Surely a bad day. My wife said this country will pay for this, God can't be happy.
And she wonders why I "need" more guns.

I almost like the full bed liner paint job on the second one. The first one in a dually with the bed is about what I have in mind.

Poor fella. I like just having friends with pools. It's easier on my schedule that way.

Successfully derailed thread, aint there a bumper build or something happening here.

Next time she rides in it have an old rocking chair tied to the top and pots hanging off the sides.
My wife tells me I'm backwoods country all the time. Funny thing is she uses my silly little phrases all the time and acts more like me the longer we're together. Took me 15 years to get her where she is. Another 15 and she'll be fully converted.

That looks like a nice one. If I could find a 4x4 crew dually that body in even close to that shape I would rob my little girl's piggy bank and buy it.

No, my build is on smoking meat forum. I got a lot of info there that helped when building the smoker. I ain't been there in a while though.

I figure Norm took another trip out of town and Ms Kay is busy putting the crew cab together. I'm sure she will fill us in when she is done.

Is that discount sig has for law enforcement and military good for retired military? I don't remember all the details, just a thought.

It's funny how much the men on here are alike. I went to dinner with 7 other guys a couple months ago. 4 of us are real close and I knew without asking that we were all carrying. The other 4 I was not sure about. Yall can guess which 4 sat with our backs against the wall facing the door. The guy next to me looks across the table and says " If yall see one of us stand up real fast duck under the table before it gets flipped over in your lap". We laughed about it, but he was telling the truth for sure.

I was sitting here trying to figure out a way to reply, but Don beat me to it and I can't top that. There are absolutely bad mothers and bad fathers in this world. The main reason divorces end up so ugly is because it was never part of God's plan. Just keep trying. One day your daughter will see through all this mess and make her own decisions about you and everything else that happened in her life.

Amen and count me in. Real God fearing men have to stick together.

I've had the obligation to confront a couple close friends who we're running off in the ditch. It's not an easy thing to do. If you love your brothers you have to be able to speak the truth to them and be willing to give a swift kick in the rear if they need it. I pray that someone will do the same for me if the need arises.

Good dealers are hard to come by. If you have one that is taking care of you stick with them. We have a great kubota dealer close by that we deal with a lot. Been looking for a good used mini ex for a year or so. They knew it and we got the call as soon as they got a kx 91 in on trade. We were there when they unloaded it and brought in their shop. 2 yrs old, 250 hrs and not a mark on it. Must have been used to install a couple truck swallowing pits at the mall and that's it. Anyway, bout 20 after they got it in paperwork was signed. Got it for about 2/3 new cost.
Pecked all that out to say be patient. The right machine will there be yours in God's time.

Those drive motors are a common issue with older machines. As you found out if it aint tracking straight running at full speed they are likely the issue. When you get one it will quickly become the most used machine on the farm. Pretty easy to run efficiently if you have experience pulling levers to make things happen, as you do. The way I was taught was to look at the boom as your arm, 3 joints, and the bucket as your hand. Fun to run once you figure out the controls.

Thanks everyone for sharing these stories. I need to take some notes to help me later. I did not have such a role model in my life. My folks divorced when I was 5 or 6 and my dad was around some but not much. I had a lot of lessons growing up but not all positive. I think the most important ones I learned were what not to do as a man/husband/father. I have a good relationship with him now, but that did not come about until I was almost 30 years old. I surely can't say I turned out to be who I am because of my great decision making skills. My heavenly father put people in my life, mainly my wife, to get me straight and give me something to work toward. When we met 17 years ago I was a hoodlum 20 year old that knew it all and had gotten everything he had by his own 2 hands. Boy was I wrong! God working through her has taught me a lot. Mainly that life was not what I knew as normal. I have several great men in my life now that I learn from constantly. It took us 12 years of trying to finally have a child. It was something I wanted very badly. With the education in reproduction I got through that process there is no doubt that every child is truly a miracle. It was all in God's time though and his timing is perfect. Being daddy is a very close third behind God and my wife in my life. I pray that one day my little girl will be able to share a story like these about me.

If you weren't so far from Southeast Louisiana I would. We do a bunch of reseals. We remove and replace the sealant around everything. We do not coat the roofs though. If the rubber gets all cracked up or starts showing the black through the top we just change it out. I aint saying the sealers are bad, just never used them. I will be interested to see your thoughts on it. I got 2 5th wheels to replace the roof on when I get home from work. One ran under a low limb and tore up a little which should be simple. The other has a little rot to repair once I get it stripped. My brother-in-law does mobile repairs for the majority of his business. I take care of most of the shop work on my days off from my real job. We both make good money with this arrangement and my poor wife does not have to put up with me for the whole 7 days I'm off.

when you mention oscillating tools, do you refer to one of these?

yessir that's what I was talking about. Use one of the blades that have the offset in it that drops the blade part down 1/2" or so and has the squared off end like a scraper. You need to hold the blade parallel to the roof or it will dig in real easy. Like I said before, dulling it a little keeps it from cutting the roof so easy You can't do the gutters/side molding with it cause it will just cut the roof, but everything on top can be done. It's a whole lot easier than using one of those painter multitool scraper things of a flat scraper. You still need one to clean up a little bit though. Just take your time and be real careful, you can strip all the rubber off if you don't. When you hit the screw heads just pick up a little, slide over them, and let it walk back down. Me and my brother-in-law scraped everything and reapplied the Dicor in 45 minutes on a 26' travel trailer a couple weeks ago. We were trying to see how fast we could do it.

For some reason I had been thinking about wheels the past week or so, I'm blaming it on you. I have not done anything to mine yet with looks as a concern so why start now. The money would better spent on increasing air volume in and out of the engine anyway.

Thank you sir.

I reckon that was not a proper introduction. I don't really like talking about me much, afraid it sounds like bragging, but here goes.
I love God, Family, Others, and this great county. I currently work as a mechanic on a production platform in the Gulf of Mexico, 7 days on and 7 off.
I take care of diesel engines, big natural gas recip engines, cranes, and turbine engines driving generators and compressors. I grew up on beef and dairy farms. That's where
I learned how to patch together wore out junk with what we had laying around or could fabricate from that. That comes in handy now because there aint a parts store down the
street from my workplace. I am doing my best to pass some of that on to my youngin. She aint made three yet, but every time I go work on something she is right there with me
and she has to have her hammer and wrench with her. Yes, my little girl has her own tools. A while back she was in her Cinderella dress crawling under my truck "helping" me
change the oil. Nothing like raising a country girl. She is 100% daddy's girl.

Really nice truck. I have followed along in the other build thread also. I have the same truck, just not as fancy.
I bought the WT because I stay covered in grease, sawdust, hay, dirt, or some type of manure most of the time I am using it.
I do have the same plan for mine with higher hp towing. I just want to do everything at once. I am a oilfield mechanic and hate
tearing things down several times. I would rather just do it once. I may regret that when the time comes though, looks like a lot of work.

I know you are still undecided on the wheels, but what is the plan for the stock caps. If they will be for sale I would be interested?