Good morning!!!!

[KilroyJC]

I’ve tried that and it was more laborious than pulling the staples, also makes dealing with the old fabric more troublesome.
I did pull the trigger and ordered the Milwaukee fence stapler and Makita battery adapter though.

M18 FUEL™ UTILITY FENCING STAPLER | Milwaukee Tool

MILWAUKEE® M18 FUEL™ Utility Fencing Stapler provides a 6X Increase in productivity and a reduction in Peak Muscle Effort compared to Manual Staple Installation.

www.milwaukeetool.com

I wonder how far that will shoot staples?



looks like a nice unit - that should really speed up and simplify the installation!

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

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

61F, going to upper 70s. Afternoon t-storms (it is that time of year!)

Gravel delivery was a fiasco.

Called first thing at 7AM. Our delivery gets bumped from first one to three loads to complete someone else’s job from Friday because they needed far more than they calculated, and somehow that became our problem, so our delivery is being pushed back to noon-ish, but ok whatever. Putter around house a bit, call back around 10:30 to tell them we are leaving to go up to th site (where there is no cell service) and get told the driver finished the other job and will be heading to us in about 30 minutes. GREAT!

Now, we had gone in person to place the order, I showed the gravel guy on an aerial map exactly where our lot is (because it is a lot that was subdivided from one subdivided from a big lot that was subdivided… so it doesn’t have an actual address…), I had made sights that said “GRAVEL” with an arrow showing direction of travel, which I put out - and before hanging up with him I went over everything again for how to get to the delivery site.

so, we are sitting at our lot, I am greasing up the Kubota, when Lisa hears a truck in the distance coming down the road. GREAT! after a few minutes of no truck, she starts walking up and out to see where he is. And manages to, off in the distance where the dirt road comes off the pavement, catch seeing him driving off.

@#$&er never came off the pavement.

I try walking up our mountain for cell service, of course today it was barely one bar and wouldn’t hold connection, so back down and into the vehicle and drive two miles until I get service, call up, and allegedly the driver waited ten minutes but nobody was there and he didn’t think we were still there and that we left, so he left.

I explained that I explained that the first sign led to the second sign, all he had to do at the first sign was keep driving basically straight in and he would have seen the second sign 100 yds in, and from there keep driving straight, and that we had gone over this TWICE, once in person last week and once more over the phone an hour ago, and when am I getting my gravel?

by that time driver had another small delivery, and then he Had to have lunch, and he would be out there 12:45-1PM. (We didn’t get to have lunch. . .but he did. . .)

fine. We are here, we’re not leaving, I will be putting out strips of surveyors tape every 30-40 feet for him to follow.



go back, put up party streamers in multiple fluorescent colors. Lots of them. 1 o’clock. 1:15.

1:30. 1:45.

2 o’clock, lock everything up, drive out, get to cell service, cancel order. With extreme prejudice.

let us not even discuss how pissed off Mrs is, because somehow this fiasco is all my fault and I can never get anything right and…

wasted an entire day, if we had the delivery when originally promised I could have had it all spread, levels and compacted in by that time…

So went to other supplier in town, with physical maps I printed and annotated and marks and highlighted, and gravel is supposed to be first delivery on Friday morning.

I will now likely be making my own coffee for the next two to three mornings… because this is all my fault somehow, not the twerp driving the truck who couldn’t follow signs with arrows. . .

i hope everyone has had happy healthy safe uneventful blessed day!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I’ve not had problems seeing Ron’s pics on the app.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Where was that stapler when I needed it 40 years ago?
Awesome tool.

 

[m7040]

Good Morning!

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

61F, going to upper 70s. Afternoon t-storms (it is that time of year!)

Gravel delivery was a fiasco.

Called first thing at 7AM. Our delivery gets bumped from first one to three loads to complete someone else’s job from Friday because they needed far more than they calculated, and somehow that became our problem, so our delivery is being pushed back to noon-ish, but ok whatever. Putter around house a bit, call back around 10:30 to tell them we are leaving to go up to th site (where there is no cell service) and get told the driver finished the other job and will be heading to us in about 30 minutes. GREAT!

Now, we had gone in person to place the order, I showed the gravel guy on an aerial map exactly where our lot is (because it is a lot that was subdivided from one subdivided from a big lot that was subdivided… so it doesn’t have an actual address…), I had made sights that said “GRAVEL” with an arrow showing direction of travel, which I put out - and before hanging up with him I went over everything again for how to get to the delivery site.

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so, we are sitting at our lot, I am greasing up the Kubota, when Lisa hears a truck in the distance coming down the road. GREAT! after a few minutes of no truck, she starts walking up and out to see where he is. And manages to, off in the distance where the dirt road comes off the pavement, catch seeing him driving off.

@#$&er never came off the pavement.

I try walking up our mountain for cell service, of course today it was barely one bar and wouldn’t hold connection, so back down and into the vehicle and drive two miles until I get service, call up, and allegedly the driver waited ten minutes but nobody was there and he didn’t think we were still there and that we left, so he left.

I explained that I explained that the first sign led to the second sign, all he had to do at the first sign was keep driving basically straight in and he would have seen the second sign 100 yds in, and from there keep driving straight, and that we had gone over this TWICE, once in person last week and once more over the phone an hour ago, and when am I getting my gravel?

by that time driver had another small delivery, and then he Had to have lunch, and he would be out there 12:45-1PM. (We didn’t get to have lunch. . .but he did. . .)

fine. We are here, we’re not leaving, I will be putting out strips of surveyors tape every 30-40 feet for him to follow.



go back, put up party streamers in multiple fluorescent colors. Lots of them. 1 o’clock. 1:15.

1:30. 1:45.

2 o’clock, lock everything up, drive out, get to cell service, cancel order. With extreme prejudice.

let us not even discuss how pissed off Mrs is, because somehow this fiasco is all my fault and I can never get anything right and…

wasted an entire day, if we had the delivery when originally promised I could have had it all spread, levels and compacted in by that time…

So went to other supplier in town, with physical maps I printed and annotated and marks and highlighted, and gravel is supposed to be first delivery on Friday morning.

I will now likely be making my own coffee for the next two to three mornings… because this is all my fault somehow, not the twerp driving the truck who couldn’t follow signs with arrows. . .

i hope everyone has had happy healthy safe uneventful blessed day!

We had similar problems when we moved into the property here. We had a hard time getting deliveries and contractors. Talked to a local guy working an excavating business and he said if you did not live in the area for two generations you are foreigner and not trusted.
He spread the word to help us out and after that we had no more problems. Anything we needed and they would send us a bill later. Sometimes they did not invoice us for several months

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 66˚F heading to the upper 70s cloudy 40% chance of rain this afternoon. Looking better all the time to stick with my Thursday date for the potato harvest.

Ron's pictures from yesterday and today are visible.

When I hand hammer the staples in I turn them a bit so they are in different grains so the wood does not crack. Is the Milwaukee power tool capable of doing this?

Kilroy, young people and hunters really mess up a rural area. Thank goodness for HOAs. Weeds are blocking your second gravel sign, needs to be higher and florescent paint. Remember, the wife is always right.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low was 29 and the high to 54°F. Wind N 10 to 15 mph. 80% chance of rain.

I know what I am doing today and it isn't much. I will be hanging my grease gun hanger upper thingy today, 4 1/4" carriage bolts and that will be done.

I have been up here for 29 years and I am a foreigner. I do most transactions cash anyway. People ask me where I am from if I didn't come from here and I tell them, I was born in Toronto but seeing as I didn't have any choice in the matter to not hold that against me.

Have a safe day all

 

[buckeyefarmer]

26 years here and I’m still the new guy.
We saw it the most with our kids in school. Sports is ran by people who have been here for generations, and their kids walk on water. We even saw it in Boy Scouts. Our new neighbor at our VA lot was quick to let us know she grew up in that county.

Don, turn the stapler at an angle.

 

[txdon]

Don, turn the stapler at an angle.

I was wondering if you could since it had the wire groove straight across in the head.

 

[m7040]

This guy a little up the street from us was born here and is living on the old farm from his parents. His mother was pregnant with him when she moved here. He says he is foreigner around here.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Wife’s been up half the night with pain in her leg, so she said no flower planting today.
I’m sore all over from yesterdays work. Was up and down on concrete floor a lot wrestling with the BX mower deck.
Did get the FEL greased. Not sure 1 took grease, need to check it. Got deck and shaft all greased. Probably should change all the fluids. The hydro filter has hours and date on it.

Chance of rain has disappeared for us.

Found my 1/2” torque wrench in the barn yesterday. New one I ordered comes today.

 

[KilroyJC]

We had similar problems when we moved into the property here. We had a hard time getting deliveries and contractors. Talked to a local guy working an excavating business and he said if you did not live in the area for two generations you are foreigner and not trusted.
He spread the word to help us out and after that we had no more problems. Anything we needed and they would send us a bill later. Sometimes they did not invoice us for several months

oddly, the outfit that did this is a large regional multi-location concern, not a simple local provider.

Luckily, the second vendor (who is a local operation) is one we had done business with when we first purchased our small business here, and just as I was leaving, The Boss Showed up.. . And he was “the kid” who had done the delivery 8 years ago, except he ain’t a kid no more - he’s The Boss!

Good thing we tipped him well, way back when…

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 66F @ 5:30AM. Abundant sunshine. High 96F. Winds light and variable.

Turns out you can set the number of posts you see per page:

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/account/preferences

I think the default is 10.

Sorry to hear about the druggies, JKC. Think complaining to the local newspaper, city council, or county board of supervisors would do any good? Good help is hard to find, huh?

Got a late start with the wiring job, then took my sweet time going up and down the ladder and securing it every couple of feet, even measuring to get the spacing even. Made the mistake of using those all in one connectors for the splices, the ones you slip over the wires and use a heat gun to melt a ring of what is probably bismuth to make a solder joint. The plastic shrink wrap on the ones I was using almost melted at the same temp as the solder, and the solder didn't flow much at all. One of the speakers kept cutting out due to the cold joint, until I grabbed it and flexed the heck out of it a few times. It probably won't stay fixed, and I'll end up cutting it out and doing it again, this time with real solder and shrink wrap tubing.

Watched a video this morning where a gal used mosquito repellent to clean the haze off her plastic headlights. I replaced the ones on the Ford several years ago and they're fogging again, so figgered I'd gamble five bux and give it a try.

Got some wiring jobs coming up, and am fed up with the knock off automatic wire strippers I picked up several years ago that don't work. Gonna try a pair made by Klein to see if they're any better. Prime will make it easy to send 'em back if they don't.

Also gonna splurge on a tie wrap tensioner/cutter that's supposed to work very well. Really tired of slicing my hands up on the sharp stubs left when I can't get flush cutting pliers on the left over stem.

No word from the new stucco contractor yet. My contractor says they're working our job in between larger ones, but it'll be done by the end of the week. I told him I don't want them on site unsupervised, as they strike me as the kind of people that would steal anything that's not nailed down. And that I want a day's notice when they'll be here so I can be, too. Trust issues? Not me. Trust has to be earned, not given freely, and these guys didn't make a very good first impression.

More wiring today, this time installing some LED light fixtures under the porch cover.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Kilroy, any chance you will build on your wood lot?

 

[KilroyJC]

Good morning! 66˚F heading to the upper 70s cloudy 40% chance of rain this afternoon. Looking better all the time to stick with my Thursday date for the potato harvest.

Ron's pictures from yesterday and today are visible.

When I hand hammer the staples in I turn them a bit so they are in different grains so the wood does not crack. Is the Milwaukee power tool capable of doing this?

Kilroy, young people and hunters really mess up a rural area. Thank goodness for HOAs. Weeds are blocking your second gravel sign, needs to be higher and florescent paint. Remember, the wife is always right.

dude never went in far enough to see second sign, and orange fluorescent tape is on the top, it just happened to waft behind in a breeze as I took photo.

I have the opposite opinion of HOAs - which is why we sued ours and won and it was so egregious that the judge ordered his ruling to be appended to our property deed, with that wonderful phrase, “… and heirs, assigns, and successors. . .”

This is the same HOA that refused to address the druggies issue in its infancy, when all I wanted was for the, to tell them to stop treating our single-lane Road like it was Talladega, but who had no problem giving us grief about many other issues, including a nastygram notice that we had to make our propane tabks comply with the visual blocking rules (behind lattice basically) in spite of the fact that a) six other houses (including board officers and the druggies) are not in compliance (to this very day) and b) we have electric HVAC and electric stove and wood fireplace, and the only propane tanks I had at the time were one 10lb BBQ tank for camping and some 14oz Bernzo tanks for torches and lanterns.

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!!!! 66F @ 5:30AM. Abundant sunshine. High 96F. Winds light and variable.

Turns out you can set the number of posts you see per page:

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/account/preferences

I think the default is 10.

Sorry to hear about the druggies, JKC. Think complaining to the local newspaper, city council, or county board of supervisors would do any good? Good help is hard to find, huh?

Got a late start with the wiring job, then took my sweet time going up and down the ladder and securing it every couple of feet, even measuring to get the spacing even. Made the mistake of using those all in one connectors for the splices, the ones you slip over the wires and use a heat gun to melt a ring of what is probably bismuth to make a solder joint. The plastic shrink wrap on the ones I was using almost melted at the same temp as the solder, and the solder didn't flow much at all. One of the speakers kept cutting out due to the cold joint, until I grabbed it and flexed the heck out of it a few times. It probably won't stay fixed, and I'll end up cutting it out and doing it again, this time with real solder and shrink wrap tubing.

Watched a video this morning where a gal used mosquito repellent to clean the haze off her plastic headlights. I replaced the ones on the Ford several years ago and they're fogging again, so figgered I'd gamble five bux and give it a try.

Got some wiring jobs coming up, and am fed up with the knock off automatic wire strippers I picked up several years ago that don't work. Gonna try a pair made by Klein to see if they're any better. Prime will make it easy to send 'em back if they don't.

Also gonna splurge on a tie wrap tensioner/cutter that's supposed to work very well. Really tired of slicing my hands up on the sharp stubs left when I can't get flush cutting pliers on the left over stem.

No word from the new stucco contractor yet. My contractor says they're working our job in between larger ones, but it'll be done by the end of the week. I told him I don't want them on site unsupervised, as they strike me as the kind of people that would steal anything that's not nailed down. And that I want a day's notice when they'll be here so I can be, too. Trust issues? Not me. Trust has to be earned, not given freely, and these guys didn't make a very good first impression.

More wiring today, this time installing some LED light fixtures under the porch cover.

Complaining to those outlets will not do any good. In fact, having the ability to honestly say to said druggies, should the situation arise, that we have never reported them to officialdom, other than complain about their speeding and generally dangerous driving to the HOA years back, May be a net plus. . .

Because of the ADA and DA let them drive in and out past THEIR houses daily, my complaining isn’t going to do squat.

I even have a couple of boxes of NarCan handy, in case I have to throw them over the fence in an emergency. Are we good neighbors or what?

 

[KilroyJC]

Kilroy, any chance you will build on your wood lot?

Possibly but not for several years at a minimum. we have kicked around the idea, residence at the top of the hill, big barn/garage partway up, there is a cool spot for a lookout deck where the cove drops away and overlooks the main valley and county airport (and there are about 16 ginormous poplars that would make a lot of great lumber that would need to come down to make the view possible), but right now we have too much invested in our primary residence and with the current state of world and economic affairs, we don’t want to start any projects of that scale - clearing bottom land and making a micro-farm is more than enough!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

... residence at the top of the hill, big barn/garage partway up, there is a cool spot for a lookout deck

One of the reasons I have trouble finding homeowner's insurance here is that the home sits above a steep canyon, with lots of trees and brush below. The ISO has figured out that fires burn faster uphill, and that increases the chance of the place burning down. It also exposes the house to strong winds, which last December sent the porch cover sailing, taking out the roof and chimney in the process, and resulting in almost $150K in repairs. Beautiful view, but it comes with a pretty stiff price tag.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 61 going up to 70 and sunny.
Worked at the bigger garden last night, cleaning and weeding.
Nothing exciting.

KC - druggies and DAs , what a combination.

Be well,

There is always one bird that successfully gets a nest in. Since it's on eggs, will leave it.

 

[LouNY]

Good Morning!!!! 66F @ 5:30AM. Abundant sunshine. High 96F. Winds light and variable.

Turns out you can set the number of posts you see per page:

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/account/preferences

I think the default is 10.

Sorry to hear about the druggies, JKC. Think complaining to the local newspaper, city council, or county board of supervisors would do any good? Good help is hard to find, huh?

Got a late start with the wiring job, then took my sweet time going up and down the ladder and securing it every couple of feet, even measuring to get the spacing even. Made the mistake of using those all in one connectors for the splices, the ones you slip over the wires and use a heat gun to melt a ring of what is probably bismuth to make a solder joint. The plastic shrink wrap on the ones I was using almost melted at the same temp as the solder, and the solder didn't flow much at all. One of the speakers kept cutting out due to the cold joint, until I grabbed it and flexed the heck out of it a few times. It probably won't stay fixed, and I'll end up cutting it out and doing it again, this time with real solder and shrink wrap tubing.

Watched a video this morning where a gal used mosquito repellent to clean the haze off her plastic headlights. I replaced the ones on the Ford several years ago and they're fogging again, so figgered I'd gamble five bux and give it a try.

Got some wiring jobs coming up, and am fed up with the knock off automatic wire strippers I picked up several years ago that don't work. Gonna try a pair made by Klein to see if they're any better. Prime will make it easy to send 'em back if they don't.

Also gonna splurge on a tie wrap tensioner/cutter that's supposed to work very well. Really tired of slicing my hands up on the sharp stubs left when I can't get flush cutting pliers on the left over stem.

No word from the new stucco contractor yet. My contractor says they're working our job in between larger ones, but it'll be done by the end of the week. I told him I don't want them on site unsupervised, as they strike me as the kind of people that would steal anything that's not nailed down. And that I want a day's notice when they'll be here so I can be, too. Trust issues? Not me. Trust has to be earned, not given freely, and these guys didn't make a very good first impression.

More wiring today, this time installing some LED light fixtures under the porch cover.

I like to use a flat tip on a soldering gun on tye wrap ends, melts them flush and smooth. It does take more time and is an aggravation most times so many of mine are just cut off some times with a knife to be flush.