so waht ya doin today?

JonB

JonB

Halcyon member
Keith, I love seeing how stuff is built, Thanks for the update with photos.
That visibility blocking tree does look like a dangerous hindrance...it also looks like there is a utility pole/wires there, maybe you can get that utility company to trim and/or remove it?
Good Luck,
Jon
 
Brad

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Pistolero said:
For some of us, our marriage is a source of ongoing joy.
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Mine is, a sign of that is the fact my wife sent this to me.
Nothing better than a spouse with a sense of humor and the self confidence to laugh at themself.
 
I

Intheshop

Banned
Regarding traffic,at speed.....which can be translated as "real time",vs some DOT engineered computer model nonsense....

Sight lines.

Our dumpster location which used to be just a cpl dumpsters where the community kept pretty durn clean.... even setting things outside them to be shared/recycled AND "diving" was an acceptable practice.....

Turned into,just short of razor wire,Gestapo manned 24hr camera surveillance..... computer generated site and planned. Has ZERO visibility coming out/in. No sight lines until you're committed to being out in traffic. Rd. engineering by computer is fine on highways,flat out don't work on backroads round here. This is one reason we still have "no plan rd" improvements. Yes,it's cheaper for the state but,the guys running these companies are from the hills and backroads and just know how to build good compromises into tough engineering spots.

One side benefit of all this is banked turns.....we have a LOT! And are high speed running through the hills. Soccer moms go through some of these spots,where they've grown up,in minivans at embarrassingly high speeds. Always felt kinda sorry for M/C tourists coming here putting along( flat landers) and having logging trucks taking half their lane as "oncoming" while a 35 y.o. leadfooted soccer mom is 10' behind them on a cell phone and yelling at the kids.
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Keith, I don't know how things are done there, but up here a "road hazard" report from the State Police would get that tree removed. Or you can do it the easier way and just "accidentally" arrange for a good sized truck to back over it or something to that effect. Copper nails driven into the trunk will do the job too, just takes longer. I assume it's not on your property, otherwise a chainsaw and 5 minutes (or handing hatchets to 2 12 year olds and 3 minutes) and it'd be history.

Things getting worse on the hay/feed end. Need a specific double sprocket for my round baler that ceased production in the early 1980's. Already checked my parts machine and that one is nearly as bad as this one. Plus, I can't move the assy enough to pull the gib key holding it in place. Heat is the likely answer, but heat and a greasy, hay covered background sound like a bad idea.

Neighbor across the road was working on another guys car. Other guy says neighbor is staggering, almost falling down. I suggest he's dehydrated, Earl (my neighbor) says he has a bad headache too. Other guy (another Town Board member) and I both agree Earl needs to at least get in out of the sun and drink a bunch of water. He took Earl to the house, pretty sure he told on Earl to Earls wife. She put him in the car and I imagine they spent the afternoon in the ER! Earls a great guy but man is he stubborn. Sicking his wife on him is about the only way to get him to do something he doesn't want to. They were still gone when I went to bed at 10PM.

Rained last night, some more. Wicked hot and muggy today. FedEx showed my lawn tractor carb out for delivery yesterday morning, but it never got here. Waiting on that, a tractor Bendix, Earls shotgun stock and some other stuff. I hate waiting.

On the touchscreen vs cell phone legality issue- it's a matter of degree. The problem is people becoming engrossed in something other than the road. The cell phones catch the worst of it because it's often the younger "connected" drivers using them. And IMO it's not the phone so much as it is the texting. But I imagine technology will some up with voice command options as standard soon and that should help. Screaming kids...that one is going to take some real work.
 
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Pistolero

Pistolero

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Bret, do you have a Surplus Center catalog? They have a LOT of sprockets, pulleys, and hydraulic fittings at good prices.
Might have what you need or close and can be bored up from a smaller diameter if you have a friend with a lathe.
 
fiver

fiver

Well-Known Member
I was thinking welding up the points and grinding them to [meh] shape again.
you'd still have to pull the part or deal with sparks every where.
I'd probably take the torch heat over the flying sparks.


pulled some summer squash from the garden this morning.
I say summer squash since everything growing is yellow [even the plants i have marked cucumber put out yellow fruits] so it could be zucchini or it could be summer squash.
all the little tags getting blown out of the containers this spring didn't help.
I somehow managed to get crooked neck squash, but don't recall planting any seeds for it this spring.
the crookneck squash doesn't do overly well here.
it grows kind of weird shapes and always starts to harden off while it's still pretty small.
I think the night temps in the 40's and day temps in the 80's might have something to do with it.

they fry up just fine so I'm not gonna complain.
 
Winelover

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
Lots of hard squashes...........butternut, acorn, spaghetti, etc. Just got to bake them. Cut in half and face down in a little water, in a shallow pan.
 
fiver

fiver

Well-Known Member
those are the winter squashes, I prefer to eat those over the summer varieties.
I have a spot for them out by the back fence.
a couple of things done well there last year and some sort of struggled so I figured I would give a few varieties of winter squash a shot out there.

it's kind of odd how things grow here.
I have 3 onion beds.
they look like I planted them a month apart, when in actuality they all come from the same seed bed and were planted on the same day.
two of them are 5' apart separated by the walk way, the 3rd is across a patch of lawn 4' wide.
the one in the middle is the one that looks like I just planted it yesterday.
the only difference is when they catch full sunlight.

the peas along the fence done fine from day one with no shade and the heat reflecting off the red stained fence.
the peas growing 90* to them get the morning shade off the green house, but needed more shade over them from the afternoon sun to grow well.
 
Winelover

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
Can't grow veggies, here. Deer eat them as well as Cindy's flowers. She converted her veggie garden to a flower/humming bird friendly one. Occasionally, we get an odd zucchini or cantaloupe from the compost she adds.
 
Ian

Ian

Notorious member
Winelover said:
Can't grow veggies, here. Deer eat them as well as Cindy's flowers. She converted her veggie garden to a flower/humming bird friendly one. Occasionally, we get an odd zucchini or cantaloupe from the compost she adds.
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That's why you build one of these around your garden:

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Rick

Rick

Moderator
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That's why I haven't put in a garden here. Would require a Bambi proof and a bunny proof fence all the way around or I would never get a thing from it.
 
fiver

fiver

Well-Known Member
you'd have to add another 4-5' to that here.
the deer are pretty good at minding their own business and staying in the hay fields or on private property around here.
 
Pistolero

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
Walked 1.1 miles this AM, PT this PM. I work in a little bit of relaxation and exercise, and reading
between PT sessions. I focus on healing right now.

Did work on the JD 425 tractor yesterday. It was weeping oil from one rocker cover, so I gunked & washed the motor,
and pulled it, cleaned it all up and put a new gasket on it. The first time I have done anything real in the shop
since the knee "incident". Good to start acting more like normal.
Got some suppressor height sights for the M&P 45, will put them on today, I think.

Ordered a 175 gr TC 6 cav mold for .40 cal from Midsouth, too. What diameter do you guys use on these?
Is .401 the real norm or a bit larger? Conventional lube.

Bill
 
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