ronjhall
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Need to get coffee started brewing. 64° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 74° with mix of sun and clouds. Not much planned.
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Good Morning All.
Good morning!!!!
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RedNeckGeek
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Good Morning! 45F @ 5:00AM. Partly cloudy skies. High 61F. Winds NE at 5 to 10 mph.
At this rate it sounds like February is going down in the history books as a pretty wet month on both ends of the country, with lots of rain in the west and snow in the east. Hope folks can remember how to deal with it, as in some areas it's been awhile since there's been so much.
Wow Drew, bet somebody got called on the carpet for that one. :duh: They oughta give you a refund for your trouble.
Lake Oroville is only a few inches below the emergency spillway level, but last night outflows were cut back by 10,000 CFS as inflow rate dropped. As such there's some wiggle room to play with and the emergency spillway may stay dry. The best source I've found for photos, and what seems to me at least to be some level headed analysis, is called Metabunk, and there's a good thread on the Oroville Dam spillway failure. It's a forum similar to TBN, and well moderated to keep discussions polite and on point. It turns out that the spillway crack pictures that my neighbor mentioned as being from 2003 were actually from 2013, but that hasn't stopped one county supervisor from making accusations of mismanagement at the dam. Of course the local media has picked up on it and it could get ugly, especially if next week's rains result in property damage below the dam.
Just learned that Highway 70 is closed due to flooding east of here in the Feather River Canyon. Likely won't open again until the water level drops at the dam. Earlier in the week the road was closed while a landslide was cleared, and a woman decided to drive around the traffic cones at night and hit a parked front end loader. Apparently she was drunk and lost her life in the collision.
Not much progress to report at the van mechanic's as personnel issues continue and the focus seems to be on fixing up junk Subaru cars to flip for pocket change. I did test fit the one headlight I've mounted, and it looks OK but would look better with a bit of alignment tweaking. So I'll tackle that this weekend and hopefully finish that job.
At this rate it sounds like February is going down in the history books as a pretty wet month on both ends of the country, with lots of rain in the west and snow in the east. Hope folks can remember how to deal with it, as in some areas it's been awhile since there's been so much.
Wow Drew, bet somebody got called on the carpet for that one. :duh: They oughta give you a refund for your trouble.
Lake Oroville is only a few inches below the emergency spillway level, but last night outflows were cut back by 10,000 CFS as inflow rate dropped. As such there's some wiggle room to play with and the emergency spillway may stay dry. The best source I've found for photos, and what seems to me at least to be some level headed analysis, is called Metabunk, and there's a good thread on the Oroville Dam spillway failure. It's a forum similar to TBN, and well moderated to keep discussions polite and on point. It turns out that the spillway crack pictures that my neighbor mentioned as being from 2003 were actually from 2013, but that hasn't stopped one county supervisor from making accusations of mismanagement at the dam. Of course the local media has picked up on it and it could get ugly, especially if next week's rains result in property damage below the dam.
Just learned that Highway 70 is closed due to flooding east of here in the Feather River Canyon. Likely won't open again until the water level drops at the dam. Earlier in the week the road was closed while a landslide was cleared, and a woman decided to drive around the traffic cones at night and hit a parked front end loader. Apparently she was drunk and lost her life in the collision.
Not much progress to report at the van mechanic's as personnel issues continue and the focus seems to be on fixing up junk Subaru cars to flip for pocket change. I did test fit the one headlight I've mounted, and it looks OK but would look better with a bit of alignment tweaking. So I'll tackle that this weekend and hopefully finish that job.
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67°F and no rain since midnight.
Was able to get on the roof and tie in the solar panels. Very pleased with the production they showed. Have to switch gears from panel stall action as the solar company has chosen Tue to install my new batteries. Have to prep the area for that. Have to disassemble current battery box so they can be removed. Will have to build new box for slightly larger footprint. I will be assisting the unloading and loading with my forks. My 12 old batteries are 315 lbs each. 18 New ones 249lbs each.
Be safe
Have a great day
Was able to get on the roof and tie in the solar panels. Very pleased with the production they showed. Have to switch gears from panel stall action as the solar company has chosen Tue to install my new batteries. Have to prep the area for that. Have to disassemble current battery box so they can be removed. Will have to build new box for slightly larger footprint. I will be assisting the unloading and loading with my forks. My 12 old batteries are 315 lbs each. 18 New ones 249lbs each.
Be safe
Have a great day
daugen
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RNG, any new pictures of the bluemobile?
had to chuckle, the latest review of my Subaru Outback said the V6 was too powerful for the car and it
had much too fast tip-in. Yes to the latter, and to the former, the CVT really does max out power/torque of the
engine and frankly if you floor it from start, one could get whiplash, it really takes off. Jump off the line is very strong, and clearly a couple of those reviewers with heavy feet couldn't modulate the power easily. The take rate on this engine is less than 10% but it makes the car much quieter and less strained. For most folks, not a good choice, stick with four cylinder. Too bad their four doesn't make 200hp instead of much less, then you would not need a 268hp flat six. Actually a pretty neat engine that has never had an oil consumption problem. Now the fours...that's an issue for some. Not a car to own if you don't check your oil level occasionally. So far the car has been great.
And I'm headed out to wash the car and truck on a nice sunny day. I'll think of all you guys about to get that next snow storm.
As i'm sweating in the sun. Now I sound like Ron with his you really should be here weather forecasts.
Wow Drew, bet somebody got called on the carpet for that one. They oughta give you a refund for your trouble.
long story, very bumpy road, hopefully fixed, and I think they are going to include a few bags of planting fertilizer or something that I think
might have cost them two bucks. I'm reserving judgement until it gets here. They whined at me that all they were asking me to do was send the
trees back when I had partially, and then fully, explained to them this stuff is heavy, and had a hard time putting it back on the pallet, and balancing it on the large plastic bucket they used on one end of the pallet to hold the trees up. Took me over an hour until I thought it was finished, and then it looked half-butted compared to how it came to me, but tough. Apparently the other buyer demanded they take them back and inspect them and reship so they are going back to the orchard company anyway.
I had to give the young man I was dealing with a lesson in how to conduct customer service, as they never said they were sorry at any time.
Just expected me to fix the problem. When i was done...a letter of apology written quite contritely I might add arrived.
Talk about a place where two eyes should sign off on the shipping label. Just the luck of having two 24 tree orders getting put down next to each other I guess.
had to chuckle, the latest review of my Subaru Outback said the V6 was too powerful for the car and it
had much too fast tip-in. Yes to the latter, and to the former, the CVT really does max out power/torque of the
engine and frankly if you floor it from start, one could get whiplash, it really takes off. Jump off the line is very strong, and clearly a couple of those reviewers with heavy feet couldn't modulate the power easily. The take rate on this engine is less than 10% but it makes the car much quieter and less strained. For most folks, not a good choice, stick with four cylinder. Too bad their four doesn't make 200hp instead of much less, then you would not need a 268hp flat six. Actually a pretty neat engine that has never had an oil consumption problem. Now the fours...that's an issue for some. Not a car to own if you don't check your oil level occasionally. So far the car has been great.
And I'm headed out to wash the car and truck on a nice sunny day. I'll think of all you guys about to get that next snow storm.
As i'm sweating in the sun. Now I sound like Ron with his you really should be here weather forecasts.
Wow Drew, bet somebody got called on the carpet for that one. They oughta give you a refund for your trouble.
long story, very bumpy road, hopefully fixed, and I think they are going to include a few bags of planting fertilizer or something that I think
might have cost them two bucks. I'm reserving judgement until it gets here. They whined at me that all they were asking me to do was send the
trees back when I had partially, and then fully, explained to them this stuff is heavy, and had a hard time putting it back on the pallet, and balancing it on the large plastic bucket they used on one end of the pallet to hold the trees up. Took me over an hour until I thought it was finished, and then it looked half-butted compared to how it came to me, but tough. Apparently the other buyer demanded they take them back and inspect them and reship so they are going back to the orchard company anyway.
I had to give the young man I was dealing with a lesson in how to conduct customer service, as they never said they were sorry at any time.
Just expected me to fix the problem. When i was done...a letter of apology written quite contritely I might add arrived.
Talk about a place where two eyes should sign off on the shipping label. Just the luck of having two 24 tree orders getting put down next to each other I guess.
daugen
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I can just imagine Farmer having 80,000 of the wrong chickens arriving, guinea fowl anyone?
txdon
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Here is a pic I took for RNG today.
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Love it, Don! Think maybe I need one o' them fancy computerized embroidering machines? :laughing:
mpham
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Yes. It looks like we have three more storms in the forecast. Up to a foot tomorrow.
farmer2009
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Currently 68. While cloudy a very nice day for February. But I'm stuck inside doing taxes. They get done Monday and I'm not as close as I need to be.
Chicken coops are washed and ready for decaking but that will have to wait. Uncle Sam comes first.
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Drew. Don't have to worry about that. All this company hatches here are chickens. 1.1-1.2 million birds a week. 52 weeks a year. And they are building new barns. 43x600. Wife has told me not to even think about it. 4 barns a mear 1.3 million dollars turnkey. Have a buddy doing dirt work for a set now.
RNG. Thanks for the info on the dam. Too bad they didn't fix the spillway when it was a crack. Although they may have been thinking that they may never need it again..
Chicken coops are washed and ready for decaking but that will have to wait. Uncle Sam comes first.
. Drew. Don't have to worry about that. All this company hatches here are chickens. 1.1-1.2 million birds a week. 52 weeks a year. And they are building new barns. 43x600. Wife has told me not to even think about it. 4 barns a mear 1.3 million dollars turnkey. Have a buddy doing dirt work for a set now.
RNG. Thanks for the info on the dam. Too bad they didn't fix the spillway when it was a crack. Although they may have been thinking that they may never need it again.
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I just finished a 5 hour snow plowing of my driveway plus 4 neighbours. I also made a new snow dump in a clearing for me.