Hi Bill S, Sounds like fun (Not) … Billy Boes is near Salina somewhere … Maybe you can catch him on the way back … He’s one of the great builders in my book … Have fun in NM … I don’t know which part you are headed to but maybe the mocking birds are going at it already … I usually drive 54 all the way to my stomping grounds but I know they only have one snow plow for 100 miles there so I went through Albequerque or however they spell it on one trip when it was snowing there. I went through Clovis a few years ago and drove from Lincoln Nebraska area all the way to Vega Texas in freezing rain on 10/10/?? … I had pictures on my site but they are history … Safe trip amigo … Mike L
been to new mexico several times bill, It’s pretty place. rode the cable car up sandia mountain. we were there while they were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the roswell incident. We talked about getting a huge weather balloon and decorating it up like a flying saucer and let it go.
If you were on I-80 around Lincoln you were only a couple of miles from me . Only 3-1/2 miles from exit 409. If ya want on the way back we can run a couple bags of wood through the old Ford. Put. 50 miles on it Sat before the weather shut me down. Enjoy your visit with your Dad.
Tomw
on the driving. Enjoy your visit.
This is my fifth trip hauling junk to the junk yard this week. My work area had gotten so junked up it was getting hard to move easily through the junk . It is hard to function without out my junk but my junk piles were getting covered up with so much junk that I couldn’t find the particular junk when I needed junk.
Hopefully today after I haul another load of junk to the junk yard I will have enough junk out of the way that I can move through the junk pile and chose the particular junk I need a little better .
The junk yard employees at the junk yard have no idea that the junk I am driving and hauling the junk on delivering to their junk yard got there with NO gasoline 
SWEM
The VW you took to the junk looks like a “cherry” body compared to what we up here in Mike’s rust belt drive.TomC
You going to make more junkets to the junk yard tomorrow? Or do only politicians make junkets?
At least your junkets are paid for with your own labor and not tax dollars. Course they will want their cut when you get paid after making all your junkets to the junk yard so they can go on a junket
Tomw
Mike’s rust belt ??? I had one hauled off a few weeks ago and the guy (old friend ?) was supposed to drop off the new wheels and tires … I only left one loose lug nut on each one … I saw the old 97 cav was gone and went to pick up my wheels and tires and he had already had his slacky take the “new” tires off the wheels and threw the wheels in his scrap dumpster … He gave me all of my stuff back and said he’d put the tires back on the wheels but I had to find a place to put all that crap before this last blizzard so the wheels wouldn’t rust … I planned to just put them straight on my other 97 cavalier … They just ship all cars off to Iowa now and the local guy (my age) has some monster machine that just shreds a whole car and seperates it into it’s respective metal parts … Remember what WC Fields said … ML … I’m always being tested … Some day the big rooster will run me off …
I have a lot of junk to sell but I try selling it mud truck starter kits on craigslist first. For a guy who has never had 4wd I sure have a lot of mud truck starter kits. they are worth way more than scrap when you call them that and the kids getting there EXTRA money this time of year really like mud trucks. I think aluminum is the only thing with any value now, at least that was the last word I got a month ago.
I ran about 5000 lbs of rotors last fall before gas prices dropped just in time now with gas down scrap in general is too besides its to freeking cold to dig out that rusty gold. ps I hauled that all on woodgas 1000-1200 lbs at a time .
I’ve been looking for a way to put late model electronics on my 429 SCJ with 671 GMC blower on top of it for years and I think I found the answer!
It’s pricey but all of that stuff is, I made my blower intake manifold years ago and ended up with only 4&1/2 inches from where distrubitor sets down into block to the bottom of blower drive, believe me there is no way to get a distrubitor in there without doing some serious machine work to it, remember distrubitor is up front on the old fords and that can be a problem! DIS8 makes them for most all of the old V8’s, I thought this info could help someone out there, I can’t be the only one that ends up with problems like this!
Going to the big city tomorrow. I need new glasses. lost and broke mine in the wood pile back in the spring. Can’t see for crap so I quit trying to weld. I’ll be getting new lenses for my welding helmet as well. Then back to building. I get so frustrated and quit now. I have a few small leaks and I am going to run something.
Thanks Carl
I guess i r a girnder also
i’m past making my welds look pretty… not that they look horrible… but I ain’t grinding them no way
Habitual grinder here… Never weld more in the morning than you can grind off in the afternoon.
I’ve been welding for more years that I care to think, as a hobby. The thing that has helped me most is buying a pair of glasses just for out in the shop. The eye doctor was offering two pair for the price of one, but in the end, the one pair cost me as much as two so great deal. They are bifocal and the shop pair have the reading lens very big so I can see through the glasses and the lens of my helmet. Before when I got the helmet down far enough to look through the reading lens, the helmet hit me in the neck. Amazing how much better you can weld when you can seeTomC
A grinder before s welder does that make me a wannabe? No matter I am a grinder any way
I just weld. I’m not even sure if after I grind my welds, they will look any better. I figure they just have to work.
I have enjoyed my 2 weeks in New Mexico so far. I was able to get some big projects done for him and have spent a lt of time by the fire too. Early this week I made this tripod cooker for him. We bought everything needed from garage sales and flea markets. We have since made french fries, potato chips, Jambalaya and today we made Barley soup with Ham. It makes cooking less of a chore. The weather has been fantastic 70-80 degrees. I sure wish I didn’t have to get back to Minnesota until April but we will start heading back Monday AM. Maybe next time I visit I can drive here on wood.
