so waht ya doin today?

[L Ross]

We were coming home later than usual last night, (about 10:30pm), driving up a long hill not far from our place. We saw at least 7 adult coons and 3 had litters of pups with them of about 18 coonlettes. Good grief! I swear the night is just aswarm with the pot lickers.

Box trap was sprung Monday night but one end did not latch and the varmint escape. Last night I had no takers in the trap but I see the door on my closest blue bird house is torn open. I need to put some kind of coon guard on the fence post.

I wish to hell China would decide coon made a passable pork substitute and we could export ship loads of refrigerated coon carcasses. Moo Goo Gai Coon anyone?

 

[L Ross]

Golly, there's deer all over in the yard and across the road in the little prairie right now. Does, fawns, and last year's yearlings. No fuzzy antlers. One fawn seems bigger than average already and is a nosy little cuss. Runs all over the yard, stickin' its nose into everything.

Dead still calm out, foggy. I think I need to go shoot a little this morning after the fog burns off and the deer wander away.

 

[Winelover]

Jim, I feel your pain. I have a very long gravel drive to maintain. However, our two cement companies will deliver and drop spread the gravel, if you so choose. Doesn't cost anymore to spread. Can purchase a full load (17-18 ton) or a half. I usually go the full load route. Sometimes, I will have them spread half and drop half, depending on condition of drive. The pile will get used up over time. I use the Polaris UTV's bed to move it to the locations needed...........lots of shoveling, raking and sweat.



That's about 1/3 of it. Another 1/3 up hill to the gate and the rest down hill from the utility pole. Also, goes down the west side of the house and entire back.

 

[Winelover]

Fog just moved in here, too. Rick refers to my places as Sleepy Hollow. Cant see the woods, less than 100 yards away. There goes the mowing, for this AM.

 

[Bret4207]

When we got here in '95, a load of waste rock, (marble), ran $60.00 a load. Now it's up over $300.00!!! And that's the cheap stuff. It's all in the trucking.

80% humidity here already. Gonna be a damp day.

 

[Glaciers]

Got first couple of loads of rock late yesterday. Spent first half of the day moving stuff out of the way for all the rock. Getting the drive 1/8 of a mile and then down the drive from shop to house rocked. As well as the front and side storage yard on the east side of the shop rocked. Finally will have a good drive and the drainage around the shop will be correct.
That and a few repairs and upgrades to the house, then we can put it on the market. Just kidding. Not selling out. Where would you go? Have you been to the lower 48 lately? It's crazy out there.

 

[Glaciers]

Well today I'm back working on the little loader. Wheel bearings, chain cases, exhaust manifold bolts, battery & new cables, change filters and fluids except for the hydraulic tank. Need to clean up the wiring, add a oil pan heater, and I'm sure there's going to be more. The machine was on loan for five years and neglect is the word I would use to describe the condition when it was returned.
I need to get it in usable shape and correct engine heaters so it can be outside in the winter. Need the shop space for the "new" 1968 Forester travel trailer rebuild. That needs to be ready to roll by next spring.

 

[popper]

Bored yesterday so I cleaned off the workbench. Really bored so I cleaned 2 rifles. Bored today so I got auto oil filter and a haircut. Haven't seen a cartridge filter since the MGB. Buddy pulled the housing, I put it back on but didn't know the seal ring didn't come out of the block. Got to clean up a real nice oil spill in his Mom's garage. Or course mama wasn't going to blame him.

 

[462]

didn't know the seal ring didn't come out of the block.

Happened to me the first time I changed the Midget's oil. Always checked after that, and usually found it stuck to the block.

 

[CZ93X62]

Canister oil filters on the oldies can vary in ease of installation. I had a 53 Ford F-100 with 239 CI flathead V-8, oil filter was in a "can" that required you to use a small vacuum pump top draw out the pooled oil after taking the dirty cartridge out, but its gasket was easy to set or remove. The assembly never leaked for me.

Chev V-8s prior to the spin-on filters in 1968 were a PITA, with that O-ring that seated poorly and the "can" that engaged its edge against the O-ring. Fram's O-rings stayed in place a lot better than AC O-rings did, and we used a bearing grease coating to help "stick" the O-ring in its groove; the Fram O-rings were a bit thicker. We used an ice pick to stab the old O-rings and pry them out.

 

[smokeywolf]

Drove to Springfield, MO and picked up College Boy at the airport. We get to keep him for 2 months.

From there went to Sam's Club and picked up about $500 worth of meat and fish and about $20 worth of vegetables. Got home about 2 hours ago.

 

[popper]

Replacing the thermostat in falcon 6 was fun too - flange is vertical on the front of the block and accessible from the bottom. But nothing to hold the gasket in place! Permatex doesn't stick to anything WET.

 

[Kevin Stenberg]

Holly Makanolie we finely got 10 minutes of rain.

 

[Mitty38]

Replacing the thermostat in falcon 6 was fun too - flange is vertical on the front of the block and accessible from the bottom. But nothing to hold the gasket in place! Permatex doesn't stick to anything WET.

Thread, when you got the bolts in, you cut the thread and pulled it out.

 

[L Ross]

Holly Makanolie we finely got 10 minutes of rain.

Lucky dog.

 

[Cadillac Jeff]

Got the pool all started up, earliest I remember having it up & running in a long time. Usually not this warm till July 4th .
We had a small like, Kevin 10 or 15 min. much needed rain storm.

 

[462]

Being pretty unhappy with Monday's .38 Special Uberti 1866 shoot with 5.1-grains of 7625, I loaded test rounds with 9.0, 9-5, 10.0 and 10.5-grains of 2400.

 

[CZ93X62]

We did A LOT of thermostat change-outs on the early-70s cars and trucks I learned on at the gas station/service bays in my teens. As these cars aged past the 50K miles point, and tried climbing the highway from Highland to Running Springs in 100*+ temps, the 195* thermostats ran things a bit too warmly. Standard routine was to replace the radiator cap so it held proper pressure--make sure the radiator fluid was 50/50 distilled water and anti-freeze, and swap out the OEM thermostats to 180* critters. At 6K-8K feet, water's boiling point lowers a bit, so the pressure cap had to be working and the coolant got a head start with the cooler-spec thermostats.

 

[L Ross]

Working on that first shipment of coons for starving kids in China. If the coon army thinks I am going to run out of .22 shorts before they run out of troops, well, they're wrong.

Anyone using a wire live trap? I found the perfect pan for holding the bait. I'm using one of those magnet base stainless small parts holders from Harbor Freight. It appears to be coon indestructible, the magnet holds it on the trigger pan, and I can hose it out in seconds. Previously I was tediously wiring the bottom of a Copenhagen can to the trigger. Those lasted about 2 catches and needed to be replaced.

In the middle of the night I heard the stainless pan clatter in the live trap, grinned to myself, rolled over and went back to sleep.

 

[Winelover]

I don't use live traps. Gonna shoot them anyways. I prefer the paw traps, no cage to get in harms way of the bullet. Mini marshmallows for bait.