Not really a tractor by my reckoning, however the company calls it a compact utility tractor. Having owned several tractors in this size before, I can say they are very capable as long as you size the job appropriately.

The fuel tank is in the left fender, as is the fuel level gage

Gentlemen, meet my new John Deere 1025R tractor.

Here it is being delivered:

I like how they fit together, that is great. I have a question- do you worry about having to "unclick" all three to get to the bottom one or the middle one etc.? I like that you are integrating it into a support structure for the table but still not sure of "taking it apart" when you want to access it. Just curious, not trying to be a PITA in any way.

Could they be put on end so you could grab one and unclick it without disturbing the others? (I am not sure how the mounting mechanism works or if they could be done vertically with the mounting hardware underneath them attaching to the side/back section of the case? thereby having the handle up)

They click into the next unit at the base, flat side down. I do not know of any base unit other than a roller caddy, so I plan to fab one up once I see how it all works

I don't care about inconvenience. Security and being able to quickly locate things is what's important to me.

Very innovative.

I wanted to secure or perhaps organize stuff in the back of SquareD so I have chosen the Bosch L-Boxx stackable system to utilize

I ordered: Two of the 4.5" deep L-Boxx1
                One 6" deep L-Box 2
                Tow 10" deep, L-Boxx 3

I figure I'll make one of the 10" deep units a spare parts container. The second 10" will be a tool box. The 6" deep one will be a medical kit, a 4.5" one filled with survival stuff, spare this and that's and the final 4.5" L-Boxx 1 container for a catch all

The plan will be to build a fixture to allow the stack to clip into the floor and serve as a prop for one corner of a fold down desk/bunk. The opposite end of the bunk/desk thing will rest on the fuel tank.

I already have a selection of tools sitting here from Northern to start to fill the tool box, so we'll start to kit all of that out PDQ

Yes, you are on to something here for all the reasons you just mentioned

Your biggest weak link will be the availability of fuel.

Having said that, if you can get it to run on alcohol, then if you set up a still at your BO location you could possibly solve that problem

Who cares.  This stuff is great entertainment.

I'm with you

I voted "Who cares"

I'm not much on those wheels either, but I do like the cleaner look you have there.

Maybe you should consider selling those side steps to fund a new set of diesel spark plugs or something. Then show up down here for a visit and I'll do you up a set of respectable steps/sliders/side ramming devices w/spare tool cache and aux air tank along with a secret compartment for two extra 30 round mags!

Another item checked off the list was upgrading all of the light bulbs to LEDs. There are 26, #921 style bulbs and 4, #1156 style bulbs inside the trailer. I haven't done the outside ones yet.
This is what the 2 styles look like:



The 1156 style on the left is good for 150 lumens, the 921 style on the right is rated at 250.

Could you give us a link/source for those bulbs?

I want to do my camper as well

Only 8 votes?

Ken, Ras, you boyz are laggin'

Didn't Don already say he wanted to have a cummins mech look it over before fired it up?


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I did, and frankly I was off doing other stuff when all this "Start it up business started. Well I started to get interested in getting it done, and now I want to just shove some fuel in the tank, crank it over and see what happens next. Heck might get another engine repair out of the deal. Big bore...stroker...4-valve head...twins... maybe even weld two 6BT's together just in case I ever need 3,000 ft lbs of torque!

i agree don, i think the motor and trans maybe should be taken out and weighed and then adjust the front leaf spring count to have a better then flat leaf spring stance. maybe then revisit the shocks and perhaps a methanol injection. never be pushed when its your money on the line BIG D

I like you Darren!
Finally, some support!

^^^ Hey, and there's nuthin' wrong about a nap! :D

That's not bad!

Way to many times,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Good friend of mine a mid career deputy.
He leads a prayer group I used to go to every Tuesday
One night he comes in and tells me. He made this stop. Middle of the night, middle of nowhere. All by himself. Vehicle with what looks like three males. Shortly after he made the stop and before he gets out of the car, what he describes as a very strong feeling comes over him and what he describes as something like a voice, that says," Leave this one...just drive off." My buddy who is fearless for once goes with his feeling and just drives off but calls some of his buddies. A bit later they get the car stopped. Escaped Con, Murderer...with some local bad guys, with guns. I have no doubt had he approached that car, my friend would have been killed.

Me, wrote about it in my book. In a gun-bird. I sprint ahead of the formation to cover the birds going into an LZ with some SF dudes. I pop up over this vill in a right turn with the mini gun ready and I get this feeling. Is making my skin crawl. I have an experienced Marine gunner on the mini. I tell him something isn't right. I don't see kids, adults, animals, nada. I warn the assault birds this place is wrong. We get the guys in then hang out awhile to cover them, but like anything helicopter, we get to bingo fuel and have to dity mau. I get back to Kandahar only to find out the guys got hit shortly after we cleared the mountain on departure. One KIA, more WIA.

That feeling is real. Warns us something is wrong.

Matt,
Continued small improvements. Vector is up. The Lord is doing his work, our prayers are being heard. One day I hope to talk to her about this thread and you men who lifted her up.

I made time this week to tear the generator down. The bearings and just about everything except the cylinders, looked practically new. The bottoms of both cylinders were full of oil and very little crosshatch remained. what was weird was the oil rings have a huge gap, like 1/8", and both cylinders had the gaps of all of the rings at the bottom....perfectly lined up!
Here's proof of the teardown:

Been waiting for this one

START IT UP!!!!

The Holy Spirit makes us each understand the message that the pastor is speaking as it relates to us individually.  Each of us have a blessed day.

When I used to think about the holy spirit and explain it to folks in my earlier Christian days, I'd use Star Trek as an example.
Remember in the Shatner first run editions, when the crew of the enterprise would meet a new alien race, like talking rock people, they would place this metallic, electronic device in front of it/them called the universal translator. The rock person would make clicking and grinding sounds and the voice from the universal translator would speak in English. "I come in peace"

The holy spirit can interpret the written word, someone speaking in tongue, or even a situation. Ever get a "Funny" feeling about something that was happening to you??? Yup, holy spirit talkin' to ya

This is just for bobby

Can we just make about a quarter of that for Don as well???

What's that Latin...Some new Spielberg movie?  ;)

Quote from: JR on June 27, 2015, 09:12:45 PM

At the current rate, we my all need a new state.

Great pics though, nothing like solid family ties and upbringing.

Amen.  Or an island somewhere.... Maybe we can conquer Cuba

Can't do that, Obama is on the way to making them one of our allies...as long as we come onboard with the "Communist thing!"

This is Dr. Steve Suggerand who is a brilliant economist. I have followed him for many years. He has had an uncanny ability to spot things before they happen. I'd pay attention.

Summary: This October the Dollar will cease to be the worlds dominant reserve currency, supplemented by the Chinese Yuan around 20 Oct.

This will cause a tsunami in US markets. Many will lose almost everything whereas others will profit nicely

What should you do?
Buy Silver, buy gold now

If you don't, been nice knowing ya!

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Supreme Deception
 
Today, in one breathtaking move, the nation's highest court took for itself the power reserved for its people -- overturning the votes of millions of Americans and demanding that they walk away from millennia of human history, human nature, and the explicit teachings of Scripture in the process. Exactly two years after this court took an iron gavel to federal marriage law, the same justices came back to finish the job -- inventing a sweeping "right" to same-sex marriage no founding father intended.

Are we disappointed? Yes -- but not surprised by an increasingly activist Court that sees itself as super-legislators. While five justices may have trampled the will of more than 50 million people, they do not have the moral authority to redefine marriage. Just as Americans refused to accept the Court's decision on abortion 42 years as legitimate, they will not accept this one. Like the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, this all but ensures that America will not achieve broad social consensus on marriage. Why? Because it will be used to rob Americans of their rights in the marketplace, in the education of their children, and most importantly, in the expression of their beliefs on marriage.

And we are not alone in that view. Justice Samuel Alito in his dissent signals far more than the death of marriage. "Today's decision will also have a fundamental effect on this Court and its ability to uphold the rule of law. If a bare majority of Justices can invent a new right and impose that right on the rest of the country, the only real limit on what future majorities will be able to do is their own sense of what those with political power and cultural influence are willing to tolerate."

Desperate to justify their overreach, one that cannot be supported by the Constitution, history, or even human tradition, the majority insists that there are "changing definitions of marriage," "where new dimensions of freedom become apparent." Wrong. The nature of marriage has never changed -- and never will. As Congressman Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) powerfully reminded people, marriage was the union of a man and woman at the time of the Fourteenth Amendment, at the Founding of our country, and in every time and place until 2004. Even then, no court overturned natural law. And today, no court can -- not even the Supreme Court of the United States. What God imprinted on the human heart, no judge can change.

For 11 years, homosexual activists have hidden behind the black robes of the court, trying to force their will on America before people wake up to the devastation. Today, in the court's arrogance, they succeeded -- swatting away the democratic expression of 50 million people like gnats on a humid day. "Today's decree," Justice Antonin Scalia fumes, "says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court. The opinion in these cases is the furthest extension in fact... This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves." Chief Justice John Roberts agreed, noting with poignancy, "If you are among the many Americans -- of whatever sexual orientation -- who favor expanding same-sex marriage, by all means celebrate today's decision. Celebrate the achievement of a desired goal. Celebrate the opportunity for a new expression of commitment to a partner. Celebrate the availability of new benefits. But do not celebrate the Constitution. It had nothing to do with it."

If the President, his party, and this court think that they have resolved this controversial issue, they're mistaken. By disenfranchising 50 million Americans, in a decision divorced of law and logic, they have only poured fuel on the fire. Forty years ago, many people thought -- as some might today -- that the battle for life was lost. Over time, our movement and technology helped to change people's hearts and minds to a new understanding of the sanctity of the unborn child. And we will do it again. As more Americans see and feel the erosion of religious liberty, of parental rights, of children's innocence, and of conscience rights, their opinions will no longer be swayed by emotions and popular opinion -- but by transcendent truth and inevitable consequences that come from its rejection.

With this ruling, there is no doubt the Court has set in motion some dark days for religious liberty. But in that darkness will come a great Light, if believers hold firm to faith and continue speaking into the culture the uncompromising word of God. "This decision shows one thing: our desperate need for the next Great Awakening, and the hope of the Gospel given to all persons," Dr. Ronnie Floyd admonished. "We must rise up like never before with great urgency, to forward the message of Jesus Christ to every person in America."

The times of testing are coming -- just as they have come to every generation of God's faithful. But we will not stop standing for truth. And as conservatives, we will not be standing alone. In statement after statement, interview after interview, great leaders from across this country are making it clear: this is not over. From Governor's mansions to statehouse floors, the message is determined and resolved. "Millions of Americans have voted to preserve traditional marriage, with the knowledge that moms and dads raising kids in a stable home is essential to a healthy nation," Congressman Bill Flores (R-Texas) vowed. "I remain committed to restoring the right of Americans to decide this question for themselves, at the ballot box or through their state legislature." GOP presidential candidates -- the same ones the media criticized for not saying enough about marriage -- blasted the Court for ripping the decision out of the people's hands and making a mockery of sta tes' rights. "The only outcome worse than this flawed, failed decision would be for the President and Congress, two co-equal branches of government, to surrender in the face of this out-of-control act of unconstitutional, judicial tyranny," Mike Huckabee declared. "The Supreme Court can no more repeal the laws of nature and nature's God on marriage than it can the law of gravity."

The chorus of opposition grew until the responses came pouring in from all sides: the Republican National Committee; Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio); Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.); Reps. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.) Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.), Bill Flores (R-Texas), Ted Yoho (R-Fla.), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Steve Scalise (R-La.), John Fleming (R-La.), Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), Randy Forbes (R-Va.), Mike Kelly (R-Pa.); Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Rick Santorum, Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Ben Sasse (R-Nebr.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Dan Coats (R-Ind.), Governors Scott Walker (R-Wisc.), Mike Huckabee, Rick Perry, Bobby Jindal (R-La.), Jeb Bush; Carly Fiorina, and more. In Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton promised voters that local officials will not act until the leaders of the state exhaust all of their options. His boss, Governor Greg Abbott (R), fired back at the Court with a statewide directive protecting anyone with sincere beliefs from being punished by the government for "granting or denying benefits, managing agency employees, entering or enforcing agency contracts, licensing and permitting decisions, or enforcin g state laws and regulations." Together, they are telling America: the court may have had the last word on marriage, but it will not have the final one.

For those who are called to such a time as this, the moment has been given to us to stand firm. And that is what we will do. Calvary, Shannon Royce told our staff earlier, must have seemed like the darkest day in the world -- but it was really just the beginning of victory. This is a disheartening decision, to be sure. But we will not let a court's definition of marriage define us. For "the plan of the Lord stands forever, the designs of his heart through all generations. Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon those who fear him, upon those who count on his mercy. To deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive through famine. May your mercy, Lord, be upon us; as we put our hope in you" (Psalm 33).

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Miss Texas!
WOW!

Just got an update. Doctors just removed the ventilator from Andrea. She remains in critical condition, however is now able to breath on her own!