WDYDT (What Did You Do Today)

[Farmer Jon]

Got Zane signed up for tiger cubs. First scout camping trip in 2 weeks. One parent is required to go with tiger cubs. Not looking forward to sleeping in a tent for the first time in probably 15 years. I need to find a cot.

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My youngest is a webelo 2 and oldest is working on his Boy Scout 2nd class now. 2 year diff, thank GOD next year they will both be together. All the separate trips were killing me, plus I just became an asst. Scout Master and am setting up out next summer trip.

For sleeping, just get the $8 intex mattress at wally. I tried cots and matts, this is the most comfortable. For another $10 you can get the electric inflater or get one with it built in.

Thanks for the advice. I will do that.

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[TexasRedNeck]

Shawn I did not know that. Wonder how many they'd expect me to buy to fix it.

JR I fat fingered it. Yes Senco

Longball I'd bail on it. Certainly not worth paying someone else and if you do it yourself who knows what else you might find.

If my injectors go bad again I'm going to swap LLY heads on it. Or just set it on fire. 


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[stlaser]

Not sure Charles, my cousin owns a very small custom cabinet shop. Local senco dealer / supply house always fixed his. My assumption is you need to set up a commercial account, minor details and agree to buy all your fasteners from them. Then going forward they cover the tools. It's reason I have senco air guns primarily although living here in CO I have no idea where to take them now....

[longball]

Shawn I did not know that. Wonder how many they'd expect me to buy to fix it.

JR I fat fingered it. Yes Senco

Longball I'd bail on it. Certainly not worth paying someone else and if you do it yourself who knows what else you might find.

If my injectors go bad again I'm going to swap LLY heads on it. Or just set it on fire. 


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The guy who put in my last set ( all 8 ) only charged me $350 so that's the only reason I'm considering it. If I replace any before I sell it, It'll only be the ones that are bad.


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[mjmbrown]

Did I read on here someone can get a vehicle report? Vin check

1GYFK63837R427634

1GNKVJED7BJ210529

Pretty please


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Dave did you get my email?

[Bigdave_185]

Did I read on here someone can get a vehicle report? Vin check

1GYFK63837R427634

1GNKVJED7BJ210529

Pretty please


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Dave did you get my email?

Between the two platforms of Tapatalk and the forum email I am not sure.   I will double check

I did get one from Tate

Tex hitatchi makes a good nailer. The original version were awesome hammers

Sorry about injectors.  If you come up with a way to set said truck on fire keep us posted how the insurance handles is


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[longball]

Haha. If it goes up in flames my Ranger will be parked right beside it. I ordered three of these this morning. 6,000 lumen, spot/flood combo with wiring harness. For less than $20 I couldn't pass them up.

OPT7 C2 Series 12" Off-Road CREE LED Light Bar and Harness (Flood/Spot Auxiliary Lam... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KJ189EE/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_c_api_QogTzbZVAACNC

I got dad a pair of their pods a few years ago to use as work lights on his Kawasaki Mule and they're still working like a charm.


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[TexasRedNeck]

Made a little more progress on the casita and helped my little one make a bird feeder of her own design



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[Bigdave_185]

Haha. If it goes up in flames my Ranger will be parked right beside it. I ordered three of these this morning. 6,000 lumen, spot/flood combo with wiring harness. For less than $20 I couldn't pass them up.

OPT7 C2 Series 12" Off-Road CREE LED Light Bar and Harness (Flood/Spot Auxiliary Lam... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KJ189EE/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_c_api_QogTzbZVAACNC

I got dad a pair of their pods a few years ago to use as work lights on his Kawasaki Mule and they're still working like a charm.


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The image looks generic but is it a center mount light or can you side mount on both sides ?


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[longball]

As far as I can tell they have a bracket on each end.


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[KensAuto]

Started laying tile on the wife's island.
First, I made a top and covered it in 1/2" backer board, screwed and liquid nailed it to keep it rigid.

[KensAuto]

One of the first patterns I was trying out:



...ended up with something similar to this one, but more angles:

[dave945]

Moved two refrigerators from the old house to the new one. Installed a new toilet and mudded some drywall.


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[KensAuto]

I took a break from tile to make some leg protectors. I decided to use copper, because eventually copper pans will hang from the ceiling above the island.

Here it is sanded with 220 grit:



then hit it with a hammer for fun:





 

[KensAuto]

The bare copper just didn't go well with the dark walnut stained pine, so I started experimenting. The end result was from heating each piece until it was glowing, 3 separate times, and each time sooting them just before quenching. I used scotchbrite between soot coats until the pieces held a fair amount of black (from the acetylene). They ended up red, copper, with some black streaks. ...then used the torch along just the edge and turned it back into plain copper. I know, maybe overkill but it was kind of fun working with copper. Very interesting to see what happened during each heat cycle.



Here they are bent at 90*, then tacked on with antique looking upholstery tacks:

[JR]

Nice touch with the copper kick plates.

I have been thinking about doing cement counters.

[stlaser]

Nice copper work Ken!

[TexasRedNeck]

Looks good Ken. JR I've been thinking about cement counter tops in my upcoming outdoor kitchen. Don't know much about them. Would appreciate any advice.

Oh and yesterday wAs the HH6 birthday.  Decided to buy her a pool for the weekend place.  I guess that's the price I have to pay to be able to justify having a new shop built in a  few years.


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[Farmer Jon]

Had a day out messing around with the kids. Went to a semi truck show in Lincoln then to a model train get together down the road a little bit in Waverly. It was a fun day. Jasper loves trains so he had a ball riding them. They were real miniture steam engines. Coal burning steam powered. The boys found themselves a little kenworth they fell in love with.

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[cudakidd53]

Stocked up on another weeks worth of freeze dried meals for each member of my family.  Figured with all the calamity going on, supply might start to tighten and drive prices up.  Amazon sure makes it easy!

Hey Ken, nice looking copper work!  In the future, get yourself some "liver of sulfur" to add a much greater range of color to your patina work.  Just crush it up and dilute/dissolve into really hot water and paint it on and rinse it of using hot water.  You get magentas, violets and browns on your way to eventual black/steel gray.  Solution smells like REALLY rotten eggs, but results are amazing.  You can get some near you at Rio Grande Jewelers Supply - look on-line.  (Art teacher tip for the day)

[cudakidd53]

Turned on the new furnace for the first time!  Slept with some upstairs windows opened last night and awoke to the main floor at a brisk 65 degrees!  Walking around the house freezing for 2 + hours and figured "what the heck, gotta test it out!"  Awful smell of oil burning of the new metal made me glad that the upstairs windows were still opened!

Gonna be an early fall - a couple of orange leaves on my maple trees and some dulling of other types in the neighborhood!

[Atkinsmatt]

Spent time preparing for Irma as it continues to turn.  Praying for whoever is affected.

[KensAuto]

So Mike, you sayin I could have saved myself about 4 hours worth of work by sprinkling some smelly pixie dust around?  Darnit

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[JR]

Looks good Ken. JR I've been thinking about cement counter tops in my upcoming outdoor kitchen. Don't know much about them. Would appreciate any advice.

Just been watching shows and how too's on youtube. They put them in a rental we sold, looked good. I like the options and price!

[Nate]

so Black Betty did me solid for 10-11 years. 

she just got to the point where she was nickle and diming me.

so please say farwell to her (06 sept 17)............

[Nate]

and please say hello to this beauty

2018 gmc denali 2500hd

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[JR]

Looks nice.

They give you a fair trade in?

[cudakidd53]

I'm green......like what you feel when I post images of Makers Mark!

Very nice acquisition there Nate! 

[longball]

and please say hello to this beauty

2018 gmc denali 2500hd

I need a bib. Well done Nate.


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[Flyin6]

Purdy!

[Sammconn]

Nice Nate!
 

My HH6 is getting some hung new tomorrow.
Had car problems on the way out, and shed hinted about a month ago that maybe it was time.
I'd say the car trouble was a sign.

So I've almost firmed up the deal via text this time...
Will be calling the salesman tomorrow to work out the finer points.

[Farmer Jon]

Still nursing a bad cold. Woke up Sunday morning at 4 am sneezing. Couldn't get back to sleep. We still managed to can 13 quarts of tomato juice. Not as much as normal but I still have a good dozen or more left over from last year. I gave away half my tomatoes to the neighbor who's plants didn't do well. Her house is the first stop when Zane starts selling boy scout popcorn in 2 weeks.

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[Wilbur]

FIL is getting ready to sell his house so power washed his deck (he painted it instead of staining it....    ) and replaced 3 boards that had some rot in them.

Jon nice to have stuff put by like that. One of the things i like about having a garden is giving fresh extra produce to (nice) neighbors. Hope your cold cleaes up.

Thinking about 9/11 today. Somber day.   

[JR]

Yep, remember 9/11.

Jon my boys sold last weekend at the local Ace. Glad its out of the way, its good but pricey!

[kampfitt]

Nice Keep me working so we can do our next trip!!

[KensAuto]

Very Nice truck Nate!! congrats

[EL TATE]

and please say hello to this beauty

2018 gmc denali 2500hd

Ooooh she's puuuurdy

[rpar86]

Took down the last maple tree and pulled out the stump yesterday. Still have a lot of roots left under the lawn though. Might be renting a mini-excavator to take out the two stumps in the back yard and can pull those roots then. Lawns will likely get re-done anyway. Think i want to get a bobcat and landscape rake (rock hound i've seen them called) to take it down a few inches and get out the large rocks then replant the grass.

20170910 by Ryan Parlee, on Flickr


I had cut some major roots and tried pulling from down low on the stump already at this point. Hooked up to the top of the trunk to utilize the leverage.... came loose real easily.

20170910_155018 by Ryan Parlee, on Flickr


Had to give it a good tug

14262 by Ryan Parlee, on Flickr

Aftermath

20170910_155743 by Ryan Parlee, on Flickr

20170910_155738 by Ryan Parlee, on Flickr

[Wilbur]

Pulling stumps is no fun! Good work!

Dang nice ride nate! Really sweet.

[TexasRedNeck]

Nice Nate!

I remember where I was this day in 2001.  I was at work and heard about the first plane and went to the break room to see what what going on and as they were still speculating on why and how, I watched the second one hit.  It really took a while for it to register with me, that some one was that sick.

I was very naive then.

Today I played golf and sucked at it.  Of course its been more than a year since i last played or practice.  There were a couple of glimpses of decency.  I had one drive for 300 and another 290.  putter was meh and the irons made me look like I was having an epileptic fit.

[cudakidd53]

Oh, Tex, sounds like you're coping my golf game......tried to sell my clubs in our garage sale; evidently, God enjoys watching me struggle enough that they're still here! 

[TexasRedNeck]

Yeah Mike.  I stopped playing my new clubs a few years ago and went back to playing my ancient set of Zing2s

It's not the club's fault.

Oh and today I dumped and replaced my water storage at the city house. 60 gallons in 4 15gal food grade hdpe barrels. .6 tsp of bleach in each and fill with tap water. I'm also edging close to the dates I need to replace my MREs. I have a ton (!) of chicken fajita, sloppy Joe and beef stew. Did break into a lemon pound cake this evening and the kids enjoyed it.


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[Bigdave_185]

Nate. What did they give ya on trade. That looks oh so nice


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[JR]

Got a good source for MRE's? Would like some but they can get pricey!

Ran home and tarped the build. Just a drizzle today but had me worried since it is just exposed sheetrock right now.

[stlaser]

Yeah Mike.  I stopped playing my new clubs a few years ago and went back to playing my ancient set of Zing2s

It's not the club's fault.

Oh and today I dumped and replaced my water storage at the city house. 60 gallons in 4 15gal food grade hdpe barrels. .6 tsp of bleach in each and fill with tap water. I'm also edging close to the dates I need to replace my MREs. I have a ton (!) of chicken fajita, sloppy Joe and beef stew. Did break into a lemon pound cake this evening and the kids enjoyed it.


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Charles, I literally chuckled out loud about the epileptic fit or at least the visual image of such as I can relate. As far as MRE's they have an expiration? Reason I ask a good friend who was in sea bees early 80's swore they were digesting Vietnam era MRE's at the time......

[TexasRedNeck]

JR I get my MREs from The Ready Store. I have some full meal packs with heaters and then I buy cases of the entrees only which makes it more economical.  I also buy cases of just the heaters too.

Shawn glad I could give you a laugh. After manhandling those sheets of 1 1/8 plywood all day I was stiff as a board (pun intended) and just couldn't rotate.

Technically I guess they expire. There is a chart on the box that shows shelf life at certain storage temps. Not that they go bad. Probably just not as tasty.


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[Bear9350]

I've rented a mini-excavator a couple of times now and both times tried to use it to dig some stumps out.  It did not work very well.  The one I was using was just not heavy enough to pull the stump out of the ground or break the roots.  I needed to dig a really big hole to have any hope of getting them out.

[Bigdave_185]

Wow

Double axle dump trailer on a SUV


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[Wilbur]

I hope its unloaded Dave. Or else you'll see it upside down in the median pretty soon. Never ceases to amaze me how once people get a SUV think they have a heavy truck. Home Depot on a Saturday AM is a scary place to see this kind of stuff!