Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

Six breakfast links, three pieces of toast with butter, three jumbo eggs with Tabasco and a glass of OJ.

Layering up with the insulated Carharts and then headed out while the sun still shines ... :thumbsup:

That sounds like three days breakfast for me.

 

[PJSprog]

Sad day. RIP Rush.

Indeed. It will be interesting to see what happens to his radio show going forward. He's had some great fill-ins over the years, but none really had his level of charisma.

 

[sodamo]

RNG, I thought I was going to use cutoff discs when I cut the container but found It much easier to use reciprocating saw with good metal blade. Just a Ryobi 18v, not even the corded one. Cut both the hinges and the metal panel without difficulty. Also used on the HF shipping frames but not experience with your pallets.

 

[lostcreekranch]

I took one of my propane heaters over to my neighbors whose water system was frozen up in his pump house this morning. Unfortunately most of the piping was already broken. We got everything disconnected from the pressure tank and used the propane heater to thaw it out. Then we removed all the rest of the piping from the well and the underground line to his house.

His SIL is a plumber and was coming over to rebuild everything with new pipe, fittings, filters, etc. I suggested he get some heat tracing to go around all the piping then foam insulation over that.

He should have water this afternoon.

 

[txdon]

Hope your ceiling repairs didn't crack.

One did.

Temp still dropping. 26˚F. The rain we had last night froze on top of the snow leaving a 3/4" sheet of slippery ice that you have to break through to walk on the dry snow. My cleaning of the drive way of snow is now ice.

We are having 2 hours on 2 hours off during the rolling blackouts. We are out again now, the UPS is not having enough time to completely charge back up. Tried to take the whip for a walk but the street is a slick slab of ice. Some pics in the front yard.

 

[toppop52]

36 now, big change from yesterday’s 62. Some mixed precipitation overnight then mostly rain tomorrow. Starting early next week temps are forecast to be in the 50’s eight straight days.

Went to the funeral home today and got all that straight, wrote the check, said a brief goodbye to mom.

My air hose reel is leaking around the swivel and I can’t seem to find the right size O-rings. I bought one of those large assortments from HF, about 300 pieces, none are the right size and the quality is terrible. No matter how much lubricant you put on them, they tend to nick and break. They are useless for anything with any stress. The reel is an old Snap On unit and I hate to have to replace it. Plus it’s already mounted. I used it leaking some when the O-rings wouldn’t fit right, just put the old ones back on, but they are gone now and I have to do something.

You guys with plastic windshields, regardless of polymer involved, you can clear yellowing and stress marks to a large degree with a judiciously applied heat gun, hair dryer doesn’t get hot enough for most.

You guys suffering with the weather COVID-19 and whatever else, God bless.
Have a good day.

 

[toppop52]

One of my favorite memories of Rush was his appearance on the Murphy Brown show.

 

[ronjhall]

Rush RIP.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, I thought I was going to use cutoff discs when I cut the container but found It much easier to use reciprocating saw with good metal blade. Just a Ryobi 18v, not even the corded one. Cut both the hinges and the metal panel without difficulty. Also used on the HF shipping frames but not experience with your pallets.

Thanks, David. I have been using the Makita demo saw on the pallet steel, and it's a LOT slower than the zip discs. It also beats the heck out of my hands and arms trying to keep it from bouncing around. But there are places where I can't get to easily with the discs, so the saw is a welcome addition to the tool kit. Yesterday I tried a LENOX Tools LAZER Metal Cutting Reciprocating Saw Blade, Bi-Metal, 6-inch, 18 TPI, and it worked pretty well. Haven't made enough cuts with it yet to see how long it'll last, but I've had really good results with Lenox bimetal blades on the band saws. I also tried a Freud DS0609CGP3 Diablo 6" Carbide Tipped General Purpose Reciprocating Blade 9-6 TPI blade with carbide teeth, and it spit the teeth off in only a few cuts. The tubing wall wasn't thick enough. That was an expensive experiment...

 

[Buppies]

Thanks riptides I fear this one may be bad

 

[Buppies]

RIP Rush great personality

 

[Buppies]

Don how about golf shoes with steel cleats works well

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Sad day. RIP Rush.

Just when I thought things couldn't get much worse.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Thanks for the heads up on the Diablo cutoff discs, RS. I did some poking around on Amazon this morning and found [URL="https://smile.amazon.com/x-045-Quality-CutOff-Wheel-Stainless/dp/B015VOMD4K/]these[/URL] for less money with better reviews, so I'll let you know how they are after I have a chance to try them out. They're also 5" in diameter so just from that they should last longer, and I'll be able to get a shallower angle that will work better when cutting the fillet welds. Using the HF Warrior brand yesterday it took 5 discs to disassemble one shipping pallet. That's twice the rate I got with the HV blue lable discs I had before. But at least I didn't get any blow ups with the Warriors like I did with the HF reds.

I've used the 7" discs on this angle grinder before, too, and it really gave me the creeps. The blade comes really close to the trigger, and I don't think even a heavy glove would slow 'em down much. That was back when I was cutting up the FEL on the old tractor, and the only way to get it done was to use the larger disc. That was a face mask and safety glasses job for sure.

 

[Dftodd]

I took one of my propane heaters over to my neighbors whose water system was frozen up in his pump house this morning. Unfortunately most of the piping was already broken. We got everything disconnected from the pressure tank and used the propane heater to thaw it out. Then we removed all the rest of the piping from the well and the underground line to his house.

His SIL is a plumber and was coming over to rebuild everything with new pipe, fittings, filters, etc. I suggested he get some heat tracing to go around all the piping then foam insulation over that.

He should have water this afternoon.

I suggested they do similar at my wifes work. They had a water line bust in the attic. According to her boss, this has happened before.

I suggested heat tape and foam insulation to prevent it from breaking in the future.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I'm usually not one to champion a product like this, but those of you dealing with power outages may find Luci lLghts very handy once it gets dark. I've been using them for years on camping trips, and used the heck out of them during the past two years when the local utility turned the power off. They'll fully recharge in the sun in just a day, and last all night if needs be. They deflate and hardly take up any room at all, or you can leave them inflated and they don't go flat like HF pneumatic tires.:laughing: I keep several on window sills so I'm sure to always have one fully charged when it's needed. Here's a link to their original light. They have several designs, some with built in USB chargers, some where the LEDs are on a string that work great over a picnic table or around a tent. They even have a new bike light that's on sale. Don't let the price scare you off; they're available at lots of places for way less, and if you subscribe to their newsletter, you'll get discount codes every couple weeks that'll save you 25%-30%.

Hope this helps...

 

[Thomas]

rswyan.
"Need to refill squirrel feeder at least, possibly hopper feeder as well ... scatter some cracked corn for the ground feeders."
...........................
You get more than couple squirrels together you never know what there do.

 

[MossRoad]

Thomas!!! :laughing:

 

[toppop52]

Duplicate

 

[rswyan]

The "snow blowing" as it were is done ... there really wasn't enough to even bother bother with ... but for the ice.

Crusted on top, then snow, then another layer of ice ... and then snow below that ... so it was really more like ice blowing ... and it worked surprisingly well ... even on the big pile the city road crew left. Got it cleaned up enough that getting in and out should not be an issue.

The shear bolt on the auger was missing, had to replace that before I could get started ...

Woman was going to go out to pick up a 'script (and ingredients) but decided she didn't want to mess with it and was greatly preoccupied with a recipe for the bird anyways. Having settled on one, we managed to get it prepped and into the oven ... be interesting to see how it turns out.

Dinner will probably be around 19:30

Still need to pick up some Cointreau and orange marmalade for the next one ... but it will probably take a while to recover from this current one ... :laughing:

Now to get those feeders filled.