Good morning!!!!

   / Good morning!!!! #129,961  
Morning to all,
Well getting up in Strasburg, VA this morning on my way to NC.
Yep the forums on RAM eco diesels were correct when you get the message service DEF see dealer truck will not start in 200 miles.
If you fix the original issue, mine was DEF quality, we drained the tank and replaced the DEF.
I am going to guess that winter time short trips doesn't thaw the DEF enough for it to be used, in the last 2 oil changes or about 15,000 miles I hadn't used even half a tank. So changed the DEF cleared the check engine light couldn't clear the see dealer message so just drove it.
When the dealer message got to 0 miles it changed to truck will not start and sure enough the "key" wouldn't start the truck, but "key" on open the hood and pull the start relay and jump the contacts and she would start and run. About halfway thru PA the message went away and the truck has been starting fine.

Here's to everyone have a good day stay healthy and good luck

If somebody told us twenty years ago that we would need exhaust fluid, we’d have said,”sure, put it right over next to the muffler bearings and blinker fluid.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #129,963  
Good morning, the temperature is 23°F and the high will be 43. Wind calm. Cloudy. 60% periods of snow.

The snow is disappearing fast, but no standing puddles, yet. There are some puddles in the driveway, but I just drive through them until the ground is thawed, then I cut drainage ditches off to the sides.

I am thinking about getting a 20' sea-can. It is going to come down to price. I've seen them advertised for $2500.oo, I don't know if that is delivered and set in place or not. I want it for my genny, conveyor, rock bucket and back hoe.

Today is an energy conservation day for sure.

Happy Birthday Kyles' son.

Happy St. Paddys' Day all


Have a safe day all
 
   / Good morning!!!! #129,964  
safe travels Lou
you are in beautiful country
 
   / Good morning!!!! #129,965  
I am thinking about getting a 20' sea-can. It is going to come down to price. I've seen them advertised for $2500.oo, I don't know if that is delivered and set in place or not. I want it for my genny, conveyor, rock bucket and back hoe.
If that price includes delivery, it's a great one. The delivery fee on the one I got was about 50% of the overall cost.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #129,966  
Good Morning
It’s 32 with a forecast high of 50 today. Cloudy skies an rain forecast overnight continuing until Friday.

Yesterday’s trip was interesting. Significant weather was along the coastal Carolinas as well as offshore combined with military activity off the coast limiting the ability to divert around weather. So I made the decision to follow the coastline rather than take the shorter off shore route. The weather had all moved far enough east for return trip that we could go over the ocean on the way home. The coastal routing took us right over Cape Canaveral giving us a good view of the launch pads and assembly building.

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Other than stopping at the Odd Fellows lodge and adjusting the thermostats for daylight savings time on the way home from the airport, I accomplished nothing else.

I’ve got lots to catch up on in the shop, on hopefully get vaccinated
 
   / Good morning!!!! #129,968  
22F clear sky 50 for high.

Got a late start doing outside chores :rolleyes: small critters let be known they weren't happy...E muffin time.
Plans for today...try clean up more limbs/branch on side lawn if snow not to deep or icy,if so remove pickup load driveway sand from the shed and spread on drive way,other than that enjoy the weather.

Enjoy the day al.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #129,969  
Good Morning!!!! 44F @ 5:00AM. More clouds than sun. High 61F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.

To spoof the electric eyes into letting the gate opener work, I used electrical tape to fasten them together, and the alignment wasn't real great. Took it back apart yesterday and found some screws long enough, and made up some spacers, and it's really solid now. That seems to have fixed the problem, though the answer seems to simple. But in the process of sorting that out, also dug into the exit loop sensor, and rewired it. Doesn't seem to have made a difference, though. I have a replacement on the shelf, so if I get time, I'll try that today.

Got a letter from a collection agency yesterday about the T-Mobile charge I'd disputed, and that T-Mobile had said was taken care of. Tried to get T-Moble on the phone, but gave up after 45 minutes on hold. Called the collection agency, and they told me that the debt had been cancelled. Looking back at the paperwork, T-Mobile turned the matter over to collections only two days after sending me the first warning letter, which took 10 days to arrive. With business practices like that, it's doubtful I'll ever give T-Mobile another chance.

Got another pair of steel pallets cut up, but the Bosch angle grinder packed up half way through. Bad bearing in the angle drive seems to be the issue, but it looks to be a readily available part and fairly inexpensive. Finished up using a comparatively under powered Makita battery tool, and it took six batteries to get it done, plus a 3/4 recharge of another. Like the battery powered chain saw, it didn't take much to stall the tool, which then required a on/off/on cycle to reset it. And the more charge was used, the easier it was to stall, so it really slowed things down. The first pallet came apart in half an hour, the second one took an hour and fifteen minutes. Yeah, I'm gonna fix the Bosch. I also have a Makita 120 VAC body grinder, so I'll fire that up today to smooth up the cut welds. It's so heavy it doesn't get much use, but I bet it'll go faster than with the smaller Bosch.

I've run into a fair number of Scotsmen in my time, Eric, and most of them have been fairly easy to understand. The pair I ran into in a Salzburg bar, though, were entirely unintelligible. They were roaring drunk, and apparently were trying to ask us to buy them another round. Once we caught on, we tried to ignore them, then ended up leaving the place when they started to get disorderly...

Glad you got the DEF issue resolved, Lou. Another reason to hang onto my old Diesel Ford.

Happy St. Patrick's, and Hump, Day!
 
   / Good morning!!!! #129,970  
Morning all,
Drew - those look great, but would put me in the hospital with the butter. Luckily wife is a good baker and we found lactose free butter and cream cheese. She makes pumpkin pies and even baked us a cheese cake a few weeks back,
She does all this and still is mad at meo_O

Buppies - great news!

Happy birthday Kyles son and congrats on test score!

back to work for me.

Thanks for the pictures PopG-miss the old flying days. The cameras we used would have had details on what people were wearing on the ground, don;t know if we would have been able to read their name tags though, but probably could :)

Stay safe and be well
 

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