Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

Besides the unusually cool weather, and unusually warm weather, and the very unusual amount of rain in the last 6 months, this past week I got a letter from the city. It seems that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has "updated" their studies of the floodplain and I'm now in an area where mandatory flood insurance may soon be required.

I got a letter from the county awhile back that my property may soon be added to a floodplain. I have a small creek thru my property, but they indicated flood plain on the larger creek it goes into on my neighbors. Not sure how it will affect me, as my house is 40ft above that point.

Hit 30s by lunch time, feels like summer compared to yesterday.

 

[LouNY]

PLEASE READ!
I have one garage door opener that will not function properly below around 25-27ｰ, it will come up about two feet and stop. If I hit the button and lift a little, it opens fine. I can稚 find any binding and I have lubricated the tracks and rollers. The doors are not particularly heavy, the openers are Genie chain drive units that were premium units designed for heavier doors. Above 30ｰ it works as well as the other two.
Opinions please.

My openers have a screw adjustment for opening torque.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

PLEASE READ!
I have one garage door opener that will not function properly below around 25-27ｰ, it will come up about two feet and stop. If I hit the button and lift a little, it opens fine. I can稚 find any binding and I have lubricated the tracks and rollers. The doors are not particularly heavy, the openers are Genie chain drive units that were premium units designed for heavier doors. Above 30ｰ it works as well as the other two.
Opinions please.

Any chance the lubricant is thickening as the temperatures go lower, making more work for the motor? Try disconnecting the opener and manually lifting the door to see if it's binding.

I've also had problems with bearings going out in the little wheels that ride in the garage door tracks. That effects alignment as well, causing even more binding.

 

[lostcreekranch]

60°F this morning and forecast for 71°F this afternoon. Weather Channel is predicting 38°F for Wednesday morning so ..... typical Texas January temperature roller coaster.

During moving equipment, out of the way, to install new shop lights one of the casters on my out feed / assembly table failed. Simple? Tip it over and replace the caster? Nope, not that simple.

The bottom deck is home to a large 6 drawer drafting flat file cabinet. In order to not have to unload and remove the flat file I'm going to put my palletforks on the tractor, install the 72" fork extensions, and see if I can just lift the entire table high enough to replace the caster. I may just replace the entire set with higher capacity casters that I already have. The new casters are a bit larger so ..... will make the table height a bit higher that the table saw. I've already planned to build a new out feed table for my table saw this spring so, no problem.

I'll get some pictures ...... as this progresses.

Everyone have a great Tuesday!

Prayers to all.

Pictures!

I spent more time getting ready for the job ....... than the job itself.







Viola!

 

[300UGUY]

24ｰF and cloudy this morning, going up to 43ｰ. Expecting rain this afternoon and through the evening. Warm spell for the next couple of days here, then back below freezing for the weekend.

Wife got a couple of lights on the dash of her new car yesterday. Voice in the car told her to get engine serviced soon. She was not pleased. A call to the Kia dealer revealed there is a recall on the Niros for a fire hazard somewhere under the back seat. Kia's not having a good time with fire hazards lately. Lady at the dealership told her the soonest they could get her in is Thursday afternoon, yet told her it's safe to drive until then. She asked for her name, and noted that she told her it's safe. Hoping she was right.

We had Kia suv toast out near us. Looked like it was just going down the road, and started smoking. I watched it go from smoke to flames in a couple of minutes.

 

[riptides]

PLEASE READ!
I have one garage door opener that will not function properly below around 25-27°, it will come up about two feet and stop. If I hit the button and lift a little, it opens fine. I can’t find any binding and I have lubricated the tracks and rollers. The doors are not particularly heavy, the openers are Genie chain drive units that were premium units designed for heavier doors. Above 30° it works as well as the other two.
Opinions please.

I second what LouNY states about torque adjustment. If that unit has them. Or take the easy way out and get a can of WD40 on it.

 

[daugen]

that looks great Rick, nice job.

picked up 8 more bales of hay from the local feed dealer, had to chuckle because the owner, perhaps feeling contrite,
even came out and helped lift the bales of hay up into the truck. So I got a Ram commercial picture of my truck with hay in it,
a rare sight, and my fireman neighbor helped me unload them onto a pallet.

Am now ready for my worms. Easy to put together, bigger than I thought, held more, and off I went twice outside in search of good stuff for my worms.
You can get by with soaked shredded paper but I have a lot more interesting things to put in there, liked a trove of rotted hay with attached dirt, leaves,
and some organic potting soil with no chemicals but ground up fish meal or something fishy and worm castings and bat guano.
What a tasty mix! Nothing is too good for my worms...now I have to find some over the hill vegetables in the fridge to chop up and intersperse down into the soil. Need to find out if worms do ok with coffee grounds. That will be my research tonight. Though you can buy worm food...what's the point when I have plenty of natural stuff for them. Chopped up banana rinds. They will be sambaying away down there to a latin beat.

Worm farm was well made, the fabric container was like a super heavy duty duffle bag from LL Bean. Probably double that thickness but nothing was skimped on it. 2 pounds of red wigglers are headed my way. Didn't think worms would be my first pet here...
Have a spot in the corner of the garden shed for the worm farm, which I will keep a little more heat on during the winter for them.

 

[toppop52]

Thanks for the tips so far on the opener, I will try a couple in the morning when I have time to concentrate on it. Of course I won’t know for sure until it’s cold again.

 

[jbrumberg]

Rick- A great job that looks in place in an awesome looking shop. Thanks for sharing.

Drew A.K.A. Worm Whisperer good luck with the farm. A different application, but Foxwood products are high quality and work for me. No need for artificial, non-organic chemicals around here.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

PLEASE READ!
I have one garage door opener that will not function properly below around 25-27ｰ, it will come up about two feet and stop. If I hit the button and lift a little, it opens fine. I can稚 find any binding and I have lubricated the tracks and rollers. The doors are not particularly heavy, the openers are Genie chain drive units that were premium units designed for heavier doors. Above 30ｰ it works as well as the other two.
Opinions please.

I have heard of that problem quite a few years ago, they had problems with the circuit board in them. I believe those having problems got free repairs at the time. Don't know about now.

 

[ronjhall]

23° and it’s raining. Nothing good can come out of those conditions.

 

[ronjhall]

PLEASE READ!
I have one garage door opener that will not function properly below around 25-27°, it will come up about two feet and stop. If I hit the button and lift a little, it opens fine. I can’t find any binding and I have lubricated the tracks and rollers. The doors are not particularly heavy, the openers are Genie chain drive units that were premium units designed for heavier doors. Above 30° it works as well as the other two.
Opinions please.

When my doors will not operate in cold weather. I use a garage door lube made by liquid wrench. Got it at Lowe’s. Mine sometimes give me problems when temperatures are around 0°.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

When my doors will not operate in cold weather. I use a garage door lube made by liquid wrench. Got it at Lowe’s. Mine sometimes give me problems when temperatures are around 0°.

Mine were complaining this morning with 5°.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I told my son about all the kudos he has rec'd from around the world on his cabbage. I should've looked into the details better.

The cabbage is an O. S. Cross variety. "Oversized", We probably could have left it to grow even larger. The whole plant was about 30" in diameter.

Wifey is not sure how she wants to prepare it, but she loves just plain ole' chopped up and cooked cabbage with some seasonings. Eric, could your cabbage catapillars make casings? Hope you din't eat too many of those.

About the Cabbage Program - Bonnie Cabbage Program

Happy Wifey's Birthday Buppies.

Rick, great job on the shaker bench with all the secret treasure maps in the map drawers.

Drew, your truck is cleaner than the ones at the dealerships.

RNG, get her shifting... Still not sure of what to think about all those "melted" beemers. Can you take them to the scrap yard?

My GDO is a Genie with the acme threaded shaft. It growls and stops when the temps get in the 30's F. You have to get the remote and be there to assist it if it gets colder. I would guess the lube is hard. Next time I might try a Chamberlain toothed belt drive. Remember, in the Korean war it got so cold that many of the weapons wouldn't cycle or work.

you guys hurting get well, prayers headed your way. And stay warm all.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Yesterday I was working at my desk when I heard the twittering squawk of a bald eagle. Sure enough when I went out side, there he was sitting in the top of the big Ponderosa pine not a hundred feet away. I got back with a camera just in time to see him take flight. There's a pair that nest around here, but I have yet to spot their tree. It's good to see them back after the fire.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Still not sure of what to think about all those "melted" beemers. Can you take them to the scrap yard?

The widow wants to hang on to them, and my friend says he plans some sort of yard art display. They saw enough heat that even the steel parts are useless. Besides the rust, whatever work hardening was in them is gone so they're no where near as strong as they once were. She was very happy with her settlement with the insurance company for them, though; she hinted that it ran into tens of thousands of dollars.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

The widow wants to hang on to them, and my friend says he plans some sort of yard art display. They saw enough heat that even the steel parts are useless. Besides the rust, whatever work hardening was in them is gone so they're no where near as strong as they once were. She was very happy with her settlement with the insurance company for them, though; she hinted that it ran into tens of thousands of dollars.

Next fire, I'm hauling every basket case beemer I can find out there.....I heard about the electric company declaring bankruptcy. I have mixed feelings on this. Sure, my place didn't burn down. But those like you have my respect for doing due diligence to keep your stuff unburned. I would place most of the blame on whichever departments don't clean up the pine needles or have regular controlled burns. But suing gov't entities is like shooting yourself in the foot on a scale this big. Not so cut and dried like having flood insurance or not, and then there is a flood. I know out here around Bastrop Texas since the fire, they have cut down wide right of ways for all their power lines. I believe the insurance companies are/should take a big percentage of this. And stop building zero lot line homes on top of pine needles.

OK, I finally bought some Cholula's Chipotle sauce. Tastes like a slightly spicy BBQ sauce to me. Will put it on my BBQ sandwiches....but when I fold up a breakfast taco with eggs/beans/potatoes/cheese/etc, I'm sticking to the original. It reminds me of Frank's Red Hot Sauce.

Making some small, tedious parts at work on my 5 axis mill. Haven't had to swear too much. But 3 of them will fit on my thumbnail and they have a lot of details.

Drew, is "worm dirt" a swear word up in your parts?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Jim beam bbq sauce is good

 

[Buppies]

Wife had a nice birthday really surprised her with her present had no idea and it was a hit. Have had it over a week shipped in by a friend to another friends address so she would not know very covert but notifications are sent to her -phone for everything that ships to the house or cc notifies of purchases so had to be creative on that front as well.

Don it is a panaeri 38mm ladies watch

Low of 12 this morning high of 35 freezing rain moves in tonight changes to plain rain tomorrow up to one inch possible before cold comes back

 

[Buppies]

RNG beautiful picture of bald eagle a great symbol