Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

75F and cloudy/windy @ 13:30. Cool day by the looks of it, have already hit the predicted high.

Tomorrow even cooler ... high of only 67F. Saturday is next chance of rain (60%)

Latest NHC prediction for Harvey's path appears to show a good possibility of it going southeast of us which would be good IMO.

 

[rswyan]

very cool gizmo RS.

Thanks ... credit goes to someone here on TBN who built one pretty similar IIRC.

Do you have a back up alarm too?

Just me going "beep ... beep" ...

Can you rattle them for extra noise?

That would be the castanet upgrade/modification ... not even on the drawing board at this point ...

 

[rswyan]

From the looks of things, RS, you could fill those cans with bricks and that bracket wouldn't even break a sweat, let alone a weld.

I dunno :confused3: ... the cross tube is the weak point ... it's only 1/8" wall ...

Just don't forget your ballast out back!:laughing:

I won't ... hopefully it will never be all that heavy ... the recycles tend to be pretty light and with only the two of us, we could probably go 2 weeks or more before we'd need to empty the actual trash can, but I try to get it out there every week ... well, just cause ...

 

[rswyan]

Do you think you have enough power for carrying 2 trash cans?

Depends on what's in 'em ...

But mostly yeah, I think I've got it covered ... :laughing:

I always feel that I'm doing severe overkill when I use my M4700 to carry the trash a mere 100 yds to my roadside trash pickup site.

Our distance here is a little longer ... probably 800 - 1000 feet.

It's gonna be real nice in the winter ... will beat the heck out of struggling to load them in van and haul them up to the pickup point.

 

[rswyan]

Irv,

Good to see ya ... don't be a stranger.

BTW - you were entirely correct on the little cat ... she's pretty much totally out of control and shows absolutely no signs of mellowing with age.

 

[daugen]

Toppop I waved at you as you went by. You may have a wet weekend out there.

Did a lot of welding and really dirty rusty grinding and actually got a lot done. Most of welding is now done on deck. What is left is thick metal
to thick metal, saved the best for last. Maybe I'll finally be able to lay down a bead I won't have to grind off in embarrassment.
Yukky scrape job on the bottom, then dumped an entire can of rustfix on it, after doing some welding from underneath. Caught some old clumped grass on fire,
pretty similar to peat, so yeah it will burn. It just fell in the dirt below. Not a very heavy duty deck though the metal I added probably added a few pounds to it.
At least a pound of welding rod...:ashamed:

 

[txdon]

Grand opening, Ribnon cutting day, pic in the local Lagrange paper. What a heartbreaker.

 

[txdon]

The brick you see in the lower part of the pic is the front wall of the store. The Colorado river took it out.

My wife got a text from one of her friends and ex co-worker. She needed help with her flooded store. When we got there we were shocked.
She had quite her job to open up her own business selling scrubs and local school uniforms. Today was suppose to be her grand opening. Her husband is a Texas Peace Officer and she has not seen him in a week - he had been sent to Houston and has been rescuing people. She was told the river would rise to a record high and to expect 2 feet of water in her shop. She took her children to a relatives house and got all her inventory up 4 feet. The water rose 7 feet. She lost all her inventory. She had just spent the last 4 weeks unpacking pricing and organizing her store for the big opening.
We spent the day helping her get all her stuff out of the building and to her property. Today she didn't know if she had enough energy to start all over again. I'm betting she will after a little rest.

Another guy from Austin, Mike, was there and helped us. He knew of the flooding in Lagrange and drove there and asked a police officer where are the volunteers meeting he was there to help. The police officer said he did not know. He looked over at the scrub shop and saw people working and joined in. We had everything loaded in two trailers and 3 trucks and finished in 5 hours. The racks of clothes in the front of the store and the back of the store totaled about 5,000 pieces.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Wow,

Saw that disaster relief just sent a truck of supplies to LaGrange.

 

[txdon]

Aerial view Monday.