Good morning!!!!

[NHBX]

Good morning,

28° now highs in the low 40’s, winds W 5-10 mph. Some sun early and clouding up throughout the day. The guessers are calling for 8-14” heavy snow starting late tonight through tomorrow evening. Something tells me they may be right this time.

Today will be the usual pre-storm ritual, fuel and run generator for awhile, fuel walk behind blower, fuel tractor, go fill any empty cans. I think I’ll pull the plow and put the snowblower on the tractor just in case!

Enjoy your day and stay safe everyone

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 30 going up to 46 , looks cloudy.
Big truck tried to get across our towns narrow bridge past the huge signs and drop bar, and flashing lights.
Now they have to try and get it unstuck.

Off for bloodwork later in prep for heart dr. appt.

Be well,

 

[shetland sheepdog]

30 and mostly sunny here in srn NH. Increasing clouds, with a high near 42. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the afternoon, forecast for today.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

You cannot buy the B52 new - the tooling is long gone, and most of the people who knew how to run the tooling are, too.

I'm sorry, I meant back in the early 60's. It seems they were $9.8 million in 1962.
Now 2. something billion, just for 608 engines to retrofit 76 planes. And the money is going to Rolls Royce. They say there are "problems" with integrating the new turbo fan engines. I hope the contract requires they be designed and made stateside.
Cost of B-52 Re-Engining Jumps By Half in New Estimate of Refit | Air & Space Forces Magazine

The wifey made me some decaf pecan coffee, with some chocolate. yummy.

We had quite the storms last night, with wind gusts over 50mph. Even the rugs on my back porch where blown over. Only .39" rain. Now the storms are headed east north east. Hang on to your hats!

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It was 29 and sunny when I got up this morning, looks like that’s gonna change.

The comments and pictures of air force hardware reminded me of the time that I got to go along an a practice refueling mission in a KC135 (707) with a B1 as the receiver. It was an incredible view lying on the “couch” next to the boom operator while connecting to the B1.
I don’t remember what camera I had, but it definitely did not have a long lens.

Yesterday was another day of speaker work in the shop, 3 of them are coming along nicely.

Today will be more of the same, hopefully playing music tonight, but that’s not confirmed yet.

 

[Popgadget]

Forgot this view, the B1 joined on our wing just for this photo op for me!

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 47˚F clear skies heading to the 70s, North wind. A lot of wind and .8" rain yesterday evening as the front blew in. The tornado sirens went off as there was a report of a tornado near but I think it was just the 60mph straight line winds swirling. Had a little hail and some of the patio mortar between the rocks was chipped out and my neighbors limb pile from ice storm was blown in my yard.

Slowly getting my after vacation to-do list knocked out and it going down faster than being added to. While at my mom's sawing up the limbs in her yard we noticed a broken double pane window. Filed an insurance claim and called a glass company, they should be out there today. Found a rock under the bed was the culprit, last time the yard was mowed was in December. ??

Night before last a peculiar oder like plastic burning woke us up and we were searching the house for an hour. By process of elimination determined the most probable place was the AC blower motor. AC man yesterday thought it should still be under warranty and ordered a new one. motor still works but smells like something toxic when turned on so it is out of service till replaced. Thankful it decided to go out when we could leave it off for a few days.

Took out the dead hedges in the backyard garden and replacing them with the raised bed gardens we got from TS - This will take a few weeks as we relocate stepping stones and add a dozen new hedges that can take 0˚.

 

[riptides]

Morning all, 30 going up to 46 , looks cloudy.
Big truck tried to get across our towns narrow bridge past the huge signs and drop bar, and flashing lights.
Now they have to try and get it unstuck.

Off for bloodwork later in prep for heart dr. appt.

Be well,
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I have almost been that guy or gal. Parking garages with wifes truck. The antenna always seems to hit the support beams.

Time to flatten the tires.

 

[riptides]

Forgot this view, the B1 joined on our wing just for this photo op for me!
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Such a sleek baby! She is a beaut!

 

[m7040]

good Morning!

God has given us another chance to get it right (or at least not screw up too badly).

56.6F, currently in between bands of rain, and today’s forecast is for rain, light rain, rain, showers, rain, thunderstorms, and rain. So tomorrow should be pretty mucky up at the woodlot.

The heat shield on the Subaru’s exhaust started rattling a couple weeks ago, and has now getting to the annoying level, so tomorrow morning it will get jacked up and I will try finding it down with some 16ga galvanized fence wire and hope for the best - it is the original exhaust from 2010 and is otherwise in good shape — and replacing it would be a major expense and time-suck right now. If it will keep things reasonably quiet until around June that would be good, it would get us past a couple impending spring projects we want to spend on first.

The last couple weeks, at one of the local heavy-equipment repair/welding shops, there has been a Unimog 419 sitting out in front… I wonder if I can call up and sortakinda play dumb and ask about it. I know some of you folks are familiar with Mogs - is it really a viable alternative to something like a Ford 555? We really need something with an excavator bucket, a mini-excavator is nice, especially with the mobility the tracks provide, but a backhoe has that big scoop up front . . . And so does a 419. . .

Still fighting with that oil breather cap. It won’t budge. Rafters and comealong are next.

Happy Friday!!!! I hope everyone has a happy healthy safe blessed day!

”Aardvarks” isn’t that bad - just remember what the Brits and Aussies call the EA-6 Prowler…

That Unimog was used by US military to dig in for tanks and military hardware. It is a very capable machine and lots of surplus spare parts available. It is best used with two people, one to move the machine and one to operate the backhoe. A minix is the best for the ease of positioning and digging

 

[kenmbz]

I have almost been that guy or gal. Parking garages with wifes truck. The antenna always seems to hit the support beams.

Time to flatten the tires.

We have a few of these narrow short bridges here. Barely get 2 cars across. When I travel it, mirrors get brought in.

The resulting 7.5-foot lane width is 4.5 feet less than the standard 12-foot-wide interstate highway lane. The bridge's height limit is 10 feet. The bridge's two highest traffic years were 2013 and 2016, when a daily average of 7,500 vehicles crossed. A daily average of 6,400 vehicles crossed the bridge in 2021.

And to top it off, it's a small tight intersection. So watching big trucks try to back out of the entrance is almost like watching a pro sport.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwibvJiz77_9AhUqj4kEHZa8Cr8QFnoECBAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWashington_Crossing_Bridge&usg=AOvVaw3juQ7Q6xFBaIBFzdUDvT9l

 

[m7040]

here is a Pic of the 419

 

[LouNY]

We have several narrow and low bridges and over passes around here. They have been in existence for decades and it used to be a rare event when some idiot got stuck in one, now it seems to be a common occurrence. Then DOT seems to think the ATowns and cities should spend millions to raise them or lower the roads so all vehicles can get through. How about the idiots running these trucks lean to read and comprehend what low clearance means.

 

[pennwalk]

Here is a good way to enjoy snow. Now that is a snowblower.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

here is a Pic of the 419

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Most of that model, are missing the hood or bonnet. I think they get wiped out from loader use. I'd love to have one.

 

[pennwalk]

The parking garage at Johns Hopkins has yellow low clearance signs right after you enter the garage. Now you tell me. One time I drove the Tundra. I remember thinking I had about 1 inch of clearance. I was a little nervous. On the way out I noticed they have a high clearance garage across the street.

Chris

 

[m7040]

The parking garage at Johns Hopkins has yellow low clearance signs right after you enter the garage. Now you tell me. One time I drove the Tundra. I remember thinking I had about 1 inch of clearance. I was a little nervous. On the way out I noticed they have a high clearance garage across the street.

Chris

We have been at the Johns Hopkins parking garage with the Sprinter and it just cleared under the 9 ft boom at the only one we could find close by.

 

[riptides]

The parking garage at Johns Hopkins has yellow low clearance signs right after you enter the garage. Now you tell me. One time I drove the Tundra. I remember thinking I had about 1 inch of clearance. I was a little nervous. On the way out I noticed they have a high clearance garage across the street.

Chris

LOL.

Yes, the McElderry Street Garage is the place to park. Stay on the first level. No issues. Nice wide turns, no antenna banging. The other garage which claims to have oversized, Orleans Street is difficult to drive into and around to get the few spaces that are available.

 

[Looking4new]

We have several narrow and low bridges and over passes around here. They have been in existence for decades and it used to be a rare event when some idiot got stuck in one, now it seems to be a common occurrence. Then DOT seems to think the ATowns and cities should spend millions to raise them or lower the roads so all vehicles can get through. How about the idiots running these trucks lean to read and comprehend what low clearance means.

Good G-d, you expect the newer truck drivers to be able to read???
They are blindly following GPS.
In days past a certain Canadian trucking company would route their driver via Rand-McNally maps (designed for cars) via the shortest route. They quickly learned that their system didn't work. Any truck driver worth his salt has a paper map book somewhere in his truck.

 

[IXLR8]

Good G-d, you expect the newer truck drivers to be able to read???
They are blindly following GPS.

There was a trucking company in the US that recently got in trouble as they were hiring foreign drivers that couldn't speak or read english, handing them a CDL license and sending them out on the road. And we are surprised things like this are happening more and more often.