Good morning!!!!

[dave1949]

So, you are selling this grass down the river, yet you would have us believe in your tender mercies?

As nap excuses go, that is very weak, weak, weak. :laughing:

 

[sseelhoff]

So, you are selling this grass down the river, yet you would have us believe in your tender mercies?

As nap excuses go, that is very weak, weak, weak. :laughing:

His excuse doesn't float with you? To some of us, it seems well grounded, and rooted in truth. Give it some time and see if it grows on you.

 

[dave1949]

His excuse doesn't float with you? To some of us, it seems well grounded, and rooted in truth. Give it some time and see if it grows on you.

Well, you gave me an excuse to sleep on it. Thx.

 

[txdon]

Nothing personal, that is just my standard smoking joke. Your health, like so much in life, is mainly determined by genetics. Half of all the folks who die of lung cancer were smokers. That fact leads you to wonder what killed the other half. Was it air?

Larro

It probably was from the air - from a smokey environment on their job or second hand smoke. Remember when everyone at work smoked and the walls turned yellow before smoking was not allowed. Remember restaurants, clubs, grocery stores, airplanes, busses, etc. etc ...

 

[sseelhoff]

It probably was from the air - from a smokey environment on their job or second hand smoke. Remember when everyone at work smoked and the walls turned yellow before smoking was not allowed. Remember restaurants, clubs, grocery stores, airplanes, busses, etc. etc ...

I remember those days-everyone in meetings smoked (except me). I would come home from work smelling like an ashtray. I recall one judge in particular that used to smoke while sitting on the bench in court. In those days, the Prosecuting Attorneys used to chew, and would carry around white styrofoam cups for spitting.

 

[sodamo]

David/Sodamo ,hope those two overly excited individuals go around you...and be safe. I hope you aren't landslide prone up there. If I remember my geology lesson on igneous rock, unlikely it's moving anywhere once it hardens. Hmm, how thick is your topsoil? what's higher up from your property? I'm still vibrating a bit from driving the truck 8 hours up from NC. Amazingly wet down there and just dried up as I came North. and now off to mow the lawn and pick tomatoes. Lots of red ones out there. although a nap might win out no rain in the forecast tonight so the lawn will still be there when it's cooler later. got up to 91 here in PA. and besides don't they say not to mow in the heat of the day? Too hard on the tender grasses, too much stress. So there, how could I possibly go out and do that to all of them? snore

Drew, feel pretty safe up here. We are actually on the slope of Mauna Kea, 1100 ft elevation. Soil is good, at least 15 deep. What's interesting is it's capacity to hold water, believe 125%. Also drains nicely. If history is on our side we've never had a direct hit by hurricane, but we sure can get the wind and rain.

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I would love to have either of those mowers. Hope y'all both enjoy them.
Drew, how much more would the 4 wheel steering have added to the price?

 

[300UGUY]

I remember those days-everyone in meetings smoked (except me). I would come home from work smelling like an ashtray. I recall one judge in particular that used to smoke while sitting on the bench in court. In those days, the Prosecuting Attorneys used to chew, and would carry around white styrofoam cups for spitting.

I remember when I 1st started working in a auto plant, I noticed that I would be blowing out black snot, from all the crap in the air. My foreman, a 40 year vet, looked at me and said " it's no worse than a couple of packs a day". He wasn't joking, and he was smoking. We just accepted that as part of the job, you got dirty, breathed dirty air, used dangerous chemicals, used dangerous machines, had a lot of loud noise around, worked crazy hours and shifts, and did all of this in a enviornment full of asbestos. But we had a job....

I remember spilling some hydraulic oil on my jeans one day. I don't know what was in the oil, but my jeans had holes in them within a couple hours, and I had to be treated for chemical burns. Another item, we used trichrolecline? for a solvent for layout die, which was made from carbon black. We would use it to get the dye off our hands, and used it in spray bottles to clean sheet metal panels and castings prior to layout. We had the stuff in 55 gallon drums. One day in 79, some guy in a suit came thru, looked around, the next day, the formen came around, with security guards, and confiscated all the spray bottles, and the drums. We were then told that it was a carcinigen. Somebody asked about the vats - the tooling group used vats of the stuff, hundreds of gallons in each one, to clean cutter bodys. The vats were shut down. A lot of the oldtimers died from cancer - many were smokers, and coupled with the work enviornment, it took a toll on the old guys. The air in those places was so bad that visibilty might only be a hundred feet or so. Sometimes we were sent home, because everybody's eyes were watering, and people were coughing. It had to get pretty damm bad for that to happen.

 

[RoyJackson]

2014-08-06, 0340

61 right now and a high of 77 predicted....looks like a very nice day ahead of us!

 

[rswyan]

Woke up about 0130 ... quiet and still ... 68 degrees and cloudy evidently ...

They're calling for AM thundershowers and then clearing in the afternoon with a high of 78 degrees.

I got most of the steel picked up yesterday ... with the exception of 40' of 3" x 3" x 3/8" angle. They had showed it as being in stock ... but when they went to pull it, they couldn't find it anywhere. Salesman even went out and searched the warehouse. Nada.

This particular item has been somewhat problematic: I originally asked for a quote on it, and then, after talking to my neighbor, Buck, who is a welder by trade, and who has agreed to help/supervise me on this project so that I don't commit any gross stupidities, he said "Nah, go with 5/16" instead of 3/8" ... otherwise the sawhorses will be too heavy and harder to move around".

(The angle will be used to build some sawhorses that we can lay a 4' x 8' x 1/4" sheet of plate on, to make a temporary welding table ... one that can easily be disassembled, to get it out of the way ... since space in the shed is at a premium, and the table will be in the one open bay, that I will need to use to work on the tractor and the wife's car.)

So I asked for a quote on 3" x 3" x 5/16" ... and was told it wasn't in stock, would take 2 to 3 days to get, and would cost around a dollar more per foot than the 3/8" ...

Ok ... so forget the 5/16" - 'cause I ain't gonna pay more for less (and after checking the weight difference between 5/16" and 3/8" it ain't that big a deal) - I'll take what you (supposedly) have in stock (3/8") ... and we'll just consider the heavier horses as part of the exercise/workout regimen. Besides, I have a use for the unused 3/8" in another project (landplane/grader) where 5/16 angle would be less desirable ...

And then they don't actually have it in stock ... too funny ... no biggie though, they're expecting a truckload of it tomorrow ... just means I have to make a second trip over to pick it up.

While I was out I ran by Harbor Freight and picked up a paddle switch angle grinder they had on sale for $30, since I don't know when the grease to repack the gearbox on my Milwaukee will actually arrive and I don't want to run it much until I do. Also grabbed a $3 pistol grip blowgun to see if I like it ... will need a couple more of those if so, or something else if I don't. Stopped by TSC as well on the way down to pickup the steel and grabbed some CAT 2 lower lift pins I'll need for another project (3PH boom pole)

I managed to get some work done last night on plumbing the last of the 1/2" copper for the air lines on the east side of the shop ... hopefully can get that finished up in the next couple of hours.

Got a text message yesterday afternoon from Home Depot that the second order of drawer dividers are now in ... so I'll have to run by there later and pick those up ... so I can further confuse myself by getting more organized ...

Grabbed the 5' x 8' metal frame for the dump cart that I started to build 10 years ago out of the woods and dropped it in front of the shed ... it's got some 3" x 2" x 1/4" and 3" x 2" x 1/8" rectangular tubing in it that can be used for the grapple and the sawhorses ... so if it's nice later today I might start cutting that apart.

The fabrication and welding projects are starting to pile up ... it will be interesting to see how many of them I can actually get completed ... lol ...