so waht ya doin today?
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Rally
NC Minnesota
Fiver,
My wife feels your pain! She's been having to cover her flowers several times this year. Weather man calling for two more nights of frost advisory. I'm loving it as I'm sure it works the skeeters over pretty good too. I've only seen a few deer flies so far, but they usually are here a couple weeks and gone just as fast. Evening news had some guy from Mn. Health Dept. or something claiming the deep snow last winter insulated the ticks, and we are suppose to have higher numbers of tics present than last year. All I can say to that is BULL. I'm covering 212 miles on my forestry contracts and can remember only two days where I was flickin tics. Last year they were like ants some places. Usually only bad a couple weeks and disappear anyway. I'm thinking that health dept. guy was throwing darts at a dart board.
Seem to be a lot of bears around this year. I'm feeding them pretty well, but even places they don't normally show up they are this year. I'm using one forestry road that goes in 3.5 miles from a county road. Counted 17 piles of wolf crap in the road in that 3.5 miles. It was grated about a week ago! No shortage there.
My wife feels your pain! She's been having to cover her flowers several times this year. Weather man calling for two more nights of frost advisory. I'm loving it as I'm sure it works the skeeters over pretty good too. I've only seen a few deer flies so far, but they usually are here a couple weeks and gone just as fast. Evening news had some guy from Mn. Health Dept. or something claiming the deep snow last winter insulated the ticks, and we are suppose to have higher numbers of tics present than last year. All I can say to that is BULL. I'm covering 212 miles on my forestry contracts and can remember only two days where I was flickin tics. Last year they were like ants some places. Usually only bad a couple weeks and disappear anyway. I'm thinking that health dept. guy was throwing darts at a dart board.
Seem to be a lot of bears around this year. I'm feeding them pretty well, but even places they don't normally show up they are this year. I'm using one forestry road that goes in 3.5 miles from a county road. Counted 17 piles of wolf crap in the road in that 3.5 miles. It was grated about a week ago! No shortage there.
smokeywolf
Well-Known Member
Keith, have you got your Huot drill drawers filled yet?
This is what a drill index looked like in the 1940s. The index base is bronze.
This is what a drill index looked like in the 1940s. The index base is bronze.
fiver
Well-Known Member
it's been knocking the skeeters and such back pretty good, the flies not so much.
we were at the lake fishing and I didn't have to wave my hand one time, not overly notable usually since the wind generally keeps them at bay.
we were actually hoping for a breeze or a cloud or something,,, anything,, I was starting to sweat just sitting there.
55-60F is hot after days in the upper 30's, maybe mid 40's being the usual.
we were at the lake fishing and I didn't have to wave my hand one time, not overly notable usually since the wind generally keeps them at bay.
we were actually hoping for a breeze or a cloud or something,,, anything,, I was starting to sweat just sitting there.
55-60F is hot after days in the upper 30's, maybe mid 40's being the usual.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Only a few black flies here so far. Everything is waaaaay behind. Just saw a frog for the first time this year yesterday, strawberries are way, way behind, most of the corn is still in the bag, but some of the grasses are headed out early. Odd year.
Got some skid steer work done yesterday, not a lot, but some. Trying to figure out a charging system issue that I think is just related to using too big an ammeter in a low amp system. Made it to the feed mill for the first time in 2 months! They were getting worried about me, probably 'cuz I had a bill there.
Had two electric fencers fixed at the old time, true blue electrical repair shop. Must 6 guys work there, all from the same family and they all look like twins. Good people. Got daughters planter boxes/raised beds done, got the landscape fabric down and started filling one with composted manure. Gonna take 7 or 8 buckets full, so I took the old spreader down and dumped the rotten landscape timbers out of it and lit them off. I really don't get the idea of "landscape timbers" that aren't rated for ground contact. ??? Had some chicken on the grill for supper. We went back to charcoal after finding gas grills just didn't have any flavor no matter what we did. Then we found commercial briquettes gave the food an "off" flavor. So we tried what is sold as "chunk charcoal" and that's the ticket. Not quite as good as apple or maple wood, but quicker and last a good long time. It was back to rain by supper time and evening chores saw us back in rain coats and barn boots. Time to build an ark...
Got some skid steer work done yesterday, not a lot, but some. Trying to figure out a charging system issue that I think is just related to using too big an ammeter in a low amp system. Made it to the feed mill for the first time in 2 months! They were getting worried about me, probably 'cuz I had a bill there.
Had two electric fencers fixed at the old time, true blue electrical repair shop. Must 6 guys work there, all from the same family and they all look like twins. Good people. Got daughters planter boxes/raised beds done, got the landscape fabric down and started filling one with composted manure. Gonna take 7 or 8 buckets full, so I took the old spreader down and dumped the rotten landscape timbers out of it and lit them off. I really don't get the idea of "landscape timbers" that aren't rated for ground contact. ??? Had some chicken on the grill for supper. We went back to charcoal after finding gas grills just didn't have any flavor no matter what we did. Then we found commercial briquettes gave the food an "off" flavor. So we tried what is sold as "chunk charcoal" and that's the ticket. Not quite as good as apple or maple wood, but quicker and last a good long time. It was back to rain by supper time and evening chores saw us back in rain coats and barn boots. Time to build an ark...
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
Black flies are one of the few things I don't miss, since leaving Michigan. Ticks and chiggers were practically nonexistent. Not the case here in Arkansas...............Cindy and I are both suffering from chigger bites. They seem to thrive, when we have wet Springs.
Took the GKs home last eve. We were walking down their street , they wanted to see what was going on, bang - flash- smoke -twice (transformers). Nope, no power yet. Then down their ally, still blocked by trees. This one is huge, completely blocking. Guess they will be working his block now, crew was supposed to be there 7:30 this morning for removal of neighbor's tree in his yard. Saw they house that got hit by the big one, ~3' diameter trunk. Prolly 2 sq miles of this stuff - lots of fire wood available, city will prolly bring in a huge chipper like they did couple yrs ago. Gonna need a pelican hook & many trucks to haul the stuff. Curb is lined with lots of 1' dia. logs.
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uncle jimbo
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Smokeywolf, in the first picture you posted, it shows two toolboxes. Are they yours? The one on the right is just like the one I got from my father when he dies. It was his when he was a aircraft mechanic in the navy during WW2. His name is stenciled on the top of the lid with some other identifying markings from the navy.
JonB
Halcyon member
Yesterday, I cut down (and cut up) a couple red elm trees at a horse ranch, it was sunny and quite windy and 80ºF. There are many standing dead trees mixed with live trees that need to be saved, in this woods, and it is a thick woods and lots of tall grass, like 3 feet tall grass, that seems to wrap around my legs and trip me up. I haven't cut wood "in the wild" for many years...I've been lucky to cut trees in town or at a municipal compose site (gravel yard).
Anyway, WOW, what a lot of work it was to get that tree down and cut up and loaded into my trailer, which I couldn't get the trailer too close to the site due to obstacles (I wish I brought my ATV), and then have to deal with all the brush, while wading through 3' tall grass.
After I finished cleaning up the brush from those two trees, I thanked the land owner, and told them it was just too much work for the amount of wood, so I won't be cutting anymore. Plus I ain't in the best shape to do that hard work anymore. This morning, my knees are killing me...So I probably won't be unloading the trailer until tomorrow morning.
Anyway, WOW, what a lot of work it was to get that tree down and cut up and loaded into my trailer, which I couldn't get the trailer too close to the site due to obstacles (I wish I brought my ATV), and then have to deal with all the brush, while wading through 3' tall grass.
After I finished cleaning up the brush from those two trees, I thanked the land owner, and told them it was just too much work for the amount of wood, so I won't be cutting anymore. Plus I ain't in the best shape to do that hard work anymore. This morning, my knees are killing me...So I probably won't be unloading the trailer until tomorrow morning.
Couple of months ago doc asked me if I've been getting any exercise, I said sure, cutting down, cutting up, loading, unloading, splitting, stacking some oak trees. She said that's not exercise. Me said oh really, you are invited to come with me next time and we'll see if you can keep up with me. Odd, she declined.
smokeywolf
Well-Known Member
uncle jimbo, the pics were taken in my garage/shop. The tool box on the right is your standard size Kennedy box. That one was given to me by a retiring machinist who wanted nothing to do with machining anymore. I have two more that I inherited from my father. The "boxes" on the left are Huot Drill Drawers stacked one atop the other. One is for number drills and one is for fractional. Among other things, I keep all my aircraft extension drills in that Kennedy chest. That's why it's parked next to the Huot Drill Drawers.
KeithB
Resident Half Fast Machinist
Been on the phone all morning. One drill cabinet (the one for S & D drills) didn't arrive (as promised) last Friday, I waited until Monday afternoon to try and contact seller. got no response so this morning I started trying to sort things out. It involved calling credit union to cancel charge to VISA account, then call to PayPal which switched me to eBay to cancel purchase by filing complaint. Within a couple hours the seller contacted me to say he would refund money within 48 hours. Darned right, 'cause I'm still canceling purchase through credit union.
Found out that this seller had a lot of "failure to deliver" complaints and a low rating on eBay.
First time I've been burned on an eBay purchase.
On up side, the outfit that I ordered the other drill cabinet from has a 100% rating on eBay and they delivered the item a day early. I went to their store, found the same S & D type drill cabinet for $98 shipped vs $118 for the first seller so I ordered it. Should be here next Monday. Found out I had ordered from these guys three times before over the years with good results so I expect things to go better this time.
Smokey, the first cabinet (letter, #, fractional) now has every drill we own of those types sorted into the right slots. Don't have spares of some sizes, but as we need them we will buy them. Debating whether to buy metric cabinet, with Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana (TMMI) just up the road and us getting more second/third hand subcontract work from them we are using a lot more metric drills, taps and endmills.
Between the little red boxes/bins/trays from Schaller Co and the new drill cabinet we are really getting organized, it is starting to pay off as we get together the necessary tooling to set up new jobs. We can go to one place and get every insert, tap, or end mill and another place two steps away to get every drill, countersink and reamer we need. And when we are done we know exactly where to PUT THINGS BACK.
Found out that this seller had a lot of "failure to deliver" complaints and a low rating on eBay.
First time I've been burned on an eBay purchase.
On up side, the outfit that I ordered the other drill cabinet from has a 100% rating on eBay and they delivered the item a day early. I went to their store, found the same S & D type drill cabinet for $98 shipped vs $118 for the first seller so I ordered it. Should be here next Monday. Found out I had ordered from these guys three times before over the years with good results so I expect things to go better this time.
Smokey, the first cabinet (letter, #, fractional) now has every drill we own of those types sorted into the right slots. Don't have spares of some sizes, but as we need them we will buy them. Debating whether to buy metric cabinet, with Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana (TMMI) just up the road and us getting more second/third hand subcontract work from them we are using a lot more metric drills, taps and endmills.
Between the little red boxes/bins/trays from Schaller Co and the new drill cabinet we are really getting organized, it is starting to pay off as we get together the necessary tooling to set up new jobs. We can go to one place and get every insert, tap, or end mill and another place two steps away to get every drill, countersink and reamer we need. And when we are done we know exactly where to PUT THINGS BACK.
RBHarter
West Central AR
We seem to be chigger magnets . Been thinking about buying stock in OFF and Avon for Skin so soft .
