What did you do today not on your truck...

[KW5413]

Replaced water filter assembly in my refrigerator. The bottom of the refrigerator. Not a tuff job but, too much time on these old knees. Got 'er done though.

[richard2717]

Figured I better hook the grader attachment up to the bobcat and get the lane leveled out before the ground freezes. makes it a lot easier to plow snow should we get any.

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[special-K]

Originally Posted by richard2717

Figured I better hook the grader attachment up to the bobcat and get the lane leveled out before the ground freezes. makes it a lot easier to plow snow should we get any.

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It was about 70 there yesterday, wasn't it? Good day for it.

[richard2717]

Originally Posted by special-K

It was about 70 there yesterday, wasn't it? Good day for it.

yes and it was not bad this morning when I graded the lane. Probably mid 50's. Supposed to get colder tonight though.

[FleetsidePaul]

I almost killed a horse today.

I was just driving down Hwy 178 (two lane road) Minding my own business. There's a white pickup in front of me me and a guy towing a horse trailer in front of him. So I'm fiddling with the radio and look up and the guy in the white pickup is going off onto the shoulder of the road.

Then I see it. The guy towing the horse trailer has stopped in the road to make a left. Dead stopped. He has no brake lights or turn signals to warn anyone. Nothing. He's just sitting there.

So now I'm rolling at about 70 mph in my F450 dually praying that I can stop.

I couldn't. But I could slow it down enough to follow the path of the white truck on the shoulder and miss the trailer.

I could see in my mirror the guy make his left turn after he just ran two trucks off the road like it was nothing.

I have to wonder about people. How can you do that? No lights. And you stop in the middle of the road?

My truck has a GVW of around 14,000 pounds. If I hit you at 70 mph that's going to smart.

I'm just glad that my truck handled it as well as it did. She did okay..

[57taskforce]

Jumped on a flight this morning in Durango and flew to Denver. Went to the Donkeys game with my eldest daughter. Sitting on the train headed from union station back to the airport to get back on a plane and be in bed by 11… if our plane isn’t delayed

By the way, can anyone guess that hat I’m rocking??

[LockDoc]

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You guys look better right side up...... She's cuter than you either way though. Looks like you are having fun!

It must be a Chevyland hat.

LockDoc

[LT7A]

Paul, I'm glad to hear you dodged that one. That could have been the low point in everyone's day. And there wouldn't have been any way to prove that the trailer lights were out at that point. Even worse if the horse's lights were out...

57taskforce, I'm with Lock Doc. I'm guessing that is a Chevyland hat.

[Gotenntitans]

Checked my game cameras......got some pretty cool pics of some smaller bucks fighting.




One of these showed up when a bigger buck was there and he didn't want to fight with him.

[72c20customcamper]

Finished up the cherry bowl . Kiln worked great from 25% water to 12% in a week . Let it stabilize for a few days to the house humidity then finished it. Used BLO for a finish got the old hand made look I wanted

[Boog]

I went looking in our storage box for some Outlaw wheels I bought about 20 years ago. I have been dreading it but decided today was the day. I opened the roll up door, turned my hat around and got after it. Right near the roll up door was a full set of blasted & primed truck rallyes I've been saving on. After I picked up and moved nearly everything in that storage container, more than once mind you, I found my other set of wheels on the floor, covered up, in the very back of the container... What a deal. Now where are those center caps and chrome lug nuts I know I have somewhere? So now I went looking in the shop. Sure enough, top shelf. I know everything should be in that one box cause that's where I put them. Nope. Multiple boxes on multiple shelves and an old tool box later I believe I have everything I had, at one time, saved in one location.. I am whooped!

[special-K]

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper

Finished up the cherry bowl . Kiln worked great from 25% water to 12% in a week . Let it stabilize for a few days to the house humidity then finished it. Used BLO for a finish got the old hand made look I wanted

Nice. I like that handmade look

Originally Posted by Boog

I went looking in our storage box for some Outlaw wheels I bought about 20 years ago. I have been dreading it but decided today was the day. I opened the roll up door, turned my hat around and got after it. Right near the roll up door was a full set of blasted & primed truck rallyes I've been saving on. After I picked up and moved nearly everything in that storage container, more than once mind you, I found my other set of wheels on the floor, covered up, in the very back of the container... What a deal. Now where are those center caps and chrome lug nuts I know I have somewhere? So now I went looking in the shop. Sure enough, top shelf. I know everything should be in that one box cause that's where I put them. Nope. Multiple boxes on multiple shelves and an old tool box later I believe I have everything I had, at one time, saved in one location.. I am whooped!

If you had any doubt about using those, I bet the doubt is gone now! Cool era-correct look. Remember the five-hole wheels (forget name) for 5-lug and 6 hole for 6-lug with the rivets from late-80s to early 90s? I was going to get those for my '90 Blazer when it was new, but ran into a great deal on 10" turbines for that retro look.
They were dirt cheap because they were the last four they had with mixed lug nut style, one was mag-style (shank/washer) and three chamfered like steel wheels. They all looked the same when mounted. I ran into problems when someone else was R&Ring them, like when buying tires. I boiught a set at Sears and took advantage of free rotations, One time was a nightmare, so I bought the exact size grill bit and bored the three out to accept the mag-style to end up with a matched set

[mr.mud1]

today and for a few days while my engine castings for my truck,were at the machine shop,i decided to built a couple things for Mrs.Mud.1.a couple years ago,i built her a "bird house' bench i call it after she saw one in a lady's yard and she tried to buy it.i went on a mission to find some barn boards and i built her one.today i finished up a "bird house" section of something that looks like a picket fence with a bird house on the top of every board,then i had a letter "M' with our name in it,cut out of metal and mounted in the middle.she has flower gardens all over the place here at home so i imagine,she'll plant it in one of her gardens in the spring.i also cut a slab and mounted it on top of the cast iron base of an old Singer sewing machine.it'll probably go downstairs in our B&B unit with a lamp or something?Merry Christmas everyone.

[Ol Blue K20]

Originally Posted by mr.mud1

today and for a few days while my engine castings for my truck,were at the machine shop,i decided to built a couple things for Mrs.Mud.1.a couple years ago,i built her a "bird house' bench i call it after she saw one in a lady's yard and she tried to buy it.i went on a mission to find some barn boards and i built her one.today i finished up a "bird house" section of something that looks like a picket fence with a bird house on the top of every board,then i had a letter "M' with our name in it,cut out of metal and mounted in the middle.she has flower gardens all over the place here at home so i imagine,she'll plant it in one of her gardens in the spring.i also cut a slab and mounted it on top of the cast iron base of an old Singer sewing machine.it'll probably go downstairs in our B&B unit with a lamp or something?Merry Christmas everyone.

Very nice!

[LT7A]

I might have become a seamstress if I knew I could get a Singer sewing machine with dual exhaust!

Great job on those projects, they are fun to see. I hope that Mrs. Mud1 finds herself highly pleased!

[mr.mud1]

Originally Posted by Ol Blue K20

Very nice!

thank you sir,all the best.Greg

[mr.mud1]

Originally Posted by LT7A

I might have become a seamstress if I knew I could get a Singer sewing machine with dual exhaust!

Great job on those projects, they are fun to see. I hope that Mrs. Mud1 finds herself highly pleased!

Ha,maybe you missed your calling,those dual exhaust,big block sewing machines are the best.this stuff i built has not yet been discovered this morning but it will,and i hope it's a hit.i need all the brownie points i can score??all good,she'll love it when i take out to the shop to see what i've up to.all the best.Greg

[special-K]

that's a wonderful idea on the decorative fence. The gifts we make are the best. I'm sure she will be very pleased. And I thought the M stood for Mud

[mr.mud1]

Originally Posted by special-K

that's a wonderful idea on the decorative fence. The gifts we make are the best. I'm sure she will be very pleased. And I thought the M stood for Mud

thank you sir.she just saw it and was very happy with.the name should be Mud cause i'm usually in trouble with something??take care.

[allchevy58]

Last weekend bought a conx and had it delivered. Moved some snow and spread some base so it was easier for him to get it where we wanted it.

[72c20customcamper]

Moved 30 wheelbarrow loads of oak and hickory . Ash was already stacked this is for the 03/04 season .

[Stocker]

Mark, I can't tell ya how many times I've wished I had access to wood like you do.

[Boog]

And the energy to load, cut and stack all of it.

[72c20customcamper]

Originally Posted by Stocker

Mark, I can't tell ya how many times I've wished I had access to wood like you do.

Where I live hardwoods are the norm . I’m going next week to get some more white oak and a hickory both dead blowdowns . I very rarely cut live trees last time was when the horse farm needed a few acres cleared .

Originally Posted by Boog

And the energy to load, cut and stack all of it.

I’ve gotten slower but I still enjoy it .

[special-K]

You've cut so much wood ahead you are now cutting it for the past?? Or did you mean 23/24 season?

I went on a hike on the C&O Canal Towpath upriver a bit from Harpers Ferry, WVA with my sis and b.i.l. My sis and I have done that section a couple times recently. We have been curious about a spot that appeared to be a mining site on the other side of the (dry now) canal. There is a man-made cave in solid rock, quarried area into an anticline that has clay layers mixed in deep below the surface, what looks like an early iron furnace, and this time we noticed a huge ruins of a concrete foundation. These things are all strung along the canal. I've tried to find info on what it was before, but this time I searched I used the right terms and found out what it was. It was a manganese mine, trench mine and shaft. The cave is the entrance to the shaft, now filled. the concrete ruins were from the hydraulic cement plant and what I thought was an iron furnace was a lime kiln. This was in operation when the canal was as well and was serviced by it. First opened in 1876 when the shaft went down 23'. Then reopened in 1908 when they went to 60'. Pretty neat to learn about one of the many early American operations that existed along this historic canal, before there were much of any good roads at all. The trees are so big it's hard to imagine how it was back then.