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26851
« on: June 18, 2015, 11:06:29 AM »
Man, that's a lot of work!
26852
« on: June 18, 2015, 10:53:11 AM »
At your side brother.
I know you are!
26853
« on: June 18, 2015, 10:46:08 AM »
Secular view here, but she has some good points. The message behind what she says is clear to me. Fathers...God...Standing on the Word. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpFzanztmB4
26854
« on: June 18, 2015, 10:45:11 AM »
I have long thought that the most effective tool of Satan is a father who has been turned (away) from God and his obligations and his family If Satan can destroy the man, then the family...the whole family will surely family That means that we men are going to be under attack. We are going to garner attention from the evil one because if he gets us, he gets the wife, the daughter, the son, and maybe even some adult parents as well. So we, men, must lock arms, and stand firm on the word of God. Stand together and for our little part, Not give one dam inch to Satan. Stand with me! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6IVyO-aoOU#t=115
26855
« on: June 17, 2015, 11:19:14 PM »
Condition still unchanged as of 1700 today
I don't know if that is a good thing or a not so good thing
Keep interceding on her behalf, bitte'
26856
« on: June 17, 2015, 11:17:05 PM »
Whatever you do, don't write "Logged" on the duty log under actions taken. Hope you have an uneventful night.
Figures I used to write "Logged" all the time Figures...Well, I'm an officer, is that a good enough excuse?
26857
« on: June 17, 2015, 11:13:24 PM »
JR, too bad you have this on your plate, but who here hasn't?
Symptoms of an active lifestyle and living!
We'll lift you up on surgery day for sure...keep us posted
26858
« on: June 17, 2015, 11:08:39 PM »
And all of that took me an afternoon, all the time I had to bumperize today. That's the end of build day 272
26859
« on: June 17, 2015, 11:07:26 PM »
This is only the flat face of the bumper. Above it will be a 2" 45 degree plate, then a top plate. I will add in a 1/4" horizontal rib and a bottom flange or skirt as well, so this is by no means the finished appearance
26860
« on: June 17, 2015, 11:05:08 PM »
Then I assembled several pieces together to start to form in the wings. I bench fitted and welded them first, then welded them to the D-ring plate
26861
« on: June 17, 2015, 11:03:35 PM »
After welding that brace in place that plate felt as solid as the top of an anvil!
26862
« on: June 17, 2015, 11:02:48 PM »
Picking up some more of that cool tubing I scored, I cut two reinforcements connecting the main bumper mount to the backside of the D-Ring plate
26863
« on: June 17, 2015, 11:01:13 PM »
And here they are welded in
26864
« on: June 17, 2015, 11:00:16 PM »
After cutting out the plate, I welded the D-Rings to them on the table first before attaching anything to the bumper
26865
« on: June 17, 2015, 10:59:09 PM »
Since these may see a lot of force, I am stepping all the way up to 3/8" thick plate
26866
« on: June 17, 2015, 10:57:48 PM »
OK added a bit more today
First off I will be adding in the plates that have the permanent shackles welded in. The cardboard is the size so you can see how that all will fit
26867
« on: June 17, 2015, 10:39:44 AM »
Sorry to hear that Don. Continued prayers being sent. I hope she pulls through.
Yea, me too. Seems sort of desperate at the moment
26868
« on: June 17, 2015, 10:36:50 AM »
^^^^Like that, very quotable!!!
26869
« on: June 17, 2015, 10:35:00 AM »
I like this bit of woodcraft too.
Like Nate suggested, I'm gonna take the pre-Rangers down to the wood and get them to build that contraption, then cook up some viddles in the pot!
No need to boil water, the sun is doing that for us just fine! :o
26870
« on: June 17, 2015, 10:32:24 AM »
Nothing beats an aircraft exhaust
Like walking into a big windy warm blanket.
Unless you are wearing a parachute and other items. Or you're in the exhaust overseas and you're already sweating like crazy, then it's just annoying.
Copy
26871
« on: June 17, 2015, 10:31:29 AM »
Well, if those flying pieces took out your bro and not you, then you could eat his egg/potato thing ;-))
But you'd end up carrying him, and burning off his portion and yours..
Negative Dig a spider hole, cache him and mark his position on a map, then eat it. Then CM
26872
« on: June 17, 2015, 10:28:50 AM »
"How are you still alive?"
26873
« on: June 17, 2015, 10:12:23 AM »
Just got an update
It's not good
Her lung functions are going downhill and she now has a higher liver and kidney function (Falling)
The doctors are now considering paralyzing her completely so that the machines can do all the breathing and whatever for her to free up what energy her body still has.
An intercessory prayer warrior, a woman from church is showing up there at 1500 to anoint her with oil and pray over her. Others are coming as well.
Keep praying for Andrea!
26874
« on: June 16, 2015, 10:38:17 PM »
The British accent makes him smarter......
I like it better on the ladies than the guys There was a British base about 75 miles away from Kandahar, Bastion. The AC tower voice was British female. Such a sweet sound when turning off the battle push and switching over to the tower to report "Inbound."
26875
« on: June 16, 2015, 10:34:37 PM »
Looks stout enough. Welds look strong enough. Steel looks shiny enough. What else can a guy ask for!
Nada! It's G-T-G
26876
« on: June 16, 2015, 09:45:39 PM »
Those sleeves would make everything green. We used to dry off behind the tanks as we walked by.
Nothing beats an aircraft exhaust Like walking into a big windy warm blanket. Now I have a little story here. You see for many years I stood around in the exhaust plume of my aircraft while at idle and refueling on some bitter cold winter day. It would warm you all up and you'd be all happy (Probably hypoxiated as well!) So Big Don grows up and becomes an airline pilot flying jets First thing I notice is the APU (Auxiliary power unit) exhaust. It is a small gas turbine which runs a generator and powers the aircraft packs, which heat and cool the air, pressurize aircraft and things like that. Well this thing is noisy and a fair bit larger than the engine in an OH-58! Well for years that was all good and dandy. Then one cold winter night we pull into Washington Regan on the river. The APU is inop, so we just leave the no.2 engine running at flight idle. Now no one really impressed me with the fact that the helicopter gas turbines use the engine to power stuff that propels the helicopter in flight. But turbofans on a passenger jet, well they just make a whole lot of thrust. That jet of mine made 14,400 lbs on each side. On this particular cold winter night all I am thinking is I'll preflight walking down the left side and into the APU exhaust and get warmed up. I was wearing my black pants, white shirt and my leather flight jacket. You know, leather is worn by bikers because it handles abrasions really well, like when you fall off your bike or walk into the exhaust of a jet engine, times like those. So I move out of the wonderfulness of the APU exhaust, cross under the tail and sort of start skiing across the ice on the ramp when all of a sudden the fuel truck goes racing past me. But the fuel truck is parked...It's me that is moving! For a second, maybe two on my feet, then on my butt, then back until I come to a stop maybe a hundred or so feet later. The exhaust from that engine may only exert a few pounds of force per square inch, but I am a lot of square inches, and since I'm usually around 240ish and I did 0-60 in like 4 seconds, I'm guessing that exhaust hit me with a literal ton of pressure. I immediately understood how that 75,000 pound jet could climb out with the nose pitched up 20 degrees or more and still accelerate!
26877
« on: June 16, 2015, 09:26:06 PM »
And right there, the bumper is all done!
I'll clean and undercoat it tomorrow!
Or I'll call this about 25% complete and drive on, one or the other
So that took me up to around 1930ish and time to throw the towel at the red dog.
CYA!
26878
« on: June 16, 2015, 09:24:10 PM »
The bumper does stick out a bit, but that was necessary because of the H2O tank and the winch I wanted to use. The hitch gives up a bit of ground clearance, but not a lot. The lower edge is 28" above tera-firma, whereas the lifted Silverado's hitch is 22".
This will allow the trailer to ride nice and level, as if I made the bumper to fit it or something crazy like that!
26879
« on: June 16, 2015, 09:21:06 PM »
This stuff slices like butter, is easier to grind and welds up pretty without pulling down the power grid of Northern Kentucky
Here is the other side boxed in
26880
« on: June 16, 2015, 09:19:32 PM »
I'm using 10 gage plate for the angled portion and the top, and .250" for the face that meets the Kias
26881
« on: June 16, 2015, 09:18:13 PM »
Here are the next two pieces that are used to box in that new section
26882
« on: June 16, 2015, 09:17:11 PM »
The hitch is not done by any means. It will still get attached to the fairhead plate and I'll bring in two braces from the frame after I add new tabs for the side wings when I get that far.
Next I added two pieces on the outboard upright to start to attach the top plate to. I am using some 1" X 3" high strength tubing that was all rejected by a company called "Big A$$ Fans. The steel company cut several hundred 2 foot sections of this tubing, but the BAF company rejected them because they had burrs or were 1/32" too short! Now those pieces are being sold as scrap, so a lot of my projects will now be using this tubing!
26883
« on: June 16, 2015, 09:11:42 PM »
Then after measuring, remeasuring and checking a third time, the hitch assembly was welded to the existing bumper structure
26884
« on: June 16, 2015, 09:09:26 PM »
About then the rain had stopped some 15 minutes, so I went outside to work on my tan.
Oh and I welded on those earlier pieces I showed
26885
« on: June 16, 2015, 09:07:16 PM »
Then I wrapped the edges with some flat stock
26886
« on: June 16, 2015, 09:05:34 PM »
I checked the fit, then welded it up
26887
« on: June 16, 2015, 09:04:24 PM »
Next I cut out the safety chain holes
26888
« on: June 16, 2015, 09:03:46 PM »
It's pretty thick, 3/8"
26889
« on: June 16, 2015, 09:03:01 PM »
I'll be reinforcing the thing like the vault over at Ft Knox where Obama's birth certificate and college transcripts are being kept.
I punched a hole in a piece of thick 4" X 4" angle to start
26890
« on: June 16, 2015, 09:00:26 PM »
Then just before I could weld all that in, it started to rain, and the back end of the truck is outside (So I can work on my tan while welding) so I moved ahead
Here is the tow hitch being created. Starting with 2.5" square tubing, 3/16" thick, all you have to do is drill a hole and weld it in, really
26891
« on: June 16, 2015, 08:55:52 PM »
Are you going to have a bolt on hitch receiver or will it be built into the bumper?
Built in, in fact that is what you will be reading about tonight. I lost my train of thought. That horrible tac-topper pic has me shaken up. Tried to forget about that one... And yes there was a second one, a side flipper. That one was nicer but started to get heavy so I just canned it and purchased the factory built aluminum topper that rides on there to this day. Good thing is I learned a ton on those two failed projects. I will be doing things a bit differently if I do the lunar lander back end on Square D So getting back to the PAH (Project at hand) I was about to close in some of the open areas and do some more triangulating when I stopped last night Lets start there:
26892
« on: June 16, 2015, 08:48:23 PM »
Impressive!
26893
« on: June 16, 2015, 08:46:50 PM »
26894
« on: June 16, 2015, 08:43:35 PM »
The flying peices of geological surface might slice the potato. Might ease the anger.
Well, if those flying pieces took out your bro and not you, then you could eat his egg/potato thing ;-))
26895
« on: June 16, 2015, 08:41:22 PM »
you have to join their group to view this link.
It was over in either of two closed groups I belong to, "Hookers" or "NightStalkers"...Sorry
26896
« on: June 16, 2015, 08:39:46 PM »
Those green eggs were pre T-Ration. Mess hall powered eggs in a marimite can about 12 hours old...barely warm, barely edible. I was in a battle position with my M60A1 tank in a cold fall day in a drizzle of a rain. My heater inside was broke, so the only way you could warm up was to stand in the engine exhaust!
26897
« on: June 16, 2015, 08:35:35 PM »
Looks like you got all the left coast representatives accounted for now. How did she become afflicted with all of these nasties? pretty tough to get one of these let alone the full assault she's dealing with.
She went in to have a boil looked at about a month ago. They took care of it and gave her antibiotics, which I believe either didn't clear up the infection she had or she didn't take the full course of treatment. So the infection went all over and exploded. Perhaps she picked up something in the hospital, because one of the infections is by one of those super bugs which are anti-biotic resistient. Then she started getting very sick, which was a coincidental relapse of meningitis. The lowered immune system by all the sickness allowed everything to come on. She was hospitalized and I guess developed pneumonia while in the hospital. From what I got today, she nearly died Saturday night, hanging on to a thread of life. Prayer works because little bit by little bit she is holding on and showing signs of surviving. I don't have the whole story. We just found out yesterday late afternoon.
26898
« on: June 16, 2015, 08:16:11 PM »
26899
« on: June 16, 2015, 12:33:50 PM »
"The Meaning of the Flag Draped Coffin"
Meaning of Flag Draped Coffin
All Americans should be given this lesson. Those who think that America is an arrogant nation should really reconsider that thought. Our founding fathers used GOD's word and teachings to establish our Great Nation and I think it's high time Americans get re-educated about this Nation's history.
Pass it along and be proud of the country we live in and even more proud of those who serve to protect our 'GOD GIVEN' rights and freedoms.
I hope you take the time to read this ... To understand what the flag draped coffin really means ... Here is how to understand the flag that laid upon it and is surrendered to so many widows and widowers.
Do you know that at military funerals, the 21-gun salute stands for the sum of the numbers in the year 1776?
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Have you ever noticed the honor guard pays meticulous attention to correctly folding the United States of America Flag 13 times? You probably thought it was to symbolize the original 13 colonies, but we learn something new every day!
The 1st fold of the flag is a symbol of life.
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The 2nd fold is a symbol of the belief in eternal life.
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The 3rd fold is made in honor and remembrance of the veterans departing the ranks who gave a portion of their lives for the defense of the country to attain peace throughout the world.
The 4th fold represents the weaker nature, for as American citizens trusting in God, it is to Him we turn in times of peace as well as in time of war for His divine guidance.
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The 5th fold is a tribute to the country, for in the words of Stephen Decatur, 'Our Country, in dealing with other countries, may she always be right; but it is still our country, right or wrong.'
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The 6th fold is for where people's hearts lie. It is with their heart that they pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America , and the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.
The 7th fold is a tribute to its Armed Forces, for it is through the Armed Forces that they protect their country and their flag against all her enemies, whether they be found within or without the boundaries of their republic.
The 8th fold is a tribute to the one who entered into the valley of the shadow of death, that we might see the light of day.
The 9th fold is a tribute to womanhood, and Mothers. For it has been through their faith, their love, loyalty and devotion that the character of the men and women who have made this country great has been molded.
The 10th fold is a tribute to the father, for he, too, has given his sons and daughters for the defense of their country since they were first born.
The 11th fold represents the lower portion of the seal of King David and King Solomon and glorifies in the Hebrews eyes, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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The 12th fold represents an emblem of eternity and glorifies, in the Christians eyes, God the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit.
The 13th fold, or when the flag is completely folded, the stars are uppermost reminding them of their Nations motto, 'In God We Trust.'
After the flag is completely folded and tucked in, it takes on the appearance of a cocked hat, ever reminding us of the soldiers who served under General George Washington, and the Sailors and Marines who served under Captain John Paul Jones, who were followed by their comrades and shipmates in the Armed Forces of the United States, preserving for them the rights, privileges and freedoms they enjoy today.
There are some traditions and ways of doing things that have deep meaning.
In the future, you'll see flags folded and now you will know why.
Share this with the children you love and all others who love what is referred to, the symbol of ' Liberty and Freedom.'
26900
« on: June 16, 2015, 09:32:50 AM »
don't mind it either bobby, I was just being boo boo lipped and trying to stay awake.
Suck it up Sarge, take a knee,face out, drink water, change your socks, take a motrin, avoid 2LT's and drive on.
And go have breakfast then crash and sleep. At least that's what I did when I got off CQ/SD. Hit the DFAC, pile eggs,biscuits,hashbrowns on a plate, cover liberally with sausage gravy and hot sauce, followed up with sleep.
Remember the brownies? Used to roll them up in a ball and throw them up onto the ceiling to see how long it/they would stay there with being noticed or falling. Remember the story I wrote about Top finding me and my tank crew back in the day. in a canteen cup he doled out green eggs, then covered that with spaghetti, and topped it all with peaches...and I ate every last bit of it!
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