Good morning!!!!

[Wagtail]

Good (Good Friday) morning. Overnight Low of 13.2C and it's presently dipped down to 11.8C [predicted High of 22C], clear with fog at the moment & calm.

A lovely Church service last evening and I'm off again to Church in about a half hour. The rest of the day will be His after that.

"Public speaking" was a very scary prospect back in Grade 6. Navy 'leadership' courses cured me of that as you needed to be able to 'brief' your subordinates and seniors.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[sodamo]

what I found interesting on those plugs was how easily they came out.
The gentlest of pulls on the ratchet and they spun out. Obviously installed with a torque
wrench to get the right crush seal on spark plug, but I've never had a plug come off so gently.
vs lug nuts which always seem to have been last installed way too tight.
I put the new plugs back on firmly, not tightly.

how many of us have thought while changing an oil filter
not previously done by us:
what part of hand tight did you not understand?

I’d have to say my thoughts were no where near that civil.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Evening,

If you think of it, you may want to acquire a pair of safety glasses to keep in your truck.

Actually I have my own sun combo safety glasses, those aren’t even mine
We also have 3 hard hats in the cab also.

Scott, when they start pumping, how long does it take to fill your truck?

Drew, if im empty and loading 2800 gals it’s probably something less than 10 minutes. When its freezing out and the wind is blowing strong, its not a lot of fun !!

 

[Looking4new]

Good Evening,



Drew, if im empty and loading 2800 gals it’s probably something less than 10 minutes. When its freezing out and the wind is blowing strong, its not a lot of fun !!

Now you know how I felt in Toledo,OH loading slurry oil. Standing on top of the tanker with the wind blowing in off the lake and through all the tanks at the tank farm, created a wind tunnel effect. Meanwhile the ambient temperature was about zero F. It usually took 22 minutes to put on 10,000 gallons. BP wouldn't let us out IF we overloaded (In their eyes) even though we were legal for a lot more in Ontario. We could haul 11,000 gallons in Ontario and still be legal. 12,000 and you would be looking for the back way that went around the scales. I know that way from Toledo, OH to Hamilton, ON. As bold as brass up through Michigan to the Bluewater Bridge and across 402 to 401 to Highbury Ave. in London and down to Hwy 3. (No scales on 3) Take 3 all the way to 6 and go north on 6 to the 403, down the mountain to the QEW and Niagara bound on QEW to the customer. Ran that route many times when I was getting a little thin on hours and through snow storms. I stayed in London when I ran out of hours. (Saved me going all the way back to Markham. Usually about 2-3 hours each way.)

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My speed queen washer just bit the dust. 7 yrs old. Has a burning electrical smell to it.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Evening Bill,

Now you know how I felt in Toledo,OH loading slurry oil. Standing on top of the tanker with the wind blowing in off the lake and through all the tanks at the tank farm, created a wind tunnel effect

Well I think I’m getting the idea.
We are on Long Island Sound, do not as cold as your wind off of the lake, but still pretty darn cold in the dead of winter

I prefer being on a tee shirt in the summer

 

[scott_vt]

Good Evening Dennis,

My speed queen washer just bit the dust. 7 yrs old. Has a burning electrical smell to it.

Sorry to hear that Dennis, that’s probably an expensive fix

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Pulled cover off, nothing obvious. Jiggled the wires, tried it and it ran. So let it pump out, and will try another load

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Busy day at the farm. Brother was there to mow and flew his drone
They have most of trees cleaned up, have bridges across the low ravines.

The water line guys also have water line ran around our pond already. They used skid steer to mow thru multiflora and have a path already. The big dozer is for water line, maybe they will pull it in? They aren’t to clear

 

[Looking4new]

Good Evening Bill,

Well I think I’m getting the idea.
We are on Long Island Sound, do not as cold as your wind off of the lake, but still pretty darn cold in the dead of winter

I prefer being on a tee shirt in the summer

That was my winter time job. The Welland Canal was closed so they had to truck the oil to Hamilton. The summer job we weren't allowed to load and unload in T-shirts, although unloading I usually bent the rules, but loading was ALWAYS long sleeved shirts.
2 years after I started hauling hot product the guy that trained me (number 1) got burned in the chest. He was wearing one of those shirts with the holes in them all around not including arms and neck. He was off work for a year. He said the pain was unbearable. 350° Asphalt has a habit of burning you when you get it on you. He got it right smack in the chest. He got complacent.
His getting burned put the kibosh on us wearing T-shirts.