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

[FleetsidePaul]

Gray water. Ew! Yuck! And I thought I was having a rough day.

I had set my fire pit on my deck when I moved. Using a fire pit on a wooden deck is a really bad idea so I went to move it to the slab in back.

Well i dropped the grate and it went right though the boards of my deck. My deck is sealed on the bottom with just a crawl space to get underneath.

I open the door to the crawlspace and it's all funky and nasty with cobwebs under there except for a new shiny stainless steel grate way over on the other side.

So, I crawl in there through the nasty's like I'm breaking out of prison. I thought that was bad before I read your post.

[Steeveedee]

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper

Had a sink hole in the walkway at the rental property . Turned out to be the drywell/cesspool for the gray water, a couple of block deteriorated as did the 1/4 inch steel plate cover ,so a couple of new bricks a 4x4 piece of 1/4 aluminum plate hate to tell ya how much the 4x8 sheet cost but I figured after 68 years it’s worth it .

Bad thing was I ended up waist deep in the gray water and had to finish the job soaked . Got some scrapes and a couple bad bruises. Wasn’t a very nice hour ride home at least it was the one warm day last week. . Had to drive with the windows open and the heat on .

Yeesh. Just be glad it was gray water, and not black water...and the cost of metal is just as stupid as the cost of wood these days.

[Sheepdip]

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

I saw a cooking show where a guy was going to barbeque a LOT of meat. He put the marinade and the meat in a cement mixer and let it do it's thing.

Kind of a crazy idea but it seemed to work.

There is a butcher shop/restaurant in the next town north, he does have a stainless-steel food grade tumbler that looks like a cement mixer and that's how he marinates his meats. Never asked but I'm assuming the tumbling works the marinate into the meat.

[57taskforce]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

Tyler, that does look sweet! Think you can get mine shining that nice?

Originally Posted by special-K

That's why I don't shine mine up. Got tired of people asking me to do theirs . It really does look great. Good thing mine needs a good paint job. Speaking of a paint job, could you...?

Lol thanks guys. Ryan, I’m pretty sure all turds polish up, some are just a deeper shade of “brown” than others I like yours a lot the way it is honestly.

Funny you mention paint Tim, as much as I really do enjoy the polishing work on paint, the older I get the less desire I have to paint anymore. Read that as I’m getting too lazy and short on time to do the proper surfacing and prep work to paint correctly when I was doing body work for a living out of high school it was a breeze to get it all ready. Now that it’s been closing in on 20 years since I did it daily, it feels like it takes me forever to get it right.

[allchevy58]

Originally Posted by LockDoc

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It was a nice day yesterday so I drug out the small parts cleaner.

I had 3 small buckets of rusty nuts, bolts, springs, clips brackets and other stuff. I let it run for about an hour and it cleaned everything up really good. I dump the sand and parts into a stainless tray that sits over a plastic tub. The tray has holes in it that let the sand fall through. Then I use the HF magnetic pickup tool to pick up the parts and put them in the small tub. It works excellent.

LockDoc
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I like that, looks like it work well.

[allchevy58]

Dropped off roof I made from a speed limit sign for my Mule to be powder coated yesterday. Guy said he would sandblast it right now and will be powder coated tomorrow morning. Picked up today and installed.

[special-K]

Originally Posted by Sheepdip

There is a butcher shop/restaurant in the next down north, he does have a stainless-steel food grade tumbler that looks like a cement mixer and that's how he marinates his meats. Never asked but I'm assuming the tumbling works the marinate into the meat.

I never heard of needing to work marinade into a meat. A proper marinade will do that by itself. Sounds like overkill to me. My marinated meats are always juicy and flavorful throughout. Maybe it's a way to hustle the process along since they are doing quantity. I always marinade my meats a loooong long time.

Originally Posted by 57taskforce

Lol thanks guys. Ryan, I’m pretty sure all turds polish up, some are just a deeper shade of “brown” than others I like yours a lot the way it is honestly.

Funny you mention paint Tim, as much as I really do enjoy the polishing work on paint, the older I get the less desire I have to paint anymore. Read that as I’m getting too lazy and short on time to do the proper surfacing and prep work to paint correctly when I was doing body work for a living out of high school it was a breeze to get it all ready. Now that it’s been closing in on 20 years since I did it daily, it feels like it takes me forever to get it right.

Yeah, painting is easy. All the work is in the prep and can't have a good paint job without good prep. I'm a do it right or leave it be kind of guy. I do more leave it be than do it right these days . Not just being lazy, often because I get hung up on the time that needs to be allowed. That's why my '67 project has been stalled. It had to sit outside under a (suspended) tarp. Not a good environment for off and on incomplete stages of work. Talk about off and on, that would be required with the tarp each day I'd work on it. Now it sits inside, but house work is taking priority. What I've decided to do is make it a permanent project truck. Can't you tell? No really. I just want to drive and enjoy it, so I'm going to paint everything in Hot Rod Flatz Red Oxide and put it together. It may stay like that forever, small dings, unused trim holes, and all. My first car in HS was Red Oxide until after I graduated and got my first full-time job... economics as well as always replacing/fixing damaged parts. I kept it clean and chrome looks good on Red Oxide. My first name for this '67 GMC was "Project Po' Boy". I think that's how it will stay.

Originally Posted by allchevy58

Dropped off roof I made from a speed limit sign for my Mule to be powder coated yesterday. Guy said he would sandblast it right now and will be powder coated tomorrow morning. Picked up today and installed.

I like seeing the projects you do. You do things right, thought to execution.


I took a couple more baby steps ahead on my barn move project. I had decided to lay back to focus on interior stuff at the house. But since I decided to pour the slab fill-in area to support the connector walls, I need to get that done then let it sit a while.
So I made a saw cut near the edge of the slab where it is flat, before the rough stuff at the outer edge I never floated out. I made cross cuts about every 8-10", too. Smacking it with a sledge hammer wasn't hurting it a bit, before I realized I was going to be the one getting hurt! So I borrowed a jackhammer from a friend and made short work of it. Took about 45 minutes from tailgate to tailgate. She's ready to prep for the pour now!

Before and after:

[72c20customcamper]

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

Gray water. Ew! Yuck! And I thought I was having a rough day.

I had set my fire pit on my deck when I moved. Using a fire pit on a wooden deck is a really bad idea so I went to move it to the slab in back.

Well i dropped the grate and it went right though the boards of my deck. My deck is sealed on the bottom with just a crawl space to get underneath.

I open the door to the crawlspace and it's all funky and nasty with cobwebs under there except for a new shiny stainless steel grate way over on the other side.

So, I crawl in there through the nasty's like I'm breaking out of prison. I thought that was bad before I read your post.

I actually prefer the dunk in the gray water than crawling into a small tight area. Not really clostraphobic but it's not on the top of my list.

Originally Posted by Steeveedee

Yeesh. Just be glad it was gray water, and not black water...and the cost of metal is just as stupid as the cost of wood these days.

I replaced the cement 500 gallon septic tank with a 1000 gallon plastic .

[FleetsidePaul]

Today I went to season my new/old cast iron griddle in the oven. It was the first time I've used this oven.

Now I don't know much about ovens but I do know that flames shouldn't be shooting out of it.

Turns out whoever converted it from gas to propane didn't know what they were doing. Hence the bonfire that I quickly shut down.

If you ever want to wake up fast. Just get an exploding stove. it works better than 10 cups of coffee.

I fixed it. Works like a charm now.

[cwcarpenter98]

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

Today I went to season my new/old cast iron griddle in the oven. It was the first time I've used this oven.

Now I don't know much about ovens but I do know that flames shouldn't be shooting out of it.

Turns out whoever converted it from gas to propane didn't know what they were doing. Hence the bonfire that I quickly shut down.

If you ever want to wake up fast. Just get an exploding stove. it works better than 10 cups of coffee.

I fixed it. Works like a charm now.

Never a dull day in the life of Paul! I hope I never experience an exploding stove inside a house

[Boog]

Oh man. That could have been REALLY bad.

[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

Today I went to season my new/old cast iron griddle in the oven. It was the first time I've used this oven.

Now I don't know much about ovens but I do know that flames shouldn't be shooting out of it.

Turns out whoever converted it from gas to propane didn't know what they were doing. Hence the bonfire that I quickly shut down.

If you ever want to wake up fast. Just get an exploding stove. it works better than 10 cups of coffee.

I fixed it. Works like a charm now.

Yeah, I bet you were excited for sure! I can relate sort of. One day I came home to work and found the stove on fire. I shortly figured out the culprit. There were left over pizzas in boxes on top of the stove and our genius dog was up on the front of it eating it. Somehow she turned the knobs and was able to ignite the front LH burner which was under the pizza boxes. When I walked in the flames were touching the bottom of the kitchen cabinets. No one else was home. Like a moron the first thing I did was reach for the burner knob to turn them off. Hey dumby, it's plastic, and hot seeing how ashes are falling down on the floor and the floor was smoldering. Yep, really great deal!

[Dieselwrencher]

Yesterday we had to go pick up the kids from the in laws and load their bicycles up. On the way over my wife wanted me to drive her car so I could listen to a noise she heard. That meant she had to drive the green monster. That's what the kids call my new to me Sierra Grande Longhorn. I'm still not sure what weird noise she heard, because I heard nothing out of the ordinary.

We are having an abnormally warm spell for us and I decided to start cleaning up some remnants of the junk I drug to my Dad's the last year. But first, we had to unload the sleeper I got for my dad's 47 Dodge project.

I was able to get the rest of the 70 442 hull and frame loaded before it got dark. That poor car has been setting rotting for 40 years. There wasn't much left of it. I also had 3 different 71=72 front clips to tear apart and get rid of. It's crazy how fast stuff accumulates.

[57taskforce]

Ryan, sounds to me like she just wanted to drive mean green to me

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

Yeah, I bet you were excited for sure! I can relate sort of. One day I came home to work and found the stove on fire. I shortly figured out the culprit. There were left over pizzas in boxes on top of the stove and our genius dog was up on the front of it eating it. Somehow she turned the knobs and was able to ignite the front LH burner which was under the pizza boxes. When I walked in the flames were touching the bottom of the kitchen cabinets. No one else was home. Like a moron the first thing I did was reach for the burner knob to turn them off. Hey dumby, it's plastic, and hot seeing how ashes are falling down on the floor and the floor was smoldering. Yep, really great deal!

You're lucky that you got home when you did. My buddy at work turned on the power at a house. Nobody home and it had an electric stove and the new tenants had put boxes on it. You guessed it. The power went on and burners were on. Big fire. The place nearly burned down.

[Stocker]

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

You're lucky that you got home when you did. My buddy at work turned on the power at a house. Nobody home and it had an electric stove and the new tenants had put boxes on it. You guessed it. The power went on and burners were on. Big fire. The place nearly burned down.

That's why I never put combustibles on the stove top, especially overnight. The burners won't turn themselves on..... but what if they did? Odds are against it, but anything can fail.....

[LT7A]

Originally Posted by cwcarpenter98

Never a dull day in the life of Paul! I hope I never experience an exploding stove inside a house

No kidding.

[LS short box]

Today we went for a 4 hour snow mobile ride. Rented from a local company. I was great fun.
We sold our sleds about 15 years ago. It was fun to get out and ride the trails.
Weather was great. Sunny and about 20 degrees.
The trails run thru property that you would never get permission to ride on in the summer time.

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by cwcarpenter98

Never a dull day in the life of Paul! I hope I never experience an exploding stove inside a house

Then steer clear of my ex wives. They exploded in the house all the time.

The stove was easy. It didn't have a big mouth on it running full blast. I could just turn it off.

[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by LS short box

Today we went for a 4 hour snow mobile ride. Rented from a local company. I was great fun.
We sold our sleds about 15 years ago. It was fun to get out and ride the trails.
Weather was great. Sunny and about 20 degrees.
The trails run thru property that you would never get permission to ride on in the summer time.

That's pretty cool! You must be way up north in MN? All of our snow down here is gone for the 2nd time the past month.

[special-K]

Just saw this on the local news website this morning. I imagine it was a propane explosion
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/frien...-fire/39311932

Like Stocker, I never leave anything combustible on top of the stove or any heaters. The kitchen stove. Better safe than sorry.

[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by special-K

Just saw this on the local news website this morning. I imagine it was a propane explosion
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/frien...-fire/39311932

Like Stocker, I never leave anything combustible on top of the stove or any heaters. The kitchen stove. Better safe than sorry.

That was a big explosion!

We always remove the knobs off the burner valves now when it isn't in use. Yes, we still have the dog.

[special-K]

Wow! I hadn't even read the article and didn't know there was a video that captured the explosion.

Good idea with removing the knobs. I had a place I knew was out of gas for a long time. When I had the tank filled, with no one home, they had to put a lock on the tank because it didn't pass the leak down test. They said pressure dropped like a rock. No one had any reason to try the stove. We all knew there was no gas. But what I found was one knob had been turned wide open somehow. Good thing there was no gas!

[Just call me Sean]

I'm digging a ditch for a water pipe at my house. Every time I dig something in my yard I hit garbage. This time, I found at least five shirts, several old pull top beer cans, some plates, some cups, a five gallon bucket, and I just finished cutting through a rolled up carpet. I swear one day I'm going to find a body. 15 feet done, about 50 feet to go.

[Boog]

Reminds me. One time the guys where my wife worked needed to haul off some dirt. We had some ruts beside the house so I said sure, we'll take it. Got it all smoothed out, leveled up. After a couple of rains metal and glass started surfacing. All done, I picked up 1 five gallon pail of shards of glass alone. There must have been a burn pile on their lot at one time. Some small bits of glass bottles were from 30s & 40s.