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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: November 01, 2022, 08:58:31 AM »
Pretty sweet ride, now no slumming it at airport parking……
Yeah no kidding. The lady at the dealer showed me security footage of someone stealing one with a radio scanner and and bootleg key. What I suspected happened to mine.

This time I’m going old school. Going to find the ECM fuse and interrupt it with a hidden switch. Then they can have the key the code or whatever and can’t take it unless they drag it on a rollback

will that cause you to have to reprogram all of your stuff when you apply power again?

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Share Your Recipe / Re: whats for dinner tonight
« on: September 27, 2022, 10:05:18 AM »
I forget sometimes you used to live in WA where the weed is legal... this is either genius inspiration, or college inspiration, lol. either way, it's going to have to happen. I didn't get pictures, but i did use enough filling to make her a full size egg roll rangoon, and maybe myself one too...

I actually never made this one while living up there. this idea came from a local place that made a version of it the was ok at best. wendy challenged me to make it better, and i did ... lol

the other one that i do is a rueben pizza. same crust (its worth the $11 for the premade crust) i spread some spiced up thousand island as the sauce layer, sprinkle generous amount of corned beef (i havent tried homemade smoked corned beef (which is pastrami) yet), cover with some sauerkraut and shredded swiss. i bake to my liking and drizzle a little of the sauce over the top.

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Share Your Recipe / Re: whats for dinner tonight
« on: September 26, 2022, 09:57:45 PM »
THANKS!

Gonna do this. I love crab Rangoon.

If you have a papa murphys puzza place anywhere close, get on of their large thin crust doughs and make a pizza out of it.

Spread the cheese mixture like you would with red sauce, sprinkle chopped up k-rab all around, chop up some wontons and sprinkle along with k-rab meat, bake according to your liking and when finished ... drizzle with sweet chili sauce

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What are you building? / Re: Dave’s house
« on: September 25, 2022, 11:05:22 PM »
Jr is saying weld a hitch reciever to the table so that you can put it in and take it out when needed/not needed

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I am going to preface this post with 2 things.

1. Make sure you understand that no disrespect or shade is being sent in Nate's direction

2. Some folks need to "go take a knee and drink water"


I am singularly not impressed with our more senior Army leadership. I keep hearing things that run counter to how we used to operate. Sure, we always trained hard and sacrificed, but what I am hearing is senior leaders not taking care of our soldiers. Particularly the lower enlisted. I know something about that because it seemed like every day, I had to do something to help some "Kid" out of a jam. Whether it was changing an assignment, helping with a DUI, marital problem, an issue with the law, or something, I could leverage my rank, and because I knew people and get a million little things done without anyone ever knowing.

As evidenced by …? what acts or actions have YOU physically witnessed to say that the military leadership is not taking care of soldiers? Or is this based off third- or fourth-hand opinionated gossip?

This isn't about me, I just did what any good soldier would have done, and I bet that great guys like Matt and Nate, and Bobby and others here did a ton more. I am seeing a disturbing trend of not looking after our most valuable asset, our individual soldier. Example: So that deployment my boy and thousands like him just sent on in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine was clearly that, a deployment. A deployment with prospects of engaging in combat with Russians. We sent a contingent to NATO to fulfill our treaty obligations.
But now and after the fact, and in the last month of the 6-month deployment for the first batch of warriors, the Army has decided to call it a "Training exercise." BULL SHEET! It was deployed in response to armed intervention by an adversary plain and simple.

That was not a combat deployment! It was a training exercise, just like what re-forger was back in your day.

The soldier is there regardless of the label one places on it but guess what. If the soldier is deployed, he gets a little extra money to help with the expenses. Money to buy food because we do not do a great job of always feeding our troops. We give them money so that when they are marching through some village, they can buy a snickers bar because they missed breakfast because they were deployed on some listening post and their ruck was already too heavy with extra ammo. Yeah, they took money away from our soldiers, and I think that sucks! They took away the opportunity for the guys to get some deployment ribbon. They took away opportunities for the kids to go to schools, get promotions, and a ton of other things.

What money did they take from soldiers? If married soldier’s had their BAS (basic allowance for subsistence) taken from them and want to complain about it, then they should read AR 37-104-4 chapter 11 and AR 600-38 chapter 4. How did they take away the opportunity of a deployment ribbon, when there is no such thing as a deployment ribbon! There is such a thing as a campaign ribbon, but again they were never deployed, and they never had combat orders. What opportunities were taken away from them regarding furthering education? They had access to correspondence courses, they had access to the education center, and they sure as heck had access to computers which would enable them to take online classes. What opportunities were taken away from a soldier getting promoted?

That kid of mine was promised a hefty enlistment bonus, but here we sit nearly a year and a half and a real-world deployment later and the Army has not paid him one red cent of that bonus. He was going to pay off his truck to save on interest payments, but he never got the check.

Has Nate gone directly to finance (which he has that right) and spoke with them directly as to why he has not gotten his bonus yet? Has Nate spoken directly with anybody in his chain of command with the rank of E-7 to E-9 or O-3 to O-5 about this, or has it been his team/squad leader? Have you read his enlistment contract?

My son does not want me to do anything about it, but my intentions were to find out who the Colonel and sergeant major were who has failed to fix this and hand their names along with a nicely documented letter over to my congressman to allow him to play around with their careers a bit.

I would tell you to stay out of it unless he SPECIFICALLY asked you to do something about it. If you get involved based off of your assumption of what he is venting about, you will negatively mark your son for the rest of his career in the military and he will stop telling you things for fear of how your actions are going to effect him down the line! I specifically gave you the name and phone number to a senior NCO in that unit and has said he will look out for Nate. Nate should know exactly who I am speaking about!

Not taking care of our soldiers is simply the worse thing we can do as an Army that is led by a government intent on transitioning gays into men or women or birds or whatever and helping millions get into our welfare and social security system but at the same time allowing our warriors to help pay for it.

I see things that make me, shall we say sad, as I try not to talk that way.  Why is it so vitally important for females to wear earrings in a combat uniform?  Have their hair down?  All the mandatory sensitivity classes that detract from training?

Oh lookie here…. Two perfect examples of the bigotry that has started to become common place here! This is the straw that broke the camels back for me!!!! What does somebody’s sexual orientation have to do with anything?! NOT A DAMN THING!!! Can they do the job that they said they would do?! Does somebody’s sexual orientation stop them from standing in front of a bullet?! Do the bigot’s on this site really believe that this is the 1950’s and that they will get infected with the gayness virus by touching, seeing, being near a gay person?! If you are bothered by somebody’s personal choice while they are still accomplishing their mission and feel the need to force your will or opinions onto them in some way, shape, fashion, or form, because it doesn’t fit YOUR opinion … then you are the virus that is still infecting this country!

The same thing goes with how a soldier presents themselves. Just because somebody has a haircut that you don’t like … does it make it wrong?! Because somebody has fingernails that are longer or colored in a way that you don’t agree with … does it make it wrong?! Shall I keep going?! Just like I stated in the last paragraph. If you are bothered by somebody’s personal choice while still accomplishing their mission and feel the need to force your will or opinions onto them in some way, shape, fashion, or form, because it doesn’t fit YOUR opinion … then you are the virus that is still infecting this country!


At Ft Stewart there is a big outcry currently about mold in the barracks showing up on social media.  Now they are publicly saying they don't know why leaders aren't checking soldiers’ rooms.  They fail to say that they have for years told them not to.  Allow the soldiers some privacy.  Things sure have changed.

When I toured the 1st brigade barracks, into some rooms, I was surprised at how dirty and messy things were. Dirt in the hallways and a general mess. That simply NEVER happened in my day. We used to have NCO's that took care of that stuff. I mean why not; they have a bunch of workers at their beck and call. See a mess, and just get it cleaned up or organize an all-nighter cleaning party. Next time you inspect, things were miraculously in order...amazing!

Please tell me how doing room inspections as anything to do with the quality of the lowest bidder’s construction of the building causing structural and hazardous conditions?! Stop abusing the bullcrap phrase leaders checking soldiers’ rooms! You want to get rid of mold and flooding and ac/heat problems and let’s not forget about the plumbing problems with the barracks at bragg … stop paying the lowest bidder millions of dollars and accepting the steaming piles of doo doo that they give to us. Its toxic phrases like this that cause people to leave the military!

Why does somebody who lives in the barracks have to have their privacy rights violated with inspections, but people who live else where have their privacy rights respected? In reality, those “leaders” that are checking soldiers’ rooms are the ones who live in self-induced cesspools and have absolutely no business telling somebody else they are filthy!



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Hand Tools, Power Tools, Welders, etc / Re: battery charger wiring
« on: September 21, 2022, 09:15:57 AM »
so if what i am reading is correct, nobody knows how to test a battery charger for BOTH voltage and amperage?

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Hand Tools, Power Tools, Welders, etc / Re: battery charger wiring
« on: September 20, 2022, 03:47:13 PM »
1500? Jeez

You won't be able to test amperage easily. Don't use your meter to try .
Just look for 15-18 volts coming out to know if it works.

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Yes ken you read that right.  Wendys dad has a huge pile of battery chargers that he got at some auction.

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Hand Tools, Power Tools, Welders, etc / Re: battery charger wiring
« on: September 19, 2022, 09:39:08 PM »
Do you have a multimeter?


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Yes, i have a fluke 179 that goes to 10amps and a high dollar craftsman one that goes upto 20amps

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Hand Tools, Power Tools, Welders, etc / Re: battery charger wiring
« on: September 19, 2022, 05:33:22 PM »
so i got one of these rewired with a new power cable and new clamp cable.

who can explain to be in barney style how to test the voltage AND amps coming off this thing.  either my google-foo is off or nobody has put a step by step with pictures video up on youtube. can anybody assist?

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Ill fix it in a bit

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D.O.T. / Re: Life in America today
« on: September 09, 2022, 05:09:49 PM »
Here is my point with my posting.

Law enforcement in this country has become severely perverted in everything they do, how they act, how they think and especially their severely warped belief of what their actual job/mission is. I won’t mention corruption because that is a whole bag on its own. I do believe that the time of change is coming, as more and more people are reaching their breaking point.

The biggest thing that is forgotten by law enforcement is their actual mission/job, and that is to serve and protect their communities. law enforcement are not lawyers or judges, they are to do nothing but enforce the laws that were voted on. Just like law enforcement is not the military either. As stated, if you want to uniform/walk/ride around like you are military… then go join the military. I firmly believe that all law enforcement regardless of what level they are applying to, should have a minimum requirement of 4 years military service in a combat arms specialty before they can even be interviewed for a position in law enforcement.

Are there good one? Yes! Too bad the majority of law enforcement has the mind set of “I am the law, and you will respect my authoritah (https://youtu.be/YKTRDjBizfk) or I will make up lies about you and arrest you.” and are the ones giving the whole system its duly earned bad name. Thankfully with the advent of the camera and laws like the bill of rights we can start to remove these cancers.

We have all had interactions with law enforcement, some good some bad, and they all have their unique set of circumstances to set them apart. The bottom line is this: when law enforcement stops overstepping their bounds, then things will change for the better.

Remember: law enforcement are public servants and ultimately answer to the people!

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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: September 08, 2022, 08:57:31 AM »
28 hours round trip, one 20 min nap. I don’t think this is DOT approved!  :tongue:

did you do a round trip to indiana?

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D.O.T. / Life in America today
« on: September 07, 2022, 04:55:59 PM »
....

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Share Your Recipe / whats your preferred beverage of choice
« on: September 04, 2022, 05:15:07 PM »
rootbeer old fashion anybody?

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Everything Trailer, Camper, or RV related / Re: Wanted: enclosed trailer
« on: September 02, 2022, 01:09:45 PM »
What do you have planned for the trailer?

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Our Pro-Military, Veteran, and Thin Blue Line place / Re: Chinooks
« on: September 01, 2022, 12:26:07 PM »
Think they grounded all the UH-1s a few years back over some head wear, few more of them but mostly civi now.
Not Armee Hueys. We put them out to pasture in the mid 1990's

Funny how ever since then we needed a helicopter about the size of a Huey...

Dont be too quick to say that, as the uh-1's are still used in whitesands
Fleetwide, the UH-1H has been discontinued
THere are still a couple to be found, but there is no flight school, Instructor pilot course or MOS progression that supports that airframe. Some gov't agencies purchased SuperHueys like the ones I flew in Kandahar and Kabul, but as far as a saturation or concentration of Huey airframes, no.
The Army operates all sorts of aircraft that are not really on the books. I bet if I looked hard enough, I could find a US Army B-747 pilot. We fly a ton of different airframes, believe me!

oh i believe you 100%.  i was informed last night that WSMR has stopped usage of their uh-1's and have moved everything to the catfish.

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Our Pro-Military, Veteran, and Thin Blue Line place / Re: Chinooks
« on: August 31, 2022, 11:21:58 PM »
Think they grounded all the UH-1s a few years back over some head wear, few more of them but mostly civi now.
Not Armee Hueys. We put them out to pasture in the mid 1990's

Funny how ever since then we needed a helicopter about the size of a Huey...

Dont be too quick to say that, as the uh-1's are still used in whitesands

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D.O.T. / Re: Some good ones
« on: August 30, 2022, 05:50:32 PM »
Everyone here gets this:

where did you get a picture of my exact situation?  unfortunately that situation (as good as many think it is) doesn't come with out its own skeletons in the closet.

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I have only done 2 .....  :popcorn:
Nijmegen??

Yes sir
Congrats
Honorable...Tough

That was back in my prime.....lol

German sausage and their liquid bread was my main diet back then.

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I have only done 2 .....  :popcorn:

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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: August 22, 2022, 10:12:30 AM »
Nate, that’s funny.  Ive forgotten so much math in 30 years.  I bailed out after Differential Equations and changed my major from EE to Business.

I really miss physics though.

Any college kid can probably hook you up though…

Shawn, that’s pretty cool.  Got mine moved in at Mizzou.  I was pleased with he process and how well her and her mom packed.  Some real pro moves in the process.  Trunk and organizing drawers pre packed and wrapped with plastic wrap.   We had 20 minutes to drive up, the volunteers brought a big cart/basket thing.  Everything but the fridge and truck locker fit in there and I had a little 4 wheel dolly to get them.  We were up and unpacked and completely set up the dorm in less than an hour.  Was pretty hard to be 2 day drive away. She did the freshman run through the columns last night, which was live streamed.  The entire week was activities and parties. This morning will be the first day of class.  Time for a reality check.

We’re discouraging working in the first semester though she’s looking at jobs at the TV station since her major is broadcast journalism.

Station is off campus so I’ll have to take her car up there if she lands one.

unfortunately theres not a lot of smart math youngins in my online classes. most of them are working class folks ranging from 24-50 years old.

if i get into too much of a bind with not understanding something or not finding youtube videos of how to do it, i do have a few folks i can reach out to. my sister was was a math savant when she was younger (got burned out), wyorunner has helped me a few times and i have a math phd candidate who lives next door to me. I do get a few hours a month free tutoring from the college, and I have found a guy online who can break it down.

I am currently in week 2 of my 8 week term, so i have a ways to go yet, especially with having 4 more math classes i have to take (calculus, discreet math, mathematical statics, and physics)

Nate, If you remember any of the calculations for laying artillery, you've already done some of that stuff.
Have you ever the right drift of a round due to it spinning while leaving a rifled guntube? Have you ever had to consider the effects of the earth's rotation or average dynamic wind factor, or any of that? A single calculation involves trig, geometry, and algebra. Maybe you're not as far behind as you may think.

you are correct in that i have done it for many years, but the difference is this.

in the military, everything is already canned for you (to make sure you dont screw it up), whether it be the calculations on distance, direction, height of burst, etc, all you have to do is put the numbers (which come from calibrated machines) into the blank spaces and talk into the mic.

vs

now i have to learn the actual process of how those calculations are derived with limited who, what, where, when, why and how information.


the one course i took that required the user to do the actual calculations themselves with information provided was the collateral damage estimation methodology course. my brain hurt for a month after that course.






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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: August 22, 2022, 09:29:14 AM »
Nate, that’s funny.  Ive forgotten so much math in 30 years.  I bailed out after Differential Equations and changed my major from EE to Business.

I really miss physics though.

Any college kid can probably hook you up though…

Shawn, that’s pretty cool.  Got mine moved in at Mizzou.  I was pleased with he process and how well her and her mom packed.  Some real pro moves in the process.  Trunk and organizing drawers pre packed and wrapped with plastic wrap.   We had 20 minutes to drive up, the volunteers brought a big cart/basket thing.  Everything but the fridge and truck locker fit in there and I had a little 4 wheel dolly to get them.  We were up and unpacked and completely set up the dorm in less than an hour.  Was pretty hard to be 2 day drive away. She did the freshman run through the columns last night, which was live streamed.  The entire week was activities and parties. This morning will be the first day of class.  Time for a reality check.

We’re discouraging working in the first semester though she’s looking at jobs at the TV station since her major is broadcast journalism.

Station is off campus so I’ll have to take her car up there if she lands one.

unfortunately theres not a lot of smart math youngins in my online classes. most of them are working class folks ranging from 24-50 years old.

if i get into too much of a bind with not understanding something or not finding youtube videos of how to do it, i do have a few folks i can reach out to. my sister was was a math savant when she was younger (got burned out), wyorunner has helped me a few times and i have a math phd candidate who lives next door to me. I do get a few hours a month free tutoring from the college, and I have found a guy online who can break it down.

I am currently in week 2 of my 8 week term, so i have a ways to go yet, especially with having 4 more math classes i have to take (calculus, discreet math, mathematical statics, and physics)




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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: August 21, 2022, 09:15:43 PM »
Pre calculus sucks, but things are getting a tiny tiny bit easier since i have been doing it constantly for the last 6 months.

Anybody know where i can get some adderall?

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D.O.T. / Re: Unit 731
« on: August 16, 2022, 09:23:55 PM »
What honestly troubles me the most about it.....

We condemned the germans for what they did, held them accountable and stole all of their technology for our gain.  Then on the opposite hand, we crushed the japanese and kindly asked for their informatiin to be turned over to us, in return we looked the other way for their atrocities.

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D.O.T. / Unit 731
« on: August 16, 2022, 12:07:08 PM »
I am not sure how many people have ever heard of this?  and yet we thought the germans were evil?

https://www.google.com/search?q=UNIT+731&oq=UNIT+731&aqs=chrome..69i57.7044j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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Build Threads / Re: LML Duramax build part 6
« on: August 13, 2022, 12:03:28 PM »
I am also thinking hard about what I may do with the spare tire carrier. Part of me says to just toss it since that expensive wheel and tire broke off and rolled away, and I also think about getting rid of the topper and just adding a tonneau cover.

It is now faded a little, so it, too, would have to get a repaint.

But another part of me likes the truck with that tough-looking utility topper. I could just remove it, paint it too and reinstall it and go for another 11 years.

Thoughts?

when and what happened with the spare tire carrier you made?

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Hand Tools, Power Tools, Welders, etc / battery charger wiring
« on: August 12, 2022, 04:49:34 PM »
so there is this pile of battery chargers at the farm (roughly 1500+) that all supposedly work, but all of them have the charger cables and the power cables cut off them.

So I fished 3 of them out of the pile and got them halfway cleaned up.  Now I need to figure out where to get new cords from so that I can get these things working.

Does anybody know where I can get new cables from, or a good way of fixing what is there? I would like something that has the rubber protector where they come through the back of the charger.

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Cooking equipment / Re: Need a frig
« on: July 11, 2022, 01:27:18 PM »
Woke up this morning with a defrosted freezer!!!!!!!!!

We had to cook most of the meat, and there is way too much to save. Lost Chicken, roasts, salmon, the works...

Looking at a good frig/freezer unit

Does anyone know anything about the LG brand?

Looking at this one:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/LG-Electronics-27-8-cu-ft-4-Door-French-Door-Smart-Refrigerator-with-2-Freezer-Drawers-and-Wi-Fi-Enabled-in-Stainless-Steel-LMXS28626S/302253240

Our space will accommodate a 36" X 70" by 36" deep refrigerator. I want the freezer on the bottom in a big deep drawer, a standard two-door refrigerator on top, and this one has a handy refrigerated drawer as well. This one features 28 cu ft and is Wi-Fi...It can even do diagnostics and report to your smartphone.

The price is $2299 @ Costco, $2208 @ Appliance America, and $2398 at Harbor Freight. Most of the time I get an additional 10% off at HD because of the military service so if I could that would reduce the HD frig another $240 down to $2158. HD also includes delivery, and installation, and will haul off the old unit.

Comments?

so i am a little confuzzled here. did the main house fridge freezer combo go bad, or was it a dedicated freezer in the basement somewhere?

if it is a dedicated freezer, i would recommend to stay away from big box store units and go directly to a restaurant supply store like Wasserstrom Restaurant Supply Super Stores up in cinci.  they also make commercial combo units.

heres some examples for you.  https://www.webstaurantstore.com/13447/commercial-combination-refrigerators-freezers.html

I know that if either my fridge or freezer in the basement goes out, I will be getting a commercial unit.

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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: July 09, 2022, 10:26:12 PM »
Hey I fit with ease, but I bet he lost a few pounds.

I have an old school 5 gal water cooler that i keep filled with ice water, it was warm enough that i went thru 1.5 containers of ice water.  Chainsaw chaps are a little warm for summer....mlol

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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: July 09, 2022, 10:22:43 PM »
Anyone else wanna see Nate in that skid steer

I fit in there quiet easy, smarty pants.....lol

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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: July 09, 2022, 10:20:51 PM »
Firewood I'm guessing?
Sure would have liked to run that through my sawmill. Interesting to see trees all opened up. They can get really pretty.

Tree was rotten, so it wont get used for anything

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D.O.T. / WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: July 09, 2022, 08:09:57 PM »
I spent the last 1.5 days bucking and cleaning up a half of a 150yr old cottonwood that got tore up in the last storm that went through the inlaws farm.

That saw has a 25" bar on it, so van give you a size reference.  There were a couple of really nasty splinters with some tension on them. Being that i was working solo with a 18" saw, a 25" saw, a skid loader and a dump trailer, i just took my time and took little chunks at a time to relieve the tension so i didnt kill myself.

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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: July 09, 2022, 08:00:45 PM »
Nate, it looks all hodge podge for what it does. Minisplits are for me from now on.

Sam, saw several of those in Tahoe last week. Always issues in that area. They convert fire fighting planes in Santa Rosa, cool to see em being retro'd.

Yeah, it was a pile of spilt boo boo, buts its all cleaned up now.

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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: July 07, 2022, 11:24:38 AM »
So what do we have going on here Nate? Two 50-ish gallon units to increase supply, or a full-time and a backup unit?

so this house has a geothermal HVAC system in it that is 22 years old (2000), it is a "hybrid" system because of it being cobbled together from different systems.  the company that made the main compressor system went out of business in 02 or 03 making parts almost impossible to find or having to truly modify it even more.

this system was plumbed with a "hot tap" waste heat water heat manifold in-between the compressors and the hot water tanks. when we bought the house, we were told that the system worked only to find out that it did not.  to repair/replace the system, the cost would be above $7K. the original setup basically preheated the water going into the first 40 gal water tank where it would be finished heated and sent to a holding/storage 40 gal water tank. 

somewhere along the line, the second homeowners (who we bought it from) were too lazy or stupid to have the hot tap system fixed correctly and had a 3rd 50 gal water tank plumbed into the system and shut the holding tank down.  well 8 years after that 50 gal was installed it rusted out the bottom and was leaking.  so all three water heaters were removed, the hot tap was removed from the hot water equation completely, and 2 new high output 55 gal water heaters were plumbed in to the system.  I have them plumbed to where i can use 1 or the other or both at the same time.

if the geothermal system breaks breaks while we are here, we will be putting a conventional HVAC system in in its place.

in the picture, the 2 red ovals are showing the hot tap lines being run from the compressors to the hot tap, and the yellow box is the hot tap manifold.



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D.O.T. / WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: July 05, 2022, 08:40:21 PM »
Became 3K poorer to turn this huge pile of spilt schiff in to 2 good working (can be run independently if something happens to one or the other) and neat water heaters.

I still have to wrap the hot water pipes in foam and paint the rust spot

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bob, did you get a L4701?

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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: July 02, 2022, 11:57:34 PM »
No crossmembers, just the bricks arranged in a U pattern. Twin on each side and three across the back on the bottom layer, then staggered up to four layers. The first paving stone site right on top of those with a one inch gap at the back. Two more layers of brick and the top paving stone to finish it off. I’ll see if I have pictures of it being built. Or I’ll draw the patterns and post it.

Standing by

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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: July 02, 2022, 09:38:29 PM »
$50 outdoor pizza oven. Consists of two 24”x24” concrete paving stones and 50 bricks(we used pavers as they were easy to get. You might be able to pick up the supplies cheaper at a building supply store, we went to a big box store as we were nearby.  Tested it on about ten pizzas this evening and it was a resounding success. Plus it didn’t heat up the kitchen.




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And what are you using for cross members?

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D.O.T. / Re: WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)
« on: June 30, 2022, 10:06:11 AM »
Not familiar, Ken/Sam/others on Starlink...What's this all about?

elon musk.  i believe phil had something to do with this?

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Share Your Recipe / 30 second hollandaise sauce
« on: June 30, 2022, 10:03:12 AM »
https://theviewfromgreatisland.com/30-second-hollandaise-sauce/#recipe

Ingredients:

1. 3 large egg yolks (reserve one of the whites in case it's needed to thicken a thin sauce)
2. 1/2 tsp salt
3. 1 Tbsp lemon juice
4. 1/2 cup (or 8 Tbsp) butter

Instructions:

1. Put the egg yolks, salt, and lemon juice in the bottom of a wide mouthed mason jar.

2. Melt the butter in a small saucepan and let cool slightly.

3. Add the melted butter to the mason jar and immediately insert your immersion blender and blend for several seconds until the sauce is thick and creamy. As you are blending gently lift the blender slightly so you get all the liquid emulsified.

4. Taste to adjust the seasonings. You can add more lemon juice or even water to thin the sauce if it is too thick. Note: if your sauce is too thin, try blending in the reserved egg white.

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Share Your Recipe / Re: What's for breakfast.
« on: June 30, 2022, 09:56:42 AM »
When the lady says she wants crab Benedict for breakfast, you make her crab Benedict!

those are some sexy lookin vittles sir. well done. that your quick hollandaise? I ran with that recipe you sent me the other day and it's a keeper.

yes sir, that is the recipe.

https://theviewfromgreatisland.com/30-second-hollandaise-sauce/#recipe

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Share Your Recipe / Re: What's for breakfast.
« on: June 27, 2022, 08:50:12 AM »
I prefer fresh caught like you said bob, but for the price i paid at christmas time, there was no way i was going to let that go to waste.  i was actually saving it for when i make my cioppino, but due to recent life events, that got pushed off for a while.

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Share Your Recipe / Re: What's for breakfast.
« on: June 26, 2022, 09:09:03 PM »
It was king crab that was frozen from our christmas crab feast.  The 8 of us easily cleaned 12lbs worth, so we had about 3lbs left over.

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Share Your Recipe / Re: What's for breakfast.
« on: June 26, 2022, 12:46:36 PM »
When the lady says she wants crab Benedict for breakfast, you make her crab Benedict!

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Humor, Good Stuff, and Red Neck Practices! / Re: Just plain funny
« on: June 13, 2022, 10:53:34 AM »
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Faith Discussion / Re: Prayer Request thread
« on: June 06, 2022, 10:38:25 AM »
I humbly ask for the zemlicka family to find the strength and peace in their time of loss.  The patriarch has been fighting an almost 6 month battle and the end came yesterday afternoon.
Is she, "Jan?"

She is

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Faith Discussion / Re: Prayer Request thread
« on: June 06, 2022, 08:22:07 AM »
I humbly ask for the zemlicka family to find the strength and peace in their time of loss.  The patriarch has been fighting an almost 6 month battle and the end came yesterday afternoon.

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