Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

Almost forgot, our 39th anniversary today, the woman is to be congratulated for tolerance!

 

[Pixguy]

Almost forgot, our 39th anniversary today, the woman is to be congratulated for tolerance!

Happy Anniversary to you and the Mrs. :drink:

 

[toppop52]

Happy Anniversary to you and the Mrs. :drink:

Thank you my friend!

 

[bakerg]

Almost forgot, our 39th anniversary today, the woman is to be congratulated for tolerance!

 

[Fluid]

Good morning daugen, who have you been? Good I hope, I'm the guy you gave the super good deal to, Gravely snow canon, dozer blade. I have been reading your posts about all the work you have been doing at you new place. It sure sounds like you have a nice spread. I want to thank you again for almost giving me that Gravely stuff. If I can do anything for you, please let me know.

 

[sseelhoff]

Good Morning, all.

Happy Anniversary to Toppop and his bride.

Drew-I thought you were retired. You do more in a day than many who are employed!

Hope everyone else is happy and well

56* here this morning with a projected high of low 70s and sunshine. The rain has cleared out, and things are green. Very pleasant days indeed. Looking to a cool down in the next few days-highs in the 50s, once another cold front pushes through on Tuesday. Chickens have started laying, and we are getting fresh eggs every morning. On refuses to lay, but I'm sure she'll join in very soon.

 

[dave1949]

very handy to have some road sand on board the DRW squad truck in winter. The thing gets stuck in its own shadow.

Dave, aren't you running snow tires on that thing? And 4wd? I suppose I should ask where you are going with it... Drew
frankly it's making me wonder how my new drw truck is going to do in the supposedly bad winter we are going to get.
Nice Nexen all weather tires. And I've driven on ice and snow all my life, including driving a first in field truck/tac truck for three years.
I never got stuck, just wondering where you are you going? Your terrain is likely steeper though and while Philadelphia set a record last year for 77 inches of snow, I'm sure you got a lot more. Sometimes those big open lug tires don't do well in snow; better to get winter/snow truck tires.
With a spare set of rims, that might be a budget buster.

No snow tires. The tires on it don't have heavy lugs either, more like a high-mileage road tire. Don't ask, I just work there. :laughing:

It's built on a small 1988 Freightliner cab-chassis, I'm not sure it has enough weight in the rear really for winter traction. Last year it got stuck trying to turn around on a packed snow gravel road. The rear was on one side of the road crown, the front on the other, it just sat there spinning on one set of duals. Pretty sad.

We had to call the town plow truck that was out sanding that day. A few shovels full of sand and we were on our way. After that is when I started putting a couple bags of road sand in, and everybody thought that was a great idea and it turned out to be used more than once. It was a Duh! I could have had a V-8 thing. :laughing:

There are some roads in town that are pretty steep, not paved. What we really need is something 4x4 that's more nimble, better road clearance. Think Unimog. The squad truck is a pig, that's the unit that got sucked into the mud last year on the non-existent road berm and we had to have a wrecker get it out.

What worries me most is there have been some "roads" opened up in the hills to sell lots after logging. They didn't put any money into them, just dumped rock on the skidder lanes. Huge 5' deep washouts here and there along the sides, etc. The state DEP ought to crack down on that nonsense. It's Jeep territory. If someone gets hurt on a snowmobile up there, or their campfire gets a forest fire started, we have no equipment that would get in there.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 53˚ partly cloudy.

My cousin got one on me yesterday. He was with a group and I was with a group at the Paige Roadhouse and we did the cousin "How Ya do'in Cous handshake".
He left before we left and later while waiting for our bill the waiter said my cousin took care of our table. :drink:
It's good to have 300 cousins in the same county. Now I got to find a way to sneak one over on him.

 

[daugen]

man I keep trying to get out of here and go to work...not really, still cold out there, but all these nice posts.
Hey Fluid, glad you oozed on in here. Nice looking equipment.
now guys, I'm going to slowly amble on out to my tractor and go drill some holes. Now how hard is that. And I'm not even going to get dirty.
he says now...
sister's plane is a bit late but almost in Raleigh. She was nervous about the connecting flight to Pitt-Greenville so I sent a local cab/limo co/guy with a nice looking Acadia, to fetch her. The cost was less than a hundred bucks more than her rental car. And now she can look out the window and see stuff you can't when you are focused on driving someplace you have never been. So Woody Roberson is going to get her and he has a smart phone, unlike I, and he has kept in touch. Very comforting. Can't help but worry about her.

out

 

[farmer2009]

Happy anniversary toppop.

41 this morning and headed to 57 today. Ground is firming up which is good because Monday the concrete truck has to come across my front yard. Don't care about the yard as long as he doesn't hang up and make me wheelbarrow 7 yards. Anyways post are set on new building. Put a bag of concrete in the bottom of each hole around the post. Now to get forms on and gravel spread.

Rs have you ever tried a product called Over Rust. You paint it on white and when it turns purple its dry. But it is suppose to encapsulate the rust and stop it. You put it on before you prime or paint. We use to use a couple gallons a year when I worked at the fertilizer plant.