Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

32 freezing rain gross outside turns to rain later then more rain tonight big freeze tomorrow lasting thru Tuesday next week 60 by next Saturday. Pines hanging low have work related things to do

Prayers for riptides family and wife all others silent or spoken our Country

 

[Buppies]

Drew somewhat

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 46˚F and the cold front blows in at 11AM by 4 pm we will be 32˚ and by morning 14˚. The strong winds will make it seem colder.

Plants are in front of the garage need to slide them inside and cover a few more hedges. We have natural gas as the main heat but the electricity of course runs the fan. The gas stove can be lit by match if the electric ignition does not work - just reminds me, I have no matches, store run.

At least there's no rain/snow in the forecast.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Made it to dentist, so far weather going around us. 33° with a few flurries.
Son got in around midnight. I heard him but didn’t see him.

 

[m7040]

Good morning all, snow dusting changing to rain later. COLD is on the way with forecast of 4 F Friday

No plans to day other than staying warm and comfortable inside

We use the ceiling fan to move the air down from the high ceiling in the room with the Jotul stove. Plan to change that stove to a larger one. Mass is your friend in wood stoves and will allow longer burns.
The Jotul is smaller and need to be fired hard to heat enough on cold days.

Mostly, that Milwaukee saw base uses the standard Milwaukee band saw and was widely used by pipe fitters on job sites. It does not need a table since legs can be mounted using standard treaded pipe

To add to the discussions on thumbs I took a picture of mine. It is the most useful tool

 

[Popgadget]

Popg, I have looked at cold saws but never got around to buying one. I have a 14 inch cut off saw.
How did the Makita saw work out for you. Assume that the same batteries will work as in the chainsaw?

Frits
The saw worked out amazingly well. It’s not a true cold saw though. A cold saw blade is under 100 RPM and is flooded with coolant. This is 3900 RPM no load and cuts dry. A typical wood cutting saw is around 7000 RPM.
It cuts 3/8” steel effortlessly with no sparks. Chips are quite warm, but not painful if they land on you. I have a large stationary horizontal bandsaw that gets used regularly, this is not to replace that, but is great for cutting a up sheet of steel. The project that I bought it for was cutting square tubing that was already welded together into a structure, and wouldn’t fit in a stationary saw.
And yes, it uses the same 18v LXT batteries as the chainsaw.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 39F @ 5:00AM. Morning fog, then cloudy this afternoon. High around 50F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.
Maybe a sprinkle overnight tonight, Then dry through the weekend, and rain every day for the rest of the 10-day.

Tried to catch up on this thread yesterday, but you folks have been real busy. Will keep trying.

Only one glitch on the ride down to Lompoc last week when the bike went on first reserve. It usually lasts at least 20 miles, but that time it went 3. Then second reserve lasted another 3, which should have been another 20. Then third reserve never really caught on, but I was at a gas pump by then. Tank only took 4.3 gallons, and holds 6.3, so there's a problem with the fuel supply. Made due by stopping early for fuel the rest of the trip, and I'll look into it once it starts raining.

Other than that, my friends and I enjoyed a long weekend at a beach front cabin. It had all the modern conveniences: very quiet heat pump heating, small electric hot plate and microwave oven for cooking (we brought a mini Weber for BBQ), small water heater with just enough capacity for a quick shower, even WiFi. Weather was brisk overnight, but mostly sunny during the day, so we got in some hikes up and down the beach. And probably ate and drank too much, but no one seemed to be paying attention.

On the way back from the beach we looked at a new wind power site on the south side of town. We found a couple dozen of the biggest windmills I'd ever seen sited along a ridge that's mostly out of sight from town. Each blade must have been at least a hundred feet long, and they were using a couple very large cranes to do the assembly. Very impressive installation.

But maybe the best part was how the hills are starting to green up from the recent rains. A very pleasant change from the parched brown of summer.

Yesterday I tried to get through my email and maybe made it half way before I had to get away from it. Spent the rest of the day pulling dead trees out of a pile, limbing them with the chainsaw, then stacking the logs for later processing. Got maybe a dozen or so done, and made lots of wood for the campfire in the process. Got that tucked away under a tarp just as it was getting dark last night. And that was at about 5PM. A reminder that the days will be getting longer from now until next summer.

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

 

[IXLR8]

Good morning,
Lows overnight were 33F, that happened at midnight and temps have been rising since under cloudy skys. Presently it is 50 with forecast high of 54. Rains due in about 10am this morning. Earlier in the week they were forecasting ~2" of rain, but they have dropped that back to only 0.8".

Looking4new- I had a manual thumb on my Kioti CK30, when I got my Kioti DK40 I added a hydraulic thumb to the BH. I will NEVER go back to a manual thumb again.

Shop pad corners marked, found that when site work was done they didn't center the back driveway with the back overhead door. So I moved the building a little to compensate.

Mini-split errors were indeed operator induced. I have 2 inside units and 1 outside unit. Turns out I had one inside unit set to heat, the other set to cool.... that can't happen. System, and me, happier with both being set to heat, especially with single digit temps due here Saturday.

With the chilly rain on its way, I think today will be spent in the house doing some more unpacking from our move. Wifey is starting to grumble about me sorting out my shop and not doing anything in the house.

Be careful out there.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 27 and warming up to almost 50 as the rain moves in. It’s supposed to rain until tomorrow evening, and the the temperature drops like a rock for the next week.

It would be a miserable day today, except that I got this picture from the vet that is driving my puppy up from NC, just before they left early this morning.

Yesterday was cold, didn’t do anything outside except go to peddlers village with Wife, son, DIL and grandson. We had a nice dinner and a good time overall. But it was cold outside.

Today, we have a few things to do to get ready for the puppy, we have my daughters dogs for the day because she is moving, but we will take them to her new house before the puppy shows up.

Other than that, a leisurely day until I get a phone call, text or email with something else to keep me busy.

And I’m glad that all this precipitation will be liquid. Might be a bit of snow at the beginning and end, but it will be 50 or so for the worst of it.

 

[kenmbz]

morning all, 25 taking kid to school this morning.
Very gray out. Got some ingredients for wife to bake cookies, she did linzer tarts last night.

Went by Peddlars village so she could get some cookie cutters and stamps last night. Lights look good, very crowded. Saw some friends there, so that was fun. Probably just missed you PopG.

On the way had to stop for the New Hope Steam train, fun to watch it go by, wonder how crowded with $100+ tickets.

Rip - hope the surgery goes perfect and she heals up quick.

This is the bigger buck, he does not like to be disturbed, so we give him wide berth when he comes through.

be well,