My Place: a CAT, Mahindra, and Ducks

   / My Place: a CAT, Mahindra, and Ducks
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#591  
Jack,
Come on over and I'll watch you pluck a duck and you can have it. Funny thing, I don't eat duck. Had Peking duck in a Japanese restaurant eons ago and lets just say the backdoor in the outhouse was open.
I won't pluck the ducks anyway. Nobody I know wants to pluck a duck. But we have them when the grocery shelves go empty and we eat our supply of squirrel and catfish pewters out.

hugs, Brandi
 
   / My Place: a CAT, Mahindra, and Ducks #592  
Fritz and I will travel to Canton Friday night and spend the night at Tom Bodett's house. Saturaday morning, we will meet Eddie for the first time at his brother's place. I have known Eddie since 2007 (here on TBN), but never met him.

Also, I am picking up 80 Mallard hens from him. It will be a fun trip.

Anybody in the Southeast Texas area need some Mallard hens?
hugs, Brandi
I'm looking forward to our duck rodeo!!! Forecast is now saying rain for Friday, so it will be muddy in the duck pen. The catch area is pretty small, and it's easy to get them in there, so catching them will be easy. The work will be in getting them from the net into the cage.
 
   / My Place: a CAT, Mahindra, and Ducks #593  
I'm looking forward to our duck rodeo!!! Forecast is now saying rain for Friday, so it will be muddy in the duck pen. The catch area is pretty small, and it's easy to get them in there, so catching them will be easy. The work will be in getting them from the net into the cage.
PLEASE! SOMEBODY take good videos and post them on TBN!
 
   / My Place: a CAT, Mahindra, and Ducks
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#594  
I'm looking forward to our duck rodeo!!! Forecast is now saying rain for Friday, so it will be muddy in the duck pen. The catch area is pretty small, and it's easy to get them in there, so catching them will be easy. The work will be in getting them from the net into the cage.
I am excited also. Using a net before, it didn't take me long to remove the duck from the net.
I'm watching the weather also. Suppose to have some rain forecast for Sat. morning also. Bringing my rubber boots.
hugs, Brandi
 
   / My Place: a CAT, Mahindra, and Ducks
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#595  
PLEASE! SOMEBODY take good videos and post them on TBN!
Eddie and I will be busy catching ducks. I haven't taught Fritz how to take videos, as he is all left paws.
hugs, Brandi
 
   / My Place: a CAT, Mahindra, and Ducks
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Oh, it didn't happen. A few days before, I was topping off all the truck fluids, for the road trip. I had to add antifreeze. The next day, at Lowes, I saw it leaking out the top left end cap of the radiator. I had prayed to GOD about my concerns and if it wasn't meant to be, I would get a sign. The Friday I was to pick them up, I started pulling the radiator. The morning before, I got an email from the hotel I reserved, to bring my own disinfectants. So that was two red flag signs to me.
I found 800radiator.com and got a radiator for $211 bucks with pickup at the north Houston warehouse.
The radiator, like the truck, has hips as in it's a dually. With the intercooler, the a/c condenser, and the auto transmission cooler all in front of the radiator, it made it a tough nut to crack.

The radiator surge tank has to come out, along with the windshield washer fluid reservoir. But they are molded to fit the spaces and are larger at the bottom. To get the surge tank (molded in a curve fitting around the shoud) out, I had to remove the reservoir for the power steering pump. Then I could remove the intercooler ducts on both sides, then loosen all coolers mounted in front of the radiator. The auto trans lines clip into the 1/2 inch square slots in the radiator on the left "hip". On the right side, the solid a/c condensor line went over the right "hip" into the flex line to the compressor.

When the radiator was lifted up, it had to tilt left and right to slip pass the solid lines. I didn't want to take off the a/c condener, but I should have. I worked around it's removal with about 6 hours additional labor.

I got everything back together and working, only to have the a/c blow warm air. I always had a slow leak that took an annual recharge. But I guess I abused the flex lines enough that they needed to be replaced.
So the radiator, all the 3 different fluids, including 5 gallons antifreeze, two a/c flex lines and charging cost $1102.

So no ducks this winter. What is so odd, is the bottom ot the radiator is about 8 inches BELOW the lower radiator hose port! I figure I saved over $1500 in labor R&R the radiator myself.
Oh yeah, the truck also had a power steering cooler attached to the bottom of the radiator. I never realized it had a PS cooler!
hugs, Brandi

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   / My Place: a CAT, Mahindra, and Ducks #598  
Wow, would have been easier wrangling ducks !
That wasn't a project for the faint of heart, well done !
 

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