Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

I got a couple piddly jobs done. Cut up some cardboard for recycling, took apart the pallet cage I used to remove the heavy tractor tire, and got more hummingbird juice mixed and in the feeder, it was empty. And snagglepuss got a nap on me. Life is good.

 

[Mousehog]

I copped a heavy piece of a iron bark branch in the mid section 4 weeks ago. I am on light duties until my ribs heal. It bloody HURT. I am getting better. Duties include laundry, feeding chooks, fighting rooster (arsehole), baking bread and cakes, making pemmican, dishes and filling the house tank with water.

 

[sodamo]

just read that Narcan is soon going to be available OTC for 45 bucks, for two doses.
what every well equipped medicine cabinet should have...
thank goodness this drug works so well

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/30/health/narcan-over-the-counter/index.html

I don't know anyone that abuses hard drugs. If I did, I might buy this.
I do wonder about administering it without a medical license or knowledge of other medical realities.

Big news story here yesterday where the free vending machines have been placed outside the jails. Free of course. Oahu recently placed a law requiring all bars to keep on hand.

Call me jaded, but I feel about 99.9% of over dose of illegal drugs are not accidental.
Did they accidentally take too much? Maybe
Did they accidentally take a tainted drug? Maybe
Did they accidentally take an illegal substance? Not likely.

 

[Thomas]

and got more hummingbird juice mixed and in the feeder,

Hummingbird juice like Kool Aid to Boo,and those glass containers are $$'s

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Hummingbird juice like Kool Aid to Boo,and those glass containers are $$'s

Mine is plastic. We now have more hummingbirds since putting it up.

Got my replacement geothermal pump, need to clean the rust from the socket it goes in.

left the water in the other tank with a bad pump.

 

[m7040]

Fentanyl synthetic opioid can kill you just by breathing it and it is used to mix into illegal drugs to make it more potent. Causing many deaths. A little too much you are dead. Drug dealers will used it to make more money. China manufacture it to hurt the US. Narcan nose spray can revive them if used early enough
Someone probably has a link for this

 

[sodamo]

Doggie seats, sounds like a good project KJC

 

[sodamo]

Are you worried about tornados just when you're out on the road, Drew, or at home, too?

If just out on the road, you could just get in the motor home and drive away from the storm, couldn't you?

FWIW, I made up some stakes from 3/4" diameter hot rolled steel and drove them into the ground at a 45° angle using a Harbor Freight jack hammer. Four stakes, two feet long, two pairs. One pair at the front and rear of the office trailer here. Then I ran 1/2" steel cable up over the frame rails of the trailer between each pair of stakes. There's a turnbuckle in the middle of each cable so I can put tension on the anchors. The trailer wasn't moved at all during last December's wind storm that took off the porch cover, which was only a few feet from it.

Drive away would be my choice.

 

[sodamo]

Got armrest installed. No pool noodles available this time of year in my area. So I used 1” pipe insulation. Making armrest extend to back post gives someone getting into back something to grab onto. Seat bottom lifts up for storage. Milk crates fit under with 1 1/2” spacer I put under legs. I will not be leaving seat cushions in most of the time. Easy to put them in and out when needed. Whole seat can be removed by removing four 1/4” hitch pins.
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Nice job Ron
Can you still dump the bed?

 

[Popgadget]

Here's a photo of the two types of anchors that RAM uses in the van. both use nut plates welded to underneath the sheetmetal for anchors.
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I'm trying to mount a pair of the larger ones where I don't have access to the back side of the hole, so I'm trying to distribute the load over more holes using a steel plate on the outside of the sheet metal bulkhead. I'll try go post some photos of what I've got later today, OK?

How about tapping a thicker steel plate to accept the tie down and welding it in place, or perhaps use rib nuts if they will clear the obstruction above the fuel tank.