Good morning!!!!

[CWB Wyo]

A bit cold this morning -3*, and it didn't get all that warm yesterday only 25*. Today it's going to be in the low 30's and partly cloudy with some wind.

Wife decided I need to go down to SLC and see the kids for a few day's. It will be a good excuse to go to Harbor Freight, Sportsmen's and maybe Cabela's.

Hope everyone has a nice day.
CWB.

 

[jbrumberg]

We are the beacon, without the USA, the world would soon deteriorate into slime pit. Left alone, one bad apple will ruin a box of fifty if left to.

Even with all its flaws our nation remains a beacon.

We took a tour of Ellis Island a couple of years ago. It is one of my most powerful personal experiences. The newspapers framed from years past are not unlike today's newspapers when it comes to immigration issues. My ancestors passed through that Island. I found the family "name." Wifey's family roots in the USA go back to the 1700's. We actually live near the cemetery plot of her 8th great grandfather. We did not know that until my late FIL did a genealogy of his roots.

 

[PJSprog]

51°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 57° today, then dropping this evening back into the 30s overnight. May get a little snow.

Lightning and thunder woke me early this morning. Don't usually expect that in January, but the rain is certainly welcome.

Spent a good part of the weekend in my studio working on a funk project. I'm one keyboard solo away from being finished with the recording part. Then, mix, master, and send it off for duplication. Ready to be done with this one so I can move on to the next project. Feels good to be at this point, as I've been piddling around with this one for far too long.

 

[Thomas]

:birthday: to you Mrs. Buppies.wishing you many...many more trips around the sun.

 

[daugen]

yesterday was a mixed bag. Had great fun disc'ing the fields and getting my fertilizer in the ground.
Then I brought out my DR pull behind tiller and worked on the edges. First time I could not start it. I knew something was off...
had to use starting fluid, The it started and ran great, and then started to smoke. And more smoke and finally I just turned the key off before it grenaded on me. Bad valve I bet, maybe a ring, either way I can't fix it myself, though it would be an easy trainer, just one project too many.

So I got off the phone with DR and ordered a new electric start Briggs from them. 349 for a 179 engine. Sigh. At least it comes with the right wiring harness and has a two year warranty. I asked the guy if he had a better engine from Briggs and all he could say is this fits. I knew more about engines than he did but he was a parts guy, this is what we have, do you want it? Yes, actually.
And ordered a spare air filter for the Rato engine on my DR tracvac.

I have a good friend who will take this smoking engine and rebuild it and put it on something. So it's getting
good recycling.

This company puts themselves out as a premium product and yet installs low spec engines. Good enough to get though the warranty period, 300 hour engines if you are lucky vs 1000 hours as touted by others. Well, 300 hours of rototilling is a lot for me...

 

[Einthewoods]

Morning all!

Hovering just about freezing today with an expected freezing rain in the forecast for today.

Started to wire my work lights to the canopy yesterday. What a project! Trying to do it right and professional, so not the 1 hour project it could be.

Drilling a hole into the dash was one of the hardest things I have done in a long time.

A couple pictures, but not done yet. View attachment 536866

 

[jbrumberg]

PJS- I am always amazed at the "magic" of a recording studio and what can be produced by solo mixing. My BIL has a good voice, is a Beatles freak, and has small personal studio and I am amazed at what he "produces." And I am happy that I am able to turn my stereo on/off and operate the control knobs and buttons:embarrassed:. I am happy to read that the central CONUS is starting to get much needed moisture. Your storm is pretty strong. The GOES16 satellite shows a nice comma head cloud formation with this system.

Daugen- I am sorry to read about your DR tiller. 300 hours of tilling is a lot of tilling, but I would "assume" a B&G engine should last longer. At least the original engine will get recycled.

Einthewoods- Nice job. It looks professionally done; no "scribe marks". Drilling plastic especially a curved surface is pretty difficult. Did you use tape? Lately for plastic I have been using an old soldering pen to melt holes instead of drilling. It works for small holes really well.

The UPS just delivered the replacement seatbelt for my tractor. My gravel driveway as I discovered is still solid ice. I can not dance, but I was doing "James Brown"-like dance moves in my sneakers out there. I guess I do have an "easy" project today if I decide to slip and slide my way to the tractor. I really am not comfortable driving anything w/o a seatbelt. There is no such thing as even and level ground surface around here and hidden surface/subsurface "anomalies" can add to the excitement.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 45F @ 8:15AM. Overcast. Slight chance of a rain shower. High 48F. Winds light and variable.

0.4" of rain overnight and this morning, still raining now but the radar says this will be the last of it for a while. Still no big blustery Pacific storms this winter, and that's a good thing.

Nothing obviously wrong with the weather station yesterday, so I brought it inside and took the rain gauge cone off to expose the tipping bucket. Noticed one wire had come unsoldered, hardly any solder on it. fixed that, and now it works fine. I guess Davis' QC doesn't line up very well with its prices.

Filled up the wood dolly for the house, emptying the last of the wood on the pallet in the garage, so brought another one in from the wood yard. More new holes worn in the tarp cover; really need to build a wood shed to keep it dry. ToDo list keeps getting longer...

Made up a spacer for the fork on the old motorcycle and very pleased with the fit. Was going to make two to keep the fork centered, but at only 0.025" thick, was having trouble turning them and keeping them flat, and figured it would be next to impossible to tell if the fork was only that much off. Today I'll replace the silent block bushings and damper cartridge on the shocks and get them installed, then test fit the front wheel and see what surprises lurk there.

Hope everybody's week gets off to a good start.

 

[txdon]

Time to get the tractor to get unstuck

 

[jbrumberg]

RNG- Davis weather instruments are really expensive. I was really happy with my DavisPro until the logger started to fail. Tech support was less than helpful = Oregon personal weather station. This unit is starting to fail now as well = new PWS research. Davis really PO'd me, but it will not prevent me from purchasing another.

TXdon- That's really stuck. I wish that I could post I never did that. And I did it with much smaller trees :embarrassed: