Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

coming home I stopped in the road to let a very large critter go by. Great big blue thing, with all this apparatus on the back,
sitting nose to side of road, trying to get across busy road. I had no one behind me, so I stopped and flashed lights. Had to do it a second time and then he
started moving slowly across the road, from one field to the next, with some large tillage device on back, all folded out. He waved at the other side and thankfully the traffic had cooperated. Not like there are any "excuse me, I'd like to get across" blinkers on a big tractor...Guessing this was a T7 or T8 New Holland.
Too preoccupied to get camera out. Looking behind me to make sure no one was driving into the back of me obliviously even with flashers on.

 

[sodamo]

70°F and .01 inches rain.

Get my serviced, non leaking generator put back together then move into place and hooked up. Might even count how many nuts and bolts

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[toppop52]

64 and cloudy, might hit 70 today. Warm for 3 days then chili weather for awhile.

CT Scan was unremarkable. They got the measurements for the valve, other valves were healthy. All other organs were nominal with some side branch abnormality on the pancreas, but likely isn’t a tumor according to radiology.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Done
Not as bad as I expected

New vs old
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Are you fixing up the Diesel generator to sell, David, or to keep as a spare?

Looks like the same stuff I use on the BMW motorcycles (Continental brand). After two or three years of ethanol laced gas, it gets hard and starts to flake off inside. Simple enough to change, but I wish I could just run on E0 all the time, but it's just not available in very many places anymore.:muttering:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

8x8.5x40 is 21 cords. A high cube would hold a little more.

It is a high cube, 9' 6" tall on the outside.

I'll be palletizing the wood on pallets that are roughly 4'x4'. So that's 20 pallets, and if my plans for hoops over the top work out so I can stack another layer, 40 pallets. A cord is 4x4x8 = 128 cu. ft., but my cut length for the wood is only 18", so each pallet holds 3x4x4 = 48 cu. ft. ~ .375 cord/pallet. That works out to 7.5 cords/layer, or 15 cords if the stack works. I've got close to that already bucked and stacked, but it still needs to be split and palletized. But I need enough rain to end fire season before I can start cutting up the surplus racks I'll be using for the steel hoops. PG&E doesn't need any help in burning down the state because they're doing a fine job all on their own.:shocked:

 

[jbrumberg]

Randy- I am happy to read that your CT scan was unremarkable.

 

[toppop52]

Randy- I am happy to read that your CT scan was unremarkable.

Thanks, me too!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, nice container...looks level, too, which must be a challenge at your place.

The pad is pretty level along the length of the container, but about a 1/2" off side-to-side. The fella that dropped it off said that I'd have trouble opening both doors at the same time if the pad wasn't a plane, but it could tolerate being not perfectly level. So naturally, the first thing I did was open both doors at the same time. That's when I found out the plane isn't perfect, and had some trouble getting one of the door sets closed again. I played around with a two ton toe jack and a farm jack lifting one corner to level, but just throwing gravel under it wasn't enough to hold it up. So next time I'm in town I'll get a variety of concrete blocks, then dig down to undisturbed dirt at each corner and get the whole thing level. FWIW, I don't weigh enough to lift a corner with the the 48" farm jack.:laughing:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG that is one deluxe wood store ! If you have time to fill it before the next hot wildfire comes your way, you may end up with a lifetimes supply of charcoal for the BBQ

You're not the first to suggest that, Eric. One of the reasons I ended up with a container is that it could be made ember proof. This one has five vents near the roof on each side, and though each has a steel grate over it with 1/8" holes, I'll be covering them on the outside with 1/32" stainless steel mesh. If an ember can't get in, and there's no fuel around the container itself, chances are very good there'll be no charcoal in my future (I use propane in the BBQ). And I'll do my best to outlive the 15 cord supply it'll hold.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG will your fire truck fit in the container?

The interior dimensions of the container are 39 3/8 x 7 8 1/8 x 8 10? while the truck measures 24' 4" x 7' 8" x 7' 6" (LxWxH).

So technically yes, but I wouldn't be able to get out of the truck to shut the container doors.:laughing:

This also means I'll need to cut the pallets down if they're more than 48" x 48".:duh: