Life goes on - Winter 2014

Hello Brian .

Not the cap cam . I was holding the camera by hand and trying to see which hand was less shaky :smile:

Wayne, ha ha ā€¦ Canā€™t do the video ā€¦ What am I looking at on the tailgate ??? I got one of my ham radio antennas up higher today after a day of surveying ā€¦ Ground is still frozen but it wonā€™t be long now ā€¦ Mike

Hey Mike.

The items on the tailgate are skid pates or rock guards that attach to the bottom of a disc type hay cutter . They slide on the ground holding the cutter blades out of the dirt .

Are those plates consumable?

Yes Don ,

They are made to ware out and be replaced $$

Every wood gasser needs one of these.

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Wayne, before you gasified that truck you shouldā€™a took it here

I donā€™t know who is crazier the drivers or the spectators.

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Hey Don .

Thanks for the video . I think I had rather watch the videos than be there in person !!

A safer way of transportation. Gasified as well.

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You can really GO in that thing. Wonder how many miles per pound?

Still dealing with frozen drains. In this video you see the head pressure of all the water on the roof forcing itā€™s way out of the clean out. By the signs of the outside wall of the building, it was shooting out over 8ā€™. For some reason I gave the date of March 26ā€¦?

Wow Mr. Wayne. Up in this part of the country it is only the big ā€œrichā€ farmers that can afford those new disk mowers. I could have never afforded the " self wearing guards"
Carl; That looks like a neat setup, bbuuutttt, I use to haul heavy equipment on a trailer that had two ramps I had to back down on. It is not easy to back up knowing you are about to fall 3 ft. and you canā€™t see the ramps to know if you are going to hit them straight. I dumped a backhoe a couple of times. Once you commit to going down you can NOT touch the brakes ā€” I did and the front tires came off the ground and the hoe turned sideways and went down.
JO; Just last week I saw a YouTube of a guy setting a speed record in a ā€œtoilet seatā€ cart. 53 MPH
Don; I havenā€™t driven a front wheel drive that much but I thought when they went into a corner and the back-end started to come around, you punched the gas and the front wheels would pull the rear back into line. Those cars looked like they needed a lot of weight ā€œjackedā€ into the back to tighten it down. Seeing most cars now days are front wheel drive I think NASCAR should give up the old rear drive. THAT would give all the teams something knew to work on.TomC. Starting to snowā€” suppose to get 4 inches tonight. I would complain but I just got back from a trip to New Orleans and found that there is a hell of a lot of places I would dis like more than here.

Tax time! The IRS is making it real easy this year.

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Hey Chris ,

I think that is the from I have been using for the last 50 years :worried:

OOOh! Now I understand :smile:

IĀ“ve for some time visited the forum every other day without logging in. I was beginning to wonder if nearly all projects were at standstill - just like mine. I didnĀ“t realise premium topics donĀ“t show at all when not logged in - haha.

Now I have lotĀ“s of additional lurking to catch up with - good and bad. My armchair will wear down faster than welding sticks an woodpile.

JO

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Thank God I donā€™t have any trilateral contracts involving my trading parties and the IRS. I donā€™t work in or for the United States. I donā€™t have a Social Security Number; I donā€™t want one, and I donā€™t need one. I am a free man.

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I am owned by the builderberg group.

I burned a several sacks of wood today. About 300 miles in two different trucks and now I hear my bed calling my name and if I donā€™t fall to sleep in this chair I am headed itā€™s way .

BBB

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Hereā€™s a pro-quality welder in Nashville for $1000:

http://nashville.craigslist.org/for/4956307209.html

These are some of the monsters left from my splitting all day Saturday.(3 foot Diameter) I feel every muscle. The power company took this down in late January as they did all down my street. The sugar maple was planted in 1946 by my dad, along with dozens more on my double lot. I wrestled 3 foot diameter by 18 inch sections through a 26 ton vertical splitter. 3 pieces have yet to be subdued by my Jonsered. Incidentally, the same year all these saplings were planted, my Dad was given a new 1946 Oldsmobile by the Federal government with a new feature called automatic transmission. It was hard to press a clutch when the Germans swiss cheesed your lower left leg.

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