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4601
« on: December 03, 2018, 07:20:19 PM »
That's impressive, especially for a home that size.
Only took a 1/2 a cord of wood a day to do it too! 
4602
« on: December 03, 2018, 07:18:58 PM »
4603
« on: December 03, 2018, 08:24:02 AM »
 Ahhhhhh Dry seasoned wood, so nice and toasty! 
4604
« on: December 03, 2018, 08:22:53 AM »
Looks like you had a quality build Ken, too bad about the cement. I had read about people using the wrong kind too.
4605
« on: December 02, 2018, 11:35:21 PM »
A quick tip in case you like your undies white, you can fill the tank up with water b4 cutting and it won’t blow up. Never just purge with air though as that can actually make a bigger boom if the original gas isn’t fully purged.....
4606
« on: December 02, 2018, 11:14:02 PM »
Did you use a mig welding tip?
4607
« on: December 02, 2018, 10:45:57 PM »
Thanks Charles, we’ll take them. A lot of moving pieces for last couple months and next few going forward.
I’ll say this transition of looking forward with oldest starting to visit colleges and now having to have a heavier hand in taking care of my parents is overwhelming at times. Just trying to do what is right and navigate all these waters while staying sane! It’ll all work out, no doubt there is a plan.
4608
« on: December 02, 2018, 08:27:00 PM »
Copy, I’ll look edit: did & cant find any build thread...  And house is under contract now....
4609
« on: December 02, 2018, 08:04:01 PM »
Ken, that’s a nice forge....
Got a link or is it home brew?
4610
« on: December 02, 2018, 07:16:08 PM »
Well, were in contract negotiations on selling our home. I think God willing that will be finalized in the AM tomorrow as we're close now.
Prior to putting Dad in a Nursing home we had a difference of opinion with the first builder we had choose for the next home. Long story short they took our money and couldn't communicate so in the end they decided to cancel the contract and not deal with me. What can I say, communications aren't that hard and if you don't have your act together I will be an over the top PIA until you submit or get your crap together. They submitted, which upset the wife at the time but per the norm it is in his hands and not ours.
After placing Dad in a home, Mom being admitted to the hospital while I was back & then the first build falling apart we kept researching new builds. During this process we ran across a home with a separate garage and entry into a MIL suite. It is connected to main house but gives us some distance under same roof. I went back to Mom and discussed the option of having her move west again (I told her now was the time if she wanted to reconsider) and after some thought with her health issues she decided that would be best.
New home will be complete around June of 19 and we will move Mom here next summer. We signed doc and deposit on that this afternoon along with Lot selection. Still in hippy land but a couple miles west towards the Mountains from where we are now.
4611
« on: December 02, 2018, 02:35:04 PM »
Keep up the hard work Charles!
4612
« on: December 02, 2018, 12:32:48 PM »
Sounds like a lot of fun. Problem is when I go to events like that I spent way too much at the snack bar. Just can't say no to the nachos and hot dogs!
We got a few inches of snow. Its heavy wet stuff. Not too cold out. In the teens. It's just a pain. Makes everything not work right feeding cattle and getting stuck in it. The snow plow went by at least. Now it's still coming down slowly and blowing. 
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Well, we stayed away from snacks etc but afterwards I bought a meal fit for a king and trust me it was just as expensive as the snack bar or more but better quality food.
4613
« on: December 02, 2018, 09:46:32 AM »
if you are talking about building a swappable motor while you drive it, don't you have a high dollar built cummins just sitting there? was that cummins not built for pure power, or am I missing something completely here?
by no means am I trying to throw you off your intended course, just a question that was going thru my grey matter.
Boss, needs to suck it up and just finish SQ D & add it to the fleet. Why don’t you go pick that up Nate and drag it back to Norm?  I heard thru grapevein he was still willing to get it running.. 
4614
« on: December 02, 2018, 02:43:39 AM »
Thanks Charles, & Dave nobody wants to see that I can assure you. Well, maybe Ken but he has H so same difference.....
4615
« on: December 01, 2018, 08:24:32 PM »
Spent the day at State Cheer and Dance Competition Shelby our 15 year old freshman is on her 4A HS JV Cheer team which is primarily freshmen. This girl has put in the hours of gymnastics and I have receipts to prove it.  Well, at the end of the day the team is State Champs for second year in a row. 
4616
« on: December 01, 2018, 10:27:49 AM »
Charles, what are you doing? Bigger is always better, more HP always is best response. Your messing up the whole plan to get us replacement thread for square d. We need a super charger swap, SAS, a sleeping corders and a gun turret. No one wants to see that wimpy stuff.
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I’m kinda the opposite, he should keep it closer to stock and drive it. Let’s face it the last build didn’t get completed because his priorities changed, boys got older and he has this farm. Now he added wood heat which will consume more time than he may realize. Keep the thing closer to stock and use and abuse it. He doesn’t need another toy he still has cmax & sq d (which will need parted out at some point too btw) more man hours.
4617
« on: November 30, 2018, 11:11:37 PM »
My work as a (dot) artist is so under appreciated
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Join the club....
4618
« on: November 30, 2018, 05:19:44 PM »
I’ve had two sets Dave, still have one set yet. High dollar hunting boots I used them for late winter hunting and when the ungrateful steel shops got in sub zero temps. There worked great for me from everything from swamp hunting to steel work on cold Crete. Sorry about your bad experience
4619
« on: November 30, 2018, 10:29:12 AM »
You need a set of rocky boots.....
4620
« on: November 30, 2018, 08:29:26 AM »
4621
« on: November 30, 2018, 08:23:46 AM »
He keeps canting that rig and he’ll need some of these
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4622
« on: November 30, 2018, 04:13:05 AM »
4623
« on: November 29, 2018, 09:41:29 PM »
You sure 2" is big enough? :rollseyes
Well I was going to use 1.5 however HD was missing some parts in stock. 2 inch goes 20 ft to a large splitter box where it will go 3 directions for now in 1 in with the availability to add more 1 in routes if needed so 2 in really isn’t a big deal over 1.5 I also despise fighting to pull wire, we used to do the big cable with a forklift at my last place of employment....
4624
« on: November 29, 2018, 06:36:59 PM »
I might do that when I pull wire, we’ll see
4625
« on: November 29, 2018, 05:53:23 PM »
I need a 3/4 in bit & found I have a brand new bit so gtg there. Pulled panel cover off and started running 2 in but alas no large sheet metal screw to tie hangers to wall..... & yes for the record working on electrical with an aluminum later is not osha approved. Also for the record my shop is too dangerous for osha so I do not allow them in my shop! 
4626
« on: November 29, 2018, 04:28:45 PM »
Find the safety books, 5 of them and they double shipped each one. Maybe they’re trying to tell me something? Then, apparently I opened up the wrong side of the bolt box because the install instructions were buried at the bottom. So a little studying tonight, I have a medium size corded hammer drill. Not sure if I have large enough bit and may just rent from hd & large drill instead. We’ll see, I then ran to HD and picked up 100 ft of 1 in EMT & 20 ft of 2 in. Will come out of main box with 2 in to a junction box then run 1 in 3 or 4 separate runs around shop. 
4627
« on: November 29, 2018, 03:45:04 PM »
Don’t worry, didn’t have time to screw with it. I just tossed em up off the trailer...   Easy peasy, nothing to it.
4628
« on: November 29, 2018, 12:02:03 PM »
Actually, I’m working and contemplating it moving one of these posts to the floor is worth it to win a bottle of whiskey from Charles at the moment..... Oh & boxing up your Christmas present....
4629
« on: November 29, 2018, 09:33:52 AM »
If you stand up from the trailer with a fulcrum (blocks of wood) under its midpoint, that’s cheating. Like some dude rockin back and forth with too much weight on the curl bar at the gym...
Lay them flat on the concrete first and then let’s see that manhood.....
And you know I’m capable of shipping whiskey...
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Like Ken stated yesterday “I’m not that dumb!” 70% of the weight is in bottom 4 foot, blocks are 32 inches from ground. Back in my 20’s I would load Dana 60’s & 70’s from flat off the ground into my F250 pretty often. However, I’m not 20 & these are quite a bit heavier than the 70’s.... & I know you ship whiskey! 
4630
« on: November 28, 2018, 09:00:25 PM »
Then ended here after removing two 50 gallon drums worth of cardboard and packaging. Also texted Ken trying to get him to wager whether I can stand these two uprights vertical with nothing but my manly physique. I even offered him a video of me doing so from my best side and really surprising me he still declined. He did request if this goes sideways for video of said catastrophe... here I was hoping for a bottle of some Arizona made whiskey and no such luck.   And I found plenty of Don’s Christmas present as packaging which I boxed up figured he could use some dry wood more than I can.... 
4631
« on: November 28, 2018, 08:54:28 PM »
4632
« on: November 28, 2018, 11:15:55 AM »
Gentlemen, I think I have officially moved to a higher level of DOTing. Big D doesn’t fire me anymore you see & rarely responds to my comments. Then again maybe I’ve been fired permanently? I can’t recall getting a check lately and the benefits always were a little skimpy to start with so maybe I was just permanently fired. Or.... Hey Nate is there a way to block my comments? Maybe Dons blood pressure was getting to high and he just muted me? What’s next? I’ll try to access the site and it will say “you have been banned for eternity!”
4633
« on: November 28, 2018, 07:04:41 AM »
It’s not My big paws been doing this for years, it’s a countersink. They don’t grab like an end mill etc.
4634
« on: November 27, 2018, 09:27:38 PM »
Nice going Mike and Hank, good pic too.
Shawn, is that a magnetic base? Nice work too.
Negative, not magnetic it’s a 6” vice. Thank you
4635
« on: November 27, 2018, 08:16:18 PM »
You know, I think RMTWS boosts my daily laughing by maybe 25%!
4636
« on: November 27, 2018, 08:12:33 PM »
Machined some h1 wheel centers for what I think is an M37 
4637
« on: November 27, 2018, 06:31:16 PM »
Pine & creosote....
4638
« on: November 27, 2018, 06:29:13 PM »
ROFL
4639
« on: November 27, 2018, 05:00:18 PM »
You know, thinking Don is getting soft in his older age. I mean we used to Dot for pages and now if someone comments about his stockish looking tires in one post he gets all uptight!
4640
« on: November 27, 2018, 04:23:26 PM »
4642
« on: November 26, 2018, 07:00:56 PM »
My first shop I had a 3’ vent sticking out of roof & it didn’t clear the peak. One evening I fired up the stove which I got going initially with used motor oil, a rag and the oxy torch. So after getting it initially going went into house to do some paperwork until shop got up to temp. As I’m sitting there a police officer walks up my drive past the dining room window (aka my office) and I throw boots on to go out & see what’s up. Next thing I know here comes the ladder truck....
Moral of story use a taller stack or don’t live on a state highway!
4643
« on: November 26, 2018, 05:48:23 PM »
Today is the day, buy over $1k and get 20% off and free shipping....
4644
« on: November 26, 2018, 02:55:15 PM »
You guys are a little further in life than I at the moment
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We’re just trying to help...... Truthfully we get it, you just built a house. Been there and gunna do it again, smh.....
4645
« on: November 26, 2018, 02:06:58 PM »
I almost just spent that at swag off-road today, 15% off & free shipping.....
4646
« on: November 26, 2018, 11:06:41 AM »
4647
« on: November 26, 2018, 11:03:37 AM »
What’s your price? $750 isn’t gonna work for convincing momma.
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It’s not mine, this has been in clubhouse where my shop is for last couple months. Another tenant must own it, call the number. If I can assist in shipping or give it a once over let me know. Just tell her the trailer won’t be sitting outside like an eyesore..... my wife would do it!
4648
« on: November 26, 2018, 09:43:59 AM »
4649
« on: November 25, 2018, 09:17:46 PM »
My buddy had a motorized trailer mover, worked great!
Now using that manual one with a winch might work.
I can get you a very gently used one for less than a 1/4 of that price....
4650
« on: November 25, 2018, 08:07:56 PM »
Who rides a horse to Walmart? Do you tie it up at a bike stand? Do you put a lock on your saddle?
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Dave, in Amish country Indiana / Ohio at all the businesses they had places to tie up horses & buggies. When I was 18 I was driving us20 thru Mishawaka IN. At around 1 am doing 60 & coming around a big S curve approaching a stop light. There was a van in the left turn lane stopped and I had the green light. Out of corner of my eye I thought I saw movement just left of that van so I took foot off brake and hovered it over the brake pedal. Drunk Amish guy was letting his horse get him home. Unfortunately said horse didn’t stop for the red lights. I locked up the brakes and skidded quite a ways narrowly missing the horse and buggy.
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