WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)

[Bob Smith]

Not for what I am looking for. The backhoe has larger cylinders than some. Just not many around for sale. It is a L47 TLB

[Bigdave_185]

Well she is ready for fuel and I am nervous to do it!!  Right now it’s working great in my head, it’s not costing $$$ and it’s fresh rebuild lol.  I add fuel and something else can go wrong.



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[KensAuto]

Decided to go 4x4 with a skid and bald tires

Are the fish in the pond so big you have to use a skid steer to catch them?

[TexasRedNeck]

Well she is ready for fuel and I am nervous to do it!!  Right now it’s working great in my head, it’s not costing $$$ and it’s fresh rebuild lol.  I add fuel and something else can go wrong.



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Yeah. It could get dirty. 


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[stlaser]

Decided to go 4x4 with a skid and bald tires

Are the fish in the pond so big you have to use a skid steer to catch them?

Taking one from Charles’ book of how to I think...... 

[stlaser]

Well she is ready for fuel and I am nervous to do it!!  Right now it’s working great in my head, it’s not costing $$$ and it’s fresh rebuild lol.  I add fuel and something else can go wrong.



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Add some fuel you sissy!

[Flyin6]

Well she is ready for fuel and I am nervous to do it!!  Right now it’s working great in my head, it’s not costing $$$ and it’s fresh rebuild lol.  I add fuel and something else can go wrong.



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Yea, like those painted on flames can become actual...
Be careful

[TexasRedNeck]

Decided to go 4x4 with a skid and bald tires

Are the fish in the pond so big you have to use a skid steer to catch them?

Taking one from Charles’ book of how to I think...... 

Nah. Hed be IN the pond...


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[Bigdave_185]

Well she is ready for fuel and I am nervous to do it!!  Right now it’s working great in my head, it’s not costing $$$ and it’s fresh rebuild lol.  I add fuel and something else can go wrong.



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Yeah. It could get dirty. 


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I had that frame all polished up and the amount of welding done in the garage covered it all in that film of dust.  It needs a hand wash for sure


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[Farmer Jon]

It's the wife's birthday today and mine on Thursday so went out to a fancy restaurant. I had Sous vide duck confit Jen had the duck breast. It was delicious but the portions we small.
 Made more bacon today. I have a stash of already brined bellies in the freezer just waiting for me to have time to run them through the smoker.

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[JR]

HB to you both!!

June is a killer around here like Oct.

Fathers day, her birthday, our Anniversary, my birthday.

Oct, all 3 kids BDs.

[Flyin6]

Happee Birthday to the both of U's!!!

[oklawall]

Happy birthday to you both

JR
That is nothing welcome to my December

12 Dec my and oldest grandson birthday
13 Dec my youngest grandson birthday
14 Dec my granddaughter birthday
18 Dec my daughter birthday
25 Dec Christmas

I have issued a proclamation that there shall not be any "activities" that will results in children being born in December. I will let you know how that works out for me.

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[Bigdave_185]

Our household is pretty spread out.  Aug 2 twins
Sep 12 the 13yr ol
Oct 5 the 21
Mommas is may2, mine was yesterday and add in mother days and sim extended may gets kinda busy but I don’t care about those much lol


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[Atkinsmatt]

Happy Birthday.

[Flyin6]

I'm lax in saying my happy birthdays, so, apologies, Dave and Happee Birthday!

[JR]

Don, your like me, forget ours. To many candles,,,,,,,,,,,,

[Bigdave_185]

I picked up another project from grandpa this week.


A stihl 045 AV electric.

Need to source the correct pull cord and cover and I’ll be able to see what else it needs.  I have drained the fuel out of it and it looks ok inside


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[KensAuto]

If it's electric, why does it need a pull cord?

[Flyin6]

If it's electric, why does it need a pull cord?

Starts the motor which runs the generator which drives the motor...Duh... ;-)

[Farmer Jon]

I got a good deal on a pair of 8D AGM 250 amp hour batteries for my 5th wheel from a friend of mine who is upgrading to all lithium. Now I can start playing with solar and inverters and all that fun stuff.

[Flyin6]

Jon, if I wanted to change out the 12volt lead acid batteries in my camper and swap to lithium, what would you recommend?

[JR]

Lithium are the way to go long term. You may need a new charger or not. Many batteries have the balance/safety internal.

Here are a couple good ones, non are cheap.

https://battlebornbatteries.com/product-category/lifepo4-batteries/

https://lionenergy.com/collections/batteries

[Farmer Jon]

Lithium is the way to go. But you do need a bigger charger. I wanted  to get a new battle born lithium but I don't want to upgrade the charger in my trailer. The trailer I have now will not be the one we build the solar on when the time comes. I'm just going to experiment with it. Nothing permanent.
I will be attending the truck rally out in Idaho again this year. The guy that puts it on is a battle born dealer. He has a really great deal on batteries. Anyway, I will be buying the used AGM from another gentleman that is going lithium.  AGM will work fine with the charger I have.


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[JR]

It depends on the batteries too. You can charge with almost anything IF your batteries have built in balancer and limiters (BMS), but still a 12v battery. (well, 4.2 per cell when fully charged,3.8 under load and you never want to run them past about 3v per cell, but they will give you double the capacity of most AGM)

I have 3 AGMs in my container, 300ah worth. Lifo are the way to go and very possible for my prop.

[JR]

My Kobalt compressor motor just took a dump. (changed to a 4.5 pully from 3.5) Will see how if the warranty works, 3 years apparently.

[rpar86]

My Kobalt compressor motor just took a dump. (changed to a 4.5 pully from 3.5) Will see how if the warranty works, 3 years apparently.

Maybe that’s why it had a 3.5” pulley on it. ;)

[JR]

Their other comps rated at more CFM have the same motor. We will see. Still have my Champion 80gal, but doesn't really fit.

[KensAuto]

Guess I should've looked at the weather before leaving 100* Arizona.

Butte Montana

Burrr

[JR]

Funny, tractor guy told me he is waiting for the snow to stop today.

[Bob Smith]

Won’t be much better when you get up there

[KensAuto]

Won’t be much better when you get up there

Thanks for the encouraging words Bob. ;)

[Bigdave_185]

That truck ever seen snow Ken?









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[TexasRedNeck]

Can you drop that ex at my place for a week?

Also got a quote for 60ft of wood fence. $1800. Wow.

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[Farmer Jon]

It appears a chicken laid some eggs in the ducks nest.

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[JR]

Jon, don't be judgmental here, you know its "as you feel, not what you are"

[Farmer Jon]

Hahaha yea well mamma don't care its not a duck. I wonder how many more there will be.

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[Bigdave_185]

Can you drop that ex at my place for a week?

Also got a quote for 60ft of wood fence. $1800. Wow.

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If your paying for fuel I’m sure I can help ya out.    Will that even fit down your driveway?


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[TexasRedNeck]

Yea it will. I’ve had several belly dumps I there with no problem.

Given the distance maybe a rental is a better idea


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[stlaser]

Guess I should've looked at the weather before leaving 100* Arizona.

Butte Montana

Burrr

Yeah, it’s still a bit early for up there. We visited glacier one year last week in June and they had 12” of snow week prior....

[Sammconn]

That 350 is a good sized machine.
I thought they were big till I walked into the bucket on a 650.
That is a monster.

Ken, it’s only May. Lol.
June 25th 2005.
Bought mamas Impala that morning due to the 16” of snow that cancelled my boating plans.
I’ll trade ya for the 100* heat tho right now. I’m ready for a few of those.

[stlaser]

Lots of upgrades coming for my shop. Started on a new axle storage rack from some surplus I beam I picked prior to huge price increase. So I started fabricating that unit. Interesting note is the beam was marked SDI which is a Steel mill company from my old stomping grounds.

My neighbor moved out who had the huge blast cabinet. So my other neighbor, good friend and electrician by trade who uses the blaster more than anyone took it upon himself to give my blast cabinet some tlc. He’s currently going thru it and upgrading the lighting and checking all the systems. I bought new tempered glass for it along with filters and Mylar strips to protect the new glass. Two sets of blasting gloves coming in as well. He scraped all the hippyland stickers off of it from prior owner and spray bombed it. All new seals throughout and even caulked all the seams.

















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[JR]

Thought you were building a trailer at first!

[KensAuto]

Some chunky steel for sure.

Got the trailer in the property. That was fun. Amazing how little moisture there is this year from the lack of snow, and greener with more bugs than normal in May.

[Farmer Jon]

Money pit is in the shop again. Driveline vibration.  Pulled the drive shaft. I believe the splines are worn. Jen is going to drop it off at a machine shop Monday to get it checked out. 
Had to use my pickup to take the camper down to the river in 25 mph cross wind. That was not fun and the old ford did not like it one bit.

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[Sammconn]

Last night a buddy called and told me I was leaking “A lot of antifreeze”.
Depressurized and went to bed.
This morning went for a quick rip to warm it up.


Yep. Found where my antifreeze is leaking.
All things pointed to water pump.
But when I tore a bunch of still off it was all bone dry.
Called my buddy back to come have a look.
Yep bone dry.
He had a fancy pressure tester.
At about 9-10 pounds there it was.
Water pump weep hole leaking good.
Not how I planned to spend today.

If there isn’t a write up I’ll do one. Been a dose. 
On the way back together.
Pulled cooling stack to clean it and make life easier.


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[TexasRedNeck]

Not fun Sam.  I stroked a check for fine.  Wasn’t up to tackling it at the time.

Hung this on an articulating mount today
Got some cleaning up to do but it’s much better than the 58 inch plasma it replaced. This is a 70 led



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[Sammconn]

Charles, don’t even have the option to stroke a check or I would.
Our garage closed.
I’m lucky that I was rebuilding the other motor.
Need to order another water pump now. Lol.

[oklawall]

Passed a kidney stone, I think I would have rather changed the water pump on the Duramax

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[TexasRedNeck]

Passed a kidney stone, I think I would have rather changed the water pump on the Duramax

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Ouch. Glad that it passed.


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