Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

TGIF, even if I am retired...
rains to the South headed this way.
All the mowing is done, so this weekend I hit the books, er the boxes. What's really neat is my neighbor knows someone packing to move, so the empties go out of my home into theirs. Good recycling for sure.

agreed with the hvac guy today to put a new gaspack unit in my garage; one of two in the house. The a/c part had been updated four years ago, so I left the a/c coil part, got a new blower, gas furnace and a complete new housing so the whole thing, which is ratty and rusty now, will look new. And I can hear the blower bearing whining on gaspack number two.. Ahh the joys of a money pit...glad I budgeted for it. And I'll only have to do this once. All Trane equipment, putting a 95% gas burner back in. The prior owner already did all three Trane a/c compressors, so that was a big help. Nice these things are modular and you can change out parts of them.

Friday night, date night. Who's going to get lucky tonight?
have a nice weekend.

 

[Buppies]

Me every nite I'm lucky to have a good woman who puts up with me and my nonsense

 

[farmer2009]

Got up to a whopping 65. Big change in last week.
It's been one of those days. Lost power at chicken barns turns out the meter box melted. Power company then proceeds to tell me as they fix it their feed isn't large enough for my pull. Guess I will be doing an upgrade when birds leave.

 

[rswyan]

55F and mostly cloudy @ 04:00 ... supposed to be rain in the AM followed by sun/clouds mix in the afternoon with a high of 61 ...

Probably hafta burn a little more of that scrap plywood in the stove in the shed to take the chill off ... lol ...

Got all the 1/4" x 2" bar, 1/4" x 6" bar, all the 1 1/2" and 2" pipe, and the two pieces of 3" x 2" rectangular tube cut for the grapple yesterday afternoon. Still have to cut the 3" x 1/2" bar for the arms, 1" D.O.M tube for the pin mounts, and the 1" solid rod for the pins themselves. Also have to cut some odd shaped pieces (mounts for the SSQA plate) out of 1/4" plate ... but I can't do that until I get the sawhorses finished and the plasma cutter working again (hopefully)

Looks like I need another 20' of 1/4" x 2" bar though ... steel supplier is open until noon today ... so I might run down there in a bit - if I can figure out whether I need anything else ... might be a little short on 3" x 1/2" ... need to check that.

Uncle Buck stopped by yesterday and we went over which steel from the dump cart frame I was planning to use for the cross beams on the sawhorses: 3" x 2" rectangular tube ... which looks to be 3/16" wall ...

IIRC these pieces are around 70" long ... they also have some 1" or 1 1/4" angle welded to them on one of 3" sides ... I'll go ahead and leave that on there with that side turned down - which will probably add a little strength - and trim out the angle where the tube will sit on the saw horselegs. Probably won't get to that until tomorrow ... unless the sun comes out today.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable and productive day.

 

[WayneB]

46 degrees and heading to the low 60’s today.
Starting to feel a lot like Autumn
Setting up a tent this morning for Old Home Days and then this afternoon to retirement pig roast
Then tonight Sue returns from Germany busy day.

 

[daugen]

glad some of you guys are cooling off but not here yet. 71 degrees at 5am, going to 84 today, probably with heavy rain later, flood watch up. After I go to the supermarket this morning, going to get some tunes going and hit the boxes.
I desperately want to find my favorite pocket camera; can't believe the movers grabbed it off the kitchen counter and packed it. Guess I shouldn't have left it there.

discovered a broken water line way out back by the barn, and no cutoff valve anywhere in sight. Will look again this morning; afraid the valves are under the house in the crawlspace. The pipe is only a foot down so maybe a shovel will do, but once I find it, it will let loose full pressure, and how does one work on a water piper under pressure? I don't think you can, so I need to find how to stop the water. Not like I can crimp hard water pipe. Or can I? any home remedies here?

 

[rswyan]

No cutoff valve for your entire water service at all ?

Are you on city water or a well ?

 

[rswyan]

Will look again this morning; afraid the valves are under the house in the crawlspace.

Ahh ... the joys of no basement ...

The pipe is only a foot down so maybe a shovel will do, but once I find it, it will let loose full pressure, and how does one work on a water piper under pressure? I don't think you can, so I need to find how to stop the water. Not like I can crimp hard water pipe. Or can I? any home remedies here?

What kind of pipe ?

 

[daugen]

a tale of the "big truck".

I've been getting some estimates that sure seemed high, and contrary to my nature, I'm learning how to say no.
I talked with one guy about why, and he opened up. Big house, big truck. Huh? well....my diesel dually is the biggest truck in the local greasy spoon parking lot, and I guess I really got some attention pulling in there with my PA license plates on. Big truck, out of state, charge more.

the fact that I drive a Toyota doesn't matter. I have a big truck, and 100% of these guys drive trucks. Every last one of them. Guess I walked into this one. Uh, I bought this for a fifth wheel. That's nice. Big truck.
I'm going to guess this is a guy thing. To them, the truck is my Mercedes, and out of no bling desires, I would never drive a MB. But this was my retirement truck, and a nice one. In the end, tough, guys, get your own.
All part of fitting in to the community and when you apparently have one of the largest places around, and Good Lord, you have a Big Truck, well we have special pricing for you. No surprise, basic human nature.

I'm trying quietly to give some work out to several of the tradesmen at the 7am breakfast table at the local cafe.
One of them is a really rough guy, big, with some serious tattoo work, and I thought having him fix some wrecked siding flashing was a good first start. I met him accompanied by a high mileage bleach blonde with bad new teeth who promptly told me to watch out for the "vulture women" and as you might expect, on the way out, left me a slip of paper with her name and number. Seems hubby is working in Alaska or something. No thank you, run away, run fast.

my adventure continues....:thumbsup:

 

[daugen]

Ahh ... the joys of no basement ...


What kind of pipe ?

white hard water pipe, the thick wall stuff, looks like one inch od or so.