Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[Yogi05]

There will be a quiz tomorrow.
I expect each and every one of you to review the entire thread.

You better be serious. I just spent 4 hours reading the thread.

 

[Alan46]

You better be serious. I just spent 4 hours reading the thread.

I gave up after less then 90 seconds

 

[Jstpssng]

You better be serious. I just spent 4 hours reading the thread.

I quickly decided that I was going to fail!

 

[lilranch2001]

Hell, it took me 40 minutes to read just 5030’s long winded post!

 

[5030]

I have a bad habit of posting long winded posts but it's still fun to relate what I did in my past before retirement life and all the great people I met and had relationships with. Go to meet al lot of diverse people, some good and some not so good but that is what life is all about.

 

[5030]

Hell, it took me 40 minutes to read just 5030’s long winded post!

I'm sorry and explained that in the the previous post and I'm having some time on my hands today and tomorrow. Just had another infusion and I'm wearing an infusion pump that is giving me the dreaded 5FU which causes me to loose my balance and I don't want to fall down and bust something. I get a week and a half off and then do it again for how long I don't know yet.

According to my Doctor at the Cleveland Clinic, at least until the 2 'lesions' I have in my liver, which cause me no discomfort at all are reduced to 4mm or 4CM, not sure which and then I'm going to get a very cutting edge technology, non invasive surgery via laser but he is waiting for FDA approval and testing, so I wait as well. Trinity places two stents in my liver to open up my bile duct because I was starting to look 'oriental'. That is a painless surgery as well. They went down my mouth (I have a large mouth I guess) and into my liver and put in 2 stents. Of course I was asleep so I felt nothing and the surgeon and I were talking prior to it (I talk to everyone. I want to know exactly what they are going to do to me anyway). Had him both times for both stent insertions. Piece of cake compared to what I've been through over the last 5 years, but I'm still here minus some parts however and I still do what I have always done, just a bit slower but at 74, I expect that and deal with it just fine. Some things like getting dressed can be a chore but my wife helps me out constantly and if it wasn't for her, I would not be here posting this. Why I have 3 M9's. Hooking up heavy hay tools like bailers and mowers and shredders I cannot do alone now so I leave some implements hooked up all the time except during winter storage (now) and then they all get serviced and put in the barn to sleep all winter along with the tractors. I keep one up front just in case I have to plow us out. We live 2 miles off the pavement on a dirt sometimes graveled and sprayed with CACL road to keep the dust down. Only thing CACL is good for in my opinion.

Just ordered a new Amanda commercial plasma cutting table, complete with all the drivers and computer and a new 85 amp commercial plasma cutter designed just for the table. It has a water cooled torch and is designed for continuous cutting as in no duty cycle. It will clean cut 3/4" at 12 IPM in hot rolled steel sheet and 18 IPM in light gage stainless with a 1.5" sever cut. Being custom built and I won't get it until spring and I already have 2 jobs for it and one includes TIG welding. I'm certified TIG on exotic alloys. Do a ton of TIG welding as it is and lots of spray arc MIG as well on steel. Had an excellent teacher and he's a good friend as well. He owns and operates a company that does only nuclear refits and 99% of that is in nuclear grade stainless. Another closet millionaire that you'd never know unless he told you. Lives in a normal house up town, drives a Chevy sedan and is very low key. Of course he owns a lot of land around here and collects brit motorcycles like I do, but he has a lot more than I have, I only have 3, but I have a Bristol condition 67 Norton high pipe 750 scrambler with an oil in frame (Metisse) with alloy fenders and double shoe racing front brake on Akront alloy rims that he's lusting for and I won't sell. Has under 2K original miles on it, excuse me, kilometers. It's a pure Brit not Americanized bike I bought from Berliner Motors in New Jersey many years ago. Just a show queen now and it always wins first place along with my Centennial 790 Triumph Bonneville with a custom built sidecar on it. Took me 4 years and gobs of money for that one to build and I breathed heavily on the engine too. Custom ground cams, sodium filled exhaust valves, milled head, flat slide Mikuni racing carbs, custom built stainless exhaust all TIG welded (by me) and straight but stock looking dummy mufflers. Head pipes are Jet Hot coated too, I don't like blue tint exhaust pipes. Frigging insanely loud too. Brother in law has a Hinda VTX and sans sidecar (it's quick detachable), I can wipe his butt in a drag and beat him for top end too, which always makes him mad. Told him I can build him one for about 10 grand not including the bike if he can even find one that is, but none of mine are for sale anyway. They sit in the front shop area all covered and I take the covers off and they remind me of my earlier days. Nice reminders.

 

[JohnDeereJoey]

I suppose you can’t expect everybody to read every post or remember every post

Why not? There are only a little more that 19,000!

 

[WinterDeere]

I have a bad habit of posting long winded posts but it's still fun to relate what I did in my past before retirement life and all the great people I met and had relationships with. Go to meet al lot of diverse people, some good and some not so good but that is what life is all about.

I enjoyed the story of older times. I'm a sucker for anyone fondly remembering past jobs and past machines, especially if they can dig up some old photos to round it out.

 

[ning]

You better be serious. I just spent 4 hours reading the thread.

that's 1⅓ seconds per post on the average - I've heard of speed reading but that's ridiculous! your finger must be seized up from scrolling

 

[5030]

I enjoyed the story of older times. I'm a sucker for anyone fondly remembering past jobs and past machines, especially if they can dig up some old photos to round it out.

Sorry about some of the typo's as well. The rat poison effects my fingers as well. Heck, I cannot even print cursive anymore which pizzes me off to no end as I used to print everything in the shop and no signing my name either. Now I just scribble down something unreadable and when I renewed my DL, told the examiner my issue and she said just put an 'X' on the sig line, so I did. Getting old and having this cancer crap is a PITA in many ways. Living is nice however.