How'd it go today?

[Dave Shepard]

I got 31s cables from that source. Really nice. Highly flexible and the tractor starts like it never did before. It used to have to six volts in series. Two twelves much cheaper. Works great.

Many of our vintage Internationals, 656, 826, 1256, have 6 volt in series, and most are 3E/4E. It works, but 31S batteries from Fleetpride, or any truck store, are cheap and available.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Lol @ suburgandy

 

[WoodCutr]

finally got a hose reel and a GOOD tire inflator, might be the single most expensive air tool I've ever bought but hopefully my future kids will get to use it, didn't realize how much flow a good inflator puts out but I can fill my lawnmower tires from 0 to 20psi in about 10 seconds, got one with a locking coupler so I can be 5ft away from my truck and trailer tires when filling them, not a fan of being near a tire, statistically ones gonna blow up in my face one day, im just making sure my face is far enough away that I might not get hurt too badly when it does happen (although it might fix my face, its a lil F'd up)

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Used washer I bought several months back, to replace the newer one giving us fits, just died as well. So using the laundry mat for a while. Blessing and a curse.
Appliances just are not built like they were.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Oh, and started with my new old doctor again last week. Accident shrunk me a whole inch

 

[Burnham]

Used washer I bought several months back, to replace the newer one giving us fits, just died as well. So using the laundry mat for a while. Blessing and a curse.
Appliances just are not built like they were.

So true. And any reliable appliance salesman will tell you that, so in reality the situation is most likely even worse.

 

[Burnham]

Oh, and started with my new old doctor again last week. Accident shrunk me a whole inch

If it helps any, it was going to happen anyway, Stephen. I've lost an inch in the last couple decades just from age.

 

[flushcut]

Drove an hour to diagnose and fix an electrical problem that many people had been working on for about a year. It had a no crank problem. I figured I'd jump the solenoid and see if it could start, then work my way back from there. I grabbed a dmm and checked the battery, a little low, but not terrible. Then I went to starter to jump it, and found a fuse holder someone had added. Bad fuse. I put in a new one and it fired up. I was hoping for a nice little puzzle to solve. I did get to crimp on some new connectors for the fuse holder, so not a total loss.

Please tell me you hit it with a hammer a few times before cranking it over, just for shits and giggles.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

If it helps any, it was going to happen anyway, Stephen. I've lost an inch in the last couple decades just from age.

The good news was that I stretched up one as I had lost 2

 

[Dave Shepard]

I was officially 6' 2 5/8" at the oncologist last December. Imma chalk that up to hair loss, I've been claiming 6'3" for decades.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I told him, "don't write it down and make it official, just put 5'8", or the DMV will make me change my DL."

 

[Dave Shepard]

I finally got to work on my stuff today. Oil change and hoses on my backhoe. Pulled my dump truck out of the weeds in preparation for getting it running. First trail hike in months.

 

[davidwyby]

A lady trashed her minivan backing into him.

Recharging…
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[davidwyby]

Tuckeroo!

 

[Burnham]

I'm beginning to get the idea that you can fix anything, Dave.

I think you @Dave Shepard might well be the closest thing to a Treehouse match for @Al Smith...or maybe better to say that the two of you working together could real and true "fix effin' anything".

I'm no slouch in this arena, but in my fondest dreams I'd wish to have the skills you and our ol' Uncle Al can bring to bear on anything broke .

 

[Dave Shepard]

Thanks Burnham. I get things done, but I think Al has me beat by a good bit. I'm just not smart enough to ask myself if I can actually do what I'm about to do. I just jump in and figure out the details later.

 

[Burnham]

Trying instead of talking yourself into not trying is far the better path, imo.

 

[WoodCutr]

This pic was taken about an hour after I put my harness on today, almost passed out from the heat 90ft up this oak, I think thats the fastest I've made it to the ground besides rappelling off the crane

not feeling good, getting up at 4am to go do the rest of this tree will be hard, didn't get to even make the first big cut (emergency job, didn't show up till 5pm, 95 degrees and 90% humidity, same tomorrow but 105 heat index and supposed to be no wind)

I'm currently shopping for bucket trucks, I don't wanna pay for one but I can't climb anymore, after this tree I'm done unless its maybe a really small tree I can finish before 8am

 

[davidwyby]

Get wet before you go up

 

[davidwyby]

Picked up a lil lathe. Got a flat on the trailer. Limped in. Whew.



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Flex test, seeing how big of tires he can fit buddy got a new trailer Delivered to our shop to be unloaded…now that they built it a second time… first time they built bumper instead of goose by mistake.

Homie driving the hauling trailer needs some weight placement education…

 

[Kaveman]

The good news was that I stretched up one as I had lost 2

You're still a short-arse. I love the white flatbed, "Buella" as I call her, but driving her makes my knees hurt, possibly because they're next to my ears...

Rob and I could stretch you out and if that's not enough, well you do have a Hobb's...

All trucks need names, if they prove worthy, and your's certainly have. What do we call the red power stroke? I'm thinking "Cinnamon" because she's Big Red. Or maybe "Ginger", or maybe "Paprika" because she's got a black bit...