Texas Fall/Winter thread!

NativeSon · Dec 31, 2015

Bird said:
I sometimes enjoy wet weather or cold weather, but never both at the same time.

Bird-- Amen.

Charlie

NativeSon · Dec 31, 2015

Happy New Year Ya'll. Be safe out there.

Charlie

blueriver · Dec 31, 2015

bindian said:
With all this rain, I wish I could fit in another pond. Just don't have the room here!
HAPPY NEW YEAR hugs, Brandi

Just keep digging away and make yours bigger ... don't forget to leave a drive an entrance to the island !!! Happy New Year!!

Kyle_in_Tex · Dec 31, 2015

wcampbell47 said:
I am willing to haul my L3901 tractor with FEL and dump trailer to damaged areas to help in any way I can. I have a 4500 watt gas generator and a 15kw pto generator that I can bring as well to supply temporary power. If you have a friend in need contact me here.

What a kind offer. I have often thought of an "army" of TBN volunteers that could go into an area and help possibly with chain saws and Front end loaders.

Kyle_in_Tex · Dec 31, 2015

ch1ch2 said:
Got a tractor split, back half in the garage, front half by the shed. Second tractor waiting to go in the garage and be split so I can put the front on the first tractor. Too wet to move the second tractor up hill to the garage and too cold to work on it if I could. Boy, this Texas weather! I do not like the wet and the cold. That why I do not duck hunt. Maybe next week it will dry out some and the temperature will stay above 50 degrees.

Same here about the cold and wet. I just got the engine back in my car after a long process. Fortunately I have a barn, but I've done quite a bit of work on the gravel driveway before I had a barn.

My Grandpa was in the 4th, back in WWII. He was a great man.

bindian · Jan 1, 2016

blueriver said:
Just keep digging away and make yours bigger ... don't forget to leave a drive an entrance to the island !!! Happy New Year!!

BR,
That will be the first large project for the CAT. I am hoping to swing a small dumptruck this spring and enlarge the island pond. I may even take out the island. I am thinking about it and build an 8 x8 foot floating island. The ducks love the island when the pond is full, but never get on it at "low tide".
hugs, Brandi

bindian · Jan 1, 2016

Kyle_in_Tex said:
Same here about the cold and wet. I just got the engine back in my car after a long process. Fortunately I have a barn, but I've done quite a bit of work on the gravel driveway before I had a barn.

My Grandpa was in the 4th, back in WWII. He was a great man.

Is this the same car engine you wanted me to change after I changed my friend's truck engine, last year?
hugs, Brandi

bindian · Jan 1, 2016

HAPPY NEW YEAR, Y'all! Today was the first day we all could get together for Christmas. I grilled T bones and baked potatoes (with the recipe off of this thread), then we exchanged presents. Then we went outside in the drizzle and launched about 4 dozen mortar shells. Chloe loved it all! Oh yeah, I grilled petite sirloins strips for her!
hugs, Brandi

Kyle_in_Tex · Jan 1, 2016

bindian said:
Is this the same car engine you wanted me to change after I changed my friend's truck engine, last year?
hugs, Brandi

Yep, at first, decision making about money and the price of parts hampered progress. Then I bought a salvage engine for the cam and it had a bad cam too. No one makes aftermarket cams for year models 2003-2005. I finally found a guy to sell me a discount GM camshaft but they were backordered. He put me on the "first in line" list but it still took 5 months to get it...