Good morning!!!!

[Eric Salop]

Eric, sorry to hear of the tragedy in your country.

Yes, that was very sad. You will probably have heard by now that the terrorist, as well as killing and seriously injuring those born in his own country, also killed an American man and badly injured his wife. People from many other countries were also hurt, three French children, four people from South Korea, one German, one Pole, one Irish, one Chinese, one Italian and two Greeks.

In the 90's I worked on schemes to minimize the intentional killing and maiming of innocent people by IRA bombers. It seemed ironic that those supporting modern day terrorism would no doubt be gleeful of their international "success" at the same time others were morning the death of the one time IRA leader Martin McGuinness. History has many lessons, however all far too political for the Good Morning thread.

I got sick of peddling too hard up hills and into head winds and went over to the dark side last week. http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/images/smilies/new/cool2.gif

That cheered me up no end. If only human's dark sides could be restriced to where to hide an electric motor and a few batteries.

 

[Buppies]

40 this morning high of 72 later today hopefully some rain Sunday. Very sad terror attack in England, praying for the victims family's

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning all. The sun is shining, the wind has dropped and temperatures are about perfect for working outside. That's perfect as I have by my side a pair of Don & Randy's belt snakes to fit to the old Subaru, although now looking doubtful that I will have time today.

Instead I will be stuck inside, as I had some urgent work rejected by a customer yesterday for the simple reason that the code I had written for them did not work. It works for me and the source code has passed their peer reviews too, however when they put it into a control panel for validation, it did not perform as it should. I spent a few hours on it yesterday to no avail and woke up this morning suspecting the cross-compiler they are using that turns the code into something a microprocessor can understand is not performing correctly. That sort of thing is quite rare on a mature product, however in the words of Sherlock Holmes, when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? We shall see.

 

[riptides]

37out this AM. I hope the freezes are over this year. Looks like all the girls are coming home for the weekend. Full house again, so that is good. And the weather looks nice. No plans other than collect wood for the milk house project and maybe paint a room.

Have a great day all, and a good weekend. Be safe.

 

[Buppies]

Riptides enjoy your girls this weekend

 

[wngsprd]

30 with 67 in sight.

Got a nice load or firewood cut yesterday, mostly a few small dead oak trees. I cut a couple that needs the splitter. I always leave some of the big dead pines for the woodpeckers.

Riptides, how many girls? Hope you have a nice visit..

 

[riptides]

Riptides enjoy your girls this weekend

Yes, always a pleasant surprise.

30 with 67 in sight.

Got a nice load or firewood cut yesterday, mostly a few small dead oak trees. I cut a couple that needs the splitter. I always leave some of the big dead pines for the woodpeckers.

There is that word again, splitter. LOL. I was eyeballing an electric one this season, but with the grass greening up, I need to refocus on lawn care equipment. And a working chain saw.

Riptides, how many girls? Hope you have a nice visit..

Three. All in college, all doing full-time jobs. So getting everyone together at the same time takes a plan.

 

[sixdogs]

Drew could you get buy with blowing the inner one out and replacing the outer one only?? Common practice in the forklift industry with the dual filter setups.

In farm country we never touch the inner filter except to replace. The outer ones get blown out a few times--maybe more for combines--and then replaced. I don't know anyone that washes one. Fooling with an inner filter can let dust in and it doesn't take much to risk "dusting" or ruining an engine that way. Just my two cents here.

 

[mpham]

26 heading up to 38. Looks like rain starting in the afternoon and will continue till next week off and on.

 

[Looking4new]

26F here and they say 39 and rain/snow/ice pellets. Wind SE 8mph. visibility 1 mile. We got about 1/2" of snow overnight.

My new rubber/sheep/wellington boots came yesterday. Size EU 45/ 12 US. They got a toe cap so should be legal for work, more or less. I used to wear sneakers when I hauled and sprayed calcium chloride, mainly because they wouldn't shrink/pixie toe overnight if you got some on them. Leather boots today will fit you like a glove, wet them with a little calc chloride and tomorrow you wont be able to get them on at all. I am NOT going to ruin a $200.oo+ pair of boots just to spray that stuff. Hence the sheep boots.