Good morning!!!!

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 38 and going to the middle 60’s under a clear sky.
Yesterday was another good day. Got outside tasks done, tests with son worked out well, we came up with an easy setup that covered the area well, wireless microphones easily had enough range. I’m guessing outdoors, over water is not a challenging environment for them.
Started looking around outside to see what is going to need to be winterized, I think that it would be a good idea to blow out the Eley hose reel amongst other tasks. Ordered a gadget on Amazon that connects a 1/4” air fitting to garden hose with a ball valve to control it. I couldn’t put it together myself for the $10 that it cost.

I’m getting ready to head out to the airport, off to Charleston,WV and Montgomery,AL today. Have to sit in Charleston for 5 or 6 hours, but just a drop off in Montgomery and head home.

 

[daugen]

paul, if that reel has wheels I'd bring it inside. four or five months less UV on the hose.
short of putting the air blast nozzle in the open end is there a better trick for blowing them out?
I always do the fireman drain routine, up and over shoulders to let gravity do the work
but those big bearings in the Eley would likely do better not getting iced up, expanded,

Though I do like having a fully dry hose ready to go anytime during the winter.
Always want to be able to put out little fires myself. Would mean running to basement to turn back on the shutoff valve but to put out
a kitchen fire, assuming no grease, I'd rather spray water than dry powder, much less mess too. And the garden hose would be my attack line from thirty feet away.
I've had some practice at this...but I don't have protective gear and that's always the issue. Stay low, don't be a hero. I'm well insured...

and I've never set a kitchen or much else on fire either. Burn piles, well, burn piles have their own stories.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

35°
Happy Columbus Day.

I don’t have to winterize the camper, it never got used. I should drain my water hose.

I never seen them painting lines on road at night. When I first saw the flashing lights I thought it was a truck in my driveway. I ran out to porch to see what was going on.

Was supposed to have closed on the land today, but never heard a word from the settlement people.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Where is LS??

 

[Buppies]

That is depressing BEF

 

[rswyan]

42F and partly cloudy @ 07:15, heading to a high of around 70F for the day with sunny skies supposedly. Low this morning was 42.1F.

Just finished cleaning up an almost full cup of coffee I spilled on the desk while trying to set the cup down in the dark. Fortunately managed to (mostly) miss the rather expensive keyboard ... got just a couple drops on it, and none of it down below the keys.

Reminder to self: turn on the frickin' light when entering room ...

Looks like I'm going to have to go make a fresh pot (coffee I was drinking was leftover from yesterday)

Fairly productive day yesterday.

Front axle on Kubota topped off.

Got clay and screener moved, after some additional screening done.

Screener area cleaned up.

Saw horses moved over from the house.

More clean up/organizing done in barn.

Barn emptied out, including the last pallet of steel shelving which was on a broken pallet. Managed to pick it up and get it set on an unbroken pallet.

Only thing left besides the trash that needs hauled up to the road is the two tables and what's on them.

Vapor barrier and geo-tex palletized and moved from under the black locust tree which has the top broken off and was just hanging there, waiting to come down and puncture both.

Noticed a couple days ago that something had started gnawing on that Strawberry Crown squash I was going to take a picture of. Was back there yesterday and it was completely gone ... not a trace left ...

Which is fairly impressive, since it was probably around 10 lbs and the size of medium pumpkin. Nothing ... nada ...

Woman picked up chow from a new Japanese restaurant on way home yesterday. Got a Shrimp Teriyaki Bowl with Soba noodles and a California roll with tuna, was outstanding (and reasonably priced I thought)

Ten Day Forecast calling for highs only in the mid-40's starting next Monday, something I'm not terribly happy about ...

Fresh coffee tasting very good ...

Hope everyone has a great Monday ...

 

[check]

The Beast - all ready to go in to the oven last night. Had a lovely thanksgiving dinner last night, with 8 of us gobbling up scads of turkey. (Pun intended.)

Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canucks! And good morning to all!

Went down below freezing again last night, but just barely. Have renters in the rental property, and the cabins do not have heating other than just little portable heaters that we place around. Hope they did OK last night. They’ve been having a fire in the fireplace every night, and it throws a fair amount of heat. They actually went out and bought a cord of firewood!

Have a great day everyone!

 

[rswyan]

Ordered a gadget on Amazon that connects a 1/4” air fitting to garden hose with a ball valve to control it. I couldn’t put it together myself for the $10 that it cost.

Those look very handy, may have to order up ...

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all 43 going up to 65 and sunny.
Weathunderground has a glitch which says the temperature range and then says it is 0 degrees out today.

Busy yesterday - got the side lawns mowed.
Then did the aerating on all the lawns.
Then cut up the fallen maple branch and cleaned up
then took the flail off and put the backhoe in, which takes a long time for the scut as bolts removed/replaced, arms disconnected and folded etc. lots of moving things out of the way.

Buppies - time to give the arm a rest before it gets worse. Hope elbow recovers fast for you.

Welcome back wagtail -

Happy Thanksgiving to you northerners!

Happy Columbus day

Branch now just a memory and an addition to the wood pile

and the weather for today is ??

 

[rswyan]

Many of the plastic pallets I've found out here, RS, have been embrittled by the sun and won't take much abuse from a stray pallet fork. But at three bux apiece, they were worth taking a chance.

These seem to be in pretty good shape, may not have spent too much time in the sun.

They also seem to be pretty heavy duty - company that made them lists an "Xtreme Returnable Pallet" among their offerings. They have some heft to them.

I believe that is what these may be.

Good luck on the leaf peeping.

It's a visual feast I try to enjoy every year.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 69F @ 5:00AM.
Plentiful sunshine. High 91F. Winds light and variable.

Any of you folks use milk crates as foot stools to stand on? Lots of other things, too? I keep a few around, but most have broken spots, so I need replacements. My older ones are much more solid than newer ones, and I'm wondering where to find crates of better quality...

Not sure what I'll get into today, but I've got lots to pick from.

 

[scootr]

Milk crates are great - good for organizing tools as well. Their prices seem good but shipping can be steep. I ordered 3 if you want to wait for my assessment -

Rectangular Milk Crate 24QT

Heavy-Duty Rectangular Milk Crates. Industrial Strength, Made in the USA, Lowest Price Guaranteed.

www.milkcratesdirect.com

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Milk crates are great - good for organizing tools as well. Their prices seem good but shipping can be steep. I ordered 3 if you want to wait for my assessment -

Rectangular Milk Crate 24QT

Heavy-Duty Rectangular Milk Crates. Industrial Strength, Made in the USA, Lowest Price Guaranteed.

www.milkcratesdirect.com

Interesting. I don’t see in the specs how much weight they hold.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I had roast turkey at the diner yesterday. They roast them there, it is so good.

 

[Engineer42]

Brass Winterize Blowout Adapter,1/4" Male Quick Plug x 3/4" Male Garden Hose Threading, With Ball Valve For Blow Out Water Winterize Sprinkler Systems https://a.co/d/08CL08G

 

[check]

Morning all 43 going up to 65 and sunny.
Weathunderground has a glitch which says the temperature range and then says it is 0 degrees out today.

Busy yesterday - got the side lawns mowed.
Then did the aerating on all the lawns.
Then cut up the fallen maple branch and cleaned up
then took the flail off and put the backhoe in, which takes a long time for the scut as bolts removed/replaced, arms disconnected and folded etc. lots of moving things out of the way.

Buppies - time to give the arm a rest before it gets worse. Hope elbow recovers fast for you.

Welcome back wagtail -

Happy Thanksgiving to you northerners!

Happy Columbus day

Branch now just a memory and an addition to the wood pile
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and the weather for today is ??
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Ken, I think they got the scales mixed up! It is -2°C up here right now.

 

[check]

These seem to be in pretty good shape, may not have spent too much time in the sun.

They also seem to be pretty heavy duty - company that made them lists an "Xtreme Returnable Pallet" among their offerings. They have some heft to them.

I believe that is what these may be.

Good luck on the leaf peeping.

It's a visual feast I try to enjoy every year.

Speaking of leaf peeping, here is what I woke up to this morning. The lake water was like glass.

 

[wngsprd]

Any of you folks use milk crates as foot stools to stand on? Lots of other things, too? I keep a few around, but most have broken spots, so I need replacements. My older ones are much more solid than newer ones, and I'm wondering where to find crates of better quality...

We have an old steel milk crate that I put paper/magazines in to take to the recycle bin, so never use it for a step stool. Perfect size for newspaper, broken down food boxes, etc.

 

[m7040]

Good morning 47 going to65 today

Plan today is more cleanup of cuttings of pine trees from yesterday.
The pole saw did a good job in order to reach high and distant branches so after cleaning that up will get access to the trunks
Ordered an ignition module for the MS 291 saw. 20 dollars or so compared to OEM I am sure over 100 bucks.
Also ordered a flywheel puller and oil seal puller to repair the 026 saw
Starting to look into battery chain saw. Makita has a 40 volt system now. Not sure how that compares to the 18 volt system but I will check out some reviews. The good reviews for the XCU04 are very compelling
Hoping the limitation to providing what Ukraine needs to end this war more quickly will be lifted after Putins response to the bridge explosion

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 58˚F sunny, heading to the mid 80s.

Because of the Holiday today, yesterdays farm Fall festival attendance was like Saturdays, very busy. We had to have 2 tractors going continuously on my shift. Since the New Holland is the older, ragged, hard to shift, smaller tractor we traded half shift. My biggest problem was I could not wait the five minutes after loading each stop so the two tractors would be timed synced at the two opposite ends of the farm stops exactly 15 minutes apart. I have a problem with waiting and started to catch up with the other tractor several times, but at least no one was left behind because of over 60 people waiting. Overall a good sunny Sunday afternoon, lots of young happy families and the farm is one place kids do not get bored because of all the activities. Estimated attendance 3 thousand.

Drew, matinance is always a problem on machines donated. At the community Gardens we have stopped accepting used equipment. That reminds me I'm late on the JD tractor maintenance/oil change. If I don't do it they will take it to the golf course maintenance facility and pay dearly for them to do it. But not today, it's a holiday.

Happy Columbus Day USA
Happy Thanksgiving Canada