Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

57 this morning high of 77 later today more like May than March. Had a key employee quit yesterday not good not good at all. Kyle be careful lots of rain heading your way with nice size storms as well

 

[Thomas]

33F now mid 50's for high.
Next couple days almost t-shirt weather..almost.
Have feeling by the weekend soft maples well be showing there red buds.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[wngsprd]

48 going to 77 and some sun. Forecasting 82 for Thursday...I'm not ready...Buppies, send some snow, please.

Plan to take the trailer and pick up a load of mulch...may get ambitious and pick up a second load.

Buppies, sorry you have a job vacancy on your hands...hope you fill it fast with even better.

 

[daugen]

Geez maybe I should apply for Buppies job. Can't push a rake or a shovel, moan and groan a lot and take constant pee breaks. Well, maybe I'd fit right in...

Like Buppies and Wingsprd, warm weather coming in today, 46 now going up to mid seventies. Lots to do outside, but first another trip to Lowes (boy I wish we had a Home Depot here to give them some competition) as I forgot something yesterday. Delivered block, stone and sand to a friend whose pier had some damage from the last storm, and being the smart guy I am I took my nice metal cart with me so I wouldn't have to lug half a ton of material several hundred feet down to the River. Well...after I had the first load in the wagon, I tried to pull it and found out to my utter dismay two of the tires were flat. They didn't look flat when empty so I was suckered. Oh my was that hard to pull and I left my airpump at home. Back it goes in the truck... So here I am struggling pulling this silly cart loaded down with flat tires. I was looking for Abbot and Costello to help me... First job this morning is to pump up those tires.

I'm going to do some calling today and find out where I can rent a three or four ton trailer to move my Kubota when I need to. I have a really nice quality small trailer but it's only single axle. And I can't justify spending over three grand on a new trailer for occasional use, no matter how convenient. I can pull 7900 gvw with my economy geared Ram truck and that should just do it with a 5000-5500 pound tractor and FEL and whatever else, combined. This is when i wish I still had kept my diesel dually, could have pulled a mountain with that, but for every day use, my half ton is worlds more comfortable.

What I really would like to have is an old but still good small dumptruck that I could bring my own stone and material in with, and also pull a trailer. Something like a 5500 series. Though I have to admit the 15 ton dumptrucks leave a pile that is ok, but surely not as impressive as the bigger trucks. And a much smaller truck, well, it might leave a paltry little pile...but it wouldn't leave huge ruts in my property either. And I just make more runs...anyone have a nice clean used dump truck they have one too many of? didn't think so...

I know when Buppies finally gets down/over here to fix my driveway he will drop off a nice low mileage small dump truck for me.
A dump truck and a bulldozer. What fun I could have with them...:dance1:

 

[wngsprd]

Geez maybe I should apply for Buppies job. Can't push a rake or a shovel, moan and groan a lot and take constant pee breaks. Well, maybe I'd fit right in...

Like Buppies and Wingsprd, warm weather coming in today, 46 now going up to mid seventies. Lots to do outside, but first another trip to Lowes (boy I wish we had a Home Depot here to give them some competition) as I forgot something yesterday. Delivered block, stone and sand to a friend whose pier had some damage from the last storm, and being the smart guy I am I took my nice metal cart with me so I wouldn't have to lug half a ton of material several hundred feet down to the River. Well...after I had the first load in the wagon, I tried to pull it and found out to my utter dismay two of the tires were flat. They didn't look flat when empty so I was suckered. Oh my was that hard to pull and I left my airpump at home. Back it goes in the truck... So here I am struggling pulling this silly cart loaded down with flat tires. I was looking for Abbot and Costello to help me... First job this morning is to pump up those tires.

I'm going to do some calling today and find out where I can rent a three or four ton trailer to move my Kubota when I need to. I have a really nice quality small trailer but it's only single axle. And I can't justify spending over three grand on a new trailer for occasional use, no matter how convenient. I can pull 7900 gvw with my economy geared Ram truck and that should just do it with a 5000-5500 pound tractor and FEL and whatever else, combined. This is when i wish I still had kept my diesel dually, could have pulled a mountain with that, but for every day use, my half ton is worlds more comfortable.

What I really would like to have is an old but still good small dumptruck that I could bring my own stone and material in with, and also pull a trailer. Something like a 5500 series. Though I have to admit the 15 ton dumptrucks leave a pile that is ok, but surely not as impressive as the bigger trucks. And a much smaller truck, well, it might leave a paltry little pile...but it wouldn't leave huge ruts in my property either. And I just make more runs...anyone have a nice clean used dump truck they have one too many of? didn't think so...

I know when Buppies finally gets down/over here to fix my driveway he will drop off a nice low mileage small dump truck for me.
A dump truck and a bulldozer. What fun I could have with them...:dance1:

Right after he drops off his mini-ex at my place. How many hours do we have to work for him to pay?

 

[rswyan]

46F and partly cloudy @ 06:30 ... headed up to a high of 70F ... same deal for tomorrow, but with a little better chance of some rain.

Moved Shower Massage over to main bathroom yesterday so Woman can start using it, instead of the bathroom off the master bedroom. At some point later today I'll probably start doing the tear out on it.

Likely hit the driveway with the box blade to fill in the low spots that are starting to form and see about putting up that motion sensor light on the east side of the house.

And paper work.

 

[rswyan]

I always like people who shop at three or four different grocery stores in the vein of saving money. For .50 cents or $1.00 what they burn in fuel and wear and tear on their vehicle more than out ways what they save

We're fortunate ... the DG is on the way to the grocery store(s) ... any of the three.

Stopped by there yesterday while I was out and picked up laundry detergent for the washer in the basement I use to clean dirty, oily rags ... $9 for a big jug of it, supposed to do 210 loads. It's "Tropical Passion Fruit" I think ... will probably have the best smelling shop rags in town :laughing:

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Buppies, it's always painful to lose a valued employee. We lost 2 at work last week. 1 gave a 2 week notice, the other quit on the spot. Not sure what happened with that. Our company hasn't given any significant or COL raises in years. They have given a few raises, but nothing significant. But our health insurance has gone through the roof if you have a wife and kids. They pay absolutely nothing towards the family's health costs...

 

[bakerg]

Good morning, 48F here heading to 61F. Still trying to catch up on paper work back log from my vacation.:mur:

 

[rswyan]

Pet peeve of the day:

Searching websites for product info - the internal search engines for both Home Depot and Lowes web sites are utterly worthless, to name but two.

Search for something you know that they carry - using a variety of different search terms - and you get everything but the thing you're looking to find some info on.

Whoever is coding this crap needs to be taken out behind the shed and beat silly up side the head with a big stick.