Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

Six breakfast links, three pieces of toast with butter, three jumbo eggs with Tabasco and a glass of OJ.

Layering up with the insulated Carharts and then headed out while the sun still shines ... :thumbsup:

That sounds like three days breakfast for me.

 

[PJSprog]

Sad day. RIP Rush.

Indeed. It will be interesting to see what happens to his radio show going forward. He's had some great fill-ins over the years, but none really had his level of charisma.

 

[sodamo]

RNG, I thought I was going to use cutoff discs when I cut the container but found It much easier to use reciprocating saw with good metal blade. Just a Ryobi 18v, not even the corded one. Cut both the hinges and the metal panel without difficulty. Also used on the HF shipping frames but not experience with your pallets.

 

[lostcreekranch]

I took one of my propane heaters over to my neighbors whose water system was frozen up in his pump house this morning. Unfortunately most of the piping was already broken. We got everything disconnected from the pressure tank and used the propane heater to thaw it out. Then we removed all the rest of the piping from the well and the underground line to his house.

His SIL is a plumber and was coming over to rebuild everything with new pipe, fittings, filters, etc. I suggested he get some heat tracing to go around all the piping then foam insulation over that.

He should have water this afternoon.

 

[txdon]

Hope your ceiling repairs didn't crack.

One did.

Temp still dropping. 26˚F. The rain we had last night froze on top of the snow leaving a 3/4" sheet of slippery ice that you have to break through to walk on the dry snow. My cleaning of the drive way of snow is now ice.

We are having 2 hours on 2 hours off during the rolling blackouts. We are out again now, the UPS is not having enough time to completely charge back up. Tried to take the whip for a walk but the street is a slick slab of ice. Some pics in the front yard.

 

[toppop52]

36 now, big change from yesterday’s 62. Some mixed precipitation overnight then mostly rain tomorrow. Starting early next week temps are forecast to be in the 50’s eight straight days.

Went to the funeral home today and got all that straight, wrote the check, said a brief goodbye to mom.

My air hose reel is leaking around the swivel and I can’t seem to find the right size O-rings. I bought one of those large assortments from HF, about 300 pieces, none are the right size and the quality is terrible. No matter how much lubricant you put on them, they tend to nick and break. They are useless for anything with any stress. The reel is an old Snap On unit and I hate to have to replace it. Plus it’s already mounted. I used it leaking some when the O-rings wouldn’t fit right, just put the old ones back on, but they are gone now and I have to do something.

You guys with plastic windshields, regardless of polymer involved, you can clear yellowing and stress marks to a large degree with a judiciously applied heat gun, hair dryer doesn’t get hot enough for most.

You guys suffering with the weather COVID-19 and whatever else, God bless.
Have a good day.

 

[toppop52]

One of my favorite memories of Rush was his appearance on the Murphy Brown show.

 

[ronjhall]

Rush RIP.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, I thought I was going to use cutoff discs when I cut the container but found It much easier to use reciprocating saw with good metal blade. Just a Ryobi 18v, not even the corded one. Cut both the hinges and the metal panel without difficulty. Also used on the HF shipping frames but not experience with your pallets.

Thanks, David. I have been using the Makita demo saw on the pallet steel, and it's a LOT slower than the zip discs. It also beats the heck out of my hands and arms trying to keep it from bouncing around. But there are places where I can't get to easily with the discs, so the saw is a welcome addition to the tool kit. Yesterday I tried a LENOX Tools LAZER Metal Cutting Reciprocating Saw Blade, Bi-Metal, 6-inch, 18 TPI, and it worked pretty well. Haven't made enough cuts with it yet to see how long it'll last, but I've had really good results with Lenox bimetal blades on the band saws. I also tried a Freud DS0609CGP3 Diablo 6" Carbide Tipped General Purpose Reciprocating Blade 9-6 TPI blade with carbide teeth, and it spit the teeth off in only a few cuts. The tubing wall wasn't thick enough. That was an expensive experiment...

 

[Buppies]

Thanks riptides I fear this one may be bad