Good morning!!!!

[sseelhoff]

Thanks for the well wishes, all. I'm fine. A little sore today, but not the first time I've taken a fall, and certainly not the last. Aleve goes a long way.

The driver was in a little red sports car. It saw me go down. Stopped about 1/4 mile down the road. Once they saw me stand up, they took off.

My bike is resting comfortably today. I'll put some icy hot on the frame. She should be good to go tomorrow.

 

[daugen]

ouch, glad that's healing. Might has right even if they are wrong.

got the burn pile finally going today, with my fireman helper getting the honors of lighting off the firepit he made.
still burning nicely, down low, with a twenty foot ring of wet grass around it. It did jump out when it first started out but we both saw it within a minute. After it burned down subsequent loads just burned slowly. The initial fire was built with a large number of landscape timbers so it was a real bonfire for a while, which we watched carefully. will be making at least two trips back to the barn before I turn in to check on it.

neighbor's soy beans got picked today in a cloud of dust

 

[dave1949]

Firebug Drew: Patio Heaters

Maybe one of these things would warm your hot tub area. I've seen them in al fresco dining areas for evening use. I have no idea how convenient they are to operate.

 

[daugen]

firebug? Man you go get your grapple into that pile of burnable stuff, clamp down on some pieces of wood which get wedged in the grapple and refuse to come out over the firepit. The firepit is on fire and of course what was in the grapple as I was backing up quickly had now caught on fire.
marvelous, I bang the grapple back and forth a couple of times wagging that burning stick around and finally it goes where it is supposed to.
Much too much excitement for me but one never knows what gets stuck when. The old hay and pine needles were easy to dump; it was the long pieces of brush that I now know I have to cut up shorter. No harm no foul. of course if my barn is smoldering while I type away, now that would be seriously undesirable. Sigh. Up I go for another check.

 

[Buppies]

There are some in the weather world who think a nice snow storm is possible for SW Virginia north 6 to10 inches next Wednesday thru Friday. Think this is premature but keep on radar for those who have travel plans next week from Virginia north into North East could be major head ache if this happens

 

[Buppies]

Thanks for the well wishes, all. I'm fine. A little sore today, but not the first time I've take a fall, and certainly not the last. Aleve goes a long way.

The driver was in a little red sports car. It saw me go down. Stopped about 1/4 mile down the road. Once they s

aw me stand up, they took off.

My bike is resting comfortably today. I'll put some icy hot on the frame. She should be good to go tomorrow.

Hope you get to feeling better soon

 

[dave1949]

firebug? Man you go get your grapple into that pile of burnable stuff, clamp down on some pieces of wood which get wedged in the grapple and refuse to come out over the firepit. The firepit is on fire and of course what was in the grapple as I was backing up quickly had now caught on fire.
marvelous, I bang the grapple back and forth a couple of times wagging that burning stick around and finally it goes where it is supposed to.
Much too much excitement for me but one never knows what gets stuck when. The old hay and pine needles were easy to dump; it was the long pieces of brush that I now know I have to cut up shorter. No harm no foul. of course if my barn is smoldering while I type away, not that would be seriously undesirable. Sigh. Up I go for another check.

Well, burning stuff stuck in a grapple would be exciting. If the flames got into a hydraulic line and burnt through, you would have an omni-directional Kubota flame thrower. Can you reach the firepit with the garden hose?

Firebug was a joke, I forgot the smiley.

 

[daugen]

Can you reach the firepit with the garden hose?

Firebug was a joke, I forgot the smiley.[/QUOTE]

of course it was a joke. and I do have a 3/4 inch water hose right at the fire
with a very nice nozzle on it.
Which came in helpful and quite effectively when my helper had to knock down a traveling ground fire coming out of one end of the pit about fifteen feet, looking like a tiny forest fire from miles up. Flames were only an inch tall and were just burning the dry fluff on top of the grass.
Well, after that, it was surround and drown. No creepy flames from now on. Those flames will need hip boots.
and winds tonight are "light and variable"

my hydraulic lines on the Long grapple are pretty protected but yeah if they did not shake off that time I was just going to lower the bucket back a ways near the hose and hose the grapple down. But didn't have to; it's a pretty big mass of steel. But only as strong as those hydraulic lines. Luckily it was stuck "out front".
My grapple has serious teeth on the bottom; every once in a while they pierce something and really stick. Not like I can take a test run on each load...

 

[rswyan]

43F and cloudy @ 18:00 ... rain in the area ...

Just got the fire rollin' in the wood stove here at the house.

Had freezing rain this morning ... hopped in the van to come down to the house around 10:30 and the only direction she would go was backwards (downhill) ... the tires just spun trying to go forward ... made it to the bottom in reverse and that was all she wrote. Left it at the bottom and walked the rest of the way to the house. Then had a bowl of the wife's beef barely vegetable soup and promptly fell asleep on the couch ...

HVAC guy called his morning ... closest place that had the gas valve was Cincinnati ... should be here by Tuesday, assuming UPS is on schedule. Fortunately it isn't going to be all that cold.

Scott,

Glad to hear you are (relatively) ok ... stay safe.

 

[sseelhoff]

Scott,

Glad to hear you are (relatively) ok ... stay safe.

Thanks. Good news is my hard head was inside the helmet, providing it plenty of support so the outer shell remained undamaged.

I'm a bit sore, but nothing unreasonable.