Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 55F @ 9:00AM. Sunny. High 76F. Winds light and variable.
The winds were blowing in the wrong direction yesterday, but today it's perfect for firing off that burn pile. And now it's twice as big, and the feeder pile is even bigger, so I'll be at it a while.

One of the drills at the dirt bike school I went to, Kyle, was to start off with the front brake locking the wheel and see how far you could get. Turns out I could go far enough to rip the knobs off, which was a long way. And yeah, that was on dirt. Might be a good exercise for your boy to build some confidence and experience in using the front brake, and dispel the old wives tale of flipping over the handlebars.

Read an article a while back about making concrete fence posts, Eric. Looked pretty easy, and they last forever. I forget how you're supposed to attach the fence to them, though.

Did you get Starlink, Doug?

Gave the root part of the root grapple a real workout yesterday, clearing a much larger area down to bare dirt and taking out I lost track of how many manzanita and small oaks. A while back one of the neighbors thought that area might make a good place to build the shop, and I'm beginning to think he might be right. It was so heavily overgrown before I really couldn't tell, but after decending a short hill, it sort of flattens out. I'll keep rooting around on it today and see where it goes.

First I need to grease the FEL and grapple, then get that burn pile going.

Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!

 

[Rich B1]

Good afternoon! 76 now, high to be 80 later. Supposed to get rain this evening so didn’t ride the bike, it is date night and rain is supposed to be here about time we would be headed home.

Kyle - so what is wrong with your son not using the front brake enough? Sounds like he is training to get sideways on an oval. No front brake needed!

The Ohio opener is this Saturday at Circleville, weather permitting. 90’ wide cushion 1/2 mile.

Pennwalk - I know from first hand experience how nasty this stuff can be

Trip went well yesterday. Used a pressure gauge and data screen on the laptop to verify the system was working correctly and the engine is simply not making power. I could duplicate it every time, even verify what the customer had reported. Had a meeting with them and hopefully this situation gets back on track. Had to do a long email this morning giving them things to check and things to request the engine people check.

.22 Hornet is definitely a round you likely want to reload. But these days, finding ANY components for any caliber is difficult. Stopped at Cabela’s on the way home and was able to buy 500 small rifle primers and 2 boxes of 20 ga for use on flying varmints. First primers I have seen in months. 500 was the limit.

Everyone stay safe out there

 

[sodamo]

64°F and .54 inches rain. Sun shining again ️️️

Trip to PO this morning.

Guys get a chance to redeem themselves at Hand & Foot later. shrimp curry on the menu.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[sodamo]

58 now and 65 later, a little breezy.
I cut all the fabric for two wing chairs yesterday, took me three hours, my moms could do it in an hour. Still have to sew and upholster. After this I’m going to take it easy on what I promise.

Got up a little groggy this morning, restless last couple of hours and sinus issues.

Got my new flagpole light installed, looks like aliens have landed on it, especially when it’s lit at night.
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Like your lite Randy. Can you link to it?

 

[rswyan]

Currently 81F and starting to cloud up pretty good @ 15:00, they're now calling for 82F for a high ... which is a new record for April 8th (old one was 80F in 2001)

The Woman has turned on the AC.

Fish fed earlier, including some banana worms for the Julie fry. Fed one of the banana worm cultures with some yeast the other day and it really took off. Did the other one today.

Yard down around the house all mowed. The Woman ran out to DG while I was doing that and came back with Sausage and Cheese McMuffins ...

Going to be a bit of work cleaning up all the leaves that got left on on the lawn from last year. Refurb of 3PH debris moving up on the project list.

Heading down to weed the bed that I put all the lily splits into last year, then a little more sanding on the barn owl box so I can get that treated with BLO before putting it up.

Will pull the MMM off the Kubota before the rain starts and put the box blade back on.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good afternoon! 76 now, high to be 80 later. Supposed to get rain this evening so didn’t ride the bike, it is date night and rain is supposed to be here about time we would be headed home.

Kyle - so what is wrong with your son not using the front brake enough? Sounds like he is training to get sideways on an oval. No front brake needed!

The Ohio opener is this Saturday at Circleville, weather permitting. 90’ wide cushion 1/2 mile.

Pennwalk - I know from first hand experience how nasty this stuff can be

Trip went well yesterday. Used a pressure gauge and data screen on the laptop to verify the system was working correctly and the engine is simply not making power. I could duplicate it every time, even verify what the customer had reported. Had a meeting with them and hopefully this situation gets back on track. Had to do a long email this morning giving them things to check and things to request the engine people check.

.22 Hornet is definitely a round you likely want to reload. But these days, finding ANY components for any caliber is difficult. Stopped at Cabela’s on the way home and was able to buy 500 small rifle primers and 2 boxes of 20 ga for use on flying varmints. First primers I have seen in months. 500 was the limit.

Everyone stay safe out there

He's got a ways to go, to win Peoria...

 

[toppop52]

He's got a ways to go, to win Peoria...

I hit the front brake too hard on a ten speed and did a forward flip, so when I started riding motorcycles I used mostly back brake, until I slid fifty feet down a hill and just missed a car. I learned to use the front real quick.

 

[Bird]

I hit the front brake too hard on a ten speed and did a forward flip, so when I started riding motorcycles I used mostly back brake, until I slid fifty feet down a hill and just missed a car. I learned to use the front real quick.

You learned, as I did many years ago, that there's a huge difference between front wheel brakes on a bicycle and those on motorcycles. It took me awhile to learn to use the front brake more on motorcycles.

 

[PJSprog]

You learned, as I did many years ago, that there's a huge difference between front wheel brakes on a bicycle and those on motorcycles. It took me awhile to learn to use the front brake more on motorcycles.

Same here, and for the same reason as you and Randy.

 

[Alien]

Good Morning!!!! 55F @ 9:00AM. Sunny. High 76F. Winds light and variable.


Did you get Starlink, Doug?

No. Starlink is just getting approvals for Australia now. I was with Skymesh but have gone to ipstar.
Unfortunately in the country here we have NO choice of fast internet. Either wireless broadband which is throttled to the point I can not watch you tube sometimes, or satellite which is very slow as well. I was on 12/1, now on 25/5. That is the fastest!
There is no doubt that we are ripped off here in Oz. City folk fair better with Cable and 5G. I'm not prepared to pay a lot as it is not a necessity for us.