Good Morning!!!! 48F @ 4:30AM. Sunshine and a few afternoon clouds. High 69F. Winds NNW at 10 to 20 mph.
No thanks, Eric, I prefer my breakfast to stay where it belongs...
Sounds like you may be about to become a two tractor family, Thomas.
I wish you luck selling your rider, Drew. I also appreciate what you're saying about price. Most people don't understand the effort and cost it takes to get an older machine running again, and expect one in excellent condition to sell for nearly the same price as a beater that needs everything. And that only makes parting with an old friend like that all the more painful...:irked:
A couple months ago, a hypodermic needle exchange program was established in nearby Chico, CA. It turns out that it wasn't an exchange program at all; you can have all the needles you want, even as many as a hundred, and not have to return any of them. So now we see needles laying in the street, in merchant's doorways, behind buildings, everywhere the drug addicts/bums frequent, which is most of downtown and the larger shopping centers, even parks where kids are supposed to play. The citizenry is up in arms about it, as am I, and it'll be on the city council agenda tomorrow night. Prominently featured will be a video interview with a sixteen year old girl who was given a complete shooting rig with thirty needles, cooker tins, and tie offs, and if that weren't enough, some condoms. She did so with the consent of her parents and under adult supervision, just to see if the people running the exchange would pass out needles to children. That may be the last nail in that particular organization's coffin, and I hope it is.
Yesterday was trench day. Can you dig it?
But first, I had to prepare the end up near the house, which was too close to get to with the trencher wheel. It also overlaid the drain line for the gutters on that end of the house, and a sprinkler line. Most of it was done with a shovel, but when I got to the very end at the house, I had to break out the demolition hammer to get through the concrete and rock. And I still put a mattock through the gutter drain.:duh: Neighbor finally showed up at 4:30, said job would only take an hour. Famous last words. Started with the trench at the shipping container, which he warned would cut the land line for the phone. He was right, so patching it back together job 1 this morning.:duh::duh: Then he got started on the trench that ran from the house down to the generator pad, and shortly stalled the big wheel when he got on the steep part of the hill and into some more rock. The battery didn't have enough juice to start it back up, and he thought it also might be out of fuel, so I brought my tractor up and transferred fuel out of it with the portable pump, then got it around the other side to give it a jump. He still had to break a fitting loose to get it to prime, and finally got it started again.:duh::duh::duh: Then to get it off the trench, he had to drive over it, and that filled that section up with dirt again.:duh::duh::duh::duh: At least it's loose dirt; I'd never been able to get through the rocks. About that time it was getting too dark to see, so he'll be back this morning. Still have two more trenches to dig, so I hope he shows up earlier this time...
Also hope everyone's week gets off to a great start!
