New shop started

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Agree Eddie

I just looked at current prices. Wow!!

Kyle, the wheeled ex is still here. I’m fearful of teaching the wife how to operate as she would dig me a grave as her first project.

No more fast cars. That old (cheap) 2001 Porsche above has been a lot of affordable fun.

I kept the yammar as anything that makes my life easier likely has to stay around to help me.

Retirement and a medical condition have slowed me down. I have to plan a lot more and monitor myself to avoid injury

Thx for the kind words

Getting old isn’t easy!

Hope you get better, and take care of yourself as best as possible. Prayers.

You would be a fun neighbor to have.

 

[plastikosmd]

Thank u!

Long term battle but I’m still fighting!

 

[plastikosmd]

Driveway repair w the little allis b12/grader blade and the excavator to haul a load or 2 of wrap

 

[daugen]

very cool little scraper blade, had to zoom in to see it.

I had one very similar on my Gravely for awhile, what a huge amount of hand work it saved on family farm's
1/3 mile long gravel driveway. Not having larger machinery, had to wait until after a good rain that softened things up, and
then I could push that mid mount blade down as hard as it would go without stopping the tractor.
must be fun for you to come off that and get into that giant excavator

 

[plastikosmd]

A blast!

That little allis does great work!

The 8’x8’ drag uphill was a bit much
Loss of traction not power!

(And now that it is compacted, no issues)

 

[plastikosmd]

it’s hard to say if there is any market now for garden tractors with the advent of SCUTs but this thing is easy to work on and tough. It is literally 20 min to swap an engine or about 8 bolts to exchange nearly anything

 

[civilian]

I like that under body scrapper that's on it. Many years ago I had seen one on a Gravely riding lawn tractor. Guy used it to maintain the long driveway. Too bad SCUTS don't offer them now. Jon

 

[plastikosmd]

It is handy
Angles 4 ways.
Just put more pressure on one foot to get that side to “dig”

 

[plastikosmd]

Well it was time for a mask upgrade.
I went with the Sundstrom SR 500/580 PAPR kit is a belt mounted Powered Air-Purifying Respirator

I’m kinda done with everything I needed to sandblast w the dustless and may let it go.

(Tho having sold things I thought I was “done with “ before hasn’t worked out well!)

Nevertheless, the mask I will keep, coal forging and grinding are still necessary tasks and this should serve me well.

 

[EddieWalker]

That looks like what everyone at the hospital was wearing the first time I got Covid!!!!!

 

[plastikosmd]

Maybe it was?

They aren’t cheap, maybe 1500?

I think there is a kit where I can add a pump, tho probably not necessary as I’m not working in booth

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I have a 3M version at work, I really like it, but then again I'm in a room kept at 67F with 50% humidity.

 

[plastikosmd]

It should work for forge and wet sand blasting, I hope

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I learned real quick, not to pass gas, with the unit at belt level behind me.....

 

[plastikosmd]

And that, I never considered

Should slap it on the wife who insists her farts don’t stink…

 

[bindian]

And that, I never considered

Should slap it on the wife who insists her farts don’t stink…

She would probably say you left it in there.
hugs, Brandi

 

[plastikosmd]

Ha!

Or blame a cat

 

[bindian]

My dog can see his farts.
If a clown farts does it smell funny?
hugs, Brandi

 

[plastikosmd]

Just cats here, only the old one will nuke u

With an innocent face

 

[plastikosmd]

Well got the 2001 detailed

Went from a 20’ to a 5’ paintjob

Very happy

Also cleaned up some overgrown around pistol range



Every year I talk myself out of a grapple for good reason.