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   / Good morning!!!! #25,791  
2014-10-22, 0329

45 right now...high of 50 and 60% chance of rain today...
 
   / Good morning!!!! #25,792  
48F with a misting rain @ 04:00 ...

Got hungry and came down for a snack.

Been doing some clean up in the shop while cutting steel and gathering up the pieces/parts for the next quick little project before I get back to the grapple:

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It's going to be a concrete-filled ballast block for the 3PH. Falls into the "I-should-have-done-this-ages-ago" category of things ...

I was going to make it 24" (wide) x 18" (long/deep) x 30" (high) ... which would yielded a weight of around 1125 - 1150 lbs or so ... but I decided that it would be handy to have some tool/chain storage built in ... so I'm going with 26" (wide) x 24" (long/deep) x 24" (tall) to accommodate 3 pieces of 5" x 5" vinyl fence post across the back that will be used for the chain/tool storage. Two of the pieces are 37" inches long - so they'll stick up 14" above the block and the third is 24" which will fit flush ... although I might leave it sticking up an inch or so ... so I can cap it.

Given the amount of concrete the vinyl fence post will displace, it's still around 7.6 cu ft of 'crete (1150 lbs) ... not counting any chains or tools that might end up being loaded.

The B2910's lift capacity is 1300 lbs @ 24" (I assume that is 24" behind the lower lift pins) so I think that I ought to be good. Should take around thirteen 80 lb bags of 'crete ... which I ain't looking forward to mixing at all ...

It will have a hitch receiver on the backside for towing the Country Mfg. dump cart.
 
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   / Good morning!!!! #25,793  
44F light mist now mid 50's for high,heavy rains arriving later tonight.
Well its hump day w/3days of wet weather ahead,leaves piling up ..except oaks leaves :( ..should good clean up this weekend if the weather holds true.

Enjoy the day all.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #25,794  
49 and breezy maybe a chance of a stray shower high of 58. Next ten days to two weeks dry for sure
 
   / Good morning!!!! #25,795  
Back to drinking morning coffee. :licking: 42° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 54° with lots of sunshine this afternoon. Yesterdays rain and wind made a lot of leaves drop and get blown into field on east side of house. Some still stayed around buildings. That will keep me busy cleaning up the trapped leaves today.
Good Morning All.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #25,796  
48 degrees and I don’t think it will hit 50 today! Rain
 
   / Good morning!!!! #25,797  
51 rainy and headed to 59 windy and rainy. Where did this come from? Winds tomorrow up to 28mph should dry things out (and blow everything away).

I guess it is indoor chores today. Plus wife comes home from visiting sick dad (much better now) near you, Drew.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #25,798  
good morning all. Just put a golf shirt on and checked the weather, brrr, only going up to 61 today with a few showers possible later, then dry thereafter.

off to shop for a small hot tub this morning, then drive over to Greenville this afternoon for first appt with local pain doc. Hope he has something up his sleeve other than cortisone steroid injections. I've had too many already. But they do work for awhile.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #25,799  
Good morning! 60˚ heading to 80˚ mostly sunny. Another mowing day. I could mow for about 3 weeks but I think after today Ill call it quits and take the mower off off for another year and put the tractor to bed in the shed tonight. I like seeing the mowed open fields but I also like seeing natural wild areas.

I also need to make a gate run to Tractor Supply and replace a damaged 4'x8' with a better fitting 5'X6' garden gate. I saw a kennel gate that would work.

I was wondering why my insurance co. no longer uses CVS for drugs. I just saw on the news that they increased their prescriptions prices to make up for lost revenue for no longer selling cigarettes.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #25,800  
43 this morning and headed to 63 today. Next day with rain forecast is Tuesday.
Power is back up. Nice new 400 amp service. Guys told me they would see me in another 10-15 years. As that is all they seem to be getting out of it with the way we run it. Nice. Mine was 15 years old.
After they left went back to bush hogging. Well clipping the tops out of everything. Trying to get it ready for winter. Mowing off Johnson Grass as it's had a frost already.then changed the oil real quick in the tractor. More of the same today till time for a doctors appointment. We'll minus the oil change.

Does anyone have a Rigid table saw? Just bought one and the blade will not square up. Lucky neighbor is a service center for them. So he came out last night to look at it and is going to call Rigid today.
 

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