with a good brewskie, hold your hand up, and sit close to a nice warm fire.
Manana will hopefully be a better day. If not, repeat the above prescription.
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Ouch...stay away from brake cleaner for a few days...
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Who did the sewing?
You OK?
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:-\ damn that looks painful.
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We just can't let the kid play with sharp stuff. Get that finger well soon.
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Hope it heals quick Tim. We’ve all been there
at one time or another
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Nice pics Rural but you better stop and get petrol.
Ha, petrol would be a bad idea. That is a Mitsubishi ASX (Outlander Sport in the US) with a 2.2L diesel engine.
Had a run in with a utility knife.
Ouch. Whenever I pick up a utility knife it seems like it is 50/50 if I end up cutting myself!
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Darn Muddy, that looks painful.
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Our place of work was shut down today due to the cold. I got up early anyhow and checked the temperature at daybreak.
Scott
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Thanks guys. Not my first set of stitches, probably not my last lol
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Our place of work was shut down today due to the cold. I got up early anyhow and checked the temperature at daybreak.
Scott
What does the wind chill take it down to?
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Our place of work was shut down today due to the cold. I got up early anyhow and checked the temperature at daybreak.
Scott
What does the wind chill take it down to?
Its pretty calm today so far. The calm overnight is part of what led to such a low actual temp this morning. I don't believe the wind was much of a contributing factor this morning to a lower windchill.
Leaving work yesterday, the actual temp was around 25 below zero. There was a stiff northwest wind that brought the windchill down to about 55 below zero.
Numerous schools yesterday and today closed along with a lot of businesses. The United States Postal service is not delivering mail today in a 3 or 4 state area. I'm thankful to be home with Linda today (we work at the same place). Its 11:30 AM here and the temp has only risen to 27 below zero. Forecast for Saturday is supposed to be 30 degrees ABOVE zero!
Scott
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Officially - Right knee arthroscopic partial medial meniscectomy. In plain English I had keyhole surgery to trim up torn cartilage in my right knee.
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Officially - Right knee arthroscopic partial medial meniscectomy. In plain English I had keyhole surgery to trim up torn cartilage in my right knee.
Praying for a speedy recovery for you. Had one done years ago that was successful. Knee will be quite tender despite how small the incisions look. Knee up and ice packs are your friend for the first few days. I noticed that the tenderness was quite keen at first and diminished over 60 days.
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Thanks guys. Not my first set of stitches, probably not my last lol
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Super glue works also :-)
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Officially - Right knee arthroscopic partial medial meniscectomy. In plain English I had keyhole surgery to trim up torn cartilage in my right knee.
I hope you heal fast Justin. I've never torn up my knees just a shoulder. Does that mean I am not out playing hard enough?
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Good luck Rural -- all the best for a speedy recovery
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Thanks guys. Not my first set of stitches, probably not my last lol
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Super glue works also :-)
This was a little past super glue.
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This was a little past super glue.
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There are surgical grades of superglue but the regular stuff does work. The best part is Permatex makes one - 4013 medical device grade.
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Officially - Right knee arthroscopic partial medial meniscectomy. In plain English I had keyhole surgery to trim up torn cartilage in my right knee.
I hope you heal fast Justin. I've never torn up my knees just a shoulder. Does that mean I am not out playing hard enough?
From what I've seen, shoulder is way worse recovery then a knee, but I never had a shoulder done
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I had a meniscus tear repaired and was up and going with a few days. But it hurt at times for weeks afterward. Anything that involved a clutch was :-\ :-\
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I had a meniscus tear repaired and was up and going with a few days. Had more pain before the arthroscopic surgery than after.
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Thanks guys. Not my first set of stitches, probably not my last lol
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Super glue works also :-)
This was a little past super glue.
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The deep divide .... ? The worst cuts are on the knuckle, & take forever to heal.
As for what I did, glued a whisker in the window channel of the coupe. 3M has a great wether strip adhesive, it also takes practice the figure how to use it correctly .... I've finally graduated LoL
Think I'll have the glass in tomorrow, get the lower stop set and on to the driver side. And took down Christmas lights from the outside..
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Thanks for the thoughts guys. Definitely a bit more sore than yesterday.
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Was 2 degrees above this morning, rising throughout the weekend. Above freezing a bit so I washed the truck, it was hateful dirty
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Went a bid board auction, was interesting how they conduct it. It's basically a monthly silent auction. This is where it differs.... (Taken from website)
"The final day for bidding is the first Saturday of the month beginning at 10:00 AM. You need not be present. Each section will be defined prior to issuing a 1-minute warning (announced by the Auctioneer). After the initial minute, that section will go into an overtime phase. Anyone wishing to bid during the overtime phase must indicate their intent to bid verbally by stating the word "Time". Each time the word "Time" is stated, the 15 second overtime clock will be reset. Bidding will continue in the overtime phase until there are no bids anywhere in that section for a full 15 seconds. When a period of 15 seconds passes without a "Time" statement, that section will close. The highest Bidder at the time of closing will be the winner of the merchandise."
Went there for non tool items, even though there were some interesting tools there.
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Glass install FAIL, turns out it was not wide enough, and coming out of the channel. That was actually was a good thing. Had some channel so using my new skill, Mr 3M to the rescue, replaced the old, might as well i'm in there.
This has turned out to be an education/practice for the driver's side. I mean I've now dicked around with this , baring the weather/work for 3 frigging weeks ... too funny
Grab some card board, make a pattern, once fitted, transfer it onto ply wood. Monday back to the glass man.
Funny how sometimes delays end up helping. Example, week before last dropped off a window on a Monday. Friday call cause they told me a couple of days, so I gave em the week.. No go, ok I say, thinking over that weekend, deiced I need to get the glass back and verify the fit. Turns out that was the right thing to do.
I'm sure as I told the glass man that I wanted to do that, the old measure twice cut once. He was smiling, saying know what you mean, I was reading this guy's not coming back.... Tomorrow he is in for a surprise LmaO
Lifes twist and turns sure make the ride great\\Pep
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Pretty much just in thinking mode for this week and next? New shop dog is really challenging. (puppy)
9 weeks old and only one accident in the house yesterday. :)
Anxious to get stuff done!
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Officially - Right knee arthroscopic partial medial meniscectomy. In plain English I had keyhole surgery to trim up torn cartilage in my right knee.
If this was an Aussi he would have walked if off..
Kidding, take it easy mate.
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Went fishing
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Tim, that hurts to look at. That will take awhile to heal.
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Love me some Sac a lait. :-*
Had Fried shrimp and fries tonight. Followed by Blue Bell homemade Vanilla and some of Jabbers rum raisins. >:D
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Blue Bell is the BEST,,,,but they have stopped making the Butter Pecan.
The delivery man did not know why.
It was the best!!!!!!!
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Blue Bell is the BEST,,,,but they have stopped making the Butter Pecan.
The delivery man did not know why.
It was the best!!!!!!!
I'd disagree, however my favorite is not available in your area....
https://www.turkeyhill.com/frozen/ice-cream
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Looks like Kroger carries it in the Richmond/Rosenburg area. Next time I head to Houston I will have to stop and try it.
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We get Turkey Hill locally and like it just fine. Not high end ice cream but certainly good with some good flavors
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Blue Bell is the BEST,,,,but they have stopped making the Butter Pecan.
The delivery man did not know why.
It was the best!!!!!!!
I'd disagree, however my favorite is not available in your area....
https://www.turkeyhill.com/frozen/ice-cream
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I have had both......Blue bell wins in my book. I dont know if there is anything better than blue bell homemade vanilla over fresh hot brownies.
Blue Bell is the BEST,,,,but they have stopped making the Butter Pecan.
The delivery man did not know why.
It was the best!!!!!!!
You cant get butter pecan in Texas?!?!? It's on the shelf at my local grocery as of last week in OH in pint size.
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Had to take the truck into the shop. Front end noise. of course, that left me stranded all day without a vehicle. Called the shop at noon - they hadn't gotten to it yet. Finally around 1:15 they call and say they can't hear anything up front and everything feels fine. No one to give me a lift, so I jump on to my bicycle and huff it 40 minutes to the shop. Was feeling pretty winded.
So, all in all a wasted day. Going through some more tools to put on the classifieds, though. Some of you guys should like that.
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Spent some time on mama's Dodge Caliber. The "door" light and chime is on all the time, and the dome light also. Last time this happened,it was just the door light and I cleaned the sensor plates and it went away . This time , no go.
Youtube is little help.
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Weird forklift.
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Not much weird about it except those modified forks.
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Not much weird about it except those modified forks.
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Yeah that’s what im talking about. No idea what it’s for it’s a 20k and the forks are only two feet long.
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Is the tilt cab for engine access?
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Spent some time on mama's Dodge Caliber. The "door" light and chime is on all the time, and the dome light also. Last time this happened,it was just the door light and I cleaned the sensor plates and it went away . This time , no go.
Youtube is little help.
Same with the wifes Durango. Non specific electrical glitches. Always something screwed up on that car.
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Is the tilt cab for engine access?
You can access the engine from the back, you have to lift the cab to get to the hydraulics, tranny, etc.
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Tried out my repaired knee today. Drove into town to get some avgas for one of the guys in the club so he can go racing tomorrow. Then headed up to the workshop to scruitineer and tag a new club members RZR do he can race tomorrow.
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Took my father and Nephew to the Great American Outdoor Show in Harrisburg PA.
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Looks like a fun time Muddy.
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For some reason I get the feeling PETA wouldn't like that show. ;D
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Picked up the door glass, installed it in the pass door, fits and works smooth, success. Couldn't wait, for Saturday install the door panel, window frame. Spin the car and strip the drives door, go to work there.
Shouldn't take very long this time around... murphy always lurking, and the best plans made and all that, time will tell.
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Back to the garage, panel time for the door.
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Cleaned shop, complete pig pen, clutter was/is unreal. Too much business stuff in there. on the bright side, 20 below wind chill today, 70 in the shop.
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heated shop is great. Spent the morning (38f and drizzling rain) laying in cowshit working on a tractor shifter. The guy had been using 2 crescent wrenchs for shifters and finally got it locked in 2 gears at once. All because the seat belt dropped down and hung up the shifter. Lets just take it apart and see how badly we can f@#$ things up. >:( Yeah he coulda called me last week when it was in the 70s but nooooo. :-[
I added $100 to his bill just for the cowshit.
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on the bright side, 20 below wind chill today, 70 in the shop.
Is that with just your radiant solar or are you using supplemental heat too?
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I added $100 to his bill just for the cowshit.
As well you should.
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on the bright side, 20 below wind chill today, 70 in the shop.
Is that with just your radiant solar or are you using supplemental heat too?
Solar had it at 50, saw collector temps over 100 yesterday but burning junk wood in the wood stove got it 70.
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I added $100 to his bill just for the cowshit.
As well you should.
He was too kind ... 100 bucks for the cow shit, 200 for call out and 300 dumb-ass, that seems more fair somehow.
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I like the way you think Pepi. ;D
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Drove West 50 miles to Corsicana,TX. to a nice gun show. Did some trading, and sold a nice Browning shotgun.
Small show, about 100 tables, and lots of people and action.
Rainy and real cold today,so I won't drive back to it. Icy rural roads are NOFUN.
Texas gun shows are really nice.
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Took one look out the garage door this AM and drug the extension cord over to the snowblower and fired it up. The wind had drifted the snow as much as 8" so a shovel was out of the question. After the sun shining since 9am the sidewalks and part of the driveway is dry. I cleared the snow off the gravel at the entrance gate because I couldn't even open the gate due to drifted snow. All the remaining snow had now melted at the gate and I have to go back out and finish clearing the stoop at the man door to the shop since the sun is on it now.
Supposed to have more come in Wed and Thurs.
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Bought out a small TShirt business, augmenting my existing business. I stand to quadruple my investment through selling the shirts and still wind up with more than the initial investment in equipment. Loaded the pickup to the gills today, one more load next week. Won't happen overnight but this year is starting a lot better than last year did so I'm confident!
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Picked up an Orange Matco double bay full of tools and 3 large totes of tools in blow molded cases on Friday.
Made an offer on them just before Christmas and he turned me down. Saw he had reposted them, sent him a text and he said come pick them up. Apparently he didn't believe me when I told him its hard to find people with big cash to spend on tools boxes and tools.
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Picked up an Orange Matco double bay full of tools and 3 large totes of tools in blow molded cases on Friday.
Made an offer on them just before Christmas and he turned me down. Saw he had reposted them, sent him a text and he said come pick them up. Apparently he didn't believe me when I told him its hard to find people with big cash to spend on tools boxes and tools.
I'm sure you did well on the deal Phil. I'm alway surprised when sellers expect to get near retail on large collections.
Buying high-end tools and expecting them to be a retirement investment guarantee is not always the most prudent strategy.
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My wife uses a walker called a Medline Rollator. One of the rear wheel bearings gave up. I took it apart and saw the problem. New wheel assembly 30- 50 bucks? Not me, no way for just a bearing. Fastenal has a store here in town and I ordered 4 of them at $1.20 each.
Went to pick them up and the guy I placed the order with was not in, but my order was there. The clerk brought out 4 boxes of the little bearings! Mind you these are 8mm by 22mm bearings.
The 4 boxes contained 25 each! The clerk insisted it was correct and the price was correct at a total of $5.20 with tax!
I told them they were losing money. I have replaced the bearings and called them to see if they want the other 96 bearings returned. Their comment was - Two choices- 1. Keep them since it was their mistake, or 2. Bring them back so their inventory will be correct.
I took them back. I remember a guy in the parts department of Stubbs Cycles in Houston that ordered a small part from Honda, but entered the wrong part # and we got 25 left engine cases for a Honda 90 ! He wouldn't admit his mistake and the store was left holding the parts for ever !
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Great move Noel -- Good karma will come your way.
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yup, good karma for that.....
Now, your Fastenal sells individuals? My local Fastenal only sells by the box. I needed two 3in X1/8 roll pins. they only come in bags of 100. WTH am I going to do with 98 3in rollpins?
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. WTH am I going to do with 98 3in rollpins?
You could sell them two at a time to people needing two. Or do an art project with them. Or you could have the great roll pin giveaway and have a contest winner gets 98 3 x 1/8 roll pins.
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Good on ya Papaw as I would have returned them also. Fastenal's business model isn't built on onesies or twosies. I needed 4pcs of stainless bolts 3/4x8 to mount the horse waterers back to back in the stalls in the barn. Fastenal had them for me the next morning for 7 or 8 bucks apiece.
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Picked up the door glass, installed it in the pass door, fits and works smooth, success. Couldn't wait, for Saturday install the door panel, window frame. Spin the car and strip the drives door, go to work there.
Shouldn't take very long this time around... murphy always lurking, and the best plans made and all that, time will tell.
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Left this for Mandy in the morning....
And was rewarded with a hardy (hearty?) steak dinner!!!(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190215/373bbd4673bd14930db56bcfa48bf2b8.jpg)
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Good move Tim! - the old adage about maintaining a “Happy Wife” is definitely true
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Picked up the door glass, installed it in the pass door, fits and works smooth, success. Couldn't wait, for Saturday install the door panel, window frame. Spin the car and strip the drives door, go to work there.
Shouldn't take very long this time around... murphy always lurking, and the best plans made and all that, time will tell.
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Sure Steve,
Not sure they will be all that interesting, gutted door and window glass. They are a PIA to get to work as I think they should.
Ending up replacing all the felt channels & whiskers. The silver in the cloud, had those materials on hand. left over from the 32 build. Not cheap stuff over 130 for 4; 6ft strips...
But we am too please, I'll snap some and post in the next day or 2
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Had to clear a little snow this morning for the wife to get off to work. It rained for 2 days and then turned to a mix yesterday so the roads are slick this morning and it is still snowing. The wife called me when she got to work and said it was one of the slickest drives she has had. She was headed down the hill and pulled off on a side street to let a truck go past that was coming up fast on her rear. She got down the road a bit and there was the truck in the ditch. She said there was probably about 10 vehicles off in the ditches. She only has to go 4 miles to get to work.
I can't say enough good things about the Yokohama tires she bought on Black Friday for her Subaru Tribeca. They do very well on the snow and ice and are highly rated for the conditions here.
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Finishing the felt window runners, seen is the nasty iner-door panel. Only square cut at the regulator is mine.
The 4 inch channel that hides the frame can be seen. I really like that, many 30's era HotRods a frame in seen with the body on top of it. Bet you never noticed that, now you will..LOL
Pep
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Yesterday was a bit cooler, high 70's rather than low 80's. Headed to the Paeroa V8 Car Show and Swapmet. Picked my uncle up on the way.
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He bought a hardly used pair of Bushnell binoculars. The only thing I bought was a big chopper. I've been after one for while. This is a bit bigger than what I was looking for, the blade is nearly 1/4" thick.
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Then we headed up to Thames to have a look at my uncle's 29' launch that he bought last week. Thames Marina has mud berths due to the tide range.
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The engine is a marine conversion of a Ford diesel engine.
Dropped my uncle home and got given some produce out of this garden.
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Stopped just up the road from uncle's to get some photos of this waterfall.
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Long exposure.
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Also stopped at a friend's pottery shop. I've known Andrew since we went to playcentre (pre kindergarten) together at age of three.
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Got home in time to load up my old Challenger and sent it to it's new home.
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That's a sweet ol mullet masher your uncle snagged. I like it. 8)
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That is a nice launch your uncle got. Must be kind of hard to get back in the marina if a storm blows in at low tide. Do you miss racing the buggy or do you like the new racing better?
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You can only get in and out of the marina for about two hours each side of high tide. It is located at the bottom of the Firth of Thames so is pretty sheltered except in a northerly.
I miss the buggy racing a little bit. As a fixed class (all buggies basically the same) the racing was close. The NZ3 on the side means I was 3rd in class at the National Finals (2015). The RZR has three times the suspension travel of the Challenger. The Challenger is based on the VW Beetle and is definitely a young man's (and women's) game. The other thing about the RZR is I use it as much for other things as I do racing. However, The UTV class is growing so quickly with people from other motorsport, I don't think I'll have a NZ on the side again.
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Project window upgrades completed. It is amazing how dirty the interior is, having the door panels out really show it.
Good chance I'll start on that today, knock that out as I have that custom door stop.
This was the second winter up grade, the other replacing the electric vacuum pump.
Bottom line sum-times, new and improve has a real value and meaning, this one is all that.
Good little time fillers for the last 2 months.....
Pep
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pep,
I notice you have some sort of foil-backed insulation in your doors. Is this for sound insulation, thermal insulation, or both? Does it work well?
If so, do you also have this same insulation on the floor pan, drive line tunnel, fire wall, inner roof, and other places?
What is the product name of this insulation? What sizes does it come in, what does it cost?
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pep,
I notice you have some sort of foil-backed insulation in your doors. Is this for sound insulation, thermal insulation, or both? Does it work well?
If so, do you also have this same insulation on the floor pan, drive line tunnel, fire wall, inner roof, and other places?
What is the product name of this insulation? What sizes does it come in, what does it cost?
yes knocking down a little sound and temperature does ok, Bought it many years ago, BD (before dynamat). So details are vague, I can tell you the back side is woven fiber, about 1/2 thick, spray adessive to attach. Was sold in a roll, not anything expensive, I think if came from Pep-boys,
Best I can do for the question
Pep
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pep,
Thanks. You told me what I wanted to know.
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pep,
Thanks. You told me what I wanted to know.
I used some self adhesive insulated HVAC duct wrap from Home Depot on one of my projects -- pretty much the same performance as DM, and at minimal cost.
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My dad bought one of those new US GENERAL cart / boxes in lime green and I bolted it together for him.
There was lots of back tracking and loosening different bolts to get everything lined up, but I eventually got it. The quality seems okay, but I would absolutely never want to own one.
For some reason you cannot open the drawers without the top open, and with the spring loaded switch you've gotta slide to get the drawers open you can only have one open at a time.
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My dad bought one of those new US GENERAL cart / boxes in lime green and I bolted it together for him.
There was lots of back tracking and loosening different bolts to get everything lined up, but I eventually got it. The quality seems okay, but I would absolutely never want to own one.
For some reason you cannot open the drawers without the top open, and with the spring loaded switch you've gotta slide to get the drawers open you can only have one open at a time.
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I think you should be able to de-feet, the nanny features.
Did you think to use Loctite in the assembly by chance, works real good for these type of things?
I'm with you, green is for the front lawn :-)
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I like the bright green. Extreme green and white are two colors of tool box I haven't had pass through. Have had rest except some specialty colors
As to the one drawer open at a time, that is so the cart won't tip with too many drawers open.
Don't defeat the top must be open to open the drawers. When moving the cart, that is handy so you don't have to worry about drawers opening when moving. Oops, forgot you had the latches on the drawers. Ok then, don't defeat them both.
Cart is nice for a DIYer for sure
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As it turns out you can open more than one drawer at a time , and you can open close the top with the drawers open then close them most of the way so you don't have to keep the top open.
I don't know what the deal was yesterday.
I didn't use loctite because I had to loosen and tighten various bolts to persuade everything to line up.
Now as far as the color goes, Green is both of our favorite color and I think this Color is real nice.
He loves frogs, he's got multiple frog tattoos, and his childhood nickname was frog.
So naturally I ordered him a nice 5x7.5 frog decal to go on top.
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I didn't use loctite because I had to loosen and tighten various bolts to persuade everything to line up.
Best way to put stuff like that together is leave everything loose until you get all the bolts in.
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I didn't use loctite because I had to loosen and tighten various bolts to persuade everything to line up.
Best way to put stuff like that together is leave everything loose until you get all the bolts in.
You kind of have to have the cart assembly ready to go when you lower the heavy box onto it, so what I did was get everything a little tight then backtrack where needed to get certain holes lined up.
There's probably better ways to do it, but this is how I got the job done.
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2-3 shift solenoid in a 4L60E which is a '90s to 2000s gm rwd transmission for those that don't know. Job went well other than the wrong filter. Aside from deep pan and shallow pan there's also modified deep pan to clear the front driveshaft on 4wd Colorados :-[ And ain't nobody in town got that filter in stock so the old one got put back in.
One thing that made the job easier/cleaner was an oil drain pump I just got. Didn't get the pan empty but got enough of the fluid out it was easy to drop without getting fluid everywhere. Link to the one I bought but you can probably get the same thing cheaper elsewhere if you don't need 2 day shipping.
https://www.amazon.com/Transfer-Extractor-Diesel-Electric-Motorbike/dp/B01KZIFZVK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=12V+Transfer+Pump+Extractor+Oil+Fluid+Diesel+Electric+Siphon+Car+Motorbike&qid=1551594435&s=gateway&sr=8-1
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Apparently once every 9000 hrs isn't a good oil change interval....(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190305/6b8723afe0d576ea79afc14f3bd8a88b.jpg)
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Trip up East Coast today to schedule bridge repairs. 540km round trip.
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May Be* C:-)
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Apparently once every 9000 hrs isn't a good oil change interval....(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190305/6b8723afe0d576ea79afc14f3bd8a88b.jpg)
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Pretty funny, what is the normal cycle, hrs ?
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I like the way the church is stabilized on each side, are the normal winds high in that location?
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Apparently once every 9000 hrs isn't a good oil change interval....(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190305/6b8723afe0d576ea79afc14f3bd8a88b.jpg)
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Pretty funny, what is the normal cycle, hrs ?
200 hrs.
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I like the way the church is stabilized on each side, are the normal winds high in that location?
The church was built in 1894. It is very exposed. The buttresses help hold up the church as well as reflecting the flying buttresses of gothic churches.
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Turned another year older
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Muddy , happy bd
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Happy Birthday muddy. Did Sam and Max help with the cake?
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Happy birthday Muddy!
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Turned another year older
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Happy B, Day Tim!!!
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Thanks guys Sam ate half my piece of upside pineapple!
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Happy Birthday Tim!!
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Happy B day
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Happy Birthday Tim -- all the best to you and the family on this special day.
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Happy Bday Muddy. Give Sam a year or two and he'll be eating all your cake. :)
Spent the past two days in Houston. the wife got a good report and I got to go to the Rockler store and Duluth trading company. I picked me up some of those buck naked underwear. I'll post some pictures later. :-\
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Happy Bday Muddy. Give Sam a year or two and he'll be eating all your cake. :)
Spent the past two days in Houston. the wife got a good report and I got to go to the Rockler store and Duluth trading company. I picked me up some of those buck naked underwear. I'll post some pictures later. :-\
:)) We cant unsee that...........
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Stopped at the Duluth store in Louisville last fall. Tried on some pants but didn't care for them. Mama saw nothing she liked either.
As to the buck naked undies, wasn't tempted in the least. My boxers are just fine and I don't solve problems I don't have :))
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I have one of the Duluth aprons that I wear in the shop. Its pretty nice, works well.
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I've been partial to their line of firehose products. Have a nice winter jacket that's firehouse canvas - tough as nails.
Tried their firehose work pants. Plenty tough but too heavy and too hot! Gosh almost sweated to death in those. But I compromised and got some of their blue jeans with firehose pockets and waistband. Great!
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My list
99 PU
oil & filter
rotate tires
grease front end drive shaft slip joint
32 PU
Finish & install some trim pieces that the leather had separated.
Drove it for the hell of it
34 coupe
Changed some fugly dorman screws, 50 of them..
garage
hung some stuff on the wall, push broom, squeegee & small step ladder.
tossed some stuff
Sweep the floor
Another spin in the 32 as a reward.
Shop.
TIG welded a part for the guy around the corner.
Think that's all
Pep
Tomorrow mess around in the yard, mowed last weekend
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I've been unsupervised the last few days so just cleaning up things before the wife gets back. Shop is a disaster, as per usual, so will spend tomorrow going over that.
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Gee pep, at least you can see your grass. I look at the yard all I see is white stuff and it is still snowing.
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Got home from the stock car races at 0300 this AM. 60+ IMCA sport mods racing for $8900 made for a fun race but a long night. Crawled out at what I thought was 0900 but its actually 10. :-[ :-[ I hate the time change.
Planted 3dozen Asparagus crowns in the garden, put out weed and feed on the yard, and sprayed the fence lines with :-\ Roundup :-\ I feel ok for now.
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made some Anzac biscuits that Jabber recommended. couldn't figure out how to get the picture in a PM. So y'all all get a chance to critique it. ;D
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Looks good! How the heck do you get a picture in a PM?????
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made some Anzac biscuits that Jabber recommended. couldn't figure out how to get the picture in a PM. So y'all all get a chance to critique it. ;D
Looks like a cow patty.....
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made some Anzac biscuits that Jabber recommended. couldn't figure out how to get the picture in a PM. So y'all all get a chance to critique it. ;D
Coming from where ANZAC biscuits come from, I can tell you they are a little bit dark.
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Gang,
What exactly is an Anzac Biscuit? Or, what is Anzac? What all is in it?
It looks good enough to at least take a taste from what I can see.
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https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/anzac-biscuits-recipe
This is the link Jabber sent me. They're really good too. I was trying to get them crisp and may have overdid them a bit. mine are a bit darker than the picture in the recipe.
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Drove through about 15 miles of whiteout conditions to get to Reno for dinner. The wife's boss took some of us to Ruth's Chris Steak House for dinner. My ribeye Oscar style was perfect as was everybody's filet or steak except they screwed the pooch on the owner's filet. It wasn't even close to cooked properly and when he sent it back they simply cooked it more and it was still not done and the sliced pieces were overcooked. They should have made him a new one. Needless to say he let them have it and told them he eats at their places all over the country and he will never eat at Reno again as it was absolutely the worst he ever had.
They tried to make it up by bringing out a variety of desserts on the house but that was still a weak response. When a guy is picking up the tab for 10 people you might just want to make him happy.
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Biscuits look good but I am a sucker for homemade food.
I ate at Ruth Chris once, it was good but not worth the $'s. Ate at a local fine dining establishment once with similar prices and was happy.
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Been a long winter here, but overnight and today torrential rain made the two foot of snow in my yard go down to six inches, and lots of ice. Fields along the highway look like lakes and with frozen culverts many places ready to top the paved highway. Folks got water in the basement due to all the frozen drifts next to their homes, the melt just can't get away. Roads dept. watching some of the smaller rivers, bank full already. Been cleaning in the house, picking up in the kitchen, when that gets old, do the same in the basement. Got some new cabinets coming and trying to get ready. Hope to get back to the shop soon, two cars waiting.
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Pretty much finished emptying out the Astrovan of business stuff. And got everything crammed into the shop, but have a really good system worked out - the shop doesn't look cluttered.
With all the deadweight out of it it runs alot faster, and the ladder rack off the top means it'll now fit in the garage. Now I have to decide if I'm going to take out all the premade shelving and separating wall out of it, and really make it a passenger van. Would love to make it a "get out of Dodge" (pun intended) vehicle, but, we'll see how the spring unfolds.
Then i visited our local bicycle salvage place - in their new location. Went there once earlier, but they were just settling in. Now I can peruse all the aisles and bins. Didn't see too many old classic parts (sad), and prices are a bit higher than I remember ( double sad). But the building where they used to be located got torn down for a new business loop off of the interstate, so, they had to move. Been seeing better deals at the pawnies lately - guess alot of folks are pawning their rides.
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Not much, dusted the 32 and polished the 34
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Or, what is Anzac?
The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) was a First World War army corps of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. It was formed in Egypt in December 1914, and operated during the Battle of Gallipoli. It comprised troops from the First Australian Imperial Force and 1st New Zealand Expeditionary Force.
ANZAC is now a generic term that means Australia and New Zealand (and a whole lot more).
If you want a laugh, and some more insight into the term have a look here. (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Anzac)
Edit: Anzac, Alberta is named for this army corp.
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Marshaling at Round 5 of the National 4wd Trials Championship.
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What they look like when they've been through a swamp stage.
Basic A class. Suzuki SJ13, still on leaf springs and no cutter brakes.
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What they look like when they've been through a swamp stage.
Basic A class. Suzuki SJ13, still on leaf springs and no cutter brakes.
Missed a couple spots.
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made some Anzac biscuits that Jabber recommended. couldn't figure out how to get the picture in a PM. So y'all all get a chance to critique it. ;D
Maybe take a picture before you ate it ?
Not saying anymore
O0 pep
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Temps finally got above 60 so I fired up the BBQ and cooked some chicken. I also hauled firewood up to fill the rack in the garage since we are supposed to get some rain Wednesday.
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It was sunny and almost 70 yesterday, so me and to old man went and cut the 4th heaped pickup load of oak on the year. A friend of mine let us come cut on 160 ac he is doing the clearing on for a vineyard. It is a pleasant chunk of land on top of a local hill. Spent 3 hrs there and didn't see anyone but the birds and squirrels. After that load was added to his hoard, they should be set with firewood for the next couple or 3 yrs. He'd much rather have it rot in the pile than be short.
Went on saturday and bought a new to me jalopy for commuting as the old passat is getting worn out. It has 195k. Needs a timing belt, leaks/burns fluids at an annoying rate, and the clutch is about gone. Time to send it away.
I really like the feel/layout/handling of kraut cars, so I sprung for one of a slightly different flavor. I'm sure GF is gonna let me have it for buying complicated, over-engineered, hard to work on, and expensive Euro junk lol.
2011 BWM 328i 3.0 straight six, 6spd, low options, and 38k mi 2 owner for a bit under $10k. It belonged to a PDX city planner who is moving to Barcelona. My hillbilly arse was a little out of place in the big city looking at a snob-mobile. But I made the deal. In my mind, it's just a car. Drive it, thrash it, fix it, buy another when it's shot. No big deal; they make more every single day.
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^^^^^^^^At 38,000 miles, you should be good for a while but when the gremlins start showing up, I'd be on the lookout for another.
Seems like a very good deal for $10K
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was in Omaha, aka as pot hole city, really rough winter here and them holes are terrible and deep. City even hired contractors to tackle the worst ones. Got to weave all over the street to miss them,.Saw 4 cars changing tires, as they probably did not weave enough. Know a lady with a ford edge, hit a pot hole, ruined the wheel, bent the lower control arm, they fixed that, but had to tow it back to the shop as the left half shaft tip snapped off. The piece is lost in the transaxle, so she is waiting for the third and hopefully correct transaxle to show up. Ford in their wisdom used 4 diferent transaxles in that model. Also Interstate 29 is closed due to flooding, south to Kansas City. So the freight truck is probably held up. Also can't leave Omaha to the west as the Platte River is out of its banks, and covering a half dozen major highways. Up north of me, highways are closed, 3 highway bridges are washed away, 10 towns suffering from high water. farmland all over underwater, over a million acres. Loss to livestock is terrible. We had two feet of snow everywhere, warm temps, and 2 inches of rain in 36 hours was just too much to run off as normal. I am high and dry, and got plenty of groeries. Come on Spring
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That's some wicked flooding you guys in the middle are getting. It's amazing how much unstoppable power the rivers have when they cut loose. Hope it drys out soon.
I couldn't believe what it did to this dam in no time flat. I've been along there in the mid summer and it seemed like a average river.
Greyson
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The bickies look good . I like them that color damn tasty.
The real WTF is lord Greystoke in a Beemer :-\
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The real WTF is lord Greystoke in a Beemer :-\
One of the neighbors already came over and asked who was visiting. Sticks out like a sore thumb. I'm not questioning my sanity yet....
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Woke up and turned on the news and the TV said signal loss which means one thing. I look outside and it is snowing. Welcome to spring in Nevada. ::)
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Woke up and turned on the news and the TV said signal loss which means one thing. I look outside and it is snowing. Welcome to spring in Nevada. ::)
Not a welcome sign, that's for sure. It cold and rainy here in DC, but I'll take the rain over snow any day.
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Been pretty steady rain here too.
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I hate to hear about all the flooding and snowing you guys are getting.
That said- here are some Spring pictures to cheer you up-
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7839/40472908063_c489900ca1_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/24EsevH)Amaryillis and Bluebonnets on Jack Street (https://flic.kr/p/24EsevH) by Noel Hankamer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/), on Flickr
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7924/46715640874_0fa697e063_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2eb6Su3)Rhododendrons - Autumn Twist (https://flic.kr/p/2eb6Su3) by Noel Hankamer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/), on Flickr
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7815/47318612912_aeeab1a507_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2f6og4E)Roseate Spoonbill (https://flic.kr/p/2f6og4E) by Noel Hankamer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/), on Flickr
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7896/33336703798_ea3a6807c1_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/SMRjB9)Single Lily w Grass (https://flic.kr/p/SMRjB9) by Noel Hankamer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/), on Flickr
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Now I am even more depressed looking at those beautiful pictures. Thanks Pawpaw. :))
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Yesterday I cleaned some tools and got them put up for sale. Then went with the kids to a new BBQ place in town.
Today I have to fix the toilet (not related in any way to yesterdays BBQ!!!). The stupid flapper valve seperated from its pivot arm mechanism. Sounds weird but it has a plastic frame that the top of the plug pushes into. I assume this is to allow the plug to center itself and the rigid frame to last longer than the rubber one piece flapper valve. Unfortunately where the plug snaps into the frame wore out and now the plug just sits there while the frame goes up and down. So it's off to Lowes in a little bit.
But first we have to wait for the roofing company to send out a guy to check out a small leak that has developed by the front door. New roof installed about year and half ago. Called them and they're sending someone out right away, so that's promising.....
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Lots of rain here lately.
Going to be a lot of grass cutting soon.
I'll go buy lawn fertilizer tomorrow.
Spring-like weather already here.
Getting too old for all the things to do, so I'll be hiring someone to help me.
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Went to a gun show yesterday and got a new tool.....
http://garagegazette.com/index.php?topic=1451.0
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Spent the past week just out of Houston learning a new SCADA system. I learned that you can teach an old dog new tricks but it makes the old dogs head hurt really bad. :(
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Put new front runners on, polished the front wheels ........ drove to test the balance.... they did very good job.
Those are some really nice hubs and brakes.
Pep
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Got up early this morning and wife and I picked up the Ohio plant manager at the shop who has been here all week and took him to Reno to catch his flight home. Stopped on the way home at a casino and got a full breakfast w/coffee for $1.03 w/our coupon and got back home before sunrise. Did give the waitress a $5 tip since we got $10 off the meal.
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Had to do some servicing on my 1985 model lawn mower. Found it parked out beside a commercial dumpster probably 10 years ago. Does my yard every season since. Wouldn't run well yesterday first time out for the summer, so I figured the carb needed some cleaning. Cleaned the air filter, refilled with fresh oil, did a quick once over.
Man did alot of black gunk come out of that thing! Ran better after re-installation. Probably need to look into getting a rebuild kit for it. The rubber diaphragm for the choke and o-rings are starting to look dry.
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Serviced the Plymouth with my helper. Installed my old CB radio in it too. Need a SWR meter to tune the antenna yet.
Went for ice cream after dinner.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190331/3e84bb50e66065dd4378284c8de0012e.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190331/c7a5ec92c075a755f40391b3ca286842.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190331/86ecd1368fba2203ae2c0e3973e56eac.jpg)
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Friday set up for a 250km enduro race our club is running.
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The farm we are on is called Castle Craig because these rocks look like the castle in Scotland of the same name.
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It is near the Waitomo Caves in limestone country and is in the middle of nowhere.
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Track on the west side of hill.
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Track on the east side of the hill, after crossing the hill.
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Track runs through the trees.
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Some locals.
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The farmer's Suzuki SJ410.
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I stayed the night at the campground at Waitomo Caves. This is the sign at the gate to remind tourists to drive on the proper side of the road.
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Saturday - Castle Craig 250km Enduro. Eighteen 14km laps.
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Competitors turning up.
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Line up before the start.
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I marshaled on the west side of the hill. They raced down the left side of the paddock and back up the right before turning and heading up over the hill.
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Class 9 - out after hitting the end of a culvert, bending the steering and blowing a tyre.
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The octopus on the back of the Beatle. It is the same on the other side. Twin turbo V6 3.0l Nissan.
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For those on Facebook here is a video shot on the day. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=849636565386659&id=641197429563908 (https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=849636565386659&id=641197429563908)
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Changed the shifter in my Mustang. Someone hacked a Hurst in there, butchered the tunnel to get it in there. I got a Used Competition Plus and spend a few hours this weekend getting it in. Needed google to figure it out as I had to change everything. Took awhile to get it adjusted. Shifts nice but not sure I like the length of the shifter. The shifter is old so the lever doesn't just unbolt. I needed the right shifter as I found a used console to put in it. It was in an Automatic car so I have to modify it and correct top plate. Next project is TCP power rack and pinion and tilt column.
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Cut up a perfectly good shelf.
I was looking for a couple easy/relatively inexpensive 6' workbenches. After 2 months of nothing on CL, I broke down and bought this pallet rack style (only in looks; it's made of the finest rolled beercan material) shelf for $150 and then took the suicide wheel to it.
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I'm putting a 2x6 and 3/4 plywood top on it so I used one of the mesh shelves welded to the legs to re-stiffen it up. The welder was a little overkill. .045" NR211 fluxcore out of the suitcase off the XMT304. Jumper cables, a battery, and 1/16th 6011 would probably been quicker to drag out lol.
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Of course nothing ever goes easy. My tablesaw is 220V and I didn't have NEMA 6-20 extension cord, so I had to whip one up. Garbage freight 12ga cord with the ends hacked off. Spliced into the box on the other end. My electrical engineer buddy just groans when I send him pics like this. I told him I was Mr. Safety because I sprung the extra 78 cents for the outlet box so I didn't get bit picking it up. :))
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It went to raining so the project is postponed until that quits for a day (probably July here in the PNW).
Greyson
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Yeah, that enlarged hole in the floorboard looks like a major hack alright. Guess he figured the boot would cover it, and he wanted the Hurst shifter.
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Of course nothing ever goes easy. My tablesaw is 220V and I didn't have NEMA 6-20 extension cord, so I had to whip one up. Garbage freight 12ga cord with the ends hacked off. Spliced into the box on the other end. My electrical engineer buddy just groans when I send him pics like this. I told him I was Mr. Safety because I sprung the extra 78 cents for the outlet box so I didn't get bit picking it up. :))
Nothing ever goes like you planned. That's why I usually have a plan B (and C) going into a project, just to deal with the inevitable malfunctions.
78 cents? Last of the big time spenders, eh? ;D
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$.78 :D I see you spare no expense when it comes to safety :D
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Cut up a perfectly good shelf.
I was looking for a couple easy/relatively inexpensive 6' workbenches. After 2 months of nothing on CL, I broke down and bought this pallet rack style (only in looks; it's made of the finest rolled beercan material) shelf for $150 and then took the suicide wheel to it.
(https://i.imgur.com/AzQMO5Cl.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/CU5RRC7l.jpg)
I'm putting a 2x6 and 3/4 plywood top on it so I used one of the mesh shelves welded to the legs to re-stiffen it up. The welder was a little overkill. .045" NR211 fluxcore out of the suitcase off the XMT304. Jumper cables, a battery, and 1/16th 6011 would probably been quicker to drag out lol.
(https://i.imgur.com/QHUzZoll.jpg)
Of course nothing ever goes easy. My tablesaw is 220V and I didn't have NEMA 6-20 extension cord, so I had to whip one up. Garbage freight 12ga cord with the ends hacked off. Spliced into the box on the other end. My electrical engineer buddy just groans when I send him pics like this. I told him I was Mr. Safety because I sprung the extra 78 cents for the outlet box so I didn't get bit picking it up. :))
(https://i.imgur.com/iRgSq8il.jpg)
It went to raining so the project is postponed until that quits for a day (probably July here in the PNW).
Greyson
Why ? That isn't that a water proof box, cannot tell with the picture angle used........LAMO, I will buy new unit and rebuild for my needs. Buying materials to build, sometimes is the least best option
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The box and the rain are unrelated. I was set up outside working and just packed it all away until the sun comeback out. Typical Oregon fashion. Not much gets done outside here between OCT and JUN.
That's just a standard stud mount box. No seal, coverplate, strain relief, or any of that osha crap. lol
I thought about building from scratch, but knowing myself as well as I do, they would have come out weighing 700 lbs each and cost $1k to build.
Greyson
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I really like those racks from Costco. I had bought one and ended buying three more on sale for $125 each. I used one post between sections and only three shelves per section and ended up with four sections out of the deal so I have four across the back wall of the shop and one in the garage. With less shelves per section they hold large totes and big boxes better.
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The box and the rain are unrelated. I was set up outside working and just packed it all away until the sun comeback out. Typical Oregon fashion. Not much gets done outside here between OCT and JUN.
That's just a standard stud mount box. No seal, coverplate, strain relief, or any of that osha crap. lol
I thought about building from scratch, but knowing myself as well as I do, they would have come out weighing 700 lbs each and cost $1k to build.
Greyson
I know that ................
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Smacked a deer last night coming home from visiting my 94 year old Mom. Thankfully I was driving Mama's 01 Mazda mini van and not my new truck. Broke the headlight and turn signal lights, cracked the bumper cover. Didn't see other damage but it was dark and not really worried about it. Hopefully comprehensive coverage will cover it but either way about the most its going to get is a new headlight and turn signal.
I really like having an old beater to drive for errands and local jaunts. If it gets hit, dinged, run off the road or whatever, you don't lose much. You can park it anywhere and not worry. I often don't even bother locking it.
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Smacked a deer last night coming home from visiting my 94 year old Mom. Thankfully I was driving Mama's 01 Mazda mini van and not my new truck. Broke the headlight and turn signal lights, cracked the bumper cover. Didn't see other damage but it was dark and not really worried about it. Hopefully comprehensive coverage will cover it but either way about the most its going to get is a new headlight and turn signal.
I really like having an old beater to drive for errands and local jaunts. If it gets hit, dinged, run off the road or whatever, you don't lose much. You can park it anywhere and not worry. I often don't even bother locking it.
That's exactly why I daily commute with the Plymouth. People know you don't care what happens in a $500 car compared to there $30,000 car!
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Spent the past few days helping get this baby up and running. New SCADA systems are always fun. one PLC down one to go. Switching from Wonderware to Ifix so I got a big learning curve ahead.
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was going thru the phone today downloading project pics and ran across these. :D
Pure genius. :D
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Smacked a deer last night coming home from visiting my 94 year old Mom. Thankfully I was driving Mama's 01 Mazda mini van and not my new truck. Broke the headlight and turn signal lights, cracked the bumper cover. Didn't see other damage but it was dark and not really worried about it. Hopefully comprehensive coverage will cover it but either way about the most its going to get is a new headlight and turn signal.
I really like having an old beater to drive for errands and local jaunts. If it gets hit, dinged, run off the road or whatever, you don't lose much. You can park it anywhere and not worry. I often don't even bother locking it.
That's exactly why I daily commute with the Plymouth. People know you don't care what happens in a $500 car compared to there $30,000 car!
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Oldest car goes first ;D
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So this turned up at my place this morning. 460ci Donovan sprint car engined 4wd Class 8 (Open truck class).
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Wow Rural53 is it yours or you had to inspect it?
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Pulled apart our 17 year old Whirlpool washing machine today. Trying to find the problem, see if it's minor or if we need a new one.
Following the advice of a utube vid I got the tranny out and apart, cleaned out all the old oil, inspected teeth, clutch pads, etc and reassembled with fresh 90w gear lobe. Put the whole thing back together, and tried washing a load of shop rags. Agitated fine, but wouldn't spin or drain and motor had a loud hum. Removed the pump so I could watch the motor shaft - it's trying to spin but sputters. Run cap good and pump not restricted - must be something in the tranny and/or the motor is just plum wore out. Then discovered hardened varnish in the motor base. Overheated windings. So, off to buy a new one.
But I thought the exercise was a good one. Learn something new everyday.
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Wow Rural53 is it yours or you had to inspect it?
Unfortunately only visiting to get scruitineered and tagged for the first National Round next weekend. I don't possess enough fun tickets to run something like that!
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Bigger tires on the rear?
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Bigger tires on the rear?
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No, just crappy cellphone lense distortion.
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Bigger tires on the rear?
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No, just crappy cellphone lense distortion.
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It really is an illusion lol
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Ran the club practice day at our track.
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Only one issue, a broken axle.
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Used what was in the ute to ballast my tripod, care of the Crescent Tool Co. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190414/00d951f8b187c40e5bb826e8fedc328c.jpg)
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Converting a motor cycle trailer into a pine straw hauler. Without destroying the purpose, always had it flat beaded. For hauling stuff and ease of loading the bike, adding sides and tailgate now.
Bought this in 81, it's hot dipped galvanized, made by Rocket. Boat trailers, best 400 ever spent.
Post some pictures later....
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Yesterday went for a ride, then we went out with some friends.
Headed to a poker run this morning.
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Ran the club practice day at our track.
Used what was in the ute to ballast my tripod, care of the Crescent Tool Co. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190414/00d951f8b187c40e5bb826e8fedc328c.jpg)
That's the kind of ingenuity I enjoy seeing, something I'd do
Not only that extremely functional O0
I Like It !!
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Damn Muddy the kid is getting big, huge even. :D
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Damn Muddy the kid is getting big, huge even. :D
Yes he is!
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Last night took the fiberglass hard lid off my ute.
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Today I'm in Taupo, a friend is a Ironman4x4 dealer, getting an aluminum hard lid and a roof top tent.
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It was a bit foggy on the way down.
Dropped my ute off and they gave me this to drive for the morning. Hopefully no one who knows me sees me driving it!
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Stopped to see another mate. He is the co-driver in this AP4 Skoda rally car. They had a little oops (rolled over and back on their wheels) on the weekend.
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Some amazing race cars come out of this old furniture factory.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190416/3049b38afde1cc5193e9d79a2628392b.jpg)
Because I've still got a couple of hours to kill, have some Taupo photos.
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Snow on the mountains at the South end of Lake Taupo.
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DC3 at McDonalds
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Taupo Marina.
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And installed.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190417/1a0bf1b023912207ff96fb6d7422bf45.jpg)
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Rural, would like to see a pic with the tent up when you use it.
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Learning 4th axis milling. Start with part on right, get really frustrated for 2 hrs, result part on left.
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Looks pretty good from here.
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Had to buy new boots today.
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^^^^Somebody dropped some coin :-[
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Second load, 32 bail pine straw hauler ....
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^^^^Somebody dropped some coin :-[
Probably not as much as you think.
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So after tagging the 460 Donovan powered unlimited truck last Saturday, today I tagged the opposite end of the scale, a 270cc, 9hp Kiwi Truck (Trophy Kart in the US), a kids class.
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I also tagged a RZR Turbo and a Challenger. Scrutineering is later today for racing in the 1st National Round tomorrow.
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How I'm gathering up some gear and going to trial my new roof top tent.
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Rural, would like to see a pic with the tent up when you use it.
Phil, here you are. At the dam side park about ten miles out of town.
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This replica MG TF showed up while I was setting up.
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Gang,
Did a little compressor maintenance this week (Husky 3 HP, 30 Gal, 10 years old).
I noticed my compressor was making excessive noise and vibrating wildly lately. I decided it was time to look into the situation.
Job 1 was moving all the junk out of the way (bikes, skate boards, trimmers, blowers, shovels, rakes, lumber & metal scraps, cardboard boxes, etc.).
Job 2 was inspecting the compressor (took about 2 seconds to find the problems). I noticed there were 3 bolts laying on the floor, and also noticed 3 of the 4 bolts holding the compressor pump were missing. I removed the safety cage covering the pulleys & drive belt and noticed that several self-tapping screws were missing and that the cage had been rubbing on the pulleys.
Job3 was reinstalling the 3 bolts to secure the pump and aligning the pump pulley with the drive pulley and re-tensioned the drive belt.
Job4 was finding and replacing the screws that secure the safety cage and making sure that nothing was rubbing against the cage. I plugged the power cord back into the electrical outlet and ran the compressor for a few minutes. All nice and quite, no vibration, no rattling, and no rubbing. All is good again.
Jobs 5, 6, & 7. I decided to change the oil in the compressor pump and drain the air tank while I had good access the compressor. The old oil was still clean (a good sign) but fresh oil is always better. The tank had about a gallon of water in it mixed with a small amount of oil (likely from the pump). Last but not least, I replaced the original intake air filter with a new one. I fired up the compressor and ran it until the air tank was full and the auto shutoff switch shut it down. I turned the shutoff switch to the off position and rechecked the tank air gauges 48 hour later... no air loss.
All is well now, it runs quite and the compressor is no longer dancing around on the floor. Time to put the bikes, yard tools, and other junk back into the storage alcove.
An observation: Job 1 took longer than Jobs 2-7 combined. There was an obvious lesson here... :-\
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Early morning wake up call!(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190419/45bc39a81d9937a298df4c0ae805ab84.jpg)
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Rural53,
Your photo (early morning wake up call) reminds me of a family camping trip we spent in a small park with a pond and many ducks & geese. We got no sleep at all. Every time any of the campers moved around or a vehicle drove anywhere in the park, all the birds got agitated and sounded off for about twenty minutes. This went on all night and all morning. Worst camping trip ever!
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Sam met the Easter Bunny.... Wasnt a fan(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190421/dc93a73971cbcbb35e39fbfc347646a1.jpg)
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ANZAC Day today. Went to Auckland for my cousin's husband's 65th birthday. Pork on the spit in the Weber.
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He got this book as a present. Unfortunately I answered yes to the first five questions in the chapter "Are you a grumpy old git?"
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Now camped up in one of the Auckland regional parks hoping the cloud will blow away so I can do some astro photography.
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Put together a custom air rifle build yesterday, and today I replaced the pads and pump on the cooler .
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Met up with the wifes cousin and we worked cows this afternoon. Not quite as easy as it used to be. But I'm good till the fall.
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Spent a couple hours trying to get the kitchen sink to wanna drain, luckily my uncle is a plumber so I called him and he was able to talk me through a solution.
Man that 50ft drain snake was hard to feed through the pipe outside, but I got it to go a few times and I'm glad they dont come with the handle permanently attached.
spinning it with a drill is so much easier than cranking it manually.
He's hot a couple electric snake machines he doesn't use anymore and said I can have one next time I see him, it'll sure make things easier next time this happens.
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Went to the shop again today where the guy is building the 1930 Boeing airplanes. The one that belonged to Howard Hughes just came back from getting the fabric done and it has a gorgeous red paint job. The other civilian model that he restored is probably going to fly this year. The new build Army and Navy fighters are making progress as well. Forgot my phone so no pics.
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Worked on Mustang. Along with TCP rack and pinion it is getting new Street or Track front end. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190428/181bda894a4eacd84e6430e29c0c8195.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190428/5e69ba994a319316b2219b749e98cec8.jpg)
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He's got some money hangin there.
Elroy also notes the mounting points for upper control arms have been Shelbyized :-*
If you have a chance, please snap some pics of the rack mounting and oil pan clearance.
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He's got some money hangin there.
Elroy also notes the mounting points for upper control arms have been Shelbyized :-*
If you have a chance, please snap some pics of the rack mounting and oil pan clearance.
I get one of the rack up for you. not to impressed with TCP so far. Thier customer service is lacking. Street or Tracks service is excellent. I'm think new springs and Bilstein shocks now. Might as well go all out
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Saturday I walked the local car show . We have several each year here in Alvin, Texas and I usually shoot tons of photos. This time I was unable to walk the whole thing, so I only got a few shots ( ONLY 88 !!! ).
See the album on Flickr - https://flic.kr/s/aHsmD6bnky
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Saturday I walked the local car show . We have several each year here in Alvin, Texas and I usually shoot tons of photos. This time I was unable to walk the whole thing, so I only got a few shots ( ONLY 88 !!! ).
See the album on Flickr - https://flic.kr/s/aHsmD6bnky
Nice pics of nice cars
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Started on other side today. Got upper and lower arms in place after early day of work. pics of rack(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190430/186854cfc026d9cebd2a1a2d975dad72.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190430/d11f9434789057ac8cf96b4c954f6297.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190430/b76cbdf04234b907d31f99a8a6d94a1f.jpg)
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Engine swap in a huge pile of...
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I get one of the rack up for you.
Interesting
Thank you.
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Well wasn't putting out enough water to keep the sprinklers running so the well guy stopped by this afternoon and took a look. He will be back in the morning to do a flow test and probably will have to pull the pump. He said there could be a hole in the 1" galvanized pipe but he will put new heavy PVC on regardless that is rated for well use. Find out tomorrow if we need a new pump also.
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Well guy pulled the pump and there was a hole in the 21' pipe screwed into the pump. Since the pump was 11 years old I told him to put a new pump in there as I didn't know how long the pump had been running non-stop because of the leak. Interesting thing is he had to run new 4 conductor wire to replace the 3 wire that was there as they now want the ground on the pump. There was already 4 conductor wire from the garage to the well head.
Tomorrow I get to clean aerators on faucets, shower heads and washing machine screens as the water ran dirty until we got everything stirred up out of the lines. The old pressure gauge was not reading correctly so he replaced that and cleaned the contacts on the pressure switch and the pump kicks on at 40 and shuts off at 60.
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Seems odd to ground a wellpump that surrounded by water but that's the new thing here too. on my last well they hung it on threaded pvc with /ss collars. I told the guy it was sure gonna be hard for me to pull it in the future. he said for 1 1/2 hours they could pull it and reset it. ;D I think I've pulled my last pump ;D
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Well guy pulled the pump and there was a hole in the 21' pipe screwed into the pump. Since the pump was 11 years old I told him to put a new pump in there as I didn't know how long the pump had been running non-stop because of the leak. Interesting thing is he had to run new 4 conductor wire to replace the 3 wire that was there as they now want the ground on the pump. There was already 4 conductor wire from the garage to the well head.
Tomorrow I get to clean aerators on faucets, shower heads and washing machine screens as the water ran dirty until we got everything stirred up out of the lines. The old pressure gauge was not reading correctly so he replaced that and cleaned the contacts on the pressure switch and the pump kicks on at 40 and shuts off at 60.
Good to hear it was a smooth repair.
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Seems odd to ground a wellpump that surrounded by water but that's the new thing here too. on my last well they hung it on threaded pvc with /ss collars. I told the guy it was sure gonna be hard for me to pull it in the future. he said for 1 1/2 hours they could pull it and reset it. ;D I think I've pulled my last pump ;D
The electrical ground is really a bond to the electrical system .
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Went to some yard sales this morning. Found Sam a very great condition all metal Tonka!
Also bought a creeper for $5.
After lunch I cleaned both the guns I took to the range last week. And got my new holster for my .45
Went to the park with Sam
Now I making supper, bacon wrapped chicken breasts!
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Went last night and bought a 20' conex and trailer off CL. It was a heck of a load behind the old lumber wagon. 50 was about all a guy could/wanted to do on the flats. Luckily it was only 30 mi of backroads and after 7 PM so I didn't hold too many people up.
This one was in good shape and the same price as a unknown condition unit delivered from a dealer. I have a bonus trailer now I guess. I liked it being on a trailer so I could deal with setting it off on my own terms, not just where the truck dumped it. The plan is to run a couple circuit electric inside and get it spray foamed for heating/moisture control. This was the first step in moving some equipment I have stored and maybe a transition in my life (all I'm saying on that). A conex is really a heck of a storage unit for a reasonable price. I couldn't touch any kind of tuff-shed for $3k, and this should easy enough to get rid of to the next guy when I'm done with it.
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Went to the PNW Machine Tool Expo toady in the big city of Portland. Saw all sorts of wacky, expensive tooling, machines, and software that is out there. I thought they should have had more machinery on display that small and medium sized job shops would be truly interested in. Most was really cool, but based for super production and volume tight-tolerance QC work. Lots of easy to talk to salesmen and other people in the trade. It was a god time.
Greyson
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Nice conex box and trailer. One thing I miss about L.A. is the annual Westech show at the convention center. It was huge and I always left with at least one bag of goodies containing tape measures, rulers and scales, different oils and lots of cutting speed calculators and pocket and full size drill charts. Love that swag.
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Hopefully a couple of those conexs are in my future. I have a need for more storage
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I didn't haul any swag from the show. It was slim pickings from the companies. I was hoping for a handful of trial endmills or a flap disc or something. Still fun to see some of the latest and maybe greatest. I'd like to plan for Westech one of these years to see a bigger variety.
Okuma didn't have a machine or booth which was a disappointment. They have a high grade, reasonably priced (100-125K) machine that I'd seriously consider over the standard VF2/VF3 Haas for a job shop startup. Nothing against Haas. They have done a pretty good job breaking their old schit reputation and their pricing/financing is perfect for entry level. Lots of homework for me to do while I formulate a plan.
Greyson
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Got the conex unloaded off the trailer and set in position. Went smoothly. Hung the front from the gantry by short-chaining it while I had the trailer tongue jacked up. Then lifted the rear with the forklift and pulled the rig out from underneath. I didn't get enough lift on the front to account for the suspension unloading and had to let the air out of the trailer tires to gain enough clearance to drag it free. Lost a valve stem in the process, but otherwise casualty free.
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I had figured on having a container delivered before I found this one, so I had made up a set of quick-attach wheels that twist lock into the corner pockets. They were handy for maneuvering it around to exactly where I wanted it. They are a shameless ripoff of an Aussie design I found online, but couldn't find them to buy anywhere in this hemisphere.
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Ones I copied
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Spent more time moving other junk out of the way and putting it back than anything else. It was a nice day to play in the yard. Light breeze and 75. Not typical May weather for us, as it's usually raining buckets.
Greyson
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I've been without a bathroom door for about 15 years now, yep that's right Hicks like us just used a curtain for the past decade and a half.
Well my uncle recently bought a property and has been renovating the house, they're replacing the doors and gave us a couple of the old ones.
They're not very old and are in good shape so I don't know why he felt the need to replace them but whatever.
Anyways I had some time after work to get it installed, it took some finagling to get it mounted and my handy work to the inlet the new hinge positions and stuff isn't pretty but it's functional.
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Odds & ends, after getting the grinder set up, went back to work on the belt sander mod. I raised the platen several inches so the work piece will clear a boss on the right side of the transport.
Reason for this when rounding corners. I must to flip the work piece to get the other end. The problem in doing that is the corners are hard to duplicate. The last part of the platen mod I can knock out today. It will have a 2 position hard adjustment 90* & 45*, the most common.
Always one more thing, hoist it into the air and cut the casters off, they are awful. Also the platen being 6 inches higher it occurred to me, what goes up must come down. That will be next, also need to take a trip over to the LWS, need shielding gas for both welders. Tig is almost empty, mig down but not out, so swap both.
Pep
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Just finished burning my weed piles as today is the last day of the spring burn. I just love gathering all the tumbleweeds and tumbling mustard that blows over the fence from other properties. The retired dentist who lives behind me told me the other day that he will not be spraying any weeds this year on his 5 acres. He said that roundup is too dangerous to use as it causes cancer. I will tempt fate starting tomorrow and spray my nuclear mix of glysophate and 2-4-D on the property. I will try really hard to avoid spraying too far through the fence onto his property. ::)
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Just finished burning my weed piles as today is the last day of the spring burn. I just love gathering all the tumbleweeds and tumbling mustard that blows over the fence from other properties. The retired dentist who lives behind me told me the other day that he will not be spraying any weeds this year on his 5 acres. He said that roundup is too dangerous to use as it causes cancer. I will tempt fate starting tomorrow and spray my nuclear mix of glysophate and 2-4-D on the property. I will try really hard to avoid spraying too far through the fence onto his property. ::)
Did I see a wink ....? Tell the dentist that his shadow is lurking and he needs to stay inside.
Just love the folks that soak that crap up.... ten years from now, roundup will be deemed safe and a new condiment for stakes.
Remember bran muffins ............ love another 3000 years eating them.... tens later, OH just kidding... no affect
Pep
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Phenoxies(2-4-D, MCPA Class Act) work well, but heat and wind drift are a big danger to trees and bushes you want to keep. Not suggesting it, but a band of strong mix phenoxies and no stick-em (oil, diesel, whatever you use) put along his fence line with a brisk breeze headed his way, will do a fantastic job cleaning the area up.
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Spent the day with the wife, just wandering around town and talking about new plants to put in. Then finally took down the front storm windows.
Now I am drinking beer! Might finish off the 6x48 belt sander later or keep working on the power hacksaw I got from Greyson.
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What I'm going to do later today. Knock off work early and cut the tree that blew over last night off my car.
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wow, hope the car wasn't damaged too badly.
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wow, hope the car wasn't damaged too badly.
So do I. I walked around the corner, said some swear words, decided I'd deal with it later, walked around the other side of the house, hopped into my ute and went to work.
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Spent the day with the wife, just wandering around town and talking about new plants to put in. Then finally took down the front storm windows.
Now I am drinking beer! Might finish off the 6x48 belt sander later or keep working on the power hacksaw I got from Greyson.
What are you doing to the belt sander?
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My little Husky 137 started right up, it probably hasn't been started for over a year.
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The damage is a lost aerial and a broken windscreen.
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I'd say you got off pretty easy with that damage. On the bright side now you have firewood for camping.
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I agree, Rural you dodged a bullet, good for you
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Spent the day with the wife, just wandering around town and talking about new plants to put in. Then finally took down the front storm windows.
Now I am drinking beer! Might finish off the 6x48 belt sander later or keep working on the power hacksaw I got from Greyson.
What are you doing to the belt sander?
Bringing it back from the dead. Right now, deciding on up or down:
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Will probably go with it down, but I need to reconfigure the bench/stand.
But also starting on the power hacksaw:
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Probably not the correct place for this but too good not to share.
Insult of the day (in a Facebook discussion that is getting heated)...
"You're a cabbage and not one of them fancy expensive purple cabbages either "
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Wow that thing is looking better already. I didn't think it had any paint on it.
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Greyson
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Put on my jacket and gloves, grabbed my umbrella, played some Bob Seger on my phone, and walked in the rain to the post office to pick up the vintage husky 3/8 set i ordered.
Oh the things we do for tools :))
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Been a little down lately, so I have been shooting birds and squirrels out the window into my back yard.
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Been a little down lately, so I have been shooting birds and squirrels out the window into my back yard.
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(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/33966959178_4cffcca95a_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/TKxxzd)Cardinal (https://flic.kr/p/TKxxzd) by Noel Hankamer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/), on Flickr
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(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/47070413514_da0f6451be_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2eHsb2G)I see you (https://flic.kr/p/2eHsb2G) by Noel Hankamer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/), on Flickr
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Some real great shots you got there.
I had lots of fun as a kid watching squirrels and imagining what they were up to and what they were thinking.
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Some nice picks noel. Do y'all ever see the green jays that far up the coast.
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Great shots papaw. I would love to see Cardinals around here but we don't get them. First birds to arrive in spring are the Robins and then the Killdeer. Bald Eagles show up Feb. to Mar. when calving starts. They love the afterbirth.
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Great photos Noel.
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Yesterday i installed the replacement front bumper cover on my dad's truck, and today I took him to see John Wick Chapter 3 and it was excellent.
Now if you like violent shoot em Up's with lots of blood, knife, and gun play then this is the movie for you.
All of the gun handling is pretty much spot on, nobody is holding their gun at a weird downward or upward angle, and they actually reload often as they should.
Of course the lack of recoil shows up in every action movie, but overall they got lots of thing right in this series so far.
Keanu Reeves has dedicated to learning proper 3 gun tactics / techniques and it really shows.
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Birds and squirrels love them, love all the critters that run the back yard. Have a bird feeder hung in a tree, cable and pulley.
The challenge, is to keep the squirrels out, don't mind them feeding on the ground. But as most know they hog the goods..
Have a spot fixed (limb) and have moved the feeder for the 4ih time. I know how the win this battle. It is all about the flight path and good old gravity.
Make the distance far enough from the launch pad. As the air speed drops and gravity takes over the squirrels sees the bird feeder pass above him. :-\
Yesterday move the feeder out from the tree trunk about another ft. Cleared the squirrels runway from the launch pad .. branches
So today we will see Mr squirrels shows up on time about 08:30.
Pawpaw,
What is the lens you're using, make, power, f? nice and clear. I like the shots very much, taking pictures that look like you are viewing the subject as standing there is a talent.
Nice work
Anyone else here see the UFO last night, it flew overhead here @ 2200 .....?...... it was ours, the space station, that baby was hauling ass.
Pep
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Anyone else here see the UFO last night, it flew overhead here @ 2200 .....?...... it was ours, the space station, that baby was hauling ass.
Pep
It is hauling - the orbital speed is about 1700 mph and it's about 250 miles above the surface of our little rock.
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Anyone else here see the UFO last night, it flew overhead here @ 2200 .....?...... it was ours, the space station, that baby was hauling ass.
Pep
It is hauling - the orbital speed is about 1700 mph and it's about 250 miles above the surface of our little rock.
I think the alien posted it in his speed. It is traveling roughly 17,000mph and takes 90 minutes to complete an orbit of our rock. Go to this website and put in your location to see the dates and times it will pass over or near your location.
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544&lat=38.954&lng=-119.765&loc=Minden&alt=1450&tz=PST
You can also go to spaceweather.com to track the visible satellites. Cool stuff.
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Ooopos! I did drop a 0.
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Some nice picks noel. Do y'all ever see the green jays that far up the coast.
No Green jays here that I have seen.
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Some nice picks noel. Do y'all ever see the green jays that far up the coast.
No Green jays here that I have seen.
Green Jays are the much rowdier cousin of the Blues. I first ran across them at our deer lease in George West @20 yrs ago. Then a year or so back heard them raising hell in my fig tree. they haven't been back but they will. Kinda like the white wing doves. I used to go down below Corpus to hunt white wings now they're the predominant dove in this area.
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It is hauling - the orbital speed is about 1700 mph and it's about 250 miles above the surface of our little rock.
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I think the alien posted it in his speed. It is traveling roughly 17,000mph and takes 90 minutes to complete an orbit of our rock. Go to this website and put in your location to see the dates and times it will pass over or near your location.
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544&lat=38.954&lng=-119.765&loc=Minden&alt=1450&tz=PST
You can also go to spaceweather.com to track the visible satellites. Cool stuff.
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Excellent thanks ! One of the big advantages, computers and the internet ... love it.
The mods on the belt sander continued:
1 on the operating table
2 amputation completed
3 & 4 caster and mount set
welding begins tomorrow, most likely on the floor .
One more mod to be completed
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Ran a practice day (morning) at our offroad racing track. Only a couple of vehicles turned up, including this LS1 powered Ford Territory. Had lunch at the local pub with a couple of the guys who came to the practice. Went home for a nap.
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Friday night I attended another Classic Car and Truck meet in Alvin, Texas. Held at a popular burger place that has been open since the 60s.
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Friday night I attended another Classic Car and Truck meet in Alvin, Texas. Held at a popular burger place that has been open since the 60s.
https://flic.kr/s/aHskUEDrES
Some great pics, keep them coming.
Got the right outer tie rods installed today. Set the toe in with a tape measure and took the Mustang for a ride. Wow, shocked at how good it handles without a front end alignment and how easy it steers with power rack compared to old manual steering. The weight of a big block is nothing now. Now I need to get wiring in new Flaming river tilt column figured out and get it to alignment guy. This car is right up his alley. No computer machine just an old Hunter and his 50 years of front end work.
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Went for breakfast, then pressure washed the front walk and porch.
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Then make some lemon squares for a picnic tomorrow, then installed some goodies in my bike and went for a ride.
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Nice bike.
The local dirt track had a Memorial day celebration. 62 cars making laps with the US flags flying. Very nice display.
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Went fishing for the first time in a long long time today.
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Went fishing for the first time in a long long time today.
Great father/son day. I need to wet a line soon.
Typical Monday morning meetings then out to site for more meetings. Dropped my ute at the tyre place next door to the site office for tyre rotation and wheel alignment. Alignment was in spec except for toe on the front left, it was out by 0.2", probably from hitting something setting the track for the last enduro race.
Picked up my new BBQ.
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This is a good example of what happens when you don't listen to your customers. BBQs Direct in Australia asked Weber to build a BBQ to suit the Australian and NZ style of BBQing. Weber said no, so they built their own. These Ziegler and Brown BBQs now out sell Weber in Aussie and NZ by a significant number. They have individual burner controls, burns hotter so you can cook with the hood up and have a higher domed lid.
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I have the Weber version. I like the dual control on your model.
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Replaced the mostly missing rubber boots for the chain case on my snapper...and broke a small shift link. Tighten the nut a bit too much and snapped the bolt. New one on the way
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Last night one of my workmates and I went and took some astro photos at Lake Tarawera near Rotorua.
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And because nearly freezing to death last night wasn't stupid enough, this morning we had a another shot at some milky way photos on top of the Kaimai Range. Temperature around -1C.
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Great shots there. People that spend their lives in cities have no idea about the breathtaking beauty overhead.
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Have never seen a sky like that. Even though I grew up in a rural area and that is now suburban, never seen that many stars. Feels like I am missing something
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Wow incredible pics!
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Have never seen a sky like that. Even though I grew up in a rural area and that is now suburban, never seen that many stars. Feels like I am missing something
The sky didn't actually look like that. The Milkyway has been brightened up a bit.
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(Yesterday)
went to a tractor pull, got 5th place in one class and 2nd in the other. We definatly have a future tractor lover on our hands...
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Then went on a motorcycle ride to a brewery and bought a growler of one of theior great beers
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then ICE CCREAM!!!!
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If you guys can stand some more photos by me, that is what I have been doing lately. No shop work, no vehicle fixin', no car shows.
Game Over-(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/47990513347_127192138d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2g7KVDV)Ping Pong (https://flic.kr/p/2g7KVDV) by Noel Hankamer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/), on Flickr
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Texas Lilac- (https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48015395902_e328983648_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2g9Xsnu)Texas Lilac , Vitex , Chastetree (https://flic.kr/p/2g9Xsnu) by Noel Hankamer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/), on Flickr
Plumeria- (https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/47990513818_4295f0117d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2g7KVN3)Plumeria (https://flic.kr/p/2g7KVN3) by Noel Hankamer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhankamer/), on Flickr
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Go ahead and post them pics. really like the Plumeria
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Put the first of two coats of white roof coating on today. Trimming back all the overhanging tree limbs, then scrub the roof with TSP, then coat all the trim and edges, then coat the roof. 4 hours! :-[
Had two young men helping me. Man were those 5 gallon buckets of coating a pita to get up there! I don't know how I would have done it without those two gentlemen.
I'll put the last coat on tomorrow myself. Wish me luck!
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Great pics guys --
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I crashed after I got off work, and for some reason when I woke up I spent a couple minutes trying to plug the TV remote into my phone charger :-[ :-[
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I crashed after I got off work, and for some reason when I woke up I spent a couple minutes trying to plug the TV remote into my phone charger :-[ :-[
That's funny, I have done some odd things being Half sleep myself
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Got back today from Ohio for a friend's wedding.
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I crashed after I got off work, and for some reason when I woke up I spent a couple minutes trying to plug the TV remote into my phone charger :-[ :-[
:D :D :D
I shouldn't laugh, I just found my missing reading glasses in the washing machine.
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Got back today from Ohio for a friend's wedding.
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Couldn't talk him out of it >:(
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Got back today from Ohio for a friend's wedding.
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Couldn't talk him out of it >:(
Weddings are the leading cause of divorce in this country. ;D
I've been mentoring a youngster that's getting married in july. I've been giving him a lot of grief about it but wouldn't change a thing on the home front. the wife nd I just went for a 3 day weekend to Houston. great fun.
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Got back today from Ohio for a friend's wedding.
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Couldn't talk him out of it >:(
Actually we would be on the bride's side lol although they were together quite awhile and we got to know him...
Still couldn't talk him out of it!!! :))
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I crashed after I got off work, and for some reason when I woke up I spent a couple minutes trying to plug the TV remote into my phone charger :-[ :-[
:D :D :D
I shouldn't laugh, I just found my missing reading glasses in the washing machine.
I found the captain crunch In the fridge the next morning, at least I didn't put the milk in the cupboard ;D
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Got home from somewhere, and this little Carolina Wren sat and chastised me for not having birdseed on the stump ! More brightly colored than most wrens, and with a rich musical song, Carolina Wrens are common in open woods and backyards in the southeast. There they busily explore brushpiles and low tangles. The adults live in pairs all year, and they may "duet" at any season, with the female giving a chattering note while the male sings.
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Very nice shot Papaw. The wife and I were sitting in the garage having morning coffee when a pair of quail with over a dozen babies hurried across the driveway. I saw why they were in such a rush when a blue jay landed on a fence post and started eating a baby quail it had grabbed. The darn blue jays are always trying to raid the robin nests but that is nature in action.
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(Yesterday) went for a ride
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Had an exhaust leak into the Mustang. No holes so where is it coming from? Put masking tape on trunk gap to seal it off. Better, so I ordered a new gasket/weatherstrip/ rubber molding.... 10 bucks, made in the USA. Scrape the old one off, 3M weatherstrip glue on molding and trunk lip. Much better in car now. Only time it gets you now is at traffic light or stop sign and windows down. Thing is a wee bit rich at idle :D
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Bay Rodders annual Automotive Parts Swap & Vehicle Display today. The highlight for me was this 1926 Model A (at least that is what it is registered as).
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And for those who can't be bothered walking up the five floors of displays in the parking building.
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Just got back from a week in Atlanta. Was there for an advanced SCADA course. The course was pretty challenging for this old dog trying to learn new tricks.
I was hoping to meet up with Pepi on this trip but between the class work and keeping the minion out of trouble it just didn't work out.
I did find a real rarity in a little place close to the training. NorcrossGa has a historical downtown district. real nice place with lots of eating spots and such. AND a real old school parts house. with the 5ft long counter book and all. it was closed when i was there but it is a working parts house.
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All I did was work, but I did find a $20 while sweeping the parking lot this morning.
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Picked this up on Friday, so between chores (furniture repair and shuffling about) I am trying to learn the ins and outs.
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Picked this up on Friday, so between chores (furniture repair and shuffling about) I am trying to learn the ins and outs.
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I think your missing some things...
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Did our switch-over from evap cooling to air conditioning today. The last two days have just been terrible with temps of 109 and higher humidity, making the evap worse than useless. I usually switch over on the Independence Day weekend, so, I'm about on track.
One thing we miss without the cooler is we water our trees with the bleed-off. helps keep the mineral deposits down in the cooler, and we're not wasting the water down the drain. We have 100' of 1/4" PVC tubing that we move between the three trees during the week to give them each a watering. With the cooler disconnected, no more tree watering. And they need it.
So I rigged up a separate poly tube going to the water valve that normally goes to the cooler, and have it on a tribble flow to keep our trees alive. Once the monsoon rains start in earnest I can discontinue this stop-gate measure.
Nice getting out there and doing what I'm trained to do. makes me feel like I had a purpose today.
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Picked this up on Friday, so between chores (furniture repair and shuffling about) I am trying to learn the ins and outs.
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Ooooh, an electro-welded tubed Schwinn! Heavy as hell but made in America and durable. Worthy of the lifetime guarantee. They bought steel plate, cut it into strips, bent them semicircular into concave sections, and welded them together to make the tubes. Then they cut and welded the tubes together to make frames. Very unique!
The wheels if I'm not mistaken were a specialty size made especially for Schwinn. Normal 26" tires won't fit them. (Though I think you can swap out to a pair of normal 26" entire wheels and they work fine. Though the bike will not be all-original. If that matters to you).
Check out this guys discussion here for more details:
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/chicago-schwinns.html
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Picked this up on Friday, so between chores (furniture repair and shuffling about) I am trying to learn the ins and outs.
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I think your missing some things...
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It came with a full set of wheels, but they were mismatched and not quite the right ones. I think they were more valuable than the rest as I am pretty sure they are from a '50s Hornet. I will need to look into it some more.
B-man, most any BMX bicycle wheels will fit as they are 24" but a 26" won't as there is not enough clearance. The correct wheels are really rare though.
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Spent the day dealing with the bureaucratic idiocy we call the drivers license office. My 91 yr old buddy's drivers license is up for renewal. He hasn't drove in years so we were just going to get him an ID. We had his current DL, his SS card and the paperwork they had mailed him, but NOOOO they need to see his birth certificate to prove he's a US citizen and two documents with his name and address on them. I show the lady his State issued drivers license and the renewal notice they sent him all had the same address. he's lived the 50+ yrs. No dice. Come back with all the documentation and yes he has to come again too. even tho he's on a walker he has to make the return trip also. As calmly as I could I asked who I needed to talk to to make a complaint. Well it seems like my State Representative has an office here but they aren't open and I cant find a schedule of when they are open..... Left a message on the machine for her to call me back.
So I stopped b the liquor store on the way home. ;D
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Bumper crop of mustang grapes. Got a new batch of grape ape going in the fermenter. ;D ;D
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After buying a new grinder it had this work light deal as an upgrade. Like it so much bought 2 more and installed them on 2 other machines. Very nice, solid, stiff stays put when set, ground lens focuses the beam, nicely.
Pep
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Nice lights pep. How much did those cost?
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Nice little set-up, pep.
I've got a job interview and some errands to run, then gonna try and get back home and get a project moving in the shop. Forecasted at 108 today so might prove to be too hot out there, even with the little window shaker A/C. We'll see.
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Worked then went for the yearly doctor check up.
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Spent thirty minutes yesterday helping my son put a serpentine belt on his Tahoe. Seems a cat got under the hood !
Tahoe won over the cat , by the way.
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Mounted and sighted in a Williams 5dag peep sight on one of my air rifles ( a Crosman 2100 in this case ) getting this for my first 10yd group.
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Airguns are just something you either get or you dont,and further still old school multi stroke pneumatics are something you really either get or you dont. Theyre really not just " BB guns " or " toys, they're guns I can shoot in my hallway shop or backyard whenever I want. They may not be the fancy expensive so called " adult airguns " but they're still loads of fun and plenty accurate.
It can be hard to balance my love of knives tools and airguns, but I got some tools and a new Case knife last week.
This week I scored a '61-'68 4th variant Crosman 140 in beautiful condition for a shooter.
I have bought tools, a knives, and an airgun all in one week, but I do try to limit myself to one hobby at a time.
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Had my hay field bailed last week. Wanted to clean up the hay pen before I stored the bails so I took the tractor and cutter over and made a few passes thru it and something started hitting me in the back, Fricking bees :-\ I got stung a few times before I even could figure out what was going on. Came home and got my bee suit out, grabbed me a sprayer and a couple gallons of gas and went back and eliminated those bastids. Thankfully they were just ground bees and not Africanized bees or things could have gotten real ugly.
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Actually put a spanner on a car for the first time in a while yesterday.
One of the young engineers at work was complaining how much the mechanic was going to charge him to replace brake pads and rotors. I say it was pretty straightforward to do. He reply to didn't have any tools so I said I would show him how to do it. I did the first side and he did the other.
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Toyota its (Scion)
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Then went home and watched doco on Apollo 8 mission with a Peanut Butter infused chocolate stout.
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Excellent Rural -- teach him how to DIY the basic maintenance chores and he (and his wallet) will continue to thank you years from now.
Would love to try that stout as well -- yummm!!
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Actually put a spanner on a car for the first time in a while yesterday.
One of the young engineers at work was complaining how much the mechanic was going to charge him to replace brake pads and rotors. I say it was pretty straightforward to do. He reply to didn't have any tools so I said I would show him how to do it. I did the first side and he did the other.
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Toyota its (Scion)
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Then went home and watched doco on Apollo 8 mission with a Peanut Butter infused chocolate stout.
I think we are lucky here with all the craft breweries we have plus our hops are some of the best in the world ! Have you ever been to Beervana in Wellington, held in August every year ? I’ve been a couple of times already .... thinking about it again this year.
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I think we are lucky here with all the craft breweries we have plus our hops are some of the best in the world ! Have you ever been to Beervana in Wellington, held in August every year ? I’ve been a couple of times already .... thinking about it again this year.
No, but it sounds like I need to though.
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Picked up a new BBQ at Home Depot last night and put it together today. The old BBQ needs a new burner as the 2nd one I have put in it is shot and since the darn plastic hardware holding it together is failing I figure the 2001 model needs to go to the dump.
The die lift made it easy for me to unload by myself and the box is heavy. This model has good hardware with bases pressed into the frame so the screws are easy to do and it only takes a P2 driver and an included thin stamped wrench to put the 3" casters on. We looked at plenty of grills and I didn't like the smaller units as the casters are under the base and some didn't have brakes. On this one the casters are well outside of the base and the brakes on the rear casters are easily operated. It has SS burners and drip guards and drip tray and the burners have an 8 year warranty. It has 60,000 BTU's on the 6 burners with 12,000 on the side burner for a total of 72,000 BTU's. It has coated cast iron grates and we looked at one that had SS ones but didn't feel they were worth the extra $150. This grill was regularly $330 but we got the last one in a box for $250 even though 6 burners is more than we need.
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Actually put a spanner on a car for the first time in a while yesterday.
One of the young engineers at work was complaining how much the mechanic was going to charge him to replace brake pads and rotors. I say it was pretty straightforward to do. He reply to didn't have any tools so I said I would show him how to do it. I did the first side and he did the other.
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Maybe tell him to wear a little more appropriate clothing when working on his car?! I always cringe when I see people working on a car with footwear like that.
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It also appears that the car might only be held up with a jack????
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Very nice grill DN -- and a great deal to boot. Our six burner grill is 15 years old and is a Kenmore branded. We need to replace it, because I've patched and replaced many of the components several times (burners, runners, grate supports, etc).
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6 burners . wow that's a lot of room. I bought a 3 burner Weber @10yrs ago and its works great. We use it at least 2x a week year round. I've got a bigger charcoal grill for briskets and such but its hard to beat gas for quicky steaks and burgers.
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It also appears that the car might only be held up with a jack????
How can you tell that when you can't see under the car?
It is sitting on a block under the axle, plus I showed him the trick of putting the wheel under the sill in case it falls off the jack (if you are changing a tyre and don't have anything to support it with).
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Look at the picture, all you can see is the wheel of a jack, I said it appears, not that it didn't have additional support.
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Nice winters day today. On site a couple of kilometres from the office to check on repairs to a footbridge over the expressway.
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Gorgeous weather. Not bad for winter.
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In the office all day. After work went to a lecture at the new Waikato University campus in town. It was held by the local branch of Engineering New Zealand, my professional body. Graeme Frew spoke, he has raced his unlimited class Yak-3 at the Reno Air Races in 2017 and 2018.
In the early 1990's, following the discovery of original engineering drawings and jigs from late model Yak 3 production, twenty aircraft were built to the original design but utilized modern materials. Various engine types were considered including the original Russian V-12 Klimovs and the RR Merlin before the builders settled on the V1710 series Allison. This engine was selected because it was very close in power, weight and external dimensions to the extremely rare Klimov.
Graeme's Yak 3 was first registered to well known Reno race pilot Tiger Destefani in 1996 before being sold on later in the year. The aircraft was raced at Reno a number of times but unfortunately it was crashed on take off at Reno in 1999. Luckily the owner though injured made a full recovery, testimony to the strength of the design.
Graeme purchased the aircraft as a project in 2004 and had it shipped to Omaka Airfield at Blenheim. A full overhaul of the airframe and engine and all systems was completed by Jay McIntyre's JEM Aviation over a four year period. During the rebuild a second seat was incorporated under it’s own sliding canopy so that the experience of flying in this high performance fighter could be shared. The Yak first flew again in March 2012 and a week later débuted at Warbirds over Wanaka.
In 2017 raced as a rookie winning the bronze race, then the silver race to race in the Gold Final, finishing seventh. They went back in 2018, having the aircraft delivered to the pits in Reno in a 40' container. They spent 12 days assembling it, raced coming seventh again in the Gold Final, disassembled it and shipped it back to NZ.
If you have a couple of grand you can go for a ride in it. http://fighterflights.co.nz/warbird-flight-options/ (http://fighterflights.co.nz/warbird-flight-options/)
Edit: The 35 race number is in honor of Burt Munro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Munro) a New Zealand motorcycle racer, famous for setting an under-1,000 cc world record, at Bonneville, 26 August 1967
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Some tooling came in, as another year passes. Time to buy a present, first is a fly cutter 3/8 tool bit. It can machine a 4in surface with a single pass. Very handy for squaring all 6 sides of a cube.
Next Cleveland tool blanks, I have played with the carbide index tooling for the lathe. I think the HSS tooling will work the best for the machine. I can grind a profile on both ends, and hone or resharpen them with a regular stone. Pretty sure the tool bits will be fairly stiff and not flex ........ LMAO
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98 Dodge Ram radiator R&R. Simple little job...until I get to the windshield washer reservoir. Its hung on the side of the fan shroud almost covering the upper shroud bolt. I tried pulling it up and it wouldn't come off. Told myself to stop before I hurt myself. So I took the shroud bolt off with a 10mm open end. 10 minutes. once the shroud was loose You can see the reservoir is held on by a dimple inlet into the shroud. Well I'll just pop it off for re-assembly. One hand pulling up and one hand pushing on the dimple and up it pops... right into my forehead... and Im bleeding like a stuck hog. I knew that bastid was gonna hurt me... >:( >:(
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Worked, bought some tools at a yard sale, and did some plinking out the back door with two recent airgun acquisitions.
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Sat around doing nothing all day Sunday except for taking pictures of birds in the back yard.
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Also shot a pile of bricks-
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Saturday night took Dad down to the local pulling track. He hadn't been there in 30+ years since him and his cousins quit pulling.
It was legend's night, alot of the old pulling tractors that got the sport started were there. This included dad's cousins tractor "Black Magic".
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Sunday I led a ride for my motorcycle club for hot dogs and ice cream.
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Those are some cool old pullers. good to see them still around.
The first tractor pull I went to was in a little podunk town, Bay city Texas. The little civic center was maybe 100yds long. The pull started at one door and went out the other door. The first dragster style puller had some zoomy headers and when he lit it off it blew all the insulation off the ceiling. looked like it was snowing. ;D
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Yesterday we found out what to expect in December....
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"Jackpot!!" -- one of each! A BIG congrats to you and Mandy.
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Congrats Mandy and Tim. I bet you are both on Cloud Nine after finding that out.
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Congrats Tim.
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Wow, a little Mud Girl is on the way :))
Congrats. I am surprised you didn't have a reveal party to learn the sex ;D
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congrats. i bet mandy will be glad to even up the testerone field again.
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Wow, a little Mud Girl is on the way :))
Congrats. I am surprised you didn't have a reveal party to learn the sex ;D
Neither of us are into those reveal partycongrats. i bet mandy will be glad to even up the testerone field again.
Yes she is indeed she says she's way out number with me, Sam, and Max :))
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I resealed a 1965 Crosman model 140 I recently scored off eBay.
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It shoots good as new, and doesn't look half bad for 54 years old.
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Congrats Tim. Time to get started on that pink peddle tractor ;D
H&S, that Crossman and I are the same age. it looks like it held up a bit better than me.
Today was a bust. I took off to haul some scrap metal in. I noticed that the blinkers weren't working when I was leaving the scrap yard. Found the brake light fuse and the blinker fuse blown. Seems that somewhere in the loading or unloading I smashed the wires. Got frustrated trying to find the damage so I Wound up re-wiring the trailer. Finished it up at 930 this evening. Was planning on making a run to San Antonio tommorow to pick up an onan generator. So I had to get it going.
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Congrats Tim. Time to get started on that pink peddle tractor ;D
H&S, that Crossman and I are the same age. it looks like it held up a bit better than me.
Today was a bust. I took off to haul some scrap metal in. I noticed that the blinkers weren't working when I was leaving the scrap yard. Found the brake light fuse and the blinker fuse blown. Seems that somewhere in the loading or unloading I smashed the wires. Got frustrated trying to find the damage so I Wound up re-wiring the trailer. Finished it up at 930 this evening. Was planning on making a run to San Antonio tommorow to pick up an onan generator. So I had to get it going.
You weren't perhaps born in September were you ? ???
This gun was manufactured in #September of '65.
This makes my 7th vintage American pumper, and 13th pumper in my arsenal of 22 or so airguns.
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Congrats Tim. Time to get started on that pink peddle tractor ;D
Their might be a Farmall/IH tractor in the future doubt it'll be pink lol
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I successfully repaired my front loading Whirlpool duet washer. With a gaggle of electronics, I navigated through the error codes and the (helpful) owners manual to diagnose and replace the MCU (motor control unit) at $250 a pop, or $180-ish "rebuilt", I feared a bad diagnosis and didnt want to hang parts just for the cost and experience only to find the washer didn't respond to the new part.
Fast forward to a a VERY helpful local shop that has used control boards, we validated the bad part, $50 later it was hung and life was back to normal.....UNTIL.....i saw water dripping on top of the MCU plastic protective cover (shields it from water damage). Turns out the root cause of failure was that discharge hose rubbing up against the frame and allowing water to meet with electronics (a bad combination). Fortunately, I had the back of the machine off while doing the shakedown run and shut-er-down in time before history repeated. Discharge tube replaced, life is back to normal for a reasonable sum of $$. It took some time, and many phone calls, but it's now off the project list, and frosty beverages are back in my future.
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Put new pads and rotors on the back of my pick up in-between the raindrops tonight. Has one heck of a shake like a warped rotor.
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Put a new water softener in, pain in the butt. Had to criss cross pipe as inlet and outlet were opposite of old one. Had one leak that that took forever to fix. ended up taking it apart and sanding both down to shiny brass and copper to get it to take solder. Lead free solder isn't awful but it isn't as easy leaded stuff.
Still need to program correctly and clamp some pipes. I cheated and used pex for the criss cross. ;D
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made a big batch of grainery pickles and pickled 4 dozen eggs.
i had been making pickled eggs by soaking them in whatever pickle juice i had left but i made nice with the guy in a great meat market in a nearby town. they sell boar's head horseradish pickles in bulk. i talked him out of a 2 gallon bucket of left over brine. we will see how this works.
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Yum, those eggs look tasty.
I often put some onions and carrot pieces in with mine. The veggys are as good as the eggs.
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Pressure washed the driveway then realized I probably should have dealt with the weeds first :-[
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Elroy is going to expand "today" into the month of July
Started out the week of July 4th. Nearly a year ago, Elroy was enlisted to install a new steering box on Mister Victors corvette.
Later that week Elroy's 95 year old Pops ended up in the hospital. He has sense transitioned into rehab and is correctly adjusting to assisted living.
The next week attempted to install fresh brake shoes on the back of the '04 Canyon. For the age the mileage at 125k would be considered low. They were the original shoe. No doubt they were thin but they weren't into the drum. Elroy said attempted because the parking brake cable on the passenger side was rusted solid. Had to order cables for the next week end. That put the install into the hottest week end of the year. Well it's done and the peddle feels a lot better
This last week end Elroy spent most of Saturday at the Kentucky State Fair Grounds attending the NSRA Street Rod Nationals. It's impossible to see every car.
Correction, It's impossible to see 10% of the cars. Obviously there were some nice rods there.
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H&S. man that is some weed farm right there, now I don't feel so bad about mine LMAO But at least as I say it's green
Working on a HSS tool grinding jig for the grinder.
Before and after clean up, cutting a 10* ramp. Checking the progress the ramp it dead on top of stock and vise jaw 0*
One more pass .010 to bring it home flip it, and chuck it 0*. Cut 3 1/2" guide slots 1 down the middle, to form tool face profile. 1 one each side of that, for the L&R directional cut relief.
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The owner of the company the wife works for took us to the local high end steakhouse for dinner. The swordfish I had was great and am glad I didn't have to pay the bill for 12 people especially the bar tab. The owner said tonight that the best thing he ever did was put the wife in charge 8 months ago of running the Nevada plant and they are exceeding expectations and the metrics have never been higher in 17 years of operation here.
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H&S. man that is some weed farm right there, now I don't feel so bad about mine LMAO But at least as I say it's green
Beyond the typical fox tail weeds, that's also a lot of oleander, bamboo, and this red vined ivy looking stuff.
I just don't have the drive to deal with it.
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Been building a plywood cabinet for my airguns
It's not going to be very efficient on space, and not going to look spectacular, but it will hold as many as I can make it hold and keep the dust off them.
I hope to be finished with it tomorrow, if anyone cares to see my shoddy work I'll post a picture of two when it's done.
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Yesterday we painted the shed, two coats of barn red. Needs at least one more coat.
Took a motorcycle ride today then went to red lobster for supper with the family.
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Typical Monday, mainly meetings without much actual work getting achieved. This evening I went to the local camera shop's International Photography Day event. It was a portrait discussion by one of Fujifilm's ambassadors. They had a couple of models there to practice on as well as some Fujifilm products. This included a preproduction GFX100, their new 100 megapixel medium format camera. It is very nice, photo I took work it below, but at $20k plus about $5k per lens I think I won't be buying one.
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GPX100.
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Photo taken with it.
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Photo taken with my Pentax K3.
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That is a great camera, Rural, but rather high priced. $10K in the states at BH Photo- https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1480135-REG/fujifilm_600020930_gfx_100_medium_format.html (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1480135-REG/fujifilm_600020930_gfx_100_medium_format.html)
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That is a great camera, Rural, but rather high priced. $10K in the states at BH Photo- https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1480135-REG/fujifilm_600020930_gfx_100_medium_format.html (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1480135-REG/fujifilm_600020930_gfx_100_medium_format.html)
I looked it up from a supplier here and it is NZ$18,574 (US$11,890).
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I spent the first 5 hours of the day in an attic doing ductwork. Then the ac in the service van went down, conpressor failure . High today was 100°f. Then i spent the last couple hours moving all my stuff to a different truck with a good ac.
Ugh the stuff we do to scratch out a living
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I spent the first 5 hours of the day in an attic doing ductwork. Then the ac in the service van went down, conpressor failure . High today was 100°f. Then i spent the last couple hours moving all my stuff to a different truck with a good ac.
Ugh the stuff we do to scratch out a living
My condolences -- it effects you more as you get older. Hope you have a better day tomorrow :)
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Had the vet come out and check the bull over, he's good for another year or so. but he wasn't too happy about it. :o :o
They have a really slick hydraulic squeeze chute. He couldn't even move enough to fart. :D
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Been working in a newer store, installing some conduits in a 3ft high crawl space, 60 ft long. When you are 6 ft 7" you don't fit in a crawl space. Using a creeper helps but not that much. I'd be done now if the store had a basement instead I have 3 or 4 more days to go
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Hauled a load of scrap to the scrap yard today. 880# of #1 steel and 87# of aluminum and it paid a whopping $51.40. I could of gotten way more for it in Reno but Carson City was less than half the distance and I had to go to the airport anyways. It filled my truck and paid for lunch with $10 left over so all is good. Sure beats going to the dump and paying $108.80 per ton to get rid of it.
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Went to Coffee and Cars II today. I got there near the end so a few cars had left.
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Went to Virginia City today for a free BBQ. It was put on by the internet provider for the wife's work. Left with a bag of swag with car chargers and cables along with a portable charger pack.
Then this evening went to the flat track motorcycle races at the Carson City fairgrounds. The son of the neighbor across the road was supposed to race in the pro class but his wrist is still jacked from a desert race crash a couple of months ago. Worst crash of the night was when the Hooligans were running which is the Harleys and a Yamaha 750. A guy went down on his Sportster and another HD ran over his legs. The guy tried to stand up and one leg bent at an angle it shouldn't have. They hauled him off the track on a camping cot so the races could continue while the ambulance was enroute.
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Wife and myself took a drive, weather was outstanding. Put the grip on some GA home grown tomatoes.
Pep
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I spent the last 3 days organizing hardware. I had bought the HF rolling rack with bins on each side and never fully organized it and got pissed when I had to dig for some bolts and washers. Now the rack is totally in order with bin contents labeled and sizes sorted. Now I know exactly where to look for bolts, nuts, flat washers and lock washers. It has from 1/4" to 3/4" hardware in order. I have buckets of 3/4", 7/8" and 1" hardware sorted and labeled in the 3gal buckets w/lids.
I still have a bunch of screw top containers like you get nuts and garlic in from stores full of hardware. These are things I brought when we moved up here 9 yrs ago and hardware from the shop contents I bought several years ago. Those will have to be a future project.
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Lay on the grass and took some photos.
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Had a new water heater installed, they did a nice install. Tonight LMAO a water main broke, it is down stream from me.
My wife does some the funniest shit sometimes. As they were doing the heater install, cannot finish her cooking.
Ready ........ goes out side to water the plants. Comes back in LHAO telling me what she just thought about doing.
Women are really funny at times..
Pep
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Had to replace the return springs on my garage door today. It's an older style cantilever kind of door. Nobody on my end of town had the springs - but the old cranky store on the far side had 'em! (They have alot of older inventory). ;D
The Mrs and I heard a boom last night right after going to bed. Sounded like someone was kicking in a door. Turned on the floods, walked around, didn't see or hear anything. The neighbors are away and I'm keeping an eye on their place, so, got dressed and walked over there to make sure nobody was robbing them. Then this morning going to open the garage door so the wife can leave for work and it's all messed up. The one spring had shattered. Lucky it has the center rods that keep the spring from exploding all over and taking out a headlight or worse a radiator.
The new springs aren't as stretched out as the 49 year old originals, so had to Macgyver something to extend them while I slip the retaining chain over the S-hooks. Took 3 hours! Man, I ain't as good as I used to be. But got the job done before the monsoon storms picked up. Didn't really want to leave the vehicles in the driveway all night either.
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Rural- Explain the three tracks?
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Those tracks look dual gauge to me. Maybe a park where they haul passengers on scale model trains?
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Those tracks look dual gauge to me. Maybe a park where they haul passengers on scale model trains?
+1 -- used to see a lot of that track configuration in mountainous rural WV rail yards, where narrow gauge logging and coal railroads intersected with and delivered/uploaded their cargo into mainline rail cars. Quite interesting to watch the procedure for shunting narrow gauge and standard gauge cars over the same railbed.
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Those tracks look dual gauge to me. Maybe a park where they haul passengers on scale model trains?
Yes, local model engineers track. I'm headed there now as they should be operating.
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The dual track is 5" and 7-1/4" gauge. They had one steamer and three petrol engine locomotives operating.
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It has been a busy week.
So this happened on Monday.
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Rural road widening job I'm looking after.
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Linemarking removal rig on another job I'm looking after.
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Handed in my final composite for the Photoshop and Illustrator course I'm taking.
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Friday night helped my mate set up for his photo exhibition.
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Yesterday our off-road racing club ran the final North Island round of the National Off-road Racing Series.
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Today was a sleep in then visited Sam's exhibition.
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Happy birthday rural! Great stuff and keep it coming as I enjoy looking at the great shots. I like the Yak pic on the work station.
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... I like the Yak pic on the work station.
The Yak 3 poster is for a lecture I went to. Info here http://garagegazette.com/index.php?topic=24.msg20333#msg20333 (http://garagegazette.com/index.php?topic=24.msg20333#msg20333)
It has been joined in Omaka by the Yak 3U Steadfast.
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You win 5th place?
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I planted my fall tomato plants. I'm a few weeks late but maybe global warming will help me out some.
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Opened the club track this morning to allow one of our club members to run his Class 8 - Open Truck to test his new gearbox and do some shock tuning.
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One of the other Class 8 guys turned up to watch in his LQ9 powered Jeepster that he has just finished restoring.
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We needed to be finished by midday as the car club was running a day/night rally sprint in the afternoon. Gave them a hand to clear some fallen trees.
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I like 893, rocking.
Using a new face mill squaring a piece, I think I toasted the motor, or was just happen stance.
OK 4 bolts pull the motor and replace 2 hours at most, right .... not so. More like 5, the motor shaft has a key. That was rusted inside the drive shaft.
Cut the motor housing off, leaving the armature exposed. That allowed access to the top plate. So I could remove the drive shaft and what was left of the motor.
To the rescue comes the pickle fork to separate the two. Mult-tasking using a pickle fork at it finest LOL .
Pep
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Chinese quality Pep -- I have a similar (but more basic round column) machine from HF. They do what they are designed to do, but quality and durability was always an afterthought. Good luck!
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Shot a few pictures at our local classic meetup.
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Shot a few pictures at our local classic meetup.
https://flic.kr/s/aHsmHm1K7B (https://flic.kr/s/aHsmHm1K7B)
I can’t believe farmtruck was there!
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Chinese quality Pep -- I have a similar (but more basic round column) machine from HF. They do what they are designed to do, but quality and durability was always an afterthought. Good luck!
The HF has a geared drive ?
It will not happen again that's for sure, greased that puppy going back together. My biggest concern is the power/load a face mill, chomping out a cut at .030 could be putting on the motor. Heating the electrics to a point of melt down.
Recently I acquired a fly cutter and the face mill seen. Both 3in diameter, the fuse never blew so I did not push things to far.
The next or insurance plan, purchased a Volt & Amp display. Placing that on top of the power box, having the digital display will allow real time tracking. Right now it is just a heat guess, touching the motor case with my hand.
Could have just been a defective part also.
It's built , but unfortunately could not find a 4 circuit M/F connector to finish the install. Once upon a time Radio shack was local, now ebay and snail mail. Ain't it great takes forever to get shit done.
So I went outside and repaired two trailers today, one mounted a tail gate, paying job. Second finished repairing cracks in both fenders of a car trailer I am going put up for sale.
Nice trailer hidden ramps slide out, electric brake, spare tire, tool box (steel), working lights, and trailer tires, freshening up the paint also.
Pep
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Went for motorcycle ride with the club.
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Shot a few pictures at our local classic meetup.
https://flic.kr/s/aHsmHm1K7B (https://flic.kr/s/aHsmHm1K7B)
I can’t believe farmtruck was there!
That guy has a close copy of Farmtruck.
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Shot a few pictures at our local classic meetup.
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I can’t believe farmtruck was there!
That guy has a close copy of Farmtruck.
Didn’t know there were imposters. :-[
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Changed a compressor in a 3 ton resi split system in the am and then a 50 gallon gas water heater after lunch. Time for a hot bath and a cold beer
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"and a cold beer" - Only one ? ???
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"and a cold beer" - Only one ? ???
Well...you know. ;D one 12 pack.
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after finishing up a toilet repair in GFs trailer that required replacing some OSB board floor, mainly sat and watched it rain. More rain around here is as welcome as smallpox, since the Missouri River has been over bank ful since April. Some hundred thousand acres of corn underwater and some highways closed
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Went to the airport to drop off some tools for the crew working on our chapter airplane build. Then went over to the hangar across the ramp from our chapter house to check out the bead blaster they are donating to us as they bought a new bigger Eastwood blaster. Since they just got a delivery of nearly a dozen former AF and Navy trainers to rebuild they have plenty of blasting to do. The donated one is in good shape and they even gave us the shop vac setup to go with it.
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worked, then removed the rotted brake lines on my pickup. After removing them i see that they are bubble flare so now i gotta find someone with a bubble flare tool or see if their still available from Mopar.
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Good luck with Mopar, they wanted $200 for the trans cooler line on the 98 farm truck. I told the parts guy it wasn't leaking that bad and I could buy lots of ATF for $200. ;D
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worked, then removed the rotted brake lines on my pickup. After removing them i see that they are bubble flare so now i gotta find someone with a bubble flare tool or see if their still available from Mopar.
Take your pick, cost does not seem out of line. Never knew such a flare existed.
https://www.amazon.com/bubble-flaring-tool/s?k=bubble+flaring+tool
Pep
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Fatman has bubble flare kits as well as auto brake bleeders >:D
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This is taking up my time at the moment , a month into 3 months milk season , running 24/7 with 3 drivers . New to us Swedish Volvo truck, 540hp fully auto transmission, running at 46,000 kg , hauling 28,000 litres of milk . (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20191010/ba07b5af9891a6081317fdf76230b03d.jpg)
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Makes me thirsty, slick rig. How many cows does it take to fill that thing.....? Is there refrigeration, what keep the milk fresh? Auto transmissio I bet it a huge blessing, love the background seen.
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What is milk season? I figured cows gave milk all year long :-[
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Chinese quality Pep -- I have a similar (but more basic round column) machine from HF. They do what they are designed to do, but quality and durability was always an afterthought. Good luck!
....The HF has a geared drive ?
Yes, for years HF sold a red colored geared head mill/drill with a round column. It cost a few shekels more than the standard "green" belt driven model, but was much easier to control on heavy cuts.
Works well enough for my needs, but definitely NOT something you'd see in a professional shop.
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Nice Volvo.
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Never crossed my mind, that a bench mill would compare to a knee mill. Quality and durability.. Learn the limitations and adjust, can and will produce predictable and repeatable quality.
Durability, is on the user I've known people that can destroy a hammer. What i just said is unless someone misuses or abuses a tool. They will run for a good while.
More of these kind of things are directly controlled by the owners. As one that services cars, you know exactly to what I speak.
I am seeing one of those 3 lamp, pole lamps hanging up and to the left. I turned one into a drop light of sorts, using LED bulbs. Really came in handy rebuilding the windows and regulators in the coupe last year.
Chinese quality Pep -- I have a similar (but more basic round column) machine from HF. They do what they are designed to do, but quality and durability was always an afterthought. Good luck!
....The HF has a geared drive ?
Yes, for years HF sold a red colored geared head mill/drill with a round column. It cost a few shekels more than the standard "green" belt driven model, but was much easier to control on heavy cuts.
Works well enough for my needs, but definitely NOT something you'd see in a professional shop.
(https://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo18/goodfellow_2004/machine_shop/PICT0198Medium.jpg)
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Found some good tools at Goodwill, bought my dad dinner at Red Lobster, then spent a couple hours making a sheath for my Buck 102 woodsman to have it sliced right through by the tip of the blade the first time I inserted the knife.
I knew I've been doing a good job of keeping a proper safe and sharp edge on that blade like i do a my knives, but I didn't even know it had went through that 8oz veg tanned leather till it pricked my finger.
That canted blade they've had since the 60's or so really changes how you go about making a sheath with a proper fit that also doesn't look funky.
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Not much of a knife guy, but would like to some pictures of what you're talking about. Have the idea, vague on the funky sheath part.
Pep
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Not much of a knife guy, but would like to some pictures of what you're talking about. Have the idea, vague on the funky sheath part.
Pep
Here's the little 102 woodsman
(https://i.postimg.cc/zBFmdH4H/IMG-20191001-132540196.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/vgTSTTYG)
And the sheath I originally made for a different knife and have been carrying it in temporally.
(https://i.postimg.cc/zBFmdH4H/IMG-20191001-132540196.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/vgTSTTYG)
And the knife I originally made it for.
(https://i.postimg.cc/WzRfGN5Y/IMG-20191001-132620634.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/ZBccZSt6)
With that upward cant to the blade the tip is at real risk of cutting into the leather unless the knife has plenty of room inside the sheath, I'll probably make the next sheath with a plastic liner like most factory Buck sheaths have these days
I want the sheath to have a decent fit while still accommodating the blades angle and not look abnormal compared to a sheath I'd Normally make for a typical knife with a parallel blade.
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What do you do with an old 3 light pole lamp? Make a drop light out of it of course.
Cardboard is still my favorite creeper.
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Rotors and brake pads on the front of my ute was an excuse to buy one of these.
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Then
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C clamp and the old pad works for me. Handy & stout looking, never seen that type before, slick, well made.
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Do mean the stout or the clamp? I like that clamp.
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I've always gotten by with the c clamp myself but todays rides have a lot more going on in the brakes. I can see that tool working out really well in some applications.
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Do mean the stout or the clamp? I like that clamp.
Took a second look to figure out the question ....... ;D
Working on the pan, it has a kick out. Trying to get a socket on the bolts above that, requires a universal. Using that, socket wants to go 90 to the bolt hole.
Was considering a spring type extension, solved the flop with supper glue. Swapped out bolts, with allen heads..
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Pepi, when I get a flex that's too loose I'll make a couple of really tight wraps with electrical tape. stiffens it up but it will still flex a little.
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The super glue it temp, once the bolt is aligned. Start the thread, the glue releases, (brakes its bond) no harm universal returns to floppy.
I can see the tape as a workaround also. Good size hunk of shrink tubing could be another, must clarify, using 1/4 drive.
Pep
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Cleared out some of the back yard to make more parking room. Finished up today and we went for a train ride.
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Great pics Tim! -- thanks for sharing them with us. Sam's grown like a weed since last I saw him over the summer.
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Im loving that work light Pep.
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You need one of these Sidchrome beauties
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Tim that pic in the cab is priceless.
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You need one of these Sidchrome beauties
That a new one for me, 3/8 drive looks like it. There must be a tool out here for everything.
To much, so seeing this now curious had to check out the Sidchrome site ..... no prices, red flag
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That was on fleabay.
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Sidchrome was a longtime manufacturer but if I'm not mistaken was assimilated by the Stanley Borg.
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Drove 150 miles round trip out to my sisters ranch. She had to meet an appraiser and I didn't want her there alone. We did some work while we waited for the guy who got delayed and my sister gave us a nice double glass door bookcase which I loaded up and brought home. My desk is built-in between the kitchen and dining room and the wife tells me the cabinet above the desk is for cookbooks. So this solves that problem and I get to keep using my cabinet. ;D
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Got an hour of overtime at work.
Did some Halloween related stuff .
Spent a good half hour searching around town for the 7 bills that got left on the back of the truck when I went to mail them off :-[
Found 4 of the 7 at least, 2 checks were cancelled but I can't cancel the $25 in cash I was sending to a forum member for a small lot of tools they had listed.
And after that I was able to get the sheath knocked out for my Buck 102 woodsman, this time with a plastic liner sewn in so it can't be cut through.
(https://i.postimg.cc/3JpsJpV5/IMG-20191016-190106938.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/VdfGKSzD)
(https://i.postimg.cc/L4zdmLrd/IMG-20191016-190455903.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/t7Cv5ZqD)
It's kind of huge relative to the knife because that's how it has to be with the blade angle if you want a good friction fit type sheath.
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Something different this weekend, some offroad racing UTVs running at Rally Waitomo. I'm clerk of the course for the UTVs, sitting in rally control. I scrutineered the six guys running yesterday.
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Fairly techo, every car has a RallySafe unit that tracks them. It has a SOS button, it also calls for help if it has a high G impact. Rally control tracks them live.
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A few photos from yesterday at scrutineering.
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00 car - 2nd sweeper car - Honda powered Ford Escort.
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Skoda Fabia R5
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Audi A1 R5
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Mitsibushi Evo 7
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Audi Quattro
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Yamaha YXZ
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Planned photo didn't work out as there was too much cloud and didn't get any sunset colour.
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That was on fleabay.
Oh a one off deal, spring looked to be a slip on....... slip off. Sticking with the SG .. oh pun
Steve, you find the damnedest stuff LMAO need a girl friend ;D more fun to roll
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No mate that's how Siddy made em. That was a real deal.
Don`t need no stinkin women folk here mate.
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Rural, I think that pix all the better with that monochrome look, I really like it.
I haven't seen an Escort in 24 years!!!
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Nothing I did nothing today
Yesterday we went on a wagon ride picked pumpkins and played on a local farm.
(http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh538/tjmarbarger/Mobile%20Uploads/Snapchat-1225122859_zpsojmm6gmy.jpg) (http://s1250.photobucket.com/user/tjmarbarger/media/Mobile%20Uploads/Snapchat-1225122859_zpsojmm6gmy.jpg.html)
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Been living in a hotel for the past week while our hardwood floors were being redone. We live in a rancher and while we have a finished basement, there is no bathroom on that level so the hotel was the best choice. Moving back in today at some point. Was supposed to move back on Saturday but there were some flaws on the floor so they buffed it and recoated it on Saturday. What a royal pain to empty your house then move everything back in.
The floors look good and we had hardwood put in the kitchen also.
We are hosting thanksgiving for 30 so we have to keep moving to get everything done.
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Been living in a hotel for the past week while our hardwood floors were being redone. We live in a rancher and while we have a finished basement, there is no bathroom on that level so the hotel was the best choice. Moving back in today at some point. Was supposed to move back on Saturday but there were some flaws on the floor so they buffed it and recoated it on Saturday. What a royal pain to empty your house then move everything back in.
The floors look good and we had hardwood put in the kitchen also.
We are hosting thanksgiving for 30 so we have to keep moving to get everything done.
30? In a Rancher?!!! That must get tight.
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Fatman, bet the floors look great so in the end it was worth it.
I just had a colonoscopy, what fun that was
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Been living in a hotel for the past week while our hardwood floors were being redone. We live in a rancher and while we have a finished basement, there is no bathroom on that level so the hotel was the best choice. Moving back in today at some point. Was supposed to move back on Saturday but there were some flaws on the floor so they buffed it and recoated it on Saturday. What a royal pain to empty your house then move everything back in.
The floors look good and we had hardwood put in the kitchen also.
We are hosting thanksgiving for 30 so we have to keep moving to get everything done.
30? In a Rancher?!!! That must get tight.
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Yes it is tight but with the finished basement, gives more room to spread out. But even prior to our taking on the event, in my Mom's house and my Aunt's house, we were spread out over a few rooms.
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Been living in a hotel for the past week while our hardwood floors were being redone. We live in a rancher and while we have a finished basement, there is no bathroom on that level so the hotel was the best choice. Moving back in today at some point. Was supposed to move back on Saturday but there were some flaws on the floor so they buffed it and recoated it on Saturday. What a royal pain to empty your house then move everything back in.
The floors look good and we had hardwood put in the kitchen also.
We are hosting thanksgiving for 30 so we have to keep moving to get everything done.
30? In a Rancher?!!! That must get tight.
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Yes it is tight but with the finished basement, gives more room to spread out. But even prior to our taking on the event, in my Mom's house and my Aunt's house, we were spread out over a few rooms.
That's how it goes in our house split up between the kitchen and living room.
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Fatman, bet the floors look great so in the end it was worth it.
I just had a colonoscopy, what fun that was
The floors do look great, now I am not allowed to walk on them :))
Hope they found nothing bad in your colon
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Been living in a hotel for the past week while our hardwood floors were being redone. We live in a rancher and while we have a finished basement, there is no bathroom on that level so the hotel was the best choice. Moving back in today at some point. Was supposed to move back on Saturday but there were some flaws on the floor so they buffed it and recoated it on Saturday. What a royal pain to empty your house then move everything back in.
The floors look good and we had hardwood put in the kitchen also.
We are hosting thanksgiving for 30 so we have to keep moving to get everything done.
Did you have to move the furniture out by yourself or did you have plenty of help?
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The wife and I redid the wood flooring in one of our rentals. never again. i'll gladly pay for that to be done next time. But they sure are pretty when done.
Walrus, how'd that colonoscopy GO for ya? :D :D
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Been living in a hotel for the past week while our hardwood floors were being redone. We live in a rancher and while we have a finished basement, there is no bathroom on that level so the hotel was the best choice. Moving back in today at some point. Was supposed to move back on Saturday but there were some flaws on the floor so they buffed it and recoated it on Saturday. What a royal pain to empty your house then move everything back in.
The floors look good and we had hardwood put in the kitchen also.
We are hosting thanksgiving for 30 so we have to keep moving to get everything done.
Did you have to move the furniture out by yourself or did you have plenty of help?
We moved all the small things, they moved the large things.
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Been living in a hotel for the past week while our hardwood floors were being redone. We live in a rancher and while we have a finished basement, there is no bathroom on that level so the hotel was the best choice. Moving back in today at some point. Was supposed to move back on Saturday but there were some flaws on the floor so they buffed it and recoated it on Saturday. What a royal pain to empty your house then move everything back in.
The floors look good and we had hardwood put in the kitchen also.
We are hosting thanksgiving for 30 so we have to keep moving to get everything done.
Started separating and sorting my tool find, deciding which get wire brushed and which get solvent cleaned (like the Ampco wrench). Also snagged another SK 45170 rat for $2 at the pawnie that's supposedly closing. Guess they found some mislabeled boxes with more merchandise.
That reminds me: we've got a get together planned for Thanksgiving as well. Some relatives stay with us while other prefer hotel accommodations. Got about 5 weeks to get the homestead ready. It ain't as easy as it used to be. :(
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Took my dad to a movie then dinner, and did some more Halloween decorating.
Just about every single piece of store bought Halloween anything has been modified by me in some way, I just don't do cookie cutter off the shelf Halloween.
The decorations don't look nearly as good in the light, and won't show up well on camera at night.
Here's my mask, made from two different masks and one of those knife through head gags.
(https://i.postimg.cc/nrDS0M1G/IMG-20191017-120445499.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/sG3J2jqM)
And the rest minus some finishing touches.
(https://i.postimg.cc/R0hRgNSJ/IMG-20191015-183226851-HDR.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/rd6xmytq)
I say Halloween has to be scary, and if a kid is brave enough to come get some candy they've earned it.
No Spiderman Superman and Disney princesses found at my house >:D
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Actually the colonoscopy is a piece of cake, roofies are a wonderful drug :). The clean out sucked :) Thankfully their were no issues found. This was a follow up from last spring when they took out a polyp that was 2.5 cm for you metric impaired types thats 1 inch . They thought it was cancer for sure but it was benign. Lucky.
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Took my dad to a movie then dinner, and did some more Halloween decorating.
Just about every single piece of store bought Halloween anything has been modified by me in some way, I just don't do cookie cutter off the shelf Halloween.
The decorations don't look nearly as good in the light, and won't show up well on camera at night.
Here's my mask, made from two different masks and one of those knife through head gags.
(https://i.postimg.cc/nrDS0M1G/IMG-20191017-120445499.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/sG3J2jqM)
And the rest minus some finishing touches.
(https://i.postimg.cc/R0hRgNSJ/IMG-20191015-183226851-HDR.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/rd6xmytq)
I say Halloween has to be scary, and if a kid is brave enough to come get some candy they've earned it.
No Spiderman Superman and Disney princesses found at my house >:D
Looks damn good! In my neighborhood, if you were to open the front door of the house like that, most of the little kids would be screaming and crying for their mommies -- LOL
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Took my dad to a movie then dinner, and did some more Halloween decorating.
Just about every single piece of store bought Halloween anything has been modified by me in some way, I just don't do cookie cutter off the shelf Halloween.
The decorations don't look nearly as good in the light, and won't show up well on camera at night.
Here's my mask, made from two different masks and one of those knife through head gags.
(https://i.postimg.cc/nrDS0M1G/IMG-20191017-120445499.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/sG3J2jqM)
And the rest minus some finishing touches.
(https://i.postimg.cc/R0hRgNSJ/IMG-20191015-183226851-HDR.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/rd6xmytq)
I say Halloween has to be scary, and if a kid is brave enough to come get some candy they've earned it.
No Spiderman Superman and Disney princesses found at my house >:D
Looks damn good! In my neighborhood, if you were to open the front door of the house like that, most of the little kids would be screaming and crying for their mommies -- LOL
Thanks.
Scary is always my goal, I just can't wait for the day some parent complains about my costume being too scary.
That's when I'll know I've done my job :))
Halloween is just too taken over by Marvel and Disney.
One year I was a power ranger and another i was a pumpkin at age 3, but the first chance I got to choose my own costume it was a scary one and I never looked back.
Halloween has been my favorite holiday ever since, and luckily the boss found someone to take my place that day.
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Nothing I did nothing today
Yesterday we went on a wagon ride picked pumpkins and played on a local farm.
(http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh538/tjmarbarger/Mobile%20Uploads/Snapchat-1225122859_zpsojmm6gmy.jpg) (http://s1250.photobucket.com/user/tjmarbarger/media/Mobile%20Uploads/Snapchat-1225122859_zpsojmm6gmy.jpg.html)
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Muddy, that's a nice family photo
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Nothing I did nothing today
Yesterday we went on a wagon ride picked pumpkins and played on a local farm.
(http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh538/tjmarbarger/Mobile%20Uploads/Snapchat-1225122859_zpsojmm6gmy.jpg) (http://s1250.photobucket.com/user/tjmarbarger/media/Mobile%20Uploads/Snapchat-1225122859_zpsojmm6gmy.jpg.html)
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Muddy, that's a nice family photo
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Thank you!
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Am in winter prep mode here, caulking windows and eaves. got the last 4 storm windows up. found a good deal on a couple of used storms as the ones on my old house are a pricey special order otherwise. tonight got the well pit cleaned off, and resealed. Looking at first snow this coming week. also putting can lights in the bath, got part of the ceiling down to run wiring. Got the wheel weights back on my tractor, checking antifreeze and oil..
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Was shopping at Target couldn't walk by these USA hoses for $6
Went to my Niece's birthday/Halloween party tonight....
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Long weekend (Labour Weekend) and summer has definitely arrived here.
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Local boat ramp.
Drove around town to scope out some photo locations for work. Had lunch, did the grocery shopping and now getting ready to go and take some sunset and astro photos with one of my workmates.
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Green Lake, Rotorua (off the phone).
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Nothing I did nothing today
Yesterday we went on a wagon ride picked pumpkins and played on a local farm.
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Muddy, that's a nice family photo
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The kid is a mini me. Can't tell who his dad is :)
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Yesterday we went on a wagon ride picked pumpkins and played on a local farm.
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Muddy, that's a nice family photo
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The kid is a mini me. Can't tell who his dad is :)
Yeah there is no denying him lol
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Made and finished a couple of do dads :D ....for the lathe. Tool block storage and HSS tool post grinding fixture with 15* offset.
Took the 34 out made a lot of noise had a blast .
Pep
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Turned the big green thing on the left
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It was an old, not very loved grapevine that was in the spot the wife wants to put in some fruit trees. So, out it went. Which was the easy part, its the cutting up the whole mess that isn't much fun.
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Did you get a new pickup?
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View from the office is good today.
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Did you get a new pickup?
No, the same one, just has a shell on it now.
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Started down this rabbit hole ;D
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Cool - Is it an unmarked lower that you have to finish milling yourself? Or does it have a serial number and you’re installing parts kits?
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Serialed stripped lower. I'm looking at the 80% later but for now this will do. I've got a rifle already, this one will either be a carbine length or a pistol length.
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It is definitely summer here today, 28C (82F).
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Opened the club track for a new member to do some practice. He put in about fifty laps.
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Saw this beauty in the supermarket carpark on the way home.
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The Yamaha YXZ throwing a good dust cloud.
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Wow, the lines on that Buick are gorgeous
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Wow, the lines on that Buick are gorgeous
I agree and look how far it is hanging out of the parking spot even with the front tires against the curb.
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Wow, the lines on that Buick are gorgeous
Beautiful car, be fun to cruise around in that with top down. You could get 6 full grown adults in that sucker
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1954 Buick Roadmaster
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You could get 6 full grown adults in that sucker
Or 1 girlfriend in the back seat......
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You could get 6 full grown adults in that sucker
Or 1 girlfriend in the back seat......
even one of Merks girls would fit back there. :o
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You could get 6 full grown adults in that sucker
Or 1 girlfriend in the back seat......
even one of Merks girls would fit back there. :o
Let's not go that far... ;D
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You could get 6 full grown adults in that sucker
Or 1 girlfriend in the back seat......
even one of Merks girls would fit back there. :o
Too funny :)
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Funny, Merk hasn't been around for several years and we still remember his fondness for large ladies :))
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Funny, Merk hasn't been around for several years and we still remember his fondness for large ladies :))
.........he also loved his furry feline friends.
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What did I do today?
Picked olives. Processed olives. Pressed olives.
Also yesterday and the day before.
My olive pressed extract seems to to have the unique capability to defy the laws of physics. We all know that oil and water don't mix.
My extract oil contains water that won't un-mix. Curious.
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Parked on the opposite side of the building I work in this morning and went to the podiatrist. He cut the ingrown toe nail out and I was home by 9:30. Spent the rest of the day lounging around in bed reading and surfing the interwebs. I've got to stay off my feet as much as possible tomorrow and Sunday. Already bored so I don't know what I'm going to be like by the end of the weekend!
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Beer....plenty of beer.
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Beer....plenty of beer.
I have considered that as a coping strategy!
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Went to the range and shot up 500-600 rounds of 22LR
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Went to wack some weed and the weed eater finally quit. The Handle failed in the middle, despite my earlier epoxy repair. Metal tape helped me finish the job. I'll probably save the AC motor, never know what project will come across the desk.
Had to fix my patio door yesterday. Extruded aluminum hinge just plomb wore out. Of course they don't make that part anymore. So I Macgyvered a hinge out of a steel rod and made it work.
Next up is the ole Bissel Green machine. Water sprayer pump is bad, and I need to do the carpets before guests on Thanksgiving. So, I'll tear it apart and see if I can free up the pump with MMO or something.
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Put together a 48,000 BTU propane reflector-type patio heater this morning. Works pretty well! It's in the low 40s around here and I was able to sit comfortably out on the covered deck with a cigar and coffee for about two hours without really getting cold. The thing is a bit ungainly and bulky, but it does put out good heat and extends the use of the deck well into fall.
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went and cleared a hobby of egg shells from a pet trap because some old woman thought it would be a good idea to put a dozen eggs down her garbage disposal. and of coarse it was an absolute emergency she have it done today
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Since our office is quite multicultural and it is sort of mid way between Canadian and US Thanksgiving we had a Thanksgiving morning tea. One of our American staff showed a video about Thanksgiving and one of our Canadian staff talked about the similarities and differences between how the two countries celebrate it. So basically both countries eat too much and watch football from America. Evidently even Canadians don't watch Canadian football!
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MMMM pie. ;D
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So further to the “multicultural’ comment in my post above, I did a quick review of COO of the sixty people in the section I work for:
New Zealand – 36
United Kingdom – 6
South Africa - 6
United States – 2
China – 2
Malaysia – 1
India – 1
Vietnam – 1
Russia – 1
Australia – 1
Argentina – 1
Fiji – 1
Ukraine – 1
Of the 36 born in NZ 4 or 5 have at least one parent not born in New Zealand. In the last fifteen years in my section, I’ve also worked with Dutch, Portuguese, French, Iraqi, and Iranians. Ten years ago the proportion of South Africans would have been a lot higher.
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Wow, that is diversity!
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At one of the local rural schools Gala and Ride-on Mower Race Day, displaying some of our club race cars.
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And we had our favorite supporter come and visit.
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put in a 4 post lift and a 2 post lift at a Freinds mechanic shop. then wired them in. that's alot of heavy pig iron for a Sunday.
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Winterized, cleaned and stored all the garden and mowing equipment, and put all the batteries on trickle chargers for the winter. It's getting really cold around here -- earlier than in previous years. We usually get a few days of mild Indian Summer in late October - early November, but not this year. The trees are bare and the frost is on the ground in the early AM -- pretty bleak so far.
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Cleaning carpets today. Whittling down the chores that need doing before family descends on us at Thanksgiving. Carpets is a crummy job but I've put it off as long as I can.
Have an old Bissel Big Green Machine with some of their cleaner, doing one section of the house at a time then take a break to catch my breath. The entryway is particularly bad. Probably gonna have to unleash some pre-treat stain remover in that section.
Last but not least is cleaning the Arizona room. Basically a screened-in back porch with comfy chairs and a table. Great place to sit after sundown and enjoy the nice breeze and birds chirping. That is next Saturday per the boss! ;D
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Folex Carpet Spot Remover is awesome and makes a great pretreat.
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No damn carpets in our house, been there, done with being there. :))
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Folex Carpet Spot Remover is awesome and makes a great pretreat.
Been reading good things about Folex. next time around I'll be getting some of it.
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Arizona room? Is the the same as a Florida room? Betting it is, just depends on what part of the country your are from
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Arizona room? Is the the same as a Florida room? Betting it is, just depends on what part of the country your are from
Honestly - I don't know.
It was one of the biggest selling points for us when we bought the house. A fairly spacious enclosed exterior room attached to the house. Screened in to keep out any bugs but let cool breezes in, tiled and having ceiling fans with lights for nighttime enjoyment. This time of year the misses spends lots of time out there enjoying the mild weather.
It could be made into a spare room, a makeshift greenhouse, or - if beefed up - a store room.
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^^^^^Yep, that sounds just like a Florida room :))
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Finished up a dresser for the kids room. I sanded it down repairs the drawers and Mandy painted it. Also started dabbling in a new hobby....like I need another!
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Good work you two -- nice dresser!
Loved Atlas and also Tyco Trains when I was a kid. Are you setting that N gauge up for Sam for Christmas Tim? It's a great hobby!
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Muddy, like the dresser. So cool to reuse and redo items and add the personal touch
As to the trains, K5 is deep into them. He is even a conductor at the B&O Railroad museum
Speaking of K5Blazer (Trevor), saw him a month or so ago, he came and looked at a pickup my son ended of buying. 02 Mazda B4000 (think Ranger). Didn't run, worn out underneath but body in good shape and minimal rust. K5 diagnosed the no run as fuel pump and he was right. After fuel pump, shocks, complete front end, complete brakes, tires, removing lift kit and lots of other details, truck runs and drives well, went through inspection, and made it to North Carolina yesterday. My son, who has minimal mechanical experience did a lot of the work aided by his brother, my self and lots of advice from my neighbor the Saab mechanic. While it wasn't a truck I would have bought because of condition, it turned out well and my son learned a ton and had a ball. If you don't count his time, he made out ok.
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My uncle had a set up and I've always wanted one as well. Being N scale (second smallest scale) this is a bit fragile for a 2 yr old. I have a G scale Polar Express set to go under the tree that he can enjoy this year. Down the line Sam might get an HO set. Well see how his interest is in a few years.
Sam got me back into trains, always loved them and I use him as a enabler bto go see them :))
My friend got me back into train modeling he was an engineer for Norfolk and Southern and a big modeler. It'll make a good winter time hobby.
Phil hope your son got the truck cheap, sounds like he threw everything but the kitchen sink into it lol.
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Got to work this morning and walked around to the passengers side of my ute to get my gear out (I've been at training for temporary barrier design for the last couple of days, so have laptop, PPE, boots as well as my normal work bag) and hear hissing!
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Front tyres were replaced last Monday and are about 500km old. Decided to deal with it after work.
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Left work early. Backed it off the kerb, chocked it, threw the trolley jack under it, put the spare on and dropped the tyre off at my tyre guys. They will fix it and I'll pick it up tomorrow.
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What rotten luck Rural. Sorry to see a new tire get trashed like that. At least it's well within the tread section and fixable.
Good luck!
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Phil hope your son got the truck cheap, sounds like he threw everything but the kitchen sink into it lol.
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$500 for the truck. I would have left it there but in near term hindsight, he learned a lot, accomplished putting a truck together, and got the exact model, power train he wanted. He did throw a lot of parts at it, but if it lasts for several years without major failures, he will have done fine. It will need a clutch down the road.
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It seems as if new tires are magnets for a puncture. The wife put a set of Yokohamas on the Tribeca last fall and picked up a long screw in less than a week in one tire.
Muddy, N scale is a little small for a 2 yr old but the Atlas stuff is pretty tough and not as fragile as the more expensive trains. It doesn't take much space to have a small portable layout for Sam to have fun with.
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Got the firewood stocked and snowblower ready to go in preparation of the series of storms starting this afternoon. Single digit temps for lows the next couple of days with highs of maybe 32 if we are lucky through Sunday. The 8 day forecast has a chance of snow every single day. Donner Pass on I-80 is already closed due to multiple spinouts. It will be a circus up at Lake Tahoe with the holiday and all the out of towners showing up to go skiing and such.
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Two weeks ago I was checking all the vehicle tires for proper inflation, and just for grins decide to check the van spare. Totally flat! Since the rim is new (replaced the OEM donut spare last tire change) took it back to the auto shop. They were booked till today.
The young guy sprays soap solution over the tire - finds the wheel weight clip where it interfaces the tire bead is leaking! Remove and remount the tire, making sure the bead interface is OK. Only 20 minutes and $10 but dang! here I am driving around thinking I'm covered and the things been flat for several months. :o
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Putting a decoration for the house together.
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We worked to mid afternoon then knocked off and went to the races for our section Christmas function.
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Had Friday off and went to Auckland. Visited the NZ Sigma agent (the main lens I use) to get the focus checked. Unfortunately their tech was sick and they don't have a dock for a Pentax camera so it will have to be sent to Australia in the New Year.
In the afternoon I did the tour of the only sugar mill in the country. This was the only "industrial" tour we didn't do when I was at primary school, the best one being the Tip Top ice cream factory tour.
Recon-ed this mornings sunrise photo shoot, Ate too much for dinner and hit the sack early. This morning the alarm went off at 4am to be on location before 5am.
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Had breakfast in a cafe, checked out of the motel and headed to scrutineer training at the Chief Technical Officers workshop. Sat in his workshop from 9:30 with scrutineers from all the other clubs while we discussed the rules, had a BBQ lunch then scrutineered a couple of sample cars.
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Headed home and am now editing photos from this morning.
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Bought and stacked a 1/4 cord of wood. Put the lawnmower away for the winter. Decorated the inside of the house for Christmas. Brought the snowblower in my basement shop for going over before the bad weather hit.
Tonight we're going to do some shopping and going to a Christmas light display, Sam really loves the lights
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put the lawnmower away??? I mowed my yard again today. Mostly mulching up leaves but the seedheads were looking pretty scraggly too.
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Bought a Christmas tree, it wasn’t to heavy. :))
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Bought a Christmas tree, it wasn’t to heavy. :))
They get heavier every year Bob -- or more likely, I get weaker. Bought two yesterday, and the tree lot was in a frenzy. Damn things are getting expensive. Apparently there's a shortage this year.
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Putting a decoration for the house together.
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Electric trains and kids -- what a great combo! Sam's gonna love it!
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Bought a Christmas tree, it wasn’t to heavy. :))
They get heavier every year Bob -- or more likely, I get weaker. Bought two yesterday, and the tree lot was in a frenzy. Damn things are getting expensive. Apparently there's a shortage this year.
Saw several truck loads coming out of New Brunswick on Friday. Not sure how far south they go but at least to NYC
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Bought a Christmas tree, it wasn’t to heavy. :))
They get heavier every year Bob -- or more likely, I get weaker. Bought two yesterday, and the tree lot was in a frenzy. Damn things are getting expensive. Apparently there's a shortage this year.
Ain't no shortage Ray, it's just the area where you live :))
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Spent most of the day replacing breakers on the genset at work. This is the second breaker failure in as many months. #1 was a no start issue caused by a dead battery that we traced down to a faulty breaker. Today was a low water temp alarm. traced it down to another faulty breaker. with a 25% failure rate in 3 years of service I'm hoping it was just a bad run of breakers.
The breakers had no indication of failure, they appeared to in the "on" position, no trip indicated and would snap on and off like normal. But in the on position no power was going thru... Never had that happen before... GE breakers that came with the genset.
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Today i put the tv antennae back on the roof. Took it down about 7 years ago when we got a satellite dish for something to watch besides the 3 networks. Since my wife passed on found i was watching very little. The price of service kept going up,and cancelled it last spring. Sent the box back. No cable or options in the boonies, so the antennae is up, getting 2 stations, and public tv, so climbing up there just may have been worhwhile. Using 2 ladders to get up to the main roof, enjoying fine december weather 50s, and the view from 45 ft. Anyway, got noise in the house for these long winter evenings. And it doesnt have a monthly bill.
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Finished work and headed down to the marina carpark to get a few photos of the cars assembling for the annual toy run organise by the Sopranos Car Club. There was about 300 cars present. Then headed to the Harbour Bridge to get them heading over to the Mount. Now heading home to edit photos, I think there is at least 500 photos in the camera.
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Rural, I know you take a lot of photos and you post a lot here, and often of cars we never see here in the States and some beautiful scenery and also the underbelly of infrastructure. First, thanks, we appreciate that.
Now to the question. Taking that many pictures, are you doing club newsletters and the like. Also, do you make any money off your photography or is it just a hobby?
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I had only really been taking photos at offroad racing events, plus a few in my travels around the country for work. Last year I did the Photographic Portfolio course at the local ploytech. It was advertised as for existing photographers who wanted to push themselves. One of the guys I work with also did the course earlier this year and he is always badgering me to go out to take photos.
My photos are shared mainly on Facebook. They all go on my page. The offroad racing ones go on our club page as well. The other ones go on a few local photography pages and other specialist pages. A few go on my Instagram page. I don't make any money from my photography (unless you count the odd time work sends me out to get some shots for bids etc during work time), it is just a hobby. I do have a few prints of my photos hanging on people's walls that I would have been charged for if they hadn't been friends.
As for unusual cars, here are the three from the toy run on Friday night owned by people from work.
Early 70's Valiant Ranger station wagon (Chrysler)
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Early 70's Holden HQ ute (GM). This belongs to the boyfriend of one of our summer students. He has owned it for the last five years and it has been back on the road for the last 18 months. It is good to see the next generation interested and actually doing it.
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A more traditional rod. One of our accountants and her husband (who, because it is a small world, also belongs to our offroad racing club) own the one.
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I rode over to Corpus Christi tx for the South Texas shootout. 26 limited modifieds on a 1/4 mile dirt track, running for a $5K purse made for some really good racing. But 90 miles of fog and the 0200 bedtime was bit rough.
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Came home from Reno today after the Christmas party for the wife's work. We had it at a big casino and the wife had ordered a heck of a buffet spread with a carving station with some of the most tender tasty prime rib I have had in a while. We had a nice big private room for the party and they even comped us a TV in there so the bosses who came from Ohio could watch the Ohio St. game. The company also paid for rooms for all the employees so everybody was good with the open bar. We had a great time and the employees really appreciated what was done for them.
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Sounds like a great time
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DeadNutz,
Slick, totally top notch, company doing something like this for the employees. Once upon a time, working for Xerox, Eastman Kodak, and Sun Micro systems.
Most corporations would do such things around the Holidays. All that is history and all gone by the wayside today. Want to take a wild guess as to why?
Surprised and happy to read one company out in the world. Apparently has more adults than children as employees.
Prim rib .. the best !
Cheers,
Pep
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Sounds like a great time
DeadNutz,
Slick, totally top notch, company doing something like this for the employees. Once upon a time, working for Xerox, Eastman Kodak, and Sun Micro systems.
Most corporations would do such things around the Holidays. All that is history and all gone by the wayside today. Want to take a wild guess as to why?
Surprised and happy to read one company out in the world. Apparently has more adults than children as employees.
Prim rib .. the best !
Cheers,
Pep
When the Nevada plant is kicking ass and getting the job done they get rewarded. In the year since they put the wife in charge of the plant the metrics have skyrocketed in all categories. They made a smart move. ;D
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Spent the morning on site on the stage of the safety project we are building currently and some completed stages getting some photos for the client's PR people. Also ran around with one of our designers and geotech engineers looking at some troublesome locations in the next stages.
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Got back to the office to find a courier package waiting for me with these two rollcage joiners. A mate of mine who builds roller furling headsails for superyachts makes these. They are really well made but very expensive. These are going on to the side intrusion bar on my RZR so I can remove it when trail riding and marshalling so I don't have to keep climbing over it every time I get in and out.
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I finished for the week and I'm now off to the main work Christmas party.
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Been dealing with a bad outlet that's got 4 others down ( including the two in my garage :'( )
Replaced two breakers before figuring out it was the outlet causing it to trip.
Got power coming from the breaker, power coming out of the wall, but none coming through the GFCI outlet.
Tried two and still nothing.
I called my uncle who knows all this stuff and he talked me through it since I don't know crap about electrical ( had to buy an outlet tester and Voltage tester which I should own anyways ) and i was able to identify the line and load, but I'm still doing something wrong.
I Will get it sorted out, it's just been so frustrating.
I've spent at least $100 at the local hardware in the past few days, now some of that was tools and such for a different project but still way too much on this outlet thing.
Oh well, this will all be experience for sure.
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^^^^if you give more detail, we can likely shed some light
One guess would be a bad gfi outlet
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Friend of mine came by and took me with him fishing today. Now, I am no fisherman and ( Take note Fish and Game Warden ) I didn't do any fishing. Allen casted for bait, but didn't get much. He fished while I sat on a 5 gallon bucket and we talked a lot. Lots of old stories and new stories. Of course I took my camera along and was able to get a few shots. By the way- No fish were disturbed in this outing!
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Looks very peaceful -- and warm!! I'd rather be there than here - LOL
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^^^^if you give more detail, we can likely shed some light
One guess would be a bad gfi outlet
I got it sorted out.
The sets of load lines were joined with wire nuts and had leads coming off to the receptacle because most likely both wouldn't fit in the old receptacle.
I just eliminated all of that and connected both sets directly and now it's all good to go.
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Congrats^^^
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Bought a Christmas tree, it wasn’t to heavy. :))
They get heavier every year Bob -- or more likely, I get weaker. Bought two yesterday, and the tree lot was in a frenzy. Damn things are getting expensive. Apparently there's a shortage this year.
Ain't no shortage Ray, it's just the area where you live :))
Well apparently I was wrong. I was reading in the newspaper today that there is indeed a shortage of Christmas trees and prices are higher.
I was really just busting on Ray and the area he lives in because it is densely populated and has a higher cost of living being right next to DC.
But this shortage can be traced back to the recession in 08 and some dry years that took its toll on trees. During the recession, sales were off because folks didn't have the money, less trees were planted to replace what was sold and then the dry weather slowed down the growth and hence, we are here in shortageville. Larger trees are especially harder to find. I believe it takes 5 plus years to grow a Christmas tree to small height and longer for tall and some species.
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Congrats^^^
Thanks.
Got some experience and bought some tools I should have anyways.
Picked one of these up at the local hardware and it worked out great.
Thought it was supposed to be about $11 but I was only charged about $4.
I'm going to leave it loaded up as a dedicated go-to kit for minor electrical stuff.
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Missouri Ozarks, the land of the free Christmas trees!!!
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Took along walk from couch to bedroom
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tried to stay warm
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tried to stay warm
Fun isn't it..... Cold today cold tomorrow then 40s in Saturday how's that make sense
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Replaced a air handler blower motor that the diagnosis stumped me of why it was blowing fuses. I hate crawling around in that attic, and the replacement motor had to come out in the squirrel wheel housing as one unit, over attic conduit, ducting, and who-see-whats-its up there to disassemble on dry land. I'm taking some Ibuprofen now so I dont feel like such an old-n-slo man in a few hours. Thats young'un work climbing around up there.
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Friday here and we knocked off for the year at 3:00pm. It is a bit overcast and only 66F (only about 15 people jumped off the wharf down the road into the harbour this afternoon) but the beer is still cold on the deck.
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Merry Christmas Rural - thanks for posting all those great NZ pics. I'll never get there, but my daughter is itching to go in the next few years.
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After moms daily driver started a brake squeal, today was brake job. Oh, and it needs an oil change. Oh, better clean that battery terminal while your at it. Dang....it's dark now. There goes my quality time banging out dents on the farm equipment.
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Wow Walrus -- talk about an aching back and aching knees. Quite a job!
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Nice snag on the boards
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Nice snag on the boards
Truth. I finally finished my front porch and I almost choked when pricing out the decking.
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My RZR has been up at the workshop since before Christmas. Today we finally made a start on the couple of items that needed doing on it.
First item was installing these rollcage joiners in the side intrusion bar on the driver's side. I can now take the intrusion bar out when I'm not racing, meaning I don't have to climb over it every time I get in and out of the seat.
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Second item on the list was modifying the factory nerf bars to suit the 70" width (original factory width was 60"). Cut the factory stubs off, that bolted into the chassis, welded some new stubs to the chassis and some new stubs to the original nerf bar that slide over those.
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Workshop has good "indoor/outdoor flow"
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Wound a bit more preload into the rear coilovers to compensate for the sagging of the rear springs. I think I'll have to replace them in the near future.
The next vehicle into the workshop will be this turbo RZR to be built for Race to the Sky hill climb in March.
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Oversized game of Connect Four that Dyson built for his mother's 50th birthday bash next weekend.
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Unfortunately my holiday is over and I have to go back to work tomorrow.
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Played with erector set.
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Unlocked the gates to let the guy in delivering our new tank at the race track. We don't see many 2500s here on NZ.
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Took along walk from couch to bedroom
Glad you are up and around!
I have been looking for a new job. Company I worked for consolidated the work of similar labs and closed the location I worked at. Nov 29 was my last day of 13 years at that place. Really do not miss it and enjoy spending more time with the family.
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Took along walk from couch to bedroom
Glad you are up and around!
I have been looking for a new job. Company I worked for consolidated the work of similar labs and closed the location I worked at. Nov 29 was my last day of 13 years at that place. Really do not miss it and enjoy spending more time with the family.
Well that sucks! Hope you find something soon.
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Mounted the darn thing to a pole.
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job site progress cam??
The last plant we built had a progress camera, took 1 photo every day. Really cool to watch the show.
Till the IT dept took video off our computers... >:(
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Yep just got it going, big brother is watching. Does anyone want me to post weekly pics?
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post away. I think its cool to see a project in fast forward at the end.
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Yep just got it going, big brother is watching. Does anyone want me to post weekly pics?
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Most definitely.
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Here is one from the major bridge on a roading project I was one a few years ago.
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I've been clearing snow all day. It was 45 degrees before the cold front blew in yesterday so the ground was warm enough to melt the snow when it hit. The wind was blowing about 25-30mph when it hit so the snow drifted pretty good. Of course it is deepest in front of the shop and a pain with ice on the bottom. 34 degrees now.
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started cleaning up the work table, getting ready for the trans rebuild. Where did all this junk come from? Filled up a big trash can with crap and a 5gallon bucket with nuts, bolts and metal scrap. Gotta dig the trans jack out next.
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The easy parts done. ;D
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Can you do a build thread on the tranny rebuild?
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More a 'What did you do over the Weekend'.
Friday night a club member turned up at home with the Nissan Navara he had just finished for his father for me to do the tech inspection on. They had just picked it up from the engine tuner. This is a Class 2 truck that has been around in our club for a number of years. They had put a new Nissan 3.3L V6 engine and after market ECU in it as well as giving it a good tidy up.
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Saturday I went to Auckland for the ORANZ (Off-road racing national body) Executive meeting as I'm co-opted onto it as the National Points Coordinator. Afterwards I stopped in to watch the second round of the Counties Classic, just a couple of km down the road.
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As usual there were plenty of entries in the kids class.
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Sunday I opened our track to allow another club member to test some rebuilt suspension.
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Then back to the workshop to finish the last bits on my RZR. (Modify side bars, make driver's side intrusion bar removable, new blue rear lights, replace defective kill switch, shift number boards and put stiffeners under plastic work that was broken that was when I rolled it last year).
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Cold here lately, below zero several nights. Down to one vehicle that would start. After getting home, stretching out the extension cords, got the battery chargers going. Set real low to warm the battery. By dark one pickup started, left the charger on the Jeep overnight, going out to try it soon. Then will shift it to the other pickup, then the tractors, because more snow is coming. BTW wind chill this morning is minus 18. On my enclosed front porch the temp was minus 3 last night. Got to love it.
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Reminded myself how important it is to clean out the king trap beyond just the screen, and practically filled my shop vac with lint in the process.
Anyone need some tinder to start their fireplace :))
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Got a leak on the Astro van. been leaking drops for a couple of years - mechanic's couldn't find it. The last month or two the drops/puddles have increased, and my tri-weekly oil checks have needed me to add some. Took it to the mechanic, said we have to find it. "Oh, your engine is like the Exxon Valdez! You have to go get it steam cleaned so we can add dye and then find the leak(s). Lots of build-up down there!" Well, if you'd checked more thoroughly 2 years ago there would have been less build up!
Off to the detail shop today to get i cleaned. 2 hours, $140. Guys did a bang-up job. Now I get the dye put in Friday and drive it a bit. Then we'll see.
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Went out to my sister's ranch to help clean out the barn/shop as the place is in escrow. It is just like a trip to the HF store. My sister gave me a brand new HF 14" chop saw, MIG welder on a cart w/argon bottle, 3 portable vise work benches which are new and a new hydraulic tube bender. A 4th vise work bench is a Craftsman. Also grabbed a Lincoln 225 AC tombstone welder plus a ton of misc hardware and stuff. Going back out Friday to move more stuff and who knows what will end up on the trailer and truck and follow me home.
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Went out to my sister's ranch to help clean out the barn/shop as the place is in escrow. It is just like a trip to the HF store. My sister gave me a brand new HF 14" chop saw, MIG welder on a cart w/argon bottle, 3 portable vise work benches which are new and a new hydraulic tube bender. A 4th vise work bench is a Craftsman. Also grabbed a Lincoln 225 AC tombstone welder plus a ton of misc hardware and stuff. Going back out Friday to move more stuff and who knows what will end up on the trailer and truck and follow me home.
Congrats! Heck of sister. Are those her tools, and did she use them?
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My sister's husband passed away almost 4 years ago and she has no use for the stuff. He shopped HF for tools buying multiples for the different houses. He did buy mainly name brands for power tools.
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My sister's husband passed away almost 4 years ago and she has no use for the stuff. He shopped HF for tools buying multiples for the different houses. He did buy mainly name brands for power tools.
Sorry to hear that sad news. At least the tools stay in the family, and they will get used.
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picked up a new blaster today. ;D I had gotten some gift certs for Christmas and they were calling my name. ;D
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Just got home from moving a friend's gun safe for the umpteenth time. Used the die lift to load it on a rental truck and should never have to touch it again as it will be on it's way to Ohio. I did him a favor by getting him the safe when I bought mine on a good sale. It turned out to be the favor that keeps on giving or is it taking. ::)
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Just got home from moving a friend's gun safe for the umpteenth time. Used the die lift to load it on a rental truck and should never have to touch it again as it will be on it's way to Ohio. I did him a favor by getting him the safe when I bought mine on a good sale. It turned out to be the favor that keeps on giving or is it taking. ::)
Some advice I learned in the military - Don't volunteer for anything! ;)
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Went trail riding this morning in my UTV. Tracks were set up for motorcross bikes so quite narrow in places. A mixture of farm and forest terrain, loop length about 15 miles. Weatherman said it was around 86f but in the valley probably closer to 90.
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Put my pants on this morning and found $34 in the pocket, freshly washed :cool2:
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Put my pants on this morning and found $34 in the pocket, freshly washed :cool2:
Money laundering?
Never happens to me, wife makes sure of that, take it anyway you like :-\
pep
I see the crowd is back :682:
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Pep, if it had come out in the wash, I would never see it :))
Went to the movies last night with Mama, we saw Jumanji, the next level. Really liked it, entertaining with lots of laughs. The local theater was recently remodeled with power recliners. On Tuesdays, its $7 a seat so it is reasonable relatively speaking.
We rented the earlier Jumanji movie a few weeks ago on the recommendation of my employee (note not the original with Robin Williams) and enjoyed it. I liked the second one better. Will have to see the original at some point
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At Bombay Truck Show. This is being held opposite the primary school I went to as a kid. Originally it was supposed to be a low key event organised by a local trucking company to raise some funds for local charities. It sort of got out of hand and has 300 trucks from all over the North Island and now covers two rugby fields and the broccoli paddock next door.
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ANZAC tribute truck
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One of the two Chinese brands of trucks we see here in NZ
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Looks like a wonderful event for young and old alike --
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they're some pretty cool cab over trucks. We don't see many big COE trucks on the road anymore. The only COE's running now are the smaller delivery trucks.
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Got a recall letter for the F250. Seems the seatbelts will catch fire in an accident. :a102:
hopefully Ford will take care of this better than Dodge is with the wifes airbag recall. She's been taking it in for the past several years and they still don't have the replacement parts for it. :41:
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You guys have some bad ass trucks. :bravo_2:
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they're some pretty cool cab over trucks. We don't see many big COE trucks on the road anymore. The only COE's running now are the smaller delivery trucks.
Our Mass and Dimension rules are based on overall length so COE has distinct advantages. Long nose (long bonnet) trucks tend to be tractor units for heavy haulage operations, tippers for dense loads such as aggregate and concrete mixer trucks.
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This morning Hamilton Classic Car Club's Classic Car Meet and Car Boot Sale at Jukebox Diner and Car Museum. Now heading to live day at Tauwhare Military Museum.
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I hope you got some close up shots of that red Monaro?
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I hope you got some close up shots of that red Monaro?
Is the Pope Catholic?
Hold on a bit, I've just driven in the driveway at home, 602km for the weekend.
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605? What did you go around twice?
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Saturday - about 400km round trip to Bombay to truck show. Today about 200km round trip to Hamilton and Tauwhare.
Oh are you still waiting for some Monaro photos? :93:
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Here you go, 1969 Holden Monaro.
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Bloody beautiful that.
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If you squint it looks like a mix between a nova and a barracuda
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A fastback Nova. What were the engine options?
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Spent part of the day working on my picnic area with water feature. I have owned this property for 22 years and thought that some day I would develop a picnic area around the water fall. The total drop is about 50 feet, but it has three drops with the last one about 30 feet. Better late than never. One of my interior roads travels next to the gorge that the waterfall drops into so it is easy to access. So far all I have accomplished in cut out brush and move those rocks that can be moved to make a path. First picture is where the spring comes in, the second the last waterfall and the last an overall view.
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Wow, Damn nice place you got.
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That's it I`m moving in.
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:cool2: I just need to wrap up a few things here, and I will be moving in also ! :93:
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I'm liking that.
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I did all day non stop messing with diesel stuff and tried not to remember too much about it. 12 hours of that is mind numbing. Got home and cobbled a truck blind spot mirror on my bike as a rear veiw mirror and prepared all the crap I forgot to pack in this morning. I woke up with 40 minutes to be at work from the bed and most detail stuff was left undone. Made it with time to spare.
Restarting back with the stinky diesel stuff because my job at the other shop washed out on me. The money is better but the hours went way up too.
Life is good, if a bit out of my control.
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A fastback Nova. What were the engine options?
L6 -161 and 186 cubic inch
V8 - 253, 307, 308, 327 and 350 cubic inch
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A fastback Nova. What were the engine options?
L6 -161 and 186 cubic inch
V8 - 253, 307, 308, 327 and 350 cubic inch
Pretty much all of the engines of the era then. The car varients found in Mexico mostly had the L6 as the engine including the sporty looking ones. There is a hatchback Nova version here from the late 70's I pass on the way home. Stovebolt 6 and standard of course.
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Strik, you back with Caesar or another shop?
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Yup, back at the diesel shop with Cesar.
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12 hours of that is mind numbing.
Life is good, if a bit out of my control.
One if the guys who does odds and ends at work asked how we work on thing day after day. I think it just gets to a point you just do it out of habit and it becomes no big deal. Other then the occasional bitch/cuss fit.
If life was in control wouldn't it be a but dull?
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I was away from there a few years and little had changed. It was like a time capsule in both the place and the jobs. We are building up a Cat 3126 truck engine and each has a role, each does his part and its dull work.
The only good thing is one guy loves washing parts and saves me from that full time. :cool2:
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A fastback Nova. What were the engine options?
Beautiful. :bravo_2:
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Today three of us stuffed a Cat 3126 six in a Kodiak truck without lifting the cab off. All the supports are bolted in.
It may be drivable by Tuesday.
I finally got a bike seat back from the upholstery shop after three weeks and rode it home. It took him forever but well worth the wait for the comfort of a firmly padded sprung seat.
It looks a hell of a lot better than the duct tape cover it had when I got it.
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Four day weekend for me as Thursday was Waitangi Day (equivalent to US 4th of July) and I took today, Friday, off. Pulled the broken suspension seat out of the RZR and took it to the upholsterer, who stripped it down so we can repair the broken frame. Once we repair it I will take it back to him to recover it.
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Tomorrow I'll spend most of the morning watching the live coverage of the King of the Hammers rock racing from California.
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I spent the day making a worn out axle take new kingpuns and trying to get the spindles back on a Cat426 backhoe.
It took near two days complete but today the boss was pleased that there was no play at all and he didn't need to buy any more parts. Just new pins and bushings.
Got home and put a sealed bottom bracket in my bike replacing a worn out regular setup. Fixed the kickstand on my boy's bike and finished building bike repair stand V2.0. Now I can spray that tomorrow.
Sunday is lazy day for me. No home repair planned or garden work. Just a bike ride with the kids.
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Had some snow, snow cat ran out of fuel, sent the truck out to service it.
pep
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Outstanding!!! :cool2:
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Don't you Georgia boys know to always have a full tank before you go play in the snow?
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Pep. great shots. Guess you don't get to use the snow cat much :))
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Three days of last week were spent on the front axle of this. Fill weld wear to fit new pins and bushings.
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This week started with an oil change and filter service on this beast. The oil pan is in the shop to attempt to remove a badly stripped drain plug.
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Four day weekend for me as Thursday was Waitangi Day (equivalent to US 4th of July) and I took today, Friday, off. Pulled the broken suspension seat out of the RZR and took it to the upholsterer, who stripped it down so we can repair the broken frame. Once we repair it I will take it back to him to recover it.
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Tomorrow I'll spend most of the morning watching the live coverage of the King of the Hammers rock racing from California.
A good upholsterer is worth his weight in gold. :PDT_Armataz_01_37:
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On site this morning to check the temporary traffic management side of the commissioning of a temporary signalised pedestrian crossing on one of our major construction sites.
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Stopped at the beach to have a look at the sunrise.
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Now going to find some breakfast before heading to the next site meeting at 8:00am.
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My son got a basketball for his Bday. He asked me for a hoop. So today I whipped one up from scrap.
He 'suggested' to mom he needs a smooth floor too
:).
I got off easy it seems.
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My son got a basketball for his Bday. He asked me for a hoop. So today I whipped one up from scrap.
He 'suggested' to mom he needs a smooth floor too
:).
I got off easy it seems.
Good work! ...but you know that sooner or later you'll have to even up that dirt and pour concrete or a blacktop.
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There will be no cement poured for a basketball court. Interests are fleeting at his age so this hoop and backboard are a tiny bit of money. It only has to look expensive to his guests.
I am not even sure he really can play but this I won't deny him a basic part. Maybe he will even be good at it sooner or later.
I never played in my lifetime. Never played any sport really.
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Ran into an old high school bud at the Dr.s office today. we laughed at how we used to run into each other at the beer joints now its the Dr.s office. Sure sign of getting old. :'(
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Ran into an old high school bud at the Dr.s office today. we laughed at how we used to run into each other at the beer joints now its the Dr.s office. Sure sign of getting old. :'(
I know what you mean Curtis. When I was in the ICU a week and a half ago, a friend from our EAA chapter was in the room next door in an induced coma. :o
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Dang, an induced coma don't sound good. Hope everything worked out OK for him.
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They brought him out of the coma the day I left and a couple days later he had another cardiac event and they put in a pacemaker earlier this week and now he is doing much better. His piloting days are over now.
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Does the pacemaker curtail his flying or the heart issue? Either way at least the PM can get him back to normal function.
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FAA doesn't like PMs or cardiac events for good reason. It is possible to get another medical issued after a cardiac event but it depends on the severity of it.
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Yesterday was a 400km round trip to do the Annual Technical Inspection on some of our club race cars. First stop was south of Rotoura at Lake Rerewhataaitu
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Mt Tarawera in the clouds.
Then on to Taupo. The area is all of volcanic origin. I haven't seen it this dry for years we are definitely in drought conditions.
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At the next stop there were three Yamaha utvs to inspect.
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This was at Shades Truckings yard. They are a small specialist transport company that has roll back trucks. They shift a lot of trailer boats and at least five coffee carts a week.
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On the way home I stopped at Acacia Bay at Lake Taupo to have a look.
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Today I headed up to the workshop and Jason welded up my broken race seat. Now I'm helping on the final assembly of the turbo RZR that is being built for a hill climb.
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Finally picked up the bead blast cabinet today. Hope to finish wiring the compressor tomorrow and I will test it to see how it works.
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I made the missing floor plate of the old backhoe out of some plate and did some magic making a rather expensive to replace shift lever knob from bits of two older ones. Pics tomorrow but it looks like it was never damaged.
Then I helped the others lower a big Eaton trans from a Kodiak truck.
In the process of all this a grinder ran to the end of its lifespan and the head broke off the sledge. The hammer is fixed and tomorrow supposedly new brushes for the grinder.
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Sun shots
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Make sure to pick up the bandings from your shipments you get in.....
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The guys in the shop thought I was being anal when I told them to get off the forklift and pick up the metal banding rather than run it over.
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The guys in the shop thought I was being anal when I told them to get off the forklift and pick up the metal banding rather than run it over.
The metal ones will wreck havock on brake lines and park brake cables!
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Make sure to pick up the bandings from your shipments you get in.....
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Recycle Center machine?
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I'm not sure what is happening but there are three car shows in town today, for a population of 130,000.
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My wife and I went Raleigh NC to visit our oldest son and wife this weekend. Had a great time.
WHAT a pleasure it is to experience southern hospitality. Every one is pleasant, polite and respectful. Even the young lady who waited on me at Burger King Sunday morning said good morning, may I help you and thank you. You never get that here except at Chic-fil-a. It is a different world.
Another thing about Raleigh, it is growing tremendously and everything looks new or at least well kept. The number of newish shopping centers was astounding and building was going on everywhere. Raleigh is quite a tech hub apparently and is drawing a lot of folks to it. Guarantee you one thing, if I didn't have grandbabies locally, I would be heading south in a year or 2.
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Tried reviving the old "free" gas mower for an early spring mow. It was running funny. Guess I need to go get a carb rebuild and gasket kit.
Took the carb and tank off today (forgot how pesky and tempermental those throttle springs and governors can be!) and will go a huntin tomorrow. Hopefully the small engine place in Midtown has what I need for this 1985 model part.
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Filed my taxes with TurboTax which didn't take long at all, then I get the email that my return was rejected :91:
One simple error and it took 3 times as long as it took to file them in the first place to figure out how to fix the mistake and refile them :41: :33:
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The free install was worth the exact price ........... nothing Took over the install, bid the installers a happy good-bye
Had to make the extra trip to lows for the correct gas fittings, doing the install..
8PM
Air fried wings first try..
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The free installs usually are worth nothing. Got a new W&D and they offered free install. The brand new drier vent hose got mangled and three holes and wasn't even fully seated on the vent from the dryer.
I see I'm not the only one that has to dive into appliance installs head first.
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Dang it, it's nearly impossible to find good help these days! And it seems to be everywhere. :41:
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Make sure to pick up the bandings from your shipments you get in.....
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Recycle Center machine?
Pallet manufacturer, with no English speaking employees who give a poop
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Went to Steamtown National Park with Sam.
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The free installs usually are worth nothing. Got a new W&D and they offered free install. The brand new drier vent hose got mangled and three holes and wasn't even fully seated on the vent from the dryer.
I see I'm not the only one that has to dive into appliance installs head first.
:))
is all you can do sometime, was no way I could get in the hole. Well maybe get in, getting out would have been the problem.
But later ....... air fry
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Went to Steamtown National Park with Sam.
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That is one happy young man, Sam's a good name for an engineer.
pep
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Went to Steamtown National Park with Sam.
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That display is really cool.
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Having some issues with my 98 GMC truck. Dying at low rpm and then doesn't want to start. I figure it needs a fuel filter and I have a new one. Just don't have the energy to crawl under there to change it. I cleaned and recharged the K$N air filter, checked oil and fluids. I am going to drive it around town a bit to see if the air filter was the cause.
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Yes that cutaway steam engine is great! I will have to go there one day
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Dying at low rpm and then doesn't want to start. I figure it needs a fuel filter and I have a new one. Just don't have the energy to crawl under there to change it. I cleaned and recharged the K$N air filter
Bought a 2003 Suburban a while back with a K&N. Didn't run right. The over oiled filter had fouled the Mass Air Flow sensor. Replaced filter with stock, cleaned the MAF, and that fixed the issue. Just my opinion, but K&Ns should not be used on newer cars. Maybe this is your issue, maybe not. Good Luck
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Replaced the fuel filter and still no joy.
K&N air filters have served me well for years, and I don't consider my 98 GMC pickup a newer model.
The problem existed before I recharged the filter, so I can't blame it. I guess I will have to take it to a shop.
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I'm not sure what is happening but there are three car shows in town today, for a population of 130,000.
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Sweet Torana .
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Replaced the fuel filter and still no joy.
K&N air filters have served me well for years, and I don't consider my 98 GMC pickup a newer model.
The problem existed before I recharged the filter, so I can't blame it. I guess I will have to take it to a shop.
Fuel pressure regulator. stays running if you hold the throttle down a bit?? if so try a pressure regulator.
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Unloaded the truck full of another load of
junk treasure from my sister's barn. This was in there and the wife promptly claimed it to hang in her art studio. I miss out again. 36" diameter aluminum and only one bullet hole which is rare for NV.
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I'm not sure what is happening but there are three car shows in town today, for a population of 130,000.
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Sweet Torana .
Bathurst era V8 killer - 186 I6 with triple carbs :cool2:
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That is a good looking motor. Here in the states, we have tended to concentrate on V8's and miss out on the different power plants from around the world
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Yeah that's true, my rock star buddy "Mother's Finest" calls me a V8 snob. Laugh like hell ........ he's correct.
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Site meeting location yesterday afternoon. Opposite the contractor's site office. Since there was only four of us for the weekly site meeting we sat at the picnic table. It was the clients idea.
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520km round trip today up State Highway 35 to have a look at a couple of locations. 1900mm diameter culvert that is 85mm out of round over about a third of it's length.
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In a nice spot though
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The final inspection of a scour job we did before Christmas.
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Fossil shells in the rocks.
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Raukokore Church on the way home
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Rural, beautiful scenery you enjoy everyday.
The culvert out of round, is it collapsing from weight? Will that require immediate action, wait and see or just needs to be scheduled and done as time allows? I guess I am asking, is it serious or just needs to be handled?
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The likely fault is that the pipes were not compacted around the sides properly when they were first installed probably in the 1960s. There is 11m of fill over the culvert so it has quite a load on it. If it collapses and the embankment washes out, there is no alternative route until a forest road is opened up to the public and bought up to a safe standard around the area. It is on the find a solution and do something about it this/next year time frame.
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The Mazda truck was painted over four years ago and the Ford Red alkyd enamel was starting to fade on the hood. That coupled with a few bird poop stains did a number on the finish.
Today I wet sanded the area with 2000 grit paper and then compounded and polished
the surface to a new shine. Finally sealed it with some fresh wax - looks presentable again.
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I'd say that paint is holding up pretty well.
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Id be super embarrassed if you saw what my Plymouth looked like....
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I'd say that paint is holding up pretty well.
LOL -- it's holding up, but barely. It's cheap Tractor Supply Valspar Alkyd Enamel -- the red pigments in this stuff don't stand up to intense sun, weather, and organic bird droppings. I knew that from the start, but at the time when I bought this paint back in 2011, it was $35/gallon. Good enough for a cheap respray. It cleaned up this old rust bucket truck for a few years, and made it look good. Surprisingly the white pigment Valspar Alkyd enamel paint that on this truck is still glossy and looks like new. Sun and weather have had very little effect.
The truck isn't garaged, and it sits out in the open all year long. So, I'm not surprised at the fading red pigment.
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Id be super embarrassed if you saw what my Plymouth looked like....
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I doubt you are the only one :)
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Id be super embarrassed if you saw what my Plymouth looked like....
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I doubt you are the only one :)
Walrus is right, we are all embarassed for you Muddy :))
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Id be super embarrassed if you saw what my Plymouth looked like....
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I doubt you are the only one :)
Walrus is right, we are all embarassed for you Muddy :))
:)) when it gets to 300,000 miles it'll get a spray bomb job. That way it actually has paint everywhere.
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I said the same thing ,at 300K i'll reapint it. Then I priced the paint... :o Truck wasn't worth what the paint would cost.
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Id be super embarrassed if you saw what my Plymouth looked like....
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I doubt you are the only one :)
Walrus is right, we are all embarassed for you Muddy :))
:)) when it gets to 300,000 miles it'll get a spray bomb job. That way it actually has paint everywhere.
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Use a foam roller -- that method seems to work real well. Seen a lot of fairly good pait work done with foam rollers and cheap Tractor Supply machinery paint.
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Jockeyed a bunch of my junk around and pulled the boat out to charge the batteries. Going to hit Tillamook Bay on Sat or Sun and try for some crab and rockfish. Forecast calling for almost 60 deg and clear, plus the tide is only 4ft coming in from 6AM until 12 noon. Should be perfect conditions.
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Good luck fishing, hope you do well.
Gotta love a fork lift for moving trailers around, can put them anywhere :051bye:
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I've been running out of brakes in the RZR the last couple of times out, so tonight after work we flushed the old fluid out and replaced it. There was a fair bit of air in the system and the fluid definitely had seen better days.
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It is not surprising considering how hard a life it has had. It has done about 130 hours and almost all of that is racing, being driven using left foot braking.
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We are trying this as it has a higher boiling point than the spec'ed DOT4 fluid.
Hopefully they don't cancel the trail ride we are going on between now (Thursday night) and Saturday morning.
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I wasn't expecting to wake up to plenty of snow. I guess old man winter wanted to remind us that spring doesn't start until this evening. I was able to get some of it with the snow blower but as it is Sierra Cement the blower started trying to shoot bricks so it is a shovel for most of it. Taking a break and have about 500 sqft in front of the shop to do. That is where it drifted the deepest right in front of the big door.
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We have a large job coming up, where the facility, has since day one have burnt oil, they now want to have the ability to burn either oil or natural gas. The area does not have natural gas, too mountainous, too few people and a poor utility infrastructure. They have decided to set the facility up as a burner of compressed natural gas, trucked to the facility in specially designed tank trailers. The compressed natural gas station, will have 10 tanker bays, with tank trailers in transit on a daily basis.
The original burner was sold as an oil burner with the possibility of future gas hook up. The original seller, sold the burner with the gas ring, but none of the other parts of the necessary for gas operation, so I’ve had to fabricate multiple pieces to get the burner set up for gas operation.
The needed (40) 3/8” stainless steel pipe x 4-1/4” gas spuds with (10) 3/16” gas holes, in a diamond pattern, with a sealed top.
I started with (40) 3/8” x 5” stainless steel nipples, then cut to the correct length, the holes drilled, the end of the nipple tapped for a 1/4” npt stainless steel pipe plug, the cut off flush, then faced in the lathe. The next set is for a smaller burner, so the spud sizing and orifice size and pattern will differ.
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It would be very cool and a great learning experience to see you crank out these parts Jack.
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It would be very cool and a great learning experience to see you crank out these parts Jack.
+1 == great work
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Drilling and cutting stainless,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,ugh :c002: :38:
Looks like you did a great job Platty, that is a lot of work
Any idea of what the btu capacity of that boiler is. It must be massive to require that large of spuds. The typical size gas burner I work on is a measly 400,000 btu give or take and never more then 1 million. 32 spuds with itty bitty orifice size hole
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Compressed natural gas trucks were a common site up here for awhile. Some places needed 10 trucks a day. They were trucking it out of a compressor station in eastern Maine. All came up rte 9. The gas came from sable island. Dont see any now.
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Drilling and cutting stainless,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,ugh :c002: :38:
Looks like you did a great job Platty, that is a lot of work
Any idea of what the btu capacity of that boiler is. It must be massive to require that large of spuds. The typical size gas burner I work on is a measly 400,000 btu give or take and never more then 1 million. 32 spuds with itty bitty orifice size hole
40 million BTUs (40,000 cuft/hr) or approx 950 boiler hp or 33,000#/hr (the capability to turn roughly 60 gallons of water into steam, every minute)
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Worked and gave Sam a haircut..... It'll grow back
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Drilling and cutting stainless,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,ugh :c002: :38:
Looks like you did a great job Platty, that is a lot of work
Any idea of what the btu capacity of that boiler is. It must be massive to require that large of spuds. The typical size gas burner I work on is a measly 400,000 btu give or take and never more then 1 million. 32 spuds with itty bitty orifice size hole
40 million BTUs (40,000 cuft/hr) or approx 950 boiler hp or 33,000#/hr (the capability to turn roughly 60 gallons of water into steam, every minute)
That is a lot of energy
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Took a ride up to HD after darkness set in and work ended. Got a new doorknob for a bathroom that hinted at severe wear several months ago. My wife wasn't amused with pull a string security after it failed fatally yesterday.
Bitch all you want about HD but close to home and well stocked, open at 9 at night saves my projects.
And it was even the right one on sale.
Crossing the major four lane at night on a bike isn't for the easily scared, but its all part of the journey to HD.
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Yesterday I went trail riding in the RXR. A local motorbike shop organised an event that used Burt's Brother's motocross trails, in pine forest, and the farm next door. The loop was 40 km with several short cuts out of it.
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Went with Jason and Tania doing the 40km loop for a start. This included a couple of quite spectacular ridge climbs and a couple of stream crossings. there was also a gravel road section where we could open up to 120km/hr. We did a shorter 15km loop and a 30km loop that cut out the ridge climbs. Unfortunately I spiked a tyre 5km before the end of the last loop and that put an end to the day. I also appear to have broken a front axle, not surprising considering how dry the ground was and the fact that the motocross trails have lots of big jumps in them. That is today's job to deal with.
Jason and Tania's son was a Polaris factory race driver, so it was a bit of a meeting of the family with his first three RZRs all at the event. I now own his first one and his second and third ones now reside in the area.
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One of the Can-am guys had this fancy jack that you wind up with the battery impact.
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Use a foam roller -- that method seems to work real well. Seen a lot of fairly good pait work done with foam rollers and cheap Tractor Supply machinery paint.
Painted a couple racecars with that method. Thin it enough to smooth out evenly and get good area coverage.
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Caught this little devil in the neighbors place. hogs been tearing his yard up..
Hes chillin out in the ice chest now :spam1:
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Got a Diamond 10" adjustable wrench that was my dads. Trying to clean it up and make it useable. Has his initials punched into it, so it'll be a wall hanger.
It's got the remnants of the green vinyl coating - MAN is that stuff tough! (Finally got it all off with Berryman's aerosol carb cleaner). Managed to get the screw pin out so I could thoroughly clean everything, plus re-faced the jaws. Gonna re-assemble tomorrow. I'll post finished pics later.
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Been working on a secondary smaller work table / area out in the garage.
The big one is really filling up with power tools like my drill press, scroll saw, bench grinder, and belt grinder.
I needed something that can stay a bit cleaner for more of the more fiddly tinkering side of things such as repairing and resealing vintage airguns.
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The shelf thing has been there a while ( part of an old bed ) , the " workbench " is just a cheap HF folding saw table I got for Christmas a couple years ago.
The particle board top went bad so i just removed that, attached a couple pieces of 1/2" ply, and bracketed it to the wall.
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First day stuck home due to the kungflu happenings. Better start chipping away at the big projects at home. This trailer has fender taller than the deck that are a giant pain. I'm gonna cut them down to be flush with the decking. There'll still be plenty of room for the suspension travel and tires to clear. Got to try out my new plasma. I forgot how much nicer they cut than the gas ax.
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Installed jack rails, protects the pinch welds, using a floor jack.
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Working on the Lincoln 225AC tombstone welder my sister gave to me. The angle iron caster cart frame was tack welded to the welder housing so I had to grind the welds to remove the cart to open the rear cover. Plenty of spider webs and dust to blow out now that it stopped snowing. I also took loose the leads so I can cut back to good insulation and put new terminal lugs on there. You can see in the pic how the insulation is gone where the leads enter the housing and somebody siliconed the heck out it. I sure didn't like bare leads so close together and close to the housing. If this was going to be my primary welder I would lay out the bucks for new cable but I have plenty of rolls of electrical tape to make them safe.
I had never looked at the inside of a welder before. I had no idea that the ground clamp cable is hooked to the amperage selector and the electrode holder cable to the transformer or is that a ground strap?
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For AC I don’t think it matters which way
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See if this helps
https://www.instructables.com/id/Refreshing-your-Lincoln-AC-225-220V-tombstone-weld/
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I saw that video and some others. I'm not changing anything other than cutting back the leads to good insulation adding new lugs and cleaning the inside of the housing. I saw where one guy greased the heck out of the amp selector contacts with Mobil grease. Seems like that would collect dirt and cause more wear. These contacts look good and I'm leaving them alone.
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Working for the US gov’t in northern VT, had possible exposure situation, I hate this state, people in general and this f#*king job.
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Put a rear tire on one of my gators today. Ordered it on line yesterday afternoon, came this morning, put it on this afternoon the old way. Hand held bead breaker, 10 pound sledge and a couple of craftsman vintage tire irons. :08:
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Here's my dads restored adjustable. Wide opening version, 10" long.
I painted the handle blue just to have something on there. If I find a suitable vinyl dip in the future the paint will easily come off.
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Here's my dads restored adjustable. Wide opening version, 10" long.
I painted the handle blue just to have something on there. If I find a suitable vinyl dip in the future the paint will easily come off.
Looks good to go, I love how you kept it's history.
Of course I know you're not planning to use it.
I need every good tool I can get, so I use my grandfather's Snap-on 8" adjustable often.
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I saw that video and some others. I'm not changing anything other than cutting back the leads to good insulation adding new lugs and cleaning the inside of the housing. I saw where one guy greased the heck out of the amp selector contacts with Mobil grease. Seems like that would collect dirt and cause more wear. These contacts look good and I'm leaving them alone.
If the insulation is brittle, might consider replacing those 2 runs . What is there, 2ft maybe easy cheep repair, gear grease on the rheostat, typical youtuber. Dielectric grease would be ok to use, not heavy just a wipe down .
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Working, though not as usual. Front door is locked, need to call for access and know what you want before we will let you in. No random browsing
Selling a lot of soap to folks who are cleaning, phones are quiet, but work still coming in.
No auctions to go to :c002:
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I saw that video and some others. I'm not changing anything other than cutting back the leads to good insulation adding new lugs and cleaning the inside of the housing. I saw where one guy greased the heck out of the amp selector contacts with Mobil grease. Seems like that would collect dirt and cause more wear. These contacts look good and I'm leaving them alone.
If the insulation is brittle, might consider replacing those 2 runs . What is there, 2ft maybe easy cheep repair, gear grease on the rheostat, typical youtuber. Dielectric grease would be ok to use, not heavy just a wipe down .
The electrode lead is at least 20' long and the ground clamp lead is 15' or so. I plan on putting shrink tubing as reinforcement on the leads where they enter the case. I have to take the welder to do a job at my sister's house. I'm afraid her Fiancé is going to want to keep it when he didn't want to keep it when it came out of the barn. So if he doesn't keep it I will spring for new cables and power cord.
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Paper work said hour, reality 3. proly an hour if done once before, 1 hour wrenching 2 hour familiarization course
Got lucky cause I notice there was top side and bottom side, before the bolts right on happened :hee20hee20hee:
Pep
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Did spring cleaning stuff today. Blew out both the refrigerator and gas dryer. The underside coils get so clogged with junk, and the lint builds up in the vent piping and cap to cause temp spikes that trip the dryer thermal fuse.
I use CO2, as I can get sufficient pressure, and the 20 pound tank I have lasts a long time. Should have been a hour job, but upon reassembling the dryer piping the one adjustable elbow broke - in two places. Not having a spare and the honey needing the dryer that afternoon, I had to punch and rivet the thing back together so it would pop into the wall. Was a tight squeeze for my svelt figure :)) but finally got it all together and working.
Next weekend is probably the evap set-up on the roof.
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Paper work said hour, reality 3. proly an hour if done once before, 1 hour wrenching 2 hour familiarization course
Got lucky cause I notice there was top side and bottom side, before the bolts right on
Pep
Don't look like no sidepipes to me :))
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Paper work said hour, reality 3. proly an hour if done once before, 1 hour wrenching 2 hour familiarization course
Got lucky cause I notice there was top side and bottom side, before the bolts right on
Pep
Don't look like no sidepipes to me :))
LOL to low for those, damn it :93:
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Didn't rain today, despite the idiot weatherman calling for a half inch. Got most of the welding wrapped up on the fenders. I sure love fluxcore for burning though rust and paint. Running .045 NR211 at 15V/135A, low and slow. I'm short some sheet steel to fill the gaps at the end. Ordered stake pockets and some other junk to fix it up some more as well. It sounds like I'm going to have at least a month off to fiddle fart around the home place on things...
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I finally got the missing front wheel for my daily driver so I could return the one I was using to its rightful bike.
It only took a month so that is quick for here.
Then we have two trailers for the bikes we use around the yard as utility trailers. But only one bike with a hitch to move them. The boys love helping when its riding a bike.
So the daddy/son tandem got a reciever hitch installed under the rear rack . Now I can haul them both on yard waste or store runs too.
Yeah, its all junk but we like cheap fun.
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Strik, how is the virus affecting life in your area. Are you on lock down, business as usual or somewhere in between?
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I am working as are most that have no safety net. Schools and churches are no go and shopping is the same save for a " safe distance " thing being enforced, some.
Home schooling via Facebook and other media had been put in place too.
Colima was in vitals only shutdown as was Mex City but hungry people without income went and reopened their shops out of need. Life is returning to a new form of normal.
The government is allowing it out of uncommon sense.
The gov is kicking up hospitals ( usually sub par at best) to have more capacity for the crisis and have suspended many non vital procedures until further notice. So no boob jobs or face lifts for a bit.
But more oxygen tents and bigger respitory wards. Thats a positive change.
Where I was today it was like no crisis existed. It was refreshing. We went out to a ranch to install a 3 point lift on an old Ford 6600 and there was nothing out of place for any normal day. No masks and no talk of it at all.
Nice. The news fear mongering is constant otherwise.
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When we go camping it never fails. We leave Friday afternoon and my ass ends up fumbling around in the dark trying to unhook and set up camp. This is a problem no longer.
Ordered a couple of 3” LED Pods in Defused pattern from Armored Lighting. I Wired them up to one of the factory Auxiliary Switches and I’m pretty happy with the result. Got plenty of light exactly where I need it and the factory aux switch made the install clean. Well worth the $100 if you’ve ever set up a camper or trailered a boat in the dark.
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That really helps. Nice job.
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I am working as are most that have no safety net. Schools and churches are no go and shopping is the same save for a " safe distance " thing being enforced, some.
Home schooling via Facebook and other media had been put in place too.
Colima was in vitals only shutdown as was Mex City but hungry people without income went and reopened their shops out of need. Life is returning to a new form of normal.
The government is allowing it out of uncommon sense.
The gov is kicking up hospitals ( usually sub par at best) to have more capacity for the crisis and have suspended many non vital procedures until further notice. So no boob jobs or face lifts for a bit.
But more oxygen tents and bigger respitory wards. Thats a positive change.
Where I was today it was like no crisis existed. It was refreshing. We went out to a ranch to install a 3 point lift on an old Ford 6600 and there was nothing out of place for any normal day. No masks and no talk of it at all.
Nice. The news fear mongering is constant otherwise.
Good luck Brian! Best to you and the family. Living off the beaten path a bit at this critical time is an asset.
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That really helps. Nice job.
+1 -- great idea!
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When we go camping it never fails. We leave Friday afternoon and my ass ends up fumbling around in the dark trying to unhook and set up camp. This is a problem no longer.
Ordered a couple of 3” LED Pods in Defused pattern from Armored Lighting. I Wired them up to one of the factory Auxiliary Switches and I’m pretty happy with the result. Got plenty of light exactly where I need it and the factory aux switch made the install clean. Well worth the $100 if you’ve ever set up a camper or trailered a boat in the dark.
Let me know how they hold up I'm looking to put flush mount ones in my bumper.
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When we go camping it never fails. We leave Friday afternoon and my ass ends up fumbling around in the dark trying to unhook and set up camp. This is a problem no longer.
Ordered a couple of 3” LED Pods in Defused pattern from Armored Lighting. I Wired them up to one of the factory Auxiliary Switches and I’m pretty happy with the result. Got plenty of light exactly where I need it and the factory aux switch made the install clean. Well worth the $100 if you’ve ever set up a camper or trailered a boat in the dark.
Let me know how they hold up I'm looking to put flush mount ones in my bumper.
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I wanted the flush mount at first, but I talked myself out of them. They definitely look the nicest, but I was concerned about adjustability and all the other shit that probably wouldn’t have mattered in the end.
I will say this. The Armored lights are very nice quality. Good heft about them, Cree bulbs, lifetime warranty. From what I read, the are actually the exact same light that Black Oak is selling for twice the price.
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When we go camping it never fails. We leave Friday afternoon and my ass ends up fumbling around in the dark trying to unhook and set up camp. This is a problem no longer.
Ordered a couple of 3” LED Pods in Defused pattern from Armored Lighting. I Wired them up to one of the factory Auxiliary Switches and I’m pretty happy with the result. Got plenty of light exactly where I need it and the factory aux switch made the install clean. Well worth the $100 if you’ve ever set up a camper or trailered a boat in the dark.
Let me know how they hold up I'm looking to put flush mount ones in my bumper.
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I wanted the flush mount at first, but I talked myself out of them. They definitely look the nicest, but I was concerned about adjustability and all the other shit that probably wouldn’t have mattered in the end.
I will say this. The Armored lights are very nice quality. Good heft about them, Cree bulbs, lifetime warranty. From what I read, the are actually the exact same light that Black Oak is selling for twice the price.
They look like quality products. The flush mount set is also $75 cheaper then Rigid version.
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Need to tackle the LP gas BBQ grill tomorrow, to get it ready for grilling season. Need to replace some grates, ignitors, top plates, and fabricate a new metal rail for holding the burners. Also have to grind some rust spots, prime, and paint. Hopefully it will last until we're ready to move next year. At that point it goes to the recycling center.
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Revisited a project from a few years ago I haven't gotten around to finishing. This is the downfeed cylinder off an Ellis 1600 bandsaw. THe whole saw should have gone in the scrap bin but I was dumb enough to put my hands on it. Now I need it and the other saw I have isn't cutting it. A replacement cylinder was weeks out and $300, so I had nothing to lose on the old one. The fittings were smeared off and the tube full of rust. Sil-fos'd a couple random fittings on and cobbled together a flow control out of the junk drawer. Emery flappered the tube. It has a leather cup seal on the bottom that I was able to save. Two o-rings at the top gland. Seems to hold. Now on to the gearbox and other parts.
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Welded up and patched a gas BBQ grill chassis and installed new grates, ingnitors, burner covers, and racks. Painted the chassis and hopefully we’re good to go for a few more grilling seasons on this old Kenmore grill.
Not an exciting project, but at least one more thing off the “honey do!” list.
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Hauled the last of the 2 cords of wood we bought in December up to the rack in the garage. I still have a good amount of old wood so we are good. Storm coming in Sunday with plenty of moisture and we may just get a dusting of snow by Tuesday. Of course with the last storm we were supposed to get an inch or so and we got a foot of snow.
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My son and I are getting some exercise since the range is closed.
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I practiced my social separation skills. between the cool front and drizzling rain, I stayed in most of the day. went out just long enough to feed, pick asparagus in the garden and grill some steaks. we're probably 12in below normal rainfall....let it rain :dance:
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It was cold today and aside from taking the dog for a walk, we spent the time inside. Tomorrow it'll be in the high 60s and am looking forward to some time in the shop and in the backyard.
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As long as I don't have to shovel snow to get to the shop for the next few days I am good. I will be happy to get a good soaking rain but just one shower when I drove to the mailbox to check the mail so far.
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As long as I don't have to shovel snow to get to the shop for the next few days I am good. I will be happy to get a good soaking rain but just one shower when I drove to the mailbox to check the mail so far.
There's that word -- "snow"! Glad we had a mild winter here in the Mid-Atlantic. Hope you have some luck with the weather DN.
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Yard work with my boy. Been stuck inside doing floors and such. Was great to be outside all day!
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My one day weekend had roof sealing, shop cleaning and half a dozen odd small jobs.
The most important was honoring the memory of our last housecat. My son thought this was appropriate.
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Did an upgrade of sorts on my mop and bucket.
Did some mopping the other day and noticed (again) the back flexing. I just have fear at the back of the bucket will give way when full of dirty water and then spill it all over. And I won't be able to mop it up because the buckets broken!
Only paid $5 for the squeege and bucket, so if I destroyed it no loss. Took some PVC fittings and made some "foot" extensions to mount on the bottom edge of the squeege so when you lean on the handle you're pressing against the bottom - so it reduces the flexing of the back. Nothing big and fancy but needed to be done. And I have the time, now. :91:
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Got my federal refund today, and already spent most of it :a102:
Had to replace my cellphone because it up and decided it no longer wanted to charge :38:
That's $200 gone :106:
Then I bought a cheap 8'x6' steel shed at HD which cost me $307 out the door.
It's the same model me and my brother put together for my grandmother last summer , and she played less than $200 for it :38:
Should be worth it to make some room around here having a place to put boxes and stuff.
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Now comes the hard part.
Working on clearing out a pile of junk, and mowing / weeding so I can get the ground level where the shed is gonna go.
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Man this would be so much easier with a tiller, hell I don't care if it was an old school manual push " roto tiller "
Oh well, I'll get it done so the fun part of assembling the shed can start hopefully by next week.
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Fired up the Lincoln welder today after cleaning it and repairing the leads and it is good to go. Have to take it to my sister's house tomorrow to weld some angle iron framing for pavers.
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End of week three of working from home. Just finished having Friday night drinks with my team via Skype (because tomorrow is Good Friday and a public holiday). Now preparing for four days off without being allowed off the property except to go to the supermarket. My plan is ...
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Working on a 32” diameter stack damper for a 1200 hp boiler (roughly 50 million BTUs/hr)
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Looks good Platty.
Is 1200 hp small, big or average for what you work on?
The biggest pressure washer I have worked on is about 1 million btu and most are 450,000 btu or less
50 million btu is a whole lot of energy to me.
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On the larger size of average, we work on bigger, but most are in the 400-1000 hp range
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Cool project Jack - thanks for taking the time to post.
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Great looking work as always Jack. You must have some good steel suppliers near you.
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Looks good. I see your putting the social isolation to good use. Working from home. :bravo_2:
All I've been doing is spending money. not making any.
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Got all the green stuff out and am down to just the dirt.
Its gonna rain so I can't do much else, but I took a line level and yardstick to measure and I've got a 5 inch difference to make up.
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I was supposed to go weld something at my sister's but it rained all morning. :c002:
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back at it today
1 - bearing support mounted
2 - shaft holes drilled
3 - drilling jig
4 - jig in position
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Mowed the yard. I could get used to this working 2 1/2 days a week. kinda like semi-retired. :93:
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Got this re-man installed and initial fire up. Since the whole Covid-19 situation has us a bit slow boss gave us tomorrow off. So Monday I'll top off fluids and get it up to temp.
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After some trial and error, I think I finally got the right mix to spray brushing lacquer through my gun and get acceptable results.
4 oz. Acetone
8 oz. Lacquer Thinner
12oz. Brushing Lacquer
20 PSI Spray Pressure
1.5 mm tip
Near wide open fluid control
50-60% fan control
I started out using a reversed acetone/thinner ratio, but it seemed like my coats were too thin and it was more difficult to see where I’d sprayed. I may try 25% Acetone, 25% Thinner, and 50% Lacquer in the future, but for this mix is working well for now. 3 coats of Semi-Gloss looks great on doors & trim.
I did 4 doors and 20 pieces of trim in about 30 minutes per coat and it’s pretty much flawless. I’ll never brush any quantity of it again.
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Welp. after starting a boiler in a plant that manufactures between 8-12 million beer cans a day, on Monday and Tuesday, I went back to work on the stack damper, today.
I got the bearings installed, installed the shafts and started the blade set up
5 new movie serials arrived Monday
1 - The Purple Monster
2 - Secret Service in Darkest Africa (aka Manhunt in the African Jungle)
3 - Zombies of the Stratosphere
4 - King of the Congo
5 - G-Men vs the Black Dragons
Pictures
1 - bearings installed drive end
2 - bearings installed linkage
3 - shafting installed
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Finished assembling my cheap 8'x6' shed.
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Got bored and decided to " personalize " the shed.
It didn't turn out that great, but I dont care.
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Nothing I did nothing today. Sam and I watched TV and napped.
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start the rehab on a small no name machinist chest. pics to follow. middle of the afternoon I got a call from an elderly guy who I run cows with. Seems the neighbor had some cows get into our place and he chased them out with a 4 wheeler. :38: Went down and found our cows scattered all over the place. Ran thru the fence and out in the road and one had a broken leg. The idiot neighbors cows were all locked up in our pens. made it really easy for the sherrif dept. to figure out what happened. Gonna be an expensive afternoon for him. Some people shouldn't own animals. :38:
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Forgot the picture
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Got a little bit embarrassed today. I picked up 2 pre-hung solid wood interior doors from HD. Put them in the truck and account of a short bed with a toolbox, they were propped up with maybe a foot At best sticking over the tailgate. I’ve hauled shit this way forever, wasn’t going far, didn’t strap it down, and the way they were loaded gave me no pause for concern whatsoever.
There was a fairly stout wind out, doing 55 mph, and when a semi passed me it straight up lifted the top door out of the truck and shattered it on the road behind me. Watched it happen in the rear view. Luckily the nearest car was plenty far enough behind me to stop.
I’d have never believed something like that would happen. They’ve got to weight 80 lbs. a piece. A $239 lesson learned. I‘d go as far as calling it an anomaly. Thankfully no one was hurt, no vehicles were damaged, and I had the money to replace it.
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Sorry to hear that Travis and thankfully nobody got hurt. I secure everything I load in the truck. Some people think I tend to overdo securing loads but I have never lost anything on the road. Hauling flatbed loads of all types for years makes it a habit for me.
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Nothing today raining, probably work on the wife's RC truck. Saturday change the oil, rotated the tires on the truck. Washed the new car, washed my wife's car. Lately been using an electric leaf blower to dry the cars... works pretty good.
The new car has Michelin cup tires, manufacture say 28 psi, inquiring minds wanting to know. Check the pressure hmm 38 psi, go to the door jam, 33 psi. So opted for that, will watch the wear.
Then short happy clean car run, returned mowed and edged the yard
Great day
Pep
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Okay, so this happened two years ago, but like conductor mentioned it must have been an anomaly. My last trailer load when we moved from Florida to the Missouri Ozarks I was pulling my 16 foot cargo trailer with my 150. I had pulled this trailer over 40,000 miles over about 10 years without any problem. Stopped for a biscuit early in the morning, when leaving had to cross the middle of a four lane and it had a dip in it. Wife said "better step on it, a truck is coming" and I did. Then there was this terrible scraping sound and I realized the trailer had come loose. Chains held and it was sliding along on the skid, only damage was to the truck, the trailer ran into the bumper when I stopped. I had a lock in the hitch, so this should not have happened, but I figure the torque from the dip must have forced it off the ball. Jacked it up and put it back on the ball and went another 800 miles. Since that time I have pulled the trailer another 2000+ miles without any problems. :c002:
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Been working on my 90 degree offset 1/4" drive adaptor. I'd like to make it at least 12-15 inches long - figure if I'm gonna use it to remove screws in tight areas it outta be longer than any ratchet combo or extra long ratcheting box wrench I could use. Finally got the hex to square part figured out. Now I've gotta see what kind of 1/4" long extension I can get and then make a sleeve to hold the end to.
I'm currently thinking PVC or aluminum tube to keep the extended weight down. I'll be sure to post some pics if I ever get the thing to work.
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basically the damper is done, a little bit of motor bracket fabrication and the spray bomb job (minion work). With Norm's invaluable help, blades are fitted, all weld together, linkage done, drive arm mounted.
1 - linkage side
2 - drive side
3 - closed
4 - open
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Nice work on that one. how many hours do you figure for that?
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started on this one yesterday. no name machinist chest I picked up at an estate sale for cheap. Planning on putting my gun cleaning gear in it. free up 3 ammo cans.
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I got this far today.
Don't know why the pics come out sideways? :38:
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That's a really nice chest.
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basically the damper is done, a little bit of motor bracket fabrication and the spray bomb job (minion work). With Norm's invaluable help, blades are fitted, all weld together, linkage done, drive arm mounted.
1 - linkage side
2 - drive side
3 - closed
4 - open
Amazing what comes out of the Machine closet . How do you move that as you build. Have not spotted an engine hoist, sky hook ?
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Scrubbing all my gutters and trim paint in prep for freshening that up. I am working on the back of the house which doesn't get direct sunlight, so I don't really need to deal with the major parts. But someone in the past did a complete hack job on the paint, so I am cleaning up various message that have been there for years. Things like having multiple shades of white on the same piece of trim, paint smeared on windows and so on.
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Went off the property for the sixth time since lockdown started thirty days ago for flu vaccine. When my GP's surgery rang me to come and get a few flu shot they said don't come in we're doing them from a tent outside on the car park, just turn up. I turned up, rolled the window down, pulled up my sleeve, and she stabbed me without even getting out of the ute.
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Also ordered a new tee shirt.
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What's the wet spot in the rear ............ no bathroom ? :lol_hitting:
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We sheared off yet another 1" breaker bar on a 3-1/8" nut on a hydraulic. The socket was sent out to be resized for a 1.5" breaker bar.
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We sheared off yet another 1" breaker bar on a 3-1/8" nut on a hydraulic. The socket was sent out to be resized for a 1.5" breaker bar.
I used to have a torque multiplier that would have handled that
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We sheared off yet another 1" breaker bar on a 3-1/8" nut on a hydraulic. The socket was sent out to be resized for a 1.5" breaker bar.
Wow! Don't see that too often. You guys must really have some tough old equipment to break those 1" bars like that.
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This little toy did the trick. The old Williams socket now needs a bigger breaker bar.
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This little toy did the trick. The old Williams socket now needs a bigger breaker bar.
No heat involved? Impressive. Usually end up burning/melting this nylock nuts off
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Today is Earth Day. To celebrate I spent the entire day on Earth.
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This little toy did the trick. The old Williams socket now needs a bigger breaker bar.
No heat involved? Impressive. Usually end up burning/melting this nylock nuts off
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Just 600 lbs of monkey on a 12' pipe with the ram pinned into a steel fixture. We have only broken the fixture twice since 2006.
It has gone as far as lifting another tractor with a cable winch off the end of a 15' pipe.
The bolt loosened sounding like a rifle shot as the dead weight tractor crashed down.
Scary as hell when you have no idea what is going to give first.
You need a 1.5" drive breaker bar about 4' long and lots of heavy pipe. Oh, a selection of sizes in sockets too. Fatass monkeys to help just come with any shop.
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Today is Earth Day. To celebrate I spent the entire day on Earth.
Just glad it wasn't Uranus day, cause we'd all know where you'd be! :D
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Well done! :D I almost lost my iced tea/lemonade I was drinking.
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Got the little chest primed today, maybe have some color on it this weekend.
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Hung 3 doors, and put up a bunch of trim. Taught my daughters little boyfriend about crown molding.
Got pissed at my Milwaukee 2604. I dropped it off a ladder a couple months ago and it became prone to not always working when the trigger was pulled. So, In a moment of frustration, I ordered a fancy new 2804. After dinner I took the old one apart and fixed it. Wife started shaming me because now I don’t “NEED” another drill, but “need” is such a subjective term.
Funny thing though. When I offered to pull up our Amazon order history and see who had ordered how much in the past 6 months we started talking about paint colors and shit.
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Playing electrical tech the last days putting head/work lamps on a Cat 426. The marker lights and strobe dome are being finished up. Once on the roof and spaghettied in we can do the switches in the dash.
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Mostly nothing of note.
I had to clean and relube the Wright 2426 because I went to use it and realized I had dropped it in the dirt a couple times when assembling my shed.
I have still been procrastinating on putting the floor in, the floor frame kit was an easy 9 pieces that took a couple minutes to drop in.
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I put on the right electrical tech hat it seems. Lights front and rear, corner markers on the cab roof and a totally boring stock looking dash.
The light was bad for picture taking but these worked.
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Today is Earth Day. To celebrate I spent the entire day on Earth.
Jaf............ your a nut.
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its red.
And its still sideways :38: :38: WTH. it looks right on the laptop, held the phone up correctly???
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We washed the van and mowed (and watered :)) ) the lawn ..
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As my grandfather told me, “ wherever you be, let your pee run free”
I bet mother was so proud, like father, like son.....
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Jaf............ your a nut.
With fine threads.
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I buzzed all my hair off yesterday, I've been thinking about it for 2 weeks. The wife was not hip on that idea.
I had a normal haircut, just above the ears, but when it was starting to look shaggy, I though why not buzz it all off? We're talking down to the scalp, only a razor protects me from bare skin. Its taking some time to get used to it, but I thought why, not? It'l grow back.
Corona cut!
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When I made my tandem bikes cost on parts was kept to an absolute minimum. That resulted in some rusty and tweaked rims being used. This morning I trued one, only breaking four spokes. The exact number of spares left in my junk pile.
The rear rim was far better and none broke. Changed off a wonky tire for a slightly better one and we set out to check it. My son says it wobbles far less and is easy to control now.
The front wheel in its entirety on the bigger tandem is junk. Axle bearings to tire. No fantasy or skill will fix that. A new 24" wheel has been ordered. Tire and all new.
I have had odd hobbies but building ridiculous bikes from junk is probably the most fun.
Got the weed whip out and hit the small not yellow patch of lawn, put the headboard on the new bedframe finally .
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If you cannot piss of the front porch its time to move!!!! :c029:
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painted the drawers today. should be about done with this one.
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not too bad, still need a few little things and gotta figure out what to do with the front cover. the original was all jacked up. probably make another one
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Nice work as that looks good.
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I have had odd hobbies but building ridiculous bikes from junk is probably the most fun.
I can identify with that to some degree. I enjoy refurbing old tools. It doesn't make economic sense because I will have more time in them then I can sell them for and I certainly don't lack unprocessed inventory to clean, price and display, but you get a sense of satisfaction from saving something from the scrap pile.
Prime example yesterday. Have a 40 oz ball peen that really feels good in the hand. But, the wedge is gone and someone had taken 2 flat washers and pounded them into the handle to secure the head. Now I had messed with this hammer before and couldn't get the washers out and put it in the go to auction pile. Saw it yesterday, picked it up and thought, man this hammer feels good. Noticed the washers and said crap. Well, give it one more shot. 10 minutes later, had the washers out. Now it goes home where I have my hammer wedge collection to be fitted with a proper wedge, then I can put a $10 price tag on it and hopefully sell it. Have a least half an hour in it if not more but darn it feels good in the hand :))
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I'm the same way, Phil. Just rubs me the wrong way to throw something in the trash or scrap bin if it can refurbed or repaired. Usually not worth it from a financial or time standpoint, but the personal satisfaction alot of times is immeasurable. If I ever start to waver and toss away more things I watch some of the Youtube guys and get motivated to start fixing things up again.
Especially with modded tools. A buddy of mine has said I come up with solutions to problems that don't exist, but, whatever. :lol_hitting:
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I put all modded tools I get into a box. Wrenches bent or cut, sockets shaved down, homemade crowsfeet etc. $1 a piece on most. Had a regular come in the other day looking for an angle wrench and I didn't have the size he needed except in a set. Grabbed a cheap 7/16's and asked me to fire up the torch and bend it (which I would have done) but I said lets look in the modded box. 2 seconds in and he had the wrench he needed plus another. Came back later and bought a few more. I kidded him and said it's his new favorite box. He agreed.
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I buzzed all my hair off yesterday, I've been thinking about it for 2 weeks. The wife was not hip on that idea.
I had a normal haircut, just above the ears, but when it was starting to look shaggy, I though why not buzz it all off? We're talking down to the scalp, only a razor protects me from bare skin. Its taking some time to get used to it, but I thought why, not? It'l grow back.
Corona cut!
Been doing that every few weeks for years, couple months ago the boss asked me where I get my hair cut.
I told him I'm not paying sole guy $10 to do what I can do myself at home in just a few minutes.
Oh and today I finally got around to cutting the scrap chip board for the floor in my shed.
I'll maybe finish installing it today then tomorrow I'll think about filling the thing with some of the junk that's cluttering the place up.
Maybe I'll finally have a permanent place to put my airgun cabinet.
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I'm the same way, Phil. Just rubs me the wrong way to throw something in the trash or scrap bin if it can refurbed or repaired. Usually not worth it from a financial or time standpoint, but the personal satisfaction alot of times is immeasurable. If I ever start to waver and toss away more things I watch some of the Youtube guys and get motivated to start fixing things up again.
Especially with modded tools. A buddy of mine has said I come up with solutions to problems that don't exist, but, whatever. :lol_hitting:
It makes financial sense to me if I can have some fun and have an American made tool for less than the cost of a Harbor freight import.
A few years ago I brought my go box with me to fix something for my cousin and he looked at my tools and was amused by how old all my tools were he said " all your tools are hella old, that's so boss " .
That means cool I guess :smiley_confused1:
I just know they're better and less expensive than most of what I can afford today.
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I'm in the save it if you can camp as well. It is not about the money it's about wasting something that is still useful.
Just seems wrong to toss stuff with life still in it.
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I'm in the save it if you can camp as well. It is not about the money it's about wasting something that is still useful.
Just seems wrong to toss stuff with life still in it.
Do you mind explaining that to my wife. ::)
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Be happy to.
Just as soon as I'm done explaining it mine.
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Mexico has an entire culture of using stuff up and repairing the unfixable. It can go into unsafe territory but most times it just re-voids the warranty of stuff long out of warranty.
I brought home more free junk tonight to reassemble into a new bike wheel for my next project. No fun in buying a pre made wheel. Just have to get new spokes soon. Can't recycle those.
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My grandfather went through the depression saved everything.
My dad inherited that trait...and saves everything.
I don't save as much but I can definitely be pack rat like them.
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Just watched 3 C-130's fly by the house. The NV Air Guard are honoring first responders and healthcare workers with flybys of our regional hospitals including a few in CA at Tahoe area. New York and New Jersey got the Thunderbirds and Blue Angels and we got the High Rollers.
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Working on this turd the last few days....
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Muddy, I notice the blocks under the forklift. what do y'all use to lift one up with? They seem way too close to the floor for a regular jack.
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When you're done with that we have a trans to stuff back into a late model JD backhoe. You should be well practiced with the magic four letter words for that.
I'll buy the tacos but no beers sales allowed lately. Its all crap beer anyway,
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Got the floor in yesterday, and filled it with junk today.
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I've still got a bunch of junk to store in it, but ( minus the bikes) everything in it needs to eventually be taken to goodwill when they're open.
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Made another little lighting upgrade to my truck. No more flashlights and lighters to find shit in the bed of the truck. $35 and under 2 hours install. I have no idea why I didn’t do this years ago. Wired up to the factory upfitter switches for a super clean install. All trucks should come with pre wired AUX switches.
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F$&king sideways pictures :33:
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Muddy, I notice the blocks under the forklift. what do y'all use to lift one up with? They seem way too close to the floor for a regular jack.
To lift them up and put them on blocks we use a bigger forklift.
We also have low clearance jacks fir quick jobs.
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Drove the 40 miles east around the mountains to my sister's house to finish welding the angle iron frame for pavers by the house. If they would put a tunnel through the mountain I would only have to go about 10-12 miles. There is a dirt road behind our house that goes over the mountains and comes out just north of her house but it takes longer than the 40 mile drive.
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One of the hood hatches on the Caterpillar 426 backhoe was missing a latch. No budget and yellow parts cost a firstborn, so we adapted one from a 1970 Cat 951 crawler. Giving it that cool retro look on a tight budget. The original type can be padlocked.
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When you're done with that we have a trans to stuff back into a late model JD backhoe. You should be well practiced with the magic four letter words for that.
I'll buy the tacos but no beers sales allowed lately. Its all crap beer anyway,
Warm up the tortillas, I'll bring the beer!
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I picked up this old Schwinn American over the weekend ($50) and started to get her up and rolling. Pulled off the sissy bar, banana seat and ape-hangers, put some things that look a little more age appropriate (its a '62) and took it for a spin around the block.
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Forgot to get pics of it with the new seat, and the bars are a loaner from my Hercules project. I can't hit the used bicycle parts place until this whole idiocy is over, but I can put some things together to get going.
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That Schwinn is in pretty good shape for it's age. I always thought the sissy bar and banana seat are more appropriate on the Sting Ray.
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My new tires for the Heavy Duti are due to arrive on Friday. The whitewalls I bought 20 years ago have dried up to a crisp with not even a mile on them.
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Its a little more beat up than it looks in the pic, but here are some better ones
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Its western Oregon, everything has a layer of rust. I went to look at it as a parts bike, but it was much more complete than I thought. Now I can't bare to break it up. It was named American because everything on it is made in the US, with nothing made in Europe on it. The guy I bought it from used it as a bar hopper until the tires stopped holding air. Seem fine to me.
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Electro-welded steel frame. Heavy but bullet-proof.
As I recall back in the day Schwinn didn't only make their own bike frames - they made the tubes! They bought plate steel, bent them into 3 equal sections around a mandrel, then welded the strips together to make the tubes. Then they cut and fit the tubes to make the frames. I don't know when they ceased all-American production but I'm thinking early 1970's. That's when the French and Swiss parts began appearing on their bikes, with the ever present "Schwinn Approved" label. So I'm thinking your bike is 60's.
there's a website somewhere that allows you to date Schwinn frames by the serial number on them.
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Ironically, my wife came home with this bike last week. From what I can tell it’s early 60’s. I have no idea why she wanted it.
Where’s Mike Vango When you need him.
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There should be a serial number on the left rear drop-out (where the rear axel goes in) and B-man is right, there is a website somewhere that will help you date it from that. Cool little bike though!
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Gotta love the banana seat! :D
Here's the site I was thinking of.
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/allday101/SchwinnCodes1.html
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I picked up this old Schwinn American over the weekend ($50) and started to get her up and rolling. Pulled off the sissy bar, banana seat and ape-hangers, put some things that look a little more age appropriate (its a '62) and took it for a spin around the block.
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Forgot to get pics of it with the new seat, and the bars are a loaner from my Hercules project. I can't hit the used bicycle parts place until this whole idiocy is over, but I can put some things together to get going.
Now that's a bicycle right there, love the color too.
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Ironically, my wife came home with this bike last week. From what I can tell it’s early 60’s. I have no idea why she wanted it.
Where’s Mike Vango When you need him.
Most likely down by the river, living in his van, got married wife took his key board??? :lol_hitting:
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Mowed the lawn. Cleaned and added pavers around the fire pit. Transplanted some plsnts from the back of the house to the front.
Now relaxing drinking beer, beautiful night think I'll enjoy a cigar later.
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A very light day at work and payday was nice. Got home and pulled the drive train off my tandem bike and refit it to a higher gear ratio and moved the timing chain to the left side. Made the chain tensioner easy to fit and smoothed out the entire.
I can now go faster than grandma and her walker. I can keep up with a kid on a bmx bike now! For a block or so.
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Stores are starting to open up grabbed some red felt for the redone box. pimpin it up some.
Also scored a big portacool fan for the shop. local oilfield companies cleaning up and shutting down. :03:
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I fabricated some thin oak facing for my Pony wood vice. They protect woodworking project, not the vice. Seems its been sitting on my workbench for at least 5 years (according to the wood receipt from a scrap hardwood place).
Now, on to the Wilton version....
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I have been down for about two months starting with a UTI and a few days in the hospital. Then a kidney doc rearranged my drugs and caused some problem. Weight climbed drastically and I began swelling in the legs to the point that I developed open sores. My cardiologist has straightened it all out and I am getting better every day.
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I have been down for about two months starting with a UTI and a few days in the hospital. Then a kidney doc rearranged my drugs and caused some problem. Weight climbed drastically and I began swelling in the legs to the point that I developed open sores. My cardiologist has straightened it all out and I am getting better every day.
Best of luck to you Noel -- Prayers for a quick recovery.
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2 months, you missed the quarantine. :lol_hitting:
Hope everything works out ok for you.
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Glad to hear you are on the mend Pawpa. That ordeal does not sound like it was much fun.
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Sounds like a rough period for you. Glad you are feeling better Papaw.
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Papaw, good to hear of your recovery.
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Glad to hear you're on the mend, Pawpaw.
Been back working regular days, so my trailer project has gotten waylaid. It poured rain yesterday and this morning, but I got out about 2PM when the sun came out. I was able to get a solid 4 hrs of making noise and annoying the neighbors with the compressor and trailbazer screaming away. I hacked the old coupler off and got the new chunk stuck on. Still need to fish plate it on the sides.
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Nice job on the trailer hitch, looks great
Pawpaw, glad to hear you are on the mend. Take care of yourself
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Glad you are on the mend pawpaw, hospitals are dangerous places.
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Legs and feet swelling are not good signs. :-\
Glad you're on the mend, Noel. :great:
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Glad to hear you are doing better Noel, not a fun time to be sick.
I couldn't sleep at all last night, and the dog got me up a 5 this morning, so I have just been dragging today.
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Had an interesting weekend. 2:30 a.m. I got a call from a 17 year old kid who’s parents Mrs. Conductor and I are friends with. He and a friend were at a party, got into some moonshine, and were falling down drunk. They were way out in the country and called and ask if I’d come and get them because they were in no shape to drive.
I went and got them and brought them to my house. Mrs. Conductor fixed them up a bed (and a puke bucket), washed their clothes, and even charged their phones. Called their parents and let them know the were here and safe. I didn’t drop dime on them, I know both sets of parents very well and I’m sure they know what was up. I’ll leave the explaining to them.
I’m not sure if the fact they felt comfortable calling me should be flattering or concerning, but either way, I’m glad they did. I lost my best friend to a drunk driving accident, so I don’t care a bit to go pick them up.
In other news: When I was a high school drunk I had to sleep in a field and stroll in the house the next morning getting the look of absolute evil from my mom, in muddy ass clothes after passing out in a field using some story about fishing without a pole to be found or coon hunting without a gun or a dog.
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Good on you for helping the kids out. The world needs more like you. :bravo_2:
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Stand up guy Travis. :great:
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Came across a really good tip for the Bar B Q crowd. I have learned the secret of keeping meat from sticking to the grates. Canola cooking oil
Coat the grates with it, I did it after the heat was up. Side story, have a trailer up for sale.... what does this have to do with grilling and not stick grates..?... getting there LOL
Guy walks up and asks about the trailer, grill is @ 400*. Not wanting to be rude, listening to him for 20 min. When he figured out, was not going to give him the trailer he left.
Thinking I need to re-coat the grates when he leaves. Wife brings the grub, toss it on the grill, forgot to re-coat .... to my surprise that was not needed.
New and improved nonstick grilling brought to you from the Canola cooking oil company, better then motor oil. :-\
Still got the trailer, later today, be flipping me some hamburgers. Thought I'd give a heads up for the chiefs amount us .
Welded up and patched a gas BBQ grill chassis and installed new grates, ingnitors, burner covers, and racks. Painted the chassis and hopefully we’re good to go for a few more grilling seasons on this old Kenmore grill.
Not an exciting project, but at least one more thing off the “honey do!” list.
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I use way oil, the tackifiers keep it on the grates and doesn’t drip off too fast.............. :93:
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I use way oil, the tackifiers keep it on the grates and doesnt drip off too fast.............. :93:
Vactra gives it a unique flavor. :iagree:
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Not sure what I was thinking but I picked this up for free today...
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That has a lots of possibilities. Maybe build a sled for it and make it a puller.
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Not sure what I was thinking but I picked this up for free today...
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You were thinking its free, its a tractor and I got kids :))
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it'll look better in JD green/yellow -- maybe mix it up a bit and go for the CAT theme. Sam's little sister is going to need a ride soon, so you better get after it dad; just to keep peace in the family. --- LOL good luck Tim
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Ok,,,is the pedestal fiberglass or plastic??
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That's great Tim. You can put Sam to work on this one.
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This one will have to be red to keep peace in the wife's side lol
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I took home yet another bike we don't need so I can do a project with my son. He wants to learn to shift a mountain bike.
Tonight we changed a bad tire off and changed the chain. Tomorrow we do an overall check and test drive it.
Or he does, its too small for me.
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I've been working in and around the barn the last 3 days. Gonna pressure wash the owl crap off everything tomorrow. I have to get all the owl pellets cleaned up first. Anybody want a load of barn owl pellets to disect to figure out what it has been eating?
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I've been working in and around the barn the last 3 days. Gonna pressure wash the owl crap off everything tomorrow. I have to get all the owl pellets cleaned up first. Anybody want a load of barn owl pellets to disect to figure out what it has been eating?
Not sure if that would be good compost material or not? I'm glad I'm not cleaning it up but mouse population must be minimal with owls around
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I've been working in and around the barn the last 3 days. Gonna pressure wash the owl crap off everything tomorrow. I have to get all the owl pellets cleaned up first. Anybody want a load of barn owl pellets to disect to figure out what it has been eating?
Not sure if that would be good compost material or not? I'm glad I'm not cleaning it up but mouse population must be minimal with owls around
The pellets are fur and bones as the owls can't digest and crap that stuff so they cough up the pellets. Their crap is a white liquid that can be tough to clean after it dries. No rodents in the barn and the kangaroo rats are the worst as they do tunnels and undermine the aisleway which is just decomposed granite which is like a heavy sand that compacts pretty well while staying soft on top. Only evidence of the rats is a few tails lying around the barn.
On a side note there is people who make good money collecting owl pellets, sterilizing them and making kits containing pellets, forceps and drawings of the skeletons of the animals owls eat. You can soften the pellets with water and carefully pull them apart with the forceps and assemble the skeleton to see what they ate. The wife would kill me if I sterilized pellets in the oven so I could sell them to schools as kits. You can find the kits online.
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Stumbled across some Liquid Wax, can be used in the hot sun, on hot car paint, does not stain plastic trim.
Cleaned the coupe with Windex and a towel, squirting a quarter size spot of the Q-7. The wiping it on, repeating until panel was covered. Let dry and buff. The whole process took 1.5 hour, start to finish....
Results damn good
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Pep,
I’m at the other end of the scale, I’ve never washed a single car I’ve ever owned in my life, that’s what rain is for........ :))
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Doing the car cleaning thing as well today. It's overcast and warm today. Perfect weather for washing, waxing, and polishing the '11 DTS. A good shampoo of the mats and a nice wax will keep it going for another six months.
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Went to a drive thru viewing on Friday. Buddy from high school Dad passed away. He was a fire marshall and 55 year member of the local fire department. The fire department emptied a couple of bays and we were able to drive thru and talk to the family. Elwood was laid out in his casket and were able to see him from our car.
Pretty unique.
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Drive thru viewing sounds like a good idea. adapt, improvise, overcome.
A highschool buddys mom passed a while back we were able to attend the funeral but it was odd going into church with a mask on. Church required everyone to be masked.
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I like the polish so much I did the wife's truck. The full build thread was here in the garage gazette. From scrap to as seen now, the thread was lost. A decent back up would have prevented that.
The last picture is for Uncle Buck, being the inspiration.
Pep
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Pep very nice cars and garage. :93:
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Long story short, I visited a tower. A-T-T tower, the big square type with the black microwave cones on the sides. Fellow we were visiting had the keys, so the visit was legal. Couldnt climb it as it was getting dark. Did go into the control building, all concrete. Most of the equipment was gone, save some big panels of vacuum tubes. What he needed to inspect was ok, then asked if I wanted to see the genererator. Sure, in another room were more control panels. In deeper was a huge stand for the diesel and generator. Temp, oil gauges, big manual controls very large cartridge fuses , just as it was set up. Inside a panel was a certified sticker, date........5-1952!! The engine, Detroit Diesel, 2-71 or 2-53 thereabouts. Output ,,30kilowatts. Unbelieveable, complete, never rained on screaming jimmy, that looks ready to fire up again. Fuel tank is gone, oil looked good, needed a ladder to look in the radiator, so couldnt. Controller above the generator had 15+ snap switches with contacts. Ceiling is one foot of poured concrete. No evidence of water damage anywhere. Time capsule, I think it could be slid out the walk door. Interesting, very interesting
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So what's the scoop on the tower? Decommissioned I assume.
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AT T owns it but is decommissioned, is leased to a private cell company. Am guessing the remaining equipment was writte off long ago, maybe.
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A 30kw Detroit??? :97: how much?? when can I come get it???
That would be a noisy devil and run thru the fuel but man it would run forever.
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Did not let this day off so many sacrificed for us to have go to waste.
Put the window ACs in. Supposed to be in the 80s this week.
Repaired the Plymouth that died on me last week. (Distributor Rotor went bad.) Mowed the lawn.
Then cooked steaks over the fire and enjoyed the evening with my family.....until Mandy went through her chair :))
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Sure hope you didn't chuckle with the chair mishap.
I have broken one of those myself. I have gone back to using the old school folding lawn chair. While not as convenient to travel with, they are more comfortable
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Great pics Tim -- thanks for sharing a bit of the family festivities. As far as the chair incident is concerned, it seems that those Chinese canvas folder chairs last a few seasons and then they succumb to "crashed butt" syndrome -- LOL
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Spent about 6 hrs Fixing Or Repairing Daily on the old lumber wagon. Some arsehole before me had bent and kinked the transmission cooler lines to get them out of the way to do something and they were leaking. Got the replacement lines form some stealership off ebay. The design has changed to include a rubber section for easier, but not easy installation.
Dumped the fluid as well. Oil was pretty burnt smelling, probably from not making it through the cooler due to the butchered lines. Grew my ulcer a little as a few small metallic "pebbles" came out and there was some crap on the bottom of the case. Guess I'll just wait until it schits the bed to find out where the pieces came from. It's not in the cards to open that can of worms right now, and it'll cost a reman tranny either way. Hopefully it just keeps ticking along for umpteen hundred thousand miles.
Pulled the shifter to refill oil. Glad I did, as the breather was plugged solid with 20 yrs of dust and dirt. Just shy of 6 qts of Schaeffers All Trans Synthetic ATF. Never used it before, but I've always had good results with Schaffers products. It's about like water, but meets Mercon V as mother furd specs. Not horrible priced at $37/gal.
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Long story short, I visited a tower. A-T-T tower, the big square type with the black microwave cones on the sides. Fellow we were visiting had the keys, so the visit was legal. Couldnt climb it as it was getting dark. Did go into the control building, all concrete. Most of the equipment was gone, save some big panels of vacuum tubes. What he needed to inspect was ok, then asked if I wanted to see the genererator. Sure, in another room were more control panels. In deeper was a huge stand for the diesel and generator. Temp, oil gauges, big manual controls very large cartridge fuses , just as it was set up. Inside a panel was a certified sticker, date........5-1952!! The engine, Detroit Diesel, 2-71 or 2-53 thereabouts. Output ,,30kilowatts. Unbelieveable, complete, never rained on screaming jimmy, that looks ready to fire up again. Fuel tank is gone, oil looked good, needed a ladder to look in the radiator, so couldnt. Controller above the generator had 15+ snap switches with contacts. Ceiling is one foot of poured concrete. No evidence of water damage anywhere. Time capsule, I think it could be slid out the walk door. Interesting, very interesting
AT and T built shit to last and always ready to go. If you did tank work for them you had to use whats known as Rob Roy conduit. Galvanized pipe with a plastic coating on the outside and on the inside. Stuff never rots out, doesn't matter what its buried in.
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Will have to look up Rob Roy conduit. We spec everything out for plastibond. but had one contractor set some fiberglass conduit. its been out in the south Tx sun for 10+ yrs and no degradation. Not sure how it would hold up underground tho
And it looks like Rob Roy makes plastibond. I didn't know that
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AT and T built shit to last and always ready to go. <snip>
When the phone company was ATT the model was different. They sold almost no equipment they leased a service and whatever equipment was needed to provide that. Because they owned it all cost of ownership was more important than cost of acquisition so they could spend on the front end.
The original CO in downtown LA when I toured it still used the original cloth covered wire cables coming into the building. At that time some of it was over 100 years old.
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Fuelled up my ute, currently my only source of transport, for the first time since 18 March!
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Fuelled up my ute, currently my only source of transport, for the first time since 18 March!
How's the price of fuel on that side of the world?
Re-wired the kill switch on the wood splitter today and had a chance to use my new crimpers I got last month. I'm very impressed with the crimp! None of that that mushy feeling as the cheapie pliers slip around and squirt the insulation off. These have little dimples in the top die to keep the insulation in place. Nice solid compression and a tight squeeze around the strands. A joy to use compared to the stamped steel junkers I've always had.
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We are finishing up stuffing a trans back into this thing. Don't ever take this job at any price.
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What's the parts bill up to on that trans? Deere is pretty proud of their parts and I knew a set of clutches ans separators for that was over $3k alone.
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Seven clutches in the box and four were bad. The 4 by 4 clutch was the best off.
We didn't see the parts bill. He told us to get a list and they would fill it.
We have a JCB in the shop and they let the pride shine through too. 15 grand USD for a hydraulic pump, no loose parts available. Through JCB at least. A local supplier found seals for it at 200 usd for six small seals. The owner was thrilled.
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Fuelled up my ute, currently my only source of transport, for the first time since 18 March!
How's the price of fuel on that side of the world?
Unleaded 91 petrol is currently sitting at just under $2 a litre (US$4.60/gal). About $0.96/l of that is tax. Diesel is sitting at just under $1.20/l but is not taxed at the pump. Note that every major supermarket chain offers loyalty schemes that provide fuel discounts so the blue line on the graph is the discounted cost most people pay for fuel.
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Spending most of every weekend at home due to stay at home crap has its advantages. Getting stuff done around home. I have an attached woodshed, with pass thru door into basement. Had home made barn door type doors into it. Might as well have a sieve as a door. Not heated space but cold air pours into mud room because of those doors. Decided to buy 42" insulated fiberglass door. Got it finished up today. Just need to stain clapboards.
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When I lived in cold weather we always kept the woodshed away from the house as vermin and other undesirable critters hung there as the wood cured.
Only brought in what we needed usually in frigid weather later on.
It wasn't really a rule, just what everyone did it seems.
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Installed a big gulp, Roush server is down or shut down for the weekend. So soft tune is temporally on hold .... Monday :dance: can not drive it, would run lean . Oh the agony :41:
LOL
Pep
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Trailed my motorcycle to the shop. Died and wouldn't restart while I was on a ride. Don't hear the fuel pump prime when you toggle the kill switch. Hopefully something simple.
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Hope it something simple, Muddy. They only break when you want to use them.
Got rid of literally a ton of crappy old bricks, broken cinder blocks, and random rocks. Put them on CL free, and had people begging to come get them, and I thought I was going to have to haul them away myself. I guess there's more deranged people out there than me. :lol_hitting:
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The old man was splitting some wood and the splitter decide to tear itself apart, so I airarced the cracked weld out and hot glued it back together. Hadn't run rod in a while, so it was good practice. 6010 root. LoHi two pass cap. Good to go for another few years.
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Worked at 2:30 am, and slept when I got home :NIGHT_1:
That's pretty normal for me, but what's not is the fact that I forgot it was my mom's birthday :-[ :c023:
There weren't any plans anyways will all this virus stuff going on.
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When I lived in cold weather we always kept the woodshed away from the house as vermin and other undesirable critters hung there as the wood cured.
Only brought in what we needed usually in frigid weather later on.
It wasn't really a rule, just what everyone did it seems.
Been burning wood all my life. Not worried about vermin, they run away when you bring wood in. Bugs are an issue but no wood goes into this area until we have had some killing cold weather. I have another area to keep wood until its cold. This shed doesn't get filled like it used to. Its used for emergency wood, big snow storm or ice storm when I can't get wood in. Enough to keep me going for a week or 2. I'm using a heat pump for some of my winter heating now and I'm planning on installing another mini split in downstairs. The long term goal is a 9kw solar ground mount to eliminate most of the wood needs.
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Server is up ........... HP is up ...........
Oh MY what a nice bump ……. RPMs shoot up, firmly pressing a driver in the seat.
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Hand springs
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About 6 years ago, when Olivia Aytch was 10, she painted her handprint on my truck. Today, all three painted their handprints.
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Wow Papaw, that is something special. :bravo_2:
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About 6 years ago, when Olivia Aytch was 10, she painted her handprint on my truck. Today, all three painted their handprints.
Very cool idea!
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Didn't really like Bobcats to begin with....now I hate them.
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Muddy, did that get crispy or is it that dirty?
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Muddy, did that get crispy or is it that dirty?
Just filthy, runs in a scrap yard. Ran something up the only 2" x 2" hole on the hole bottom and punctured a hole in the fuel tank.
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Scrap yards are harsh environments on equipment. I deal with a couple of large ones. They can destroy anything.
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Picked up my bike yesterday. System relay failed. Also replaced the fuel hoses in tank that hade oun holes rubbed in them, common problem.
Full service and state inspection and she's back to her old self!
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Muddy, do y'all charge extra to work on the filthy machines? Way back when I worked the stealership they charged extra when the 4X4 guys blew a trans and didn't clean the mud out from under the truck. Couple 100$ IIRC.
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Had to prune some Mimosa limbs away from the house roof because a storm messed them up a couple days back. There were a couple I couldn't get with the Sawzall....
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Muddy, do y'all charge extra to work on the filthy machines? Way back when I worked the stealership they charged extra when the 4X4 guys blew a trans and didn't clean the mud out from under the truck. Couple 100$ IIRC.
We do with our rentals if their returned filthy.
When I'm making out a quote and the thing is filthy I'll quote washing it so the boss know it's nasty. I don't believe there is a "cleaning" charge, I think out time to clean is just billed in the hrly labor.
Forklifts are a bit different, if your doing something with oil or coolant. It usually needs a bath to get the residual out of the cracks and crevices of the machine.
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Had to prune some Mimosa limbs away from the house roof because a storm messed them up a couple days back. There were a couple I couldn't get with the Sawzall....
Took me a minute :D
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The last few days have been busy. Although most people have gone back to the office, I'm still working from home. Decided to spend my (small) bonus cheque on some RZR parts. The guy that imports a lot of UTV parts, hence the name of his company UTVbits, I've known for nearly twenty years from my 4x4 days. I rang him on Friday lunch time, told him what I wanted, he gave me a very good price, I direct credited payment to his account and he got them on the courier.
Saturday morning I met up with a guy selling a pair of aftermarket seats identical to the ones in my RZR that the frames are broken. These were a good buy as they cost about what the one I currently have in the upholsters being recovered after repairing the frame is going to cost.
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Then headed up the hill to the local motorsport park where our offroad racing club have our short course track. Our club president has some of his earthmoving gear (digger, bulldozer, tractor and scoop) on site doing some modifications. The photo is of the back straight where he has widened and straightened. It is now about 45' wide. He has cut the second hill into the first dip to take the harshness out of it.
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Something you guys probably don't see, a diesel Lexus SUV. 4.5l twin turbo V8.
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Today my parts turned up, rims and axles.
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Cleaned out the boat from a trip to the bay. Ate the last of the crab we caught. Smoked a batch of oysters up fro something different. Going back to work one day tomorrow, then back to the drag of being off for the rest of the week.
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Those look good.
In Covid news, from midnight tonight all restrictions, except border controls will be lifted in New Zealand. They are still asking us to keep track of where we have been in case of another outbreak but otherwise it is back to business as usual.
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Relocated my grandfather's homemade flag pole.
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He fought for our colors of freedom during the 2nd world war and died installing this flag pole which he built to fly those colors in his yard.
It's very shocking to think that none of my dads brothers wanted it.
Sure it's a little bent but that bend occured the day he died installing it and I wouldn't dream of straightening it out.
The tree out front was just a little thing when it was first brought home from my grandparents house and installed in my yard, but it grew much larger than I ever imagined and rather than significantly diminish the shade it offers I decided it was time to relocate that flag pole so it could once again fly a flag.
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Flag looks great flying in the blue sky, nice day captured .
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Flag looks great flying in the blue sky, nice day captured .
Not too hot, nice breeze, not bad.
I just wish this summer would be this nice, but if course there's always August.
I'm just glad we don't have any if that humidity the folks down south have to deal with.
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Went to work at the office today instead of working from home for the first time in nearly twelve weeks.
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Well, it's been a "swapping out the spares" week.
Last weekend, the Mrs said the 30 year old VHS player quit. Swapped it out with a NOS $5 unit I got 2 years ago at a thrift store. Finally got around to replacing the motor ($145) in our older washing machine that quit last year - the new washer seems to be making weird noises. And our 30 year old commercial Magic Chef microwave wouldn't defrost 3 nights ago. So, swapped it out with the 15 year old Sharp I just got operational for $1.
Those are the 3 things - so, I don't want anything else to quit soon! :25:
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Picked up a spare John Deere no.5 sickle mower. Just for parts for one I have had for years. Fellow showed me around his farm place, remnants of his grandfathers and uncles equipment and cars. Going back for a wagon soon.
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Picked up a spare John Deere no.5 sickle mower. Just for parts for one I have had for years. Fellow showed me around his farm place, remnants of his grandfathers and uncles equipment and cars. Going back for a wagon soon.
I could sell you another one.... shipping would kill it though lol
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We're happy for long seasons, short mild winters, and AC.
LOL
Flag looks great flying in the blue sky, nice day captured .
Not too hot, nice breeze, not bad.
I just wish this summer would be this nice, but if course there's always August.
I'm just glad we don't have any if that humidity the folks down south have to deal with.
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Yesterday and the day before- My 98 GMC has been acting up lately. Hard to start, stumbling on idle, and just running rough at low speeds. i had changed the fuel filter and checked all the fluids, etc. before the Covid "Stay at Home " fiasco, but finally took it to a shop I trust. Turned out the coolant temperature sensor was faulty and telling the computer the coolant was 27 degrees !
Yesterday I took it for a 40 mile drive to be sure all codes had cleared, and she ran perfectly !. Took her back to confirm, and all is good now. Then I got the state inspection and registration done.
Happy camper now.
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^^^^^^^^^^Glad you got it fixed the first time and doesn't sound too hateful expensive
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Mulched the front flower beds
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Put a care packaged in the mail.
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This pretty much says it all.
I sent this to one of the project managers I'm working with this morning and got this back "So true. I used to like the Muppet Show as a kid but it's not so enjoyable when you seem to be the special guest every day!"
To top off my day the buckle on my belt broke. I did do a bodgey fix to hold my trousers up.
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This am went over to the place I bought the mower, got the farm wagon. Rubber tires, steel frame, wood box, and hydraulic hoist. The thing had double sideboards, bolted on. 35 - 40 mph constant winds told me to take them off before loading. Winched it onto my car trailer. Stopped for burgers, Got motor oil to service the pickup, the trip home took some gas with the winds, some gusts really knocked my Chevy around. Wagon sitting higher than the cab didnt help. ,,,,,,,tires are about 50 years old. Bias ply, nylon and still holding air, of course I would not want to try them at 60mph.
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I've been fighting a very slow leak on a riding mower rear tire (new tires 30 days ago), it turned out to be a pinhole leak from a thorn. Argh.
Dismounted the tire, patched from inside, and passed the leak test.
Life is but a series of tire leaks if you own round rubber tires.
Daaaummm. I like crawler tractors on steel.
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^^^^^^^^Glad you made the patch work. I used to patch tires when I worked in a gas station in the 70's. You scuff the tire, wipe it clean, apply the glue, light the glue on fire and then apply the patch and roll it with a stitcher wheel. Worked well. I don't think they sell that type of glue anymore and I haven't had luck since. I normally put a tube in small tires and plug the big ones
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I run Slime sealant in my old tires on the mower. I also have it in a front tire on the tractor as it got a slow leak and it has held air for well over a year now. I won't use it on vehicle tires though.
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I've patched more tires and tubes in my life to reach 1,000 patches or more. From bike tires from scads of decades from riding (I keep an ample supply of Tip Top brand patches on hand), to stocking 4 sizes of round patches for car/truck/tractor tires (all for my own fleet), and have collected all the proper Ken Tool and other assorted tire tools to complement my Coats Tireman Super Twin air machine (for home use of course). :)
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With the Covid thing happening, we’ve all been taking vacations at home this year , and local companies that have relied on the overseas tourists have been offering some great deals to us locals.... we’ve escaped work at home for the last few days ..... here’s a pic or 3 to date.......(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200619/02c9fd2819e5b2f2f8d757886c0d6bdb.jpg)
Took a flight up to the top of Franz Josef Glacier
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Lake Matheson
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Jackson Bay , South Westland .
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Like the old ad said "Don't see the world until you've seen the country"
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Mowed the grass then played with my new freebie. Was out front with a free sign on it. So I loaded it up into the Plymouth!!!
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On the Saturday before we went into lockdown at the end of March we went trail riding in our UTVs. At the end of the day I broke a CV at the inboard end of the front axle. With all restrictions lifted we are going trail riding on Saturday and racing on Sunday so this weekend I replaced both front axles with after market ones.
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I also replaced the brake pads and changed the oil in the front diff.
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The most difficult bit was getting the broken axle out of the front diff. The spline of the CV is held in the diff with a split ring. Usually you just hail on the axle to pull the CV out of the diff. With the cage in the CV shattered the only thing connecting the the axle to the CV is the rubber boot. I cut the boot to free axle then careful levered between the CV and the diff to get it out.
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Tools of the trade today.
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Up early, cultivated garden, let sprinkler run on tomatoes, watered an apple tree I planted. Mowed the lawn, had a fox running around. Loaded .22 but it left on its own accord :D Spooked a Fawn that was laying in the woods waiting for Mom to come back. Put bush hog on tractor and mowed some of the field. Changed oil in Troy Bilt. Changed oil in Mustang. Cooking lobsters for dinner. Cheaper than red meat right now.
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Mowed the grass then played with my new freebie. Was out front with a free sign on it. So I loaded it up into the Plymouth!!!
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Nice freebie Tim. I have a similar leaf sweeper -- once adjusted properly, it does a great job. It took some fiddling to get it to function, but well worth the effort.
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On the Saturday before we went into lockdown at the end of March we went trail riding in our UTVs. At the end of the day I broke a CV at the inboard end of the front axle. With all restrictions lifted we are going trail riding on Saturday and racing on Sunday so this weekend I replaced both front axles with after market ones.
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I also replaced the brake pads and changed the oil in the front diff.
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The most difficult bit was getting the broken axle out of the front diff. The spline of the CV is held in the diff with a split ring. Usually you just hail on the axle to pull the CV out of the diff. With the cage in the CV shattered the only thing connecting the the axle to the CV is the rubber boot. I cut the boot to free axle then careful levered between the CV and the diff to get it out.
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Tools of the trade today.
Good job Rural -- CVs can be a pain every now and then. I once spent the better part of a morning trying to remove one that was stuck because the retaining clip was deformed. I took two of us prying evenly with large bars on each side to get it out.
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I'm liking those long beam wrenches on the left. What are they?
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I'm liking those long beam wrenches on the left. What are they?
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They are chrome vanadium flat long metric double ring spanners. They are Repco branded. Repco is one of the two main chain automotive parts stores in NZ (Supercheap Autos is the other). There is no COO marked on them. They are better quality than Chincom. The case is steel with high density foam insert. I've owned these for over five years and they get used quite a bit. They are useful in tight places where there isn't room to get a socket and power bar in. I've swung on them pretty hard at times and had them flex quite a bit, they are well made. I suspect they are made in Taiwan.
Tonight after work I picked up my wheels from Jason, he swapped my 29" tyres off my factory RZR rims onto my new 2" offset rims for me.
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Mowed/edged the yard, took the new HotRod for a spin, home washed it, put it up.
Got a new tool this week, it was a must. Car too low to use floor jack. Not happy with the idea of raising each side, placing stands. Over to the other repeating same.
Opted for plan B
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They are chrome vanadium flat long metric double ring spanners. They are Repco branded. Repco is one of the two main chain automotive parts stores in NZ (Supercheap Autos is the other). There is no COO marked on them. They are better quality than Chincom. The case is steel with high density foam insert. I've owned these for over five years and they get used quite a bit. They are useful in tight places where there isn't room to get a socket and power bar in. I've swung on them pretty hard at times and had them flex quite a bit, they are well made. I suspect they are made in Taiwan.
Man, I've been wanting a set of those zero offset extra long metric DBE's since I first saw them. Nice!
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Well, it's that time of the year again. Time to shut down the evap cooler and start up the A/C, as monsoon season is getting close. Only this year I have an added wrinkle - there's a wasp nest in the roof top electrical box feeding the cooler. Plus, I'm not getting around as well as I have in the past so doing all the things needed can't be finished in one day. So, I'll have to split up the duties so as not to overtax myself. Plus confine my duties to the early morning hours as I don't like working in 108+ weather these days.
Tomorrow I'll prep the A/C condensing unit. Clean the weed growth around it, take the top off and clean out all the leaves and needles inside, then wash the coil. Hopefully there's no wasp nest in that control compartment. When complete I'll plug the disconnect block in and feed power to the crankcase heater. let it warm the oil in the compressor sump up so as not to cause freon slugging when I start it up.
Then when the humidity starts rising (typically around July 4th) I'll shut down the cooler. Drain the water, close it all up to keep wasps out of it, and switch the dampers.
Then the next day Ill turn power off to the rooftop panel and open it up and deal with the wasps. Hopefully most of the buggars will have grown and moved on, if not be spraying the inside with Dawn dishwashing liquid and water. After that I'll take the front off of the panel, clean out any bug bodies, nesting material and other debris and rinse out the soap. Then once it dries reassemble and seal up the hole with hole plugs. Really hoping there's not alot of "residents" as I can't move quickly and trying to get off the roof quick could cause a fall. It sucks getting old!
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Very nice wrenches Rural. In my humble opinion, they are definitely a "must have" for working on today's vehicles.
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Very nice wrenches Rural. In my humble opinion, they are definitely a "must have" for working on today's vehicles.
Tru dat! I have a partial Utica set of those aerospace wrenches in SAE, and they really came in handy!
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Got a new tool this week, it was a must. Car too low to use floor jack. Not happy with the idea of raising each side, placing stands. Over to the other repeating same.
Opted for plan B
Now that is just cheating!!
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I'm liking those long beam wrenches on the left. What are they?
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They are chrome vanadium flat long metric double ring spanners. They are Repco branded. Repco is one of the two main chain automotive parts stores in NZ (Supercheap Autos is the other). There is no COO marked on them. They are better quality than Chincom. The case is steel with high density foam insert. I've owned these for over five years and they get used quite a bit. They are useful in tight places where there isn't room to get a socket and power bar in. I've swung on them pretty hard at times and had them flex quite a bit, they are well made. I suspect they are made in Taiwan.
Tonight after work I picked up my wheels from Jason, he swapped my 29" tyres off my factory RZR rims onto my new 2" offset rims for me.
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They look very similar to my Snap-On set. And yes they are worth the money.
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I have the snappys and it's insane how well they transmit as much torque as I can crank on them. I was sold on the style the first time I used one to break a 12pt u-joint strap bolt loose with one. I'd love the set that's fixed on one end for breaking things loose and ratchet on the other.
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I'm having one of those weeks. Tuesday morning heading to work and ..click. batteries dead in the Ford. Well its under warranty so I take it to the dealer for replacement. of course they gotta keep it over night. No big deal I'll drive the farm truck. I get in it this afternoon to come home and.... click. Sumbitch that batterys dead too And it aint under warranty :41: :41:
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I have the snappys and it's insane how well they transmit as much torque as I can crank on them. I was sold on the style the first time I used one to break a 12pt u-joint strap bolt loose with one. I'd love the set that's fixed on one end for breaking things loose and ratchet on the other.
I have the Gearwrench set that is fixed on one side and ratchet on the other. Just search Gearwrench XL wrenches on Amazon
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I'm having one of those weeks. Tuesday morning heading to work and ..click. batteries dead in the Ford. Well its under warranty so I take it to the dealer for replacement. of course they gotta keep it over night. No big deal I'll drive the farm truck. I get in it this afternoon to come home and.... click. Sumbitch that batterys dead too And it aint under warranty :41: :41:
I feel your pain. I've been having alot more car battery issues these past couple of years.
I remember a some years ago they closed down the last lead smelter in the country. I think it was in Mississippi? Lots of industry folks were forecasting lead shortages for ammo and batteries, but experts said they could recycle enough lead from whats already out there to keep battery manufacturers fed.
Ah, found the article!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/12/23/the-last-lead-smelter-in-the-us-closes-because-the-hippies-won/#52ac6b97642b
I wonder if recycled lead has impurities in it that shorten it's life in batteries compared to virgin lead? That plant closed in 2013 - and 7 years ago would be just about the time I noticed batteries starting to have shorter warranty's. :38:
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Went to Costco for the first time in over three months. Not a big overwhelming crowd, but they had limits on TP, paper towels, and certain meats. Place was stocked well, and the patrons and staff were on their best behavior.
Last time I was there it was “free for all” mess. Things might just be getting back to normal there.
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The dreaded "fight the wasps' day is here. Luckily, it looks like the nest was abandoned. I guess they build it and once the little stingers hatch they fly away? Great news in any case. I sealed up the box with metal tape, shut down the evap and prepped the A/C (over several days) and started her up. Man am I liking refrigerated air! :great:
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I've been running the AC here since April. I don't know how we survived without it.
The farm truck battery went out last week and it needed an oil change so into the shop with it. I also had about 3K miles on the trans rebuild and needed to tie up a few loose ends with it. Trans oil looked good very little dust on the bottom of the pan. the pressure temp sensor was replaced and the output shaft seal was replaced. even tho it had been replaced at rebuild along with the bushing it was leaking, so it got replaced. New battery installed. have to fabricobble a battery hold down.
Got 2 pounds of shrimp peeled, they gonna get fried for supper tonight. :dance: :dance:
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I've been running the AC here since April. I don't know how we survived without it.
The farm truck battery went out last week and it needed an oil change so into the shop with it. I also had about 3K miles on the trans rebuild and needed to tie up a few loose ends with it. Trans oil looked good very little dust on the bottom of the pan. the pressure temp sensor was replaced and the output shaft seal was replaced. even tho it had been replaced at rebuild along with the bushing it was leaking, so it got replaced. New battery installed. have to fabricobble a battery hold down.
Got 2 pounds of shrimp peeled, they gonna get fried for supper tonight. :dance: :dance:
With relative humidities running below 15% (many days it''s in the single digits), my Hi-Efficiency MasterCool evap will drop the air temperature about 25-28 degrees. So, even at 105, the air coming out of the vents is 77-80. Not bad.
I've thought of building my own pre-cooler and mounting it on the cooler but being we don't run it constantly it wasn't worth it.
But the humidity has been rising (and the temps have not been dropping :a102: ), so I decided to switch over to the A/C. Normally I run the cooler from May 1st to July 4th - it saves electric dollars and I use the bleed-off water to water my bushes and trees. But this year with the wildfires and all the smoke some days we decided to switch over a little early and man is it nice!
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I had prepped parts for a bike rebuild all week and Sunday morn saw gold paint on the frame. By 11 I was adjusting brakes and doing a full check. At noon my sil received her new old bike with a big smile. It looked decent again after 20 odd years on a porch in another city.
It ain't much but it is her bike she learned on so long ago.
Then I napped and puttered about the house the rest of the day. Paint retouch is done again, yay!
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Had a great weekend with family. First, Saturday we celebrated my middle granddaughters 8th birthday and had a nice visit. Sunday, we celebrated Fathers Day, youngest son's birthday. Had a blast with the grandbabies in the pool. The pool is the easiest place to have fun with them where they don't fight among themselves and drive me nuts.
Ate too much sugar over the weekend and my right wrist and hand hurt all night last night. Sugar really gets my joints inflamed.
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Left Friday and came back Sunday on a motorcycle trip with family and friends. Put 1200 miles on the bike.
Went back to work today and got stuck working on a filthy sweeper truck from the foundry...... welcome back lol
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Darn Tim, that's a lot of miles in a weekend.
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"Darn Tim, that's a lot of miles in a weekend."
Not a long trip for me back in the day!
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Darn Tim, that's a lot of miles in a weekend.
Yeah my butt was sore lol
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Thats a long ride on a cycle, got every right to be sore. My trip to minnesota was in a nice air conditioned vehicle. It went like this, thurs was 500 miles, fri was 400 back home. Sat, 200 to get the rental back. Mon. 800 being a round trip to recover the truck. And tuesday 100 to return the rental used to pull my trailer. I got to say I wasnt worth much the rest of the week, no plans for a similar repeat trip.
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Spent the day sitting in a classroom getting my temporary traffic management qualifications renewed. I have to do this every three years.
I got home to find the courier had delivered the t shirt I ordered on 20 April. I ordered it during lockdown so was conscious of ordering from somewhere where there was still airfreight coming from. All indications were it was coming from the US but when I finally chased up the order three weeks later and found the dispatch email it was coming out of Shanghai! Order was fulfilled in about five days, then the package sat in the international courier depot at Shanghai airport for nearly two months until some air cargo space was available. For some weird reason it then took ten days to get from Auckland to Tauranga.
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Bound to be a good day, finally caught the animal that has been trying to get to my wife's chickens. Was a male raccoon, about 15 pounds, a big one. Unfortunately he died of lead poisoning. :08:
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Frosty start to the day turned into a nice winters day.
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On site at the passing lane I'm looking after the construction of.
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New Cat, with zero hours on it, with mill head, to take the ATP (audio tactile pavement markings) off before sealing.
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Because it is the first Friday of the month, bbq for lunch with the contactor.
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Finished the under the hood clean up. Topped off with Roush CAI & soft tune have a look.
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My Mustang has been driving me nuts. Cooling system issue, bubbling in overflow tank when I stop and let it idle after driving it. Not running bad, compression 135 to 150 on all cylinders. Doesn't seem to be burning antifreeze, not over heating from what I can tell. Put in Mechanical temp gauge to see how hot it is getting. 160 TStat, running around 160. Finally got combustion gas in coolant tester. Fluid changes color, tried it on my Ford tractor, fluid doesn't change color. Still didn't believe it, drove it hard one morning, back in shop. Let it sit for awhile, put tester on it again. Let it idle for awhile came back and it bubbling in tester. Fluid turned color. System holds pressure when cool for days. Screw it, pulled the heads off today. No smoking gun. WTF. The only thing I noticed was head bolts seemed awful loose to me. Was no issue getting them loose. Motor was rebuilt 30 years, less than 10000 miles. Valve covers are clean, no ridge , no sludge, all cylinders look the same, all plugs look the same except passenger side rear. That one looks leaner. Maybe its antifreeze in that cylinder but I can't see how its coming in. Going to put it back together with new gaskets and see what happens.
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Valve covers are clean, no ridge , no sludge, all cylinders look the same, all plugs look the same except passenger side rear. That one looks leaner. Maybe its antifreeze in that cylinder but I can't see how its coming in.
Might just be the picture but the top of that piston looks cleaner than the rest too.
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Good luck Walrus, I hate not seeing the cause of a problem
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Pulled the top end for "Cooling system issue, bubbling in overflow tank when I stop and let it idle after driving it."
You're thinking it's combustion leak pushing past the head gasket.
Rear arrow looks like a combustion trace next to the water jacket, the others also look like a combustion trace.
Head bolts loose, were they torqued after first heat cycle? Maybe get the head serviced, surface ground.
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Picked up my father's boat that hasn't been in the water in probably 12 yrs. Looked it over should be good to go.
Taking the family to a local lake. PA has free fishing tomorrow (no license needed) it'll be Sam's first time on a boat.
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Finished the under the hood clean up. Topped off with Roush CAI & soft tune have a look.
Look much better!
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Pulled the top end for "Cooling system issue, bubbling in overflow tank when I stop and let it idle after driving it."
You're thinking it's combustion leak pushing past the head gasket.
Rear arrow looks like a combustion trace next to the water jacket, the others also look like a combustion trace.
Head bolts loose, were they torqued after first heat cycle? Maybe get the head serviced, surface ground.
Yep definitely getting combustion outside the chamber.
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Pulled the top end for "Cooling system issue, bubbling in overflow tank when I stop and let it idle after driving it."
You're thinking it's combustion leak pushing past the head gasket.
Rear arrow looks like a combustion trace next to the water jacket, the others also look like a combustion trace.
Head bolts loose, were they torqued after first heat cycle? Maybe get the head serviced, surface ground.
Thanks Pep and Muddy for weighing in , I will look closer at that. Motor was done long time ago so don't remember on retorque. It will this time. Using ARP head bolts also. Bolts seemed loose to me?
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Finished the under the hood clean up. Topped off with Roush CAI & soft tune have a look.
Look much better!
Yes & thanks, that pizza box was an eye sore
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Pulled the top end for "Cooling system issue, bubbling in overflow tank when I stop and let it idle after driving it."
You're thinking it's combustion leak pushing past the head gasket.
Rear arrow looks like a combustion trace next to the water jacket, the others also look like a combustion trace.
Head bolts loose, were they torqued after first heat cycle? Maybe get the head serviced, surface ground.
Thanks Pep and Muddy for weighing in , I will look closer at that. Motor was done long time ago so don't remember on retorque. It will this time. Using ARP head bolts also. Bolts seemed loose to me?
When I did my first forklift engine cylinder head I was kinda blown away that cylinder head bolts where only like 40 or 50 ft lbs. I was used to doing diesels and bigger gas engines... 150 + ft lbs.
If they didn't take a good bit of effort to break loose then I'd say they were under spec. I'm assuming something of that age doesn't use torque to yield that the bolts could have been stretched and reused?
Like pepi said maybe they weren't retorqued after the first heat cycle. Then again 30yrs maybe it just finally gave up.
Installed properly you'll never have a problem with ARP.
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Took Sam out on his first boat ride, then him and the super stars went swimming while my father and I did some fishing. (Didn't catch anything but weeds and a nice ran)
Then we did the typical July 4th thing...burgers and sparklers!
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Pulled the top end for "Cooling system issue, bubbling in overflow tank when I stop and let it idle after driving it."
You're thinking it's combustion leak pushing past the head gasket.
Rear arrow looks like a combustion trace next to the water jacket, the others also look like a combustion trace.
Head bolts loose, were they torqued after first heat cycle? Maybe get the head serviced, surface ground.
Thanks Pep and Muddy for weighing in , I will look closer at that. Motor was done long time ago so don't remember on retorque. It will this time. Using ARP head bolts also. Bolts seemed loose to me?
When I did my first forklift engine cylinder head I was kinda blown away that cylinder head bolts where only like 40 or 50 ft lbs. I was used to doing diesels and bigger gas engines... 150 + ft lbs.
If they didn't take a good bit of effort to break loose then I'd say they were under spec. I'm assuming something of that age doesn't use torque to yield that the bolts could have been stretched and reused?
Like pepi said maybe they weren't retorqued after the first heat cycle. Then again 30yrs maybe it just finally gave up.
Installed properly you'll never have a problem with ARP.
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I know head bolts were reused and I'm sure they were torqued to spec at the time. I'm wondering if gasket simply compressed over the years? No way they were 80 to 90 ft lbs when I loosened them. ARP claims no retorque unless gasket manufacturer requires it. Trying to figure out if fel pro requires it. ARP specs are 100 ft lbs with there lube on threads. Ordered correct ARP bolt sealant also. Ordered a straight edge to check deck and heads, I don't believe there is an issue with that but might as well check. Changing valve stem seals not sure if I should lap valves or not?
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Were the valve guide seals done on the rebuild, now having 10K on them..... plugs dry... seals are good. Motor has not over heated, during this this time, flat edge check most likely will pass.
Just for grins check the deck with with the flat edge.
Head gaskets fully compressed when installed, use a good grade, they are cheep enough.
90ftlb .... would have thought a buck 25.
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Were the valve guide seals done on the rebuild, now having 10K on them.
They've also got 30 years on 'em which is pushing it for elastomeric seals. Changing them out while the heads are off is cheap insurance.
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Were the valve guide seals done on the rebuild, now having 10K on them.
They've also got 30 years on 'em which is pushing it for elastomeric seals. Changing them out while the heads are off is cheap insurance.
Thats my thought. I pushed on one with a screwdriver I figured it would be hard but still fairly soft. I'm still changing them. Heads got hardened seats, valves, guides, springs, retainers during rebuild. The shafts and rockers were not changed.
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Threw together a leakdown tester with some stuff I had laying around. The results were a lot better than I expected. The mower this Kohler came out of was trashed.
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I had to work today, but when I got home I did something I will always enjoy .
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Laugh ityou want, but I played with some new Hotwheels I found on clearance today, I currently have 153 unopened Hotwheels at this point ( not counting other brands of die cast cars, or the opened ones ) but these ones aren't your average hot wheels .
I hope you're wearing your glasses ;)
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There are actually 4 series of " worlds smallest Hotwheels " miniature diecast cars, I have the 4 types of set thet offer but they are available with different cars and I don't know how many different cars have been offered since they debuted in 2017.
When I find out you can bet I'm gonna do my best to acquire them all.
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I'm not laughing as I still have mine from the 60's. I should dig them out to see if I have any of the valuable ones. I also still have my small slot cars but no track. I think they might be Aurora's?
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I'm not laughing as I still have mine from the 60's. I should dig them out to see if I have any of the valuable ones. I also still have my small slot cars but no track. I think they might be Aurora's?
Those original Hotwheels redlines are worth some money , of course it depends on condition and model and if it's an American made or Hong Kong made car.
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Is that a 390 or 428?
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Is that a 390 or 428?
390
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Only thing productive I did today was mow the lawn and buy a new pair of sneakers.... Yes the cheapo bought the pair that was $80 but clearanced to $20
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Stopped at a yard sale while cycling and got a free True Temper construction grade 6 cu footer (with a bottom full of cement and some rust). $3 Milwaukee reversible drill, and a 25c 10" Crescent adj wrench. A few yard tools made it my way, and before you know it I had to say "I'll be back with my truck".
Score!
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^Good haul at the sale. Having to return with a bigger rig is always a real achievement.
Changed the oil in my primary shop compressor for the first time in way too many years. Cursed the design because there wasn't a way to drain it without making a giant mess. Sucked 1.5 qts with a bottle pump, and had to mop the other qt off the tank and try to get it out from where it ran under the pump. It'll be a mess for a long time, Rust proofing I guess. Filled her up with full synthetic ISO 46 non detergent. Says 20k hr/3 yr rated, so I won't worry about it again for way too long.
After I mopped most of it up
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I spent a few minutes and made up an extension so next time is easier and cleaner. A compo of an oddball pipe fitting and a M10 threaded piece I made soldered on to screw in the pump.
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Yesterday we did a 350km round trip to hoon around a 100 acre maize paddock. It was a local community fundraiser with utv's and quads on Saturday and motorbikes and quads today. They had a 10km track set up and we would have done at least 100km.
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Getting there was a bit interesting, left home before 5am and once we got over the hill into the Waikato it was very foggy.
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Coming home was much nicer (Arapuni Dam)
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Today I went to my god sister's (for want of a better description) daughter's 4th birthday party.
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Stopped on the way home to drop some bits off to one of our off-road racing club members. He showed me what he is working on at the moment. He is changing the turbos and wastegates on a V10 engined ski racing boat.
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It is a Ford V10 and is twin turbo'ed and intercooled. It is in a 18' hull and will pull two skiers at 110mph.
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LMAO ......is it possible to not change oil, any oil on anything without spilling oil .....?..... not found a way yet & have had plenty of practice.
Was just thinking I need to do the same, ben a year.
Was not aware of full synthetic ISO 46 non detergent, need to look into it.
Reading more, cannot use it for mine, so back to plain A. reg oil change. Thanks.
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110 is way fast in a boat, but way too damn fast on waterskis. Ill jus watch that. nonparticipant here.
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That boat looks insane!
Pep, I have subscribed to the new snake oil sales points and begun running lighter weight synthetic in everything. Compressors and pumps have always called for SAE 30, and ISO 46 is quite a bit thinner. I've had no issues. It seems like all the OEM's are approving lighter oil retroactively for tons of things. John Deere JD20C spec covers about half the spinning devices on earth. Oil weight is a pretty hot topic when you start asking around. lol
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110 is way fast in a boat, but way too damn fast on waterskis. Ill jus watch that. nonparticipant here.
Here is some Facebook video of it running https://www.facebook.com/shortywitheford/posts/2340159976299228 (https://www.facebook.com/shortywitheford/posts/2340159976299228)
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I want to see it pulling to waterskiers at 110 MPH, no F'ing way. You'd have to be the strongest sumbitch alive.
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At that speed you don't even need skis just go barefoot.
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I want to see it pulling to waterskiers at 110 MPH, no F'ing way. You'd have to be the strongest sumbitch alive.
No you don't just lean back further LMAO, changing the angle of attack.
@gtermini
So, ISO 46 being quite a bit thinner. Would not the bearing tolerances need to be tighter ? Just throwing the ISO 46 into an old pump, not such a good idea.
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I want to see it pulling to waterskiers at 110 MPH, no F'ing way. You'd have to be the strongest sumbitch alive.
You don't hold on to the handle like a normal skier. You hold a strap behind you. Yes, these guys are clinically insane!
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I think the new synthetics do a better job wetting out and maintaining thin film in bearings than traditional dead dino juice. I've been running synthetic in all flavors of worn my worn out junk for the last 10-15 years and haven't had a failure relating to lube yet. I worked on a big farm that run a lot of old junk equipment and the boss was a believer in the synthetic diet for everything. Never saw a failure due to oil there and it sold me on synthetic. We had a fleet of JD combines with 5k plus hard hours, they'd hardly push 10lbs of oil pressure at idle running 5w40 full synthetic schaeffers, but would run flat out 600 hrs a summer on a single oil change and then have clean analysis come back in the spring when we'd pull them out of the shed with the prior season's oil in them. Seems like engines are always a little quieter when switched over to synthetic to me at least. IDK mostly just a dumb country boy's opinion on it.
I can't imagine getting my legs swept at 100mph by that belt when you eat crap. Nuts sounds being generous about the mental condition of anybody that would strap themselves to that. I love it!
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Today I rehandled my Buck model 212 fixed ranger in stacked black leather.
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It had their classic black phenolic handle before which just felt too fat to me, iirc they're using the same handle for the 103 skinner on these.
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this was from the end of last week...100 year old lock brought in to be rekeyed. These are called unit locks, they slide into a door as one unit. Had to remove the knob and disassemble to make a key. Works just perfectly now!
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I realize the video is not great, took it with my phone in its case which has a little kickstand.
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Ready to leave for the city this morning, my 08 Jeep failed to crank over. Bought it new and still had the OEM battery, knew this day was coming. It failed the load test, so did a quick switch out with another car that lives here. In 5 months it would have turned 13 years old. This beat the other longest lasting batt I have owned by a year. Jeep has 221,000 on it, think I got my moneys worth. Can remember when a batt was iffy at 5 years of age. Someone here can probably beat this.
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Today I rehandled my Buck model 212 fixed ranger in stacked black leather.
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It had their classic black phenolic handle before which just felt too fat to me, iirc they're using the same handle for the 103 skinner on these.
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Nice job!
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I bet that the Buck is more comfortable in the hand now and it looks great.
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Helped blow insulation in a garage attic.
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I bet that the Buck is more comfortable in the hand now and it looks great.
Thanks.
And yes it is, but even more so it's less awkward to carry on my hip.
I'm not a hunter ( not against it, just never been) ,so for me a belt knife is just a one handed blade when my smallish traditional pocke knives aren't enough.
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that makes my back ache just looking at the picture. I bet your glad that parts done.
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I've been hauling some hay and ran across this in the back of an old fellows barn. Needless to say we did some trading, he got a cut on his hauling and I got me a new toy..
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that makes my back ache just looking at the picture. I bet your glad that parts done.
Passenger side is easy even with exhaust manifold on it. Drivers side different story. Head pipe in way and rack and pinion also. Had to drop exhaust. its still in one piece though as pipes wont come apart. Hopefully I can get donuts on and exhaust in place. Working with a lift makes it easier thats for sure.
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I forgot how tight those 390s were in a mustang. probably easier to install the manifolds on the heads then install the heads.. Just that much heavier.
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I forgot how tight those 390s were in a mustang. probably easier to install the manifolds on the heads then install the heads.. Just that much heavier.
Thats how the Ford service manual says to take them off. exhaust stays on. Not sure you can get bolts out in car. Torquing lower head bolts was a pain. Tried to do it with just extension but unpossible :)
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I forgot how tight those 390s were in a mustang. probably easier to install the manifolds on the heads then install the heads.. Just that much heavier.
Thats how the Ford service manual says to take them off. exhaust stays on. Not sure you can get bolts out in car. Torquing lower head bolts was a pain. Tried to do it with just extension but unpossible :)
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That's because they're made of unobtanium. :D
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My conex came to port via a 7 mile tow truck ride. Easiest 5200lbs I ever moved; hardly broke a sweat getting my checkbook out. $170 saved a lot of hassle vs trying to move it myself.
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Got covered in dirt!
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Gotta do the cabin air filter on the wife's car. Not the hardest thing to do but several sunbaked plastic panels have to come off to get to it, and they only get more brittle as the years go by.
I worked on my truck Thurs/Fri. Front grille and rear bumper cover are plastic, and just rot to heck in the AZ sun. Replaced the reap bumper cover once already - just doesn't last. So I've tried painting them, only catch is spray paint doesn't really like plastic. Found a specific mix some years ago - Krylon Fusion for Plastic - and it seems to hold up better. Not permanent - it still cracks and peels - but it does last alot longer than regular shaker can varieties. Heard they discontinued it, but just recently they brought it back. So tape up the rear end and remove the front end to get the painting done.
Side mirrors were also black plastic originally. Had to tape them off extensively to repaint them white. The cracking on the outer cover was beginning to worry me about losing the mirror if I hit a bad pothole and the whole assembly split. Dang sun is just brutal on plastic car parts.
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plastic parts dont last long in south Texas either. My dash in the98 dodge is all but gone. I put a dash rug over it some years back but the plastic is breaking up still. driving down the road and having chunks of dash fall off onto the floor is kinda funny. My 98 GM was doing the same thing when I sold it but it stayed under the carport mostly and still it cracked up.
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Yeah I've got a pre-made dash cover in the van but the plastic dash is still drying out/cracking. I used to use Armor All to help with the deterioration but I've since learned there's a solvent of some kind in AA and it accelerates breakdown. Heard that Aerospace protectant 303 is way better. haven't tried it yet.
https://www.amazon.com/303-30313-CSR-Protectant-Plastic-Fiberglass/dp/B00KN0UOEE
Also heard a car detailer's trick of using vaseline on external plastic parts. Shine lasts longer and it repels water.
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I never do anything interesting, you guys all definitely do some impressive more noteworthy stuff.
At most I work, tinker on some small random thing when I get home maybe make a knife sheath, and I mowe the lawn.
I can fix the odd thing here and there, but nothing impressive or noteworthy.
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Don't sell yourself short. We all had to start somewhere.
I can fix most anything mechanical if I put my mind to it. I figure the guy(s) who built the thing had a brain and two hands, so, if they can build it I can fix it! :great:
But computers? I'm below a noob. (But proud of it)! I can pull the plug out then replug it in. If that don't fix it it's off to the computer repair guy.
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... I figure the guy(s) who built the thing had a brain and two hands, so, if they can build it I can fix it! :great:
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My first boss and mentor had a less elegant way of putting that but it has shaped my thinking ever since. He used to say if one guy can figure out how to do something another guy can figure out how he did it.
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I wasn't the only one eating dirt yesterday.
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I never do anything interesting, you guys all definitely do some impressive more noteworthy stuff.
At most I work, tinker on some small random thing when I get home maybe make a knife sheath, and I mowe the lawn.
I can fix the odd thing here and there, but nothing impressive or noteworthy.
Tons of companies are looking for apprentices in every trade out there. Get out of the house and apply for some jobs.
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Got the engine back together. Started it up, runs fine but brand new Flow Kooler water pump leaks like a sieve. Picked up tools and shut the lights off :41:
Its the back cover, bolts are loose. I can tighten some of them but not all. It has to come off, which means Power steering, alternator, fan(pain in the ass) , new gaskets. Should have checked them I guess but 110 dollar water pump shouldn't leak because some idiot didn't tighten cover bolts.
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I never do anything interesting, you guys all definitely do some impressive more noteworthy stuff.
At most I work, tinker on some small random thing when I get home maybe make a knife sheath, and I mowe the lawn.
I can fix the odd thing here and there, but nothing impressive or noteworthy.
A lot of us do, or did, this stuff on a professional basis. If working with your hands is what you enjoy get on a trade/technical career path.
While you might not be impressed by your projects someone interviewing for an apprentice position might be. Most of your peers can't even fix a fucking sandwich ::)
He used to say if one guy can figure out how to do something another guy can figure out how he did it.
That depends on the individual. Some can't comprehend what's being done even if they watch.
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Put the second new China crap fuel pump on my 1956 Mercury. I put the last China crap fuel pump on two weeks ago and attempted to go to town. The car ran fine for about 10 miles and just quit. Didn't take long to figure out the China crap pump was not pumping. Lets hope this pump is better. Came from RockAuto and under warranty sent me another pump and paid all the shipping.
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While you might not be impressed by your projects someone interviewing for an apprentice position might be. Most of your peers can't even fix a fucking sandwich ::)
Big 10-4! I submitted a resume and got a call back on it in 30 minutes. Seems something I said like "I like thinking outside the box to fix a problem" caught the interviewers attention more than my 30+ years of experience. :PDT_Armataz_01_37:
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Got the engine back together. Started it up, runs fine but brand new Flow Kooler water pump leaks like a sieve. Picked up tools and shut the lights off :41:
Its the back cover, bolts are loose. I can tighten some of them but not all. It has to come off, which means Power steering, alternator, fan(pain in the ass) , new gaskets. Should have checked them I guess but 110 dollar water pump shouldn't leak because some idiot didn't tighten cover bolts.
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That sucks, I thought that stuff only happens to me.
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Put the second new China crap fuel pump on my 1956 Mercury. I put the last China crap fuel pump on two weeks ago and attempted to go to town. The car ran fine for about 10 miles and just quit. Didn't take long to figure out the China crap pump was not pumping. Lets hope this pump is better. Came from RockAuto and under warranty sent me another pump and paid all the shipping.
That sucks also! Are American made still available? Hope it’s at least easy to get to.
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He used to say if one guy can figure out how to do something another guy can figure out how he did it.
That depends on the individual. Some can't comprehend what's being done even if they watch.
Very true. I took what he said to mean it was possible to figure it out, at least for some people, and he wanted me to learn to think and be one of those people. He was my mentor and he taught me well. As you say fixing a sandwich is beyond some people and some have to start threads about how to spread the condiments and complain the store doesn't have chipped ham (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiK1NbPy9rqAhXLGDQIHQcGDbYQFjAPegQIAhAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.samsclub.com%2Fp%2Fisalys-chipped-chopped-ham-2lbs%2Fprod23033012&usg=AOvVaw3LZaQeoDmq43w9DPU6ZXY7).
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Got the engine back together. Started it up, runs fine but brand new Flow Kooler water pump leaks like a sieve. Picked up tools and shut the lights off :41:
Its the back cover, bolts are loose. I can tighten some of them but not all. It has to come off, which means Power steering, alternator, fan(pain in the ass) , new gaskets. Should have checked them I guess but 110 dollar water pump shouldn't leak because some idiot didn't tighten cover bolts.
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FE in a mustang?
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While you might not be impressed by your projects someone interviewing for an apprentice position might be. Most of your peers can't even fix a fucking sandwich ::)
Yeah, and they all work at Subway! :91:
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FE in a mustang?
Yes, 67 S code Mustang, 390, first year of a big block in a mustang.
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Put the second new China crap fuel pump on my 1956 Mercury. I put the last China crap fuel pump on two weeks ago and attempted to go to town. The car ran fine for about 10 miles and just quit. Didn't take long to figure out the China crap pump was not pumping. Lets hope this pump is better. Came from RockAuto and under warranty sent me another pump and paid all the shipping.
Both of us having new parts that are defective. Its frustrating for sure.
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This was actually last week , helped a mate out for the day , pulled this apart and put it in a shipping container for export to India ............(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200720/8e760e9e6d6ffab1e6e78c73002c8242.jpg)
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This was actually last week , helped a mate out for the day , pulled this apart and put it in a shipping container for export to India ............(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200720/8e760e9e6d6ffab1e6e78c73002c8242.jpg)
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What does it do?
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This was actually last week , helped a mate out for the day , pulled this apart and put it in a shipping container for export to India ............(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200720/8e760e9e6d6ffab1e6e78c73002c8242.jpg)
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What does it do?
It’s a Forage Harvester , used for chopping grass or corn to make feed for cows .......
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In the US we call that a chopper. A chopper (or forage harvester) take crops like grass, alfalfa, corn, or triticale and chops it into roughly 1"x 1" pieces and blows into a wagon or truck that take the chopped material (silage) to the farm where it is stored, fermented and then fed to livestock.
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Oh, silage. I remember farmers using it in the 60s and early 70’s and then the small cattle farms died and the large feed lots took over and they fed a different ground feed. I remember a few fires in silos from overheating during fermentation.
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This was actually last week , helped a mate out for the day , pulled this apart and put it in a shipping container for export to India ............(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200720/8e760e9e6d6ffab1e6e78c73002c8242.jpg)
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Wow bet that was fun! It sold over there or is he doing custom work there?
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It’s those bottom end used machines, this was the 3rd one , we got another 2 to do. Local custom guys are pleased to see them gone rather than some farm kid buy one for $30 or $40K and set up in competition to established guys !
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Does that container ship just like that or do you have to hire blockers to secure the machine?
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Does that container ship just like that or do you have to hire blockers to secure the machine?
After that pic was taken , it was strapped in and a bunch of loose parts was stacked all the way out to the door, that’s when you find out maybe we should have stacked the container slightly different when you started out .... like anything the more you do it the easier it gets. Timeframe has gone from 2 days when my guy did his first one , this one was done in a bit over 10 hours.
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Today we opened up and welded solid a viscous fan clutch on a Kodiak truck. And because we felt unsafe the bucket of Damacles was finally grounded after nearly a decade raised up. Now we start stripping the remains of the old Cat 951 into scrap and welding stock.
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Co-worker today tried telling me snap on owns Milwaukee :))
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Co-worker today tried telling me snap on owns Milwaukee :))
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That's funny. They are owned by the Chinese company Techtronic Industries and the tools are made in China.
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Co-worker today tried telling me snap on owns Milwaukee :))
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That's funny. They are owned by the Chinese company Techtronic Industries and the tools are made in China.
I think he may be confused with MAC and Dewalt owned by Stanley
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Took a few pictures while on errands. Flowers are one of my favorite subjects.
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Spring upgrade for the 856. kind of a pain to trim the trigger spring down but its in and much softer. Gotta get some range time on it now.
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Put a bunch of H D Smith tools on a new Facebook Auction page-
CAN I HAVE IT Vintage Tool Auction and Sales Group
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Got mustang running, took it out for a ride, big time valve cover leak on right side, oops bolts weren't even hand tight. Need to get Monte Carlo bar back in and put timing light on it. No bubbles in over flow tank.......yet??? Need to take it on longer ride. Had a hard time with shifter and it never got touched so have to look at that tomorrow. It doesn't like coming out of reverse, Hurst Competition plus. Thought it was locked up but it did come back into neutral after jiggling it enough.
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A 1/4 drill bit and a linkage tweak will fix that quick enough. Sounds like the head gasket needed some TLC... :coffee2:
Bet if feels stronger, we like that. Are those Packard wires they still making them ?
One more question, what year is the Mustang ?
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I've been known to get a little over excited about getting one running and forgetting to tighten something up.
Had a trail of oil follow me out the shop. you gotta screw the oil filter on tight. not just spin it up there :lol_hitting: :lol_hitting:
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Pep.its a 67. I'll let you know if it feels stronger once I put timing light on it.
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Nice looking car, styling was still good, newer models have their roots from that year.
I remember getting a ride in a Boss that a chick had. Was in the Navy, that thing had guts, impressive.
I think your dungaree dyno will feel some. Compression being balanced with the top end sealed up.
Pep.its a 67. I'll let you know if it feels stronger once I put timing light on it.
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Took a little trip into Iowa on Sunday, to look at old tractors. Visited Farmall Land Avoca Iowa, 2 buildings full of vintage red tractors, the lifetime collection of a retired International dealer. All shiny, restored to original condition, many rare models I had not seen except in books. The owner is going to liquidate in September, so it was see it now or never. Did I enjoy it? Heck yeah.
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Took a little trip into Iowa on Sunday, to look at old tractors. Visited Farmall Land Avoca Iowa, 2 buildings full of vintage red tractors, the lifetime collection of a retired International dealer. All shiny, restored to original condition, many rare models I had not seen except in books. The owner is going to liquidate in September, so it was see it now or never. Did I enjoy it? Heck yeah.
No pics?
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There is a website with better pics than I can make.
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There is a website with better pics than I can make.
Here http://www.farmall-land-usa.com/photogallery.htm (http://www.farmall-land-usa.com/photogallery.htm)
More pictures here http://www.girardauction.com/farmall-land-usa-auction.html (http://www.girardauction.com/farmall-land-usa-auction.html)
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Enjoying some R&R, finished some cosmetic touches. Hiding some things & changing the appearance of the hoses.
Can actually begin see some of the block ....
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There is a website with better pics than I can make.
Here http://www.farmall-land-usa.com/photogallery.htm (http://www.farmall-land-usa.com/photogallery.htm)
More pictures here http://www.girardauction.com/farmall-land-usa-auction.html (http://www.girardauction.com/farmall-land-usa-auction.html)
That stuff is cool. I could wander around for hours in there. American history, beautiful.
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I have been stripping part off an old Cat 951 loader. Lots of big parts started coming off today.
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Those tensioner springs are death cannons if not handled carefully when installing new springs. Looks like there's some good parts left off the old gal.
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When I bought my house, the only thing left carpeted was the stairs, so I knew there were going to be issues with it. Well, here is what it looked like after I pulled the carpet a few years ago.
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And here is how it looks today, as I spent the day scraping the old mastic from the carpet, and removing he screws the old owner had driven in, replacing five treads and such. Amazing how hard scraping is when you really can't put weight on stuff, and doing it on stairs is real tiring. Still a long way to go but looking much better.
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Those tensioner springs are death cannons if not handled carefully when installing new springs. Looks like there's some good parts left off the old gal.
Final drives and engine are gone, sold whatever survived the drop.
We still have an original radiator as the last sale hope.
Its a 1970 model and died a decade ago for a cracked trans case. So few survivors exist demand for parts is nil.
Some parts carry to later models and a few have possible reuse potential but mostly its scrap.
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........ Looks like there's some good parts left off the old gal.
Yes definitely. One of those ironies where often the parts are worth more that the whole. The machine is junk, but the parts are valuable.
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Had another scorpion crawling in the living room last night. Managed to dispatch it without getting stung. From the looks of it it could have been the lethal species. Kinda weird - after sqwashing it the tail section got separated from the rest and started flexing on it's own for about 30 seconds. Yikes!
Had one about 2 months ago so it's not an invasion, but that means they gotta be getting in some how. So it'll be front entryway and door sealing and weather stripping today.
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Had another scorpion crawling in the living room last night. Managed to dispatch it without getting stung. From the looks of it it could have been the lethal species. Kinda weird - after sqwashing it the tail section got separated from the rest and started flexing on it's own for about 30 seconds. Yikes!
Had one about 2 months ago so it's not an invasion, but that means they gotta be getting in some how. So it'll be front entryway and door sealing and weather stripping today.
This stuff is supposed to work well on scorpions. No scorpions around here but it kills everything else and lasts a long time. Sprayed one persons house with the stuff for "a couple of roaches". They told me there were dead bugs everywhere the next morning :lol_hitting:
https://www.mgk.com/product/onslaught-fastcap-spider-scorpion-insecticide/
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OK looks like the front door threshold sweep is pretty worn. Since I've read scorpions can get through a space as thin as a credit card I'll have to replace it. In the mean time I installed a rubber foam strip to fill the space while I secure the rubber sweep strip.
Matt T - I've have to look at that insecticide you posted. It lists a hydrocarbon, and my house is fully carpeted. Don't know if I want a petroleum product where there's carpet. But we'll see. Thanks!
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Bman, do you have a black light to make those scorpions show up in the dark? They make the things glow so they are easy to spot and works well inside or out as long as it is dark. If you use it outside don't be shocked by how many you may see. The Sonora Desert is pretty loaded with them.
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Matt T - I've have to look at that insecticide you posted. It lists a hydrocarbon, and my house is fully carpeted. Don't know if I want a petroleum product where there's carpet. But we'll see. Thanks!
Took a quick look at the SDS, because I haven't noticed any residue from the stuff, and it says less than 10% petroleum distillates. Diluted 1oz per gallon that'll be well under 1/10 of a percent mixed.
You can also use it as a perimeter spray around your foundation, and doors and windows, to get 'em on their way in.
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I use Demon wp for scorpions here. its a powder that uses water as the carrier, once dry its back to a powder. its pretty hard on scorpions.
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I have a Century of Fords.....
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I popped a few more small parts off the old Cat.
Thats my sandal next to that pin. Its rather large.
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Apparently over on ch3 I got too mouthy and got banned. No warning, and it said it would never be lifted so I guess I'm done with them. Reason, it said I asked. Not sure what to make of it but now y'all are stuck with me.
Oh well. On with my life. Lots of other places to see on the interwebz.
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Bman, do you have a black light to make those scorpions show up in the dark? They make the things glow so they are easy to spot and works well inside or out as long as it is dark. If you use it outside don't be shocked by how many you may see. The Sonora Desert is pretty loaded with them.
Yeah Nutz, I'm actually afraid of getting a blacklight and finding out I'm in the center of a scorpion field! :a102:
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I have a Century of Fords.....
That is cool. :bravo_2: :bravo_2: :bravo_2:
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Apparently over on ch3 I got too mouthy and got banned. No warning, and it said it would never be lifted so I guess I'm done with them. Reason, it said I asked. Not sure what to make of it but now y'all are stuck with me.
Oh well. On with my life. Lots of other places to see on the interwebz.
No big loss. If you want we can start a "tool polishing" and "garage floor coatings" section on the GG to make the transition easier -- :clap:
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I'm more of the tool user and only polish up at the end before they go back in the drawer. Hahaha.
I signed up for some welding forums to take that space.
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Anyone used a torque stick before, how do they work? :017:
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Say it ain't true I've stumped the great unwashed?? :-\
Anyone used a torque stick before, how do they work? :017:
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Say it ain't true I've stumped the great unwashed?? :-\
Anyone used a torque stick before, how do they work? :017:
I'm a cheapskate, I just use the three ugga-dugga method :021:
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I like three ugga-dugga ...... tried and true ...... :08:
Say it ain't true I've stumped the great unwashed?? :-\
Anyone used a torque stick before, how do they work? :017:
I'm a cheapskate, I just use the three ugga-dugga method :021:
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I left the old beast ready for the torch, some of the sellable parts seperated.
At least parts he hopes to sell someday.
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I put up the hand made wall lamps in the new bedroom. They are ambient lighting that can light the full room.
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Yesterday got my second tattoo
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Went swimming with the dog.
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Tried charging the two 10yr old batteries in the International truck that pulls the 38' horse trailer yesterday but they wouldn't take a charge. Pulled the batteries this morning and got online and checked prices and availability. I was afraid what the price would be on the Group 31 commercial batteries but was pleasantly surprised to find them for a decent and best price at Batteries Plus. Got a 10% discount ordering online and the price ended up being $108 each plus tax for Duracell Group 31 950CCA with top screw posts. Ordered and paid for them online and they sent an email when they were ready which was an hour and 15 minutes later and went up to Carson City to get them. It was a great way to get them and they are fresh July production batteries and none of the hassles of dealing with an auto parts store. They also had the best warranty of 18 months free replacement that I found.
Stopped at Lowe's on the way there to get some high efficiency 10gal ShopVac bags and online it said they had 9 packages. Got there and the bin was empty and a lady working there said their computer must be wrong. :91:
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Have off most of this week. Took the kids to the lake yesterday and to a local wildlife center today.
This weekend Mandy and I are going to Gettysburg for our 5th anniversary.
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In Gettysburg for the weekend. Today we did a horseback tour of the Battlefield.
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Horse back tour sounds like a good way to see the area. Nice looking horses too.
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Got up at 5am to do some dawn photography.
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In Gettysburg for the weekend. Today we did a horseback tour of the Battlefield.
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Looks like those horses have some draft in them with the big feet. That should have been a comfortable ride checking out the battlefield.
Nice pics Rural and your early rising pays off again.
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cool pics Rural -- very nice perspective.
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Have fun Tim -- lookin' good on top of those noble beasts.
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I have fond memories of visiting Gettysburg. Somber, but fond.
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In Gettysburg for the weekend. Today we did a horseback tour of the Battlefield.
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Looks like you had a great time
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I spent the workday pushing 1/8" 7018 rods into plate steel at 150 amps. About the limit the rods could take but damn the penetration was deep. Which is going to be important because its the sideplates of a hydraulic jackhammer for a backhoe. Those had to be widened to fit a Cat backhoe tail.
Probably a full kilo of them turned to liquid steel and smoke.
Made a call and a friend wants to sell me yet another cheap bike. He needs cash and I like fixing bikes. Just not sure I need seven of them. It has resale value so maybe?
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If it's a mountain bike then I'd grab it, strike. There's always a market for good quality MTB's, especially during this COVID thing as people are riding bikes to work more often. The demand is so high I've heard around here - if you have bikes - now's the time to sell 'em.
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Did nothing today except take the dog over to my brothers for his weekly swim and 'rasslin with his buddy Henry.
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If it's a mountain bike then I'd grab it, strike. There's always a market for good quality MTB's, especially during this COVID thing as people are riding bikes to work more often. The demand is so high I've heard around here - if you have bikes - now's the time to sell 'em.
Dual suspension 21 speed MTB in 26" tires. Some new parts, most well used.
Yeah, its commercial for sure. And even if just stored a year or so it can't lose value. I don't use suspension bikes but flipping them is brain dead easy. This one is medium grade at best which means cheap parts are everywhere.
We finally got the last sliding glass doors on the 2nd floor. After years of a steel stud and thin plywood fake wall. Flooded hallway every storm with that.
The door works great against rain! It hasn't stormed good since it was installed, not once.
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Purlins suck. Up and down the ladder 500 times and on and off the osha rotten pallet forklift manbasket. 6hrs to get them all cut, sucked down, and nailed on the rafters. I'll start building rafters for the other side tomorrow.
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Serviced the car, early oil & filter change, first after break in, tire rotation. Getting ready for a twisty mountain road run. While speaking to the lead, who drives a 350. He mentions we might need to stop for a short, short.
Come to find out the carrier oil over heats. Reading some, this is not an unknown. At about 340 a warning appears, if ignored the car will go into a limp mode. Pretty cool it does that.
Me, want to avoid both pulling over or limp mode. So I wrapped the tail pipes, that create a heat envelope around the carrier.
Will see how it goes…. Going to be a hoot if the GT PP2 out runs the 350’s due to carrier oil over heat.
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Serviced the car, early oil & filter change, first after break in, tire rotation. Getting ready for a twisty mountain road run. While speaking to the lead, who drives a 350. He mentions we might need to stop for a short, short.
Come to find out the carrier oil over heats. Reading some, this is not an unknown. At about 340 a warning appears, if ignored the car will go into a limp mode. Pretty cool it does that.
Me, want to avoid both pulling over or limp mode. So I wrapped the tail pipes, that create a heat envelope around the carrier.
Will see how it goes…. Going to be a hoot if the GT PP2 out runs the 350’s due to carrier oil over heat.
Tail of the Dragon?
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A known engineering flaw that Ford has not fixed? Shocking to say the least. Have fun on your run. :cool2:
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Staying home after a postponed minor surgery and watching the news about Hurricane Laura. I am on the coast of Texas. Only ran from one in the past and will sit this one out also.
At this time, it looks like our neighbors to the East in Louisiana will get the brunt of it.
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If it's a mountain bike then I'd grab it, strike. There's always a market for good quality MTB's, especially during this COVID thing as people are riding bikes to work more often. The demand is so high I've heard around here - if you have bikes - now's the time to sell 'em.
Dual suspension 21 speed MTB in 26" tires. Some new parts, most well used.
Yeah, its commercial for sure. And even if just stored a year or so it can't lose value. I don't use suspension bikes but flipping them is brain dead easy. This one is medium grade at best which means cheap parts are everywhere.
We finally got the last sliding glass doors on the 2nd floor. After years of a steel stud and thin plywood fake wall. Flooded hallway every storm with that.
The door works great against rain! It hasn't stormed good since it was installed, not once.
I had an acquaintance give me a bike to fix for him. It was a suspended bike someone had given to him, and the center shock was broken. I fabbed apiece of aluminum square stock to replace the shock. It made it a rigid frame but at least it was rideable and a cheap repair. Before returning it to him I found a usable shock and re=swapped it out. Would have liked to have known how it rode for him.
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Still updating the old farmhouse. Replaced the 40 year old vermiculite insulation with R-29 batting. Most of the attic I can stand in. Just been working early, on these 95 plus days it gets hot up there fast. Am another day closer to painting the bedrooms. Dont think I will ever enjoy mudding drywall, and sanding.
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Bman, I got the bike today. Front derailleur is ruined but otherwise complete. Some alu bits like cranks but otherwise fairly low grade.
I have a buyer at my cost already lined up. He fixed s and resells to friends.
He does some good looking low budget rebuilds. Mine never stay low budget. I always upgrade something to blow the budget.
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Serviced the car, early oil & filter change, first after break in, tire rotation. Getting ready for a twisty mountain road run. While speaking to the lead, who drives a 350. He mentions we might need to stop for a short, short.
Come to find out the carrier oil over heats. Reading some, this is not an unknown. At about 340 a warning appears, if ignored the car will go into a limp mode. Pretty cool it does that.
Me, want to avoid both pulling over or limp mode. So I wrapped the tail pipes, that create a heat envelope around the carrier.
Will see how it goes…. Going to be a hoot if the GT PP2 out runs the 350’s due to carrier oil over heat.
Tail of the Dragon?
Tail of the dragon gets a lot of press, comes up often for sure. The bikers like it and run off the mountain often.
Takes too long to get there, and generally crowded, we will go to Six Gap, North GA. It has some good straights to stretch the legs, up to 3 digits I’m told. I like both twisty and flat out running.
I’ve had the car to 130 with some left over. The 350’s red line is 8100, mine 7100, the flat plane motor being the difference.
Now we need the rain to stop to get busy.
A known engineering flaw that Ford has not fixed? Shocking to say the least. Have fun on your run.
Who knows, put any street/consumer car thru its paces, weaknesses will be found.
I will say this, there is more older American iron on the streets then the foreign shit. Even with flaws the US builds a better car.
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Waiting on the water well company this morning. The check valves not holding. And at 160 ft down there. I ain’t pulling it myself The joys of getting older. Knowing your limitations and knowing who to call 😄😄
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Waiting on the water well company this morning. The check valves not holding. And at 160 ft down there. I ain’t pulling it myself The joys of getting older. Knowing your limitations and knowing who to call 😄😄
Ours is 189' and last year we had a hole rust through on the last 20' stick of pipe. We also put in a new pump as no telling how long the pump ran continuously plus he said code calls for the 4-wire instead of the old 3-wire so got to pay for 190' of wire also.
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They pulled the pump replaced the check valve. Replaced the sanitary seal and were gone before lunch. They are going to invoice me. But iirc the charge $100/hr. Best $250 I spent all month👍👍
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They pulled the pump replaced the check valve. Replaced the sanitary seal and were gone before lunch. They are going to invoice me. But iirc the charge $100/hr. Best $250 I spent all month👍👍
I'd say you did very well at that price. :clap:
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Last night's efforts. My contractors are replacing the rail so they can complete the deck repair. They completed the same repair two months ago on the next bridge 2km down the road!
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Bman, I got the bike today. Front derailleur is ruined but otherwise complete. Some alu bits like cranks but otherwise fairly low grade.
I have a buyer at my cost already lined up. He fixed s and resells to friends.
He does some good looking low budget rebuilds. Mine never stay low budget. I always upgrade something to blow the budget.
Cool! I used to drive the back alleys and curbs during bulky pickup season, find suitable bikes, and fix them up. Then sell them at the twice yearly bike auction downtown by the university. Typically did $600-800 a year flipping bikes this way. Wasn't going to get rich but it was a nice little extra cash.
Then people stopped dumping their bikes, used parts dried up, and the auction holders changed the rules which all but killed the gig. Darn!
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Finishing the last few acres of wheat stubble on the second pass. I love auto steer!
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Do you find it difficult to keep the cup filled and not spilling when operating like that?
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I'm afraid I'd fall asleep.
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I'm afraid I'd fall asleep.
the opposite, less stress and strain. i rarely get the urge to fall asleep and do not feel as beat up and th end of the day.
Do you find it difficult to keep the cup filled and not spilling when operating like that?
my coffee cup has a lid and the tractor has a couple cup holders. the seat is a full air ride with vertical suspension and can be adjusted to move forward and backward as well as side to side to smoothen bumps and jolts. it also rotates left or right to increase visibilty and prevent neck strain from looking towards the implement. it is quite comfortable.
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Finishing the last few acres of wheat stubble on the second pass. I love auto steer!
Lazy flatlanders :))
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Ag has come a long way in creature comforts in a century. Didn't it used to be a pressed steel plate seat on a bar just behind the rear axle?
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Finishing the last few acres of wheat stubble on the second pass. I love auto steer!
Lazy flatlanders :))
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Haha, I often tell local farmers about sk's landscape. From the rolling hills of Carroll County they can't imagine what it would be like to farm flat fields
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Ag has come a long way in creature comforts in a century. Didn't it used to be a pressed steel plate seat on a bar just behind the rear axle?
while i haven't spent much time on a pan seat lately i have spent a few hours on a thin pad over a steel box this summer.
Finishing the last few acres of wheat stubble on the second pass. I love auto steer!
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Haha, I often tell local farmers about sk's landscape. From the rolling hills of Carroll County they can't imagine what it would be like to farm flat fields
every part of the world has its good and bad points. large flat fields allow large machinery to get a lot done in a short time. the flip side is that when it gets wet, its all wet. drainage is difficult when you get 3 or more inches of rain and there isn't 3 inches of fall or slope in a mile. plus our heavy soils are slow to take moisture and slower to let it go. there are many times i wish i had some gently rolling ground.
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Do you find it difficult to keep the cup filled and not spilling when operating like that?
my coffee cup has a lid and the tractor has a couple cup holders. the seat is a full air ride with vertical suspension and can be adjusted to move forward and backward as well as side to side to smoothen bumps and jolts. it also rotates left or right to increase visibilty and prevent neck strain from looking towards the implement. it is quite comfortable.
I'll have to work on my humor a bit more. It was more about poking fun at the sideways picture (aka spilling your drink) because of driving sideways, vs the feet on the dash.
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Ag has come a long way in creature comforts in a century. Didn't it used to be a pressed steel plate seat on a bar just behind the rear axle?
while i haven't spent much time on a pan seat lately i have spent a few hours on a thin pad over a steel box this summer.
Finishing the last few acres of wheat stubble on the second pass. I love auto steer!
Lazy flatlanders :))
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Haha, I often tell local farmers about sk's landscape. From the rolling hills of Carroll County they can't imagine what it would be like to farm flat fields
every part of the world has its good and bad points. large flat fields allow large machinery to get a lot done in a short time. the flip side is that when it gets wet, its all wet. drainage is difficult when you get 3 or more inches of rain and there isn't 3 inches of fall or slope in a mile. plus our heavy soils are slow to take moisture and slower to let it go. there are many times i wish i had some gently rolling ground.
I always tell them about the drainage issue also. I do enjoy learning about how folks do things differently in different parts of the world. i find it fascinating
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Raided one of my contractor's pile of non compliant cones to take up to our race track.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200904/20cae4cf15f19402f1a235487474f758.jpg)
The H&S thing here is getting to be a bit over the top with BS I’m thinking !
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Raided one of my contractor's pile of non compliant cones to take up to our race track.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200904/20cae4cf15f19402f1a235487474f758.jpg)
The H&S thing here is getting to be a bit over the top with BS I’m thinking !
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Most of these ones are definitely past their use by date. They have been used on sealing sites are covered in bitumen or have big cracks in them and all are very faded.
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The old worn out cones are the ones we use for traffic control. They're just gonna get run over and ruined anyway. People seem to view them as a target around here. Put 200 down at 0800 and go reset 75 of them by 0900. :021:
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Ag has come a long way in creature comforts in a century. Didn't it used to be a pressed steel plate seat on a bar just behind the rear axle?
while i haven't spent much time on a pan seat lately i have spent a few hours on a thin pad over a steel box this summer.
Finishing the last few acres of wheat stubble on the second pass. I love auto steer!
Lazy flatlanders :))
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Haha, I often tell local farmers about sk's landscape. From the rolling hills of Carroll County they can't imagine what it would be like to farm flat fields
every part of the world has its good and bad points. large flat fields allow large machinery to get a lot done in a short time. the flip side is that when it gets wet, its all wet. drainage is difficult when you get 3 or more inches of rain and there isn't 3 inches of fall or slope in a mile. plus our heavy soils are slow to take moisture and slower to let it go. there are many times i wish i had some gently rolling ground.
I'm a little young to work fields with a pan seat, but I have spent lots of hours on pad over a steel box holding a 6 volt battery and a suspension seat over top a power shift transmission.
Very true about the varying terrain. Often times after it rains with in a day or so we can find high ground to work.
Do you use much tile out there? Very popular in Ohio.
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Today we went to drop the axle from a tractor that works a place for recycling car glass, typically the windshields with the plastic sheet.
And they can strip 90% of the glass off the sheet then chip the glass into sand sized chunks.
They even make their own heavy walled roll off containers as the glass cuts holes in thin steel with use. The backhoe tractors have forklift type solid front tires, it seems pretty smart.
All in one small semi closed warehouse in the industrial park.
The next door neighbor is Saint Gobain auto glass which isn't a huge surprise. Raw material mostly comes from them, only a small portion from outside sources.
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We have been smoked out in our valley for about 3 weeks with smoke from the Calif fires. Yesterday the Creek Fire on the other side of the Sierras really smoked us out bad and the sky had an orange tint to it all afternoon. It is slightly better today but still pretty smoky but still makes it tough to do any work outside.
In the satellite picture of the smoke cloud, we are just east of the blue circle in the upper middle which is Lake Tahoe. Pretty amazing pictures of the pyrocumulonimbus cloud building over the fire.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/creek-fire-california-wildfire-smoke-plume-weather-pyrocumulonimbus-clouds
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It’s amazing how much that smoke can travel and not disperse.
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That must suck. I can remember the smell of distant forest fires here in Maine. Not good for the lungs.
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Went to the dirt track last night, paying for it this morning. between the dust and noise and frito pie, I feel like crap. Good racing tho. 200 cars 50+ were street stocks. 6 heats 2 B mains and a feature made for a long night. I left after the limited mods and big mods ran. they still had 2 mini sprint features to go but it was already midnite. Aint no spring chicken no more :lol_hitting:
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Went to the dirt track last night, paying for it this morning. between the dust and noise and frito pie, I feel like crap. Good racing tho. 200 cars 50+ were street stocks. 6 heats 2 B mains and a feature made for a long night. I left after the limited mods and big mods ran. they still had 2 mini sprint features to go but it was already midnite. Aint no spring chicken no more :lol_hitting:
Glad to hear some things are getting back to normal. Didn’t your mask filter all that crap out. :)) :)) :lol_hitting:
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What mask 😜 probably 400 in attendance and maybe a dozen masks total. And 75% of those are prime candidates for the wuhan. I guess they immune to it. Racing fuel fumes might be the secret antidote. 😜😜
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:). A lot like around here, mask in the purse or pocket until it says you must have one to be inside the building.
Then it comes out. Once back in the street back in the pocket.
Mine hasn't seen two hours of use in a week. Still two hours too many.
Case numbers remain very low in the area and there is no self appointed mask gestapo anymore. They must have tired of tilting at windmills.
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Ugggg :41:
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Ugggg :41:
What’s going on here? It doesn’t look good.
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Mold or recent water damages?
I have a cement house and sealing the roof ended my paint peeling. It seeps through and gives me that same wonderful feeling otherwise.
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Na nothing bad just getting that effen popcorn crap off. So many layers of paint I had to hit with a big grinder with 40 grit paper to break the surface up then sprayed water on it a few times to let it soak in .
Awful full bloody job.
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Oh no, the dreaded popcorn ceiling. That stuff is evil.
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Might have been easier to put in a drop ceiling.
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Finished a rather unpleasant work week and hit a bike shop or two. One got the parts I promised him and another informed me no new brake pads for two weeks. Bummer.
The two week old kittens came out of their hidey hole to visit me as I pulled a destroyed bottom bracket out of my tandem and stuffed in a used sealed bottom bracket. Still short some hardware but its coming along.
Finally a day I wouldn't mind repeating a couple of times a week! Bobblehead kittens and playing with my junk bikes. A pizza dinner with the family and no broken yellow machines.
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My son came home for a couple of days. He lives in South Carolina. One of the things I planned to do while he's home was the front brakes on his truck. I can't believe how nice it was to work on a vehicle that never sees snow or road salt. I figure I saved over a hour that I would have usually spent cleaning rust off of the caliper brackets. Just another reminder of how much it sucks to live in the "rust belt".
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Spent 30 mins in the auto paint store, trying to match an older color. No luck. I sure dont want to pay $45 for the matching process when I just need some fine brush touch up for a very small job. Nothing in the craft store selection either. Went back to the paint store today to further check the books again...nada. I may try some blending.
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Besides work, and putting the white walls on my bicycle I caught this fella in my kitchen.
Let it go in the front yard which I now realize was a bad idea because it headed towards the street and could get ran over.
The fella has been through enough so I don't want to mess with it any more, or I'd move it to a safer location.
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Some form of common garter snake if I'm not mistaken.
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Hickory n Steel you did your good deed for the day.
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Hickory n Steel you did your good deed for the day.
I'm happy the snake is safe.
I looked into it a bit more and I'm pretty sure it was a gopher snake.
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Yep, a gopher snake. We have them around here in varying colors and sizes. They can get good sized if a hawk doesn't make them a meal.
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Yep, a gopher snake. We have them around here in varying colors and sizes. They can get good sized if a hawk doesn't make them a meal.
Texted the picture to my grandmother who was freaking out " oh my , that's a baby rattlesnake ".
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Apparently it's common for people to mistake these for rattlesnakes at a glance.
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Spent 30 mins in the auto paint store, trying to match an older color. No luck. I sure dont want to pay $45 for the matching process when I just need some fine brush touch up for a very small job. Nothing in the craft store selection either. Went back to the paint store today to further check the books again...nada. I may try some blending.
Suggest you give NAPA a shot...
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Gosh I hate snakes! I know there's alot of "good" ones but I can't stand the scaley little things.
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Gosh I hate snakes! I know there's alot of "good" ones but I can't stand the scaley little things.
I don't mind 'em and even had a pet snake for a while as a kid, but it's perfectly reasonable not to like them.
For me it's Black widow spiders, I will seek out and kill every single one I can.
I can't stand the bastards.
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I got a little 1967 Mitchell 308 in today and went to work on it.
Just a thorough cleaning and some super lube, someone had previously re greased it but they used something with a very obnoxious gag inducing smell that I could not stand.
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Yep, a gopher snake. We have them around here in varying colors and sizes. They can get good sized if a hawk doesn't make them a meal.
Texted the picture to my grandmother who was freaking out " oh my , that's a baby rattlesnake ".
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Apparently it's common for people to mistake these for rattlesnakes at a glance.
The first clue it is not a rattler is the small head which has to be larger and triangular. However a gopher or bull snake may try to imitate a rattler by moving it's tail rapidly in debris to make noise especially dried leaves.
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I'm gonna side with Bman here. Dont like snakes. Around the house its rat snakes, but they get my chicken eggs so they gotta go.
in the river bottom its copperheads. lots of copperheads. I put out copperhead traps, big sheet of plywood on the ground. let it set for a week or so then load up the 12gauge and go flip the board over. sometimes get a dozen snakes under one board. I bet I get 30-40 copperheads a year.
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Spent 30 mins in the auto paint store, trying to match an older color. No luck. I sure dont want to pay $45 for the matching process when I just need some fine brush touch up for a very small job. Nothing in the craft store selection either. Went back to the paint store today to further check the books again...nada. I may try some blending.
Suggest you give NAPA a shot...
Nailed it. Sally Beauty Supply. $5 lacquer nail polish. Done, and done.
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I polished up my old Fenwick lunkerstik with some scratch doctor.
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I also removed the old handle and damaged reel seat in preparation for the old school slip ring Tennessee handle I'm going to put on it once the cork and rings arrive.
I just couldn't get a good picture for some reason though.
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I finally broke the cutting head of my faithful weed whip and didn't buy a spare when it was a current model. It still works great otherwise so a fix was in order and now no spare parts are made, the new models are different.
So I bought one. Those BandD corded electric cutters are solid tools and with care last a good run.
But now we can't have broken stuff, so a couple hose clamps on the spool holding steel wire as cutting cord were installed. It runs balanced but if it was dangerous before its deadly now. It will tear stuff up now.
My son of 10 requested a hammer for his tools so while at HD I got him one. Just a decent brand claw hammer for household stuff.
It came with the required lecture of responsibility.
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That wire looks wicked.
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getting ready for Tropical storm Beta to show up. Mostly going to see some rain from it but the news has everyone running around like their heads on fire.
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That wire looks wicked.
It shreds banana and wet grass like wet TP. Cuts even small woody stems off much faster than nylon.
The new one feels lighter, is longer shafted for comfort and clearly more powerful than the old one.
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I`ve always wondered about using base guitar string on a weed eater.
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getting ready for Tropical storm Beta to show up. Mostly going to see some rain from it but the news has everyone running around like their heads on fire.
Stay safe Curtis. Our friends in Pensacola got hammered by the last hurricane.
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Didn't do much today went across the street (literally) to an auction. Nothing I wanted there so Sam and I walked to the playground and played.
Yesterday we cleaned up around the house and had some family and friends over to celebrate sam's birthday (was the 16th).
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Yesterday we cleaned up around the house and had some family and friends over to celebrate sam's birthday (was the 16th).
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I forgot Sam's birthday is the same day as mine. Happy birthday to us :08:
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Happy birthday Sam and Rural!
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woohoo! happy birthday!
mine was a couple weeks ago.
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Happy Birthday to Sam and Rural. :birthday:
And a belated Happy Birthday to sk.
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Re-powered my lathe
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The old Craftsman motor I had on there was starting (OK, long past) to need a new condenser and the original is no longer made (its the type that looks like an old deck of cards) I can across this mid-sixties Dayton, which is the same power, lighter, and easier to adjust its mounting. And it had a Drum switch already wired. So, added a Plywood extension and solid mounted it. Works like a charm, but I need to go back and switch some wiring in the switch as it is turned around.
I also picked up a little milling attachment, and I wanted to make sure everything fits the way I want it too.
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Happy Birthday to Sam and Rural. :birthday:
And a belated Happy Birthday to sk.
Yes, + 1 == sorry i'm late on this. Wishing everyone a very Happy B-day!
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That motor looks very age appropriate on your lathe. Is that one of the original milling attachments?
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What a day -- decided to winterize the cars and be proactive (for once). Flushed the power steering fluid in the Caddy. Used the old "drain 'n fill" method to repeatedly replace the reservoir fluid after running the engine and turning the wheels back and forth after every fill. Took a while to do, but now the fluid is running pretty clear.
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And it starts again.
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Last Friday, I decided to ride back with my son to Myrtle Beach. It's about a 11-12 hour drive from where I live in Ohio, and figured he could use a co-driver. Spent the weekend and got a flight home this morning. It was my first time on a airplane since 1983. I'm not a big fan of flying, but Myrtle Beach to Cleveland only takes a little over a hour.
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That motor looks very age appropriate on your lathe. Is that one of the original milling attachments?
No, its a Palmgren. The Atlas/Craftsman ones require removal of the tool post slide, while the Palmgren slips over the tool post. You can put it on in ten seconds. It isn't great for big things and deep cuts, but works ok for Woodruff keys and milling flats on barstock. Things like that.
Prices for both are usually way too much, but I was offered a good price on this one. Then again, they are all cheaper than an actual mill.
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And it starts again.
Only a few fields of beans even look close to that and I bet they would be way to high moisture to give a go on. The cooler weather brought this weekend seemed to bring on the sileage wagon parades.
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Back at it. When you run junk you need 2 of everything.
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Sorting out my Auto Kit , Indestro, and Select Steel wrenches.
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Hmm, someone with more Auto-Kit than I do. They are interesting tools, now i need to go digging to do a count.
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I have been slowly working on getting a coaster brake hub on my fun bike so it has rear brakes.
Tonight the last bits were added and the rim trued up. Its on the bike.
Now the bike looks nearly exactly the same as before but with a coaster brake arm.
It will stop finally!!!
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Yesterday I went to the office for the first time in six weeks (NZ went back to Level 2 and work sent me to work from home). Today started with my glasses breaking. These are the ones I wear before/after my contact lenses. I'll use some two part epoxy and glue them back together.
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Today I visited the next stage of the safety project I'm looking after.
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Hydrovac truck for locating underground services
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Earthworks subcontractor's utes. J.Swap are a large contractor that have quarries, transport operations, civil contracting, farming, palm kernal (stock feed) importing and machinery importing businesses.
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Where are the UTEs made?
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Hope the repair holds well. I hate when my glasses break.
But either way it's better than poor old Henry Bemis (played by Burgess Meredith) in the Twilight Zone episode Time Enough to Last.
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Where are the UTEs made?
They are Mitsubishi Triton utes built in Thailand. The Triton is at the cheaper end of the Japanese ute market and hence are quite common in the fleet market.
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Hope the repair holds well. I hate when my glasses break.
But either way it's better than poor old Henry Bemis (played by Burgess Meredith) in the Twilight Zone episode Time Enough to Last.
Loved that episode -- classic episode depicting the many "Murphy's Law" moments in one's life.
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I had the titanium frame on my glasses break. I stopped by my neighbor's optician shop and his son was able to fix them as he had been shown how to braze those frames. Cost me $30 but beat getting new glasses when that pair ended up being the last pair I needed as I no longer need glasses except for readers.
That TZ episode hit home as I love to read and to have every book for your use available and you break your glasses....... :41:
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Worked. Got a package ready for a certain farmer...
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Knocked off early yesterday to get my hair cut. The guys I know who build rally cars are just down the road so I stopped in to see them. They were doing a wheel alignment on this, old school style with sting lines and a tape measure.
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Car is a AP4 spec Ford Fiesta that they built. It is a 1800 turbo 4wd at 360hp. The only things from the original car is the head lights, tail lights, tail gate, quarter windows and firewall. They spent 1,600 hours on it.
I've never seen a four post lift with the rocker panel lift attachment before.
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I spent the better part of the day fixing up the rear gang of this. The left side axle support broke away where it bolts to the frame.
Cut grind weld until it was structural again and tighten up all the loose bolts again.
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Everything finally came in so I put the Tennessee handle on my old Fenwick lunkerstik.
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The rings were originally anodized black, but with some fine sandpaper and a polishing wheel with compound I was able to turn that black into a vibrant blue steep finish, the cork I went with a more aged finish to better match this rod which has some good years behind it.
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More like what have I done this week. Helping my buddy lift suger beets.
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Finished corn and soybeans last week.
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Finished corn and soybeans last week.
Done already? Starting to seem some fields of beans and corn being taken off. Hasn't started in full swing for everyone just yet. The cooler weather this week will help dry things out.
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Stopped to visit dad today.
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We stuffed a rubber band back in an old JD backhoe at a building supply place. It fired up and ran no leaks.
They took the backhoe off long ago and didn't add any rear counterweight making it kinda useless as a loader.
So tired of adaptations of cheaper parts to retired junk. This one has an early Case 580 K hyd pump now. But the other pump managed to damage a camshaft when it locked up and stalled the last time. Just junk them when they get this bad guys, don't sell them to Mexicans.
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Just junk them when they get this bad guys, don't sell them to Mexicans.
Brian is tired of getting the shitty end of the stick :))
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Had the new printer fail on me - again! new HP laserjet, even bought the 2 year warranty. Go back to Office Depot with the printer and warranty slip - I get a card with a bunch of phone numbers on it and told to call this company for instructions. I tell the guy the printer is only 2 months old - maybe 50 sheets of paper through it. No matter - they just sell. After 7 days it's turned over to the warranty company.
I called a computer repair shop I've dealt with alot in the past. He had a pile of used printers and said he cobbled together enough parts to get a few that worked. Installed a new cartridge for me - $200 out the door. Had my computer service guy hook it up and get it running (gosh I hate computer stuff).
Took the 2 month old printer apart before tossing it, figured there's always useabe shafts, springs, etc in old machines. Cannibalize things before you toss em. NOT THIS THING! Shafts were plastic, plastic gears, snap together plastic construction, metal plates holding the laser stuff is like beer can thick, really got nothing out of it.
What is this world coming to? And now the landline phone doesn't work. No dial tone. Phone company is due out today to look at it - estimated arrival time between 8AM and 4PM!!!! I'm ready for this wek to be over.
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Drove home friday night, no problem. Got up Saturday morning went to move truck over to shop, sounded like engine was blowing up:) wtf, tried again, realized it was heater fan. Pain in the ass getting a huge plastic cover off under dash, easy to get fan out once cover removed. One night and this is what I find(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20201011/3104b8b7a103661d6ccfb9252d92c724.jpg)
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What a trip, how long you think those have been in there? More important how the hell?
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What a trip, how long you think those have been in there? More important how the hell?
One night, I assume mouse/mice and acorns for winter. My property is covered with Red Oaks and 2nd year in a row for wicked acorn crop. Not sure how mice get in there but its not uncommon around here. Once day length goes down rodents look for place to hide in winter. You would think a 2019 GMC would be immune but it isn't :41: Haven't checked it today so might be doing it again?
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Those probably weren't mice, but more likely chipmunks. Around here the chipmunks are much more destructive than other rodent species. They will nest on top of transmissions and in wheel wells, and unlike mice, will not be scared off by an engine start. I've seen them jump out from beneath cars after road trips, and they will stash huge amounts of acorns in a vehicle's dead space.
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Not sure how mice get in there but its not uncommon around here.
HVAC fresh air inlet is one possibility. Setting the HVAC to recirc might keep 'em out.
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Aww, nuts! :91:
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TGIF, what a week!
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Black as used oil out of a diesel engine that is 5000 miles over it's service interval but tastes great.
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Bought a green house for my wife's birthday, putting it together. Nothing huge 6 x 6 aluminum framed. Nice little deal, get the roof on it tomorrow.
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A green house is a great way to keep valuable shop space. The first winter after my shop was built, the wife came dragging her plants in. :-\
The next spring I built a 10X12 lean to onto the south side for a green house.
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Tearing out slate floor in entry way and closet. Shit is stuck down, takes some patience and a 3lb hammer :))
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A green house is a great way to keep valuable shop space. The first winter after my shop was built, the wife came dragging her plants in. :-\
The next spring I built a 10X12 lean to onto the south side for a green house.
:a102: Know the feeling :D They sure do find any empty space to store stuff, honey that' my welding table ?
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Froze my ass off on the first half a beautiful fall foliage motorcycle ride. Then we went to a local parade.
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Pulled the water pump off the big tractor. then started putting it back on. :lol_hitting: :lol_hitting:. I've been chasing an overheat problem for a week now. I just got the injection pump rebuilt and have been working out the fuel leaks etc. But I've noticed the machine would get hot. 220f+ just idling around, not even working hard. Swapped out the Tstat Friday and still had heat issues. The heat indicator shows hot, the block is hot but the lower radiator hose is cold. Figured the water pump impeller rusted out. Nope. The Tstat has a little air vent hole so I dont think its getting airbound.
May just pull the Tstat and see what it does. I did test the old Tstat that came out and it did open, didn't check the opening temp, just that it opened.
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Dug footings for a new 20ft X 20ft all steel carport. Went down 3 ft or so, for frost as well as wind load. Have seen straight winds 65 mph here, and occassionally some down bursts 75 or more. One lifted part of my 20 x 40 tin shop off its foundation, so dont want this to float out into the pasture.
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Green house done :bravo_2:
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A couple weeks back I bought this parts organizer for $25 at the local hardware .
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I got it home and realized I had nowhere good to put it, well that was just the kick in the pants I needed to rearrange and clean my little garage workshop.
I moved my main large workbench to the other side of the garage
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And the little one took it's place , I just need to put everything away that's on it.
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I decided to leave the pegboard where it was, because it wasn't so easy to reach back across the big workbench to grab tools.
Having my main toolbox front and center in the garage is nice as well.
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It’s Spring here in NZ , high part of the Season for the cows producing milk , so we got our milk job going on with the truck 24/7 , we just go wherever they need us in NZ when the company has a problem, currently the local factory that produces milk powder gas a boiler down so milk is going to any other plant that has surplus capacity to process it . Our current run has us going 4 1/2 hours south with the milk , there is a bunch of trucks running, we are one of many.
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Snow!
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Well, at least you will know where you are in the field if your automatic steering goes out.
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Pulled the water pump off the big tractor. then started putting it back on. _hitting: _hitting:. I've been chasing an overheat problem for a week now. I just got the injection pump rebuilt and have been working out the fuel leaks etc. But I've noticed the machine would get hot. 220f+ just idling around, not even working hard. Swapped out the Tstat Friday and still had heat issues. The heat indicator shows hot, the block is hot but the lower radiator hose is cold. Figured the water pump impeller rusted out. Nope. The Tstat has a little air vent hole so I dont think its getting airbound.
May just pull the Tstat and see what it does. I did test the old Tstat that came out and it did open, didn't check the opening temp, just that it opened.
Is it flowing through the radiator?
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Pulled the water pump off the big tractor. then started putting it back on. _hitting: _hitting:. I've been chasing an overheat problem for a week now. I just got the injection pump rebuilt and have been working out the fuel leaks etc. But I've noticed the machine would get hot. 220f+ just idling around, not even working hard. Swapped out the Tstat Friday and still had heat issues. The heat indicator shows hot, the block is hot but the lower radiator hose is cold. Figured the water pump impeller rusted out. Nope. The Tstat has a little air vent hole so I dont think its getting airbound.
May just pull the Tstat and see what it does. I did test the old Tstat that came out and it did open, didn't check the opening temp, just that it opened.
Is it flowing through the radiator?
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Water does but coolant didn't. I filled the radiator up with my hand on the bottom outlet. filled radiator to the top and it dumped out when pulled my hand away. I dont think the radiator has any obstructions in it.
Pulled the new Tstat and tested it. it opens well before the water boils so i think its ok. Tested the original and it appeared to work ok as well. Upper and lower hoses looked good, no obstructions there Went by the Agco shop and picked up a water pump. they said to check mine for loose impeller but its tight. My buddy at the parts counter told me to take the water pump and if I used it to come pay for it or take it back. I think I'm going to put the new pump on. I cant think of anything else keeping it from flowing coolant. :banghead:
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Pulled the water pump off the big tractor. then started putting it back on. _hitting: _hitting:. I've been chasing an overheat problem for a week now. I just got the injection pump rebuilt and have been working out the fuel leaks etc. But I've noticed the machine would get hot. 220f+ just idling around, not even working hard. Swapped out the Tstat Friday and still had heat issues. The heat indicator shows hot, the block is hot but the lower radiator hose is cold. Figured the water pump impeller rusted out. Nope. The Tstat has a little air vent hole so I dont think its getting airbound.
May just pull the Tstat and see what it does. I did test the old Tstat that came out and it did open, didn't check the opening temp, just that it opened.
Is it flowing through the radiator?
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Water does but coolant didn't. I filled the radiator up with my hand on the bottom outlet. filled radiator to the top and it dumped out when pulled my hand away. I dont think the radiator has any obstructions in it.
Pulled the new Tstat and tested it. it opens well before the water boils so i think its ok. Tested the original and it appeared to work ok as well. Upper and lower hoses looked good, no obstructions there Went by the Agco shop and picked up a water pump. they said to check mine for loose impeller but its tight. My buddy at the parts counter told me to take the water pump and if I used it to come pay for it or take it back. I think I'm going to put the new pump on. I cant think of anything else keeping it from flowing coolant. :banghead:
When the engine is cold take the radiator cap off. Start the engine and let it get up to temp. Watch the fluid in the radiator. You should be able to see the fluid flowing pretty quickly when the thermostat opens. If not I'd try the pump.
If you can see the fluid flowing. I'd double check the actual temp with a thermometer to make sure your sending unit or gauge isn't faulty.
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I'm not getting any flow thru the radiator. I was watching for bubbles originally but never saw any flow either. Lower hose was cold and radiator never warmed up. I think the heat indicator is pretty close. it was reading 220 and the engine felt hot.
I cant see anything wrong with the pump but my thought is thats what everything points too. I dont think I want to button it back up with a used pump, but im gonna be POed if it still gets hot. :lol_hitting:
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I'm not getting any flow thru the radiator. I was watching for bubbles originally but never saw any flow either. Lower hose was cold and radiator never warmed up. I think the heat indicator is pretty close. it was reading 220 and the engine felt hot.
I cant see anything wrong with the pump but my thought is thats what everything points too. I dont think I want to button it back up with a used pump, but im gonna be POed if it still gets hot. _hitting:
How old is the machine? what did the coolant you drained out look like. If it wasn't nasty looking, I'd probably lean towards the pump as well
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Snow!
Spring has definitely spring here.
Lake Rotoiti at Rotorua, above my safety job this morning.
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I saw one of the swallows that nest in the basement of our office building, for the first time this year, as I went out to get some lunch. It is about 70f here today and the waterfront is 100 yards from my office.
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Muddy, the tractors older than I am but I went thru it about 4 years ago. Radiator was cleaned at that time. coolant still looked new, but was changed out with the first Tstat change. I need this machine running. I've got a couple of 20ft conexs coming and need to use the AC to move them into place.
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Muddy, the tractors older than I am but I went thru it about 4 years ago. Radiator was cleaned at that time. coolant still looked new, but was changed out with the first Tstat change. I need this machine running. I've got a couple of 20ft conexs coming and need to use the AC to move them into place.
Sounds like the pump should do it. Good luck
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Long weekend (Labour Weekend) here. Bay Kustom Cruisers, a local custom van club, have their 20 year reunion on this weekend.
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The National Street Rod Association also have an event on over the weekend. Their Show and Shine is tomorrow.
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Thought some may get a kick out of this. Removing a system board of an old server. 1980 HP tower.
Had to bring in the big tools, should have charged the company a rental fee.
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Thought some may get a kick out of this. Removing a system board of an old server. 1980 HP tower.
Had to bring in the big tools, should have charged the company a rental fee.
That'll teach 'em to mess with a car guy who has tools. --- LOL
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Thought some may get a kick out of this. Removing a system board of an old server. 1980 HP tower.
Had to bring in the big tools, should have charged the company a rental fee.
That big a puller to work on a computer?!!!
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Bugger all.
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Seldom see a slide hammer used on a computer :bravo_2:
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Sent to my data center, on a pallet. Just placed on the pallet, not one secured to the pallet . The level of stupid in IT is off the charts.
Chassis was bent, could not get at the CPUs. No surprise chassises made of scrap beer cans to begin with.
An easy at ta boy from the tinfoil hats. Stepped in a phone booth came out with a big red S on my chest.
Leaping over racks with a single bound, slide hammer firmly tuck in wast ban. went to work :lol_hitting:
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A bit like pep and his slide hammer on the cpu, hit it with a bigger hammer!
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So my RZR has always been not the smoothest starting machine. We thought it had dropped a commutator bar in the starter but due to the contortionist act needed to change a starter in a RZR we had been ignoring it. It has been getting harder and harder to start so we finally bit the bullet and decided to fix it. We got the one of the Polaris dealer mechanics in our club to have a listen and he diagnosed it as the starter sprag clutch. Another club member, who wrecks atvs and UTVs supplied a secondhand sprag and starter gear. Unfortunately they were not much better than what was in it. The new replacement parts arrived today and as I'm flat out at work and Jason is only working part time at the moment, he put them in for me.
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Old sprag (with flat spots) and starter gear.
He rang me at 3pm to say it was in but it was still kicking back when he tried to start it and he thought it had jumped a, or several, teeth on the cam chain and the timing was out. He needed me to look up the service manual for my (non-turbo) RXR because he only had the turbo RXR one. To find TDC you pull the crack angle sensor out and look down the hole until certain marks appear. Typically, the marks are different between the turbo and non-turbo version. I gave him the marks and he confirmed the cams were out by two teeth. At this stage I decided that I really should go and have a look, so after the webinar on tactile pavers for blind and vision impaired pedestrians that I was listening to when he rang finished I knocked off work and headed up to the workshop.
I got there to find that it was all back together and it only needs a new cam chain tensioner that should be here on Friday. That is well designed and is replaceable by undoing two bolts pulling the old one out, putting the new one in and doing the bolts back up. Because we are going on a trail ride on Sunday with 60km laps I had left him a new belt to put on.
After telling me the starter and cam timing is now fine, he announces the primary clutch has a big crack in it!
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The RZR has CVT transmission and runs a rubber belt. The primary clutch looks like this.
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Once you take the top plate off you have to unscrew the three leg spider that is loctite on using a tool that looks like this.
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Except Jason's one is home made out of scrap steel and has a handle sticking out the side you can put a 5' cheater bar on. After fighting with it for ten minutes we realised, because of the big crack, the steel centre shaft was turning in the sheeve and not coming undone.
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This is the cool tool that clamps in the vice and the cooling fins on the bottom of the sheeve engage in to hold it while you haul on it to break the loctite.
At this point many swear words were said and head scratching went on until I suggested that as it was already cracked and not reusable just hit it and break the aluminium sheeve off so we could hold it in the vice. It took surprisingly little effort to break the sheeve off. Even with the centre shaft belt directly in the vice it still turned under the efforts of the 5' cheater so we resorted to welding it to a piece of box section.
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This did the trick and with an almost cartoon like pop and stumble as it let go we got it undone.
It took about five minutes to reassemble it using parts from my spare clutch and another five minutes to put it back in the RZR. I've never seen one crack like that before.
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Took this afternoon off to work on my ute. Replaced the clock spring behind the steering wheel. Cruise control intermittently stopped working and then completely stopped. This is classic symptoms of the clock spring failing. Nissan wanted stupid amounts of dollars for a new one. I found a company selling aftermarket ones with good feedback and ordered one for a third of the price. Youtube provided a very good run down on how to replace it.
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The hardest part was getting the airbag unit off. I ended up watching several more videos until I got the trick to release the unit from the steering wheel.
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Fasteners are a mix of phillips and torx just so you can play with more tools.
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Clock spring removed.
Controls just unclip and clip onto the new clock spring. It all goes back together in the reverse order. Whole thing took just over an hour. Now I know the trick to getting the airbag off I could probably do one in 45 minutes.
Second job was replace the rear shocks as one was weeping. Replaced them with Ironman 4x4 heavy duty foam shocks.
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It is a bit snug under there, especially for someone as cuddly as me.
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Steering column work scares me to death! :91:
Most of my experiences have NOT been positive.
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Meeting at Maketu this morning just down the coast from Tauranga. I haven't been here for at least then years.
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Looking out the river mouth.
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Home of the world famous, in New Zealand, Maketu Pies.
Since Muzzy went bust we can't get spares for our exhausts. The new owners are only interested in selling new systems, so as I'm down to my last tip I got my local engineering shop to make me some mild steel replacements.
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I'll paint these black with header paint before I fit them.
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After work we did the last job on my RZR, fitting the new cam chain tensioner.
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Jason was building a cage for a present for a wedding tomorrow
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Jason was building a cage for a present for a wedding tomorrow
Must be a small groom.
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update on the AC tractor overtemp issue. The water pump was swapped out last week and it seemed to cure the problem. I got a chance to work it some today. loaded 10 round bales and the heat indicator never even got to 180.
I could not see anything wrong with the old pump but i also couldn't see putting an old pump back on when I had a new one setting there. The orange monster is back to earning its keep. :dance:
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Rebuilt my 1967 Benjamin Franklin model 312 today.
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Shoots like a champ now and hits with authority.
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Friend of mine came over from Rotorua to put new wheels and tyres on the C10 she has just bought.
Before
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After
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It is about the only thing she can drive at the moment due to falling off her roller skates a couple of weeks ago (roller derby) and breaking her ankle in three places.
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Spent the rest of the day finishing up the small jobs on the RZR for the trail ride tomorrow.
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New exhaust tips painted and installed.
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Did some exhaust work myself. Going to weigh the resonator & stock mufflers see what I got. These axel backs total 33lbs, I'm guessing the stock system was pushing 100lbs
Mustang has found its song
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Yesterday we went trick-or-treating to family.
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Yesterday we went trick-or-treating to family.
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Great shot !!!! I like it
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Well yesterday didn't quite go as planned.
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Early start for a two and a half hour drive to Kuratau School on the south west side of Lake Taupo for a fundraising trail ride.
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One of our mate's had the job of bring the Polaris dealers six vehicles down.
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Now the not quite to plan part... 4km into the 56km loop and it lost power then stopped. We suspect it has jumped the teeth on the cam chain and needs more than a new tensioner that we put in Friday.
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Nathan, the Polaris National Service Manager, and who is in our offroad racing club, lent me their Ranger to do a lap with the warning "it doesn't have as much suspension as your RZR".
These have the single cam version of the RZR engine and are a puny 61hp. I still got it to do 80km/hr on a smooth paddock.
Most of the terrain was open paddocks with great views including Lake Taupo.
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There were a few sections of bush including three stream crossings. I really missed the extra suspension travel on this section.
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The track was on both sides of the highway and we used stock underpasses to cross.
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Crossing Whakamaru Dam on the way home.
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Yesterday we went trick-or-treating to family.
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Hilarious !
Looks like fun. Good job
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Did some exhaust work myself. Going to weigh the resonator & stock mufflers see what I got. These axel backs total 33lbs, I'm guessing the stock system was pushing 100lbs
Mustang has found its song
How do you like them?
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Hey Muddy,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,SNAP INTO A SLIM JIM :))
Costumes are great, hope the kids had a blast!!
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Hey Muddy,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,SNAP INTO A SLIM JIM :))
Costumes are great, hope the kids had a blast!!
OHHH YEEEAAAAHHH
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Its because of Macho Man and his ad campaign for Slim Jims that we call my oldest son Slim. His name is Jim and he liked the Macho man growing up
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Spoke my final words to my moms mom over the phone as she lies in hospital with hospice care and is unresponsive :014: covid. .... Hits wont stop coming i feel like a shell :c002:
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Yesterday we went trick-or-treating to family.
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Dang, Muddy - those pants are scary! :-\
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Spoke my final words to my moms mom over the phone as she lies in hospital with hospice care and is unresponsive :014: covid. .... Hits wont stop coming i feel like a shell :c002:
sorry to hear. will lift you and your family up in prayer. Asking for comfort and mercy
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Spoke my final words to my moms mom over the phone as she lies in hospital with hospice care and is unresponsive :014: covid. .... Hits wont stop coming i feel like a shell :c002:
sorry to hear. will lift you and your family up in prayer. Asking for comfort and mercy
much appreciated grandma went peacefully in hospice care and is now with her lord and savior in that mansion in the sky
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Spoke my final words to my moms mom over the phone as she lies in hospital with hospice care and is unresponsive :014: covid. .... Hits wont stop coming i feel like a shell :c002:
sorry to hear. will lift you and your family up in prayer. Asking for comfort and mercy
much appreciated grandma went peacefully in hospice care and is now with her lord and savior in that mansion in the sky
The hits just keep coming and that sucks for you Dustin. Stay strong and you and your family have my prayers.
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Spoke my final words to my moms mom over the phone as she lies in hospital with hospice care and is unresponsive :014: covid. .... Hits wont stop coming i feel like a shell :c002:
sorry to hear. will lift you and your family up in prayer. Asking for comfort and mercy
much appreciated grandma went peacefully in hospice care and is now with her lord and savior in that mansion in the sky
The hits just keep coming and that sucks for you Dustin. Stay strong and you and your family have my prayers.
thank you. This shit is gonna break me. :'(
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Yesterday we went trick-or-treating to family.
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Dang, Muddy - those pants are scary! :-\
Yeah it's the pants......
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The local model engineers club had their open day this weekend. Running trains on their track in town.
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A few other scale models
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Silent auction of boats
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Went and bought new pair of pants shirt and tie for the funeral tommorow. Also paid thebarber a visit.
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Sorry for your loss Dustin
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out for the weekend and missed most of this. sorry to hear of this dustin.
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Thanks phil harlan..... Grandma looked good. Heres the grandkids with grandpa pete. Im on the far right
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ya clean up nice bud. even though i know you would have rather been any other place.
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ya clean up nice bud. even though i know you would have rather been any other place.
thanks. It was rough but got to see family i havent seen in yrs
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Sorry for your loss.
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Yesterday we went trick-or-treating to family.
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Dang, Muddy - those pants are scary! :-\
Yeah it's the pants......
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Kids and Mandy are looking great though -- ... and yeah! It's the pants Tim --LOL
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Sam got preschool pictures the other day..... They grow up too fast
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That little whipper snapper is growing up in a hurry!
Played more of the never ending game of organize 10lbs of tooling and crap in a 5lb conex. Bought a 2nd 26" box on the 10% discount to fill with junk as well.
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TGIF, drinking beer and getting ready for a weekend away.
Backstory to the event I'm going to to be the chief steward/permit holder for the offroad racing guys who are competing.
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Went for breakfast, then went Christmas shopping with Mandy.
Then did a bit of plinking. 400+ rounds.....now I got to buy more :(
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Visited a bike friend for some brake levers, and came back with 2 bikes, and the levers. :a102:
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Drove home friday night, no problem. Got up Saturday morning went to move truck over to shop, sounded like engine was blowing up:) wtf, tried again, realized it was heater fan. Pain in the ass getting a huge plastic cover off under dash, easy to get fan out once cover removed. One night and this is what I find(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20201011/3104b8b7a103661d6ccfb9252d92c724.jpg)
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I covered the fresh air intakes under the cowl on our van with ratwire for that very reason.
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Heck of a place to store acorns :))
Now to keep them out
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Damn rodents will get you every time. I don't mind squirrels around the property, but mice and chipmunks nesting close to the house are considered enemy combatants. I just recently used an electronic trap to get rid of a nest of "munks" that were overrunning the property and jumping up onto the bottom vehicle chassis.
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Goodfellow please post the name of that trap. Chipmunks are attempting to take over here and I can’t find a poison that works.
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Goodfellow please post the name of that trap. Chipmunks are attempting to take over here and I can’t find a poison that works.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Victor-Electronic-Rat-Trap/10714570?wmlspartner=wmtlabs&adid=22222222222016683731&wmlspartner=wmtlabs&wl0=e&wl1=s&wl2=c&wl3=10355028703&wl4=pla-1105701249465&wl12=10714570_10000000871&wl14=electronic%20rat%20trap&veh=sem&msclkid=3e6db829643f14a7ac7ae7978b944a0f
Works very well. I bait it with some walnut kernels, and they go for it like crack cocaine. Just set it up close to a wall or fence where you see activity (or right next to the entrance of their burrow). Only drawback is that it needs to be taken down when it rains.
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Thanks I will get one of those traps and some walnuts.
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I moved the cows into the hay field. I got a youngster from work going deer hunting with me tomorrow and want to make sure he doesn't blast one of the cows. :lol_hitting:
Doe seasons starts tomorrow.
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I moved the cows into the hay field. I got a youngster from work going deer hunting with me tomorrow and want to make sure he doesn't blast one of the cows. _hitting:
Doe seasons starts tomorrow.
Eh meat is meat right?! :))
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Was in Omaha today. Stopped in the Cabellas store to use my card points for some new boots. Boots they have, guns, not so much. Normally there are 14 racks of used long guns, 8 to 10 pieces per rack. Today, 4 racks, 4 rifles, the rest shotguns, with many old single shots, which included a 10 gauge. In the gun room, same thing. Cases less than half full. Garands from 1100 to 1500. Less than 25 handguns, in this used section. The ammo area, normally 4 rows, was down to 1.5 rows. Just saying, got my boots.
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Little 6 pointer keeps wandering around. Too bad he’s not legal. Horn restrictions suck
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9:00AM -- Having a quiet moment with a strong cup of coffee before all the commotion with the cooking and preparing goes totally wild. We're COVID-19 free and the 86Y/O MIL is joining us for dinner this evening. It's a very small gathering compared to years past. Happy Thanksgiving!!
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enjoy ray.
just put the turkey on helping mama in the kitchen. very small here as well, the boys, their girls, mam and i, at least 2 of 6 have had the covid so that helps.
feel bad that my mom is alone only 12 miles away. we ordered her a meal to be delivered at noon. one of us may go later to set up a zoom with the rest of us. strange times......
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Went over the hill to our Hamilton office to do tender debriefs with three of the four tenderers for a job we did the tender evaluation for !iabout a month ago. Our office there is on the main 'square' and the city has just put up their Christmas tree.
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On the way home I stopped on the outskirts of town to get this photo.
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This has been the sign at this wreckers since I was a teenager, 35+ years, if not before. One of the staff came out to ask what I was talking photos of. Once she realised I wasn't from the regional council (environmental agency) she was quite interested in how long I had been driving passed the car and even offered me a calendar. She came back with a real calendar and a copy of the latest Petrolhead magazine.
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I've been working on a picture frame for my mom for Christmas.
It is not turning out quite as nicely as I had hoped, but about as well as I expected for my first and the jerry rigged setup I have to work with.
Regadless of the problems that continue to pop up I'm going to finish it because working in the garage is all I can do to keep from crying my eyes out after the very dark visit I had this mourning at the veterinary hospital.
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Sorry to hear things didn't go well at the vet H & S. That is never easy.
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Sorry to hear things didn't go well at the vet H & S. That is never easy.
Thank you.
My best friend of the past 14 years died last night and this morning I took her to the vet to be cremated, so technically things did go well at the vet considering the reason I was there.
What's horrible on top of everything is that it's going to take up to 8 weeks to have her ashes due to the virus and such.
She was 2 when I got her and I am thankful that she had 16 good years and 14 of them at my side as happy as she could possibly be.
Today I have just not known what to do with myself and I felt so lost, all I could think to do was build this picture frame to keep my mind off of things as best as I could.
I got most of it done and will finish it tomorrow, when it's done I suppose I will just have to come up with another project to occupy my time because she was always there next to me with everything else I do and I cannot do most things without forgetting she's not there and reaching to pet her.
I hope everyone else stays safe in these times and their 4 legged best friends are happy and healthy.
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well that sucks! my four legged friends are doing fine. i hope yours didn't suffer as that is worse yet.
dogs should go with their legs kicking having a pleasant puppy dream rather than at the hands of a vet and a needle but sometimes that is the only choice.
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well that sucks! my four legged friends are doing fine. i hope yours didn't suffer as that is worse yet.
dogs should go with their legs kicking having a pleasant puppy dream rather than at the hands of a vet and a needle but sometimes that is the only choice.
Thank you.
We were on the way to the veterinary ER last night and she didn't make it, it was not painless I do not believe but whatever pain she was in is gone now.
It was actually better that way because the vet hospital was not letting anyone inside and I don't know what I would have done if I couldn't be there with her for the last few minutes.
I know that she's in a better place now and I am very thankful for all the wonderful years we had.
In time I hope I can open myself up to give another dog a very happy life.
I just don't know how anyone can live without a dog in their life, they can always make even the worst days better
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Sorry for your loss. Us humans don't deserve dogs they are amazing.
I just took my four legged pal and he got a great bill of health at the vet.
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my mutts. they just woke up!
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H&S, sorry for your loss, that had to be hard. Take comfort that you gave her a good life.
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Thank you all for the kind words.
I am very glad to see your happy healthy pups.
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It is a terrible thing to loose your dog.
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Sorry to hear about your pal.
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I wrapped my brother's Christmas present ( ACDC's new album power up ), theres a total of 5 boxes inside each other and a bag of sand to add some weight :hee20hee20hee:
It's been a while , but playing tricks on my brother used to be an unofficial Christmas tradition.
I also did some more work on the picture frame for my mom today, all I have to do is affix the back in place.
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I'm pretty excited to hear Power Up. Let us know how you like it.
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Coming back from the city in the 96 chevy 1500, noticed the brake pedal getting mushy. Today I got under and found the rear brake line leaking. Hidden behind the gas tank which is over half full. Got it cut off, pulled out, and made a run to the parts store for lines and fittings. Should be warm enough by noon to do the double flares, and get it back in. Hope it wont be necessary to drop the tank. Oh, bought a hammer head. Full size cross peen, blacksmith style, weight,,,,,16 lbs, used of course.
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I'm pretty excited to hear Power Up. Let us know how you like it.
I've listened to most of the album on YouTube already, they ca still rock just as hard as ever and the album is great.
Just search on YouTube and you'll find many of the songs.
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I will! Excited they did another.
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The picture frame for my mom is done.
I didn't torn out quite as well as I had hoped, but still better than anything I would have made screwing around in shop class as a kid.
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Made my piece told my grandpas sister exactly what i thought of her and herr lawyer today it was court to see what would be done with the mobile home i left i cant move.... Just signing it over to her it was livable but not much value in s 1960's trailer.. Atleast i didnt get stuck paying for its removal....
Sorry to hear about your dog hickory
Thank you.
I hope everything works out on your end.
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The picture frame for my mom is done.
I didn't torn out quite as well as I had hoped, but still better than anything I would have made screwing around in shop class as a kid.
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Looks good! Your mother is going to love it!
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That frame is great and any slight imperfections are what make it a very personal gift. :great:
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That frame is great and any slight imperfections are what make it a very personal gift. :great:
Thank you.
I just have to remind myself that it looks like I made it, not like I simply purchased it.
I'm positive she will absolutely love it, and that is her favorite picture of me too.
I believe I was 4 or 5.
Edit : I was 3 , I just noticed the banana scented Rugrats watch my dad bought me at Burger King.
That movie was released in '98.
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Cool pic and the frame looks great!
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Today I rehandled my Buck model 212 fixed ranger, walnut with a grass pin and original aluminum and burgundy micarta guard spacers.
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This is what it looks like from the factory, I found the handle oversized for the knife.
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That handle looks pretty good. :bravo_2:
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Today was Lucy's first birthday. We celebrated with friends and family last night.
Then tonight I tortured myself by hanging Christmas lights (I'm usually ready to hang myself by the end)
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Really enjoyed that cake. :dance:
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Great pics Tim. She looks like a very happy kid. It's a wonderful time in your life -- enjoy it!
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I swear she looks like she is posing for the camera :))
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Darn Dustin, you are having time of it. Sorry to hear of another loss. Prayers offered up
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Darn Dustin, you are having time of it. Sorry to hear of another loss. Prayers offered up
Absolutely! -- my sincere condolences on the passing of another close family member. At 90y/o he had a great run, and by the way you described his response about the funeral, it seems he was quite content with his life.
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She looks a lot like her brother, Good to see happy kid pics
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Sorry to hear this Dustin.
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Sorry to hear that Dustin. I just lost my Aunt, Dad's sister, this morning to Covid. She was 100 years old and she went peacefully and it is for the better.
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Sorry to hear that nutz....
My uncle was in the army fought in korea and till recently always went to fellow vets funeral and was part of the honor guard? I think its call.
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Sorry for your loss Dustin.
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I'm sorry to hear that DeadNutz.
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Great looking kids Tim! :bravo_2:
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Yes DN, sorry for your loss as well
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sorry for everyone's loss. it always sucks but it can be a blessing and takes some of the sting away when they go peacefully and have lived a good and full life.
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So today I submitted the assessment paperwork for a new qualification that I am now required to have to do something that I've been doing for the last twenty years under another qualification. To make it more interesting I still have to have the old qualification to use the new qualification.
At a webinar last week we were informed that as of 25 November 2020, 859 people have attended a workshop for this qualification and there were 100 more to go through a workshop before the end of the year.
• Of those 859 people 143 have submitted assessments for marking
• 116 people have had a result returned for their assessment
• 27 assessments are currently out with the assessors for marking
• 46 people have passed the assessment
This is 39.6% of people who have submitted an assessment from beginning of the assessment introduction. The percentage of those who have passed since the marking schedule was introduced (and supplied to applicants) has climbed overall to 46%.
The qualification was announced late December last year in the run up to Christmas in an industry wide email from the regulator, but you only saw it if you clicked on the link at the bottom of the email that contained a whole lot of other info then read the newsletter in the link (excellent communications!!). Most people actually found out about it in February/March and then had to actually get on a workshop. I then had the added complication, as I work for a consultant, I had to wait until one of my contractors was doing a job sufficiently "complex" to be suitable for assessment, plan it for them, wait for them to do it, then submit for assessment.
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Yesterday I opened my heart to this little pitbull, she's about 8 weeks old and I named her pepper.
I wasn't really ready or looking, but the neighbors buddy was in town buying her brother from a friend who breeds them and I just had this feeling like something was right.
She already following me around the house, and the bond was pretty much instant.
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That look and face will steal your heart in an instant. I'm sure she will give you back every bit of love you give and more.
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That look and face will steal your heart in an instant. I'm sure she will give you back every bit of love you give and more.
What he said :))
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She's already putting a smile on my face, last night I actually woke up and she was sleeping on my face ( I'm a side sleeper)
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Good looking pup. Pits can be very loyal dogs.
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Good looking pup. Pits can be very loyal dogs.
They're all I've ever known.
My first came from a litter my grandmother's pitbull had, she was born 2 months before I was so we gew up together.
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Bought a LED light bar kit from Wal Mart, putting it on my 57 Ford Tractor. Lights look out of place on my antique, well used, not a trailer queen tractor. Need to get it finished tomorrow as we have possible snow coming in mid week. I had 1 light still working and that made it possible to plow at night but it wasn't much fun and kind of dangerous when going across road. Once finished it should be quite visible to oncoming traffic and I should be able to see edge of driveway. Go off the edge of driveway ruins your day as the old girl gets stuck rather easy.
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Yesterday I opened my heart to this little pitbull, she's about 8 weeks old and I named her pepper.
I wasn't really ready or looking, but the neighbors buddy was in town buying her brother from a friend who breeds them and I just had this feeling like something was right.
She already following me around the house, and the bond was pretty much instant.
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Congratulations on that beautiful fur baby!
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Mandy and the kids made Christmas cookies with her mother and their cousins..... House to myself and the dog!
I worked on Christmas presents today. Bottle openers made from old corn crib wood from the in-laws farm. Ready for stain tomorrow.
Norm Abrams would be so........ appalled :))
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Finished up lights on tractor, then it wouldn't start. No turnover, not even a click. Cleaned battery terminals, started, shut it off wouldn't turn over again. Hit solenoid with hammer handle and it started. Ordered a solenoid :( Need to get 2 new battery terminals also. Such is life with an antique tractor.
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Got the stain on today. Used three different stains.
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Walrus, ain't that the truth about old equipment. It requires attention often but man it feels good to keep an old piece going. Plus you didn't have to hook up a scanner :))
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Took my 17 Ford znd mama's 09 charger to a self service kiosk yesterday for emissions testing. Go to plug mine in and the plug in tried to fight me a bit. Got it in and it passed. Mama pulled up and wouldn't plug in well either. Looked in the plug and 4 or 5 pins were bent. One completely bent over. Straightened up the ones I could and got it to go in. Hers passed also but makes me wonder if it really read anything or they just want the money as plug engagement wasn't good
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Took my 17 Ford znd mama's 09 charger to a self service kiosk yesterday for emissions testing. Go to plug mine in and the plug in tried to fight me a bit. Got it in and it passed. Mama pulled up and wouldn't plug in well either. Looked in the plug and 4 or 5 pins were bent. One completely bent over. Straightened up the ones I could and got it to go in. Hers passed also but makes me wonder if it really read anything or they just want the money as plug engagement wasn't good
Self service kiosk? Can't say that we have those around here.
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Can't wait to see the finished product Muddy,
No emission testing required in our county which is a blessing.
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Took my 17 Ford znd mama's 09 charger to a self service kiosk yesterday for emissions testing. Go to plug mine in and the plug in tried to fight me a bit. Got it in and it passed. Mama pulled up and wouldn't plug in well either. Looked in the plug and 4 or 5 pins were bent. One completely bent over. Straightened up the ones I could and got it to go in. Hers passed also but makes me wonder if it really read anything or they just want the money as plug engagement wasn't good
Self service kiosk? Can't say that we have those around here.
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Self serve partly due to covid. They have made some of the emissions sites into covid test centers
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Took my 17 Ford znd mama's 09 charger to a self service kiosk yesterday for emissions testing. Go to plug mine in and the plug in tried to fight me a bit. Got it in and it passed. Mama pulled up and wouldn't plug in well either. Looked in the plug and 4 or 5 pins were bent. One completely bent over. Straightened up the ones I could and got it to go in. Hers passed also but makes me wonder if it really read anything or they just want the money as plug engagement wasn't good
Self service kiosk? Can't say that we have those around here.
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Self serve partly due to covid. They have made some of the emissions sites into covid test centers
Sounds more like BIG GOVERNMENT trying to take more control -- LOL ;) ;) ;)
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... They have made some of the emissions sites into covid test centers
Same thing just change which end is being tested.
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Bought a leash and harness for pepper as well as a Kong toy, and the first of 3 shots she will need to start off with.
Also took her for her first walk sort of, she wasn't too interested and turned around after meeting the neighbors dog.
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Finished up lights on tractor, then it wouldn't start. No turnover, not even a click. Cleaned battery terminals, started, shut it off wouldn't turn over again. Hit solenoid with hammer handle and it started. Ordered a solenoid :( Need to get 2 new battery terminals also. Such is life with an antique tractor.
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The beauty of those LEDs is you can run them a long time before they run the battery down. Very important in crappy old tractors. :D I put a set on the hay tractor and they work great. Cant keep a good battery in it or the locals would steal it. the alternator barely puts out enough to keep the lights lit. :D
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The beauty of those LEDs is you can run them a long time before they run the battery down. Very important in crappy old tractors. :D I put a set on the hay tractor and they work great. Cant keep a good battery in it or the locals would steal it. the alternator barely puts out enough to keep the lights lit. :D
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The locals would steal it? You can't deal with the locals like the bobcat getting the chickens?
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Just finished eating a great steak, cooked on the grill outside in 60 degree bright sun. Just last Sunday we had five inches of snow which is already all gone. Southern Ozarks.
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The beauty of those LEDs is you can run them a long time before they run the battery down. Very important in crappy old tractors. :D I put a set on the hay tractor and they work great. Cant keep a good battery in it or the locals would steal it. the alternator barely puts out enough to keep the lights lit. :D
The locals would steal it? You can't deal with the locals like the bobcat getting the chickens?
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I wish, would make life much easier. I've learned to just deal with it, much easier that way. Never leave a good battery down there. only 3-4 gallons of gas in the tractors. locking gas cap will keep them from filling it up with dirt/trash. park everything behind something. if they can see it from the road they're gonna shoot it. park it with the radiator away from the road. Tubeless tires can be plugged in the field. if they suspect you shot their dog they'll shoot your cows. The south Texas mexicans can be very devious.
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Technically last day of the year today for me, although I'm going back to work on Monday for a few hours.
Sid's cool Santa hat.
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I have spent the day just sitting around . It is good to be home for my birthday, even if it is after a bad week. Last Thursday at about 330 AM I blacked out in the bathroom and went to UTMB Emergency, Root cause was excess fluid on the heart causing very poor circulation and lack of oxygen. Took a week to get the fluid levels down to halfway acceptable. I also have a very painful left hip, but no breaks or cracks.
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Dang Papaw, sounds like you a real fun week. Good that your on the mend and home again.
Happy Bday too.
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A fall like that could have been really bad glad you are OK and on the mend.
Happy birthday!
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Glad your mending pawpaw!
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Papaw hope you feel better real soon.
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Merry Christmas Noel -- hope you are feeling better, and that you and yours have a wonderful season.
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Hope you mend quickly Papaw O:-)
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Sorry you had to go through such a scary situation. Glad to hear that you are on the mend.
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Good to hear that they sent you home Papaw
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Free Christmas trees in the Ozarks. Lots of places to get free trees, your own property, fence rows and National forests. This one was on our property, 25 feet or so tall, dropped it and took the top 10 feet. Southern red cedar, considered a weed tree here.
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Did the yearly last minute shopping for the wife's gifts. Took the kids with to give her a day off.
Went to see Santa at Cabela's tonight.
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Great pics Tim. Christmas is really extra fun when you get to see your kid's excitement.
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Went shopping with the wife and kids to fill food pantries for 3 families in the area.
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Finished products
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Puppy training.
This morning she followed me all the way around the block without needing a leash.
Theres a leash law which nobody else but me seems to follow, but right now I'm just trying to get her to the point where she will stay put and I don't have to worry about the front gate when I'm bringing in groceries...ect.
I will also be using a cap gun to train her on loud noises so she can hang with me when I'm plinking in the backyard or when I working in the garage.
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Spent a couple hours on the ice with my son last night and the views were incredible. We only ended up with a few keepers but the pheasants cackling on shore and the coyotes yipping on the distance only added to it.
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Spent a couple hours on the ice with my son last night and the views were incredible. We only ended up with a few keepers but the pheasants cackling on shore and the coyotes yipping on the distance only added to it.
Very cool !!!!
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That looks fun! I did some ice fishing when I was young, and it got more fun when I was old enough to buy adult beverages. :great:
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today’s projects involves a little bit of plasma cutting, a little bit of welding, some mag drill work, and some geometry ciphering. I had to make a couple of burner adapters for a couple of boilers going into a sewage treat facility, up on the Canadian border.
The boiler manufacturer, made a mistake and made the front wall opening for the boiler about 3 inches too big in diameter, the mounting flange bolt center, in now inside their hole, so I had to make 2 adapters to not only be able to mount the burner on the front of the boiler, but also move the burner 1-1/2” further back from the front wall to gain some extra clearance. I started out with (2) 24” x 24” x 1/4” plate, along with (2) 11” OD x 8” H x 3/16” rolled rings, ending up with (2) 17-1/2” OD x 11-1/2” x 1/4” flange rings with the rolled rings welded to them.
I also had to make (2) 20” OD x 12” ID x 3/8” flat rings, with (12) 3/4” holes on a 17” bolt circle, to end up being welded into the roof of the boiler casing to give us not only a stack outlet flange, but also a stiffening ring to stiffen the 24” x 24” x 3/16” outlet panel. Normally the stack is supported off of the ceiling supports, but in this case the roof will support the first 15-20 feet of the 12” doubled walled stainless steel stack, before the ceiling supports can used.
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Some may know that I blacked out and fell last Thursday and ended up in the hospital , Herat trouble I have had for years and now too much fluid on the heart.
A little report on my condition-
Things are looking up a bit and I feel lots better. Slow moving and have a real sore hip. Heart condition seems to be improving. Had a follow up appointment with the cardiologist yesterday and he says to continue on the meds from the hospital.
I will have a home health care person come by next week to do an evaluation.
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Good to hear you are improving.
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Glad you are on the mend.
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get well quick papaw!
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Hmmm thought I'd be seeing a post from Steve in this thread? I know he's on the road and towing that infamous trailer?
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Scooped the remnants of yesterdays blizzard off the sidewalk. Sitting and looking at Christmas decorations. Walked down to the mailbox, got the secret santa package, too cold to do anything outside, 7F windchill.
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Took the kids to the annual picture with Santa at Bass Pro.
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Fed cows this morning then spent the rest of the day chasing down fuel filters :021: Almost made it back to the barn before it died. Luckily Napa was open.
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Yesterday, Boxing Day, I had a look at the 28 Fergie that Noel is doing up. This has been on the farm since the late 50s.
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I then went and saw the old neighbors on the farm on the other side of where I grew up and caught up with them. I then had a tramp around in knee high vegetation trying to get to the waterfall on the farm boundary but didn't couldn't get to it.
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Next stop was the remains of Seagrove Airfield. This is a WW2 Airfield built for the defence of Auckland. A RNZAF P-40 Kittyhawk (Warhawk in the US) squadron was based here for the duration. In May 1943, when American forces arrived in NZ, MAG-14 (Marine Aircraft Group 14), equipped with SDB-3 Dauntless dive bombers, where offered use of the Airfield, arriving in April after action at Guadalcanal. MAG-14 left in August. The Airfield closed soon after the end of WW2. There is basically nothing left but the runways are still evident from the air.
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Next stop was Waitangi Falls to take some photos. There were plenty of people swimming.
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Coming home through Morrisville, a farming service town in the Waikato, I took some photos for Muddy.
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Not wanting to be out done the Deutz Fahr tractor dealer has a slightly bigger cow.
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Wow, those bovine designs look like a 1960's "pharmaceutical experience" -- :cool2:
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After leaving the Oilers I headed over the hill to the Glen Afton Line. This is a heritage railway in the northern Waikato near Huntly. It is operated by the Bush Tramway Club and have a good collection of equipment from the bush tramways of the timber industry, as well as the industrial and coal mining railways of New Zealand. They have around fifteen locomotives including American geared steam Heisler and Climax and New Zealand built improved versions; a selection of standard locomotives. They also have a good collection of English and local built diesel locomotives. Their oddest locomotive is a battery electric one built by Goodman of Chicago in 1922. They have about two miles of track. They have lost about a mile of track to the west as the open cast coal mine in the area has expanded. As it is summer here they are not running their steam locomotives due to the risk of fire.
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Some nice old iron there! :PDT_Armataz_01_37:
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Fish camp!
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Went and opened our track up for a local guy that wanted somewhere to test his non-race buggy. Some dollars for the club and a quiet morning in the sun for me. It didn't go as planned for him and he broke it after three laps!
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The radio control car club had their 1/5th scale race day on at their track beside ours, so I stopped and took some photos.
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1/5th scale is pretty big.
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So when this guy tried to occupy the same space as me I moved pretty fast!
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Now I'm getting ready to go back to work tomorrow after three weeks holiday.
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Those RC cars can haul butt. My little Tmax truck can run faster than I can react. Thats why its broke so often. :banghead:
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Not a big deal but some might like it..
Playing around hitting the door rails with Blaster garage door lube. Dawns on me it could be good for the all the slides on the tool & storage boxes.
Turns out it is, over the years, used WD was good not long lasting constant maintenance. Any oil or greases, get loaded with dirt, becomes gummy.
Ran out, but getting another spray bomb and finish the rest. I just love new ideas... LOL
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Thanks pep as I never considered using garage door lube on boxes and I will try it on some older boxes I have.
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Winter fun in the north. Finally got the icehouse on solid water!
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Back to work. Evidently we were good last year, santa brought us a new bbq table for our deck.
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For a long time I've had this wood box my uncle made as a kid or something, I used to store my knives in it but grew out of this box a few years ago and it's sat empty since.
Recently I decided I wanted a boot care box, and after a bit of thinking on how to I'd like to go about making it I realized it would be so much easier to just add a platform to the top of this and call it good.
I had a basic idea in my head of what I wanted and just figured it out as I went along , it took maybe an hour all said and done with playing it by feel to come up with the best angle and such .
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It's certainly functional, and I'm happy to see that my handy work is at least a bit better than my uncles was when he made the box.
He's 10x more skilled than I am now, and at my age was probably at least a few times more skilled than I am.
I may be progressing a bit slower but I'm getting there, and my rate of improvement seems to be speeding up some.
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Took one of the old Sun portaliner carts I wasn't really using and bolted the drill press to the top.
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Now I can move it if need be, and theoretically I can store drill bits and stuff in it though it currently has some old automotive service books in it.
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Winter fun in the north. Finally got the icehouse on solid water!
That's cheating! (Says the guy that would I only do it that way too)
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Had a cardiologist appointment today to see if my progress since a recent hospitalization is good.
It is good !
Also had a Covid test and am negative. Wife was tested also and is also negative.
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Papaw, that sounds darn good!
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Work made me go and take photos in the atrocious weather we are having. It's a hard life.
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LOL yeah that looks pretty bad ......
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Today I kept the recliner company, temps got up to 31, just listened to the wind howl, got up to 55mph am told. Listened to the news to see how many semis flipped over. Also 5-6 inches of white, eastern Nebraska.
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Work made me go and take photos in the atrocious weather we are having. It's a hard life.
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Geez, some guys have it rough!
Now all you need is for a mermaid to pop out of that lake. :))
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Work made me go and take photos in the atrocious weather we are having. It's a hard life.
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You're killing me Rural!!! It's cold and rainy here in DC, and I'm huddled close to my woodstove. Would love to have that weather and that view --
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I was looking at John k's post saying it was 31, going 'just like here today" until I realised he meant deg f! It nearly got to 31C (mid 80s) here today. It's after 10pm and I've just got home from a quiet get together for a friends birthday. We sat outside on the deck in shorts and tee shirts, eat steak, ham and salad; and shot the breeze with some good friends until it got dark. It is still about 20C (68f).
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Painting some after market fenders and inner fenders for my 95 GMC 3500hd bucket truck. I bought 2K epoxy rattle cans, expensive at 26 bucks ea, I shall see if its worth it. Roughed up the black coating thats applied in Taiwan :D one can per fender. Gong to do inner fenders with Chassis saver after I rough them up. They will get done with brush. Don't really care how the final finish comes out as long as its protected from rust. I did the doors a few years back and that painted failed, peeled off, its was SEM rust shield. Going to fix that also at some point.
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Sometimes you have that job that fights you all the way ........ , finally getting a job done on one of the trucks that we identified needed doing during the last season hauling apples , truck hasn’t been busy , because we run the other one on milk . Centre hanger bearing on the drive shaft, to start with the UJ yoke looked like it was frozen onto the shaft , finally got it moving , combination of hydraulic puller , heat from the torch , and BFH . Even had some Jafe Juice doing it’s stuff......
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There is hardly any good way to position yourself to get max leverage doing that job but you got it. :great:
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You always know it is going to be an interesting job when you have to bring a fire extinguisher :41:
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Was in the city today, junk shopping. At a Habitat Restore which we sometimes have luck, saw a workbench. Heavy, steel framed, weightier than it looked, and had an attached vise. Medium sized, painted original red, good jaws, and the end of the screw was bullet shape rather than squared off. Name plate was riveted on, not a sticker, DUNLAP, ah, Sears. Held down with 3 bolts, and it swiveled, no damage to be seen. $35 for the entire bench. Figured to ask the manager if I could take off the vise for $20. Turn out the manager was coming my way with a 2 wheel dolly. Followed by the fellow that just bought it. Intended to offer him 20, but thought the vise would be handy, darn, lost it by 4 minutes. That was a good looking vise, got several spares, but that was a nice one.
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Found my missing 3rd-of 3 rat traps left out for the roof rats (a new problem). It was nowhere to be found where it was set, and after cursing that I may have placed it elsewhere (and forgotten), my hunch was that a hawk got it.
Sure enough....4 days later I find the trap 200' from where it was set, laying on the ground beneath a high limb, with only the tail remaining as evidence.
So the rat was struggling to get away (my guess) and a hawk flew off with it (rat and trap), and had a tasty captive, squirmy, squealing meal.
Win-Win for hawk and rat trap owner. Curtains for the rat.
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Felt that one.
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Felt that one.
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We won’t loose the “shakey isles” nickname anytime soon !!
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Glad we dont get those around here too often.
I spent yesterday cleaning up a pasture and burning brush. spent today recuperating. I've not been this sore in a while.
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Only time the ground shakes here is in a severe thunder storm and the windows rattle, pretty sure I wouldnt like ground moving under me.
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Only time the ground shakes here is in a severe thunder storm and the windows rattle, pretty sure I wouldnt like ground moving under me.
The effects of the quake can vary due to geology, depth and distance from you of the quake. Some may be a shaking sensation while some may be so gentle you wonder if there is a quake going on. Some can be a very sudden jolt with violent shaking in one we stood outside and it looked like we were on the ocean as we could see the shockwaves rolling through the ground towards us.
I have watched waves splashing a large quantity of water out of a swimming pool and things falling from walls and cupboards. One time I watched my Ranger bouncing on it's suspension like crazy.
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Yesterday I got the first dose of Covid vaccine, second to come in three weeks. No side effects so far.
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Yesterday I got the first dose of Covid vaccine, second to come in three weeks. No side effects so far.
Best of luck with that vaccine Noel. Finger's crossed --
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Went to work, tried to finish five days work in two days because of someone's poor planning has become my emergency. After work went to the monthly meeting of the management committee that runs the motorsport area our race track is in. Saw Finn for the first time since before Christmas.
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He has got even bigger. He is now five months old and still hasn't grown into his paws.
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Been through 2 minor quakes here. One I was startled by my screen door rattling thought someone was coming in, No one there. Learned the next day we had a quake. Second, I was taking a nap in my work truck at a Park and Ride lot. Woke up to the truck bouncing. Thought someone was bouncing on my bumper. No one there. Neither caused much if any damage. we are not in an earthquake zone so they were surprising to me but I guess they can happen anywhere.
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around 20ish years ago I was working nights. @0300 I was out sampling our clarification basin when I noticed some odd looking waves. A truly WTF moment when a million gallon basin starts making waves. I thought it was falling apart, then I noticed the night sky light up off in the distance. Union carbide plants ethylene oxide unit blew up. felt it 20 miles away. luckily no fatalities.
The unofficial cause was the board operator in charge of the unit was an affirmative action hire and didn't understand the field operator telling him to release pressure instead he closed it in.
Closest I've ever been to an earthquake.
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One of those days....
An hour job turned into 3 hrs....
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Well my last two days work turned into a ten minutes presentation at a Safety in Design review today.
View from the Strand as I walked back to my ute at 7:45 tonight. The wharf in the second photo has a platform specifically for people to jump off into the harbour. It is about 100 metres from our office and there is a whole office appointment for "bombs" every Friday afternoon at 2pm right through summer. I think the most participants they've got is twenty or so.
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Do they only jump off at high tide so they don't get stuck in the mud?
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Got to shovel a bunch of snow this morning. The wind made 6" drifts in front of the garage and 8" drifts at the gate that I had to clear. Fun meter is pegged and you people to the east be ready for this as it is just the first wave coming in.
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Clearing Mondays snow in Nebraska. Foot in the driveway, a little more around the house. Am warming up the Farmall, need to clear the driveway as more is coming on the weekend. Just read where this is the biggest snow to hit Omaha since Jan. 1975.. only then we had winds making monumental drifts. Omaha was shut down for 5 days, this storm dropped 14 inches south of there. Never want to see a storm like in 1975 in my life, buried my IHC pickup 2 miles from the farm, was 10 days til I got it out.
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Got a good dump of snow overnight so well over a foot total on the ground. This snow is our famous Sierra Cement with a high water content which makes shoveling it more of a chore. It took me 30 minutes to clear the gates up at the road so the wife could go to work. Her Subaru Tribeca was dragging the undercarriage through the snow and she could feel it as she drove which was a first for her. Thank goodness she only has to go 4 miles down the hill to the shop.
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Do they only jump off at high tide so they don't get stuck in the mud?
No, this is an all tide jumping area. There is about 4.5m (15') of water at low tide. This is just upstream/upharbour of the original wharf area of Tauranga. The port area only shifted down closer to the harbour entrance as ships got bigger.
I did find this WWII photo of a Liberty ship tied up at the Railway Wharf. I suspect it wasn't carrying much cargo as the water wouldn't have been deep enough for it fully loaded.
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First day of Auckland Anniversary Weekend (regional anniversary holiday). I headed an hour east to Whakatane to do the annual safety compliance checks on four race cars at Tim's truck repair workshop. His daughter and his neighbor's son race Kiwitrucks (Trophy Karts). Another local's daughter will start racing a Kiwitruck this year as well. The other vehicle I checked was a Class 8 - Open Truck. This is a 4wd truck powered by a 406 Donovan sprint car engine. It has been on the dyno this week and now makes 400hp at the wheels, about 500hp at the flywheel.
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Each end of the truck classes 500hp vs 9hp.
Forklift makes inspecting Kiwitrucks a piece of cake.
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Tim employs three truck mechanics and has just put a mobile hydraulic hose repair truck on the road. His original workshop is timber frame and timber truss.
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The new section is steel frame.
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Smoked Jemfish from one of the father's.
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Because I was in the area I stopped at three Whakatane Airport, as you do, and recognised this type.
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It is a Grumman AA5-A and I recognised the registration. It belongs to the guy that used to own Air Gisborne, who I learnt to fly with and he did my flight test for my license. He was taking a break from fish spotting (tuna) at the aero club. I haven't seen him, to talk to, for twenty years so it was good to catch up with him.
Whakatane Airport has an interesting terminal building, built in the 1970's, the brief was to come up with a "distinctive design to contribute to a distinctive regional identity." See https://www.whakatane.info/news/whakat%C4%81ne-airport-terminal-listed-category-1-historic-place (https://www.whakatane.info/news/whakat%C4%81ne-airport-terminal-listed-category-1-historic-place)
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Stopped at Blueberry Corner for a healthy lunch, blueberry and raspberry fresh yogurt cone.
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Then stopped at Thornton, the outlet to the Rangitati River, somewhere I've never actually visited before.
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The last stop before heading home for a nap was to visit one of the guys I worked with at Gisborne District Council in the late 90s and now lives outside Whakatane. He, and his wife, who also worked at the Council, I at least catch up with evey few years.
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Those Grummans are good planes. I had never flown one until a broker needed an AA5-B delivered from SoCal to KC MO. I'll never forget flying through the Grand Canyon at dawn.
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Livin' the life Rural -- what a great place to be this time of year. Here in my region -- not so much; I hate winter!
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Yesterday I opened the track up for a new club member to run his Class 10 - Motorcycle powered single seater.
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Good to see you got some supervision. :lol_hitting:
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Today was my father’s 88th birthday.
He was having trouble with the stopper in his bathroom sink.
I went over this morning and helped him change out the tail stock under the sink. I handled the stuff under and inside the cabinet and he sat in a chair and gave me direction!
I’m glad I am close enough to help my parents out.
Tomorrow I am going to get him lunch from his favorite bbq restaurant and have a birthday lunch with my parents.
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Good to see you got some supervision. _hitting:
He is the brains of the operation.
Got fender flare mounted on new fender. Inner fender mounted. Unibit to rescue on some holes that don't quite line up;) Used old inner fender as template to get all the holes needed for antilock controller, second battery bracket and fuse box . I also cut skin of old fender to get placement of studs for plastic fender flare. Worked out great. Rust was pretty much confined to fenders. Cab is fine. radiator support was ok, Fluid film will be sprayed on everything once done.
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Walrus, good looking pups!!
Glad you only had to do fenders on your truck and you got it all sorted out.
Got to be tough to keep a vehicle for a long time fighting rust in Maine. I know you stay on top of it, thankfully you can do it yourself
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Good to see you got some supervision. _hitting:
He is the brains of the operation.
Got fender flare mounted on new fender. Inner fender mounted. Unibit to rescue on some holes that don't quite line up;) Used old inner fender as template to get all the holes needed for antilock controller, second battery bracket and fuse box . I also cut skin of old fender to get placement of studs for plastic fender flare. Worked out great. Rust was pretty much confined to fenders. Cab is fine. radiator support was ok, Fluid film will be sprayed on everything once done.
Getting a rescue pup from Alabama on Saturday. She is at a foster location in Maine now. Hoping Goose and her get along. They called her Reeses peanut butter cup because of her colors. Just going to be Reese to us.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210202/69d176897b8ef032d53d295bcc1ff2d5.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210202/4f2030caa8e27452831d289a45080c6a.jpg)
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She's a beautiful pup! I love those colors and breed styling of a dog. Looked like a rottie mix?
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She's a beautiful pup! I love those colors and breed styling of a dog. Looked like a rottie mix?
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Yes on the Rottie mix, not sure what else, they said spaniel?? Thats what caught our attention. So far the foster parents have nothing but good things to say about her. We get her Saturday.
Got Bucket truck back together, ain't pretty, but good enough for a few more years. I probably should get a sticker on it and sell it but I probably won't :)
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Good looking pup.
That southern belle from Alabama is in for a shock with a Maine winter.
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After blowing another crappy Narva halogen headlight bulb I talked to my rally car builder mate who suggested talking to his auto electrian, who incidentally I also use, about a LED conversion. Before we installed (illegal) LED bulbs he suggested trying these Philips "vibration proof" halogen bulbs that he regularly installs in motorcycles. Note the 10G rating on the box. I was a bit disappointed they are made in Poland not the Netherlands. They were only 30% dearer than the Narva ones.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210203/b261e7da734fcd42c250394b0104b5a3.jpg)
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After four long days this week, I knocked off at lunchtime today and headed south to Taupo to do the annual tech Inspection on a club member's UTV.
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View over Lake Taupo from the lookout above Taupo. It is unusual to not see snow on the mountains in the distance even in summer. Fairly warm at 23C/74F.
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Aw gee, bet you had the AC on in your truck. Why dont you rub it in...?.? :)
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Aw gee, bet you had the AC on in your truck. Why dont you rub it in...?.? :)
Cos we can , it’s a hot dry summer down here , I have experienced a North Dakota winter back in 2001 when I did a couple of harvest seasons back to back . I understand what you are facing at the moment, and we will never experience that here in NZ.
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I can't comprehend living and working in 0F, let alone what some of you are getting at the moment. I was listening to the radio on my way back and they were interviewing a Kiwi living in Houston. She was talking about how the power companies were turning power off to some areas, in some cases for days at a time, due to lack of generation capacity.
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Texas was literally minutes away from their electrical grid crashing and they had to start the blackouts. Part of the problem was the frozen windmills and part was the natural gas power plants not receiving gas through the pipelines due to pumping stations freezing up. They don't store the gas onsite and use JIT delivery. Their large percentage of solar and wind power cost them dearly.
I hope this is a wake up call for the green energy only advocates but I doubt it.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/18/texas-power-outages-ercot/
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Texas was literally minutes away from their electrical grid crashing and they had to start the blackouts. Part of the problem was the frozen windmills and part was the natural gas power plants not receiving gas through the pipelines due to pumping stations freezing up. They don't store the gas onsite and use JIT delivery. Their large percentage of solar and wind power cost them dearly.
I hope this is a wake up call for the green energy only advocates but I doubt it.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/18/texas-power-outages-ercot/
Texas wants to be on an island with their grid so they can't buy any power from neighboring states. Shit hit the fan and they went down. Their elected leaders made that choice and now they have to live with that choice. Lack of wind power is nothing compared to base load supplied by Nukes and Natty gas.
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I like how everybody has the answer for Texas. They're wanting to be own their own or like an island is the MSM new catch phrase. Well yeah as the second biggest state we are a grid on our own. The biggest issue to Texas energy is ERCOT and Federal bureaucracy on power generation. Some years ago their was an "oil embargo" in this country. the feds came in and said you must diversify your generation capacity and made us put in a coal fired plant the next county over. They train coal from wyoming to south texas for electrical power. The obama administration did everything they could to get that plant shut down. Now the biden admin is on the same track. the electric co-op I'm in owns two gas fired plants. every year we spend millions keeping them compliant with the clean air act. Just try getting a permit for a new plant. aint gonna happen
Everyone keeps harping on Texas not learning their lessons during the big ice storm 10 years ago. Well some of the mandates were for more localized generation capacity. The community I work for has 3 mega watt unit in the area that are grid tied. they can push power into the grid if needed. All 3 have been run very sparingly during this outage. We're seeing widespread outages yet these sets are idle. I asked one of the service techs about it and he said ERCOT isnt calling for it to run.
So theres more to the story than just Texas is being bull headed. but after seeing some of the crap that went on during this freeze I expect some big changes to ercot. And expect Texas to get screwed again on it.
BTW if it was up to me Texas would be better off back as its own country again.
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. Just try getting a permit for a new plant. aint gonna happen
Yet they(powers to be) think Electric cars are the way to go. Wait till the grid goes down and cars can't move.
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This tells the story about the mess slip knot is talking about and it looks like they are in cover their ass mode right now.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2021/02/18/texas-ercot-removes-board-members-from-website-as-their-residencies-are-questioned-n1426475
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From the interview I was listening to it sounds like the rolling black outs weren't handled very well either. She was saying the power was turned off to Galveston Island for four days. A number of deaths are being attributed to this decision and a local judge is calling for the DA to investigate the the power companies in relation to these. In the article above it is interesting to note that a nuclear power station could operate because its cooling system frozen up. It will be interesting to see what comes out of the post mortem/investigation/whitewash of the event.
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Darn, didn't know all this drama was going on in Texas as I don't watch news, Knew of the freezing, none of the finger pointing. Sadly, I doubt the best solution will be used as politics will be inserted and the best will be compromised
Good luck SlipKnot and other Texans
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I put a new passenger side mirror on my dads truck, surprisingly easy and only took about 10 minutes.
I went with him on a trip up the 101 " aka redwood highway " on his birthday Tuesday, and at the drive-thru tree park he forgot to fold the mirrors in :))
They folded themselves in but he was a hit too far on the right and damaged it a bit.
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At lunch time picked up the club fire extinguishers from annual testing/service.
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I dropped them back up to our track, mainly because I wanted to see how the guys were getting on with the preparation work for the national round in March. One of our club members is the GM of a landscape supply company so brought in some of their gear to do the work.
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The loader is a brand new Hyundai 760 that they have just bought and was delivered to our track instead of to their yard. It is not quite ask dodgy as it sounds as the big boss/company owner/father in-law is driving it. They will be on site for three days spreading a layer of the brown ash material over the areas of rhyolite that has broken down into sand size particles and turns very dusty when it drys out.
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Interesting start to the day. Magnitude 8.1 earthquake 100km offshore at 3:40 this morning. Followed by a swarm of earthquakes between
Magnitude 3 and 5 that is still going on twelve hours later. I've only felt a few. The biggest issue is...
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The threat of tsunami is taken very seriously and they are evacuating low laying areas over quite a large area. We have had to shut down one of the roading jobs I'm looking after for the day because it is on an evacuation route.
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Evacuation map, the areas in black are were they evacuated people in low laying coastal areas.
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Earthquake map for the last 24 hours.
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I saw that on the news and was wondering how you were faring.
Hope no damage and everyone is OK.
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Those tsunamis are pretty rough. I think i'll stick with the hurricanes..
Hope everyone heeds the evacuation call.
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Most people that needed to evacuate did. The warnings have been canceled and people are returning home. There was no decent waves but there were effects on the coast, rivers and estuaries dropped level, weird currents and some small surges were seen. There hasn't been much video captured of surges, the one on this website seems to be the only one doing the rounds.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/surreal-first-images-appear-show-tsunami-waves-reaching-tokomaru-bay (https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/surreal-first-images-appear-show-tsunami-waves-reaching-tokomaru-bay)
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Spent most of the day in the city. Stopped at a tiny junk shop in a neighborhood that I was never in before. There was a gasoline Whizzer bike, odd tools and lots that didnt do anythingfor me. An AC Delco spark plug cleaner did go home with me though. Basically a sand blaster, size of a 4 gallon bucket. Wish it had the tester, but no. Another shop yielded a Poulan chain saw with case. Same model as one I have. 3 chains, 1 new, made it a good deal at $28.
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Glad to hear that you are fine Rural. You going to be busy checking bridges and other infrastructure?
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Sounds like you dodged the bullet this time thankfully :bravo_2:
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Glad to hear that you are fine Rural. You going to be busy checking bridges and other infrastructure?
No infrastructure checks needed. Apart from the first couple of big ones in the early hours of the morning, most of they were barely felt. The biggest wave was about a foot high. There has been no reports of any damage to houses or infrastructure. I slept through the big ones and only felt one during the day.yeaterday. A few of my friends in Whakatane, 70km closer to the epicentre, reported getting woken up by the initial big ones. We are still getting M3 to M4 quakes in the zone 30km off East Cape. There is a plate boundary out there that is still moving apparently. The boffins are saying we might get some more big ones with the associated tsunami risk.
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Went hamburger marys in toledo with some friend they wanted to do a early birthday celebration so treated me knowing im broke. Feeling pretty good had a few mixed drinks and did a shot with each of the drag queens man those ladies were awesome and know how to have fun and the apps and hamburgers are amazing
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Filled the firewood racks full in the garage and house as we may have rain/snow come in tonight and several days next week. Have dry wood now that will last 3-4 weeks. The wind shredded the heavy Costco tarp that was over the wood and it is way too windy now to try and get a tarp over the pile.
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Replaced the rear tire on the Cannondale Saeco. Wore it down until it showed the reinforcement casing. I ride 'em until the skeeeery end of life. I've got a gaggle of replacements to choose from, both new and a carefully hand-picked selection of used tires.
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Well we got our second month in a row of big for us water bills. Must have a leak somewhere. I'm calling a plumber Monday but figured I'd check what I could. Did the dye test in both toilets: the newer one was leaking! Drained the tank, pulled it off and took tit to the shop. New flush valve - and new fill valve while I was at it - and clean it out. Didn't know rubber parts turned into black ink after being wet awhile. Still have some of that residue on my hands.
But the toilet isn't causing the amount of extra water. house is 50 years old - could be a hidden supply pipe if not the new electronic water meter. :38:
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Got a leak in the feed to the house ?
Well we got our second month in a row of big for us water bills. Must have a leak somewhere. I'm calling a plumber Monday but figured I'd check what I could. Did the dye test in both toilets: the newer one was leaking! Drained the tank, pulled it off and took tit to the shop. New flush valve - and new fill valve while I was at it - and clean it out. Didn't know rubber parts turned into black ink after being wet awhile. Still have some of that residue on my hands.
But the toilet isn't causing the amount of extra water. house is 50 years old - could be a hidden supply pipe if not the new electronic water meter. :38:
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When my water bill went up it turned out to be a leaky pop off valve on the hot water heater.
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Technically this happen last weekend, but the fruit beared were enjoyed this morning.
Stiffened that unibody up, car has a real good suspension as it sat. The rear braces and front K these tightened, things up
Car rolls easier, ride is crisp suspension doing all the work.
This Mustang is really much more then I expected, unbelievable, best most refined car owned yet
Here what it looks like.
Night shot after the work, inspiration goes to Uncle Buck. :clap:
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Some heavy engineering today :D
For the last six months or so my tablet has been having issues with not charging properly when you plug it in. It is a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 I bought in 2014, so I probably shouldn't complain as it is in all likelyhood past it's design life. The charge port is worn. In the last week it has got worse, to the extent that it charges so slow I can get about an hours use out of it after charging for the rest of the day. Having a quick look around, a replacement is around the NZ$1,000 mark. After a look on YouTube and some googling, the charge port seems easy to replace and the part is available in New Zealand at a reasonable price. Wednesday night ordered the part, dispatched on Thursday and turned up at work on Friday morning at 9am.
This afternoon, with the YouTube video playing on the laptop I set to work.
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The most nerve wracking part of the job is getting the back off the tablet as you have to go in through the front and lever (gently) against the glass screen to pop the tabs holding the sides of the tablet to the front apart. Once you have done that that and got the side and back off in one piece it is pretty straight forward, just fiddley for someone with big hands.
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Disconnect the battery, in the middle and disconnect the ribbon on the right. Unscrew two tiny philips screws at the bottom that hold the charge port.
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Install new charge port and plug in. Next hardest part is picking up the tiny screws and putting them on the screwdriver.
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Plug the battery back in, reinstall the back and test.
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Success - no red X. Total cost, $21.37
Tools
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Getting in is the challenge :clap:
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Excellent and well done! Thanks for posting that.
The ports are definitely a wear point on devices.
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My laptop has the on/off button pooched. I just never turn it off. ;)
I've tried working on them in the past and the ribbon cable is my nemesis. Good job getting that one going.
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Moved a bunch of yard related tools that were cluttering up the garage into the shed.
I removed 2 bicycles from the shed, and I was able to fit 2 lawn mowers , and a bunch of other yard related tools including the 2 string trimmers, and I've still got more room in the shed.
I can actually access everything in the shed fairly easily.
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Thank God the handles on push mowers fold out of the way.
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Drove over 150 miles roundtrip to get my first Covid vaccine shot. The only county in the state doing younger than 65 is a couple of counties to the east. Weather sucked and had to wait 3 hours in line to get the shot. Had snow most of the way home heavy at times but the blacktop was too warm to stick fortunately. Feel fine now but will see in the morning if this Moderna vaccine causes any ill effects.
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Answered a survey in Danish, I don't speak Danish :clap:
My favourite weather site, www.yr.no (http://www.yr.no), a Norwegian site, changed its layout late last year. Quite frankly the new layout is rubbish. They are still running their old site at www.retro.yr.no (http://retro.yr.no) and I use this site every day.
New site
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There is a survey on the retro site so I took it. It is in Danish with no English option. Between my translate app and Google translate I filled it in.
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Now we have finished for the week and are sitting in our lunch room having a few drinks and watching Team New Zealand beat Luna Rosa in the America's Cup.
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At Pukehina, a seaside settlement about 20 minutes east, for a car show and market. It is a fund raiser for the local volunteer fire, ambulance and surf life saving services.
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It is pretty casual with a wide range of vehicles
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Oil drum chairs from a market stall.
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The view from the opposite side of the road.
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I spent the day looking at cars myself. Last week the wife told me she wanted a new car :c002: :c002: We've been looking at different rides and she settled on a Toyota Hilander. We spent all morning with the saleman getting everything down that she wanted so they could try and find one before we order. We're walking out for lunch and she changes her mind on what color she wanted. :lol_hitting: :lol_hitting:That poor salesman. :hee20hee20hee: he gonna earn his money with her.
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I spent the day looking at cars myself. Last week the wife told me she wanted a new car :c002: :c002: We've been looking at different rides and she settled on a Toyota Hilander. We spent all morning with the saleman getting everything down that she wanted so they could try and find one before we order. We're walking out for lunch and she changes her mind on what color she wanted. :lol_hitting: :lol_hitting:That poor salesman. :hee20hee20hee: he gonna earn his money with her.
Good choice IMHO, we just bought a new Rav4, nice car but far to much safety crap on it like lane assist etc etc. No doubt that crap is going to break and have to be fixed. Expensive???
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Is it something in the air or just that time of year. The wife has been researching the new Toyota Tacoma and Tundra online.
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Good luck. Down here they don’t even have a Tacoma on the lot. I believe he said they had one Tundra.
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must be. the wife has interest in a new trailblazer. it may be time to downsize but we really like our traverse so that is on the radar as well.
spent most of the day looking for a friends dog. my son was dog sitting for them and their about one year old dalmation female jumped the fence and went on the run. she crossed town, crossed the border into mn and crossed the town there. the little bitch is made of coil springs and rubber bands. spent all afternoon in a swampy area swimming back and forth across the river. if she wasn't so cute we would have strangled her when we caught her. pretty sure that she and dogs we took looking for her had a blast and would do it again tomorrow. :38:
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Upgraded the bushing on the snout of the shifter. Really a poor squishy item, not sure what words to use, cheap shit seems appropriate. I like the throw, but this thing, made things feel sloppy .
The headache, seen in the last picture. Is a factory assembly clip, sandwiches the bolt hole for the bushing mount.
Creates interference on the thread so it does not fall off.
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I've had new kitchen cabinets sitting downstairs since last May. Never had time to do them so I finally hired a carpenter to install them. I had already taken down old wall cabinets, painted the walls. Today I took out sink, dishwasher, stove top, oven and Island. Biggest worry is granite countertops, where sink cutout is, very very fragile. Going to clamp some angle iron the length of that portion of counter and hope I have it free from cabinets before we try to move it. The long section of granite weighs approx 400 lbs, that should be interesting. Already spent a shit ton of money on cabinets, want to save counter tops, sink, stove and oven
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Well yesterday. Local signs contractor gave me a street name blade and brackets out of their scrap bin and printed me some new overlays.
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This is for in the motorsport park where our race track is, on the last intersection where there is currently no sign. I had planned to install the pole and these signs yesterday but it was getting quite late in the afternoon and a beer was calling. That might have to be a job for tomorrow after work.
Edit: all the roads in the motorsport park are named after hunting dogs that are now in the big hunting grounds in the sky.
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For some time my ute has been running rough when I start it and seems down on power. This morning I took it in to the local diesel specialists, rather than he Nissan agent. They diagnosed injectors and installed a a new set.
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Trying to move some soybean seed production.
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I take it the ground is a little too soft for the trucks to get traction? Cat and sk to the rescue.
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I take it the ground is a little too soft for the trucks to get traction? Cat and sk to the rescue.
Or maybe a bit more frozen could be better !!
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Well at least you didn't have to pull them up hill :))
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You mean this one Phil?
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Cleaning some mud off the road. Not enough frost or not cold enough is correct. Almost 70 last week . 32 and flurries today.
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Kitchen is gone. You see how thin the granite is around the length of the sink, no issue sitting on cabinets, removing it big issue. Angle iron clamped to main part of countertop to stabilize thin areas.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210315/1b776da0cf4d3258fc8bab24ace27f50.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210315/f97899741a54b717fffa09ffa7c77e9b.jpg)
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Nice save on the granite. So far I've been able to dodge the new kitchen bullet here at home. Our rentals get spec cabinets and laminate, But I dont believe the wife would be happy with that :lol_hitting:
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Nice save on the granite. So far I've been able to dodge the new kitchen bullet here at home. Our rentals get spec cabinets and laminate, But I dont believe the wife would be happy with that :lol_hitting:
We bought Candlelight Cabinets, small kitchen so I figured price wouldn't be to bad, guess again. Could have had a Pit Roller Snap On Box for what they cost. I must admit the quality is there compared to my old ones but holy shit its a lot of money. That why saving a few thousand in granite countertops is important. I bought from local lumber yard also , I'm sure lowes or HD would have been cheaper.
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I filled in the socket markings on my 1/4 super set,blue for metric and red for SAE.
That's what WRIGHT did for the rails they came on so I stuck with it.
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Now it will be much easier to identify them at a glance , I know what's where when I go to grab one but I have put them back wrong a few times.
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The other day I got a box of old junk knives ( one was a good one flintxxx carbon from my great grandfather) and in it was a bent up old silver plated fork that I decided to repurpose.
A quick 5 min project, but I'm happy with the results.
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Those look great walrus. Besides looking at a new truck the wife is wanting to rework the kitchen, 1 bathroom and the master bath sinks and countertop. Where does it end?
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Looks great walrus!
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Walrus, kitchen looks great. Digging the wide drawers. I know you are tall, is your wife also and are the counters normal height or tall.
Assuming the counter tops survived
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That came out really nice. Good save on the tops.
If you are drilling knob or pull holes might want to look into one of these:
Those look great walrus. Besides looking at a new truck the wife is wanting to rework the kitchen, 1 bathroom and the master bath sinks and countertop. Where does it end?
It doesn't. Once one thing is done then something else needs it.
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Went to work for most of the morning. I'm now at our race track helping out with the last jobs before the first round of the National Off-road Racing Championships on Saturday.
Plenty of gear
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Mowing our secondary pits
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New sign going in
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Beats digging post holes by hand
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Usually this time of year we are hauling apples , but a hailstorm just after Christmas devastated the area where we are usually working. So what could have been 2 months work for 2 trucks this year is nothing. Following a phone call a couple of weeks ago , we’ve scored some work hauling spuds !(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210317/95c6a643d4564f2d861a4a54c5203f64.jpg)
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Road signs in.
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You have to be an octopus to do the sign brackets up.
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Walrus, kitchen looks great. Digging the wide drawers. I know you are tall, is your wife also and are the counters normal height or tall.
Assuming the counter tops survived
Granite survived, the cabinets are on a 2" step so 2" higher than normal. Not real noticeable. My old cabinets were up 2 inches also
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Racing tomorrow and I'm absolutely determined to make the idiots, I mean competitors, park properly in the pits!
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proper pit parking?? yeah good luck with that. :lol_hitting: Some of the best fights I've seen at the race track was over pit parking.
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That least these guys seemed to get it.
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Water going on the track
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Small water storage devices arriving.
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Prizegivnig marquee erected. It was hilarious trying to teach the rest of our crew how to tie a proper truckers hitch, rather than a cheat one.
Got home and was eating dinner when Jason rang me asking if I could come and tag (safety inspect) their RS1 as Dyson might have to race that tomorrow instead of this turbo RZR. They were changing the front diff oil and it was full of metal flake!
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I got there to find that they had made three diffs into one. Raana turned up to borrow some 'go fast' bits off Dyson's RS1 for his son's RS1. So after Dyson proved the front diff was working by hooning around in the gully behind the workshop, they started swapping parts over on the RS1.
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Let's go racing.
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Some drivers arrive in style.
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that looks like a lot of fun. :cool2:
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Thanks for giving us a little behind the scene look at what it takes to get ready for a weekend of racing!
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Racing finished at 2:30pm, one hour protest window, then prize giving. Afterwards thr church group one of our members belongs to fed us. Now it is 4:30 and we have packed up the marquee and most of the rest of the gear and are just about ready to go home. Better than some events where prize giving hasn't started until 9:00pm!
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Looks like you pulled off a great event with your hard work. I do miss getting air under the buggy though. :(
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Awesomely run event mate , wish I lived closer and there wasn’t that bit of water between us , so I could get to some of these events !
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Awesomely run event mate , wish I lived closer and there wasn’t that bit of water between us , so I could to some of these events !
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5 June in Christchurch is the 3rd South Island Round and the National Final is at Kurow on 23 October (both events have enduro races on the Sunday but for spectators, that is like watching paint dry). I'll be at both of these events in my official capacity.
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Took the Shelby out for it`s maiden run yesterday... Wow just unbelievable i`ve only cornered like that in my dreams, upshifting downshifting .
Did a 70 mile run around the back hills and was still smiling for hrs after.
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Took the Shelby out for it`s maiden run yesterday... Wow just unbelievable i`ve only cornered like that in my dreams, upshifting downshifting .
Did a 70 mile run around the back hills and was still smiling for hrs after.
What Shelby? Pics please.
Got Kitchen sink back in, Dishwasher moved and hooked up, Island Butcherblock sanded and oiled and screwed down. Today its Oven and stove top, oven just barely fits, not much room for electrical in back, complicated by feed from stove top. Bought back splash tile, drawer pulls and new fridge yesterday. I'm into kitchen about 30 grand? I'd hate to have a big kitchen. Top shelf cabinets were a must after 30 years of particle board ones.. I laughed when I read the specs on weight in drawers. 125 lbs which I think is more than some HF tool boxes :)
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Took the Shelby out for it`s maiden run yesterday... Wow just unbelievable i`ve only cornered like that in my dreams, upshifting downshifting .
Did a 70 mile run around the back hills and was still smiling for hrs after.
About time!! what was you scared of??? :lol_hitting:
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Took the Shelby out for it`s maiden run yesterday... Wow just unbelievable i`ve only cornered like that in my dreams, upshifting downshifting .
Did a 70 mile run around the back hills and was still smiling for hrs after.
:clap: way to go "cornered like that in my dreams" the best thing since sliced bread. Still have the Cup2's ... ?
Bonus .......!!
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Weather and temp, the tires are only good at 45 plus.
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I dug a 20lb+ chunk of cement from the yard.
Bought another of the cheap 6x10 sheds from home depot and am working on the area where it will sit.
I had to soak the ground to pull that chunk of cement out ( half of what cemented in a 4×4 fence post at some point) so I'll continue tomorrow once it's dry.
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R&R'd the crankshaft position sensor on the van. Also replaced the wiring harness and plug.
Been getting misfires on WOT and higher end speeds in 2nd and 3rd gear during hard accelerations. No one could fix it. Took it to the new mechanic. he felt the miss, but couldn't diagnose a cause. He recommended I use premium gas for a couple of tanks to see if that would fix it. I knew it wouldn't, but being he was a new mechanic to me and I didn't want to come off as a wise arse I did it. I tstill did i during WOT, but 95% of the time it was a non-issue. Still gets 16.5MPG in the city, so, I forgot about it.
Till two weeks ago. Did it on not so full throttle and lower speeds. but the service light came on, so I ran it by another shop i know and asked him to plug in his tester. Came back a 0335 code - crankshaft sensor circuit. He said change the sensor myself, see if that fixes the problem. because the diagnostic fee is $$$, so, might just save you some.
Bought the sensor ($80) and connector harness ($38) and did it toady. Found the harness connections at the sensor were bare copper! Should have only taken 20 minutes to do. But this old man and no shop lift took 3 hours! We'll see if it fixes the issue.
Am I just a nit-pic, or should something like this have been visible to an experienced mechanic? Here's the plug end of the harness, as I removed it. No cleaning. The copper is clearly visible. You'd think with a steam cleaned engine (that they complimented me on) and being under the van changing oil and lubing - and troubleshooting a misfire - they would have seen this. Or is it just me?
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Looks like the wires got hot did you figure out why. If the connector is visible from underneath someone probably should have noticed when they were changing the oil but getting more than minimal attention anymore seems the exception. Whoever it was was probably busy on facebook or playing some game on the phone and it wouldn't fair to expect them to break attention from something important like that to worry about a customer.
One of the reasons I do anything I possibly can myself.
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Another huge chunk of fence post cement, but this time I was hopefully smart about it.
Instead of digging the whole thing up I just busted it with a drilling hammer and pulled most of the large chunks so theres nothing on the surface.
Hopefully that doesn't prove to be a problem later on down the line.
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Well, it works! Took the van out for lunch, and on the way home punched it. Dang did that thing accelerate up to 50 without a hiccup! Almost made the 3 hour job worth it.
Nice to have my truck back. It's been this way for 2-3 years, and nobody could find the issue. :91:
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Well, it works! Took the van out for lunch, and on the way home punched it. Dang did that thing accelerate up to 50 without a hiccup! Almost made the 3 hour job worth it.
Nice to have my truck back. It's been this way for 2-3 years, and nobody could find the issue. :91:
Good job George, glad you were able to solve your own problem. Personally I'm pretty skeptical of many "professional" diagnostic capabilities these days. I've received plenty of service estimates that were just plain wrong or were just designed to lighten my wallet; with car dealerships being the worst offenders.
At least you had a mechanic that was straight up with you on what the cause may be. Years ago when I was traveling a lot for work, I knew a handful of independents that I trusted to take care of the wife's car without question when I wasn't around. That's not the case these days.
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Thanks, Ray.
I had gone to this mechanic before. Actually he was our mechanic for many years. But then the service manager retired, and there were other people changing, and we just felt like service suffered. We found the new place, and they seem pretty good. But the last time the truck misfired and the code came up, I knew it would reset itself, so, went to the old company the next day to have him read it. Within an hour the code disappeared. So I at least had a hint of where to look.
And I give credit where credit is due, so, when I need tires in a few months I'll go back to the old place and get them from him.
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Spent some of my taxes, needed a drill / impact set and I've heard good things about the ryobi one+ brushless line so that's what I went with.
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Looks like you bought some good tools and the 460's and the Razorback trenching shovel and Ryobi will serve you well. :great:
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Looks like you bought some good tools and the 460's and the Razorback trenching shovel and Ryobi will serve you well. :great:
I sure hope so, this is my first experience with brushless.
I actually bought the 460's for my uncle for his birthday, I'll get myself a set If I ever need 'em.
Btw I noticed that the Ryobi bit sets are made in Indonesia, and the Craftsman tool bags are made in Myanmar wherever that is.
It may not be America but at least it's not China :)
I also intended to buy a sledgehammer, but I won't buy a Chinese hammer which is all I could find anywhere.
I'll order a Warwood from HJE here soon, boy the shipping is going to suck on that one :33:
Same situation with post hole diggers, couldn't find handles for my old one nor a new unit American made so I'll just order the handles from House handles or Tennessee hickory.
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Myanmar is what used to be known as Burma. It is north of Thailand. It is currently in the news as the military seized power from the democratically elected government on 1 February and there are major protests going on.
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Myanmar is what used to be known as Burma. It is north of Thailand. It is currently in the news as the military seized power from the democratically elected government on 1 February and there are major protests going on.
Interesting, thanks for the information.
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I have 3 of the Ryobi kits and my shop guy has 2. they have held up well for likely 5 + years. His Batteries are showing their age at this point as they get used everyday. Don't know if they are brushless or not but that brushless label is more marketing benefit then real life benefit IMO
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I have 3 of the Ryobi kits and my shop guy has 2. they have held up well for likely 5 + years. His Batteries are showing their age at this point as they get used everyday. Don't know if they are brushless or not but that brushless label is more marketing benefit then real life benefit IMO
I thought it waa supposed to be a more efficient tool , but honestly it doesn't make much difference to me. I just know I'm going to miss the smell of burning Ozone :))
I'm not adding other tools from the lineup because these are all I need, but I do want to add the belt clips to both of them, and I'd like to get just the charger by itself if I can so both can be charging at once.
My past experience with Ryobi has only been with a $20 Ryobi angle grinder, man that thing has taken a real beating over the last decade and is still going strong.
I can't tell you how many times I've dropped it on the shop floor.
If I'm not mistaken Ryobi actually used to make fishing Reels for Shakespeare back in the 70's.
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I have 3 of the Ryobi kits and my shop guy has 2. they have held up well for likely 5 + years. His Batteries are showing their age at this point as they get used everyday. Don't know if they are brushless or not but that brushless label is more marketing benefit then real life benefit IMO
Look at torque specs. Not a gimmick
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Just looked out the kitchen window and there are 6 hot air balloons flying in the valley. The temperature is in the 20's and they love flying when it is cold. They fly in the valley because there is plenty of ranch land and open range to land on.
If you ever want a balloon flight with a gorgeous view fly here.
https://www.balloonnevada.com/
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Absolutely beautiful day here! Took my dad's motorcycle for a ride. Stopped at a model train swap meet/antique shop. Had chinese take out for supper and now relaxing by fire
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Got clic floor down in kitchen, after doing lower bath and entry way with these tiles I finally figured out how to do it. 1 by 2 ft tiles, get long side clicked in and then do short side. Will take these out after a few years and do a ceramic tile floor but for now....
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I put a lot of laminate flooring down in my rent houses. The looks is really nice and its easy to install. I actually enjoy doing it. and its not too pricy. easy enough to pull up and trash when needed.
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Got a new grill boxed, did the some assembly required dance. Ready for next Saturday.
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Started the cleanup on the JC higgens model 29 ( dated 1/56 on the barrel ) and got the barrel polished in prep for the birchwood Casey super blue I ordered.
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I'm getting ready to do the magazine tube next.
It needs more of the fire control group parts than I realized, but I'll do my best to track them down, and regardless all be going through with refinishing it because I can use the practice.
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Got a new grill boxed, did the some assembly required dance. Ready for next Saturday.
Better see pictures of your steaks!
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Rabbit pellets!?
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Rabbit pellets!?
Easter eggs
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Started wheat yesterday.
Hitting it pretty hard. It's early but I don't want to work tomorrow or Easter. We'll go at hard again on Monday.
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Service calls and then came home. Hooked up ice maker on new fridge. Put a large 3M filter under sink for taste and had 3/8 copper behind cabinets to fridge. Using 3/8 compression for connections until I had to go down to 1/4inch at fridge. Cheesy China fittings from HD, leak like sieves. Fought it for an hour or 2 trying to get drips to stop under sink. Bought a small ball valve for behind fridge, leaks by, I'd go insane if I had to use that crap all the time
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our Homey depot is just now getting some stock to stay on the shelves in the plumbing dept. The February freeze wiped everyone out of plumbing supplies.
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Chinese copper tubing has higher amount of more trace impurities than in the past. I want to say phosphorus and sulfur. Makes it more brittle, harder to braze. But being that's pretty much all we can get anymore I just had to adjust my soldering techniques and make it work.
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First Sunday of the month so it is the Oilers Hot Rod Club's Monthly Breakfast Meet. Even though it is in the middle of the four day Easter holiday they still got nearly fifty cars.
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Still had a six in it.
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One for Jabber.
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So after having a look around the Oilers meet and having some breakfast at their event sponsors cafe, I went to...
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A small museum detailing the history of the armed forces in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, from 1890s when the British South Africa Company started trading and prospecting in the region thought to 1980 when Rhodesia became the Republic of Zimbabwe.
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Chinese copper tubing has higher amount of more trace impurities than in the past. I want to say phosphorus and sulfur. Makes it more brittle, harder to braze. But being that's pretty much all we can get anymore I just had to adjust my soldering techniques and make it work.
I predict ............... at some point in the near future. The boneheads of today's maintenance force. Will loose the skill required to solder, unable to hold a cell phone while looking like they are working.
I am curious what you changed, amount of heat, time, flux, solder?
Thanks in advance.
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Pepi, that time is upon us. One of the young guys I got on my crew was asking me about brazing aluminum. I told him that brazing was a brass product and I didn't think it would work on aluminum. He shows me video he watched where the guy was basically soldering a crack but kept calling it brazing. :lol_hitting:
Rhodesia is a fine example of how far and how fast a country can deteriorate under the wrong leadership. I was a freshman in high school and our in our world history class is was studied as quite the great feat for this country to gain back its freedom. I wonder how the populous feels about that now.
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A guy I knew went to Rhodesia in the mid 70's and the last I heard of him from his BIL he was a Captain in the Rhodesian White Army. This guy had also fought in the Congo, Arab-Israeli war and a few others. I've always wondered if he survived or got chopped up with a machete.
Always liked this movie and never knew Cessna made a civilian model 310 bomber. I could think of a use for one of those. :great:
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Chinese copper tubing has higher amount of more trace impurities than in the past. I want to say phosphorus and sulfur. Makes it more brittle, harder to braze. But being that's pretty much all we can get anymore I just had to adjust my soldering techniques and make it work.
I predict ............... at some point in the near future. The boneheads of today's maintenance force. Will loose the skill required to solder, unable to hold a cell phone while looking like they are working.
I am curious what you changed, amount of heat, time, flux, solder?
Thanks in advance.
Sorry, I still say 'soldering" when refrigerant tubing uses "high temperature brazing". As I recall it has to do with the temperature that is the dividing line between soldering and brazing.
The solder I used to use was a self-fluxing type that was standard in the industry. I changed to a different brand of soldering alloy that I think had more silver (for better flow) and used a paste flux (I think it was made by Oatey). I used to use flux as a beginner but it caused pin-hole leaks so a boss made me drop it.
Scrupulous cleaning was also par for the course - even on brand new tube and fittings! I used to use sanding cloth exclusively but went to steel wool for alot of cleaning jobs as it was cleaner.
Brazing or soldering aluminum used to be impossible. I never tried it. Trane had a connector kit for making aluminum to copper transitions, as they tried aluminum tubed coils back in the 80's. If the factory aluminum to copper junction failed that kit was the only approved way of joining them. maybe they have something that works now?
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Continued working in Kitchen, piece of veneer plywood on back of island, pain in the butt. Have to make an accessible area to get at J Box for oven and stove top. Ended up making the connections a different way and hacking up some of interior of island to make sure it was easy to work on once base board comes off. Milwaukee M18 Fuel Oscillating tool is the bomb.
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Interesting, map gas or portable oxy/acc ?
Trane top of the line would not have another. Learned about the Trane. Working for a while with a company that serviced large building AC units.
The biggest system ever seen by me a Cold water unit, basement of a hotel. "A" frame constructed on site to make the repairs........ Miami .
HVAC good career, interesting and technically challenging.
Chinese copper tubing has higher amount of more trace impurities than in the past. I want to say phosphorus and sulfur. Makes it more brittle, harder to braze. But being that's pretty much all we can get anymore I just had to adjust my soldering techniques and make it work.
I predict ............... at some point in the near future. The boneheads of today's maintenance force. Will loose the skill required to solder, unable to hold a cell phone while looking like they are working.
I am curious what you changed, amount of heat, time, flux, solder?
Thanks in advance.
Sorry, I still say 'soldering" when refrigerant tubing uses "high temperature brazing". As I recall it has to do with the temperature that is the dividing line between soldering and brazing.
The solder I used to use was a self-fluxing type that was standard in the industry. I changed to a different brand of soldering alloy that I think had more silver (for better flow) and used a paste flux (I think it was made by Oatey). I used to use flux as a beginner but it caused pin-hole leaks so a boss made me drop it.
Scrupulous cleaning was also par for the course - even on brand new tube and fittings! I used to use sanding cloth exclusively but went to steel wool for alot of cleaning jobs as it was cleaner.
Brazing or soldering aluminum used to be impossible. I never tried it. Trane had a connector kit for making aluminum to copper transitions, as they tried aluminum tubed coils back in the 80's. If the factory aluminum to copper junction failed that kit was the only approved way of joining them. maybe they have something that works now?
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A guy I knew went to Rhodesia in the mid 70's and the last I heard of him from his BIL he was a Captain in the Rhodesian White Army. This guy had also fought in the Congo, Arab-Israeli war and a few others. I've always wondered if he survived or got chopped up with a machete.
Always liked this movie and never knew Cessna made a civilian model 310 bomber. I could think of a use for one of those. :great:
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Watched The Wild Geese last night with the wife on Tubi. It was long, but interesting. Not a block buster but we did enjoy it
The Cessna scenes were cool and the mindset of the mercenaries was surprising.
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Glad you found it interesting Phil. It was made in the usual British fashion of these types of movies but had a good cast and was relevant to happenings at the time. It has been some time since I have watched it.
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No doubt about that movie being British. ;)
Mama told me last night that she liked it
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Started playing with a couple kitties today. Put an extension on the ejector on one. The other will need hitch work.
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My view this morning, pleasant autumn morning.
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On Saturday a buddy and I headed north to see a world record get set. 1234 ft Diameter ice circle cut in Long Lake in St Agatha Maine, about 10 miles from Quebec border. Cutting the circle is hard enough but the record is actually for the biggest ice carousel. The ice in question is 27 acres and weighs 55,000 tons and has to do one revolution. Powered by Ford 300 6 cylinder fitted with a 24 inch brass prop it did a revolution in 2 hours. This has been an ongoing contest between Minnesota, Finland and the Northern Maine Ice Busters. It was cool to see, the ice was shaky at best with the really warm winter we had plus the really warm April we have had. Slush was deep enough for us to question whether we should walk out on to the carousel but we had driven 4 hours to to do so we did. They did it for fun and they hold the record for now.
https://fiddleheadfocus.com/link/maine-recaptures-world-championship-ice-carousel-record/
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Thats pretty cool. but yall can keep that hard water up north. :lol_hitting: I get chills just looking at the ice form on my water troughs. :lol_hitting:
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I agree, that is pretty cool. I also agree with slipknot, you can keep that hard water! It is just starting to feel like autumn here and I'm just thinking I need to put a sweatshirt In my ute in case in need it on evening.
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Hauled a load of kid goats to the market. I had 17 that I was feeding out, was aiming to sell at @ 80-100lbs but the market report from last week had the 40-60lb kids selling upwards of $4/lb. >:D Load up the butt heads on the trailer, we went for a ride. >:D
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I wasn't planning on starting the day shoveling snow but we have at 5" already and big flakes are really coming down. We do need the moisture though.
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I wasn't planning on starting the day shoveling snow but we have at 5" already and big flakes are really coming down. We do need the moisture though.
I typically ignore meteorological scare terms but my vegetation proves we are in serious trouble. It is so dry and has been for so long our desert landscaping is struggling. Three varieties of cactus and two of aloe vera are barely hanging on. The forecast says some rain might be possible next weekend but then the weather woman said it was most likely going to be virga (i.e. rain that evaporates before hitting the ground). I'm running the evap cooler for cooling and put the bleed off line on different trees and plants each day so they get some moisture. Our night-blooming cactus is trying mightily to survive but I think it needs a day of dribble moisture as help!
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Our snowpack was below average this winter and this snow will help and I will take all the moisture we can get. This snow is very wet with a lot of water in it. I hope we get a good thunderstorm today. I hope your landscaping survives.
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I recently ordered a pair of Coleman bt200x mini bikes.
Yesterday I received and assembled them.
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After a few hiccups both are running great now, they topped out at 18mph respectively till I dealt with the throttle limiting screw. Now mine settles in at a top speed of 21mph and his settles in at a top speed of 23mph :smiley_confused1: they were both made on the same day too.
I'm not going to bother doing any more though, the free speedometer app I used is not that accurate I'm sure.
Mine needed a front axle nut that it didn't come with as well as a carb bowl plug screw.
The other which I bought for my dad wasn't running, then I learned about a device in the gas tank which the manuals don't mention.
Long story short I figured gas was sloshing so it should start, but it needed more gas :-[ :-[
Today the rear racks I ordered for them arrived so I mounted mine and a cheap $10 Walmart toolbox I had laying around.
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Tomorrow I'll mount the rack on the other.
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Repaired the TIG welding stool, the Harley way.
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Our snowpack was below average this winter and this snow will help and I will take all the moisture we can get. This snow is very wet with a lot of water in it. I hope we get a good thunderstorm today. I hope your landscaping survives.
Our local water is quite hard, and evap cooler pads clog up quickly with calcium and such. A bleed off attachment is the only thing that sort of works, but it's hard getting people to flush that much water down the sewer pipe in the desert. I tell them put a roll of 1/4" black tubing onto the bleed-off and water your shrubbery with it. I've got a 100 foot roll of tubing, and move the tip every other day to a different tree or bush, and that way water things with waste water that going to b discarded anyway. Works well!
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Grindz Cafe turns into the hole in the wall Fat Burger at night. A good start to the weekend.
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Every Saturday morning lately, on my local Facebook Marketplace, a big tool sale has been advertised. Yesterday I went and had a look. It is in an industrial unit in one of the new industrial areas of town.
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Lots of interesting stuff.
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Tipco
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SK
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Elora - West Germany
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Sidchrome ($120/US$85)
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More Sidechrome
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Crescents
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Craftsman
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Dreadnaught
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And then I lead Midnitemack into temptation by sending him pictures....
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Cast the bait , and the fish will bite .....,,
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:)) Wow thats a nice place, reminds me of Phil's shop.
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Yep, that place looks great!
Phil shop is superb as well. Just afraid that if I slipped and fell behind a shelf unit nobody would find me for a month! Though, it would be a great month! :lol_hitting:
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Never mind Midnite in ready to fly over.
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Went for a early morning blast through the mountains, i`m still grinning.
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Looks nice jabber. How fast have you got her up to? :great:
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Went for a early morning blast through the mountains, i`m still grinning.
Glad to read you're out and about in that car.............. :PDT_Armataz_01_37:
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To be perfectly honest im really not looking at the speedo when im driving it hard as there`s too much going on.
But is sure is fast and a blast to drive.
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Since the wind stayed calm this morning I managed to get two 15gal loads of nuclear mix sprayed on the weeds. I would have gotten another load done but the wind came up pretty good. My legs are sore from sitting astride the Polaris quad and twisting around as I sprayed since I haven't done it in over a year. probably have to do another 45 gallons to get them all including the ditches.
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How bout some pix of the layout Les?
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Looks nice jabber. How fast have you got her up to? :great:
I can tell you the car will do 135, :-\ with more to give. My wife would not ride in the car for a month.....
LMAO
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How bout some pix of the layout Les?
You want pictures of sagebrush? I can't post pictures of a Top Secret compound. :))
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Had to repair the gas dryer vent tubing.
Originally the vent tube was the slinky type of aluminum. it got clogged up easily with lint, tripping the dryer fuse. Replacing that thing cost $15-20. way to much. So I put metal piping in place of the slinky. had two adjustable elbows to make the bends, hinky dory. Only I pushed the dryer in a bit too far once, and snapped an elbow. Metal tape and pop rivets have been holding it.
About a month ago I saw an adjustable elbow on the curb, turned around and got it. Planned on replacing the broke one, decided to replace the old gas flex and add a proper valve while I was at it.
Today was the day! Only the plumbing shop didn't have the gas cock I wanted. Said they haven't had them in a long time (probably COVID excuse) and only had 3 of the other ones! So I decided to use one I had left over from the business. $27 for the 36" gas flex. geez!
Had to turn off the gas while I did the repair, blew out the vent tubing and cap on the roof. Then couldn't get the water heater relit. One of the piezio sparkers - couldn't see it through the dime sized observation port. Removed the burner assembly, figured might as well replace the thermocouple while I'm at it. Put it all back together - new thermocouple nut won't thread into the bottom of the WH gas valve. Because it's left hand thread!!!
What to do. The Mrs. not having hot water for showers will not make for a happy home. I macgyvered the original left hand nut, cut a groove in it so it would slide over the new thermocouple lead, and secured it that way. It looks a little hinky with two nuts on the lead, but it worked! So the wife's comfort is assured - and my hearing is undamaged.
Who the heck puts left hand threads on valve thermocouples? Sounds like a shaft the technician idea to me.
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Watched my sons car run on the Dyno. About 415 average.
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Planting soybeans.
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Planting soybeans.
How's planting season going so far? No hiccups? My brother in law out a new drive setup on his 7200 and seems to be happy with it so far.
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After work I knocked out this holster for a prewar Benjamin model 177 front pump air pistol that I recently resealed.
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It's a about middle of the road for me with retro leather work, I've done worse but I've also done better before.
It's usually the stitching where I tend to get a bit sloppy.
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Had to repair the evap cooler today. The relay package I created to let an A/C thermostat run an evaporative cooler had the time delay relay go out. Of course it wasn't made to work in a moist environment like a cooler but it's lasted several years of use. So I ain't complaining. $78 and change (I'm thankful the dealers will still sell to me even though I dropped my contractors license years ago). To be honest it was harder getting up on and off the roof than the actual repair work.
McGyver at work again!
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Good job George! Finding an good AC repair person around here is very hard. All they want to do is sell you expensive parts, electronic boards, or new units.
I just painted and cleaned my condenser unit last week. I cleaned the evaporator last year and hope it’s good enough to last another season.
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Good job George! Finding an good AC repair person around here is very hard. All they want to do is sell you expensive parts, electronic boards, or new units.
I just painted and cleaned my condenser unit last week. I cleaned the evaporator last year and hope it’s good enough to last another season.
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It's kinda strange. Going into the warehouses I tend to get this, "I thought you had died" look. Guess there's an internet rumor going around. :))
Been a busy couple of months around the house. All three sinks started leaking, then one of the toilets, water pipe leak, then the water heater and now the cooler. Fridge is on the blink, too. When it rains it pours!
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Found this when I came home yesterday from the store. The Leopard Lizard had a Great Basin Fence Lizard also known as a Bluebelly gripped tight in his mouth. The black lizard was still occasionally moving but it was grabbed in the throat. I had to shoo the lizard off the driveway so I could pull in the garage. The 2nd pic was about an hour later and I don't know if he got the whole thing down but he had moved somewhere later on.
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Found this when I came home yesterday from the store. The Leopard Lizard had a Great Basin Fence Lizard also known as a Bluebelly gripped tight in his mouth. The black lizard was still occasionally moving but it was grabbed in the throat. I had to shoo the lizard off the driveway so I could pull in the garage. The 2nd pic was about an hour later and I don't know if he got the whole thing down but he had moved somewhere later on.
Nature is so cool
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Been getting a lot of rain around here. The rivers going to have a pretty significant rise, 29.4ft crest is predicted for Thursday. That puts about 2/3s of my place under water. My brother, a buddy from work and myself spent a miserably wet afternoon moving equipment and cows to high ground. Everything should be safe where its at now. It was raining so hard even the mosquitoes didn't venture out. :lol_hitting:
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Stay safe Curtis and I hope you don't suffer too much damage.
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Unhooked and drained the hoses for the possible freeze tonight. Wife got home from work a little late and we left the house at 6pm and drove down to the airport for dinner on dry roads. Left the airport cafe at 7:30pm and drove home in the snowstorm. Roads were just wet as they still have heat in them but the ground and houses are covered in snow and it is still snowing good and may continue all night. You have to love NV in May.
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Unhooked and drained the hoses for the possible freeze tonight. Wife got home from work a little late and we left the house at 6pm and drove down to the airport for dinner on dry roads. Left the airport cafe at 7:30pm and drove home in the snowstorm. Roads were just wet as they still have heat in them but the ground and houses are covered in snow and it is still snowing good and may continue all night. You have to love NV in May.
It's been in the 80s the past three days here, gonna continue into the weekend at least. Two weeks ago it was low 50s.
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I bought a NOS, Brooks Professional saddle (bicycle), a rusty High Lift jack for $15 and a Vespa. It was a good day.
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Watched my sons car run on the Dyno. About 415 average.
Slick big screen Dyno display, that's a new one :great: Is your son checking an update of a mod or grabbing a baseline before ?
If I remember he driving a vet ?
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Was going to mow the lawn this morning, but decided against it. Too many cicadas on the ground and they are attracted to noise. Not only would I get bombarded by the flying ones, but I'd make a mess mowing over the crawling ones and the dead ones. Not worth it!
At this point everything crawls on the ground. It's literally a seething, teaming ocean of insects, and the male mating sound is getting louder everyday. The closest I can describe it is if you saw the original 1950's movie War of the Worlds and the sound that the space ships made while hovering over the ground. That's the loud droning noise you hear during the day. It's non-stop and coming from all directions.
Go to 1:10 minute into the clip and the sound is what it sounds like around here all day. Maybe the sound effect engineers for this movie recorded the cicada mating sound and enhanced it to make it appropriate for this movie?
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Paid off the snap on man.. Ordered some new wera screwdrivers cause im tired of handle on my snap ons
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Paid off the snap on man.. Ordered some new wera screwdrivers cause im tired of handle on my snap ons
LMAO , hell that's as big a paying off the house ...........
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In my ongoing remodel, lifted the new shower to the roof of the laundry room. The 1959 IHC 460 sure is handy. Tomorrow I get to put the winow and framing back in.
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Shower on the roof
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In my ongoing remodel, lifted the new shower to the roof of the laundry room. The 1959 IHC 460 sure is handy. Tomorrow I get to put the winow and framing back in.
Tractors with front end loaders rule. Sure beats breaking your back trying to do that :D Nice old tractor
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In my ongoing remodel, lifted the new shower to the roof of the laundry room. The 1959 IHC 460 sure is handy. Tomorrow I get to put the winow and framing back in.
Tractors with front end loaders rule. Sure beats breaking your back trying to do that :D Nice old tractor
I would be lost without a front end loader. Monday morning I had to move some large granite rocks/boulders that a neighbor had placed for landscaping. His 3yr old well pump motor gave out and the rocks blocked access to the well. City slicker learned a lesson.
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+1 on the front end loader ownership. Unless you are an apartment dweller, they RULE!!
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Today in the garden, when I see the rototiller bounce its rock removal time(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210522/36681081e214cc4c10431f32e8e0e045.jpg)
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I used my FEL tractor to pull the mosquito spray truck out of the ditch yesterday. He was trying to do a three point turn at the dead end and it didn't work out like he expected. Grabbed it by the ball hitch and just lifted him back onto the road. he was sure happy. I reminded him that the mosquitos were particularly bad on my street...
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Don't know much about FELs, but sure do love my forklift :cool2:
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+1 on the front end loader ownership. Unless you are an apartment dweller, they RULE!!
I’m with the rest of you guys , as we get older we work smarter, this gear not only saves the body , but also allows us to take on other projects that we wouldn’t otherwise tackle . I’d be lost without the 2 FEL tractors I have , one has a forklift mast that can go on in place of the front loader not to mention truck with a crane that becomes another “pair of hands” doing all sorts of stuff..... maybe we create a thread showing off some of this stuff....
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Don't know much about FELs, but sure do love my forklift :cool2:
And I know you know pressure washers. What is the least pressure out put a 3k psi pump can be turned down to/operate at?
Have vinyl siding needs a little clean up, want to use water, without a chemistry cleaner.
Thanks in advance
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Don't know much about FELs, but sure do love my forklift :cool2:
And I know you know pressure washers. What is the least pressure out put a 3k psi pump can be turned down to/operate at?
Have vinyl siding needs a little clean up, want to use water, without a chemistry cleaner.
Thanks in advance
Pressure can be tuned down to hose garden hose Pressure
4ways to control pressure
1. Step back. Pressure on surface drops dramatically over distance
2. If it is a gas engine, slow down the motor. It will pump less water and pressure will drop
3. Use a nozzle with a bigger hole. This will also drop pressure without dropping water volume. This is my preferred method
4. Turn the unloader knob counter clockwise, pressure will drop as will volume. Least favorite method as folks will overadjust the unloader when raising pressure causing too high of spike pressure when trigger is shut off
Note, it takes more pressure to clean if you don't use detergent and it is harder on your siding
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Don't know much about FELs, but sure do love my forklift :cool2:
And I know you know pressure washers. What is the least pressure out put a 3k psi pump can be turned down to/operate at?
Have vinyl siding needs a little clean up, want to use water, without a chemistry cleaner.
Thanks in advance
Pressure can be tuned down to hose garden hose Pressure
4ways to control pressure
1. Step back. Pressure on surface drops dramatically over distance
2. If it is a gas engine, slow down the motor. It will pump less water and pressure will drop
3. Use a nozzle with a bigger hole. This will also drop pressure without dropping water volume. This is my preferred method
4. Turn the unloader knob counter clockwise, pressure will drop as will volume. Least favorite method as folks will overadjust the unloader when raising pressure causing too high of spike pressure when trigger is shut off
Note, it takes more pressure to clean if you don't use detergent and it is harder on your siding
Good stuff, it is gas driven, will try that one. The unloader info was also helpful. Explanation, " high of spike pressure when trigger is shut off" .. thumbs up
Any suggestion for the detergent, lots of plants, I have cars she has plants .
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So the guys building the gate at one of our engineer's new house are very slow. Archie pushed over the temporary one and was digging his way out under the main road fence when Kristi saw him on their security cameras. So Archie spent the afternoon in the office.
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Saturday I Put bedliner on my new to me grill table. We went to celebrate a friend's sons birthday. Sunday I BBQed some chicken.
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That is some tasty looking bird there Tim.
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I am digging the grill resto. Looks good
And the childrens,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,they look so innocent :))
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I am digging the grill resto. Looks good
And the childrens,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,they look so innocent :))
awe phil come on . we know you mean get to work little tool thieves so the mudman will come tool shopping. :97:
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I am digging the grill resto. Looks good
And the childrens,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,they look so innocent :))
awe phil come on . we know you mean get to work little tool thieves so the mudman will come tool shopping. :97:
:)) :)) :)) LOL -- that's funny because I was thinkin' the same thing when I first read Phil's post. ----- Sam raiding dad's tools which necessitates a trip down to see uncle Phil.
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Don't know much about FELs, but sure do love my forklift :cool2:
And I know you know pressure washers. What is the least pressure out put a 3k psi pump can be turned down to/operate at?
Have vinyl siding needs a little clean up, want to use water, without a chemistry cleaner.
Thanks in advance
Pressure can be tuned down to hose garden hose Pressure
4ways to control pressure
1. Step back. Pressure on surface drops dramatically over distance
2. If it is a gas engine, slow down the motor. It will pump less water and pressure will drop
3. Use a nozzle with a bigger hole. This will also drop pressure without dropping water volume. This is my preferred method
4. Turn the unloader knob counter clockwise, pressure will drop as will volume. Least favorite method as folks will overadjust the unloader when raising pressure causing too high of spike pressure when trigger is shut off
Note, it takes more pressure to clean if you don't use detergent and it is harder on your siding
Good stuff, it is gas driven, will try that one. The unloader info was also helpful. Explanation, " high of spike pressure when trigger is shut off" .. thumbs up
Any suggestion for the detergent, lots of plants, I have cars she has plants .
Thoroughly wet down the vegetation and soil.
Apply detergent from bottom to top (avoids streaking)
allow 3 minutes or so of dwell time but don't allow soap to dry on surface
Detail wash from bottom to top from 6 to 8 inches away, hitting every square inch just like you are spray painting
Rinse from top down
Use a house wash detergent preferrably from a pressure washer store, it may be labeled as a fleet truck
I wouldn't be too concerned about the plants if they are wetted down as long as you aren't using bleach.
Bleach is the new big thing in house washing but I don't like it. It allows you to wash from the ground and get done quickly BUT, bleach is highly corrosive and can't be good for the house or your lungs. I don't work on bleach machines, I hate it the much,
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Just in case you are not aware, bleach is not registered with EPA for house cleaning. So it is illegal to use it for that purpose--read the label. This does not mean I don't use it, but be aware.
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I am digging the grill resto. Looks good
And the childrens,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,they look so innocent :))
awe phil come on . we know you mean get to work little tool thieves so the mudman will come tool shopping. :97:
Thats too funny :))
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spent all day yesterday with my 3 sisters and my mom. we moved her to a skilled care facility. she was in the hospital for a few days nearly a month ago. we have been with her nearly 24/7 since then. she isn't getting any stronger and what we were doing wasn't working . it was a willing move and she wants to get better and go home but i don't think it will happen.
she is 91 with some heart and kidney issues. just not quite sharp enough or strong enough to be alone. my wife asked her how she liked it and said it was lonely there but assed it was lonely at home too. she knows a few people there and hopefully in a short time get to know everyone there as it is a small facility with around 30 residents.
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spent all day yesterday with my 3 sisters and my mom. we moved her to a skilled care facility. she was in the hospital for a few days nearly a month ago. we have been with her nearly 24/7 since then. she isn't getting any stronger and what we were doing wasn't working . it was a willing move and she wants to get better and go home but i don't think it will happen.
she is 91 with some heart and kidney issues. just not quite sharp enough or strong enough to be alone. my wife asked her how she liked it and said it was lonely there but assed it was lonely at home too. she knows a few people there and hopefully in a short time get to know everyone there as it is a small facility with around 30 residents.
Sorry to hear that, Harlan.
My mother is also in assisted living right here locally but I don't know where. My one sibling has the power of attorney and doesn't share info with the rest of us. My mom has been in the home 4 years now but I didn't find out until last year - and then the Covid hit. So all I know is the little bits and pieces of story I get. I could get sad about it but what can you do?
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Harlan, sorry to hear about your Mom. If she is a bit outgoing, she will make plenty of friends and won't be lonely.
Its hard to watch our parents deteriorate but visiting often gives them something to look forward too. My Mom saw one of her children everyday and that helped her a lot.
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One more question, is there a check valve in the detergent feed valve. I know the knurled knob controls flow rate.
Don't know much about FELs, but sure do love my forklift :cool2:
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spent all day yesterday with my 3 sisters and my mom. we moved her to a skilled care facility. she was in the hospital for a few days nearly a month ago. we have been with her nearly 24/7 since then. she isn't getting any stronger and what we were doing wasn't working . it was a willing move and she wants to get better and go home but i don't think it will happen.
she is 91 with some heart and kidney issues. just not quite sharp enough or strong enough to be alone. my wife asked her how she liked it and said it was lonely there but assed it was lonely at home too. she knows a few people there and hopefully in a short time get to know everyone there as it is a small facility with around 30 residents.
Harlan, assisted living is a big change for parents after living in their own home for many years and by their own rules. I was fortunate to be able to spend almost every day with my mom and do hospice care for her final 7 months. Dad got along fine in the facility but was able to still drive when he wanted to. One year after mom passed we moved dad to a nice facility close to home and he had many lady friends who sat with him every day for meals and he got along well. I visited him most every day and took him to doctor appointments so I could give my sister the nurse the straight scoop. My sister and I also did his hospice care the final week.
As long as the facility has a good exercise plan, planned excursions, entertainment options and good food it can be a great deal. One thing I observed with the older folks is that while the food was important, the most important part of the day was dessert.
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Yes there is a check ball and spring in the injector. Its purpose is to keep water from flowing into your soap bucket when you are using high pressure.
The injector only pulls soap under low pressure, most machines that is the black nozzle.
Also, the injector is directional, only works in one direction. Most have an arrow to show which way water flows through it
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Ready........ did not see a flow direction indicator for the soap dispenser. Looking at both ends looks like a straight shot end too end. Guessing makes no difference, pick up in the middle. So tomorrow fierier it up see what happens. Have this PW for 20 years, was using it to clean ceder siding board by board, the vinyl siding will be a breeze.
Saw the truck wash, but they had house wash, so got that. Northern tool the supplier .
Pictures for you entertainment LOL
Thanks again for the info.
Greg
Yes there is a check ball and spring in the injector. Its purpose is to keep water from flowing into your soap bucket when you are using high pressure.
The injector only pulls soap under low pressure, most machines that is the black nozzle.
Also, the injector is directional, only works in one direction. Most have an arrow to show which way water flows through it
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I am digging the grill resto. Looks good
And the childrens,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,they look so innocent :))
awe phil come on . we know you mean get to work little tool thieves so the mudman will come tool shopping. :97:
:)) :)) :)) LOL -- that's funny because I was thinkin' the same thing when I first read Phil's post. ----- Sam raiding dad's tools which necessitates a trip down to see uncle Phil.
:))
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Getting on the plane this morning to Christchurch for a week. Offroad racing National round on the weekend.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210601/d55e3e9b9cdaa169d37e196ed096d011.jpg)
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Mt Ruapehu, winter is definitely starting here.
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Leaving the North Island with the South Island in the background.
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Interesting colour rental car, almost the colour my Dad's truck was in the 80's.
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Christchurch giving me a special welcome.
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Rural funny you mention the color of the rental car. I have seen some unusual colors on new cars. Being color blind, can't always identify what a color is but know if I like it or not
Saw a new Vette that appeared to be an industrial equipment gray color, no thanks. Have been seeing that color more and more on new cars
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Rural funny you mention the color of the rental car. I have seen some unusual colors on new cars. Being color blind, can't always identify what a color is but know if I like it or not
Saw a new Vette that appeared to be an industrial equipment gray color, no thanks. Have been seeing that color more and more on new cars
Shiny primer cuts costs? :lol_hitting:
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Said this before, for the past 8 - 10 years the majority of vehicles are white, black or some shade of gray or silver. Only recently have seen the little cars come with these Easter egg colors. Wasnt long ago an all white vehicle was from a fleet buy. Not many folk wanted black because it is tough to keep clean. I think the reason for the black, white, gray has been the social political climate, the PC correctness, causing folk to not want to stand out of the crowd. For fall coming on in the southern hemisphere, it still looks darn good.
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Said this before, for the past 8 - 10 years the majority of vehicles are white, black or some shade of gray or silver. Only recently have seen the little cars come with these Easter egg colors. Wasnt long ago an all white vehicle was from a fleet buy. Not many folk wanted black because it is tough to keep clean. I think the reason for the black, white, gray has been the social political climate, the PC correctness, causing folk to not want to stand out of the crowd. For fall coming on in the southern hemisphere, it still looks darn good.
Man that's a stretch................ :-\
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We had a 4.1 not far from here last week in the middle of Lake Tahoe. My desk chair shook and my monitor wobbled. There are some really different colors available now and some colors make good looking vehicles look like crap.
Rural, was that a Q or an ATR you flew in?
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Wow Rural, I guess you can't win for loosing. Hope you good folks in Christchurch are OK. God bless!
As far the color is concerned, and as the 1970's were my formative years, I tend to gravitate toward that bold look.--- Love the blue.
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Rural, was that a Q or an ATR you flew in?
ATR72-600
As for the earthquake, I thought someone had backed into it before I even got it out of the rental car carpark.
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I really considered a white truck when I bought the 2019.
My buddy lives out in the woods, he had some hoodlums drive by shooting up the place one night in a white Ford truck. He called the sheriffs office and told them to catch those guys in that white Ford truck. The dispatcher laughed and told him every oilfield company in the area drives white Ford trucks and they would pass 100 or more just getting to his place.
Something to be said about blending in to the crowd. :93:
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So a fairly busy day today. After breakfast in a cafe appropriately called Joe's Garage, I headed to the Canterbury Museum. They have an Antarctic exhibition on.
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Antarctic Motor Tractor, built in 1914 with a four cylinder Coventry-Simplex engine. Despite extensive the testing, once on the ice it failed and was subsequently abandoned.
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Model 743 Tucker Sno-Cat one of four used in the 1957-58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The first motorised crossing of the continent.
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One of five Ferguson TE20 tractors modified for the same expedition. These were used by the Ross Sea Party, lead by Sir Edmond Hillary, of Mt Everest fame, who set off from the opposite end and headed toward the South Pole establishing supply dumps along the way. Sir Ed being Sir Ed decided, once they had established the final supply dump that they might as well continue to the South Pole. They were waiting their when the main expedition turned up, making them the first people to make it to the Pole by motorised means. The expedition leader was not amused.
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1964 Polaris Sno-Traveler Model K-95.
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The Paua House was originally in Bluff at the bottom of the South Island. The house was owned by elderly couple who built up a massive collection of ornaments and trinkets made from the iridescent shells of paua (abalone).
When they died, the house was purchased by their grandson. He loaned the collection to Canterbury Museum. Parts of the house were recreated by the museum.
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In 1970 Ivan Mauger became the first person to win three consecutive Individual World Speedway Championships. In recognition of this two American fans offered to have his motorcycle, this one, gold plated.
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Another of Ivan Mauger's motorcycles.
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Christchurch is one of the oldest cities in New Zealand. It has a lot of stone buildings. In the September 2010 earthquake a lot of these buildings were serverly damaged and are still being repaired.
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These are a couples of photos I took waking back to my car.
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This is in the courtyard.
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In this group of buildings was a small museum called the Tecee Museum of Classic Antiquities.
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Medusa funeral pot 2nd century BC
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Various Mediterranean artifacts 3rd century BC to 2nd century AD
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Roman floor mosaic from Syria, 5th century AD
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I then headed about an hour south to the avaiation museum at Ashburton. For a small town this museum had an impressive collection of aircraft.
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Gloster Meteor
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Mig 17
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Harrier GR3
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Flying Flea
I'll post the rest of the pictures later.
As Midnitemack lives a couple of miles outside Ashburton, I stopped and caught up with him for an hour or so. I had a snoop in his sheds. (I could tell you what was in them, but then I would have to kill you ).
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Came back via the bridge over the Ashburton River that was closed due to the flooding over the weekend. One of the piers has sunk. Looks like it will be an interesting fix.
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Very cool Rural.
Today we payed our respects to a fellow club member. Then I stopped by the local fair grounds for the tractor pull. I showed up late so my dad pulled. He did pretty good. He's still learning lol.
Went to dinner with some friends.
Tomorrow we're headed to Woody's Crabshack in Maryland with Mandy's parents and the kids. I'm taking the bike.... So I'm getting off easy and not have to listen to the kids and in-laws for 2 hrs in a car :))
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Where is Woody's?
Enjoy
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We're having the master bathroom remodeled this week, so I was busy pulling out all the fixtures and devices I want to save. The spare bathroom could use the fixtures for parts, and I can polish up the chrome and brass fittings and make the spare bath a little more fancy.
By the way, you guys have the BEST Chinese restaurant I've ever been to in my entire life. (And I've been all over the country and Chinatown in San Fran). Chef Lee at Lake Anna. I know it's not right around the corner but dang I still have memories of eating there 2 years ago.
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All I did after cooking breakfast was check electronic devices I have dug out of the shop. I finally found a good DVD/VHS player that works great except even with new batteries the remote doesn't work. I hooked it up to a 52" plasma TV my sister gave me to get it out of her house she just sold. The wife and I sat there watching videos of me flying different planes from years past. The large sharp screen made watching me do aerobatics in a P-51 and flying Stearmans and Texans very enjoyable. Amazingly my flying was just as good today as when the tapes were made. :D
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Yeah I've been scrounging up and reusing old DVD players when I find them for cheap. We have a good collection of discs and I have no motivation to "upgrade" to streaming. So I have to keep an eye out for useable players and snag them when I find them.
So long as I get Toshiba players my original remote will work them (though not all the features will function on all units). Apparently all Toshiba players use the same basic programming so our remote will operate them. :great:
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Where is Woody's?
Enjoy
The town of North East
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Where is Woody's?
Enjoy
The town of North East
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Thanks Tim, I will have to try them out
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George, thanks for the tip on Chef Lee
We are going to Lake Anna the end of July
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Not me but contractors on one of the big projects in town that we are involved in. Last night they managed to drive a sheetpile through an 8" sewer rising main (pressure main) while excavating for a stormwater connection. Their excuse is that it wasn't in the as built location. The only problem is, they laid the rising main and did the as built as part of this project 18 months ago. I would say they have less brains than a jellyfish but that would be insulting jellyfish.
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They built it, provided the as builts then punched it, :bravo_2: That takes a special kind for sure.
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Contractors are driving me to drink!
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Getting my bachelor pad ready to put on the market. 3 BR, 2 Bath, 1700+ sq feet with detached single and three car garages. Realtor thinks we should ask about 50-60K more than what I think it's worth, but in this market we'll see.
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Getting my bachelor pad ready to put on the market. 3 BR, 2 Bath, 1700+ sq feet with detached single and three car garages. Realtor thinks we should ask about 50-60K more than what I think it's worth, but in this market we'll see.
That place would sell in an instant here no matter what price you listed it at. How come bachelor pad makes me think of waterbeds, mirrors and disco balls? :dance:
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Getting my bachelor pad ready to put on the market. 3 BR, 2 Bath, 1700+ sq feet with detached single and three car garages. Realtor thinks we should ask about 50-60K more than what I think it's worth, but in this market we'll see.
Take their advice and make it a desirable looking as you can. Good luck
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Around here the real estate market is going crazy, people buying houses for $30-50K over the asking price. If I hadn't just taken over a new gig at work I'd sell out and move.
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One couple bought the 5ac property and big 2yr old house 2 properties away for $300,000 over asking price a couple of months ago for $1.6mil.
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wow $300K over thats crazy.
Our appraisal district is loving this. I'm sure my property taxes are going to skyrocket.
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The Darkside have a thread called Dumbest thing you did this week, well it is Monday and I already posted in that thread before lunch!
The morning started with me sleeping in because I didn't plug my phone in and it went flat, so no alarm. I got some charge in it on the way to work. Then as I walked in the door at work my team leader rang me asking if I was at work or on site, he is based on a different site in town, wanting to discuss an issue on his site. I sat down at my desk to turn my computer on to confirm some info for him only to find no laptop on my desk. After saying several swear words I realise it is still sitting on my dining room table at home! So I had to do a quick trip home to get it. So between that and Monday morning meetings I achieved zip this morning.
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Around here the real estate market is going crazy, people buying houses for $30-50K over the asking price. If I hadn't just taken over a new gig at work I'd sell out and move.
And move where? i`ve been looking at Wyoming for years now and in the last month every propriety bar 3 is gone.
My place here in Puyallup is prolly around 650k but all the good places to move too are gone or stupid expensive..
I`ve decided to just sit and wait and see what happens in the future.
The world is sure changing.
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Middle America Jabber.
I gotta get away from the hurricanes and North Mexico mentality before I retire. Texas will be blue in a few years and thats not appealing either.
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In Vermont for the weekend with some friends enjoying the beautiful landscape on the bikes
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One of the crows that has been working over my garden finally caught lead poisoning today. I'm always amazed at how smart they are, as they usually have a lookout.
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One of the crows that has been working over my garden finally caught lead poisoning today. I'm always amazed at how smart they are, as they usually have a lookout.
Last year I battled ravens building a nest in the barn. I'd tear it down and they would haul in more sticks to rebuild it. I finally soaked the nest with ammonia and left the open bottle of stinky stuff in there and it kept them away for a few days but they knocked the bottle out. After I tore down the completed nest again they went elsewhere.
I would of given them lead poisoning but they are protected with no open season and if my neighbors saw me do that it would be trouble.
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Well that was totally random. Today I've been in Auckland about 160 miles away for the National Offroad Racing Association Exec meeting. I stopped at Gull Hampton Downs to fuel up on my way home. This is a self service fuel stop beside Hampton Downs Motor Racing Circuit, about 20 miles south of Auckland and is the first place to fuel up out of Auckland, thus avoiding the 10c a litre Regional Fuel Tax and not one of the big four oil companies. Getting back in my ute to leave and I look across at the car beside me and it is my cousin with his wife and kids. They were returning home to Auckland after a day at Lake Rotorua. Caught up with them for a bit before heading home.
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Been doing some finish work on my porch, needed a bit for tool. Went 35 miles to check my stall in the antique mall, folks had bought enough stuff to cover the rent this month. Stopped at a hardware store, got the tool, then bought $97 in groceries. Closer to home got catfood at the farm supply store. Then home, fitted another piece of paneling, now enjoying a nice sunset after the rains.
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Watching the fires to the north and south of us. Lightning has been starting fires all week. Fire to the south is 2 days old and the fires to the north northeast are an hour old. Nothing moving our way fire wise though lots of strikes around us.
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Causing traffic chaos . Shut a 35,000 vehicle a day State Highway and detoured via local roads, this morning (Saturday) at 2:30am to set up 350T crane to lift 26m (85') concrete Super Tee beams into place. The beams weigh 47T (104,000lb) and ten need to be placed. The crane needs to be shifted between beam 5 and 6. Congestion is not as bad as I expected.
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Be careful with the fires. I've dealt with hurricanes and freezes but the fires really scare me. Aint much left when they come thru the neighborhood.
Been seeing the record high temps in the north west. and the fires just seem to follow right behind them
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Finished lifting the last beam in just before 5:00pm.
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I wonder what the logistics were on moving those beams. How far did they have to travel and did they have enough rigs to get all ten to the jobsite at once?
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These ones only came 10 miles. They have been shifting some bigger ones ( 60T, 132,000lb, 40m , 130' ) over 160 miles. There are three rigs that can shift them in town.
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The beam is supported at each end and forms the vehicle. The rear jinker is powered and driven by a second driver in the prime mover cab. This is a recent innovation, until a couple of years ago the rear jinker was a low truck.
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Thanks Rural. Heavy hauling has come a long way since the late 70's when I had a hand in it. When we sent the 1/4 sections of condensers off to nuclear plants around the world they left our plant on rigs with 96 tires and the condenser bridged the front and rear trailers and 2 trucks with 1 pulling and 1 pushing. We could only send the titanium tubed units by truck and the copper nickel tubed units had to go by rail on 8 axle railcars due to the weight.
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Used a tractor to move a tractor and blew a hydraulic hose. Other than making a mess before I could shut it down, no harm was inflicted on the vintage fleet.
Oh...and I found some termite damage in some wood on the ground. Arrrrgh!
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And, hydraulic hoses are not cheap anymore, nor is anything else!!!!
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Took a road trip on the 4th, 85 miles each way. Surprising little traffic for the holiday. Bought a used JD lawnmower, it had went thru high water, but the price was right. Is the same model as one we own. Drove around Nebraska City, visited some sites in the old town. Went to unload the mower deck with my loader tractor, and it ran out of gas, so another trip to town.
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Changed the oil in the van, changed the rear tire on my motorcycle. Went to club meeting.
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Went to the gun range today. put 100 rounds thru the new Kimber.
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BEST looking low rider EVER ...............!!!
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Went to the gun range today. put 100 rounds thru the new Kimber.
Need more info on this item???
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Here ya go Jabber, My newest EDC.
About 6 months ago the urge to pack a little more power overtook me and I began a search for something a bit more potent than the .38 I was carrying. Not a big fan of striker fired handguns and have always had a soft spot for the 1911s. Decided on the Kimber ultra carry II 45ACP with some minor upgrades from Wilson Combat.
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Very nice, do they live up to the hype?
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Not really, Kinda jam prone until I got the bugs worked out. The mag it came with was a Chip McCormick mag it sucked. I got a couple of Kimber mags, they sucked too. Finally got a Wilson combat mag and it fed fine. been using them with no feed issues at all. I'm working on adapting a Wilson 22lb flat main spring into it next. They only go down to 3.5 inches and the little kimbers at 3inches so I got to tinker with the spring some.
The grips slabs are squared off and would leave a blister after some extended range times. A different set of rubberized grips solved that problem.
I'm still less than a grand into it so overall not too bad considering what some of the top end 1911s go for.
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Finally finished the bathroom remodel. Hired a plumber to remove and replace the shower, toilet, and vanity. I would repaint and redo the floor tiles. Then they didn't install a sliding shower door, so, I had to do that. Now I know why I never became a plumber!
Anyway done and looks good and works well.
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Couldn't agree more. I'd love to have a drive of one. View of other profile.
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Went to the airport for our Friday lunch and we do a pancake breakfast tomorrow morning. We are also doing our first Young Eagle flights for the kids in over a year. This afternoon I have been on fire watch as a thunderstorm came up the valley putting out plenty of lightning. I watched one strike start a fire in the hills to the south but I hope the rain helped damp it down. Earthquakes, fires and hope no floods or pestilence.
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Were getting the floods here. I poured out 9.38 inchs of rain from the gauge, all since Sunday. 4.5 inches today alone.
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The basin to the left of the building is a 10 million gallon emergency holding basin. its normally empty. In the past 2 days we've pumped 60 million gallons thru that basin and its still full. Probably be another two days before it goes empty. Had to take some pics for the non compliance reports. :040: figured I'd share.
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Cut some tube, cut some plate, drill some holes. Assemble & weld up some dollies. When one end is lifted the dolly falls off.
Most likely will never be removed, for one I like it taller for tig welding. Instead of dragging the torch and foot peddle all over. Setting up a new position to weld.
Unlock the brake, rotate the table sit, back to work.
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Poker run at the club today.
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Poker runs, one of the favorite things I did riding. Sit out at a card stop. Seeing and hearing the bikes coming, live entertainment .
I have tried a few times to get these car people to set that up...... The best they can do is sit in a parking lot.
I'm guessing all that paint and chrome shit don't run real well.
Pathetic .......
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The car guys do several poker runs a year here pep. Leave Reno and go up to Lake Tahoe and down the mountain to our town. That is big with Hot August Nights.
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We've got a couple of decent annual poker runs for cars around here as well. Guess it all depends on the area.
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Poker runs, one of the favorite things I did riding. Sit out at a card stop. Seeing and hearing the bikes coming, live entertainment .
I have tried a few times to get these car people to set that up...... The best they can do is sit in a parking lot.
I'm guessing all that paint and chrome shit don't run real well.
Pathetic .......
Yeah never saw much in sitting at a car shows, just like the bar hoppers. Rather be out cruising and seeing the scenes
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The car guys do several poker runs a year here pep. Leave Reno and go up to Lake Tahoe and down the mountain to our town. That is big with Hot August Nights.
We've got a couple of decent annual poker runs for cars around here as well. Guess it all depends on the area.
Poker runs for cars aren't that big around here. Actually I think I've see more horseback poker runs then car ones.
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The car guys do several poker runs a year here pep. Leave Reno and go up to Lake Tahoe and down the mountain to our town. That is big with Hot August Nights.
We've got a couple of decent annual poker runs for cars around here as well. Guess it all depends on the area.
Poker runs for cars aren't that big around here. Actually I think I've see more horseback poker runs then car ones.
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Should I buy a horse LMAO, horseback poker run that is rich .... :035:
Liked being at the card stop, riders drawing that was the fun.
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Went to the range this morning to tune-up for my CCW renewal class on Saturday. I was the only person on the pistol side and 1 lady was on the rifle side. All the mags fed fine and I will use the Ruger for the quals as I'm more accurate with the P95 than my EDC Shield9. Renewal is 4hrs classroom and then to the guys personal range. Cost is $80 and if I get there 30 minutes early he will buy lunch. His new permitees have a full day of classroom.
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Continuing Ed for renewal seems like a good idea. Here we just have to send in a check every 5 years.
I took a course a few years back and a ton of info had changed. compared to when I first took it 20ish years ago.
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This is our view looking SSW this evening into Calif past the end of our valley in the Sierra Nevada. The Tamarack Fire was started July 4th and was only 37.5 acres this morning as firefighters have been watching it and letting it burn out the underbrush in the forest. The winds came up this morning and stirred the fire up and last report was 500 acres. At various times today you could see a pyrocumulus cloud forming above the fire but a shift in the wind is hiding it now.
There is another fire south of this one that was started by lightning on June 16 that they were letting burn and it is over 1000 acres now.
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They said the fire was 6,600 acres this morning. It is now reported as 22,000 acres or 33 square miles at 7pm. Woke up to ash coating everything and it has been falling on us all day. No containment but plenty of evacuations in the mountains with red flag warnings and critical fire danger in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the region.
This pic was taken at 6:30pm looking west over the Sierras and this smoke cloud is over us.
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Is that the sun or the moon behind the smoke in the middle of the picture?
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Is that the sun or the moon behind the smoke in the middle of the picture?
That is the sun at 6:30pm. We did only get temps in the 80's instead of 90's since the smoke cut the sun all day.
Just checked updates and now they say the fire area could see thunderstorms with plenty of lightning starting at 11pm tonight. We could see them by midnight but unless this smoke clears we won't know they are here until we get lightning and thunder. Visibility is 2 miles at best.
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Muddy, nice job on the picnic area,
Mama said thanks for the pics of the childrens, I always show them to her
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Good job on the picnic area muddy. Does Sam live in those western boots?
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Good job on the picnic area muddy. Does Sam live in those western boots?
Yes yes he does lol
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Sam looks like hes having fun playing in the dirt.
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Midnite, is fresh water plentiful in NZ? Curious as I would assume it takes a lot to irrigate crops.
Where we are in the Mid Atlantic, fresh water is not a problem but in the Western US it is a big concern
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Still no containment on the fire south of us. They have been reporting the size at 39,045 acres since yesterday but the northeast portion of the fire crossed into NV last night. One of the wife's employees had to evacuate yesterday morning. My sister and her husband have fire evacuees staying at their house in Lake Tahoe.
We are ready to accept any large animals that need to be evacuated if the fire moves north along the mountains and into our valley. People will want to get their horses and such out early and not wait until the last minute and we have an empty barn so we can help.
They were able to get the large airtankers back on the fire yesterday as the wind shifted and cleared smoke from the north and western front of the fire. Saw a DC-10 and BAE-146 tanker circling the house and then dropping on the fire and could see the retardant from here.
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OK, this isn't tool related, but it was a little project I've been wanting to do.
Do you ever buy those 4 inch diameter candles? You burn them, them make a hole down the center maybe 1/3 of the candle, and then are done. Wait a minute! You spend say $15 for a decorative candle and you end up tossing 1/2 to 2/3 of it? That just ticked me off.
So I bought a small metal pot, cut up the remaining candle fragment into small pieces, and melted them on the stove. Used the cardboard center tube from a roll of paper towels, dropped a cotton string down the center, then poured in the liquid wax. Filled up the tube! Put it in the fridge to harden, then spiral peeled off the tube. Now just have to find a way to secure it in a glass stand and I've got another whole candle. Nice aroma, too.
And they thought they were gonna get the best of me! :D
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Just light the candle, tip it over to drip wax into glass stand and jam the candle into it
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Wow Phil, and here I was over thinking the thing. Anybody ever tell you how smart you are. :PDT_Armataz_01_37:
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Midnite, is fresh water plentiful in NZ? Curious as I would assume it takes a lot to irrigate crops.
Where we are in the Mid Atlantic, fresh water is not a problem but in the Western US it is a big concern
Phil, yes you would have to say water is abundant here in NZ, but is getting increasingly regulated, both in the amount you can take and how to maintain water quality, nitrates are a problem because our groundwater is reasonably shallow and our predominance of grass fed pastoral faming and high use of nitrogenous fertilizers. Aquifers here in our area are charged primarily from snow melt in the mountains less than 40 miles west of us. The groundwater level has changed in recent times for us as, aquifers were topped up by excess runoff from flood irrigation but the change to spray irrigation has seen much more efficient use of that water. To the extent that our house well had gone dry and we have recently put down a new well ( now 100ft deep with water at about 20ft ). During periods of rain in the mountains we have much water than runs out the rivers to the sea and is wasted ,so we have some schemes locally to save this water in lakes and ponds in times of the rivers are in flood. Our area is different to the rest of NZ as its the biggest area of flat land and the predominance of irrigation on farms here.
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Midnite, is fresh water plentiful in NZ? Curious as I would assume it takes a lot to irrigate crops.
Where we are in the Mid Atlantic, fresh water is not a problem but in the Western US it is a big concern
Phil, yes you would have to say water is abundant here in NZ, but is getting increasingly regulated, both in the amount you can take and how to maintain water quality, nitrates are a problem because our groundwater is reasonably shallow and our predominance of grass fed pastoral faming and high use of nitrogenous fertilizers. Aquifers here in our area are charged primarily from snow melt in the mountains less than 40 miles west of us. The groundwater level has changed in recent times for us as, aquifers were topped up by excess runoff from flood irrigation but the change to spray irrigation has seen much more efficient use of that water. To the extent that our house well had gone dry and we have recently put down a new well ( now 100ft deep with water at about 20ft ). During periods of rain in the mountains we have much water than runs out the rivers to the sea and is wasted ,so we have some schemes locally to save this water in lakes and ponds in times of the rivers are in flood. Our area is different to the rest of NZ as its the biggest area of flat land and the predominance of irrigation on farms here.
We are in a severe drought right now with fires raging in Nevada. We have a well and as a domestic well we are limited to about 1,800 gals a day. The water can only be used for the house, landscaping and livestock even though we are zoned rural agriculture. If you want to grow any crops, pasture or hay you must have water rights. I haven't checked prices recently but the rights were running $7-8,000 per acre ft. to buy if you can find them. Older water rights going back to 1865 or so are worth the most and have priority when water supply is tight.
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I hope you stay un singd.
When i hear water rights it reminds me of The Malagro Beanfield War.
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Pulled the pan on the coupe, not really leaking, weeping. The 350 oil pan has a 4 piece gasket and has always been, is a PIA to get sealed.
Anyway long story short this is a shot of how to get a good seal. Glue it up (silicone) let cure 24 hr.
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I did the same with Valve covers on my 390. Krusty always said use isopropyl Alcohol to clean metal surfaces before gluing. Works for me. best part is block stays clean when you have to pull cover or pan off as gasket stays with cover or pan, much easier to scrape off old gasket off pan than off block
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Learning how to “drive” one of these 1HP models. “HP” in this case = Human Powered. First time in my life I’ve been in a kayak, but it’s a heck of a good upper body cardio workout. - LOL
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Ray. First lesson of kayaking is go upwind while your fresh. The wind will help you get back when your tired out
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Ray. First lesson of kayaking is go upwind while your fresh. The wind will help you get back when your tired out
Thanks for the tip. Yes, it's quite easy to paddle with the wind at your back, but then the reverse direction is often a real chore. I'm learning a lot from watching some experienced YouTuber vids, but it's very easy to get overconfident and paddle too far away from home base; making the return journey a stressful endeavor.
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Pretty sure they make trolling motors for those Kayaks :))
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Ray. First lesson of kayaking is go upwind while your fresh. The wind will help you get back when your tired out
Always this, :) You can coast back. Do it at my brothers house. Also watch out for boats.
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That's great Ray. Do you have a buddy to paddle along with?
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That's great Ray. Do you have a buddy to paddle along with?
My daughter loves to kayak, and she's pretty good at it. I bought another kayak so she can join me when she's around. This time of year I can only hit the lake early in the morning. By mid-day the heat and humidity will kill an old guy like me. Come fall this should be a lot more fun. Cooler temps and crisp mornings will make the kyaking a bit more fun.
My wife doesn't kayak, but I did buy her a pedal (aka paddle) boat so both of us can get on the lake in a more comfy two seater.
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Pretty sure they make trolling motors for those Kayaks :))
I though about it when I was huffin' and puffin' a few times Phil -- LOL
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I fired up the track loader and knocked over some birch trees that were shading the garden, then I back-dragged to smooth it out, and get rid of some brush to prep for putting in footings to mount some solar panels. Bucked up the trees and tossed the limbs on a burn pile. I'll light it up in January, when there is no fire hazard and no light.
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15,000lb loader vs my work car, loader won.
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I was on a different site in town auditing temporary traffic management when my helper rang me to ask about something. He finished saying "You know how well this week is going, it just got better", then told me about it. They had to reverse the loader at least 100' before they ran into the car!
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15,000lb loader vs my work car, loader won.
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I was on a different site in town auditing temporary traffic management when my helper rang me to ask about something. He finished saying "You know how well this week is going, it just got better", then told me about it. They had to reverse the loader at least 100' before they ran into the car!
Guess the guy still has a job?
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I haven't heard. He probably will if he passed the post incident drug test.
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Ended the work day not how I wanted.....
Details to follow once im out...
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yikes. Thats never good when the blue towel and black tape dont work and you have to go get professional help. Hope your ok Muddy
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Darn Tim, ditto on being ok
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Reaching across someone's plate to get more mashed potatos is dangerous, Tim. Better to ask to pass! :)
Seriously though, hope you're OK. You're not left-handed, are you?
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Hope all is in good shape Tim -- good luck!
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Hand injuries to any of us using them to make a living suck. Hope it heals quickly.
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I hope you heal up and get back to work quickly.
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Update on Tim: He got his left hand (yes he's a lefty) caught in the mast rail of a forklift yesterday afternoon. We are still in the hospital waiting on surgery. They are going to fix up the tip of his ring finger that got smushed like a grape, and amputate the tip of his middle finger back to the first knuckle.
He's holding up pretty good. He hasn't had anything to eat since lunch yesterday because they weren't sure when his surgery would be so he's a little hangry, but overall he's still joking with the nurses and trying to cop a feel with me.
I'll update you all later when we know more. Thanks for all the positive thoughts!
Mandy
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Thank you for the update Mandy.
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Hurts even from here, God be with you Muddy and family.
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Thanks Mandy --- wishing you and the kids all the best during this trying time. God bless!
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Sorry you guys have to go thru this. Here's to a speedy recovery!
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hoping he heals up quickly.
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Hopefully they got him in to surgery and Muddy is in recovery. My wife broke her leg at work many years ago now, she thought she should be a good employee and not complain about the pain years after and they weaseled out of taking care of her issues. Stay on top of any issues he may have after all this.
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Yikes , nothing hurts like a finger injury.
Hope it goes as well as it can Mudds.
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Mandy, thanks for the update. You guys are family. Praying for quick and complete recovery, at least as complete as can be.
Proud of Tim for trying to cop a feel, that is a positve sign :))
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Oh man. Terrible but so glad it wasn't worse.oys bad need them you get trapped on something you can't get away from.
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Sorry for the delayed update. Tim had surgery late afternoon yesterday. They fixed his ring finger and they were able to save the tip of his middle finger. He is doing well. He has one more round of IV antibiotics and then we are blowing this pop and going home! He is already bored and wants to go back to work. He doesn't sit still very well so it's going to be an interesting couple of weeks.
Thank you all for the thoughts, prayers, and well wishes. They mean a lot to us.
Mandy
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Good news Mandy, and thanks for the update. Hang in there, and tell our boy that we're all rooting for him.
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He'll be walking around with his hand in the air, to reduce the throbbing. Glad to hear the tips were saved. Got stitches in most of my digits over the years, just takes time to get back to normal. Tell him to take it easy, let things heal, and for gosh sakes dont bang it up trying to do too much too soon. Think of all the honeydo things that can be done one handed. Hang in there Muddy
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That is good news. Now you just have to make him behave and give the digits a chance to heal.
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Dominant hand in a bandage, he gonna be taking lots of showers. BTDT.
Never realized how much we rely on our good hand for most everything till you try to wipe with the wrong hand...
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That’s horrible news he smashed his hands. That hurts mine to hear. Hope you have a full recovery.
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I Made it home Sunday night around 10 pm.
Guess I'll be off work for at least a week till they take the splint off and go from there. Unfortunately as much as I want to get back to work it may be longer then that as I'm not sure how things work with the pin they have holding it together.
I'm on antibiotics and some pain pills. For the most part it's just a dull constant pain. Nothing major. Gonna take some time getting used to not having my dominant (left) hand.
Received a call from a certain farmer that was much appreciated!
Thanks for all the kind words everyone!
Tim
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Has Sam said he would take over while you are temporarily incapacitated?
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Has Sam said he would take over while you are temporarily incapacitated?
He wasn't to sure about me. He avoided me for most of the night I first came home. The dog isn't fond of the wrapping either. I don't blame him it has quite a chemically smell.
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Has Sam said he would take over while you are temporarily incapacitated?
He wasn't to sure about me. He avoided me for most of the night I first came home. The dog isn't fond of the wrapping either. I don't blame him it has quite a chemically smell.
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As long as he doesn't mistake it for a new pull toy
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Labor Day had me cooking NY strip steaks. Medium rare with baked potato. Damn good. Hope all had a good day.
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UPDATE
Got the original wrap off. Doc looked at it, didn't have much to say. Will see her next week to see about removing stitches. Pin will be in for some time yet.
Was quoted 2 months before returning to work fully (I wasn't happy with that). For now clean and redress daily. Therapy to come later I'm sure
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How is the hand coming along Tim?
Look at the forum stats at the bottom of the page and it says Hiball is the newest member. Can we be so lucky?
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Yesterday I went up to where our race track is to have a look what state it is in after 8" of rain in the last two weeks, and we haven't had a look at it for about six weeks. The track was in fairly good condition. I took a drive around the rest of the area our track is in to see what the roads were like.
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It is the first time I've had a good look around since they have started logging in the area.
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It is always a bit of a moonscape after harvesting and it is replanted.
Today I opened the track for a club member to do some shock tuning in his buggy.
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After 3 days of blacksmithing last week, got back to the projects here. Cleaned the gutters on the garage. Reworking the hydraulics on my Farmall 460, drained the gear case to get rid of the water that accumulates there, new filter, drained the bucket cylinders, and new seals in the long hydraulic cylinder. Mowed the road ditches with the M Farmall and the bush hog. Then jumped on the rider and did the front yard. Gonna sleep good.
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We went to Ohio to see friends this weekend had a great time! Mandy even pulled a tractor for the first time!
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Looks like everyone had a good time. Kids love tractors.
Hows the hand doing?
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Update on my finger....
Two week ago got the stiches out. Tomorrow we get the pin out. Still wont be allowed to move it for awhile yet.
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Looks pretty good really, nail didn't even turn black.
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You should keep that pin in, real handy for those hard to reach boogers.
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You should keep that pin in, real handy for those hard to reach boogers.
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Heck, I was gonna say you should have had them attach a wire lead to the buried end and that extended pin could become a meter probe. Would save alot of time testing circuits! :D
Seriously though, it looks alot better than I imagined it would. Hallelujah!
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They were a bit concerned about the redness and a little puss believe its infected a bit. Getting antibiotics, no work for another week at least. :(
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Washed and waxed the Olds. Used a synthetic wax I had gotten cheap. Not terribly impressed with it. It didn't seem to dry and whiten like carnauba waxes I've used before. I also think it would have been beneficial to use a cleaner wax first.
Wasn't the easiest task with a 4 yr old who wanted to help and a 2 yr old that just wanted to touch everything.
None the less it turned out pretty good .
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Finger is just about healed. Top part where the first knuckle is a bit infected, and still needs to re-scab over and heal.
Two more weeks off work. :( Starting to get into a slump and a bit depressed and moody. Always thought I'd get so much done if I didn't have to work. I rarely have ambition to get up and do something. And the 2 yr old is assuring me I am not suit for full time stay at home dad. :))
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Was in the store a few days ago and figured I'd pick up some windshield washer fluid while I was there. Pallet of RainX, didn't want it so went for the "pink" winter mix beside it. I had poured half the container into the truck's washer fluid bottle as I idly gazed at the label. Which read. "Plumbing Anti-Freeze". WHAT??? Can't believe they would put something that looked like washer fluid but wasn't, stacked with all the other washer fluids. :38:
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Sorry to hear of your mistake. I know some folks who have moved here and didn't know to use RV antifreeze if their RV sits outside all winter. They find out the next year when they get ready for their first trip all the plastic pipes are busted.
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It happens Clay; just don't sweat it. I'm sure the system will be OK. Suck it out and dilute as much as possible.
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Probably not much different in chemical make up.
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It happens Clay; just don't sweat it. I'm sure the system will be OK. Suck it out and dilute as much as possible.
Its all good. Three bolts and 2 wires to remove the reservoir so I could upturn and drain it. Nothing got into the system and I don't think it would have harmed anything anyhow.
You can see the reservoir dangling at the left.
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If I can't find any methanol-based washer fluid I make my own. Mix 1/8 cup of industrial strength ammonia and 1 cup of IPA with two drops of Dawn dishwashing liquid into a gallon of distilled water.
The ammonia smell isn't overpowering and it cleans well, the IPA helps with the evaporation off the glass and provides some low temp protection, and the Dawn helps cut through bug guts without damaging the rubber washer components. Not perfect (but certainly better than just plan water) and dirt cheap. Add a few drops of blue food coloring so I don't get it confused with other cleaning chemicals in the laundry room where I store it.
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Some maintenance on our race track today. I got a text at 7:30 this morning with this photo attached.
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And the message "Track prep gear leaving the yard this morning I'll be over there after work to crack into it. Colin is heading over this morning to make a start on cleaning the silt traps out. Looking forward to ripping it all up tomorrow."
The sender is one of our club members who is the production manager for one of the biggest landscaping products manufacturers in the country and sent me of his staff to deliver the equipment. The JD is a 2001 6210.
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It only has about 4,000 hours on it. It still has the plastic on the seat.
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The Pearson blade is brand new. Both are on trial and "if they do what we want here, I'll buy them for work around the production facility"
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A lot of material gets thrown up onto the top of the banked berms. This combination seems to move it around quite efficiently.
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The material is mainly volcanic ash and is quite fine so we have deep silt traps at the low pints around the track. These need cleaning out several times a year.
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Once I saw they had these works on hand I headed back in to town to finish the paperwork for tomorrow's racing. I stopped at Mitre 10 and picked up some tek screws, a 1/4" hex to 1/2" sq adapter so I can use my impact driver instead of carrying another battery driver and this LED torch.
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I also bought a tek bit (Australian made Airco) because Murphy's Law says I wouldn't be able to find one when I got home. As Murphy's parent's weren't married, when I got home I found one exactly where I expected to.
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So the guys did a great job of the track on Saturday and we had a small number of people turn up to race on Sunday. A bit of a family affair with a father and daughter racing.
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As well as a father and son.
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We also have this guy, in his 30's, that races his deceased father's old school turbo Nissan powered Class 1.
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Yesterday afternoon I went and got a Warrant of Fitness (State Inspection) for my ute. Since you should always support the businesses of people you know I didn't go to the drive through chain WOF place. When I turned up Dave was assembling gears and shafts on a billet plate and muttering about east European engineering (how good it was) and said look in the box.
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He is the NZ agent for X Shift Gearboxes (https://www.xshiftgearboxes.com/), an after market gearbox supplier from the Czech Republic. Basically he was turning a Subaru gearbox into a six speed sequential gearbox by replacing all the internals for a rally car.
His workshop is usually full of rally cars but there were more road/track cars there yesterday. This very nice, and fairly rare, 1988 Porsche Carrera Sport was in having a niggling idling issue fixed. This one came from Jersey in the Channel Islands when its owner immigrated here. The BMW, E46 3.0 turbo, is a GT Cup race car that is being prepared for the first round of the season in mid November. They also had an ex-Japan Porsche Boxster that they were putting a roll cage in, the tenth one they had done, for a new race series.
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One nice looking shop. On the 2 post lift, the light blue reinforcement plates on the floor, upgrade? Know why they are there? Silt traps, new term for me, part of being good stewards of the land.
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(actually yesterday but I posted it in the wrong thread!) Trying to get out of this funk, so I'm not so sluggish when I return to work. Did a few loads of laundry, cleaned my basement work shop, and got the next big project on the workbench. Didn't even take an afternoon nap :))
The tractor needs new pedal arm, and axle bushings, , drive chain, a front axle and a paint job and decals.
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One nice looking shop. On the 2 post lift, the light blue reinforcement plates on the floor, upgrade? Know why they are there? Silt traps, new term for me, part of being good stewards of the land.
Looking in the brochure for that lift they are the optional base plate extensions for concrete between 100-150mm.
Silt traps are just big holes dug in the ground to hold the water runoff temporarily and allow any sediment to settle out. They are a must in this area with volcanic soils. Depending on the the type of ash or pumice in the area they either act as a soak pit or hold water (generic silt trap photos below). Generally, the ones around our track don't hold water but the ones on the access road about a quarter mile away do.
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Split logs up
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Nice splitting job Tim and that wood would work just fine in my stove. What species of wood?
The wife just ordered a couple of cords from the guy with the trucking yard behind her shop. Firewood sales keeps him busy when the sand and gravel trucks are parked during the winter. This wood will be lodgepole pine most likely.
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I got mugged this evening.
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But I got a photo of the culprit.
I was at a meeting after work, Finn was good at the meeting for over an hour and a half sitting in his bed. Obviously we were taking too long and he started wandering around the meeting table with his lead in his mouth looking for someone to take him for a walk. When I tried to take his photo he tried to climb in my lap.
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Nothing like a big cold dog nose bop in the face from a four-legged buddy. A very handsome pooch indeed --
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Well if he has the lead in his mouth, can't he walk himself? :))
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looks like a golden retreiver, one of my favorite breeds!
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Decided to take an early paddle up the lake. I was the only one out there, and it was fantastic.
This retirement thing might just work out after all - LOL
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looks like a golden retreiver, one of my favorite breeds!
Yes, he is a golden retriever. He is about eighteen months old and still hasn't stopped growing!
Well if he has the lead in his mouth, can't he walk himself? :))
Because he can't open the door at the bottom of the stairs.
Finn is not the only golden retriever I know. This is Archie, who is nearly a year old and belongs to one of my co-workers. A few months ago Archie did spend most of the day in the office due to a fence failure issue at his home.
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I'll just leave these here as a teaser.
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I'll just leave these here as a teaser.
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Yup I look forward to seeing the roadie…..
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North America well represented there. Today I dug out the HF wire welder, repaired the adjustment handles on my 1930s John Deere plow. Went to put it back together when I remembered the steel pins, things pivot on, were nearly worn through, so plugged the welder back in, built them up, ground them round. Went back to the house for a heavier coat, winds picked up to 44mph, and 48' F, not used to winter yet.
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Another.
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Darn that's pretty scenery
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I'll just leave these here as a teaser.
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Yup I look forward to seeing the roadie…..
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I'm going to post this road trip in Rural53's Off Topic and Interesting Photos Thread to try and keep it all together.
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Laid an old friend to rest this morning. He was my mentor in the cattle business and in life. I’m gonna miss him.
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Laid an old friend to rest this morning. He was my mentor in the cattle business and in life. I’m gonna miss him.
My condolences - tough to lose a close friend and confidant.
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Managed to get the fixed gazebo installed on the dock. The old canopy was an embarrassment, and the wife wanted a hardtop.
Had to hire a second pair of hands to do the heavy lifting, but it went up surprisingly well for being a kit. All powder coated galvanized steel.
Time for a cigar and a beer.
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That looks good.
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Always tough to lose a friend Curtis and my condolences to you.
Looks great Ray and should last much longer than a soft top.
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Laid an old friend to rest this morning. He was my mentor in the cattle business and in life. I’m gonna miss him.
Sorry mate , chin up.
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My condolences Slipknot
You are blessed to have had a mentor.
Ray, looking gooooooood
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My condolences Slipknot
You are blessed to have had a mentor.
Ray, looking gooooooood
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looks like a golden retreiver, one of my favorite breeds!
Yes, he is a golden retriever. He is about eighteen months old and still hasn't stopped growing!
Yeah he probably also won't grow out of the puppy energy for a long while Golden's tend to hold on to it for sometime lol
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Laid an old friend to rest this morning. He was my mentor in the cattle business and in life. I’m gonna miss him.
Sorry for your loss. Old farmers are one of a kind.
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Went for a check up yesterday. Allowed to let the finger open to the air and no splint. Also start therapy. She makes no guarantee of having full function again but does say it looks like a good chance.
She very reluctantly released me for work "right hand only". Which we both understand is just for liability. If you didn't take my hand I'm gonna use it! :))
I'm going to take this week to get used to having it out in the open and get back into a early morning routine before returning to work November 1st.
Sitting out here watching the kids play the finger is cold. Makes it feel like it's 30 degrees out even though it's 65.
P.S. yes I trimmed the fingernail :))
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Looking good Tim. Time is on your side and nerves require lots of time to heal. Good luck getting back into a work routine.
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Looks a bit better than that first pic :-\ Do the rehab thats prescribed. That will go a long way to getting function back.
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You know Mudds that thought train "If you didn't take my hand I'm gonna use it! "
Can and in my case can cause a lifetime of regret.
Don`t be gungho do exactly as the Docs say.
It`s times like this i wish i could put an older head on younger shoulders.
Don`t make me use this.
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Should have asked the Dr is she could do her job without her dominant hand.
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You know Mudds that thought train "If you didn't take my hand I'm gonna use it! "
Can and in my case can cause a lifetime of regret.
Don`t be gungho do exactly as the Docs say.
It`s times like this i wish i could put an older head on younger shoulders.
Don`t make me use this.
I know. I'm starting therapy tomorrow, I'm just the type that can't sit around when I believe I'm capable of doing it Should have asked the Dr is she could do her job without her dominant hand.
That was one of the reasons she used for not sending me back yet.
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It rained for over 30 hours straight ending around noon today. Never a heavy rain but a steady rain that soaked in the dry ground good until it started running off. I think we got about an inch and a quarter on our side of the valley where on the west side of the valley up against the Sierras they got over 3-1/2" overnight. Still a good start to our water year as last year we had barely over 4" the entire year.
This is the 4th snow on the mountains so far this month and they got dumped on. The snow level stayed about 600' above our place. I took some pics when I went to town today and the clouds cleared a little.
The first pic is Kingsbury Grade which is 7300ft elevation and the road we take to Lake Tahoe which is just on the other side of the mountains. 2nd pic shows the higher peaks just north of the grade which are higher.
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It rained for over 30 hours straight ending around noon today. Never a heavy rain but a steady rain that soaked in the dry ground good until it started running off. I think we got about an inch and a quarter on our side of the valley where on the west side of the valley up against the Sierras they got over 3-1/2" overnight. Still a good start to our water year as last year we had barely over 4" the entire year.
This is the 4th snow on the mountains so far this month and they got dumped on. The snow level stayed about 600' above our place. I took some pics when I went to town today and the clouds cleared a little.
The first pic is Kingsbury Grade which is 7300ft elevation and the road we take to Lake Tahoe which is just on the other side of the mountains. 2nd pic shows the higher peaks just north of the grade which are higher.
Thanks for the pics Les. Let's hope the fires are done with now and that the watersheds are filling up. The west needs a heavy winter and lots of moisture to recoup from the drought. I saw a pic of lake Mead recently -- it looked like a pond.
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I hope the rain/snow continues for y'all.
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Thanks for the pics Les. Let's hope the fires are done with now and that the watersheds are filling up. The west needs a heavy winter and lots of moisture to recoup from the drought. I saw a pic of lake Mead recently -- it looked like a pond.
They actually said that there could be deep smoldering stumps and large diameter logs that can have 20' of snow on them this winter and flare up when the snow melts and winds kick up. Pretty amazing.
Lake Mead was the lowest I have ever seen it in 2007. Beaches we used spend the day on in the 60's and 70's as we took turns water skiing and swimming are far from the water now. Lost Wages has outgrown it's water supply years ago. They have tried to get permits to drain aquifers in other counties but keep getting denied thank goodness. The drought has been a big part of it and if the water intakes for the dam uncover due to low levels no turbines will be generating power. The city of LV already drilled a new lower intake tunnel so they can keep draining the lake.
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Man Les, that's an amazing view.
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Man Les, that's an amazing view.
It is beautiful in winter when we are surrounded by snow covered mountains.
My wife and I had dinner with my sister and her husband last night. We ate at our favorite restaurant where my BIL has known the owner/world class chef for many years. The owner insisted on doing their 1 year anniversary and delayed wedding reception back in August barely a week after he had his house burn down in the Tamarack fire. When my sister put out a boot at the reception to collect money for the fire victims it inspired the restaurant manager to hold a fundraiser for the fire victims. The event raised over $80,000 and each family burned out received about $7,000. That is pretty incredible for a small community. The employees the wife works with had already given their fellow employee who lost his home in the fire about $3,000. The county has waived all permit fees for the people to rebuild their lost homes.
We feel very fortunate to live in such a wonderful and caring community especially in these trying times.
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..........We feel very fortunate to live in such a wonderful and caring community especially in these trying times.
To live in such a community where neighbor help each other is truly a blessing. We've been fortunate in that regard as well.
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Today remounted a front tire on my Farmall 460. Been leaking at the bead, tubeless of course. Went to the farm supply in town, found a new in the box inner tube for the 11L x 15, flotation type tire. Had previously removed the tire, cleaned and painted the rim, but the tire was hard enough to not seal evidently. Anyways, got home, slid the tube in, right from the box, I usually inflate them first to get the kinks out. Wrestled the tire back on. Been doing this since the 60s so did not pinch the tube, before you ask. Started inflation and BLAM, I thought the inner bead seated. Nope, wouldnt take any more air. Pulled out the tube, eight inch long split. Back to town, 10 miles each way. Found it was a too small tube, misboxed. The next tube had a clearer size stamping, and much bigger. Put it on, inflated it, all good. Tried to put it on, wide front axle. Hydraulic jack bled down, wouldnt go up that last inch. Walk to the barn, get arm load of wood blocks, block it, rejack it. Done, finally.
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Little Lucy went to the doctors for a fever she couldn't kick the last few days. Doc said it's RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) a nastier version of the cold. They put her on steroids and did a bunch of tests. Tonight she was the good old Lucy we knew playing around and smiling. Let's hope she kicks it.
Sam and I Worked on stripping down Lucy's pedal tractor, while she was away. Also replaced the front wheel bearing/hub on the Olds.
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Been doing what I've done for the past three weeks -- organizing and outfitting my garage. Finished putting up pegboard and heavy duty shelves on the walls. Still have a lot of boxes and crates to unpack, but last week I managed to get the lathe and the milling machine back on their benches and moved into their final position. Thank god for engine hoists.
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Been doing what I've done for the past three weeks -- organizing and outfitting my garage. Finished putting up pegboard and heavy duty shelves on the walls. Still have a lot of boxes and crates to unpack, but last week I managed to get the lathe and the milling machine back on their benches and moved into their final position. Thank god for engine hoists.
Glad you are making progress Ray. An engine hoist is a lifesaver if you don't have a forklift and need to move something heavy and raise it up and place it.
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NAPA has a 50% off oil sale, spend a hundred free shipping, few hundred later & ready.
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Good idea to stockpile a little while it’s cheap/available.
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Good idea to stockpile a little while it’s cheap/available.
That holds true for a lot of items. Stock up on some necessities while you can. My personal opinion FWIW is that we are in for a rough winter.
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I went to the AGM of my offroad racing club tonight. Half the club members live in an area that is in lockdown and includes our normal meeting venue. One of our members, who lives and works outside the lockdown area, offered the meeting room at his offices for those who could attend; he has video conferencing facilities for those people who couldn't attend and wanted to dial in. Luckily the lockdown was lifted in the area yesterday so those who wanted to attend could.
We had been asked to RSVP for "refreshment" purposes. When I got there Dion had their trailerised double BBQ fired up and "beer was in the fridge".
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He is the production manager of NZ's biggest landscape supply company and this is their main, and original, production site. I had a snoop over the wall at what they had parked up.
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Mmmm Possum patties. :character0029:
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Nope, don't need to eat those, only Aussssies eat weird stuff like that. Did you not notice the big bit of steak! The two types of patties were beef and lamb.
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Mmmm Possum patties. :character0029:
With coon fat gravy??😋😋
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Mmmm Possum patties. :character0029:
It's a carne ratta! :D
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Never tried possum, but wouldn't mind trying. Folks in rural WV where I used to live back in the day used to eat it regularly. Amazing critter these little guys.
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I haven't it tried it either. Evidently, according to survival book I read years ago, there is a gland you need to remove under the tail that taints the meat if you don't.
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Last Monday I got a text "You ready to get that gmc gone cheep yet haha". So after a phone call on Tuesday afternoon I'd sold my '93 Sierra 2500 back to Gene, my mate who I'd bought it off in 2013. Tuesday night he transferred the money into my account.
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I used it as my tow wagon for a few years until it dropped a push rod into the sump. Evidently the 6.5 diesels do that when the plastic spacers between the rockers fall to bits allowing the rockers to move. While that was being repaired I bought the Navara. Once fixed it got used occasionally then parked up.
Friday I went and bought a couple of new batteries for it. Thursday after work I installed them.
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It might have been parked up for a while, the wild cherry tree does grow quick.
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I did have a solution.
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Checked that it had oil, water, etc, hit the key and backed it out.
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Half an hour with the water blaster and it was looking more presentable.
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Interesting finds under the seat. This 3/8 Blackhawk set came from someone on here.
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There were a couple of these as well but I've already spent one.
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I took it for a drive to the transfer station to dump the remains of the old fence, and the cherry tree, that was on the back. Down the expressway part of the trip I remembered why I liked driving the big lopping diesel V8.
Gene came and picked it up this morning.
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If you'd sold it over in my part of the US you would have received top dollar. All used pickups are getting radicicolous money around here, but used diesels are through the roof. Independent contractors around here start bidding wars on those vehicles. The market may be different in NZ, but that's a great looking truck, and your friend is lucky to get it back.
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Interesting finds under the seat. This 3/8 Blackhawk set came from someone on here.
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Cleaned up nicely!
The ratchet in that BH set looks a heck of a lot like an old Indestro I have. Gotta be some shared technology there, right?
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Saw a bald eagle a half mile from the house, while on a bike ride. Majestic. Just hanging out in a tree, looking down. Not a care in the world. About 50ft away.
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Saw a bald eagle a half mile from the house, while on a bike ride. Majestic. Just hanging out in a tree, looking down. Not a care in the world. About 50ft away.
Love watching Eagles. We will have plenty of them in the valley when calving season runs Feb-Mar.
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Yesterday I helped replace my left rear wheel bearing...
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I found this ........ BFD :-\ Lots of jacks BFDs :D That's a funny bunch of folks .
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Yesterday I helped replace my left rear wheel bearing...
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Come-on Tim - the kid obviously needs a big hammer to finish the job. LOL
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Bigger hammer! :D
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He obviously had it well under control. :bravo_2:
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had to get a new phone and plan today. Jumped up from a 5S to a 12mini. Damn they've come a long way in just a few years. I wanted a smaller phone and the mini fits the bill. My work phone is a regular 12 and once it gets a case its too big to drop in a shirt pocket.
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Went to Costco and got a new battery for the wife's Tribeca. Group 35 Interstate was $107 out the door and has a 3 year free replacement warranty. Her current Interstate battery was over 5 years old and starting to drag a little on mornings in the teens or 20's. I took the 11 year old battery out of the forklift as a core. My Interstate battery in the Tacoma is 5 years old but still strong so that battery will go in the forklift and I'll buy one for the truck. The Pathfinder is due for a battery also.
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Replaced the sir filter on the Astro, and went down to O'reillys to get a spare for storage. $21 and change! Geez, it's just paper and foam! But cheaper than a worn engine.
Repainted my big tool box I got 2 months ago, and decided to make it my carpenter tools box. Gotta say, I was surprised how many wood working tools I've got! Two injections of hand planes from friends gives me 9, plus 2 claw hammers, universal square, plomb bob, chalk line, assorted chisels, tape measures, razor knives, and small level. Got a 3 foot level from the FIL, plus Skil brand circular saw, two hand saws, and 2 Sawzalls. Show me the blueprints! :D
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got my credit card jacked today. Someone in Cali got them a new Epson printer and charged it to me. New card on the way in 2-4 working days. :38:
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That sucks.
Did the credit card company call you or did you call them?
The credit card company is only supose to call and tell you to call the phone number on the back of the card to confirm that they are legit.
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On Tuesday, after working at home for seventeen weeks, I went back to the office. This afternoon I caught up with my team, most of whom work out of a site office on a big roadworks job, for Christmas drinks. We went to the Mount Ocean Sports Club (If you are in Tauranga and someone says they are going to the mosque for a drink, they actually mean the M.O.S.C).
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Inside
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Looking out the window at the port tug and pilot boat berth
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From outside, we were sitting above the concrete piles.
A few photos walking back to my ute about 7pm
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That sucks.
Did the credit card company call you or did you call them?
The credit card company is only supose to call and tell you to call the phone number on the back of the card to confirm that they are legit.
I called them. Noticed my balance seemed a bit high so we went looking around. CC company jumped right on it
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Went back to work after quarantine last week.
Worked on Little Girls pedal tractor once I got home.
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Gotta love it Tim. She'll be over the moon getting that tractor from Santa. Great job!
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I hope she doesn't read this and spoil the surprise
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I hope she doesn't read this and spoil the surprise
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:)) :)) :))
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Started the day clearing snow so the wife could head to work. It was about 4" at 7am and we ended up with about 6". This about the 5th or 6th snow since September but most melted off quickly. This batch will be around for a while unless we get some rain this week. I'll take all the water we can get due to our drought conditions and we need an above normal snowpack in the Sierras as plenty of that runs off into our valley.
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Did my Christmas shopping with the two kids tagging along. Also sprayed some primer.
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She's precious. Great looking kids Tim! They're growing up fast.
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There is certainly no mistaking that they are brother and sister. Easy to tell who the parents are also.
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Nice boiler picture! Oil or gas? Plus, what's that rust stain running down the wall next to it? Remnants of chimney usage?
I've been under the weather for 2 days now. Sore throat and hacking cough. No fever and not much fatigue, so probably just some flu I picked up during my pawn shop romps. Hopefully I'll feel better enough to get back out into the shop later this week - have several wood hand planes I'm cleaning up/restoring.
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Good looking kids there Mud man. How’s the finger doing? Bet it ain’t liking the cold weather 🤔
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There is certainly no mistaking that they are brother and sister. Easy to tell who the parents are also.
Haha, you got that right
Good looking childrens for sure.
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I soldered up a NiMh battery set (just 3 cells) as a replacement pack to the OEM set for a rechargable Bayco hand trouble light. I made the mistake of using a soldering gun (not iron) and apparently heated up the batteries a bit too much and my run time was horrible. They never really took a full charge. I'm now performing a run test on the new cells.
Wish me luck.
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This morning we baked cookies for Santa. In the evening we went on our annual Christmas Eve Santa train ride.
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Tonight I finished up the pedal tractor I redid for Lucy. Started taking it apart in October. Needless to say I procrastinate.
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Wow that looks great.
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What a great job you did on that car Tim. Absolutely fantastic work. She's going to love it.
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Sweet Tim
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Outstanding!
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Very nice. Now the kids have tractor pull competitions.
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We opened presents, had chicken for lunch, then headed to the garage to complete my Christmas present to my ladyfriend. Dont normally do work on this day, but no family anymore to give me static. The present to my lady was to fix the air ride suspension on her Lincoln Navigator. It is an '04, 140K, but looks good yet, just the age has caught up with the airbags. Will often lean to the side 5 inches, diagnosed the heck out of it, new height sensors, etc,. Internet searches made me realize I was beating a dead horse. So last week I ordered coil spring/strut changeovers. Day one, first front one fought me, rusty bolts. Got the front finished, and today we were gifted great 52 degree weather, decided to finish it, so was actually completed on Christmas. Winter weather is coming soon. She has her ride back, and is happy. About the hardest I have worked on a present.
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Good idea John. The old air and/or magnetic ride suspensions weren't long for this world. Many would fail within the first few years of ownership. A traditional suspension is the way to go. I'm sure she appreciated the effort.
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Since the wind was blowing hard again today it would of been useless to try and attack the 2' tall drift in front of the shop big door. It started snowing again the snow drifted more. I have an over 2' drift on the back deck. Yesterday I had made quick work of the snow in front of the garage out to where the gravel starts with the snowblower as the snow was light and it threw far out of the chute. Worked great until the wind started ripping and blowing the snow back at me and where I had cleaned.
Since I couldn't work outside the wife called me into her house office. There she was with the dreaded tape measure uttering the fatal words "I have an idea." :o
We then spent several hours flipping the heavy office furniture from one side to the other. What fun.
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.............Since I couldn't work outside the wife called me into her house office. There she was with the dreaded tape measure uttering the fatal words "I have an idea." :o We then spent several hours flipping the heavy office furniture from one side to the other. What fun.
LOL -- I have heard those exact words more than I care to this last year Les. Usually followed by the phrase "when you get a chance" -- which of course in wife-speak means, you better get on it right away or you'll regret it.
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Since the roads were in decent shape we went to town for dinner. Then we went to a grocery store and the shelves were bare in parts of the store. The problem is that I-80 has been closed over Donner Pass for 4 days due to the large amount of snow that has fallen. The Sierras have over 193 inches after the latest storm and 38 inches fell yesterday. In the store the produce, dairy and meat shelves were nearly empty with eggs totally gone. I imagine our Walmart and other 2 stores are in similar shape. Most of our produce and groceries come from California so if trucks can't get here we are out of luck.
Fortunately we only needed a few things and were able to get them but we have enough food in the pantry and on hand to last months.
So much snow has fallen at Lake Tahoe that they don't want people going up there. The only open highway from Cal to the lake is a parking lot and the only way into NV right now.
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Sounds like y'all are getting some much needed moisture.
I spent the afternoon fixing fence. This morning I went by my hayfield an noticed someone had driven thru the fence, broken up auto parts all over the place. evidently they sheared off a 16in transmission line pole because there was a new one in place. after they took down the pole they traveled another 300+ft and drove thru the pasture fence. Damn wonder no cows were out. I picked up two 5 gallon buckets of broken parts and 50 pounds of wood chunks from the pole. I hope the oil trail across the field doesn't kill it too bad.
I got to stop by the sherrifs office and see why I didn't get a call? Also see if the driver had insurance, file a claim for my fence.
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Sounds like y'all are getting some much needed moisture.
I spent the afternoon fixing fence. This morning I went by my hayfield an noticed someone had driven thru the fence, broken up auto parts all over the place. evidently they sheared off a 16in transmission line pole because there was a new one in place. after they took down the pole they traveled another 300+ft and drove thru the pasture fence. Damn wonder no cows were out. I picked up two 5 gallon buckets of broken parts and 50 pounds of wood chunks from the pole. I hope the oil trail across the field doesn't kill it too bad.
I got to stop by the sherrifs office and see why I didn't get a call? Also see if the driver had insurance, file a claim for my fence.
Our rain season is 2 months old and we have already doubled last seasons drought totals. I love the moisture and snow but worry about having dry firewood in 2-3 weeks as the piles are covered with snow at the moment. The High Sierras really need about 6-700 inches this year.
Too bad nobody saw fit to notify you that your fences are down. That really sucks that people are too lazy to make an effort.
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Sounds like y'all are getting some much needed moisture.
I spent the afternoon fixing fence. This morning I went by my hayfield an noticed someone had driven thru the fence, broken up auto parts all over the place. evidently they sheared off a 16in transmission line pole because there was a new one in place. after they took down the pole they traveled another 300+ft and drove thru the pasture fence. Damn wonder no cows were out. I picked up two 5 gallon buckets of broken parts and 50 pounds of wood chunks from the pole. I hope the oil trail across the field doesn't kill it too bad.
I got to stop by the sherrifs office and see why I didn't get a call? Also see if the driver had insurance, file a claim for my fence.
Hope you get the insurance money quickly, and that the Sheriff's Dept. can provide the necessary documentation without a lot of hassle.
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I'll let you guys guess what thes parts in this jar of simple green here amount to.
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Bought another bicycle today (Specialized Allez), and picked up another one from a previous winning auction bid (Trek SL), both road bikes. The Trek made it out on a shakedown cruise already, my 20 mile workout route.
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I'll let you guys guess what thes parts in this jar of simple green here amount to.
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Looks familiar but can't think of it.
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Has some help tonight getting the blower ready.
Then he decided to go off and do some carpentry.... Or is it plumbing.....
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Finished the 2nd wheel respoke on the vintage Raleigh. Was it a replacing broken spokes? No. Was it to change out to newer fancier thinner spokes? No. It was to correct the improper spoke lacing around the valve hole that the prior wheel builder had done.
To view the proper valve hole alignment, this video will start at the key point.
In this case the prior builder located the valve in between some angled spokes. BOTH wheels of course. I know this is all minutiae, but its important to those that value the difference.
Edit: I guess it wont let me start the vid at 1:24. Thats the key point.
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Cleaned up some of the snow we got yesterday alot of it melted during the day.
Got some new work boots, we celebrated the wife's promotion at work with some dinner ad then went bowling. kids loved it.
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On Thursday I discovered what hyperlapse is and that my phone can do it. I had a play on the way home. This is my 15 minute commute home compressed into 1 minute 19. Basically a photo each 15 seconds on the road, shorter interval when going slower, strung together as a video.
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Well, I went and did the "old guy" retirement thing today and bought the boat. It seems like every retired guy down here has a camper/RV and some sort of fishing or recreational boat. Not to be left out, the wife and I went to the boat show today and bought an electric powered 16ft pontoon. Closest thing I can compare it to is that it's like a family room that basically floats --LOL . Our small lake community doesn't allow internal combustion engines on the lake (which is good because it reduces the noise) and electric was our only option. Good enough for fishing and cruising with the family.
It'll be delivered at the end of April -- just in time for some warmer weather. Fingers crossed!!!! Wish me luck, because I know absolutely nothing about pontoon boats and electric drives, but I figure since the other old guys make do -- how hard can it be.
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Theres two days that every boat owner loves. The day he buys a boat and the day he sells it. :hee20hee20hee:
The family had a fishing camp in Louisiana that was on an old oxbow lake. The locals all had pontoon boats and would cruise from pier to pier every evening and visit. I thought it was a great idea.
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Congrats Ray. Spend plenty of time practicing approaching the dock and tying up. Do it in calm conditions and some wind conditions as the wind can come up and make things tough trying to dock a vessel that catches and is affected by wind. I know you can do it and be ready for when conditions change while you are out on the lake.
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Thanks guys! Good idea Les, I'll have to learn how to steer that damn thing in windy conditions, and will definitely practice my tying up skills. We get some pretty windy days a couple of times a year, and it'll be critical.
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Rural, That is just plain cool
Ray, pontoons are very relaxing and you can get up and walk around and stretch easily. Real stable too. Plus you ca carry lots of folks. Often called party boats
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Rural, That is just plain cool
Ray, pontoons are very relaxing and you can get up and walk around and stretch easily. Real stable too. Plus you ca carry lots of folks. Often called party boats
Yes, that was the idea Phil. To get out in the mornings and evenings and enjoy the cooler temps with family and friends. I'm still a newbie when it comes to fishing, but with this boat I'll be able to enjoy some more quality time in the local fishing holes. Bought the trailer as well; which will allow me to get on some bigger regional lakes.
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What? A week without new bike activity? ....aka acquisition?
Naw....
I came home with 2 Cannondales, to supplement my one that will stay in the ride rotation. In this case it was a really old C/Dale (circa '84) which was the first year of bikes for them, prior to that they were an outdoor equipment (bags, etc) company. That one was purchased for its rims.
The other is a super nice Caad3 in far too small of a frame size. The smaller sizes (tends to be for women) are usually in PRISTINE shape, and often rarely get ridden. This Caad3 is equipped with all Campy and those components will donate themselves to my Specialized Allez (steel) that is beyond clean for its age.
The Allez is a keeper and rides nice (my size). The two will swap component brands (Shimano/Campy). Its not my only Campy equipped bike, as I prefer Shimano for shifting performance.
Its going to be a continued day of bike frame paint touchups, yardwork, and thank GAWD my diesel glow plugs arrived and the F350 is now back to consuming fuel (and starting) as it should instead of sitting in the driveway.
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I've been spending more and more time gathering and prepping barter items. I have all the tools and stuff that I need - but I grab spares to recondition and store for the day that China is no longer selling to us, because people are still going to need tools. Flashlights, old analog meters, leak detectors - anything that I remember needing on the job. I remember that when the one I had broke, how crazy it was doing the job for a day - or a week! - till I could get to the warehouse and secure a replacement. I am also accumulating tool parts (like ratchet guts and adjustable wrench parts) to trade with people for things I'll need.
I'm seeing how tool prices are going on ebay even for old stuff, and Craftsman prices are just exploding. I expect S-K prices to do the same. Just getting ready.
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Rural, That is just plain cool
The other way to do it is with a lot of individual photos and edit them together.
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Didn't do much. Went to Red Wing store to exchange my new boots (a size too small was causing discomfort).
Cold stone Creamery was next door so we got some ice cream!
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Classic pic Tim. Cold as heck outside, and all bundled up for the worst; yet it's never too cold for an ice cream. Cute pic!!
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I received this calendar in the mail today, it is nice to see one of my photos in print.
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Oh hell yeah, way to go Rural!!! :clap:
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Very nice Rural - congratulations!
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Nice job Justin and you have a very good reason to be proud. I know I enjoy your fine photography.
I also would like to know the meaning of the fishes. Do those symbols indicate when the fishing is good or poor?
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Yes, the fish indicate when the fishing is good on the Coromandel Peninsular (the thin sticky up bit of the North Island) based on the phases of the moon. A whole fish represents good fishing and a half fish represents fair fishing. Although they are based at Puriri, eight miles south of the peninsular, they service most of it.
Because New Zealand is a small place.... Thirty years ago my uncle and aunt lived in Puriri and my uncle occasionally worked for Graeme Wright Transport as a relief driver.
The photo was taken in February 2020 of a group of trucks approaching the inaugural Bombay Truck Show. This truck show was organised by a small local transport company as there hadn't been a truck show in the North Island for at least five years. They decided to hold a small show as a fundraiser for the local school, rugby club and St Johns, with a hundred trucks on the local rugby club fields. Once it was announced places filled within a few days. Then Sutherlands, the market gardeners that backed on to the rugby club, offered to put the a couple of paddocks of broccoli into grass once they were harvested so there was extra room. This allowed the number of entries to increased to 275, on the day there were 280.
Entry was by gold coin donation, NZ$1 and $2 are a gold coloured coin, when they opened the collection cans most of them contained at least one $50 note. There were six to eight thousand people through the gates. Between the gate take and $50 a truck they raised over $68,000. The local school is the primary school I went to. I have given this photo to the organisers to use.
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Darn Rural, that is a successful show for sure. Love the ariel photo. Drone I assume. Is it yours?
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Nice set of photos.. pretty countryside.
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Truck show would be cool. we have several car shows a year but I havent ever seen a truck show.
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There used to be plenty of truck shows in SoCal that we went to. We also had truck drags at OC Int'l Raceway and years back they had truck racing on the oval at Ontario Motor Speedway. I always enjoyed watching guys compete in the transfer dump timed competition.
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Had a national antique truck show years ago in Baltimore and it was quite cool.
Truck shows here tend to be regional and aren't close to us. I would attend something local but won't drive 3 hours for one.
Now steam shows, there are likely 6 or more every year within an hour from me. I normally hit one or 2 of them
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Darn Rural, that is a successful show for sure. Love the ariel photo. Drone I assume. Is it yours?
Yes, that is a drone photo, not mine though. It was taken by a photographer called Vandi, who until a year or so ago also lived in Tauranga and took a lot of truck photos.
Had a national antique truck show years ago in Baltimore and it was quite cool.
Truck shows here tend to be regional and aren't close to us. I would attend something local but won't drive 3 hours for one.
Now steam shows, there are likely 6 or more every year within an hour from me. I normally hit one or 2 of them
This one is about 2.5 hours from home.
For those with Facebook, my photo album from the day is at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10221455002223560&type=3 (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10221455002223560&type=3)
The 2020 Truck Show Event page that has a lot of photos and videos https://www.facebook.com/events/334287837201551/?active_tab=discussion (https://www.facebook.com/events/334287837201551/?active_tab=discussion)
Vandi Photography, a lot of NZ truck photos around the Bay of Plenty where I live and around NZ https://www.facebook.com/Vandi-Photography-196339023798222/ (https://www.facebook.com/Vandi-Photography-196339023798222/)
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So yesterday's excitement. A bus cut the corner outside my office, ran over the kerb extension islands, dropped the back wheel onto the stormwater grate and bellied on the island. The workshop guys came out to try and free it with virtually no gear. They spent over an hour and a half trying to pack sand bags, planks etc under the wheel and drive it out. In the end the towed it out with another bus. I don't know how much damage they did but there were some decent gouges in the island and what looked suspiciously like soot from inside the exhaust system on the island as well. I'm pretty sure with decent jack or airbag and a few 6x4 blocks of wood I could have jacked it up, put the blocks under the wheel and driven it out, all in about fifteen minutes.
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Had a national antique truck show years ago in Baltimore and it was quite cool.
Truck shows here tend to be regional and aren't close to us. I would attend something local but won't drive 3 hours for one.
Now steam shows, there are likely 6 or more every year within an hour from me. I normally hit one or 2 of them
Have you ever been to the Rough and Tumble, in Kinzers PA for their Annual Threshemans Reunion? Great show. Maybe a bit far for you not sure.
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Owls Head Transportation Musuem had a great truck show last year. I think being cooped up with the pandemic brought people out in droves. Trucks from all over New England. Some of the coolest old Macks you will ever see. One guy spent 8 years restoring this old Mack, it was beautiful. If I could post pictures easier I'd post a bunch.
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Muddy, never been to the Kinser show
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Cleaned up snow, not as much as predicted but enough to make it a pain. Winds yesterday were unreal.
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I'll admit that I don't utilize my main box in the shop as much as I should since I have a pegboard, I have utilized the top of this box and the tray even less than I do the box in general aside from all the pliers in the bottom drawer.
Hell from the day my dad brought it home from my grandfathers shop when I was 7 the top was never opened till my dad gave it to me about 10 years ago.
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I'm starting to rethink some things and wanting to really set this box up better, so I reorganized it yesterday and today I found a better place to put it so I can actually get Into the top.
I set the tray up as a good basic 3/8 and 1/4" assortment I can easily grab and work from as intended, it'll probably be the first time that tray was really utilized since my grandfather was a routine service tech for the local Highway patrol station back in the 70's.
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Saturday morning's little job, drive a hour south to do the annual compliance inspection on two buggies. These are at each end of the class scale, Class 1 Open Class (Over 1650cc) and Class 7 (1200cc VW).
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Recently (in the last few years) imported Hustler Concepts Pro Buggy with a 2.4 Ecotec. This is an unusual chassis as it is constructed of 44mm/1.75" tube instead of the usual 32mm/1.25" tube.
A Class 7 - 1200 VW Beetle engine, gearbox, front axle and suspension. It is a stock class with very few modifications allowed. This is a 1990's NZ factory built Cougar chassis.
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My buggy was a JSC Hi Jumper copy, and I miss having it. Not too many buggies in the area behind our house. Venture off the main wide roads and you will be eating brush and tree branches in your face. Take a truck on the smaller roads and trails and you will get Nevada Pinstripes. Motorcycles, quads and side-by-sides rule here.
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Went to TSC to get a box of fire starter squares and got the last box. I try to keep 2+ boxes on hand as I break each square in half to start a fire in the stove and these work great. Then I did my check of the clearance section which I do every visit and bingo. There on the shelf was an outdoor deep fryer and the wife had just told me last night that she wanted one. It was $20 off which made it very reasonably priced.
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Cant beat 20% off.
I always cruise by the sale area at TSC. They put some of the oddest things there. A while back they had several boxes of 6011 rods marked down 50%. I figured they were getting out of the Hobart line so I grabbed them. Walking out thru the welding section and there was more boxes there, just at 100% priced?
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Actually the $20 off was 33% off. I buy quite a bit of stuff from the clearance shelves and also got a 3 pack of replacement abrasive blaster nozzles for $1.49 which was a buck off. My all-time best clearnce items was two 25lb buckets of 1-1/2 fence staples reduced from $35 each to $5.27 each. I have been working out of one bucket when I replace the 5" peeler core fence posts on the perimeter of the property and will probably never get into the 2nd bucket even if I replace 50 or more posts. The 2nd bucket is like money in the bank.
I also scored on my Hobart welder when an employee put the clearance sticker on the wrong box and I got it for over 50% off. I am so glad they built a TSC in our town and when I go to Carson City for lunch at the airport on Fridays I often check the clearance rack at the TSC up there.
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I will have to start checking the clearance aisle more closely. I normally see the junk tools and keep moving :))
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I will have to start checking the clearance aisle more closely. I normally see the junk tools and keep moving :))
Same here Phil, I usually just walk on by. That said, I'll need to pay more attention to the clearances as well. There may be a few treasures in there every now and then. TSC in my area is a big deal. We're semi-rural; meaning that we now get a large suburban influx coming this way, but TSC still carries the rural AG staples in large quantities.
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Our TSC and the local F&H store have clearance sections, but usually just fluff that does not move (toys, pet stuff, gimmicks). What is there is marked up then priced down :))
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I go to the clearance isle in every store I go to
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Rarely eat fast food but stopped by Wendys and got a sausage, egg and cheese and man was it good. Fresh fried egg makes all the difference and the sausage was spicy :-*
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Oh yeah, tested positive for covid. Was sick Monday into Tuesday and got tested. Have felt pretty good since except for cold symptoms. Really wasn't all that sick anyway, slight fever, headache and tired. Mama has tested negative so far.
We have been taking C and D for a few years and recently added Zinc. I believe this has helped along with vax. Staying at the new house for a few days, making a list of stuff we need for stay overs, forgot my tooth brush and shaving kit :c002:
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Camping out then. Heat and lights and all that?
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Sorry to hear it Phil. Hope the mild symptoms will prevail for the duration. Good luck to you and the Mrs. God bless!
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Camping out then. Heat and lights and all that?
Heat, lights, and all normal stuff. Lady left a lot of her stuff, about 70% but no frying pan :)) Had eggs, no way to cook them
. No cable or internet but dvd player and a stash of movies.
Not one comfortabe chair in the living room. :c002:
Still feeling pretty good, took a long nap this afternoon
Thanks for asking
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U can make tolerable scrambled eggs in the microwave. Those years of shift work were spent figuring out important things like that :lol_hitting:
Good luck Phil. I hope the boredom is the worst symptom you see.
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Well yesterday, four hour round trip to do Annual Compliance Inspection on one of our club member's Yamaha YXZ.
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His race trailer has a nice feature, the whole side opens making it easy to tie the YXZ down and provides shade.
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He runs a transport business based on roll back trucks.
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Leisureline build 15 to 18 of these caravans a week and he delivers all of them direct to customers.
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Boat trailer Tetris anyone?
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As well as DMW boat trailers he also carts conventional Kea brand trailers.
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More and more farmers are asking for their new SAM fertiliser spreaders to be delivered by roll back as they don't have to worry about finding a loading bank to unload them.
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From something that is built in NZ and exported to Australia to something imported from Italy, Antonio Carraro articulated tractors.
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A few boats stored in the yard.
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A couple of photo stops on the way home.
At the end of his road.
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An abandoned house I've been meaning to stop and get a photo of for a few years now.
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The view from the boat ramp across the lake to Atiamuri Dam with the Pohaturoa lava dome in the background.
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Also in my travels on Sunday, driving in the drive way at a friends place. I was waiting for a bloke with a hockey mask and a scythe to appear!!
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More and more farmers are asking for their new SAM fertiliser spreaders to be delivered by roll back as they don't have to worry about finding a loading bank to unload them.
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From something that is built in NZ and exported to Australia to something imported from Italy, Antonio Carraro articulated tractors.
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They would use a low boy or detach for those fertilizers around here. Farmer could back up and hook right on to them and pull them off the trailer.
Also those are unique looking tractors
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Well, managed to survive the day without too much carnage.
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From something that is built in NZ and exported to Australia to something imported from Italy, Antonio Carraro articulated tractors.
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Also those are unique looking tractors
Yes, articulated vineyard/orchard tractors. The kiwifruit orchard I worked on when I was in high school in the late 80's had Ferrari and Holder (German) articulated tractors in the 40hp size range. They were interesting to drive because they turned so fast but were OK once you got used to them.
Note on the Ferrari the steering wheel is on the front section while on the Holder the steering wheel is on the rear section with the driver.
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I had a guy who worked for me that had a couple of the Pasqauli? machines like those. He swore the 30HP pasquali would outwork a 50HP US style tractor.
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After finishing with the cyclekarts on Saturday I headed over the hill to do the Annual Compliance check on three UTVs for a father and son that race in our club and a fourth for another club member that had organised to be there as well.
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As I left the alternator light came on. This wasn't unexpected it had been making a terrible noise for a couple of weeks and my mate who owns a automotive workshop had ordered a replacement for me on Thursday. It started charging again halfway home. this afternoon he fitted for me. This 1956 Chevrolet 1300 was parked outside. It has a few modern up grades, 350ci V8 and modern auto so it goes and vacuum boosted brakes so it stops, otherwise fairly original.
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I picked up the folding cart for my bbq that has been on back order since before Christmas.
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Busy, AM gathered all the pots, put them in one place, cleaning up the gardens & yard.
We are getting 150 bails of pine straw installed on the 10th, the ultimate weed control.
Then 3gallons of weed killer were sprayed, mowed, and edged. Hit a rebar spike, took 2 chunks
out to the blade I just repaired, so get to do it again, practice makes perfect as they say LMAO
Laid on the couch for an hour or so, back outside, uncovered the Mustang and went for the annual spring ride.
Going to meet up with some Mustang folks tomorrow, will stay for a shot while. I get bored fast, standing around, I take the camera never know what could show up.
Come home repair a broken outside water pipe that feeds the wife's greenhouse, as expected the winter burst the PVC.
Then hit the blade grind it back weld a new edge, cut & balance, make it whole.
Loving the weather I can tell you that.
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This morning I helped a buddy recovered his dads tractor from the woods for the second time. About 10 years ago I got it running enough we could haul it to his moms house after dad had passed. His mom passed last year and he's selling the house so he wanted to pull it up to the carport till he could decide what to do with it next. Cut all the trees out of it. aired the tires up and it went along easily.
Came home and planted, yellow squash, and pole beans in the garden. Replanted the corn that never came up. Too cold last month. We try to get corn in before Valentines day so it can make before it gets too hot. Well we got a freeze the next week.
The ex came by and cleaned out the green house. I'm done with that now. I'm thinking about changing the lexan roof out for R panel and making more storage out of it.
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I thought about planting this morning but we had snow showers all day so I just planted my butt in the recliner for a while. :lol_hitting:
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Did some shopping with Lucy. We went to harbor freight. Grabbed some more wire wheels, and alligator clips for making jumpers.
Also found these while there. I plan to make a write-up in the next week or so. (I'm having trouble uploading pictures right now)
https://www.harborfreight.com/search?q=Ultra%20grip
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Busy weekend. This Saturday we we're supposed to be running the first North Island round of the National Off-road Racing Championships. Due to restrictions placed on the number of people that can attend events due COVID it was cancelled earlier in the year. At our last club meeting one of our club partners and racers offered to put up $1,500 as prize money for a March Madness race event.
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When I was doing the Annual Compliance Inspection on his race car the weekend before we were looking at the weather forecast and there was no rain forecast. Dion commented he would have to arrange a water cart as our track gets very dusty when it drys out. I got this photo text to me on Friday at lunchtime with the comment "This is on the way to the track shortly. Two water carts tomorrow. "
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Saturday morning I headed up to the track. First we scarified the track to open it up so it would accept water.
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Then it got watered for several hours.
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I left them to it early afternoon as I still had some cars to do Annual Compliance Inspection on. The last thing they did before they left was roll it with a rubber tyred Cambridge roller.
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I headed back into town and did the inspection on as Class 1 buggy then headed to my mate's place to do the inspection on his son's UTV and a couple Kiwi Trucks from Auckland.
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The kids headed a mile up the road to pick up a $50 couch they had seen on FB Marketplace.
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Evidently there was a pool table for sale as well so they were given $100 and told to go back and get that as well.
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After bbq'ed pork brisket for dinner I headed home to finish the paperwork for Sunday. A quick stop at the bottle store for supplies was in order.
Even here everyone is jumping on the bandwagon, they were pushing Ukrainian vodka.
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Sunday was hot, busy and successful.
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Everyone that started the feature race went in the draw for a share of the prize money. Adults 1st $600, 2nd $300, 3rd $200, Kiwi Trucks 1st $250, 2nd $100, 3rd $50. As there were only two Kiwi Trucks in the feature we made 2nd $150.
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Got the chores out of the way, came home. Repiped the wife's greenhouse water feed. Change the angle so that the line will empty when purged for the winter weather.
Welded and balanced the mower blade, will install later. Got to test the new grinder stand. Not the stand exactly, but what it now allows me to do. The grinder has a vacuum port to hook a shop vac to. As it was the stand I was using did not have the room behind it to use that feature.
The side covers for the wheels can use some help. Need gaskets for a better seal, not a horrible fit, some gaps .020 ruffly, never the less hurts the efficiency. Some sheet gasket material and a ball-peen hammer will tidy that up.
Finding a source will be an adventure, once opon a time auto parts stores had it on the shilf.
At the part store, I can hear it now. counter boy " You have some gasket material", counter boy asks "what year is the car" so pathetic.
Finishing a project for a couple of guys. Parts made & now putting things together. About done there, now waiting for, how about this for a fastener name, sex bolts, learn something new every day LMAO.
Then dinner, cover the Mustang, called it a day.
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Called into question the marital status of my work minion's parents :lol_hitting:
The young engineer that is my assistant on one of my current projects has had Covid and is still isolating for a few more days before he can come back to work. He has been staying at his girlfriend's parent's lake house. This morning while we were discussing a design issue he commented that he needed to shift inside and plug his laptop in. I asked him if he was on the deck and if he could see the lake. He said yes, so I called into question the marital status of his parents and told him to send me a photo.
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Worked on getting my taxes ready for the accountant. :41: :41:
I have a feeling its going to be bad news this year. Even the printer quit working. :33:
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According to DHL tracking it got delivered three hours ago. I still haven't got an irate phone call or email O:-)
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Finished all the wood chipping I needed to do.
Now I've got 3 bins worth of chips I'm hoping somebody will want to take.
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According to DHL tracking it got delivered three hours ago. I still haven't got an irate phone call or email O:-)
Did you move to a new island or was a mistake made on delivery?
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According to DHL tracking it got delivered three hours ago. I still haven't got an irate phone call or email O:-)
But you know it’s coming. I’ve done the same a few times at Christmas 😁😁
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Not tool related, but my latest project is starting a garden. Yeah, I know - my name means farmer, but I can assure you I'm anything but! However, with the price of food skyrocketing - and the doctor demanding I go vegetarian - I figured I'd give gardening a shot. Heck, I've got the time.
I have a 12' circular flower bed recently vacated that's fed rainwater off the house, and dug up an 8'x 10" square lot. The one end of the square lot is our old rose bush area, so that soil is much better. Strained out the cleche, pebbles, bermuda grass roots and other debris, then bolstered with organic compost. Bought a bunch of heirloom seeds of various veggies I find palatable and hopefully will grow. If everything fails to come up or dies I can plant some decorative native flowers in the prepared areas and brighten up the yard!
Still have to build a chicken wire enclosure around then to keep out the cats and racoons, but I'm getting there. Man, farming is hard work!
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Good luck George and I hope you have a green thumb. Your local Co-op Extension for a state university is a great resource. They can help you with soil requirements for your area, weeds, garden or crops. They also have plenty of info online or you can even drop by and they are happy to help you. Check it out.
https://extension.arizona.edu/
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Yesterday I got my "free trailer" inspected at the DMV in order to start the bonded title process. It came with no title. Today I purchase a bond for it, and get that off to a start in order to get it in my name.
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According to DHL tracking it got delivered three hours ago. I still haven't got an irate phone call or email O:-)
Did you move to a new island or was a mistake made on delivery?
I sent it from here in NZ to my uncle and aunt who live in Fiji. They run a PR company and one of their staff dropped one of their cameras recently. As no one, Amazon etc, will send stuff to Fiji, I sourced them a replacement lens and sent it to them. I made sure it was "safe" in transit. I also included a few memes and some of my photos within the layers.
But you know it’s coming. I’ve done the same a few times at Christmas 😁😁
I talked to them last night and didn't get a huge reaction. I'm claiming that it is not entirely my fault. My father shouldn't have told me this is how he used to wrap my aunt's Christmas presents when she was a teenager and he was first married to my mother :character0029:
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Last night's effort, six 29m (95') Super-T beams placed between when the adjacent airport closed at 9pm and opened at 6am as the bridge is right in line with the runway.
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Last night's effort, six 29m (95') Super-T beams placed between when the adjacent airport closed at 9pm and opened at 6am as the bridge is right in line with the runway.
Wow, pressure must have really been on to stay within that allotted time window.
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Yes, Friday night was always going to be the pressure one. It was the first night on that structure, the traffic management required was more complex than last night for the second span and the airspace closure was shorter than last night. The first beam was lifted 45 minutes behind schedule. The last beam was unrigged from the crane at about 5am. Last night they installed the beams on the second span. They got access to the airspace earlier at 7:30pm and were finished by 2:45am.
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Trailer light repurpose/upgrade has commenced.
I started work on the "free" quad trailer, where the title has all been sorted out and is now in hand. The lights, tho nice at the time it was manufactured are all smashed. Every single one.
My 16' call hauler has donated all of its lights to the quad trailer, and my squirrelling away of parts for the 16' lighting upgrade to LED has bore fruit after apparently 11 years as I read my receipts. I'm relocating the side marker lights to a more visible position since the Peterson armored side markers allow for that and the former ones had no armoring.
Good things take time.
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Worked on putting the new steps on my pickup, as the old ones were rotting away.
The first one went well....
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Then on the driver's side a body mount bolt snapped..... It's a bit rusted.....
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Then I changed the oil in the mower, as I was going to take the drain oil to my buckets I spilled a fair amount on the mower.
It wasn't a great day for my luck, but I did make some delicious chicken for supper.
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Good work Tim -- it rarely goes according to plan.
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The new steps look good.
I ordered the factory steps when I got the F250. My first truck with the steps. Sure are helpful
yeah I'm getting old :lol_hitting: :lol_hitting:
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The new steps look good.
I ordered the factory steps when I got the F250. My first truck with the steps. Sure are helpful
yeah I'm getting old _hitting: _hitting:
I put them on years ago, wouldn't have a truck without them.
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Drove to Auckland for off-road racing national organisation council meeting. It was a bit foggy in the Waikato.
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It didn't clear up until I got out of the Waikato. The farm on the left is the one the half acre I grew up on was subdivided from.
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At the meeting our club president dropped this back to the Auckland club as they are running the event in June. I've raced this once and made it to 180km out of the 240km before breaking my car. That year 38 of 64 starters finished.
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More of a "what did I do this week"...drove about 1700 miles round trip in four days to pick up a car for a friend. Bit of a rare piece...1965 Oldsmobile F-85 Cutlass convertible with a factory Muncie M20 4 speed. Can't really tell in the photos, but it's a dark blue metallic with a touch of pearl. The blue really glows when the sun hits it the right way. Finally got to drive it today and all I can say is he's gonna enjoy it!
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More of a "what did I do this week"...drove about 1700 miles round trip in four days to pick up a car for a friend. Bit of a rare piece...1965 Oldsmobile F-85 Cutlass convertible with a factory Muncie M20 4 speed. Can't really tell in the photos, but it's a dark blue metallic with a touch of pearl. The blue really glows when the sun hits it the right way. Finally got to drive it today and all I can say is he's gonna enjoy it!
Neat car!
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My first car in the states was a 1966 Dynamic 88 convertible... bloody loved that car.
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I got my old 1955 Oliver super 55 running this weekend. injector pump had froze up on it two years ago. finally drug it home and pulled it apart. Most of the injector pump is NLA so I had to be very careful pulling it apart. Got it all back together and running this weekend but didn't have all my filters in till today. Changed the motor oil and lift oil and swapped out both filters. Runs pretty good. Now I got to sort out the PTO clutch. Always something with these old machines
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mowed the lawn tonight. first time of the year. supposed to rain tomorrow. 4 inches in the last 10 days.i would love to hit the field but it aint happening any time soon. last year i finished wheat on the 7th of april......... yup april.
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With all the inflation that's going on the Mrs. and I have decided to spend some money and fix up/repair the house and property. Repainting, tree trimming, all sorts of repairs, etc. Have gotten through my first list, now attacking the second. BLO on the outside exposed wood, roof coating, and overall spring cleaning. been a few years since I've gone through all of this so it was due. One of the main beams protruding out the side of the house holding up the roof edge had gotten infiltrated with water, which sat internally and basically rotted the thing out. had to installed a redwood beam the support the roof and "rebuild" the beam so it approximated the original profile. As I'm not a wood person that was a PITA.
Repainting the house trim. When we had the house repainted when we moved in the Mrs. picked this denim blue for the exterior trim. Only problem was it faded to a pink. Discovered the color she chose had a magenta component in it, which produced the pink when eaten by the sun. We reformulated the mix, same dark blue color but no magenta. Fades to a light blue/gray. Acceptable. Well, those exposed parts again needed paint, and of course the paint place no longer uses that color scheme so the formula I had was useless. Had to get another color matched - no magenta but had red in it. We'll see when it fades over the next few years. May have to repaint the whole house to get all the exterior trim done in one batch.
Here's the old first batch pink faded, and redone in the new denim.
Just imagine the whole house trim like this - brick house with pink trim.
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mowed the lawn tonight. first time of the year. supposed to rain tomorrow. 4 inches in the last 10 days.i would love to hit the field but it aint happening any time soon. last year i finished wheat on the 7th of april......... yup april.
Farmers here haven't started planting yet, been too cold and often wet. Look for that to change this week. One told me yesterday he is normally done planting by now. He wasn't too concerned as of now
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mowed the lawn tonight. first time of the year. supposed to rain tomorrow. 4 inches in the last 10 days.i would love to hit the field but it aint happening any time soon. last year i finished wheat on the 7th of april......... yup april.
Farmers here haven't started planting yet, been too cold and often wet. Look for that to change this week. One told me yesterday he is normally done planting by now. He wasn't too concerned as of now
Yes, it's been quite cold down here in central Virginia. Had frost just the other night. Farmers are starting to plant here as well, and that's pretty late compared to other years. Hoping for a warm spring, and get this miserable cold weather behind us.
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Rode over to Houston this morning to take in the NRA annual meeting. Mainly interested in putting hands on a few new EDC possibles. Time to up my game a bit. I was there 5+ hours and didn't see everything. Did get a chance to handle the Wilson Combat compact 1911 and really liked it. Also had a few others that struck my fancy. Devil dog firearms had an all steel that was smooth. A bit heavy but felt really slick. Decisions, Decisions.
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Drug out my old John Deere tractor mower, patching it up to mow the road ditches. Went to a neighbors to look over one he left in the woods. More to keep busy with, too easy sit inside with the retired thing, need projects to keep active every day, as if keeping 3 acres mowed around the buildings doesnt do that. Did some weed cutting for a new neighbor, used the 1944 M Farmall and a stalk shredder.
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Went 6 days straight and hammers my wheat in. Finished last night about 1030. About a month later than usual. Will not plant any corn this year. Just too late for my operation and conditions.
About .3 of rain last night so taking a day of rest before regrouping for soybeans. We have about 2 weeks to get them in. Not the kind of spring I was hoping for.
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Went 6 days straight and hammers my wheat in. Finished last night about 1030. About a month later than usual. Will not plant any corn this year. Just too late for my operation and conditions.
About .3 of rain last night so taking a day of rest before regrouping for soybeans. We have about 2 weeks to get them in. Not the kind of spring I was hoping for.
Not planting corn? I assume you'll plant all beams instead? Obviously not going to let the fields sit empty.
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I will try and plant soybeans on my corn acres (if it gets dry enought to put them in)2 but prevent plant may be my best option.
The last thing I want is to plant corn now and end up with wet, immature, low test weight corn and a november harvest.
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Changed the oil on the front end loader. I almost heard it say......
Thank
You
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This weekend we did some yard work. Just trying to improve the outside slowly.
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:cool2:
Gotta love a brick house.
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Lookin' good Tim, and those kids are growing like weeds.
A nicely kept yard can make all the difference in your attitude when you get home from work. It's uplifting and worth the effort.
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Looking good Tim,
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Gotta love a brick house.
Yep, in the winter it really holds the sun's heat very well, and summer seems to hold out the heat. If it had one more room and some more land I'm sure it'd be our "forever" home. But looking in the future, the two kids aren't going want to have the same room later on. And I'll need more out door storage. Luckily I have enough borrowed/red red outdoor storage for my tractors and trailer.Lookin' good Tim, and those kids are growing like weeds.
A nicely kept yard can make all the difference in your attitude when you get home from work. It's uplifting and worth the effort.
Every time I mow the lawn I look and see all the stuff that needs done and it just erks me. So little by little I'm getting things done. Neither Mandy or I are big into gardening or landscaping. Which is odd coming from farm backgrounds lol
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Tim, take it a step at a time and your lawn is down the list as far as important things you need to do, like being a parent and earning a living
You and Mandy seem to be doing a great job raising your family.
Oh, and with any house, and especially and older house always need something. And if you live there long enough, you get to do some things again.
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Come he today from a 4 day bike trip in WV. Over 1500 miles on with great scenery, friends and riding.
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Come he today from a 4 day bike trip in WV. Over 1500 miles on with great scenery, friends and riding.
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Over in Thurmond WV Tim? Love WV -- and the roads.
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West Virginia looks like a great place to visit. Beautiful pictures
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Love the trains, good stuff.
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Over in Thurmond WV Tim? Love WV -- and the roads.
Yep first time at Thurmond. Absolutely great roads and scenery I'm WV. Truly gets a bad rap.... although some sections you can see where the stereotypes come from. The amount of vehicles on cinder blocks is astounding lol
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West Virginia looks like a great place to visit. Beautiful pictures
Definitely worth a trip!
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Love the trains, good stuff.
Here a little bit of the past and present.....
A CSX engine through the 1922 C&O coaling tower.
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BTW -- That coaling tower was engineered for the C&O by Fairbanks-Morse. It's was quite a complicated conveyer design for the time.
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BTW -- That coaling tower was engineered for the C&O by Fairbanks-Morse. It's was quite a complicated conveyer design for the time.
it was ahead of it's time. Most in that time period used a cable or drag shovel kind of setup. From a pit.
Future towers went on to use the design like the C&O ones.
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Did a brake job a work. Came he and did the brakes on the back of the Oldsmobile. When I took the caliper off, I thought I got lucky with just the pins being rusty and needing grease. The caliper was sticking, so it took a caliper anyway
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Also show you one of the reasons I'm ok with having Craftsman and HF tools for at home box.
It took me about 10 minutes to put the sockets on the tray the way I wanted them.....she had them scatter in 10 seconds :))
She was having fun she was getting as dirty as I was!
The other reason came out later grabbed his lawn chair and sat it right next to me asking all kinds of questions.
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She's a cutie!! I'm sure she enjoyed helping dad with the car.
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Good times Muddy 👍
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Made a deal to swap a neighbors old tractor mower for my labor to get his 87 F-250 going. Went to his place this morning with my pickup and trailer, he helped load it. Going to need a fuel pump at least. Plus I drained out 5 gallons of 4 year old gas. His place is only 5 miles from mine, but goes over 3 of the steeper hills in the township. This is a big deal to me as my current tow vehicle is a 96 chevy 1/2t with 240,000 miles, made it ok. Might get it back to him tomorrow.
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Congrats John -- '87 F250 was the golden era for that line of trucks. What engine does it have? ...and does it still have a carburetor?
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This has the 460, carbureted, 4 spd. All original truck with 180k hard farm miles. Should have it going by dark. Counted 8 Fords on his place, a 70 being the oldest.
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Beautiful country.
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A few may remember I broke a body mount bolt off in my pickup trying to put on new running boards...
Well I've been dreading it but I decided to go after it tonight. Used three of a farmers favorite tools.... Pb Blaster, heat, and vise grips. Jacked the body up enough to squeeze a vise grip in between the body and bushing.... And to my amazement she came out fairly easy.
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Glad it didn't fight you too bad
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Got the 87 f-250 back to the owner, could easily put 1k$ into it. Tues. went to get the mower, took a bit, sunk deeper in the ground than anticipated. The single rear tire actually holds air, been sitting flat, maybe 12 years. Trip home was only 5 miles, but with the hills, 90 degree heat, I realized that its been years since I did field work, and been having birthdays regularly.
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Ok, so after jacking up my side trying to return my table saw to its proper upright position after an upgrade.... A stop in Buffalo yesterday, to pick up some baltic birch plywood, I have the full upgrade done. I added a drawer inside the top drawer, to keep my sawblades laying flat, and utilize the full height of the drawer. I added some neodymium magnets to the front to keep the inner drawer closed, and a handle for leverage against said magnets.
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Spent most of the day on site at the two different stages of the road safety project I'm looking after (widening to provide decent shoulders, barriers and wide centreline). At one location where the contractor has cut into the bank for the widening it has left a big old 'grandfather' pine tree at the top that needs to come out. They can't just fell it away from the road as it may get held up in some other similar pines, so the arborists climbed it today to remove the limbs before they cut the main trunk down.
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Ok, so after jacking up my side trying to return my table saw to its proper upright position after an upgrade.... A stop in Buffalo yesterday, to pick up some baltic birch plywood, I have the full upgrade done. I added a drawer inside the top drawer, to keep my sawblades laying flat, and utilize the full height of the drawer. I added some neodymium magnets to the front to keep the inner drawer closed, and a handle for leverage against said magnets.
Very nice work. I like that design very much. --- thanks for posting
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Ok, so after jacking up my side trying to return my table saw to its proper upright position after an upgrade.... A stop in Buffalo yesterday, to pick up some baltic birch plywood, I have the full upgrade done. I added a drawer inside the top drawer, to keep my sawblades laying flat, and utilize the full height of the drawer. I added some neodymium magnets to the front to keep the inner drawer closed, and a handle for leverage against said magnets.
Very nice work. I like that design very much. --- thanks for posting
Like the drawer in a drawer design also, very cleaver
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Been awhile since I was at a tractor pull. Went to the local fair one today. Got a 1st and 4th in my classes.
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Been awhile since I was at a tractor pull. Went to the local fair one today. Got a 1st and 4th in my classes.
Got something on my Facebook feed yesterday , time flies ….. it’s 8 years ago that we went to the Tractor Pull at The Buck with you and Mandy after the GTG at Phil’s.
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Mudman is action :08:
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Excellent Tim! Happy Father's Day, and hope you had a ball with the kids.
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spent the day in the crawlspace of my house. Finally getting around to finishing up the pex install. All that was left was the laundry room and water heater but it fought me all the way. Didn't get the water back on until 2000. Sore as hell but at least we got a hot shower.
I'm getting too old for this nonsense.
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spent the day in the crawlspace of my house. Finally getting around to finishing up the pex install. All that was left was the laundry room and water heater but it fought me all the way. Didn't get the water back on until 2000. Sore as hell but at least we got a hot shower.
I'm getting too old for this nonsense.
Good job doing all that work in a cramped space. I feel your pain because at some point my body told me that the time has come to stop doing these kinds of jobs. Last one I did was in the attic at our former house. After a day all hunched over and in very high heat to boot, I couldn't move upright for three days -- LOL
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+2 Trimming a small tree, or doing some work on the roof gets me. Up and down a ladder a dozen times painting, trim repair, and evap cooler work makes me sore for 2 days.
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Tested positive this morning so i`ll be slothing all week.
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Wish you a quick recovery Jabber, and hope/pray it's just a nuisance.
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Yeah i`m over the worst , just 2 days sleeping.
But now a mandatory 5 days off work... oh well life's tough. :93:
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Get well Jabber and if you are up to it, get some stuff caught up in the shop.
When I had it, slept for 2 days but was tired for 2 weeks
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Been awhile since I was at a tractor pull. Went to the local fair one today. Got a 1st and 4th in my classes.
Got something on my Facebook feed yesterday , time flies ….. it’s 8 years ago that we went to the Tractor Pull at The Buck with you and Mandy after the GTG at Phil’s.
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That was a good time!
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We usually do service every 200 hrs.... Current hrs are 7331.
Over 2000 hrs since he said he serviced it and another 1000+ since then
Seems our road guy was lacking a bit.... Forgot to wipe of the filter too I guess....
This is a too common occurrence. We get a machine in for shop work that was "just serviced" by a road guy (usually less then 100 hrs ago) and find things that should have been caught at said service.
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I can sympathize with ya Muddy. I noticed this last weekend. Only problem is I’m the service guy 🤔🤔
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Went to do laundry last night and the washer is grinding away during the agitate cycle. Utubed it and found out the transmission is probably bad. Pulled it apart this evening and got a $165 transmission on order. Delivery time frame of 25th-29th. Hope I got enough underwear to make it. :lol_hitting:
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No worries mate got ya covered...
Plastic wrap.... undies on a roll. :93:
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No worries mate got ya covered...
Plastic wrap.... undies on a roll. :93:
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And you can always turn them inside out to get an extra day's wear :))
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Took the kids to my sister's to use the pool. Build this for a little bit of fun.
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Great idea Tim. Hope you had the PVC already on hand, because the prices for the stuff are getting ridiculous.
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Got the transmission for the washer today. Got it all back together and clean underwear is the order of the day. :dance: :dance:
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Got the transmission for the washer today. Got it all back together and clean underwear is the order of the day. :dance: :dance:
Congrats -- keeping a good old washer alive is money in the bank. Modern electronic wonders can't hold a candle to the older mechanical designs.
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Tim, that's cool, need to make one myself. Internet plans or did you just make it from scratch?
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Great idea Tim. Hope you had the PVC already on hand, because the prices for the stuff are getting ridiculous.
Didn't have any. Honestly didn't think it was bad. Regular PVC was about $7 for 10 ft.
But then again I've never bought any before so that may be high.Tim, that's cool, need to make one myself. Internet plans or did you just make it from scratch?
Little bit of both I just looked at pictures online and then did my own thing (like usual :)) )
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90° heat today. But still had a nice ride down to PA-MD border.
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Did some pulling today. Was a tight track with alot of good competition. Got a 2nd and a 4th place.
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Congratulations Tim! Well deserved I'm sure --
... and Wow -- that boy is growing like a weed.
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... and Wow -- that boy is growing like a weed.
My first thoughts as well😊
Congrats on a great day pulling
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That boy will be driving that tractor before you know it.
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Our club is running a round of the National Off-road Racing Championships on Saturday. I've got tomorrow and Friday off work to help with the final set up but it is going to chuck it down tomorrow, about 1.5" of rain and another half an inch on Friday morning so I took this afternoon off and set out the pit markings in the dry. I'm now painting them in the dark by the headlights of my ute.
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Man you are committed :))
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Man you are committed :))
+1 -- definitely agree. Good luck!
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Man you are committed :))
Or should be committed? :-\
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Man you are committed :))
Or should be committed? :-\
Tell me about it!
Because marques can't be had for love nor money this weekend we have scaffolders erecting a frame and they are going to shrink wrap it instead.
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The rain yesterday didn't stop in the morning as predicted and we had more rain today than predicted as well, so unfortunately this morning we had to make the decision to postpone the event for two weeks as the track was too wet to race on. I could barely walk across it today without falling on my rear. So instead of scrambling to do the final event paperwork and rushing around town to scrutineer race cars (I had three to do tonight), I sitting at home watching TV drinking rum and coke.
A little bit of teaser footage from two weeks ago when the track was dry
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Those camera drones have sure changed filming forever.
Very cool
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Cleaned up the dock, the kayaks and boat. It's almost a weekly job due to all the insects and debris that the squirrels and birds leave behind. Not complaining at all. I'm glad I'm not riding a desk anymore and can do these chores when I feel like it.
Still lots to do in the garage, but taking a small bite day by day.
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Those camera drones have sure changed filming forever.
Very cool
They are incredible. Not so good if you get too close.
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With racing cancelled I had the chance to have a sleep in, then head down to the food show that was on at the stadium but there was a huge queue to get in so gave it a miss. I ended up at he Mount main beach for lunch from one of the food carts/trucks.
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Quite a nice mid winter day, 18C (64F). Someone was even setting up for a beach wedding.
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Finished the day at a mate's for a bbq and drinks to celebrate his birthday.
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The cake even have a 10mm socket.
As usual at Jason's events, there was fire.
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Looks like you had a good time with your friends. --- Love that cake desert; brilliant!
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Getting ready for an offshore fishing trip down in NC. I've only been deep sea fishing once in my life and am looking forward to this. Hopefully I won't get sea sick, but taking some Dramamine with me -- just in case.
Here's hoping the fish are biting -- LOL
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Getting ready for an offshore fishing trip down in NC. I've only been deep sea fishing once in my life and am looking forward to this. Hopefully I won't get sea sick, but taking some Dramamine with me -- just in case.
Here's hoping the fish are biting -- LOL
Have fun, good luck on the water!
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Yesterday I met up with the Ultra4 guys who are running an event in a couple of weeks and are using the pits at our track as a base, with the course spread across our track and the 4wd club's area that is adjacent to us. I finally got to have a (short) ride in Mike, the 4wd club president's 42" tyred trials truck.
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Another club trials truck.
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The Ultra4 guys were running around in an ex-offroad racing RZR.
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The car club were setting up for a rally sprint as I left.
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Those trials trucks look like fun. 42in tires take some gearing and HP to make them go. what kind of motor they running?
Its good to see folks still making the motorsports things work there. We have a hard time keeping an oval dirt track running. We have a really good promoter at the moment and he's bringing in some pretty decent touring classes. He's also promoting another track in Corpus so he stays pretty busy. The ever increasing costs and regulations are slowly shutting these down across the nation.
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Those trials trucks look like fun. 42in tires take some gearing and HP to make them go. what kind of motor they running?
Its good to see folks still making the motorsports things work there. We have a hard time keeping an oval dirt track running. We have a really good promoter at the moment and he's bringing in some pretty decent touring classes. He's also promoting another track in Corpus so he stays pretty busy. The ever increasing costs and regulations are slowly shutting these down across the nation.
It runs a 4.0l Lexus (Toyota) V8 with the Lexus auto, converted to manual shift, and a Landcruiser transfer case and axles, 60 Series I think. Yes it will have a gear reduction in the transfer case.
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Busy day today starting with a site induction with the contractor on the next stage of the safety project where we are going to replace this T junction that has a high crash rate with a roundabout.
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Then a walk in the bush with the archaeologist on the section of work we are going onto next.
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Then looked at some holes in the ground.
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Then looked at some holes in the ground :))
That just struck me as funny
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Have to get four new tires mounted on my daughter's Highlander. Got a great deal on four tires from Walmart online, but they screwed up the shipping -- twice!!!. It took almost three weeks to get four lousy tires delivered. Granted, it wasn't all Walmart's fault, (FedEX has a huge problem as well) but dealing with Walmart customer service is downright painful and worthless. The Indian customer service center is a complete joke. That said, I saved about 45% on tires compared to other online dealers. If you have the time to wait and work through with some hassles, Walmart has damn good tire pricing.
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Pretty cool visitors! For the past few weeks, this group of four young deer show up daily on our lawn between 6:00 and 7:00PM and graze. My wife and I usually have a drink and enjoy the evening and these guys really don't pay us a mind.
After an hour or so they move on to graze at the neighbors, but will come back at around 11:00PM and bed down for the night on our lawn. Next morning they graze for a while and by 7:00AM they move on again. This routine has been happening for the last two months.
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Been seeing a lot of does with two fawns around here. Definitely think the population is on the uptick.
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Been seeing a lot of does with two fawns around here. Definitely think the population is on the uptick.
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Yes, initially it was two does and each had two fawns. It seems that the doe with the older fawns abandoned them (or was killed/hurt), and they started hanging tight with the other doe and her younger two fawns. Since the beginning of August it's been those same five deer almost every day. Sometimes they have friends along, but that happens only sporadically.
Last Saturday morning I got up to make breakfast and we had eight/nine deer just hangin' in the yard for most of the morning. I went outside on the deck and drank my morning coffee and smoked a cigar while they just did their thing. They literally couldn't have cared less that I was there -- LOL
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Took my little travel trailer to be detailed so I can list it for sale :)
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Did 3 days of blacksmithing, home last night. Was at a historuc farm site, all 14 of the original buildings still there, which includes a blacksmith shop. Not a usual thing on a farm, but this was laid out well, and was a working business for some years. The forge, anvil, power hammer, and a lathe with 6 ft bed are in place, and are run. Had a good time, tiring but fun.
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Went to a funeral. :03: :c023: :(
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Love it! Glad Sam shows interest in helping dad and learn things along the way. You're doing a great job with that boy Tim. He'll remember these times well into advanced age, and will make a big difference in his life.
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Moving along on resurrecting my John Deere B. The brakes were rusted tight, lots of work to get the drums off. Using bondo to smooth over the cracks on the steering wheel. Sealed the gas and fuel tanks, derusting and painting as we go.
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Built a a few storage shelves and workbenches out some left over dimensional lumber.
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Moving along on resurrecting my John Deere B. The brakes were rusted tight, lots of work to get the drums off. Using bondo to smooth over the cracks on the steering wheel. Sealed the gas and fuel tanks, derusting and painting as we go.
Post a picture when your done. I restored my grandfather's 48 B when I bought it from him sadly he passed before seeing it finished.
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We celebrated Sam's 5th birthday with family and friends.
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Moving along on resurrecting my John Deere B. The brakes were rusted tight, lots of work to get the drums off. Using bondo to smooth over the cracks on the steering wheel. Sealed the gas and fuel tanks, derusting and painting as we go.
I need to get going on my Farmall M that hasn’t been run in quite a few years , to start , needs new front tyres …… I think the fact you are working on your B is going to be enough to get me started on mine !!!
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Last weekend we postponed our round of the National Off-road Racing Championships for the second time due to the weather!! This time with the competitors on site.
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This weekend the Ultra4 event was run on Friday and Saturday using the pits at our track as a base, with the course spread across our track and the 4wd club's area that is adjacent to us. The weather was great, our track had dried out and was in great condition! Friday was pre-running then setting a qualifying time to set the start order. Two of our club members were competing in UTVs, the only ones competing. I went for a ride with our new club member who was competing in his first competitive event on the look lap.
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Video of part of the course including our track
Competing vehicles ranged from UTVs, Toyota Hilux, trials trucks to Ultra4 cars imported from the USA.
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LT1 powered Hilux
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Trials Truck
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Dyson, the other club member competing, qualified second but blew the engine in his Turbo RZR. It was decided to get Jason's, his Dad, non-turbo trail-riding RZR race ready for the next morning! Luckily they’ve built a few Polaris’ over the years so they had a few bits and pieces lying around - like a spare cage!
6:30pm arrive at workshop, unload Jason's RZR out of the container as well as roll cage off previous race car
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6:52pm Complete tear down
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7:00pm Fit roll cage
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7:25pm Drag dead race car into shed to make it easier to cannibalise parts off
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9:46pm Drop off jack after changing over harnesses, harness mounts, seats, fire extinguishers, siren, dash, mirror, bumpers, as well as installing door panels and roof from previous RZR and changing the tyres
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Not exactly how I had planned to spend the evening of my birthday.
Saturday I spent the day photographing the event. Dyson came third overall. An interesting event, I caught up with a lot of people from my 4WDing/winch challenge past. Today I've spent the day editing photos.
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Happy belated B.day Rural. Thanks for posting the pictures/video. Its always cool to see what other folks do. Our local dirt oval rained out again this weekend. They had to call off the Labor day race due to rain as well. I sure miss the live racing but we needed the rain.
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Each month our section meeting is run by a different team. This month our survey team ran the meeting and at the end of the meeting actually flew their new Skydio 2+ drone in the lunch room where we were having our meeting. This is the one with the fancy anti collision AI technology that you can fly within about 6" of a structures, or it this case the column in the middle of the room. They have been using with the bridge asset management guys to do the six yearly close up inspections instead of using a bridge inspection unit that requires a lane closure. (Photo is not the best because my phone focused on the ear of the guy sitting in front of me)
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PowderKeg stopped by yesterday. He was in Baltimore for a forestry conference. He grew up locally and presently lives in Arkansas,
He left with a box of ratchets, some of them prototypes and some other goodies. He stops in every year or 2 to see what ratchets I have that he doesn't. His collection is approaching 850.
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PowderKeg stopped by yesterday. ........ He stops in every year or 2 to see what ratchets I have that he doesn't. His collection is approaching 850.
That's a hard core collector there. :PDT_Armataz_01_37:
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more of the same
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Went out combat fishing (river was medium busy, maybe 150 boats in 5 miles of river). Got a small chinook and easily limited crabbing, all big ocean crabs in the bay.
Good looking fresh-from-the-ocean fish, the feller holding holding it, not so much.
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wow, them some big ole crabs, way bigger than the blue crabs we have around here.
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Did you forget my number?
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wow, them some big ole crabs, way bigger than the blue crabs we have around here.
Averaged about 6-1/2" on the shell. Min legal is 5-3/4". My father is from the east coast and says the dungeness here are much milder tasting and not crazy mean like blue crabs.
Did you forget my number?
Make a trip down in the next month, and we'll go while the fishing is good.
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Not today, but Yesterday before the rain came back... Got the shop cabinet painted.
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Nice looking paint == well done!
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Yesterday, Sunday, and what a difference from a fortnight ago. On our fourth attempt (I'm counting Saturday as a third attempt as we had advertised that as the next date with yesterday as the rain off day) we finally managed to run our round of the National Offroad Racing Championships after postponing it twice before due to rain making the race track undriveable. Soul Church provided the catering and the steak sandwiches were excellent.
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Got in a fight with a spinning radiator fan.....
Lost
Not to major this time. Just a chunk of tip/fingernail. Everything still intact.
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Ouch!! Been bitten a few times by fans as well. Mostly on old US made cars with the metal fans and clutches. Glad it's not too serious this time. Hope you heal quickly Tim.
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Ouch!! Been bitten a few times by fans as well. Mostly on old US made cars with the metal fans and clutches. Glad it's not too serious this time. Hope you heal quickly Tim.
That's what this was a 1971 Allis Chalmers forklift (yep they made forklifts) good old metal fan no clutch.
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Ouch!! Been bitten a few times by fans as well. Mostly on old US made cars with the metal fans and clutches. Glad it's not too serious this time. Hope you heal quickly Tim.
That's what this was a 1971 Allis Chalmers forklift (yep they made forklifts) good old metal fan no clutch.
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WOW!! -- 1971 A-C forklift that's still in service? Never knew the company made that kind of equipment, but it says something about the quality of the machine and also the owner's maintenance commitment.
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Just after 7pm on Friday night and I should be drinking beer but...
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And then it got dark.
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Ouch!! Been bitten a few times by fans as well. Mostly on old US made cars with the metal fans and clutches. Glad it's not too serious this time. Hope you heal quickly Tim.
That's what this was a 1971 Allis Chalmers forklift (yep they made forklifts) good old metal fan no clutch.
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WOW!! -- 1971 A-C forklift that's still in service? Never knew the company made that kind of equipment, but it says something about the quality of the machine and also the owner's maintenance commitment.
Allis Chalmers actually was an industrial giant back in the day. Made anything from hydro electric stuff to generators. Amazing what they had their hand in.
It takes a bit to get into it. But this film kinda goes into what all Allis manufacturerd back then.
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My old employer had some 100hp Vertical Allis Chalmers electric motors. Looked like giant mushrooms. I wished I had snagged one of the 4X6 brass tags off them before they went to scrap.
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Sold my chainsaw collection today.
Just don't look at it anymore. Time for somebody else to enjoy it.
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Been having computer issues and couldn't log on with my phone. New laptop so I'm back :))
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Frustrating for sure Phil. Technology often makes our frustration levels go ballistic.
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Frustrating for sure Phil. Technology often makes our frustration levels go ballistic.
Yep, darn laptop couldn't drink 1/2 a cup of coffee and survive. I think it was the caffeine that killed it :))
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Not a lot of colour in the sky this morning.
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Still very cool though mate ! Different day different mood…….
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There was quite a lot of low hazy cloud on the horizon spoiling the potential for good photos.
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After breakfast at a nearby cafe and a stop to take a photo of the sail traing ship Spirit of New Zealand, I headed south and stopped to catch up with my old neighbours.
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As I was leaving there a mate of mine posted on FB "Co Driving in this Beast today.. little bit Excited" and a photo of another friend's track car. As there was only one place it could be and it was on my way home, I stopped in for a look.
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It's a real race car, it has air jacks.
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Maclaren 570S GT4, a factory built race car.
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When I asked for directions to the pit lane garages I got told "Just follow the blue line".
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Didn't know race cars were fitted with jacks
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Love that under the bridge pix.
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Love that under the bridge pix.
+1
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Didn't know race cars were fitted with jacks
Yes, a lot of the "touring car" type classes have them.
Love that under the bridge pix.
+1
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Note how tall the cells are. That is to get full size transporter trucks under the track. The track is directly above and is the end of the pit straight, from here it drops about 26' in about 500' in a right hand turn onto the back straight. Richard was saying that at that point in the GT4 he is doing around 255km/hr (160mph). How big your brass ones are determines how late you leave the braking into the corner.
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Check out this maneuver, it could make NASCAR interesting again LMAO
https://twitter.com/i/status/1587233584233988097
Says he uses it in a video game, it is also is a slot car trick. I wish I could see the PS side of that hotrod. He sure mad that car lighter and faster ... funny as hell.
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NASCAR should allow them
Didn't know race cars were fitted with jacks
Yes, a lot of the "touring car" type classes have them.
Love that under the bridge pix.
+1
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Note how tall the cells are. That is to get full size transporter trucks under the track. The track is directly above and is the end of the pit straight, from here it drops about 26' in about 500' in a right hand turn onto the back straight. Richard was saying that at that point in the GT4 he is doing around 255km/hr (160mph). How big your brass ones are determines how late you leave the braking into the corner.
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Check out this maneuver, it could make NASCAR interesting again LMAO
https://twitter.com/i/status/1587233584233988097
Says he uses it in a video game, it is also is a slot car trick. I wish I could see the PS side of that hotrod. He sure mad that car lighter and faster ... funny as hell.
Passenger side wasn't as tore up as you would think. And lots of vids from other drivers cams with comments. Great stunt, and not illegal.
As to slot cars, had a large HO track when I was a kid and tried to make sure each lane had its fair share of outside corners to make it fair. Neighbor and I both had nice HO tracks and collections. Wasn't till we aged out that the new cars were stupid fast and relatively tricked out when new.
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Exactly that's the reason for a crossover or figure 8. had 1/32 Fleshman set had a banked curve fun stuff. I get to old I will build another.
Slot cars are digital now, but they take away from the challenge. Have a bar magnet at the rear keeps the car from fishtailing ...... what fun it is that takes a weapon away from the drivers.
Yes I know it is legal for now, and with that. I say the race will/could become worth the time. Watching the copycats get into the fray. That was the only clip I saw you have other links to pictures, and videos please post some, inquiring minds (?) want to know.
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Check out this maneuver, it could make NASCAR interesting again LMAO
https://twitter.com/i/status/1587233584233988097
Says he uses it in a video game, it is also is a slot car trick. I wish I could see the PS side of that hotrod. He sure mad that car lighter and faster ... funny as hell.
Passenger side wasn't as tore up as you would think. And lots of vids from other drivers cams with comments. Great stunt, and not illegal.
As to slot cars, had a large HO track when I was a kid and tried to make sure each lane had its fair share of outside corners to make it fair. Neighbor and I both had nice HO tracks and collections. Wasn't till we aged out that the new cars were stupid fast and relatively tricked out when new.
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NASCAR died with Earnhardt Sr. Never been the same since. I quit passively watching it when the Bubba Wallace debacle happened. Get woke go Broke.
I would much rather attend a local dirt track race now. Always a treat to see a youngster that you sponsored in an Emod step up into the big mods or a super late model. Very seldom see them whining and crying about some stupid crap.
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NASCAR died with Earnhardt Sr. Never been the same since. I quit passively watching it when the Bubba Wallace debacle happened. Get woke go Broke.
I would much rather attend a local dirt track race now. Always a treat to see a youngster that you sponsored in an Emod step up into the big mods or a super late model. Very seldom see them whining and crying about some stupid crap.
Agree 100% -- Also the stupid cookie cutter cars and asinine rules to make everyone's cars "more equal" goes against everything that the original "stock car" racing circuit stood for. I'd like to see true stock car racing again. Using cars right off the showroom floor and modified in the traditional sense.
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Sure would showroom Hotrods in race trim, would get me to watch longer than the channel surf and go.
Now having the Mustang, I stop to see how the car is doing and click back to the animated cartoons. LOL
surfNASCAR died with Earnhardt Sr. Never been the same since. I quit passively watching it when the Bubba Wallace debacle happened. Get woke go Broke.
I would much rather attend a local dirt track race now. Always a treat to see a youngster that you sponsored in an Emod step up into the big mods or a super late model. Very seldom see them whining and crying about some stupid crap.
Agree 100% -- Also the stupid cookie cutter cars and asinine rules to make everyone's cars "more equal" goes against everything that the original "stock car" racing circuit stood for. I'd like to see true stock car racing again. Using cars right off the showroom floor and modified in the traditional sense.
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NASCAR died with Earnhardt Sr. Never been the same since. I quit passively watching it when the Bubba Wallace debacle happened. Get woke go Broke.
I would much rather attend a local dirt track race now. Always a treat to see a youngster that you sponsored in an Emod step up into the big mods or a super late model. Very seldom see them whining and crying about some stupid crap.
Agree 100% -- Also the stupid cookie cutter cars and asinine rules to make everyone's cars "more equal" goes against everything that the original "stock car" racing circuit stood for. I'd like to see true stock car racing again. Using cars right off the showroom floor and modified in the traditional sense.
Those pit stop times will be brutal to charge the batteries!
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Generally speaking and what keeps me from watching. NASCAR has become a soap. I don't give a flying about the driver's personal lives beyond the track.
Some should take bubba out back and give him a good ass-kicking ..... the idiot
Take Joe Gibbs's grandson for one also
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Agree 100% -- Also the stupid cookie cutter cars and asinine rules to make everyone's cars "more equal" goes against everything that the original "stock car" racing circuit stood for. I'd like to see true stock car racing again. Using cars right off the showroom floor and modified in the traditional sense.
Pretty much what goodfellow said. What made the sport worth watching is for me long gone. The original drivers were a different breed and the cars were really whatever badge was on them. Guys like Smokey Yunnick was famous for bending the rules or coming up with creative ways to break them. Just watching two or more hours of cars making left hand turns really isn't all that interesting. If I'm going to watch left turns I'd rather watch womens roller derby.
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Organized the top of my roll cart tonight. Not sure I'm really happy. Seems like a lot of wasted space..... Will sit and stew on it a bit.
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see your point. But more important then wasted space is, does it work for you when you are using it?
Plus, many folks will reorganize their stuff once a year or more, always trying to find a better way so it won't stay that way for long
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I seldom change my boxes. I like being able to tell some exactly what I need and exactly where it’s at in the box. My Ex knew nothing of fractions but I could tell her the third row second socket and get what I needed 😁
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The Mrs. started using the dryer last weekend and a big squeal came out of it. After a couple of minutes it stopped, so I told her to finish what she needed to do and I'd tear into it this week.
Today was the day. Apparently my 30 year old Kenmore is so old parts are hard to get for it. They could barely find me a drum belt. So I tool it apart, cleaned and lubed all the shafts, brushed off the lint from the motor, and inspected the drum seal when putting the new belt on. Hopefully I can get another year or so out of it. Will start keeping an eye open at estate sales!
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So would you guys like tester prius nascar
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So would you guys like tester prius nascar
EV racing is coming if not here already. One plus, don't need ear protection
Would take getting used to quiet cars but bet it could be exciting with the acceleration they have plus low center of gravity would make for some sick handling
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I believe Garlitts was playing with an electric dragster at one time. Dont recall what became of it?
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So after managing the maintenance contracts that come out of our state highway structures management contract for nearly ten years I passed it on to someone else a couple of years ago. Tonight they roped me back in.
Walking up to the Harbour Bridge
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Sawtooth joint units, the ones on the off ramp keep coming loose. One currently has the part that holds the rubber seal in place broken off. Ten units are being dispatched via airfreight from France next week.
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On the viaduct off the Harbour Bridge the maintenance contractor is undertaking maintenance on the expansion joints. These are wearing into the underlaying concrete.
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This then locks the sliding/expanding side up causing the M20 (3/4") link bolts that connect the sliding part to the bridging plates to break. Don't get me started on the fact, despite the manufacturers assurances that they don't carry any load, the feet of the guide rails for the sliding part wears holes in the concrete. To top it all off the slide rails and the studs that connect them to the deck changed in size between the units originally installed and the spares that were purchased five years ago. These things have been the bane of my life!
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That's very interesting Rural. These are the type of problems that the average motorist never thinks about or pays attention to.
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That's very interesting Rural. These are the type of problems that the average motorist never thinks about or pays attention to.
Your right GF. Most people don’t have a clue about the infrastructure bringing the basic services to them. In the US we’re way behind the curve on keeping up with these systems. That’s why your seeing lot more loss of service issues. The Jackson Miss. incident will become common place f we don’t start dumping tons of money into infrastructure. Tons of money we don’t have.
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Sawtooth joint units, the ones on the off ramp keep coming loose. One currently has the part that holds the rubber seal in place broken off. Ten units are being dispatched via airfreight from France next week.
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Always makes me think the bridge is going to be held together with shrink film until repaired. :))
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Changed the thermostat and oil and filter on the van tonight. Got to use the under hood light I bought about a year ago for the first time.
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Wow, didn't know Harley made vans :))
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Wow, didn't know Harley made vans :))
They'd leak everywhere if they did! :))
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Went out to get the mail today and found the mailbox plowed over. Great! Had it knocked over once before, have had mail stolen, and once even had it fire bombed. I thought the same neighborhood hooligans were at it again. :41:
Neighbor came over and said he thinks it was another neighbors landscaping company who knocked it over. He said, she said. With no eye witness and no cameras I'm out of luck. So I'll be rebuilding the stand and straightening the box tomorrow. At least I got to meet the new neighbor. :PDT_Armataz_01_37:
Will have to use the existing concrete blob that was originally poured - don't dare digging it up and try to redo it. The local laws require a staking company to come in and mark everything underground first, and if you don't do it - and cause damage - the utilities will ream you for the repair. And insurance won't cover it. But the stupid staking company charges a fair amount for a few minutes work. Screwed either way. So I'll just reuse the existing plug of cement.
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Installed a dual band VHF-UHF (2m/70cm) omni-directional HAM radio antenna in the attic, and programmed a my base station for cross-band repeater operation on my property. Works pretty darn well.
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Bman sorry to hear about your mailbox but it’s interesting your locate folks charge you for a locate. It’s free service here. The utilities pay for the locates. Easier and cheaper to pay them than to fix breaks. BUT if you don’t use the locates and something goes bad. You’re on the hook for repairs.
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Bman sorry to hear about your mailbox but it’s interesting your locate folks charge you for a locate. It’s free service here. The utilities pay for the locates. Easier and cheaper to pay them than to fix breaks. BUT if you don’t use the locates and something goes bad. You’re on the hook for repairs.
That makes sense. Don't know if Miss Utility charges here or not
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Seems the 811 process is free, if you read down.
http://www.arizona811.com/homeowners/
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Hmm. Last time I called and had them come out and locate the gas line for a dig I paid $100 IIRC. He "did me a favor" and ran the phone line, too. Been several years. Was a referral from a business friend, though. Maybe I got taken?
Anyway, mail box is back up. No trouble with the water main. Didn't quite finish before the mail man drove up but I caught him at the neighbors house and he didn't have anything for me. Told him I'd have it fixed by tomorrow, so, he said he wouldn't put a hold on the mail.
Perhaps I should think about camera system? :017:
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Today was digging through the boxes brought home from the last auction. Some stuff like the plain hacksaw frames, and no name pliers go right into the donate box. When one has to buy a box lot just for one or two things isnt fun but it happens. Think I have enough drill bits with tapered square shank, should be thinning them out too. Did come up with a nice Skil direct drive 7.5 inch saw, plus a pipe wrench with an extra grip feature. So many old tools, so little time.
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i feel ya John.
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Christmas day here. Ended up driving a bit further into Auckland than originally planned as my cousin where I was originally going to tested positive for covid on Monday, so family Christmas lunch got shifted to another cousins.
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Heading up through the Waikato this morning, about 75F, the day made it to 80F.
My oldest cousin's son finished at polytech last year and is working at Parrot Dog, a craft brewery, nice for some.
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I'm now at my old neighbors, the ones I grew up with, having dinner.
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Another sub-zero mornning, working on a 550 piece puzzle. Been out a little but the cold and 40mph winds push me inside.
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After 3 nights of hard freezes we finally saw some decent weather today... Got up to the 50s, And things started leaking. My brother had a busted pipe in his yard that we fixed and the neighbor behind me had his house filter crack. Went by to look at it and its just the bowl thats cracked, should be able to get one tomorrow when the stores open.
Hard to feel too sorry for either of them. Niether one took any freeze precautions. My brother didn't even drip that faucet and the nieghbor didn't even insulate the filter. All the insulation was still on the ground from where I fixed a leak there 2 years ago. :banghead:
Left my cell on the kitchen table and went to feed cows. ;) peaceful 3 hours...
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Last year we were fishing and boating on Christmas day. We grilled dinner on the deck. Temps were in the low 70s. This year we’ve had sub-freezing temps for four days in a row, and the heat pumps can’t handle single digit night time temps. Had to have the propane E-heat furnace on to make the house warm.
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Brutal cold here but no snow. Really feel for those folks in Buffalo and around.
We have no freeze issues but the boiler in our investment property is leaking through the outside water jacket. Really odd. Only leaks when it gets hot. It will run for 3 minutes or so then start seeping out through the cast iron jacket. Once the burner shuts off it quits leaking.
No one is living there and I keep the house around 50 so it doesn't run that much. Stop by in the morning and evening and vac up about a quart of water.
My buddy is in HVAC and said that sometimes they will leak until they get good and hot then seal themselves but not the case here.
Unit is older but works so nice. We have no intention of renting the house out and will sell it as soon as we find our retirement haven with a jumbo shop, hopefully this year. I bought the property for the 4200 sq ft of buildings as I needed the storage space and the price was right.
Will price a new boiler but am hesitant to do it as the house has no AC and whoever buys it may want to go a different route for heating and ac. The house, while structurally sound and has gorgeous woodwork needs upgrading in many areas.
Once my guy looks at it, I will try some JB weld to seal the leak. Temporary at best I know but may hold for a bit
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What I forgot to mention in yesterday's post was I has two wisdom teeth out on Wednesday, so I'm having to be careful with what I eat at the moment.
Today I headed home stopping at a couple of places. First stop was the Quan Am Buddhist Monastery.
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They have a statue garden.
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Next stop was Mercer Airfield. I haven't been here for about fifteen years when I went for a ride in the Pilatus Turbo Porter that they were using for sky diving, best $40 airplane ride ever.
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Since then the airfield has been sold and some development has gone on. The biggest addition is a WW2 hanger that has been relocated from the South Island.
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The Sikorsky S-92 that Rocket Lab use to catch their rockets out of the air while they are descending on parachute.
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A US registered Aerospatiale AS 330 Puma set p for logging.
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Talking of Rocket Lab, the white building at the far end of the runway is Rocket Lab's engine test facility.
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The sky dive planes taxi across this bridge.
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Mainline Steam Trusts unrestored engines on the siding near their new development at Mercer.
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Brutal cold here but no snow. Really feel for those folks in Buffalo and around.
We have no freeze issues but the boiler in our investment property is leaking through the outside water jacket. Really odd. Only leaks when it gets hot. It will run for 3 minutes or so then start seeping out through the cast iron jacket. Once the burner shuts off it quits leaking.
No one is living there and I keep the house around 50 so it doesn't run that much. Stop by in the morning and evening and vac up about a quart of water.
My buddy is in HVAC and said that sometimes they will leak until they get good and hot then seal themselves but not the case here.
Unit is older but works so nice. We have no intention of renting the house out and will sell it as soon as we find our retirement haven with a jumbo shop, hopefully this year. I bought the property for the 4200 sq ft of buildings as I needed the storage space and the price was right.
Will price a new boiler but am hesitant to do it as the house has no AC and whoever buys it may want to go a different route for heating and ac. The house, while structurally sound and has gorgeous woodwork needs upgrading in many areas.
Once my guy looks at it, I will try some JB weld to seal the leak. Temporary at best I know but may hold for a bit
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Maybe try some radiator stop leak in the feed water.
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Maybe try some radiator stop leak in the feed water.
Thought about that but don't want to clog of the baseboard system.
Not overly concerned, cause I think I can limp through this season since no one is living there and once it gets into the 40's during the day,it won't run much anyway
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A new year, a new day, a new scorecard, a joyous celebration of finding the pest removal box-o-snapping toys, and a renewed effort to rid the back 40 (really just an acre) of unwanted hole diggers.
oldnslo 1, pesky no-good varmit gophers 0.
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Rural, that steam locomotive, the bigger one, I saw a video of those being built in England.. Which I cant find. Remember they were being sent to South Africa. Wonder what they were required to haul in your country? Recall they were the only locomotives bigger than the Union Pacifics Big Boys.
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Speedway goodness arrived.
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Call me a tease.....sheesh.
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In the box is an axel, it is cut to size, and comes complete with a bearing pressed on & and a set of lug studs.
Frist picture set marking the length.
For the second set, the retainer holes are 3/8, I need 1/2. Cut the retainer off the axel mark up to make a new part, seen.
The 1/2 holes means this 9" is a truck housing. Speaking with SWM and telling them what I had, check the responce.
From techsuport,
1 We do not have a retainer for this housing ...ok
2 Followed with a common street rod fix, they had 2
3 Wollow out the holes, egg shape ...........nope
4 remove the 1/2 bolts on the end of the tube, ready replace with 3/8.....nope X 2
Not able to contain myself, I laught out loud. Telling him he had no business wearing a tech support hat. And his ideas were micky mouse at best.
thanks & no thanks, pathetic seems to fit.
Anyway there you are, highlighting the tagline "bolts right on", and what I call the industry inside joke.
Got love this stuff
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Good work Pep -- you an obvious turd into a usable part. Gotta love some of these "so called" customer oriented business practices.
I miss the old speed shops where the staff really knew their stuff.
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Rural, that steam locomotive, the bigger one, I saw a video of those being built in England.. Which I cant find. Remember they were being sent to South Africa. Wonder what they were required to haul in your country? Recall they were the only locomotives bigger than the Union Pacifics Big Boys.
Yes, it is an ex-South African Beyer-Garratt GMAM class No. 4083, it is configured 4-8-2+2-8-4. One of the Mainline Steam Trust founders has a thing for South African locomotives, he owns several. After service for South African Railways until the late 1980s, became Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Company's R3. In 1997, after a rebuild it came to New Zealand for preservation with Mainline Steam using the power units off 4088 and was steamed here twice. However, the front power unit was found to be bent upon testing in New Zealand and a replacement power unit off the dismantled 4126 was shipped from Dunn's. Today is fitted with the front engine unit of no. 4126 and the rear of no. 4088.
Video of South African Railways GEA & GMAM Garretts
The other locomotive in my photos is an ex-South African Henschel & Son Class 25 4-8-4 of 1953, a condensing steam locomotive, ie it recovers its exhaust steam. This one was converted to Non-condensing specification in 1970.
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Neither of these locomotives can run on New Zealand mainline as the loading gauge is narrower (9 ft 3 in) than South Africa (10 ft 0 in).
New Zealand did operate three Garratt 4-6-2+2-6-4 locomotives from 1928. They were an unusual six cylinder configuration with the third cylinder between the frame rails. They were not particular successful and were withdrawn from service in 1931.
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They were dismantled and the engine units used to build six new 4-6-2 locomotives based on the AB Class Pacific locomotive.
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The largest steam locomotive operated in New Zealand was the 4-8-4 K Class and its variants.
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Rural, that steam locomotive, the bigger one, I saw a video of those being built in England.. Which I cant find. Remember they were being sent to South Africa. Wonder what they were required to haul in your country? Recall they were the only locomotives bigger than the Union Pacifics Big Boys.
Yes, it is an ex-South African Beyer-Garratt GMAM class No. 4083, it is configured 4-8-2+2-8-4. One of the Mainline Steam Trust founders has a thing for South African locomotives, he owns several. After service for South African Railways until the late 1980s, became Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Company's R3. In 1997, after a rebuild it came to New Zealand for preservation with Mainline Steam using the power units off 4088 and was steamed here twice. However, the front power unit was found to be bent upon testing in New Zealand and a replacement power unit off the dismantled 4126 was shipped from Dunn's. Today is fitted with the front engine unit of no. 4126 and the rear of no. 4088.
Video of South African Railways GEA & GMAM Garretts
The other locomotive in my photos is an ex-South African Henschel & Son Class 25 4-8-4 of 1953, a condensing steam locomotive, ie it recovers its exhaust steam. This one was converted to Non-condensing specification in 1970.
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Neither of these locomotives can run on New Zealand mainline as the loading gauge is narrower (9 ft 3 in) than South Africa (10 ft 0 in).
New Zealand did operate three Garratt 4-6-2+2-6-4 locomotives from 1928. They were an unusual six cylinder configuration with the third cylinder between the frame rails. They were not particular successful and were withdrawn from service in 1931.
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They were dismantled and the engine units used to build six new 4-6-2 locomotives based on the AB Class Pacific locomotive.
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The largest steam locomotive operated in New Zealand was the 4-8-4 K Class and its variants.
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As a rail fan (I wouldn't say nut I don't know as much as most out there) love seeing these old steamers.
Never heard of 4-8-2+2-8-4. Amazing machines. Thanks for sharing.
I may be biased but I still think American locomotives have better styling.
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Did emergency hip surgery on two patients tonight. Surgical glue didn't work, so we had to use a coat hanger "pin" in the joint. Patients are in full recovery.
Apparently flying Samuel Airlines through the staircase route is a dangerous thing :))
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Well done Doctor Tim
Mama got a good chuckle out of that too :))
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thats funny. had to fix many toys back in the day.
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thats funny. had to fix many toys back in the day.
Reminded me of a RC car I have from radio shack years ago. Not an expensive one. I used to chase my oldest son around the house with it, we had hardwood floors. He would squeal and laugh. He fell on it and I fixed it. After the third or fourth time, it was beyond repair :))
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Changed, plugs wires, fuel filter and oil and air in the Olds
I had a little help for about ten minutes. After a few cranks of the ratchet he said he was going back inside. Then after a bit my other helper came out and organized my old sparkplugs...
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Crimped soldered batercable end on on the pos tractor and got the backhoe that needed the extendahoe fixed on it all together its ready for pick up. Went and grabbed 2 lawnmower from a customer before lunch it was a.40minute trip there and back. Got the.foam for the headliner on the rat pissed soak backhoe. Washed everything down and think i found the.ac problem it might be this sensor in the cab.
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Ordered some new vaughan hammers and wilde screwdrivers from epsteins along with a socket to fill a hole in my impact sockets.
Greased and checked fluid level in all are rental equipment.finished up work order for the POS tractor the owner is supposed to pick it up and pay tommorow. Tommorow will be powerwashing a piece of equipment then hooking up a radiator pressure tester to see if its got a leak cause its using coolant.
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Sitting in the dust marshalling our sponsors day, that we have postponed four times since November.
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Considering how wet it has been, the track is in remarkable shape. We have had a very wet summer.
November 414mm 16"
December 306mm 12"
January 683mm 27" (about eight times the average rainfall!)
February 408mm 16"
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Got a call from neighbor, his Expedition oveheated. Water pump gave up and shredded the serpentine belt. Drove 30 miles to a NAPA store for parts. Could not locate the big wrenches needed to remove fan, another neighbor got creative, made a wrench, got the fan off. Big electronic fan clutch fan. Swapped out water pump, then installed the new stiff serpentine belt, hour lost there, diagram missing for belt routing, 10 pullys, more twists and reverses than a politician. Then tried to reinstall fan, center nut too big, wrong water pump. Cant get the right one until Wednesday, 6 hours down and 80 mile round trip today. Se if we can get the parts earlier. Fun, fun,fun.
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Did shackles on my daily driver went super easy need to replace replace rear cover its pretty crusty as were rear shocks
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Worked on the Mrs car today. She had a slight accident last month - in stop and go rush hour traffic she hit the gas instead of the brake and rear-ended a Tacoma. Contacted 3 body shops - apparently no local parts are available. 2002 Buick Century. The headlights, bumper cover, emblem grill and hood is slightly bent. Didn't even push stuff back far enough to touch the radiator. Yet everyone is telling us it's going to be $4000-5000 - and that the insurance company will just total the car!
I am beyond livid. It's bolt on plastic parts, and the car is totalled? Not if I can help it. I'm going to fix the thing myself. I'm sure the paint won't match when I'm done but it'll be driveable and she'll have something to drive until we find a newer used car. It is 21 years old, but still gets 26MPG and insurance/registration is cheap. I've removed the fiberglass header and emblem grill. Gonna give the Superglue and baking soda fix a try. Total wreck my rear!
The one shop actually admitted to me that he didn't know how much longer he was gonna stay open, as repairs have gotten out of sight and he can't get parts. Plus all the computer crap. Sheesh!
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Bman, you will get it done and it will look fine
Just pretend its a SK box
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Went to work for a few hrs this morning didnt really do anything had a dr appointment at 1 now sitting in er with a bunch of wires hooked to me cause my blood pressure was super high and their trying to figure out why.... I feel okay just headach and really hot.... Hopefully this dont affect me going to work tommorow
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Good luck Dustin, praying for you
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Good luck Dustin, praying for you
well its been a couple hours im down from 160 to 120 after being given a couple pills i had a echo and ultrasound of my heart now just waiting on doctor to interpit the findings and discharge me tho the nurse said they might keep me overnight for observation.
Update was discharged with a couple new meds and a order to take my bp twice a day for next two weeks
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Good luck and listen to the Docs, Blood pressure is serious stuff
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Ordered a pair of headlight assemblies for the Buick. One was $97, the other was $111. Asked why, the counter person didn't know why. I ain't complaining, though, because I hear modern cars post-like 2016 have computers in the headlights. And cost like $2000 each!
Took the time to work on the header assembly which holds the front grill, emblem plate, and half of each headlight. Was some sort of fiberglass material. Tried cutting thru it with cutting wheels on a dremel - ate the wheels up in about an inch! Transferred to chipper bits, and excavated enough material to get it smooth and allowed movement. The passenger side was intact, so, used it as the guide for height and placement of the driver side pieces. The superglue and baking soda worked like a charm, and used some half-set ABS glue as bulk filler. Two days drying, and the whole thing is pretty stiff. So good to go!
Bumper cover and ring supports up next.
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Pulled the body off the frame of my Cutlass and got the frame stripped. Onward (as Ray says)!
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New headlights came in Friday, got the fiberglass header repaired last week. Worked yesterday and today for several hours each repairing the grill trim and bumper cover. Installed the headlights and touched up paint.
Need to do a slight repair on the grill emblem and border, but the car is just about done. The Mrs. can take it to work tomorrow and when she gets home I'll inspect all the bolts and screws to make sure nothing has vibrated loose. When the grill is done and installed I'll take pics. But in the main she's done. My knees ache and my back hurts but I saved who knows how many thousands of dollars.
Oh that superglue and baking soda accelerant idea worked great!
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Road to the club for our first poker run of the year.
Came home napped a bit, then took the dog for a walk after supper.
Tonight I played around with my new airbrush setup. Sprayed some primer on a cheap funnel to play around and learn. It handled opposite of what I expected. I expected to start out with tomsnofnpaint coming out and runs. But I actually had to turn up the pressure and adjust it heavier spray pattern. Pretty happy with how it works albeit I don't have any prior experience.
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Pretty cool setup. Did all that stuff come in one kit? I like the idea of a mini paint booth for spraying -- very cool. When I did that kind of work, I usually scavenged a large carboard box with a fan and filter mounted to the back to pull fumes. This setup is so much easier and way more elegant. Congrats Tim!
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I've been a Freemason for about 24 years now, was installed as "Worshipful Master" (aka President of the club) on Saturday. Even trimmed my beard for the occasion!
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Here is the final result. No before pictures, as I was originally planning to have the work done for me. Couldn't see going thru insurance and having them total the car. I could have bought it back, but only with a salvage title. Fixing it my way avoided all that and was pretty cheap, with the title intact.
2002 Buick Century Custom, just frontal plastic damage. I'd say it's passable, not pristine work (I am no body man). The headlights were getting foggy, so replacing them was necessary anyway. At least now I don't have to look at the gaping damage hole anymore. The front edge of the hood is the worst looking, but a new hood was $650 plus shipping and painting. Decided a 21 year old car could live with a few more dents.
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I've been a Freemason for about 24 years now, was installed as "Worshipful Master" (aka President of the club) on Saturday. Even trimmed my beard for the occasion!
congrats!
ya clean up pretty good for an old fart! :))
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I've been a Freemason for about 24 years now, was installed as "Worshipful Master" (aka President of the club) on Saturday. Even trimmed my beard for the occasion!
Congrats, I am sure you will be busy keeping the order running smoothly. Hopefully you have some folks to help.
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Here is the final result. No before pictures, as I was originally planning to have the work done for me. Couldn't see going thru insurance and having them total the car. I could have bought it back, but only with a salvage title. Fixing it my way avoided all that and was pretty cheap, with the title intact.
2002 Buick Century Custom, just frontal plastic damage. I'd say it's passable, not pristine work (I am no body man). The headlights were getting foggy, so replacing them was necessary anyway. At least now I don't have to look at the gaping damage hole anymore. The front edge of the hood is the worst looking, but a new hood was $650 plus shipping and painting. Decided a 21 year old car could live with a few more dents.
If you check you might just find one that is a color match with little to no damage at a fraction of the cost in or with the help of a salvage yard.
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I've been a Freemason for about 24 years now, was installed as "Worshipful Master" (aka President of the club) on Saturday. Even trimmed my beard for the occasion!
Huge congratulations! What an accomplishment and honor!
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I've been a Freemason for about 24 years now, was installed as "Worshipful Master" (aka President of the club) on Saturday. Even trimmed my beard for the occasion!
Big congrats on the honor that was bestowed on you Clay. Well deserved I'm sure. Hope you enjoy the new responsibilities within the organization.
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Here is the final result. No before pictures, as I was originally planning to have the work done for me. Couldn't see going thru insurance and having them total the car. I could have bought it back, but only with a salvage title. Fixing it my way avoided all that and was pretty cheap, with the title intact.
2002 Buick Century Custom, just frontal plastic damage. I'd say it's passable, not pristine work (I am no body man). The headlights were getting foggy, so replacing them was necessary anyway. At least now I don't have to look at the gaping damage hole anymore. The front edge of the hood is the worst looking, but a new hood was $650 plus shipping and painting. Decided a 21 year old car could live with a few more dents.
Lookin good George -- well done! They may not be sexy, but those model years were some of the smoothest and most reliable cars ever made by GM. I'd definitely try to keep it on the road as long as I could. Reliable, and cheap/easy to fix -- that's a hard combination to find on cars these days.
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Actually had a can of some appliance enamel that by golly came out to a near perfect match to the car color. A few weeks of Tucson sun and some road grit hitting it and I'm sure nobody but me will notice the difference.
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I've been a Freemason for about 24 years now, was installed as "Worshipful Master" (aka President of the club) on Saturday. Even trimmed my beard for the occasion!
Congratulations. Not sure what of the proper greeting would be so excuse the lack of etiquette.
The beard looks great.
I have a goatee and mustache. My wife and I are always in discussion about me trimming it. I like the natural look she likes it trim and neat. Usually when I have the barber trim it my instructions are keep it long and not too neat. I'd do it myself but... I can get one side perfect but never get the other side to match.
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Congratulations. Not sure what of the proper greeting would be so excuse the lack of etiquette.
The beard looks great.
I have a goatee and mustache. My wife and I are always in discussion about me trimming it. I like the natural look she likes it trim and neat. Usually when I have the barber trim it my instructions are keep it long and not too neat. I'd do it myself but... I can get one side perfect but never get the other side to match.
"Hey you!" still works, amongst others :93:
I got the beard trimmed for the occasion, he probably shortened it by a third. Before that it was pretty wild, I've been going with the crazy mountain man look for the last while just having fun with it. My wife was hoping it was going to come right off. Maybe when the weather warms up!
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Beard looks good.
My wife likes the goatee and mustache she just wants the trimmed urban version.
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George, the car turned out nice and your logic about keeping it going makes sense. If you stumble across a hood in the right color, great, if not, oh well :))
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Pretty cool setup. Did all that stuff come in one kit? I like the idea of a mini paint booth for spraying -- very cool. When I did that kind of work, I usually scavenged a large carboard box with a fan and filter mounted to the back to pull fumes. This setup is so much easier and way more elegant. Congrats Tim!
No all bought separately. The compressor and airbrush were a lot from Harbor freight as with the air brush cleaner (glass jar). Dual action brush, basically a copy of an IWATA. It's not the greatest and out of the combo the compressor is the better item in the package. But it'll probably do me fine, till I decide I need a better airbrush
https://www.harborfreight.com/airbrush-compressor-combo-kit-57637.html
The booth came from Amazon. Takes a standard 20x20x1 furnace filter and has straps for a standard box fan on the back. This is actually the smallest one and was a lot bigger when set up (a good thing) Folds down in to a pouch small as a medium pizza. This one was $30 they make a large one about the size of a 4 person tent.
Wagner Spraytech C900051 HomeRight Small Spray Shelter Portable Paint Booth for DIY Spray Painting, Hobby Paint Booth Tool Painting Station, Spray Paint Tent https://a.co/d/4CWRw9e
The lazy susan stand is from hobby lobby. But they're sold all over the place, even Amazon.
TAMIYA 74522 Spray Work Painting Stand Set Makes Airbrushing and Spray Painting Easy https://a.co/d/eSlQHCS
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I've been a Freemason for about 24 years now, was installed as "Worshipful Master" (aka President of the club) on Saturday. Even trimmed my beard for the occasion!
Congratulations!
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Flight 1 of the morning. On my way to Wheels at Wanaka vintage machinery show.
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Rural, can't wait to see the pics
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A320 out of Auckland to Queenstown. Forgot that you have to allow time to deal with AvSec (TSA) when you fly on jets so was part of the group that was the last on the plane.
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The lower South Island is quite dry, remembering it is the end of summer here.
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Queenstown is always interesting to fly into as the mountains are really close.
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George, the car turned out nice and your logic about keeping it going makes sense. If you stumble across a hood in the right color, great, if not, oh well :))
Thanks, all!
The decision was made after our mechanic at the time said this series and era of Buick had proven to be very reliable and popular. It is beginning to throw some codes and has some issues, but we're not ready to get a newer vehicle yet.
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Picked up my rental car and headed to Wanaka over the Crown Range. Scenery on the way.
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Lake Hayes
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Remarkables (all very Lord of the Rings)
The Crown Range Road is very steep and winding.
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View from lookout half way up.
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View from the top back into Queenstown.
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This is a bad cellphone pic but there is a 100 seat ATR-72 flying through the valley on approach to the airport in it.
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A few from Cardrona at about the half way point.
After checking in at the Air BnB I headed about 45 minutes down the road to Highlands Motorsport Track to have a look at the museum there.
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So below the terrace is the (in)famous loos with a view.
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I then headed back to Wanaka to recci tomorrows dawn photos of the Wanaka Tree.
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While I was having dinner in a pub in town these two traction engines went passed.
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I should point out that the Wheels at Wanaka event is a vintage construction and farming equipment show.
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Thanks for those great pics Rural. Beautiful country, and I guess the cooler weather makes it that much more enjoyable.
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Justin , so it looks like the car that always was outside the Cardrona Pub is gone !!
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Sunday at Wheels at Wanaka waiting for the modifieds to start at the tractor pull.
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Midnitemac's mate, the Gooserooter's V8 504 Cummins powered Fordson Major
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Started up the evap cooler today. Tough getting up on the roof with the knees as they are. But it went off without a hitch - and no wasp nests inside! Temps are being forecast in the mid 90's by next week so it was time.
I installed the cooler in 2002, so 21 years later and it hasn't rusted out yet. On it's second motor, second pump, and third pad. But still has the original blower bearings! Unheard of in HVAC circles. Guess the Supco 88 stuff actually works.
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Sunday at Wheels at Wanaka waiting for the modifieds to start at the tractor pull.
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Midnitemac's mate, the Gooserooter's V8 504 Cummins powered Fordson Major
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Thats the kind of farmboy engineered stuff that used to be great back on the day around here. Glad to see someone is still making it go on a budget level!
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The International 1086 with the chrome twin stacks has a 16V-92TA Detroit Diesel. As you can imagine it sounds awesome.
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Some video of the modifies
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Tractor pulling seems a bit different here in the states. One, the big boys here seem to have a lot of wheel spin on purpose and often shave the lugs on the tires down so they can get wheel speed up. Also, they seem to leave the line harder and often have the front wheels in the air the whole pull.
Muddy can certainly correct me if I am wrong and maybe its just a different class thing
Thanks for posting
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Some video of the modifies
How are they adding more drag down the track.
Does indeed leave ready track, good one. Impressive & well thought out.
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The JCB is running, and free wheels, and basically lifts itself off the ground with its front and rear three point linkage. Depending on how heavy the competitor is depends on how quickly the computer is set to apply 100% weight. They can add dead weight to the sled or hook another tractor on behind free wheeling to add resistance. At one stage the had a CAT Challenger hooked on.
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Tractor pulling seems a bit different here in the states. One, the big boys here seem to have a lot of wheel spin on purpose and often shave the lugs on the tires down so they can get wheel speed up. Also, they seem to leave the line harder and often have the front wheels in the air the whole pull.
Muddy can certainly correct me if I am wrong and maybe its just a different class thing
Thanks for posting
That is modern pulling around here today. Big billet aluminum engines, multiple turbo (often 4) and lots and lots of wheel speed. And tons of $$$
These would be more like what we call , open classes over here. Mostly applies to antique tractor pulling.
Even "stock" tractor pulls aren't stock any more.
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Thanks Tim!
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The JCB is running, and free wheels, and basically lifts itself off the ground with its front and rear three point linkage. Depending on how heavy the competitor is depends on how quickly the computer is set to apply 100% weight. They can add dead weight to the sled or hook another tractor on behind free wheeling to add resistance. At one stage the had a CAT Challenger hooked on.
Got it thanks
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Was actually Saturday....
Dad myself and the kids that ok my tractor and plow to a plow day.
Both the tractor and plow were my grandfather's. Himself, my uncle and my father put many many hours in the seat.
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That is cool.
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That to me, it looks like much more fun than work, I could dig doing that.
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Weekend didn't go as planned while changing trans fluid in my car. I got a call....
My father was in a car accident and flown to local hospital.
In pretty rough shape was intuabeed on scene. He has fractured orbital socket and cheek bones. A fractured L3 vertebrae. Both his eyes are heavily bruised and swollen shut.
Went to see him again today. Swelling has gone down a bit. Still couldn't open his eyes. However he was less sedated and awake and responsive. Was actually talking to my mother. When I spoke to him he would give me thumbs up or head shakes.
Right now plan is a back brace and once swelling is gone enough check health of eyes and vision then surgery for facial fractures.
Cardiologist believe Arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat) caused him to faint causing the accident. With multiple stents in his heart already he is more than likely looking at a defibrillator implant.
It's going to be a long road but we will get through it.
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oh man, so sorry to hear this. please keep us informed. give the little ones an extra hug because you just never know. tough on them too!
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Lots of prayers for your dad's swift recovery Tim. I wish you and the family all the best.
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Very sorry to hear about your dad’s accident. Prayers for a full recovery
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Tim, praying for your Dad, so sorry to hear about this
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Thanks guys!
Went to see him last night. Dads doing better his eyes are open and vision is good. He got his back brace. Waiting on cardiologist to see health on heart. He's probably getting a defibrillator, but tests will tell. More then likely going to be transferred to a less risk unit of the hospital.
He was fairly talkative last night felt good to see his eyes and hear him talk.
Long road ahead but we'll ll get through.
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Thanks for the update Tim, glad he is doing better
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Good to hear he is improving.
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Trying out a new signature, did not work
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My job during the racing is wrangling them after the finish line. Instead of completing a whole lap after the finish we are turning them off at the end of the front straight and I'm holding them until the last car is finished before letting them back on the track just before the track exit.
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Kiwitruck - kids class
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One of our club member's being hard on gear!
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Lunch just got delivered
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Trying out a new signature, did not work
Plan "B"
May not have worked, but I really enjoyed the video!
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Dad is doing better. They did an electrical test on his heart today. Nothing significant found. They have a loop recorder to keep track of his heart so hopefully it'll catch anything abnormal in the act.
He was medically cleared. If nothing major found with his heart. He'll be moved to in patient rehab to start getting him moving up and around.
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Tim, that sounds promising
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Move a picture, USS Enterprise, on Yankee station.
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Move a picture, USS Enterprise, on Yankee station.
Very cool!
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Sam and I put in a good day. We went for a scoop of mulch. Then we rented a log splitter. He did an excellent job running it.
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However as usual I can't do anything without smashing a finger.... Squashed it like a grape between a piece of wood and the splitter bulkhead. Don't think its broken, have full range and it swollen and feels like you hit it with a hammer.
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When we finished with the wood we got happy meals and took a well deserved nap! Then we made supper, and cleaned up the yard a bit.
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He's really shooting up now.
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Great job with the youngster Muddy. He's learning tons of stuff helping out.
I always thought my right hand hated my left hand. Between the screwdriver stabbings and the hammer whacks it was pretty obvious, the right was always the aggressor.
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Great job with the youngster Muddy. He's learning tons of stuff helping out.
I always thought my right hand hated my left hand. Between the screwdriver stabbings and the hammer whacks it was pretty obvious, the right was always the aggressor.
Yup, totally agree with that. Although being a southpaw, the left was the aggressor. Hang in there Tim, have a cold beverage and relax for the day; you now have a good excuse.
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Hopefully Sam is learning a few things not to do as well :))
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Hopefully Sam is learning a few things not to do as well :))
I hope he's learning, just wish I didn't have so many examples to give him :))
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Saturday we put down mulch. Then we went to a local amusement park.
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Changed the spark plugs in the van. Why do engineers gotta over complicate things?!
Also put hf socket trays in my tool cart. Saves a lot more room then the past style I had in there.
Ging to keep the unpack sockets on the grab and go rail boards and hang them on the peg board wall in the garage. Gonna cruise flea bay and places for inexpensive 1/ chrome sockets.
Then I had to go buy a suit. Why I have to wear a suit to a wedding I'm not in is behind me!!!
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Well an interesting start to the morning yesterday. Walked out to my ute to go to work, pushed the button on the remote and nothing happened. I unlocked the door with the key to find I had left the headlights on the night before. I went and got my jump pack, hoping it would have some charge in it. It did make the dash lights light up but that was about all. I think my ten year old Supercheap (HarborFreight) jump pack has finally died. While I waited for the AA to turn up I investigated why the headlight alarm didn't work. I quickly found the door switch was sticking. I tried the rear one and that one was a bit sticky as well. The rear passenger side one was in good condition, so I swapped it to the driver's door location. Not long after the AA mechanic turned up and jump started me. I checked the operation of the headlight alarm when I turned the ute off at work and it was OK. I don't know why Nissan has the headlights turn off on the key like Mitsubishi, our work vehicles, do.
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Well that will wake you up twenty minutes before knock off on a Friday, NEMA Emergency Mobile Alert going off on both my work phone and my own phone, as well as every phone in the office with a tsunami warning. There has been a 7.7 magnitude earthquake at the Loyalty Islands, by New Caledonia, that has triggerd a tsunami wave headed our way. There is unlikely to be an actual damaging wave but there are "likely to be strong currents and surges can injure and drown people. There is a danger to swimmers, surfers, people fishing, small boats and anyone in or near the water close to shore".
I sit beside one of our costal engineers so get expert interpretation of events, including getting pointed to the best public domian data. Below is the plot off a DART bouy (Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami) southwest of New Caledonia. The wave is only about 5" high, tsunami waves aren't very high until they get to shallow water. This bouy, DART NZJ, is moored in water 1,900m/6300' deep. The time on the graph is UTC. On the map the triangles are DART bouys. The white ones are unfortuantely inoperative.
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Stay safe Rural
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Warning was canceled about 9pm last night. There was no reports of tide surge etc here. In New Caledonia and Vanuatu there was tide surge up to 2.5 feet.
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What a difference a day makes.
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This time yesterday from office lunch room.
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This is morning on the way to Rotorua.
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Lake Rotoiti. The guy on the right was cleaning two trout he had caught nymphing in the inlet channel from Lake Rotorua.
What I was actually doing working on a Saturday morning, cement stabilizing at the roundabout we are building.
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Cement spreading
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Hoe/stabiliser
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Nuclear densometer (nuke) to determine compaction.
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The process. Middle left - spread the cement. Left - hoe the cement into the aggregate. Middle right - compact with sheepsfoot roller initially. Right - finish compaction with smooth drum rollers, first high amplitude vibration then low amplitude vibration. The nuke is being used for a plateau test to determine rolling sequence to get maximum density.
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These guys went passed while we were working.
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When I left site I drove out of the fog two miles down the road!
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That 64 wagon!!
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Going over the bike for inspection (yeah, on Tuesday Nothing like waiting last minute)
New tire. Figured since I had the caliper off I'll put new brakes pads in the front. Rear brakes need new pads anyway so they'll get done too.
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Unmounted an undermount epoxied on sink. Ohh...joy.
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A friend was cleaning out old tools from his garage and came across a HF angle grinder he didn't need. It's still got some life in it so he gave it to me.
I've never had an angle grinder so I eagerly took it. Started disassembly, cleaning, and regreasing the gearcase today. Hopefully get it finished and put back together tomorrow. Then head down to HF and pick up some grinding, sanding, and shaping discs and try it on a project.
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Got the Duke back together finally but now the transmission is stuck in gear :c002:
Apparently there is a service bulletin out with a shifter mechanism upgrade.
so back appart it must come!!!!!!!
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A friend was cleaning out old tools from his garage and came across a HF angle grinder he didn't need. It's still got some life in it so he gave it to me.
I've never had an angle grinder so I eagerly took it. Started disassembly, cleaning, and regreasing the gearcase today. Hopefully get it finished and put back together tomorrow. Then head down to HF and pick up some grinding, sanding, and shaping discs and try it on a project.
I suggest buying any grinding wheels stones, or any abrasive products you need from a welding supply shop instead of HF. If you use the HF stuff I think it will be much more prone to failure that better quality abrasive products.
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Spent yesterday afternoon working on my pontoon boat. The batteries were discharged to a point where the 24v charger would not activate and begin to recharge. Hence I had to remove two very heavy 1125 AMP batteries and place them on a long term external trickle charge.
Apparently the ground fault circuit breaker on the dock electrical outlet tripped some time ago, and enough time passed without me knowing about it to a point where the batteries just went below their charging threshold. What a PITA to remove and haul those batteries.
I was hoping to enjoy a boat ride with the family, and do some fishing for Father's Day -- not going to happen. Oh well!!!
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Put pads and rotor on the front of the 17 F250.
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I suggest buying any grinding wheels stones, or any abrasive products you need from a welding supply shop instead of HF. If you use the HF stuff I think it will be much more prone to failure that better quality abrasive products.
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Not today but Sunday. We finally got to go racing after being rained off for the last few months, including last weekend (someone in our club has definitely offended the weather gods!).
We have a couple of FPV drone guys that come and film sometimes. Here is the footage from one of them that was there on Sunday.
Photos...
1. How to piss off your daughter.... beat her on the finish line in a race she had been leading since the first lap! The margin was about a front wheel diameter. She did beat him in the next two races though
2. Dean driving his Prolite fairly hard off the front straight jump
3. Class 1 buggy and two Class 8 trucks dropping down into the run to the hair pin onto the front straight. Both Class 8's are American Prolites, the yellow one a V8 and the naked one an older spec four cylinder
4. Start of the smaller buggy classes race
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Those prolites look fun.
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They are fun. They are fairly popular in the US as they are a spec class that makes the racing very close. They are fairly simple, the chassis is just 2" x 3" box section. They only have 12" of suspension travel in the front and 14" in the back and are limited to a 32" DOT tyre and pump gas. They originally ran a 2.5L four cylinder engine but they were requiring rebuilding every second race meeting or so. To lower costs they changed to a V8 no greater than 360 cubic inches with a single 650 Holley carb and a MSD ignition with a 6000 RPM limit. Gearbox is a manual shift Turbo 400. This is what became the "NZ Prolite" spec. I believe the US Amsoil Series are now running the LV1 4.3-liter V6 engine with fuel injection coupled to a GFORCE 4 Speed Dogbox transmission.
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Yesterday one of our surveyors, who is also one of our UAV pilots, went and got some photos of the roundabout we are just completing. Interesting approval proccess to fly because it is right in the flight path of the local airport. Even though he had pre-approval for a 200' flight, when he rang the control tower for the final go/no-go they would only let him up to 60'.
Before photo and a couple of after ones. In the last photo you can see the retaining wall we had to build to not have to buy land.
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Todays job ….. certificate of fitness time , like a 6 monthly compulsory for heavy vehicles in NZ , got failed for this on my KW (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230724/fa1cdf994910cf2fee0ada03510ff155.jpg)
and I have to replace the 4 Air Bags on the suspension of one of the drive axles ……
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Put alot of old paper thru the shredding machine. really heated that baby up! We get so much "we want to buy your home" crap that we have to shred at least twice a week to get rid of it all. Taking it to the UPS store got too expensive. Funny how any two-bit broker can get my home info yet when I need some information everybody is useless.
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Are the DOT over here worse or better then over there?
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Muddy , in my own personal experience from running trucks in both countries , they are pretty much the same , if you can avoid having anything to do with them, you do !!!! The US , correct me if I’m wrong, has different rules and probably different standards in every state . I think our standards of maintenance here is higher because of the mandatory 6 monthly inspections.
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Muddy , in my own personal experience from running trucks in both countries , they are pretty much the same , if you can avoid having anything to do with them, you do !!!! The US , correct me if I’m wrong, has different rules and probably different standards in every state . I think our standards of maintenance here is higher because of the mandatory 6 monthly inspections.
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Yes the states all have varying standards for inspections (some don't have inspection at all for passenger vehicles)
Bigger trucks used to have to get inspected every 6 months here in PA but they got rid of that and now it is just a regular annual.
I'm not sure how roadside inspections are done if they are done to the states standards or if their is a federal (country wide) standard for those.
Seeing some of the stuff that is on the road I for one will never complain about mandatory vehicle inspections.
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In PA all vehicles including passenger car inspections were six months until the early 80's.
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We have annual inspections on commercial vehicles, the truck cops are part of the state police. The vast majority I have had interactions with want to do a paper work check and very rarely put on their work cloths and crawl under a truck.
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I'm not sure the guys hauling seacans out of Houston even know what an annual inspection is. 3 different colors, DOT#s written in cardboard and taped on the door. Temp tags on the tractor, Probably faked. Sketchy all the way around.
Ghost cars have been a problem here for years, just took a while for the trucking market to catch on.
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In PA all vehicles including passenger car inspections were six months until the early 80's.
I was only born in the late 80s :))
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Well that'll ruin your Friday afternoon.
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This little Honda was in the tyre shop.
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Well that'll ruin your Friday afternoon.
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This little Honda was in the tyre shop.
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Will it prevent you from participating in the Friday after work Craft Beers ?
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No, if there were Friday night beers tonight. Tonight is Mid-winter Christmas event that I should be going to as it is in Classic Flyers museum hanger, but I just can't get enthusiastic about it and I need to go and discuss (beat some sense) the extent of the night works one of the contractors is doing tonight.
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Rode down and stayed the night in Baltimore. Went to a local brewery located in an old church and toured the Guinness Open Gate Brewery.
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Have decided to add a carport to the side of my old shop. But need to add gutters to the shop first to divert rain away. But we discovered the facia board at the eaves is loose, nails loosened up since its build in 1947. So pulled out our scaffolding, moved a car, an Anglia if you must know, bought 40 foot of treated 2x4s, out with the old, in with the new. And decided to put a new roof coating on the 1947 galvanized tin roofing. The facia is finished, start painting tomorrow, then pour concrete for the carport. Keeps one busy In 80 degree heat.
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80 degree, must be a cold snap. We have been in the 90's for a while.
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80 degree, must be a cold snap. We have been in the 90's for a while.
Absolutely right! High 90's and high humidity made for a deadly combination last week. Yesterday evening was a great time to sit out and enjoy a cool breeze with a cold adult beverage and a cigar. We grilled up some pork loins and had quite an enjoyable weekday evening. For the end of July that is a win.
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80 degree, must be a cold snap. We have been in the 90's for a while.
We've been smashing records here - June was relatively mild, but July has been a scorcher! High temps and very little monsoon. Though the past week we had some downpours.
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I’ll take those 90’s. Been triple digits here for 30 days now. 6 more weeks until it starts cooling off
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Changed the plugs in the wife’s Escape 4 banger. Easiest I have ever done. Took longer to buy them.
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Changed the plugs in the wife’s Escape 4 banger. Easiest I have ever done. Took longer to buy them.
Good job Bob! I'm in the same boat. Wife's Traverse needs 100K plug change, but the rear bank on that 3.6L V6 is a pain. Oh well, -- will get busy on Monday.
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Hade to clean carpet from the bait and fish stench. Yes, I hammered them yesterday for a half hour. :93:
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Worked out why they cut a 'window' in this hoarding last week :D
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Opened the fourth ramp on one of the interchanges on the project we are Client's Agent for. It is 8:30am and I've been on site for four and a half hours already.
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Pretty cool Rural. Hope you brought along lots of coffee and snacks --
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Worked on junk at work. Came home and mowed the grass, and we cleaned out the minivan.
Tonight I started tearing down my bike. Have a fork seal leak. Since you have to take apart the whole fork to replace the seals and bushings, I decided I'm going to upgrade to Progressive Monotube Cartridges. These are gas charged instead of fluid dampening style like the stock Harley.
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One of our electrical engineers celebrated twenty years with the company recently, actually nearly two years ago during covid restrictions, we finally were able to have a proper celebration tonight. A couple of our South African process engineeers were let loose on the barbeque.
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Well that makes me hungry!
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I had the coronary dye test and they discovered one artery completely blocked and one other is 50% blocked. They are scheduling me for bypass surgery. NEW PIPES!
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Good luck Bob! Wish you all the best for a successful surgery, and quick recovery.
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Best wishes on the new plumbing. Getting blood flow back again should perk you up some.
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3 things.
Replaced my galv steel water line vintage 1962 , narrowly missed effing up my pipe with my alarm cable to the shop in the process.. involved doing plumbing work under the house dusty with no room, lying on your back your nose hits the R30 insulation...bloody horrible.
Moved a bunch of cars around now that the GS project is sold it goes with 2 parts cars . So the 69 Coronet in the house gets moved into the container tomorrow.
And lastly, bloody well enjoyed a well earned spectacular beer courtesy of the Mudman, thank god.
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Good luck Bob! Wish you all the best for a successful surgery, and quick recovery.
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DITTIOs ...........
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3 things.
Replaced my galv steel water line vintage 1962 , narrowly missed effing up my pipe with my alarm cable to the shop in the process.. involved doing plumbing work under the house dusty with no room, lying on your back your nose hits the R30 insulation...bloody horrible.
Moved a bunch of cars around now that the GS project is sold it goes with 2 parts cars . So the 69 Coronet in the house gets moved into the container tomorrow.
And lastly, bloody well enjoyed a well earned spectacular beer courtesy of the Mudman, thank god.
Nothing like a well deserved Lager at the end of a productive day! Cheers!
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I had the coronary dye test and they discovered one artery completely blocked and one other is 50% blocked. They are scheduling me for bypass surgery. NEW PIPES!
Best wishes for a great outcome and quick recovery. In my experience if you follow the advice they give and take the meds you'll be back to normal in no time - BTDT.
Feel free to contact me if you have questions, need some encouragement or want to chat about experiences.
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Good luck Bob , should be smooth sailing.
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I had the coronary dye test and they discovered one artery completely blocked and one other is 50% blocked. They are scheduling me for bypass surgery. NEW PIPES!
Good luck there!
Two months ago I was diagnosed with a suspected blocked artery. The angio test to confirm that was $6500. Not having insurance I declined having the procedure. I decided to do the diet, exercise, and supplement regimen I've heard about (and actually did the diet 10 years ago) in lieu of the operation.
Here's my regimen FWIW
Vegetarian diet, no fat. - Dr. Ornish
https://www.amazon.com/Ornishs-Program-Reversing-Heart-Disease/dp/0804110387/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1GNBGKWSQUVND&keywords=Dr.+ornish+curing+heart+disease&qid=1692467478&sprefix=dr.+ornish+curing+heart+disease%2Caps%2C169&sr=8-1
Grapefruit pectin to clear coronary arteries - Dr. Cerda
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/03/03/Scientists-say-pectin-powder-helps-prevent-clogged-arteries/7758762670800/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/clc.4960110903
Supplement regime for congestive heart failure - Dr. Atkins
https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Atkins-Vita-Nutrient-Solution-Natures/dp/0684844885
Regime for heart health - Dr. McCullough
https://www.twc.health/products/healthy-heart-and-muscle-formula-dr-peter-mccullough
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Getting a bit parched in South Texas. Some years back I dropped an 11/16 wrench in the pasture it went in one of these and was gone.
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Getting a bit parched in South Texas. Some years back I dropped an 11/16 wrench in the pasture it went in one of these and was gone.
That’s dry
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I had the coronary dye test and they discovered one artery completely blocked and one other is 50% blocked. They are scheduling me for bypass surgery. NEW PIPES!
Good luck there!
Two months ago I was diagnosed with a suspected blocked artery. The angio test to confirm that was $6500. Not having insurance I declined having the procedure. I decided to do the diet, exercise, and supplement regimen I've heard about (and actually did the diet 10 years ago) in lieu of the operation.
Here's my regimen FWIW
Vegetarian diet, no fat. - Dr. Ornish
https://www.amazon.com/Ornishs-Program-Reversing-Heart-Disease/dp/0804110387/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1GNBGKWSQUVND&keywords=Dr.+ornish+curing+heart+disease&qid=1692467478&sprefix=dr.+ornish+curing+heart+disease%2Caps%2C169&sr=8-1
Grapefruit pectin to clear coronary arteries - Dr. Cerda
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/03/03/Scientists-say-pectin-powder-helps-prevent-clogged-arteries/7758762670800/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/clc.4960110903
Supplement regime for congestive heart failure - Dr. Atkins
https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Atkins-Vita-Nutrient-Solution-Natures/dp/0684844885
Regime for heart health - Dr. McCullough
https://www.twc.health/products/healthy-heart-and-muscle-formula-dr-peter-mccullough
Looks like interesting reading while I’m laid up. Thanks
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Oh, I wasn't aiming it at you, Heiny. Just your story just gave me the courage to reveal my recent plight and how I'm choosing to deal with it. I've gotten quite a few weird looks and "why don't you just have the procedure and get it over with" talks.
The combining of the regimens is tricky. Hard to do Atkins plan (low carb) and Dr. Ornish's plan (total vegetarian) at the same time. And sauteeing vegetables to make them palatable is impossible without some oil, so I use extra virgin olive oil as a compromise. Eat out of my garden when I can. Plus the two heaping handfuls of pills and capsules every day is getting old.
Just trying to do what I can.
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I didn’t take it that way. I think it is interesting and I know I have to change my diet drastically. I have sugar numbers creeping up also.
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At 5:00 am I threw my cast net a few times to catch some bait and used them to catch a 9 pound Hybrid, which I promptly released so I or someone else could catch again when it gets bigger.
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Nice fish Bob and good luck with the re-plumb.
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I didn’t take it that way. I think it is interesting and I know I have to change my diet drastically. I have sugar numbers creeping up also.
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Yes Bob, praying for smooth operation and complete recovery
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Work was shit. Came home played with the kids for a bit. Then worked on the bike. If you guys would like to see a write up on this job let me know.
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Work sucks sometimes, but that's life; and it's the rough patches that often show your employer what you're made of. Hope it works out better next week Tim.
That said, yes, I'd like to see a writeup on servicing a motorcycle front strut I haven't done one in well over 30 years.
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Yesterday, Sunday, I decided to have lunch in town. I soon discovered that due to something going on it town everywhere was booked out, so I got some takeaways and went and parked at the rose gardens overlooking the harbour. Beside the rose gardens is the Bay of Plenty Vintage Car Club rooms. I didn't know when I selected my lunch spot but they were holding their 65th anniversary celebrations. They are a vintage, veteran and classic car club.
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Work sucks sometimes, but that's life; and it's the rough patches that often show your employer what you're made of. Hope it works out better next week Tim.
That said, yes, I'd like to see a writeup on servicing a motorcycle front strut I haven't done one in well over 30 years.
It was just one of those weeks where not much was going right and I was starting to lose my sanity.
I'll make a write up tonight!
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Went on my daily bike ride (nothing new there), stopped to observe 5 construction workers on the sidewalk all in their full PPE and bent over hovering and pointing to something at their feet the sidewalk. As I rolled up they were picking through an obviously imported socket set in a cheap blow molded case. Just a 3/8" drive set, nothing heavy duty.
I said, "pick a shiny socket, not one of those rusty sockets"
I then pedaled off as they just looked up. I found it funny that it took 5 of them to problem solve some tool related issue.
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A week ago I quoted a wire harness for a forklift because the lift would crank and not start. Broken wires.
Installed the new harness, fires right up and runs..... but now it doesn't move!
This isn't the the first time it's been in the shop. Never had a problem before.
Have no main pressure out of the pump. Only thing I can think is from sitting so long it drained out of the pump and now the pump is so weak to create a suction to create prime.
Kinda frustrating and kinda funny. The truck is from a foundry. So it sees grit and sand and abuse. This thing wasn't worth the spare engine (from their parts truck) the customer put in themselves. Or the harness I just put in it..... I'm sure they'll go ahead and have us rebuild the trans instead of updating their junk.
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Went fishing
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That’s some great fishin’ Bob. I’m envious as heck. Well done sir!
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Tested some HF and VHF antenna designs over the weekend with two local HAM club friends. We’re getting equipment tuned up and ready for a big outing in Oct.
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I spent 3 days at an historic farm site, volunteer, running the blacksmith shop. Been doing this since 98. Bring my iron, hammers and coal, work on my own stuff. Got a great partner, has a separate forge there.. didn't sell a thing this year so the gas money was out of my pocket, 75 miles each way. Gas jumped to 4.13, from 3.69.
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$4.13! dang!!
I paid $3.14 this morning for the cheap stuff. $3.99 for ethanol free. I've been running the generator a lot lately. cows are drinking 3000 gallons of water every 4-5 days. My generator will run about 5 hours to get it filled back up using a gallon and half of fuel an hour.
Supposed to get a cool front in this week and cool things down a bit. been in the 100s for the past 60 days. maybe even get a little rain if we're lucky.
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Went to Power of the Past antique tractor show with my son and one of his buddies today. I usually like to go on Saturday's but could not this year. Sunday's half of the food vendors and flea market folks are gone and many of the tractor guys are too. However, we still had a great time. Next week is the McClouth KS threshing bee. That has always had a few of the old steam thrashers at it, plus a tractor pull and flea market. Or, I could go back to Ottawa KS for a massive car show. In the past there have been as many as 2000 cars. I went once some years ago and it was almost too much for me, almost sensory overload. I couldn't handle more than about three hours!
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$4.13! dang!!
I paid $3.14 this morning for the cheap stuff. $3.99 for ethanol free. I've been running the generator a lot lately. cows are drinking 3000 gallons of water every 4-5 days. My generator will run about 5 hours to get it filled back up using a gallon and half of fuel an hour.
Supposed to get a cool front in this week and cool things down a bit. been in the 100s for the past 60 days. maybe even get a little rain if we're lucky.
I still found gas for $3.50 a gallon today but doubt that will last long.
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I spent 3 days at an historic farm site, volunteer, running the blacksmith shop. Been doing this since 98. Bring my iron, hammers and coal, work on my own stuff. Got a great partner, has a separate forge there.. didn't sell a thing this year so the gas money was out of my pocket, 75 miles each way. Gas jumped to 4.13, from 3.69.
That sounds fun. Always wanted to learn to smith and weld with a forge like my grandfather could.
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Lived through triple bypass. Just getting back to exercising my computer keys. :93:
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Lived through triple bypass. Just getting back to exercising my computer keys. :93:
Good to hear. Glad you're on the mend.
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Lived through triple bypass. Just getting back to exercising my computer keys. :93:
darn Bob, that sounds serious. :c029:
Praying for a speedy and complete recovery
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Lived through triple bypass. Just getting back to exercising my computer keys. :93:
Glad to hear your on the mend
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Thanks guys, I am doing better than I expected. “Knock on wood “
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Oh my! You just made the top of my prayer list for a speedy recovery Bob! Glad you made it through!
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Bob, congrats on getting thru this,
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Good to hear. When are you allowed back in the garage?
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Well my birthday present to myself turned up today.
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They reckon you should replace your mattress every ten years. I've definitely got my monies worth out of my current one. I'm not sure which one I'm actually using, the one I bought when I moved to Gisborne in '95 (28 years) or the one out of my room in my parents house that is about 35 years old.
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Lived through triple bypass. Just getting back to exercising my computer keys. :93:
That is excellent news. So glad to hear it.
Did they give you a sneeze pillow?
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Happy birthday Rural
Just trying to figure out what you are going to do with a mattress delivery truck :))
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Good to hear. When are you allowed back in the garage?
sounds like about a month.
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That is excellent news. So glad to hear it.
Did they give you a sneeze pillow?
Yep and I try to keep it close.
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Well my birthday present to myself turned up today.
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They reckon you should replace your mattress every ten years. I've definitely got my monies worth out of my current one. I'm not sure which one I'm actually using, the one I bought when I moved to Gisborne in '95 (28 years) or the one out of my room in my parents house that is about 35 years old.
Happy birthday, and if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. :lol_hitting:
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Stood outside in the sun for a while until they worked out why the alarms went off.
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Today's first mode of transport, 4:54am.
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Transport mode #2, departure 6:00am
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Today's first mode of transport, 4:54am.
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Today continued the cleanup of my new pickup. Bought it on an on-line auction, 97 Chevy 2500, extended cab, 4x4. Picked it up at the salvage yard it has been hiding for 10 years. Dirty doesn't describe it, scooped 300 lbs out of the box, and in its location in western Ne. the floor had not rusted. What is special to me, is zero body rust, all too common here for the 89-98 series pickups. Little things gone, but nothing not readily available. Oh yeah, pickup was 400 miles away, each way, well we never had a vacation this year. Hooked my car trailer to a rented Dodge Duallie, was a fun trip.
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Not bad nice road trip for dragging home a new project.. enjoy
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So Midnitemack and I are cruising around Christchurch in his Kenworth with about seventy, or more, other trucks on the Dave Carr Memorial Rally. Dave Carr was a truck photographer and this Rally is an annual rally in his memory.
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The first stop is Ferrymead Tram Museum.
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After having a look through the workshops we went for a ride to the main Ferrymead Museum site on their steam hauled tram.
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So 84 trucks turned out for the Dave Carr Memorial Run. Photo courtesy of the organisers.
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My ride back to Tauranga, the sister of my ride down.
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My ride back to Tauranga, the sister of my ride down.
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Great to have your company yesterday and we need to work on a plan for the “100 years of KW”celebration up your way next year .
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Definitely need to plan for the 100 Years of Kenworth.
I got home about midday.
So why was my carry on bag much fatter on the way home than on the way down?
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Because it had this 5L (1.5gallon) dry bag in it on the way back.
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Thanks to Midnitemack's contacts there was 2lbs of whitebait, plus some other goodies, in the dry sack. The newspaper wrapped half pound packs stayed frozen. The unwrapped 1lb pack had stared to thaw, so I scrapped then thawed whitebait off for consumption later tonight and put the rest in the freezer.
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Looks like a great time! So what's whitebait?
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Looks like a great time! So what's whitebait?
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It’s not always that easy …….
It’s a delicacy caught in the rivers here near where the rivers run into the sea , we cook it just mixed with beaten egg like an omelette.
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New Zealand whitebait are the juveniles of five small freshwater fish species which live as adults in freshwater rivers and streams.The larvae hatch in freshwater then are carried to sea on the outgoing tide. After approximately six months, the juvenile fish migrate back into freshwater habitats.
They are 1.5" to 2" long. They can also just be cooked in butter with some salt, pepper and lemon. The only issue is they are a pain in the proverbial to fillet.
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Well, I get the "bait" part, and recognize the fact that like many regional dished, it's an "acquired" taste. :c029:
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Yeah.... I think I'll pass
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I make jokes about new & improved, today I found a true new & improved.
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Pep, do they have metal handles? If so, good grab. I have a nice set branded Black Jack. Best tire pluggers I have ever used
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Yes, side by side
Black Jack, looked it up, had I seen that before I'd be an owner.
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Well, I get the "bait" part, and recognize the fact that like many regional dished, it's an "acquired" taste. :c029:
Not really an "acquired" taste. After a couple of minutes cooking they turn a pure white like most freshwater fish. They are a delicate taste, the only fish I don't cook with a little bit of garlic.
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Well, I get the "bait" part, and recognize the fact that like many regional dished, it's an "acquired" taste. :c029:
Not really an "acquired" taste. After a couple of minutes cooking they turn a pure white like most freshwater fish. They are a delicate taste, the only fish I don't cook with a little bit of garlic.
Edit: photo is a bit steamed up.
Interesting - do you enjoy it just like that, or also pair it with a side dish such as potatoes, pasta, or rice?
Bon appetite!
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Interesting - do you enjoy it just like that, or also pair it with a side dish such as potatoes, pasta, or rice?
Bon appetite!
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No, generally only with bread and butter. I ate those ones with some fresh buttered buns.
Whitebait are so expensive, up to NZ$100/lb (US$60/ib) and are such a delicate flavour they are only really eaten by themselves as a fritter (egg only or with a little bit of flour) or plain like I did.
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Very good Rural, that makes a lot of sense. Looking at your pics, I think I would enjoy this delicacy. Thanks for the lesson on Whitebait -- I learned something.
On as side note, here in the coastal areas of the mid-Atlantic states, many people enjoy fish roe or blue crab roe added to their morning eggs and omelets. A regional delicacy that makes some folks from other parts of the country often cringe.
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Yes, side by side
Black Jack, looked it up, had I seen that before I'd be an owner.
Those will serve you well. Hope you never need them :)
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LMAO removed 3 nails out of 2 front tires on the wife's car... Living in GA the tool is a MUST have.
Yes, side by side
Black Jack, looked it up, had I seen that before I'd be an owner.
Those will serve you well. Hope you never need them :)
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November hasn't been too kind. First I had to replace the washing machine. Then the well pump needs new wiring and then the car battery dies.
Let's hope to finish the year out with anything else going wrong
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Things been kind of smooth lately. Had bought a pickup, many miles away, been arranging with a hauler to bring it home. Phone calls tell me the hauler went to get it, the lot owner can't find it. If it doesn't turn up soon, he will refund my money. Was wanting the truck for another winter project. Heck.
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Had a severe rain storm last night and the water deluge coming down the roof ripped a downspout right off the gutter. The water pressure must have been close to that of a small firehose to cause that much damage. It sounded like a small explosion when it let go. Time to install a more secure downspout system and hope it withstands a higher load next time.
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Sounds like I'm not the only one have subpar luck lately.
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Getting this touched up its my suicide awareness butterfly. Im also doing a consult on my other hand for a jester/joker. Since thats my nickname. Sorta like a joker from a old card deck.
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Its raining and freezing out with nothing to do im drinking some kraken spiced rum and listening to music.
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Being in the Navy saw my share of tattoo shops, US & overseas. Never saw ink I'd wear, lots to choose from.
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I thought I wanted one when I was younger, like 18-22YO. I guess I just didn't want one bad enough. Plus, it was before tats became all the rage. That was pre 1984. Once tats went mainstream and everyone and their dog started getting I was glad I never got one. Hell, even old people were getting tats! For me, that really sealed the deal! I was three kinds of thankful I never got a tat! I have never been a conformist. If everyone goes one direction you can bet I won't be one them. As my kids came of age I told each of them that if they want to stand out from the crowd and be unique, getting a tat was not the way to be unique since everybody including their dog and their grandparents were sporting tats proves my point. Same thing with piercings. Of course three of my four kids now have tats. I guess only the youngest one listened.
I still maintain that if one wants to stand out from the crowd the best way today is skip the ink. I have never yet seen even one that I saw worthy of being plastered on someone's body till they die.
Anyone that I ever saw sporting a tat that to should be wearing one were all old vets that got them as young men in the service in far away lands. Most of those tats I ever saw as a kid were all B&W, no color, and had turned into almost unrecognizable black blobs on the wearers body. My Gpa was one of them, got his in "The Great War" in the Philippines. As an old man he was embarrassed by his tats and alway wore long sleeve shirts regardless of the season.
Despite everything I said above, I have no judgment for folks getting tats today. I no longer even comment if one of my kids gets a tat. Who am I to pass judgment right. They have to live with them, not me. I just don't give a shit anymore. I am just another old man with irrelevant opinion right.
Dustin, great craftsmanship is shown in your tat. If you like it that is all that matters. So by all means enjoy it! Take no disrespect in my comments because I am sure I am just an out of step old man! Now, I would tell my kids the same thing. As I age, I have learned to pick my battles and with each passing year there are less that I have any desire to fight! Tats is just not one worth voicing objection to anymore.
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Thanksbuck my dad and grandfather expressed much the same before i got tatted
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I'm on both sides. I get tattoos it's a commitment to express something that means so much to you. However it should mean something special to you. The ones that get random tattoos because they can or all over their face and hands etc is a bit to much.
However I'll never treat anyone less because they choose either
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Mybest friends husband is a personal trainer and has agreed to train with me and get fit he says im gonna hate him after but if i follow his advice i can lose my extra 100lb
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When I first got into a management role at my old company the GM told me the hiring fundamentals for that company. Most of it would be considered profiling now but at the time it was the rule. One of his commandments was no visible tattoos. In his mind they represented "questionable decision making skills". Fast forward 25 years and the best hand on my maintenance crew has full sleeve tats. He probably has some questionable decision skills but he's a hell of a mechanic.
I did pass on the guy with a devil tat on his face. :lol_hitting:
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Mybest friends husband is a personal trainer and has agreed to train with me and get fit he says im gonna hate him after but if i follow his advice i can lose my extra 100lb
Good luck, that will make huge differences in your health
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Tis the season, mobile smoker at project site on Monday afternoon.
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Thursday my team went to lunch at Rising Tide, the bar at Mount Brewing Co. and the home of Jonny's Dumplings. Friday I had lunch for the stakeholder group of another project at a hotel beside Lake Okereka.
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Today our off-road racing club are running our Christmas meeting with a Kiwi Truck event in the morning, early afternoon and a twilight adults meeting.
A few classics parked up at the gas station when I stopped for coffee on the way.
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A couple of Kiwi Trucks
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In the pits.
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Dinner cooking. Don't let an engineer loose with a piece of stainless steel exhaust stack.
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Changed the oil and put the winter tires on the daily Olds. Also replaced the speed sensor and connector/pigtail.
I kept loosing signal to my speedo, which kicks the trans to limp losing first and over drive.
Fortunately (or unfortunately) it's intermittent. Also a key switch cycle resets it. Hoping this fixes it.
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Yard lights, 1/2 way complete
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Lights done speed test new router, Motorola
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Lights done speed test new router, Motorola
Pics or they didn't happen :-D
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Had to replace the well pump in the house today. Probably should have just replaced it when I rewired it a few months ago. Oh well hindsight is always 20/20
The pump had a date code of 1985 so I guess almost 40 years service isn't bad
Bought one at Lowe's, doubt it'll make 40 years but hopefully it'll last awhile.
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Last Friday, End of Month drinks and BBQ on the deck at work before a long weekend. Monday was the provincial anniversary holiday. This weekend is a long weekend as well, with our equivalent of 4th July on Tuesday, a lot of people, me included, are taking Monday off to make a long weekend.
This morning I picked up my new work car. Old one on the right 2014 Mitsubishi ASX 2.3D/4WD/6AT, 180k km (112k mi). New one on the left 2017 Mitsubishi ASX 2.3D/4WD/6AT, 140k km (87k mi).
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New kitchen faucet got installed. Not hard, just awkward. No leaks. Back to other projects.
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Roped into taking some photos for a professional services/design bid. Last night took some photos of Fisherman's Wharf. Unfortunately there is work going on near it and couldn't get access to where I wanted. Luckily the Iceman turned up at just the right time and he allowed me through the gate onto Railway Wharf to get some good photos. This morning I took some further along the waterfront where there is going to be a new wharf build.
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The water main to the house broke 2 weeks ago. Took a week to get a plumber to find the leak, then another week to run a new line. Guess I can't complain - the house is 53 years old.
Nice to have the water back on, though. We can drink and brush teeth with bottled water but had to use water from 5 gallon buckets to flush the toilets. That was getting old. At least I had half a dozen plastic buckets as part of my preps.
Bad news seems to happen in 3's. Hope this three series is over! :banghead:
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Decided to do fleet maintenance today and over the rest of the weekend. Change oil, flush brakes, flush coolant, change filters, and replace brake pads where needed.
Since retirement, we don't put a lot of miles on the cars anymore, but I still change the oil every six months. I really don't know if using full synthetic oil you can potentially change the oil only once a year if you don't put a lot of miles on the car in that time period? .... but old habits are hard to break.
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We drove into town this morning to retrieve the winnings of last nights auction. Mostly tools am afraid. Bottle jack verticle press, 12V winch for the car trailer. Extra Acetylene bottle for the torch. 8 beer flats of wrenches, every brand known to me. 3 boxes of sockets. Had to buy one flat just for the S-K ratchet hidden among the rust. Another for the Snap-On 3/4 breaker over bar. Missed out on some stuff as the on-line auctions count down fast when one is watching 2-3 things close together. Tap&die set in fitted wooden case marked Craftsman. One prize, bucket list thing was a Diamond 18 inch adjustable wrench with jaws3/4 inch thick. I only took home 1/4 of the tools, some flats only went for $3. Got to stay home now.
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Well I never want to do that again. Today I went to the funeral of the fifteen year old son of a friend of mine. Brooklyn and his co-driver were killed in a rally car crash on Sunday. I've known Brooklyn since he was only a bump. He was born into a racing family, I know his father from the original winch challenge in NZ in the early 2000s. He has grown up in off-road racing , racing Kiwitrucks, Class 7 and more lately UTVs. In the kast couple of years he has been racing in the Toyota 86 Series and in the National Rally series.
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Well I never want to do that again. Today I went to the funeral of the fifteen year old son of a friend of mine. Brooklyn and his co-driver were killed in a rally car crash on Sunday. I've known Brooklyn since he was only a bump. He was born into a racing family, I know his father from the original winch challenge in NZ in the early 2000s. He has grown up in off-road racing , racing Kiwitrucks, Class 7 and more lately UTVs. In the kast couple of years he has been racing in the Toyota 86 Series and in the National Rally series.
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God bless them both, and can only imagine the insurmountable loss that both families are coping with at this time.
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Well I never want to do that again. Today I went to the funeral of the fifteen year old son of a friend of mine. Brooklyn and his co-driver were killed in a rally car crash on Sunday. I've known Brooklyn since he was only a bump. He was born into a racing family, I know his father from the original winch challenge in NZ in the early 2000s. He has grown up in off-road racing , racing Kiwitrucks, Class 7 and more lately UTVs. In the kast couple of years he has been racing in the Toyota 86 Series and in the National Rally series.
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God bless them both, and can only imagine the insurmountable loss that both families are coping with at this time.
+1
since I'm horrible with condolences
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Roped into taking some photos for a professional services/design bid. Last night took some photos of Fisherman's Wharf. Unfortunately there is work going on near it and couldn't get access to where I wanted. Luckily the Iceman turned up at just the right time and he allowed me through the gate onto Railway Wharf to get some good photos. This morning I took some further along the waterfront where there is going to be a new wharf build.
Nice shots hang on the wall kind. :coffee2:
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Worked my cows today. Spring is here in South Texas and its time to get the cows back in shape for next calving. The local cattle auctions are bringing crazy money. Light weight 400lb calves are bringing $3 a lb so its time to sell a few.
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Yesterday afternoon we ran a Ladies Day at our track. We had five UTVs, one of which was a regular drive the rest driving their partner's, or in one case daughter's, vehicles and four buggies, with two and a half regular drivers. I:m counting one as a half because she was driving her father's buggy for the first time. Another 'regulsr' driver was driving her buggy for the first time in 27 years. As always, we support the kids class and let them run so we had a couple of Kiwitrucks as well.
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Went to the Dixie oil and gas sign show and came home with a couple of old therms.
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Put up a horizontal End-Fed-Half-Wave (EFHW) HAM radio antenna up about 70 feet running between two large red oaks in my yard. Good for working 10-80m HF without the need of a tuner.
Surprisingly, all of the bands had an SWR between 1.3 and 2.1. - damn good for an antenna without a tuner.
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Built this stand for a 5 gallon bucket garden. Ive wanted to try growing vegetables for a few years now. I actually had this wood that I had from dismantling the deck that was at our house when we bought it.
If a growing our own does work out, I can always turn it into a mobile workbench.
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Today I mounted 6 tires on the GMC Topkick. 265-75 x 19.5 on steel rims, figured they weighed close to 155 lbs each. Used the floor jack, 2- 5 ton bottle jacks, and a 10 ton bottle jack just bought on auction. Also used a good armload of 2x6 and 4x4 wood blocks, just to be safe. The 20volt DeWalt impact did very well on the lugnuts. Took them to the tire shop in town 2 at a time, because it was jacked up on dirt, and the 24 inch 2x6s were getting pushed down into the sod, not the most solid surface I have worked on. The Cat diesel is heavier than anticipated, but no problems, just was very careful. The tires it came with had dates saying they were 18 and 20 years old. But they didnt look bad no cracks visible. Bought a set of tires, used, at that tire shop what came off a rural fire truck, 4 years old, less than a thousand miles, firemen needed a more aggressive tread, with the gravel and dirt roads around here. Getting closer to being able haul some tractors with the 30 foot gooseneck trailer we bought 2 weeks ago. Been wanting to do this for years. Rested up a bit, then got out the 2 John Deere riding mowers, lady friend drove one, got the whole outer yard and the house yard mowed, because of 3 days of rain forecast, the spring grass grows too durned fast.
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My brother came by and has been recoating my roof with the cool coat. Since I'm not steady on a ladder anymore I helped him out by doing all the ground work. Moving vehicles, covering the A/C, lugging the garden hoses around, providing the TSP for cleaning, and checking on him regularly since it gets hot up there. Took time out to service/repair a pair of pump sprayers, got his wife's bicycle shifting properly, and doing some needed yard work such as weed wacking and trimming overgrowth around the tree trunks. The old muscles are protesting but overall got alot of chores done and I feel good overall. Chock it all up to spring maintenance!
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On Saturday I took my lunch and went and sat down at the Bridge Marina to watch the world go by. Even though it is near the end of autumn/fall here it is still fairly mild (17C/63F). There was plenty going on with ships entering and leaving the harbour, a yacht race going on and power boats coming and going from the marina and boat ramp.
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I then headed over the harbour bridge to see what was happening around the airport. As I’m cruising passed the GA hangers, I see Marty who I know sitting in the sun outside talking to some young guys. I stopped to ask him if it was his Stearman that Peter had been flying last week. He confirmed it was. When I commented that he was game letting Peter fly his Stearman the reply from the other end of the bench was “F#$k you Justin”. I hadn’t seen Peter sitting there. So, I parked my ute and got out to catch up. Peter and I learnt to fly together in Gisborne in the late 90’s. He continued in aviation and is now a captain on ATR72 with Air New Zealand, while I stayed in engineering. He is heavily involved in the warbirds scene as well. He has recently shifted to Tauranga and this is the first time I’ve caught up with him.
Marty says have a look in the hanger. The last time I was in his hanger, about 12 years ago, there were two Stearman and two 3/4 scale Mustangs. His mate has sold his Mustang and Marty has bought a few more planes.
Crimson plane - NuWaco T-10, a “representation” of a 1928 Waco Taperwing powered by a Jacobs 7 cylinder 275hp radial with a constant speed propeller. It was built in 1982 in USA. He says it is very quick.
Blue plane - A 1935 (designed) Waco YMF, powered by a 300hp Jacobs 7 cylinder radial with a wooden fixed pitch propeller. It was built by Waco in 2012, they still build about seven a year.
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The 3/4 scale Mustang is powered by a Honda V6 3.5L car engine.
A couple of Boeing Stearman also live in the hanger.
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Of course if you have this many classic aircraft they need their own themed tugs.
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Rural53 those are some impressive airplanes.