Good Morning!!!! 50F @ 8:00AM. Sunny. High 62F. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph.
Wind woke me early this morning, rattling the porch roof and making the drains gurgle in the bathroom. Saw gusts over 30MPH from the weather station. You're right, Buppies, that's no fun. I'll have to take a walk around later to find out what caused the big bang I heard.
Two nice cars, Phil, but otherwise that sure is an empty garage!
Where do you put all the rest of your stuff?:laughing:
Neat wing action on that nuthatch, Ron. Yeah, I wondered about anaphylactic shock, too.
Nice photos, Rick. I bet Ford's PR department would like copies...
Sounds like a white Christmas for you, Bill, and some work for your plow.
That saw looks brand new, Ted.:thumbsup: My Chinese junker looks like a knockoff of it. Hope your rip fence is a LOT better than the one on mine...
I kind of screwed myself when I regraded the access ramp to the back porch last year. I didn't leave enough room for getting to the drop down ramp on the 24' box trailer, and had a lot of trouble backing the side-by-side Kubota up that ramp to hitch up the splitter. Then both tires were flat on the splitter, but the tires were stiff enough to still roll. One reseated easily; I had to jack up the other side to get the weight off of it before it would reseat. But it started on the third pull, ran fine, and changing the oil and cleaning the air filter was a breeze.
Neighbor brought over three 1" thick steel plates that needed 1" holes in 'em, but his print didn't show exactly where. So he took off again to mark 'em, and in the mean time I had lunch and started an oil change on the F250. Got it warmed up, but not enough, and the flow through the EZDrain was miserable. Poked a hole in the filter and let it drain, too, then got it changed after the neighbor came back with his plates. He spotted the double battery charger from the new Makita saw on the workbench and asked if I would like some old Makita tools he had. He'd been pestering me about needing to pay me for the machining I've been doing for him, which I really don't need, and said sure, I'll take what you've got and then you don't have to feel like you owe me anything. When I asked why he quit using Makitas, he said the batteries were too expensive and he was going through several a year, and that the batteries and the tools themselves were much less expensive from Ryobi. I set the milling machine up to auto feed the holes and had 'em done in a half hour, during which I also cut up more steel tube for the pallet project. The neighbor came back with a box full of Makitas, drill, impact driver, circular saw, and a pair of demolition saws. All were in pretty rough shape, but they all work. None of the saws would take my new batteries, but after I ground off a plastic tab in their mounts, they seemed to work fine. And after I got the grime and over spray off the tools, and wire brushed away some rust, they came out looking pretty nice. I'm thinking, in the spirit of the season, of passing along one of the demo saws and the drill and impact driver to a young guy that's just starting out, or maybe a fire survivor that lost all theirs. We'll see.
By that time, the oil was still draining and it was dark out, so I closed up the garage and called it a day. So job 1 this morning is to refill the oil, after that it's off to town for a grocery run and another bottle of argon/CO2 for the MIG welder.
Happy Hump Day, folks!
