Good morning!!!!

[gstrom99]

oh, I forgot... The tree service showed up yesterday, to grind stumps that I've been mowing around. $3/inch. 117 inches (how he kept track of that??) Most small, one 48+ inch old elm. Now I have more loader work to do, to fill that one in.

 

[pennwalk]

J.B., Nice to hear from you again. I hope we will hear from you from time to time. I always enjoyed your posts.

Chris

 

[sodamo]

68°F and 1.0 inches rain.

Tweak my shelf positions and secure in place. Then I can start reorganizing stuff. Basically gaining space in the tractor shed and getting stuff out of the garage that doesn’t belong there. Anticipate there will be a trip or two to the dump eventually. Expect this will be an extended process with some changes along the way. You might recall, thoughts of organization is what started this.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[Rich B1]

Well….4th time was the charm, the entryway is finally installed

 

[KilroyJC]

Well I was a bit stressed as my boss called a meeting with me and HR.
So with mild relief, it's just a re-title of my job, not the boot.

Still looking though, as trust level is low.

We spent the last day or so looking at budget and contingencies........

The Ol’ “ProMotion in lieu of Raise” thingy?

 

[jbrumberg]

Another cloudy, breezy, and raw day with 30ºF as the morning's low temperature. Currently it is 39ºF with a 36ºF wind chill. A lot has gone on since I last posted. I promised Peg that I would "downsize" from Saint Bernard rescues. Last year We rescued another dog from the Deep South. He was supposed to be an Anatoly Shepherd X Labrador Retriever. He looks like a wolf and acts like a wolf. Our vet recommended a DNA to see if he is a wolf hybrid. Well the results came back and he is a Anatoly Shepherd X German Shepherd who had Swiss White Shepherd is his genetic mix. He is too big to get an accurate weight on the vet's floor scale, but the DNA results indicated that he will be around 130# which seems accurate. And as to "downsizing;" He is taller and longer than any of our Saint B's; just 50#'s lighter. He barely fits in my Ford Maverick.

And a picture of the tractor following 30" of snow 3.15 - 17.2023

 

[sodamo]

Agree on the grass in the road. Never could understand it. We only have a very small strip that borders the road, but we also don’t blow it onto our drive. In fact, Sophie doesn’t even want it blown into the fenceline and I agree, first couple passes are away from fence.

 

[sodamo]

33° and frost. Low was 31°

Not much else happening yet. Still haven’t cleaned up the garden and need to mix up and spray weed juice.
I have so many projects now I can’t keep track of them all.
Need to horizontally mine in garage, office, basement and barn sometime.

Sounds like retirement, Dennis.

 

[rswyan]

55F and sunny @ 13:00, heading up to around 67 for today's high. Promises to be a much nicer day than yesterday.

WU calling for a high of 84F for tomorrow ...

Got a fire going in the double barrel and then got a bunch of wood splits moved in yesterday to dry out. Wood pile in front of shop will probably be entirely gone in the next week or so.

Shop warmed up fairly quickly.

Loaded some scrap metal into the van in prep for a trip to the recycler. More to do on that today.

Worked on getting tools put away.

Also did some work on the saw and VFD.

Got chip chute and blade installed, had to use a washer along with the nut to get the replace arbor flange to clamp the blade. Apparently what Renovo is offering isn't identical to what originally came with the saw.

Fired up saw and cleaned off the blade with a wire brush while it was spinning. Woman wasn't terribly impressed with the result and wanted to know if I couldn't so a better job.

Told her "Sure ... if I want to hold a piece of sandpaper up against that blade ... while it's spinning at 5000+ rpm" ...

NOT.



What VFD deems to be "Forward" is actually reverse rotation on the saw, running the blade backwards.

It has a function to run the motor in reverse, which I had locked out when I initially programmed it.

So I enabled "Reverse" which now has the top of the blade coming towards the front of the table.

VFD also has a terminal block which allows a variety of functions (FWD, REV, STOP, SPEED LO/MED/HIGH, etc) to be controlled externally, via switches or other controls.

From the documentation it appeared to me that two connections using three wires would be necessary to start and stop the motor so I dissected the paddle switch to figure out what it's internal connections were.

That turned out not to be the case: connecting a pair of wires will start the motor (in forward or reverse, depending on which terminals one is using) and will allow it to run as long as the connection is maintained. Once the connection is broken the motor is no longer under power. So that ended up being a much easier solution than I expected.

Beyond that I started back in on cleaning up the table top and extension wings:

Of course, more contact cement there ...

Miter slots on the table top are really full of crud, going to require more work to get them cleaned out. Downside is that the fit of the miter bars will be even sloppier.

Got measurement taken on the base - looks to be around 20 5/8 to 20 3/4.

Had a look for some angle for the mobile base, what I thought was a long piece (while buried) turned out to be only around 24" long (need 80"+ minimum) ...

Have an email into steel supplier for a quote on a more appropriate size.

Agenda for today:

Refill bird feeders.

Handle some things down here at the house for The Woman.

Load more scrap metal into van.

Disconnect Cub from charger.

Call mower shop and see what's up with them not showing up to pick up the Cub.

Hope everyone is having a good day ...

 

[KilroyJC]

Good morning! Low of 40°, heading for 70°. Strong winds due to arrive again this afternoon. I was surprised that it was calm this morning, after being windy almost all night. A couple days of this, then nice for the weekend.

David, interesting fix for the shelves. I'll have to store that idea in the memory banks.....

Ken, hope you feel better. Weedwacking can wear you out quickly for sure!

Fritz, glad the shoulder is feeling a bit better. Take it easy. Beautiful pics.

Drew, have fun with the RV parts. At least the pile isn't too big.....

Kilroy, hope you are able to get Harry into one of the programs. Sounds like a good start with the calls.

Ron, neat turkey pic. Do they dig up the lawn?

RNG. Too bad about the house being so far out. Sounded nice. Beautiful pics of the fields. There are some spots just starting out here. Won't get as much color /big areas as those.
Good to hear the contractor started working.

Today's agenda includes going to the grocery store. Not too bad of a least, but will be good time to get it done---- out of the wind.

Everyone have a great day!

We paid the down payment, and he is getting picked up on May 7th

Sorry to hear about that stress level.

Always have a backup plan to the backup plan. Pays to keep in touch with old coworkers.

Good luck to you. I am sure it wears on you, and management seems to forget about the trust level.

An old saying "...the beatings will continue until moral improves..."

”There cannot be a morale problem when there is no morale…”