so waht ya doin today?

Area51, lol, that's funny. For when the descriptor compound is taken as a compliment. I just need the backhoe.
 
Very solid looking fence. Having strung a few miles of 4 strand barbed wire and some single
strand electric (way, WAY easier) I can recognize a far better job than I ever did.

Bill
 
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Do you use crimps on the ends of runs and corner posts? I have access to a crimper any time I want, but hzve been told it was only for splicing or pulling two straight runs together in the middle, not for tying off to a post.

My biggest issue is small-diameter corner posts, 2-7/8". With larger posts there's more room to work the wire.
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Yes. I don't know why you wouldn't. Take 2 wraps around the post to spread the load and crimp it. I'm no physics major, but common sense says there will be a greater load on a line crimp than on a corner where the load is spread across the post, be it steel or wood. If that not recommended it's the first I've ever heard of it. The only reason I can think it wouldn't be recommended is because of the angle between the line run and tail run. But if that was that big a deal at the low pressures we're working with, especially with a spring loaded system...it just doesn't seem likely it would be a major factor.

Okay, now I've seen the pics. I didn't catch the "game fence" part of the high tensile fencing. My bad. I still don't know why crimps wouldn't work. If nothing else you could make the half hitch and finish with a crimp, but I'd strongly consider looking into factory recommendations on crimping or not. That's a crazy amount of work for what you end up with.

BTW, nice fence. I've seen nothing like it outside of our prisons.
 
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Spent yesterday, and Saturday for that matter, just picking stuff up ahead of staying snow. It's amazing the amount of "stuff" that ends up someplace it can't stay at around here. Cleaned out the side of the garage my wife like to park in in the winter. That required me cleaning off the accumulated stuff on the shelving I stupidly put nearby. The shelving has become a magnet for anything anyone in my family thinks is too heavy to carry to where it actually belongs. It was supposed to be for oil filters, headlights, windshield wash fluid and other auto related stuff. It ended up holding fishing rods, plant food and fertilizer, kite string, coloring books, flip flops, half finished soda bottles, etc. I also moved a load of lumber and sheet rock cut offs. Never thought I'd see the day I'd hem and haw over keeping or tossing a 2x3 foot hunka sheet rock, but that stuff is crazy expensive these days for what it is. Found a whole lotta metal on the other side of the space that got cataloged, so to speak, and moved to better location. Got rid of a lot of junk that I must have thought I might have a use for someday, but if "someday" hasn't shown up over 20 years, it probably isn't going to get here at all. I did manage to find the rear set of tire chains for the Willys I've been looking for and got enough crap moved/tossed that I can actually get to my shaper and the cabinet that I was supposed to be storing my air tools in. Found my air hammer too! Thats good since I was under the impression I either never had one and my mind was going or some really desperate person had stolen it. I also managed to fix 2 more chainsaws, pick up a mess of tools I know I never moved from where they were supposed to be and found a mess of other stuff I'd forgotten I even owned. Cleaned/put away an amazing amount of stuff that had accumulated in the yard over the summer repair season, and got the lawn tractors an a couple vehicles moved to a better spots. Wish I had a shed to put them in. I still have some floor jacks to move and a steel table that weighs a few hundred lbs to get out of the way for snow plowing, but we're getting there. Meanwhile, our snow has melted and everything is MUD.
 
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Good grief Bret, you're not busy or anything (sarc). I'd be pretty proud of myself if I could do in a month, what you did in two days.
 
What a day.... shopdog and I started out easy peasy,fire up some classic American "arn". Got some parts run in the machine shop. She's being dang patient so figured,what the hay let's go hunting.

Grab the 7-08,binos,shootin sticks,a few extra rounds. Weather "broke" from rainy/dreary to.... Sun coming out. Hadn't taken shopdog on a gun hunt but she was bored and..... well,whatever my baby wants,she gets.... I loaded up the Buick. Figured what the effe,let's at least say we're hunting.

Went for a 3 mile hint/hike... didn't see chit.Can say we gave a new meaning to the comand,"pull"..... yeah,would love to say we broke 25 straight on a top tiered Clay's course but nope.... pull,means shopdog pulling my dumbarse up some pretty steep grades.To wit,she's got it.

Between the time we set out.... and got back to the shop.... the weather changed dramatically. The wind is now blowing 30+ sustained mph,and no letup in sight. Back to machine work.
 
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Dang, Bret, I just thought I was tired. Reading all that wore me right out! Something about dealing with chaos in inadequate space is uniquely exhausting.
 
Work for me is in it's slow down phase ( glad I scheduled my wrist surgery now) So I'm trying to do all the hard hand and wrist stuff ....like swirling PC containers ( very painful for me now) Since yesterday I did a few hundred 8mm and 30-30 Ranch Dog NOEs.
Tried that new trick that BHuij suggested : putting the PC coated bullets in cartridge trays then inverting the pan over them the flipping it over & removing the trays.
I can do 100 ( 2 trays) in my oven with out them tipping over! Also since they are spaced much tighter for some reason my oven it hitting 400 deg every time! I'm thinking if I can get all this heavy stuff out of the way I can load & shoot while I'm off recuperating!
 
Nice gate sign.

2-legged curs, indeed. Marie and I between us raised 6 daughters, so it fell to me to do the vetting-for-dating sequence. I made it a point to be cleaning guns whenever an introduction was pending. The girls always were home on time from their dates, even after high school. The best-heard messages are often unspoken.
 
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Well, thanks guys, but it was just a more or less normal day around here. It probably sounds like a lot more "doing" than it really was. It's not a huge garage or anything. If I wasn't as absent minded/ADD I wouldn't put things down with the intention of taking care of it "in a minute". That minute never gets here!

Yesterday was just a cold, cold drizzling rain and outside of chores and fixing our water softner all I got done was running one kid to a doctors appt a hour away. I was hoping to work on the manure pile or the wood pile, but that didn't happen. Same weather today, brake work to be done on a truck, some plumbing and wood had to be done. Gonna be a yucky day.
 
Installing a replacement bathroom door in an old 1890s Fla house that my wife
and her brother jointly own. Nearly got it all cut down. Sorta 24" wide but 78" tall
on one side and 77 1/2" on the other side, tapered about 3/16" at the top over the
last 2 ft at the top. Cut to fit, of course. Hinges on, it is basically hung, need to trim
a touch more at the top and upper 2 ft on the edge. Will trim down a bit tomorrow and
drill in the lockset. Then start on the other one. :)

The second one is sorta 28" wide. We'll see how tall it is. Square and parallel were unknown
terms in 1890 apparently. Going to hit freezing tonight, had to put away the HUGE staghorn fern
this afternoon into the green house. Takes two of us with a long 2x4 to carry it, just short of
impossible to hang it up in the greenhouse with just the two of us. BIL had to go to out of town
for a few days and the freeze won't wait.
Beats plowing and shoveling the 6" of snow at home by a wide margin.

Bill
 
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Took dog to the vet today , she's been off , lost some hair we assumed was the flea season wreckage ........ No such luck looks like I'll be looking for a new pup this spring .
Canine lymphoma all over , take her home until she's not comfortable anymore ..... The house breaking is the worst part , well that and getting their nose past hot blood the first few times .
No more Rotten mutts I guess , I'll have to see if I can find a Wiemeranner I guess , maybe chessi or a dobi mutt .
 
Certainly not in the realm of some on this board but......

Never have been too effected by "wind chill" factors. If you consider being an ardent 4 season motorcyclist as a metric.And have worked outside in some right nasty conditions. Maybe it's my age? but DANG it's been nasty here in the Virginia mnts. Wind has been howling for days.... and now the temps are mid 20's. Wind has been sustained @30 mph.... with "gusts",sheesh.

Hunting is out.... shooting bows isn't getting anywhere..... the dog is too smart to leave the shop. Oh I got stuff to do but,would rather it be outside.
 
RB.... no complaints with our Wiemeraner. Great pet/babysitter for my boys growing up. The Chessie we had was the opposite.... dumbest ******* dog I've ever been around. And nasty,greasy coat.... about the only thing she was good for was as a watchdog detterant dog. Not because of any aggression..... nope,one look and you'd swear she was eat up with the mange. And dumber than a box of hammers.

The new, "D" word dog..... haha,we're calling her a Wiemeraner/short hair "mix" when folks ask... is highly intelligent. She's got the shiniest coat I've ever been around. Slick as glass.... which makes her good around the shop.Little Mobile one spilt on her just disappears?
 
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