Good morning!!!!

[pennwalk]

"problems of working for yourself is that you are stuck with a taskmaster for a boss."

You need a union.

 

[daugen]

I hope and pray that no one on TBN had family or friends in Allen TX yesterday, just North of Dallas.
That's 200 incidents involving four or more folks getting shot so far this year.
Not a proud statistic and worrying to anyone who frequents public places.
Kudos to the off duty cop who saved lives.

public perception of Texas is larger than life and assumes they are all concealed carry and ready to defend themselves.
But even in a public mall, that didn't happen here.

pretty soon we will need airport grade security in a lot more places than folks who preach for personal freedom will be happy about.
200 incidents is a lot of rotten apples.
lot of crazy people

 

[Buppies]

Putting a patch on the problem will not solve it Drew. The family and faith must become a part of our Country again as it was when most of us were growing up

 

[m7040]

Coffee has finished brewing. 53° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 73° with morning rain and cloudy afternoon. Changed house and RO filters yesterday. Ordered new set of filters for next year. Got tire unmounted and tried to fix leak in side of tube. No luck. New tube showed up later in the day. Will get it installed later today. Need to start putting weed killer down around paver bricks.
Mr and Mrs Cardinal.

Prayers and best wishes for everyone.

Good Morning All.

Nice picture. Our Cardinals are almost done attacking the mirror on the van

 

[newbury]

How are we to know how much we load the FEL anyway. I fill the 72 inch bucket with top on it with wet clay. I am sure it is way overloaded compared to actual rating? Something tells me when there is bounce in the FEL while driving it is loaded

For me it's pretty easy.
If my FEL can't lift it it's way too much.
If the FEL can lift it but my loaded rear tires come off the ground it's still too much for safety.
My 72" bucket attached to my M4700 LA1001 FEL has a listed lift capacity of about 1000 kg or 2200 lbs and a struck volume of about 10.9 cubic feet (about 1/3 cubic yard). I've filled it heaped with wet gravel, lifted it, felt the rear lift, and then put it down to tip a little out. Gravel weighs about 3,000 lbs/yard, so I suspect my bucket had a little over 1,000 lbs of gravel. I need more weight on the back for full lift capacity.
I suspect your lift capacity to be about 2,500 lbs.
Your bucket capacity may be a little more but I don't think even heaping it with wet clay (2,970 lbs/yard per this link ) it would be way overloaded.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 60 going to 76 and sunny.
About 20 of us went to brewfest, met up with the rest later at friends house for Kentucky Derby, one of our friends from Kentucky.
Sad about the overabundance of horse injuries and deaths, very scary.

Got home late after sitting around the fire for many hours. A good day/evening.

Today need to tackle the grass, see new neighbor out in field, will there be a house there, the saga continues.

Heard some turkeys off in the bushes but did not see them, guess they survived the foxes.

Drew-Glad you found the tools and caretaker did right

Off to mow

Be well,

My friends pigs, being happy.

 

[daugen]

Putting a patch on the problem will not solve it Drew. The family and faith must become a part of our Country again as it was when most of us were growing up

I take no pleasure saying so but I think that horse is out of the barn. We have to be more successful with what we have.
Most patches fall off...

and who is to say what faith is the right one and the right amount of it?
As long as we act like good citizens, respect others, even love our neighbor, I'd be happy with that and a neighborhood
full of agnostics. So many people do terrible things in the name of their faith.
Faith, particularly organized religion, brings values, norms and expected behavior.
I've always wondered why organized religion didn't do more about societal violence.

More than one shooting a day. I briefly mentioned personal protective gear to my school board. Very touchy subject.
But we just can't put our heads in the sand and pray to a higher power. Whatever higher power you prefer.
Just doesn't seem to be working.
We need better technology
and for sure improved access to mental health care

Sane folks with automatic rifles do not shoot up the world.
They shoot up feral pigs.

seems like we need better prevention in two ways
better vetting/licensing of gun owners, particularly new ones, some how, and reliably
better airport grade security tactics in Middle America.
because that's who's getting shot up

I wonder if there are any states that have a disproportionate amount of mass shootings?

not a wonderful thing to think about on a Sunday morning. Like Ken, headed outside.

 

[m7040]

For me it's pretty easy.
If my FEL can't lift it it's way too much.
If the FEL can lift it but my loaded rear tires come off the ground it's still too much for safety.
My 72" bucket attached to my M4700 LA1001 FEL has a listed lift capacity of about 1000 kg or 2200 lbs and a struck volume of about 10.9 cubic feet (about 1/3 cubic yard). I've filled it heaped with wet gravel, lifted it, felt the rear lift, and then put it down to tip a little out. Gravel weighs about 3,000 lbs/yard, so I suspect my bucket had a little over 1,000 lbs of gravel. I need more weight on the back for full lift capacity.
I suspect your lift capacity to be about 2,500 lbs.
Your bucket capacity may be a little more but I don't think even heaping it with wet clay (2,970 lbs/yard per this link ) it would be way overloaded.

Thank you. good summary
With cast iron hubs, double cast iron disks on the wheels, loaded tires and tiller on the 3 point I do not lift tires. May loose some traction

 

[m7040]

I take no pleasure saying so but I think that horse is out of the barn. We have to be more successful with what we have.
Most patches fall off...

and who is to say what faith is the right one and the right amount of it?
As long as we act like good citizens, respect others, even love our neighbor, I'd be happy with that and a neighborhood
full of agnostics. So many people do terrible things in the name of their faith.
Faith, particularly organized religion, brings values, norms and expected behavior.
I've always wondered why organized religion didn't do more about societal violence.

More than one shooting a day. I briefly mentioned personal protective gear to my school board. Very touchy subject.
But we just can't put our heads in the sand and pray to a higher power. Whatever higher power you prefer.
Just doesn't seem to be working.
We need better technology
and for sure improved access to mental health care

Sane folks with automatic rifles do not shoot up the world.
They shoot up feral pigs.

seems like we need better prevention in two ways
better vetting/licensing of gun owners, particularly new ones, some how, and reliably
better airport grade security tactics in Middle America.
because that's who's getting shot up

I wonder if there are any states that have a disproportionate amount of mass shootings?

not a wonderful thing to think about on a Sunday morning. Like Ken, headed outside.

It is a touchy subject for sure. Maybe someone would post shooting history by state. Heard that there are 45000 killed by guns a year

 

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