sseelhoff
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Thank you for the laugh. That was pretty good.
Good morning!!!!
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Thank you for the laugh. That was pretty good.
sodamo
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71F and .07 inches rain last 24 hours
Looks like a day to just puter around
Be safe
Have a great day
David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet
Looks like a day to just puter around
Be safe
Have a great day
David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet
sodamo
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Excellent advice Roy. It may also be best regarding yesterday's proceedings. David, never under estimate the wrath of a woman. Do NOT take comfort in thinking she will do what is best for the kids, she will do what's best for them from HER short term perspective. If you want, PM me and I can explain in detail. Best of luck.
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rswyan
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72 degrees and sunny @ 12:30 ... headed up to a high of 80.
Having my first cup of the day.
Dropped the bucket at the shed before removing loader yesterday. Worked for maybe about 45 minutes or so with the angle grinder on cutting the brackets off ... doesn't seem like it will be too bad ... but then they're not off there yet.
Wife cut the lower half of the front lawn ... blew a bunch of the grass onto the driveway (which is crusher run) ... so I sez: "Why in the world would you do that ?"
Her reply: "I don't know ..."
Yeah, me neither ... :confused2:
Finished assembling the pipe jig, and filed away more manuals and equipment literature ... just a little left to do on that. Ordered another 112 drawer dividers for the small parts storage cabinets. Got some for the larger drawers this time around.
Ordered a 1/2" air line, fittings, and quick coupler from McMaster-Carr, to connect the air compressor to the fixed piping ... would have preferred a 3/4" connection, since the copper line I'm plumbing into is 3/4" ... but the outlet fitting on the compressor is only 1/2" NPT ... and it's a big honkin' adapter fitting (1 1/4" NPT ---> 1/2" NPT) and I didn't want to screw with trying to take that out of the tank to replace it. Besides, the cost on a female 3/4" quick coupler was kinda pricey ($27+) and 1/2" was half the cost.
Also ordered the correct hold-down clamp for the bandsaw ... and that whole deal shows why McMaster-Carr is such a great company to deal with. While they are pricey on some things, their customer service is just outstanding.
I originally planned to pickup this order as a Will-Call in Aurora ... but the air hose was in stock at the Chicago warehouse. So the CS rep offered to ship that directly to me at home (with delivery on Monday) and I could Will-Call the rest of the order in Aurora. So I asked what would be the cost to just ship the entire order here to the house ... she says around $8 ...
For that price, it just isn't worth me spending an hour and half of my time driving 30 miles to go get it, to say nothing of the fuel cost. Then she asked "Ok, what was the item that you wanted to return ?" (I had explained to her initially that I had one item that I had mistakenly ordered that was wrong - ie. the hold-down clamp for the bandsaw)
So I told her what it was, and she located it on my previous order and said "How about if I just go ahead and credit your account ... and you can keep the (wrong) clamp ..."
My reaction was "Wow ... really ? ... Sure ... and thanks ..."
Apparently not worth their time and effort to get an $8 part back and restock it.
Went thru last night and forced myself to finish cleaning the plastic storage cabinet that is used to store chemicals and parts (filters, etc) and put away all the cans and jugs of stuff that lives in there. This is a cheap Black and Decker all-plastic cabinet that is about 6' tall and a couple of feet wide. The shelves are not capable of supporting much weight at all without bowing ... so I cut some small angle that originally came from the metal shipping frame that my Farm Pro/Jinma chipper came in and used that to reinforce the shelves. Seems to have mostly solved that problem ... and it is nice to get all the jugs and cans that were lying around and sitting on the floor put away.
Dug into a crate of rusty tools that were sitting by the bench grinder to be wire wheeled and wiped them off ... not sure what all of this stuff is - some of it was my Grandfathers ... think there might be some masonry hand drills and splitting wedges for rock. At least one of the tools was engraved with the words "Blue Line" ...
There's one nice reamer in there ... unfortunately it's not a 1" one ... which would have been handy for sizing and cleaning up mounts for pins.
Wire wheeled one set of pliers and cleaned them up, since the wife is always complaining that she can never find a set when she needs one.
Will probably have to run over the lawn today ... it's lookin' pretty clumpy where the wife cut it ... probably about 5 days late on that ... it may need picked up ... and the rain is heading in tonight or tomorrow.
Hope everyone has a productive day (or not, if you so choose
)
Having my first cup of the day.
Dropped the bucket at the shed before removing loader yesterday. Worked for maybe about 45 minutes or so with the angle grinder on cutting the brackets off ... doesn't seem like it will be too bad ... but then they're not off there yet.
Wife cut the lower half of the front lawn ... blew a bunch of the grass onto the driveway (which is crusher run) ... so I sez: "Why in the world would you do that ?"
Her reply: "I don't know ..."
Yeah, me neither ... :confused2:
Finished assembling the pipe jig, and filed away more manuals and equipment literature ... just a little left to do on that. Ordered another 112 drawer dividers for the small parts storage cabinets. Got some for the larger drawers this time around.
Ordered a 1/2" air line, fittings, and quick coupler from McMaster-Carr, to connect the air compressor to the fixed piping ... would have preferred a 3/4" connection, since the copper line I'm plumbing into is 3/4" ... but the outlet fitting on the compressor is only 1/2" NPT ... and it's a big honkin' adapter fitting (1 1/4" NPT ---> 1/2" NPT) and I didn't want to screw with trying to take that out of the tank to replace it. Besides, the cost on a female 3/4" quick coupler was kinda pricey ($27+) and 1/2" was half the cost.
Also ordered the correct hold-down clamp for the bandsaw ... and that whole deal shows why McMaster-Carr is such a great company to deal with. While they are pricey on some things, their customer service is just outstanding.
I originally planned to pickup this order as a Will-Call in Aurora ... but the air hose was in stock at the Chicago warehouse. So the CS rep offered to ship that directly to me at home (with delivery on Monday) and I could Will-Call the rest of the order in Aurora. So I asked what would be the cost to just ship the entire order here to the house ... she says around $8 ...
For that price, it just isn't worth me spending an hour and half of my time driving 30 miles to go get it, to say nothing of the fuel cost. Then she asked "Ok, what was the item that you wanted to return ?" (I had explained to her initially that I had one item that I had mistakenly ordered that was wrong - ie. the hold-down clamp for the bandsaw)
So I told her what it was, and she located it on my previous order and said "How about if I just go ahead and credit your account ... and you can keep the (wrong) clamp ..."
My reaction was "Wow ... really ? ... Sure ... and thanks ..."
Apparently not worth their time and effort to get an $8 part back and restock it.
Went thru last night and forced myself to finish cleaning the plastic storage cabinet that is used to store chemicals and parts (filters, etc) and put away all the cans and jugs of stuff that lives in there. This is a cheap Black and Decker all-plastic cabinet that is about 6' tall and a couple of feet wide. The shelves are not capable of supporting much weight at all without bowing ... so I cut some small angle that originally came from the metal shipping frame that my Farm Pro/Jinma chipper came in and used that to reinforce the shelves. Seems to have mostly solved that problem ... and it is nice to get all the jugs and cans that were lying around and sitting on the floor put away.
Dug into a crate of rusty tools that were sitting by the bench grinder to be wire wheeled and wiped them off ... not sure what all of this stuff is - some of it was my Grandfathers ... think there might be some masonry hand drills and splitting wedges for rock. At least one of the tools was engraved with the words "Blue Line" ...
There's one nice reamer in there ... unfortunately it's not a 1" one ... which would have been handy for sizing and cleaning up mounts for pins.
Wire wheeled one set of pliers and cleaned them up, since the wife is always complaining that she can never find a set when she needs one.
Will probably have to run over the lawn today ... it's lookin' pretty clumpy where the wife cut it ... probably about 5 days late on that ... it may need picked up ... and the rain is heading in tonight or tomorrow.
Hope everyone has a productive day (or not, if you so choose
)
Thomas
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66F over cast didn't reach 70F..early taste of autumn in air.
Check out equipment auction..all kinds off goods new and old,large turn out to boot...didn't buy anything and wife very please.
Check out equipment auction..all kinds off goods new and old,large turn out to boot...didn't buy anything and wife very please.
RoyJackson
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Just as an FYI, Greenwood's in Randolph has been sold and they're auctioning off all the used equipment. I believe this will be Friday, 22 August. Greenwood's is a New Holland/Polaris/Woods Equipment dealer.
OP
300UGUY
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I went to the MMOGTA show today - (That's the Mid Michigan old gas tractor association). Great time, and the wife and I had lunch with a couple we know from YTMAG, the antique tractor site. I went to the vendor area, and managed to buy only a air wand, something I've wanted for awhile. I really didn't need anything. Lots of neat tractor's and equipment.
daugen
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good Sunday morning all. Another Fall like day here, in August.
if you never hear from me again, it is because I will be locked up in the county jail for five years for theft....
headed to my boat this morning, again, because yesterday some considerate person at the storage locker parked right in front of it, and was
glacial in speed of getting stuff out of their locker.
so, on a quiet Sunday morning, equipped with Kroil penetrant, my portable drill and a collection of hardened bits, I am going to get that clamp off my
tire if it, well not kills me, but some good citizen might drop a dime on me while I'm drilling away. But officer...
I've gotten through 64 years without getting a mug shot taken of me, going to try a little longer....
but if they arrest me, I'll ask you all to vouch for me.
the man is nuts!
what a gasbag!
his posts are so long they are a crime!
keep him locked up!
sigh. :dance1:
if you never hear from me again, it is because I will be locked up in the county jail for five years for theft....
headed to my boat this morning, again, because yesterday some considerate person at the storage locker parked right in front of it, and was
glacial in speed of getting stuff out of their locker.
so, on a quiet Sunday morning, equipped with Kroil penetrant, my portable drill and a collection of hardened bits, I am going to get that clamp off my
tire if it, well not kills me, but some good citizen might drop a dime on me while I'm drilling away. But officer...
I've gotten through 64 years without getting a mug shot taken of me, going to try a little longer....
but if they arrest me, I'll ask you all to vouch for me.
the man is nuts!
what a gasbag!
his posts are so long they are a crime!
keep him locked up!
sigh. :dance1:
ronjhall
Super Star Member
Need to get coffee started brewing. 63ｰ with cloudy skies. Heading to 77ｰ with a mix of sun and clouds. Need to change reverse osmosis filters today. I always get wet doing this project. Maybe I should remount it so it's not overhead. Then some NASCAR on TV.
Good Morning All.
Maybe I should remount it so it's not overhead. Then some NASCAR on TV.Good Morning All.
WayneB
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Sunday morning coming down! Not raining but cloudy 53 degrees.
This is the final day the guy has to return the boat I sold him last week.
My wife couldn't believe I told him if he didn't like it he could return it.
Now that I think about it I can't believe I said it either.
Heading home sometime today and the wife will stay here next week with her lady friends.
I will go home and mow the lawn, life is so fair.
This is the final day the guy has to return the boat I sold him last week.
My wife couldn't believe I told him if he didn't like it he could return it.
Now that I think about it I can't believe I said it either.
Heading home sometime today and the wife will stay here next week with her lady friends.
I will go home and mow the lawn, life is so fair.