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27001
« on: June 11, 2015, 08:51:59 PM »
I found these pics on a closed group on FB called "Hookers"
Not the street walker type...Chinook...hook...hookers
Army slang
I might be in one or three. Pretty sure it might be me delivering that Mohawk...to a remote range in Korea, or the other aircraft in the flight that day. Then the pinnacle. I believe it is the one south of Pyontek, S. Korea. Used to land up there for training all the time...
Tan birds are all "F" models
27002
« on: June 11, 2015, 08:40:08 PM »
Just ordered mine for the NEA Convention, along with a sweet NRA t-shirt sporting an American Eagle in Red, White & Blue and made up of different firearms- guns that is. Liberals will be seething seeing me wearing such finery in their presence, especially my favorite Left & Right Coast loons! ;D
Wear it proudly!
27003
« on: June 11, 2015, 08:39:20 PM »
Sorry for the bad luck...
But no body gets through unscathed it seems.
27004
« on: June 11, 2015, 06:55:05 PM »
And that is all she wrote for today.
Short day, but at least that bumper is done and ready for assembly
27005
« on: June 11, 2015, 06:53:57 PM »
The nuts are tacked to the plates with the bolts threading in from the outside which will be easy to get to
27006
« on: June 11, 2015, 06:52:28 PM »
1/2" hardware out back
27007
« on: June 11, 2015, 06:52:02 PM »
I'm starting with 5 holes on each side with the forward one hopefully tying into the side bumper mount and possibly the shackle flip which will be close
27008
« on: June 11, 2015, 06:50:49 PM »
I'm starting with two 21" long sections of .250" plate
Here they are marked to locate the existing holes. I certainly DO NOT need to drill any more holes into that frame!
27009
« on: June 11, 2015, 06:49:10 PM »
I started building the rear bumper, really just because I wanted to do an initial layout to see how some things were going to fit, and where I would end up mounting some stuff. I also want to get the majority of the weight on the truck because I am getting close to redoing the rear springs and adding leaves to the front leaf pack
As for starting up the motor, I'm just skeered!
27010
« on: June 11, 2015, 06:46:10 PM »
I think that'll do!
27011
« on: June 11, 2015, 06:44:45 PM »
What does a rear bumper have to do with it running?
Just procrastinating,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Who told you?
27012
« on: June 11, 2015, 06:43:44 PM »
The results
27013
« on: June 11, 2015, 06:42:28 PM »
And here's the stuff:
27014
« on: June 11, 2015, 06:41:57 PM »
So the plan will be to keep the tubular stuff just like it is and the knarly looking parts get covered with Raptor sprayed as messy as I can get it!
Bumper was washed again, taped, and prepped.
27015
« on: June 11, 2015, 06:39:07 PM »
OK, got lucky there...No comments from the peanut gallery...
So even though this cold thing is still werkin on me, I started the day off cutting the grass..OK, that went OK, so off to catch up some more stuff that's been lagging.
With no major relapse, I decided to tackle the front bumper to take it in for the touchdown.
The paint cured very well, this is what it looked like before I started
27016
« on: June 11, 2015, 02:52:47 PM »
Update 06112015
VW America sent a letter to the state attorney of KY stating the vehicle can tow 7700 lbs. I protested that and am asking the states attorney if they agree that there is a case for false advertising.
With respect to the safety issue, I have elevated the issue/complaint to the federal level. The first call was to the US Department of transportation, vehicle safety. After chatting for some time, I was referred to an investigative arm of that agency. We are currently exchanging facts and framing up this situation.
A Toureg can clearly not tow the weight they advertise it can, so in the interim, until we maybe get a national recall, if you know a VW Toureg owner please advise them of this so that they do not attempt to tow anything. Feel free to point them back to me, as I will now serve as the spokesperson for this "Case" if it gets going.
I still have letters to send to my congressmen, who will not help and my senators who probably won't either, and the Governor of my state.
27017
« on: June 11, 2015, 01:48:59 PM »
Heck, I need to score one of those and slam it on my LML and toss that crappy CP4A
27018
« on: June 11, 2015, 11:00:51 AM »
You found a good mech, should probably go with that!
But did you at least check? Might to get a mo-better, higher performin' pump from a shop.
27019
« on: June 11, 2015, 10:58:33 AM »
Danka
27020
« on: June 11, 2015, 10:55:20 AM »
Don't tell JR
He'll freak
All I'll hear is "Let's hear it run"
There will be bold, italicized, moving banners and he'll get other people all fired up and they will chime in as well.
And we definitely DON'T NEED THAT!
Plus, consider the agin' man's blood pressure. Hey he already lives in the Kalifornia which has to be nerve rackin' enough already, and he had a career of catchin' bad guys just so the criminal injustice system could release them then turn around and investigate him for possible rights abuses...
(worst part of that for guys like Bobby, me, Blaine, and Nate is he didn't get to shoot em!)
So don't tell him!
I started building the rear bumper! Yea, just having fun right now meltin' metal. Kinda like diggin' a hole when I was a kid (last year)
So, I just ordered the winch for it. Not going with the Badlands because, well, I'm not sure if I trust them. I went with Superwinch, because I do! And I found a store which sold it for $349 with free shipping...free shipping on a 94 pound winch!
Remember, Don't mention a thing to JR...Oh I can just hear it now....
27021
« on: June 11, 2015, 09:22:00 AM »
Need a link for that ^^^^^^ I want one
27022
« on: June 11, 2015, 09:07:47 AM »
Nate, How about having your CP3 overhauled at a pump builder? Plenty of them around. I'm guessing $1300 ish, perhaps as low as $1,100. Did you check into that?
27023
« on: June 11, 2015, 09:03:45 AM »
Finally got caught up on this. Remind me to never ask for your help on a fluids change and freshening up. With that bumper you could use this for tree clearing duty, and sell big red to fund other projects.
Maybe not just yet. It kinda needs to run for that.
I could almost package all this and sell it as a book! Much more to come on SquareD which is evolving into the "Never-ending project."
27024
« on: June 11, 2015, 09:02:17 AM »
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.
Patience...You're talking about patience Did I ever tell you about patience and a squirrel? LOL Thanks
27025
« on: June 10, 2015, 06:21:52 PM »
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.
I'm learning every day I thought I had the machine. At only 28K I could have afforded it handily. But that drive motor costs $11,000! Now with a new drive motor I would have been OK except for Richard waving me off in telling them they didn't need to sell me that unit. Well, I trust him, and Larry and really, everyone there for that matter, and I think they did this to protect me. I am disappointed though. I was thinking within a week, I could muck out the pond and demo the house there and have a heck of a lot of fun building my dream down there. I really liked that Case CX-160 but without it being a dealership, I couldn't find financing. Commercial financing is difficult to say the least. They want to see balance sheets and all that and I just started the "Farm." Other than that, the pretty Case would have been a keeper. Just in a short time of grubbing around I was getting the hang of running that thing. I owned a couple back-hoes in the past and I'd say, I got on top of those things in a day or so. Well, I'm pretty good with a loader so we'll see what I can do with big red if no track hoe comes my way
27026
« on: June 10, 2015, 12:53:02 PM »
Being back to just Big Red is not such a bad place to be. It is ready now.
Almost ready! Working on a pesky oil leak, but not a big deal...just time
27027
« on: June 10, 2015, 12:35:16 PM »
You already know, it is a lot better to find out before using the pen. There are plenty out there. You'll find the one you are supposed to have in God's time.
That's a fact! I prayed over this. If God wished me to have it, then he would make it possible, and if not to put a block in the way I believe he has spoken!
27028
« on: June 10, 2015, 12:27:51 PM »
Do you folks up there do basements? If that thing is on a basement it's huge!
We do basements here so, essentially, you end up with a 3-story
A problem with basements around here is the surface water likes to fill up holes it finds. All the drainage and asphalt coating around the outside of the basement does is slow down the water for a while. Once a crack forms in the floor or outside wall, water will be there after a rain event.
I thought as much, heck you folks live in a rain forest! Plus those volcanic rocks are a bunch harder than the softer limestone we tunnel through around here.
27029
« on: June 10, 2015, 12:24:02 PM »
Well, just now I got a call from the dealer.
They have determined it is a drive motor and it likely has metal chips throughout the system that didn't get trapped in a filter, so they no longer want to sell it to me!
Jerry asked me to let him search around for another machine in the 160-210 class, so I guess I'm back to just Big Red!
27030
« on: June 10, 2015, 12:11:26 PM »
Also, on the pond building, you have to know what you're doing, or you could waste a lot of time and money on fuel, and not accomplish a simple "hole that holds water"...
Have to check drainage in surrounding areas, check for springs, make sure you can core out for the dam, make sure you don't hit any water tables or springs! Contrary to everyones thinking, a spring/water table is the WORST thing you can hit when digging your pond. Reason is, when you dam up the pond, and it begins to build up with water, the head pressure of the volume of water pushing back against the water table/spring, can actually prevent your pond from filling up. It will get enough weight that it will push water back into the table/spring, instead of the opposite... Pond will only fill up to that point, then no more... Seen it happen, built one like that, landowner didn't care. It could drop 8" of rain in 5 hours, and his pond would not get with in 2' of his spillway. Would not happen.
So, make sure you get someone out there that knows what they are doing, to advise you as you go along...
Practice and experience make perfect, so learn from people that have been there, done that... 8)
I hear ya Built a pond in Tennessee that leaked! Would hold maybe 6 feet of water out of a 20' hole. My pastor a Texas man, got ahold of me right away. HE said let him to get his buddy, a guy like you to advise or even put in the pond for me...How cool is that? I do have a spring fed pond, but this is how I plan to manage that: The bigger pond site will surround the existing pond but at a lower level. The pond is on a slope, so I'll go down slope and pull out the dirt and build in the dam and set all that maybe 6 feet lower than the existing pond. Then I'll break the dam and flood the water (Not much) into the lower pond, the muck out the existing one. The new pond site will drain a lot of the ridgeline which has a road running down the center, a sunken road. Rains currently run into that road, then down and into a gulley. I plan to reroute all that to empty through a twisty into the new pond. I also plan to track in 6"-1 foot of clay which I expect to find in the hole excavation
27031
« on: June 10, 2015, 11:59:50 AM »
Ash,
Thanks for the feedback
I am moving forward with the purchase, but haven't paid for it yet.
The guys at Southeastern are being great with me. They understand how badly I got hurt with the first Big-Red repair.
Speaking with Jerry, the salesman, we talked about a fluid change of everything except for hydraulics, and filters, a total steam cleaning, a new seat, a general work off of things that should get fixed. He wants to put another bucket on it as the wobble I found there is not due to missing bushings, it has the wrong size pins. He was searching the company for a 42"-45" bucket when last we talked.
The big thing turned out to be in the propel system
When I "Drove" it I noticed it pulling to one side a little bit. I was thinking it needed a bit of adjustment to the levers. While I was talking to Jerry, Richard, the mechanic who has been fixing Big Red said he thought they should put a new drive motor in one side of the track system.
Jerry was working the numbers to give me the best possible price, and none of them want that machine to leave there with any significant problems.
So I'll be in the 20's for a 150HP Cummins powered machine with a great undercarriage. I estimate 200 hours a year for a couple years, then probably a forth of that. I mean, it is so big, it will get a lot of work done pretty efficiently and quicker that grubbing around with big red. And now Red will compliment it well with more of a "Pushing" role than an out and out digging role.
27032
« on: June 10, 2015, 11:47:04 AM »
Do you folks up there do basements? If that thing is on a basement it's huge!
We do basements here so, essentially, you end up with a 3-story
27033
« on: June 10, 2015, 11:10:08 AM »
Yeah, i like it too. All the front gable pitches match on the shop at the house at 8/12. The shop was actually 9/12 and i noticed it while the plans were in engineering, so i had to have it updated... that's why they're dotted lines in that photo.
Oooh your garage is on the side, my wife really wanted a side garage but our property just wasn't wide enough. Nice house!
I would prefer your detached garage building setup. I actually have two garages, the one you see is my wife's 24X24 Mine is truly on the side and is a deep 3 car plus work area 36 X 28 or 30 I think. But like today, for example, if I spray that bumper with the Raptor, the fumes are really wicked, and they will migrate into the house. You'll have a better setup
27034
« on: June 10, 2015, 10:31:29 AM »
Very Nice
I like how you cut up the roof profile with all the dormers
I did the same thing on my house
27035
« on: June 10, 2015, 09:03:44 AM »
Like it!
What is the proposed house going to look like?
27036
« on: June 10, 2015, 09:00:45 AM »
I like that ^^^^
27037
« on: June 09, 2015, 08:08:27 PM »
For some reason my private messages don't work. When I first joined the site it did, but I could not post anywhere else. Someone was helping me fix that through PMs. When the other posting got fixed the PM quit working. I gave it a couple weeks to see it was something yall were working on, but it's still giving me this message when I try to open it.
An Error Has Occurred!
Sorry, you can't read your personal messages.
Can someone help with this please. I would at least like to thank the guy that helped me fix the other issue.
I just checked your settings, and found everything to be normal. I forwarded it to Kyle to see if he can figure it out We'll try to get you healed
27038
« on: June 09, 2015, 04:22:08 PM »
Maybe that was a gun that they captured from the Iraqi forces.
French! Only dropped once, never been fired!
27039
« on: June 09, 2015, 04:21:07 PM »
If they were crews, I'd be on it like white on rice
You bidding?
Was thinking you could throw down an $800 bid for me and see if I get lucky...But then I'd have another project...
What's the HFS? (Home front situation?)
Have a driveway yet?
Crops?
Roof(s)?
Not even going to think about asking about the W350
27040
« on: June 09, 2015, 02:00:17 PM »
Just make it real coffee BD.
I think there are videos of getting run over on youtube, might "kill" some time.
A colonel buddy of mine sent me some YouTube links. Good one An ISIS dude was dancing around twirling his rifle and tossing it about. Yup, you guessed it. He dropped it and shot himself! So I guess guns actually DO kill people. Was a good clip, kinda brought a tear to my eye in a hopeful sort of way... https://www.facebook.com/RyoooD/videos/790577004310714/
27041
« on: June 09, 2015, 01:05:24 PM »
Clever post.
Good use for a relatively newer tool
I would have never thought about that, or dulling the blade some to prevent over zealous rubber removal
27042
« on: June 09, 2015, 09:48:50 AM »
Thanks, Gentlemen
27043
« on: June 09, 2015, 08:34:59 AM »
I definitely picked up something. I feel like I have been run over by an eighteen wheeler, who backed up and ran over me a second time...with both sides.
Probably a bad idea but gonna try some quoffee
27044
« on: June 09, 2015, 08:33:13 AM »
Decor has two sealants for that rubber roof. The self leveling for the flat stuff up on the roof works great. On the corners the non-sag is better. It stays in place on the vertical stuff better. A couple tubes should do down the sides and the corners. If you're revealing everything that's up there it,ll prolly take a dozen or so tubes of self level. Put a couple heavy beads around everything that's sticking up and it will lay down real purty. That old sealant can be carved off of there with one of those oscillating tools. I dull the new blades on concrete for a second so they don't cut the roof so easily. Just light pressure not forcing it or it will slice the rubber. With some practice all the sealant could be stripped off in less than an hour with that tool.
Interesting technique
27045
« on: June 08, 2015, 06:22:11 PM »
There's Asian flu around now?
I'm not so bad now, but when I was sweatin it up in the garage I was feelin a bit peekish
27046
« on: June 08, 2015, 04:44:58 PM »
No NAPA near here that I know about
We have ORilleys, Autozone, some other a-zone like store, and Kentucky motors. I use the first and the last and am vaguely aware of the other two.
Besides it's already on the way
And
I have another development.
Last night one of the pre-Rangers pulled a 101.5 with projectile pukin'. Second one started it about noon, now I'm feeling it...
Probably a blessing that the stuff won't be here for 48.
I started in on another truck project on SquareD but finally gave it up around 1630... I'll lay around and complain, see if I can get some sympathy.
It's a long shot, but who knows!
27047
« on: June 08, 2015, 02:19:44 PM »
Went to get some this morn, but the paint store no longer carries it, so I'm back to A & W (Amazon and wait)
O'Reilly Auto, AutoZone and et al, generally have Herculiner for sale in there, that's pretty good stuff as well. If they do, then you won't have to wait, which means more build thread for us all to read...
Bobby, The herc stuff is not as good as the Raptor by a fair stretch. Not a 2-part urethane, just a brush on cheapo. Already ordered a Raptor kit...$125 with shipping, be here Wednesday
27048
« on: June 08, 2015, 12:54:51 PM »
Raptor that sucker up! boogered welds and all it looks better than anything out of the box, that's for sure.
Went to get some this morn, but the paint store no longer carries it, so I'm back to A & W (Amazon and wait)
27049
« on: June 08, 2015, 12:53:26 PM »
Man, that's the truth. Sometimes I let my tongue get the better of me... Will hang on to this one!
I meant that for me mostly!
27050
« on: June 08, 2015, 08:34:52 AM »
Amen!
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