Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

Are you forced to use ethanol contaminated gasoline in HI? If so, you might try treating with Stabil Marine 360. I add to gas cans before going to fill them. It's eliminated all my gasoline problems.

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Thanks
I pay the extra few cents and run ethanol free in everything. Last I checked with the Tundra I got better mileage.

 

[riptides]

Ugh, third tee-shirt and I lost count on the Gatorade bottles littering the fence line in the front. And when the sun pops out, it burns. Ouch!!

Another shirt, more water and got to get it finished.

Stay hydrated, my friends!

 

[farmer2009]

65 this morning and currently 85. Humidity a lot lower today than the last few. Half inch of rain last night. We needed it.

Running errands today. Then back to work on a fencing project so I can move cows.

 

[toppop52]

Hot and sticky as a honeybun in a hot car! Took an old boat from the woods to the dump, never knew they would accept them gas tank and all.
Been rearranging stuff all day, cleaned up around the burnt building, crew coming to take it away this week, I hope. Then cut the burnt trees and clear them an put the new building up. Tired of looking at this mess!

 

[txdon]

Good afternoon. 102, it burns outside. We need an eclipse to cool down. A pic of us putting up tents for next weeks fish fry. This is tent 2 of 4. We start when the sun is setting.

 

[daugen]

Don, your firemen have a knack of having that event on the world's hottest day.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
in expectation of a Ripley's Believe It or Not award,
for:
World's Ugliest Weld
I hereby present to you my first weld at 7am.
First time I had used that rod...sucker drips but I got the hang of it. Sort of...
Did everything three or four times, and by noon it was presentable. Ridiculous amount of time to weld one piece
but this was my training time too. Gosh did I grind and grind and grind and get unbelievably filthy. Shower felt wonderful.

guys in welding forum following this, having fun with me and being very helpful. Not too often a noob is willing to embarrass himself...
Some of the welds are laughable. I missed the whole crack once. Looked like a drunken sailor was doing it. Then I got positioned better, smaller length rod
and it all started to feel like a tool. My penetration was I'm sure poor, but even new this deck wasn't full length welded, now it is. With a few holidays...but it's
plenty strong. It's a collector piece anyway.

This is what the primer is for that says it fills in imperfections. Oh yeah.

114 heat index, a/c in office upstairs can't keep up, at least it's at 76.

 

[rswyan]

85F @ 16:00, high was 86F. Strong chance of thunderstorms tomorrow ... sure hope we get some ... we got almost completely missed with what came through yesterday. Just north and south of us got hammered and we barely got enough to settle the dust.

Day before yesterday I went out spraying and got overheated. Came in the middle of the afternoon to cool off and rehydrate ... ended up being done for the day.

Yesterday I decided to work on some CAD/technical drawings I told a friend I'd do for him. That involved installing the program again, since my install of the current version got et when the drive it was on decided to go **** up.

Reinstalling it is a bit of a PITA ... since it requires an installer program that resides on a floppy disk (which none of the more recent machines have) Then I couldn't find the floppy for the most recent version of the program ... ... but I was able to locate the floppy for an slightly earlier version.

So I fired up an old machine (PowerMac 9600/350) and used the floppy drive on that to create an image file of the install floppy ... and then hooked up a CD burner to it and burned the image file onto a CD.

Thankfully that worked and I was able to install the program onto a somewhat newer machine (PowerMac G4/450 Dual)

Just finished the three drawings, turned them into PDF's, and sent them along via the email. Done well before the "requested by" date even ...

Didn't quite finish the entire tank gly off so I'm probably going to go see if I can find a couple of spots I can get rid of it on and then drop the sprayer and clean it out and then mebbe stick the loader on and start working on the SSQA repair.

 

[sodamo]

Don, your firemen have a knack of having that event on the world's hottest day.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
in expectation of a Ripley's Believe It or Not award,
for:
World's Ugliest Weld
I hereby present to you my first weld at 7am.
First time I had used that rod...sucker drips but I got the hang of it. Sort of...
Did everything three or four times, and by noon it was presentable. Ridiculous amount of time to weld one piece
but this was my training time too. Gosh did I grind and grind and grind and get unbelievably filthy. Shower felt wonderful.

guys in welding forum following this, having fun with me and being very helpful. Not too often a noob is willing to embarrass himself...
Some of the welds are laughable. I missed the whole crack once. Looked like a drunken sailor was doing it. Then I got positioned better, smaller length rod
and it all started to feel like a tool. My penetration was I'm sure poor, but even new this deck wasn't full length welded, now it is. With a few holidays...but it's
plenty strong. It's a collector piece anyway.

This is what the primer is for that says it fills in imperfections. Oh yeah.

114 heat index, a/c in office upstairs can't keep up, at least it's at 76.

Look better than mine

 

[lostcreekranch]

Thanks
I pay the extra few cents and run ethanol free in everything. Last I checked with the Tundra I got better mileage.

You're lucky, we have no real access to ethanol free gas here.

 

[ronjhall]

Another very productive day. Grand kids and I got the 2 fence lines cleaned and replaced 12 t-post and removed 500' of rusted out fence. Replaced two tongue and groove boards on rear of barn. Removed couple old 8' florescent fixtures. I am tired. The kids are too. I can rest tomorrow.
I did not get any tractor or golf cart seat time. Never thought I would let someone else do the driving.