Recent content by WinterDeere

It doesn't come a bit later, on holiday weeks?

New policy, they will only deliver to front door. I guess their brief marketing push to "give us the passcode to your house so we can leave packages inside" must have back-fired... hard! Trouble is, we have 10 exterior doors on this house, and no two drivers can agree on which is the "front"...

Great TV adaptation of an even better book series. Lou Diamon Phillips was quite a change from the Henry Standing Bear described in the book series, I think I liked the version in the book better, but the rest of the characters were pretty true to the original. The only thing I didn't like...

The chair is interesting, as I lived in a house prior to this one, where very similar things would happen. Never a chair, but other similar things. If there were ever a thread, I could go into details. One problem I had in that house, was retaining house sitters. This was at a time when I...

As an actual EM engineer, and I have seen at least a few of these investigations carried out using E-field probes and Gauss meters, by people who have no clue how those instruments even work. And when did it become assumed fact that a "ghost" is the primary source of electric or magnetic field...

Yeah, whatever gets painted this round will be with HVLP. I'm not beyond using a rattle can for a quick touch-up or for getting paint on a small mod, but as soon as I'm working an area bigger than a square foot or two, it's time to pull out the HVLP rig and set it up. And note there's been no...

Yeah, if I'm painting the whole thing, that's the route I'd be going. At this point, I'm leaning toward doing my mod's (some welding and cutting to move battery boxes from tongue to aft of fenders), sanding and spot-priming those areas, and then hauling the thing down to the local heavy...

Up early this morning, and did a few hours of "work" work, before reviewing my list of home projects and required shopping list. I headed out to the truck with plans to stop at Tractor Supply, Lowes, Walmart, and the beer store, but the truck had other ideas. Cranked over once, then dead...

Huh??? The top speed of my ZTR is right around 11 mph (10.6 mph, IIRC), and I've been mowing 4 acres at that speed every 3 - 7 days, for 15 years. I slow down for driveway crossings and a few tree surface roots, but other than that, it's levers full-forward 100% of the time. The funny thing...

I haul stuff all the time, and I can honestly say I've only lost one thing off any of my vehicles or trailers in 35 years of driving. I strap my stuff down, usually re-check my straps after a few miles, and make sure nothing can fly out. It's really not that difficult. That one time I lose...

That's the challenge... this trailer is OEM'd in gloss black. So if I'm going to switch to satin, it means a full repaint "Feather sanding"? Gloss is either removed, or not removed. This isn't a clear-coat finish.

I'm making some more modifications to my log-hauling trailer, and also replacing the decking. Trailer is a 2016 model, or thereabouts, and has always been stored outside on dirt, under shade of trees. It's actually holding up quite well, only very minor surface rust where the old PT decking...

Good point. I can't imagine any scenario in which a ladder comes off my truck at highway speed, quietly enough for me to not notice it has happened. :oops:

Florida: Not only do they have a lot of gaters, but the targets they're chasing are much more likely to be elderly or children. Florida has the 2nd highest fraction of retired residents in the whole country, just slightly nosed-out by Maine. My mother, who has a waterfront retirement home...

I also used to have trouble getting drowsy while driving when I was a teen, even into my early 20's. Then things reversed by my late 20's, and I was routinely doing straight-thru 15-hour and longer drives, such as Philly to Disneyworld or Michigan... sometimes round-trips with nothing but a...