Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

Have had the Robins around here for the last week or two as well.

Supposed to be nice tomorrow (but cooler) ... might collect up the blue bird houses and clean them out.

 

[Redneck in training]

Saw first robin and blue bird yesterday and heard birds singing early morning.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good morning all. 58F and cloudy this morning .2 in rain in the gauge. Yesterday had 1.3 in. in the gauge and only got to 65F with 2 hour window with no rain (last 5 min of ride rain had restarted). Today rain should pass through this morning then a break, warm to 66F and breezy. Check bikes out for Saturday's 60 miler, more consulting and chores around house. Weeds need mowing but rain really messing with that.

 

[B7510HSD]

Well we came thru the storm with no damage here at home weather station reported 57mph here at the house. Station on the hill about 3 miles from here reported 68mph sustained wind with gust to 104mph. It's been reported that one person was killed when a tree fell on their car on hwy 26 in Oregon. Will take a ride around the area in a bit and see what damage is around lots of trees down some on houses as well. Stay Safe!

 

[mkr7734]

Good morning, Cloudy 48 heading to 54
Had a guy come out yesterday to do a quote on 700' of my lane. My part. It has not been added to for 8 years and could use about 3" over the top. The guy next door has a Gooseneck dump and we do most of the lane together up to my part. But at 6 ton a load it takes a long time and it does not tailgate well. . The closest pit is 21 miles away so we are lucky to get in three loads in the morning before he leaves for work at noon. Two years ago we put down 29 loads, took weeks. So I thought I would just get mine out to quote to see how much it will be. Would be nice to just have it tailgated where all I would have to do is clean it up with the grader.
Don't know yet got to get the quote but at $9.00 a ton for delivery I am not to keen on it. That much made sense when diesel was over $4.00 a gallon but not now at $2.00. CA 6 Gravel is $6.50 a ton. Trucking should be no more.
What do you guys pay?

Have had the Robins around here for the last two weeks or so.

 

[sodamo]

62°F and .42 inches rain last 24 hours. Wind has waned, seems to be clearing.

Be safe
Have a great day

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[sodamo]

well, you are the man, no way I could do that. They want seven grand for a dump trailer around here. Am going to hunt around and see who rents them.

Closer to 10 around here would love to have one, but...
I do have a military humvee trailer. I have a loadhandler in it. One of those crank out fabric things. Works pretty good unless it rains. Gets old on multiple loads.

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[daugen]

Folks in Bossier City Louisiana have been hammered by rain, interesting email from a close friend's brother on what must be an AirForce base there:

We've had 10 inches of rain so far and another 10 is falling now...I had to send the B-52 crew home early yesterday, and I closed the simulator and fled the base. Water was over a foot deep in the streets and cars were stalled everywhere. I plowed on through until the Mercedes started floating...fortunately The car drifted to the center of the road and grabbed some traction. I floated by the cops just as they were closing the road...good thing I was driving a diesel otherwise I would have been stuck!

 

[lostcreekranch]

A bit over 6" here yesterday and overnight. The rain came hard and fast yesterday morning. Filled the large tank way faster than overflow could drain it. The approach to our floating pier was underwater for first time ever.



Today;

 

[rswyan]

Just got off the phone with a nice fellow from the company that sells parts for my (old) alarm system.

I was attempting to place an order for an optional relay and a wiring harness for dual backup batteries and there was a problem with their website's Captcha verification system not allowing the order to be accepted ... so after numerous attempts, I clicked on the "Contact Us" link.

Turns out they are about 40 minutes up the road in the Cleveland 'burbs ... so I'm going to head up there at some point and just pick up the items.

Nice guy ... spent about 20 minutes on the phone with me and gen'ed me into a number of the things regarding the system - including telling me how I could tell whether the system could even be software-locked by the folks that originally installed it (presence of a particular code on an EPROM)

Unfortunately, it appears that mine could have been locked ... but no way to tell whether or not it actually is, without actually attempting to reprogram it.

He did say that it was a very good system ... in fact, he had one of the earliest units produced of this particular model - about 5 years older (circa 1985) than mine - in his own home. Since he was in the business, he wanted to replace it with something more modern and state-of-the-art ... but even after multiple lighting strikes/power surges it just kept on ticking. It finally bit the dust in 2005.

Sent an email earlier to the young lady from alarm company no. 2, telling her I did not want to keep pestering her so I'd appreciate it if she could tell me when I might expect her proposal ... thus far I have not heard anything back ...