Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

75 midnight. 45 now and dropping, had a sustained gust at 52 mph for 46 seconds, around 2.

Buppies, I’m at a plateau that’s probably not going to improve until my heart is fixed.

Good day guys and those in the east, don’t overdo it cleaning up.

 

[ronjhall]

Need to pour second cup of coffee. 33° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 42° with some sun in afternoon. Wind, rain, sleet and snow found there way to my place overnight. Sassy says not going out in that stuff. Tuff, you get to go out on a leash. Poor dog. Need to get pump out of garden pond and blow out lines today. No other plans.

Buckeye, since everything outside on my house is white or black. I am not a good person to give advice on how to do it. But I would go with some good Marine coating. 2 of the long time product names are Epifanes and McCloskey.

Drew, The big 3 have paired with foreign car builder. Ford with VW and GM with Honda. Will be interesting to see what Peugeot can do for FSA.

David, sure hope your problems are solved with new cpu on Tundra. Hope you find a good way out of the bad batteries.

Mostly, repair looks good.

Eric, my light brown hair has turned mostly dark blonde. My wife's hair turned to a beautiful silver many years ago. But she kept it dyed until about 3 years ago. Not sure Buckey will get away with a silver door.

Hawkeye, not sure I can smell snow. But I can smell the cold air that helps create it.

Buppies, gas motor going away? Maybe, but not likely in my lifetime. What about us that want to drive more than 300 miles in a day.

Payers and best wishes to all.

Good Morning All.

 

[Buppies]

Ron I’m personally will not give up on gas motor just what one manufacturer is doing

I’m told for 2020 Cummins motors diesel are so clean they have a dpf filter but nothing is deposited

 

[Buppies]

75 midnight. 45 now and dropping, had a sustained gust at 52 mph for 46 seconds, around 2.

Buppies, I’m at a plateau that’s probably not going to improve until my heart is fixed.

Good day guys and those in the east, don’t overdo it cleaning up.

Hope that’s sooner than later anything I can do let me know

 

[check]

Eeep! And I was supposed to pour a little concrete pad this morning.

 

[PJSprog]

25°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 54° today. First real freeze of the year here.

Doesn't sound like good news with the batteries, David. Hope there's a reasonable solution.

I started finding gray hairs when I was 16. They're pretty easy to spot when everything else is dark brown. These days, there's hardly any color left in my beard and mustache, and a lot more streaks of gray around my head. My Wife has determined that she will fight the graying process tooth and nail. She's always had dark hair, until one day about a year ago I came home to find her hair had magically turned blonde-ish. That was a bit of a shocker. I guess she determined that the transition to gray would be easier from blonde than from her Native American near-black. Whatever. I think she'd look great with gray hair (I might be just a little biased). She doesn't seem to be taking the bait, though.

Hope everyone out east fared well in the weather last night.

 

[daugen]

Ron I’m personally will not give up on gas motor just what one manufacturer is doing

I’m told for 2020 Cummins motors diesel are so clean they have a dpf filter but nothing is deposited

1000 foot pounds of torque...just makes you want to hook up to something heavy. Like your paver...
Lot of big diesel duallies in town here, Ram does very well.

Fiat IMHO gave Chrysler/Dodge nothing more than crappy engines with complicated emissions controls and
nothing in design. I thought the Chrysler 200 was a nice, high spec car, you could get a V6 with awd too.
One of the first modern sedans to get the ax. Lot of them around here, usually nicely maintained.
Little Washington really is a car town, with working men cars. The retirees from the North all drive the Platinum
F150's. Expensive vehicles. But in this town, if you don't have a truck, your manhood will be questioned.

Don, that is plant killing low. Quite a surprise so early.
Probably not enough hours under freezing to damage the equipment, hopefully.

 

[PJSprog]

Never did like the Nordiques.

You're not alone. I never liked those hideous sweaters, or that terrible logo.

They had a really good team for the last few years they were in Quebec City. They were really just missing a great goaltender. Once they moved to Denver and acquired Patrick Roy, they became phenomenal. My friends and I always joked that it never would have happened if they'd stayed in Quebec, because Montreal would never have made that trade to them while they were there.

 

[LouNY]

during high school one of my first cars was a beige four door Peugeot 403 sedan, with four on the tree, a sunroof and reclining front seats. I think I saved up 500 dollars for that car. Had to sell it when I went off to college. Had a lot of fun in it, thankfully a local sports car place would work on it.
And solid steel wheels that would not fit on tire changing machines.
Well, looks like Peugeot may be coming back.
yesterday FCA and PSA announced an equal merger.
When Mercedes owned Chrysler, at least they gave the suv's and sedans a great suspension, still in use a decade later by Challengers, Chargers, etc.
What Peugeot will bring to the table is a real question.

unlikely I'll be wearing a beret any time soon driving my Ram...
anyone else ever own a Peugeot?

It seems to me that Fiat is determined to try and own almost everything.
It wasn't that many years ago they bought Allis Chalmers and made Fiat Allis,
they got out of that when they couldn't bid on US government contracts at that time.
But now thats no longer the case. As they "own" CIH or rather CNH (Case New Holland),
as International and New Holland dealers retire trucks they have been instructed to buy RAM trucks

1999: CNH was created in November through the business merger of Case Corporation and New Holland N.V.[25]
2000: CNH Global acquires all of the shares of Flexi-Coil Ltd., a Canadian agricultural equipment manufacturer based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.[26] Paolo Monferino is appointed President & Chief Executive Officer of CNH Global N.V.[27]
2001: CNH Global, Kobe Steel Ltd., and Kobelco Construction Machinery reach an agreement to form a global alliance for the marketing, development and production of crawler excavators worldwide. The alliance with Kobelco includes also distribution of CNH construction equipment in Japan and the Asia Pacific region.[28]
2002: CNH Global entered its second joint venture in China. Shanghai New Holland Agricultural Machinery Corp. Ltd. was formed by an agreement between Shanghai Tractor, Internal Combustion Engine Corp.and CNH's New Holland brand ofagricultural equipment.[29] CNH Global N.V. creates Fiat Kobelco Construction Machinery S.p.A. (Fiat Kobelco) and agrees to a long term retail financing partnership across Europe with BNP PARIBAS Lease Group (BPLG), the leasing arm of BNP PARIBAS.[30]
2005: In Europe and Latin America, CNH rationalizes non-Case construction equipment brand families into one brand, New Holland Construction.[22] CNH Board elects Harold Boyanovsky as President & Chief Executive Officer of CNH Global N.V.[31]
2006: Sergio Marchionne is appointed Chairman of the Board of CNH Global N.V.[32]
2007: Case Construction Equipment and Hyundai Heavy Industries form a strategic alliance to produce a selected wheel loader size.[33]
2010: Fiat announces that CNH, Iveco and Fiat Powertrain Industrial & Marine will be separated from the auto business and listed in Milan stock exchange as Fiat Industrial.[34][35] CNH and KAMAZ finalize strategic alliance for the production and commercialization of agricultural and construction machinery in Russia.[36]
2011: CNH becomes part of Fiat Industrial S.p.A on January 1st.
2012: Richard Tobin is named President and CEO of CNH Global N.V.

Fiat Industrial
Fiat Industrial S.p.A.Fiat Industrial.png
Former type
Società per azioni
Industry Heavy equipment
Successor CNH Industrial
Founded July 2010; 8 years ago(incorporated)
Defunct 29 September 2013
Headquarters Turin, Italy
Key people
Sergio Marchionne (Chairman)
Products Trucks, construction and agricultural machinery, industrial and marine powertrains
Revenue Increase €25.8 billion (2012)[37]
Operating income
Increase €2.1 billion (2012)[37]
Net income
Increase €921 million (2012)[37]
Number of employees
68,257 (end 2012)[37]
Subsidiaries CNH Global (87.4%), Iveco, FPT Industrial
Website CNH Industrial - Homepage

Fiat Industrial S.p.A. was an Italian company into which Fiat S.p.A. (parent company of Fiat Group) demerged most of its activities not directly related to automobiles at the start of 2011.[38] Fiat Industrial served as a holding company for the activities of truck manufacturer Iveco; an 89.3% stake in the agricultural and construction equipment producer CNH Global; and FPT Industrial, which consists of the industrial and marine activities formerly part of Fiat Powertrain Technologies. The company's Chairman was Sergio Marchionne, who also served as CEO of Fiat S.p.A. and Chairman/CEO of Chrysler Group LLC, now merged as Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.[39]

On 1 January 2011, each existing share of Fiat S.p.A. was converted into one Fiat share and one Fiat Industrial share. This resulted in Exor (the holding company controlled by the Agnelli family), the largest shareholder of Fiat with a stake of around 30%, holding an equivalent stake in Fiat Industrial.[40] Exor has however raised the possibility of the future sale of some of its stake.[41]

In September 2011, the company entered the DJSI World and Europe indexes as leader in the Industrial Engineering sector.

On 29 September 2013, CNH Global N.V. and Fiat Industrial S.p.A. were merged into CNH Industrial N.V., a company incorporated in the Netherlands. Fiat Industrial shareholders received one CNH Industrial common share for every Fiat Industrial share held and CNH Global shareholders received 3.828 CNH Industrial common shares for every CNH Global common share held. CNH Industrial N.V. was subsequently listed on both the NYSE and the Milan stock exchange (Mercato Telematico Azionario. For additional information, see CNH Industrial N.V.[42]

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

How quickly some of our lives change, when it turns from warm to freezing. Had to break the ice layer on the chickens' water this morning.

Wow, lots to catch up on.

Toppop, prayers for your future heart valve.

PJ, glad you're a bit better.

Hawkeye, prayers your way too.

Eric, I was wondering what hallucinogenic side effects come from burning mushrooms???

Drew, glad you're home safe.

Prayers for those in need.

Mostly, hope your bike is good to go.

David, sorry about your battery situation. Are you totally off grid?

I've been busy at work. We are making a small 3 cylinder water, medium high pressure pump, hopefully more efficient than a normal pump, out of titanium. It is going into a saline environment.

Congrats to Washington Nationals team and management. They were better when they had to be. Astros manager made mistakes, bullpen not quite good enough, and the players couldn't get a hit with runners on base. Too many stranded runners= loss. Gerrit Cole immediately says he's off the team. Will he go for Yankee money (the reason I don't like the yankees), or will a southern California team entice him back to his roots?

Off today, I want to head to Austin for a few errands.

Don's mother's neighbor's commercial dumping well has been in the news here.