Good morning!!!!

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low temp is 13 and going up to 34°F. Wind N 9 mph. Sunny. The powers that be are still advertising a 'special weather statement'. I can expect about a foot of snow. This is a good thing. Just down the road where 'check' is at they can expect 6" of snow AND freezing rain. NO thanks.

check, do you have a loader on the tractor?

 

[ronjhall]

First cup of coffee has been poured. 16° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 45° sunny skies. Made 4 oak shelves for front porch. Mounted them to put items that used to set on top of rolltop desk removed from porch. Neighbors asked for help with replacing fuel pumps on his military generator. Got that done. Returned home to take Sassy for a walk.
Today I will be going to GM Proving Grounds. I have been invited to a session that will see how a person my age reacts to thing that will be on future cars. Should be very interesting. I am the only person that qualified in the 80 year old age group.
Getting down to some food.

PJ, sorry for loss of Evey. Good to see you posting.

Hope those in way of the North Eastern storm stay safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[KilroyJC]

Look at the angle the pin eyes are at, both ends are angled and not getting the ball ends squared up in the arms.

I guess I am beating out pins again. . .

 

[KilroyJC]

29°F and clear skies this morning, and only got up to 43° today. Near 60° by Thursday, but that warmer air is bringing some rain with it.

Been a couple weeks since I've been here. Even had to log in again. I was still behind from my last absence, and now even more so.

Our period of life's downsides finally culminated a week ago Monday when our oldest Border Collie, Evey, left us. She started slipping fast that weekend, and by Sunday evening she could barely walk, even with us lifting her and holding her up with a strap. The cancer was taking it's toll on her. Wife took her to the vet the next day. She later sent me a simple text message saying, "I'm back from the vet's office." The singularity of that statement was not lost. Evey came back home today in her new urn, and sits once again next to her favorite cat, Katniss, who also left us back in December.

Somewhere in all the time since I last babbled here, I managed to fix the barn door. This time, it got beefier braces - about 1/4" thick - and fatter screws to hold it in place. There will surely be a few splintered 6x6s if that ever comes loose again.

I'm sure I've missed a lot. Hope everyone is well.

Good evening, gents.

We lost our Sandy last May. It still sucks. Hang in there.

 

[KilroyJC]

Kilroy, without seeing what the stock OEM parts look like, I can't judge. But I'm worried if you tug on those pipe nipples much, they may fail. Lower Arms are predominately in tension, but if backing up a blade, they are in compression which gives a different force.

Short version: the nipples are spacers, the arms are on 3/4” pins.

TL;DR: (with edits )

The factory Eagle Arms pivoted vertically on 5/8” pins (that I bushes up with copper pipe to fit the 3/4 ball ends) that are between the mounts.

I have the replacement arms mounted with them, and the pipe nipples are merely acting as shims to keep the balls from sliding along the pins, since it is about a 3” span between the mounts, and the starboard side arm kept wanting to slide inboard, and that made it a square and very unstable. By keeping the ends outboard, it is trapezoidal and *should* keep the implements centered. My biggest concern is with the rear scoop, which kept shifting the frame into the starboard tire and I really don’t want chunks taken out of the tire!

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

God has given us another chance to get it right (or at least not screw up too badly).

Currently a dead-even 30F, going into low 40s, hopefully not as breezy as yesterday . . .

most of anything I need I mentioned in comments the last couple minutes, just getting ready to go to work now. Woodstove is comfy

I hope everyone has a happy healthy safe blessed day!

 

[wngsprd]

29 going to 53, still windy. Yesterday's gusts were gale force.

Sorry you no longer have Evey by your side, PJ. Glad you updated us.

Now we need BEF to drop back by.

RS, at first glance at that 1st table saw pic, my jaw dropped...thought you had done a major shop cleaning.

I split all my rounds, moved some pallets, and now need to cut some more. Got in a nice maintenance hike yesterday, despite the wind.

Regular dentist check-up today.

 

[riptides]

31 outside, heading to lower 50's. Strong winds still in area. Feels like temps in the 20's. So far no issues with power or trees coming down. All buildings still have roofs, so that is good. Wood stove needs to be fired up again.

So sorry for the loss, PJ.

Hope all have a great day. Be safe, especially those in the path of these weather events. As always, get and/or stay healthy.

 

[Buppies]

27 wind still blowing high in 40s but after 2:00 PM

Blue birds and red birds at feeder yesterday nice color

Hope Thomas is ok pretty good snow I think

Hope BEF is ok

Prayers for all our Country

 

[Spike56]

Good morning to everyone from Central Texas. (50 degrees at 6am, headed to lower 70's) Decent chance for rain tomorrow, tomorrow night with a cold front moving in. Got 2 tons 24-6-12 on hayfield yesterday and 25 tons lime in hay and part of the pastures. Now just need the main ingredient.

The AIM-260 (Joint Advanced Tactical Missile) JATM, a Lockheed Martin development beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) project. Claimed Mach 5 speed and 120-mile range to replace or supplement the AIM-120 AMRAAM.

To all - Wishing you a prosperous day.