Good morning!!!!

[PJSprog]

68°F and light fog again this morning, going up to 85° today. 30-40% chance of rain later this afternoon, and a 70%-ish chance of storms overnight tonight.

"Alcopops" and "suckers with liquor" ... starting to remind me of jello shots, which I am in no hurry to remember. Some of my more entertaining stories started with those things.

That's a fun-looking micro-bus, Kyle. I like it. RNG mentioned the Type III. I had a '74 and a '73 Super Beetle when I was younger. The '74 had the semi-automatic transmission. Great little car. The '73 was a piece of junk I bought for $400. I've always wanted a Type III Notchback, though. No idea why, but I just love the look of those cars. Pricey when you can find one in decent shape, even back in the '90s.

Landscape contractor is supposed to be starting the next phase of his work today. We're adding an additional retaining wall across the stairs from the new one to aid in rocking the propane tank area. With the slope and adjacent stairs, it's just too challenging to keep that spot mowed. He's also supposed to pour a concrete pad along the front of the basement porch, five feet wide and the length of the porch. I'm not convinced that part will get done this week based on the weather forecast.

Are you singing tonight, Don?

 

[sodamo]

70°F and .01 inches rain. Actually just started. Morning shower perhaps.

Take wife to Dr appointment later. Pick up tractor filters for the dX35.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[hawkeye08]

The Carr Fire burning east of Redding, CA was started by a flat tire on a trailer. It's now over 200,000 acres, only 63% contained, and 1,077 homes have been destroyed. It sounds like you did the best you could to diagnose that noise, but all of us towing trailers need to do a better job, especially in high fire hazard areas. I've done the same thing, and only pulled over after someone drove up beside me and pointed to the rear! And like you, found a flat tire on the dual axle trailer, a trailing one that I couldn't see through the mirror. Sends chills up my spine just thinking about what could have happened...

We took a short trip Friday, home Sunday. A few hours after we setup, I noticed the front curb side travel trailer tire flat. We had heard a noise about 25 miles before we got to the campground, pulled off and did a walk around, nothing found. When I changed the tire, it had 6" chunk sticking out, no damage to wheel well and it held air until after we were setup.. Fire danger is high here also, glad we did not loose the tire along the narrow 2 lane with limited places to pull off. We have aluminum wheels so maybe no sparks if it did get to rim?

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Fire danger is high here also, glad we did not loose the tire along the narrow 2 lane with limited places to pull off. We have aluminum wheels so maybe no sparks if it did get to rim?

The guy that started the Carr Fire knew he had a flat, but there just wasn't anyplace to pull over his huge gooseneck travel trailer. The photo I saw looked like an aluminum wheel. I guess if they get hot enough, they melt and shed white hot droplets. In fact, according to a friend of mine that was following me at the time, when the front wheel of one of my motorcycles slid out, I know they do. The bike went about twenty feet down the road sliding on the stainless steel crash bar and aluminum saddle bag, and he said it left a three foot white flame trail. Fortunately the front wheel hooked back up again and I rode through it just like I'd planned it that way. All except for the unplanned stop shortly afterwards to clean out my drawers.:laughing:

 

[hawkeye08]

I'm considering putting TPMS on travel trailer now after this experience. I have an appt Friday to get the tires replaced (5 1/2 years old).

 

[hawkeye08]

Looks like we will be living in the smoke for awhile..

 

[farmer2009]

89 today. Rain chances back tomorrow.

New litter supposed to be here tomorrow. So I sprayed the floors today with disinfectant. Salt went down last week.

Pictures of new truck. Gooseneck ball came in today also.

 

[daugen]

Hawkeye, I added 8 tpms sensors to my motorhome and pulled car and huge improvement in peace of mind. Even more peace of mind when I sold it...
if you want to get horrified, search youtube for rv and trailer accidents, too many due to blown front tires.
Can't help road IED's, but slow leaks, you bet.
And most travel trailers, if my Jayco was representative, only give you enough space in the wheel well for that same size tire, you can't upsize for safety.
Sometimes you can go up a load range, but not always.

long day, outside all day long, rain threatened but went around, and I mowed, supervised and bush hogged. Feel a little baked from being outside.

lot of freeloading grasshoppers kept me company today. Perhaps they thought I was their local Uber...

 

[daugen]

I admit I'm biased but nice truck Farmer! That should pull just about anything you throw at it.

 

[Buppies]

Nice truck Farmer and the mighty Cummins best of best, have a gooseneck in my Ford works well