Does anybody have this figure out yet.

[Bird]

Heating oil? That's just for cooking, ain't it?/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif I just finished frying a turkey and it didn't take much propane either. Unfortunately, it's only getting down around 80 at night and near 100 in the afternoon. Of course, there are ways to beat it. I knew I had a full days work to do out in the shop yesterday morning, so I just went to bed early and got up and got started out there at 1 a.m. and got through shortly after 9 a.m./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Bird

 

[Hawgee]

Bird,
Hope things cool down for you shortly. Your early hours in the shop remind me of the 3 years I spent working a 12 hour shift from 6opm to 6oam. Lousy for your personel life but could really get things done. Not near as hot as you have but blankets over the bedroom windows to keep out the light for sleeping. NO WAY TO LIVE!
I'm also worried about the folks around these hot spots in Idaho and Montana. Bad year. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

 

[Thomas]

Heating oil just for cooking you wrote..oh don't we wish with these oil price that New England facing this winter./w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

Also sound like you too have to plan your work around mother nature./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif
I just to a short ride on the Kubota to check for moose damage and thank goodness I had 4wd or I would still be winching myself out,you could say its kinda damp./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Back in April you folks in Texas said you would send some warm dry weather my way,but I yet to see it/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gifand fall is coming fast and that means cold ground./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

Hope your weather changes soon so you may enjoy.

Was that a wild turkey you just finish cooking..um..um./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Take care and stay/w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif

Thomas..NH

 

[Thomas]

I guess I shouldn't complain!!
With all the wild fires and hot temps plus doughts,some folks from coast to coast are doing so fine,/w3tcompact/icons/frown.gifand were little half way thru the year.


Thomas..NH

 

[Bird]

Hawgee, I didn't put in too many of those 12 hour shifts, but I did spend two years working 9:30 p.m. to 6 a.m., and then rotating shifts for 8 years where every third month I worked 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. Personally, I liked working at night, but it is a bit hard on the family life, and I'm old enough now I wouldn't want to go back to it.

And as bad as our heat and drought is, it sure is better than the fires those poor folks out west are contending with.

And Thomas, nope, the turkey was a store bought one, but sure was tasty; had both daughters, sons-in-law, and grandkids down today. They like to drive the Kubota, hit golf balls in the pasture and shoot Coke cans with BB guns. And I've only seen one wild turkey in my neighborhood in the nearly 6 years I've lived here.

Bird

 

[PBMAX]

Bird,does the occasional golf ball get missed during clean up...If so are the hard on the rotory cutter?or are they just missiles waiting to happen?shootinig tin cans....I still injoy that.../w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif...Would you believe I have a 1950's Daisy BB gun...NO 102 Model 36 Looks like a red rider but doesn't say it is one...I still works great...Its great for plinking....

Lil' Paul

Laziness is the Father of invention.../w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[Bird]

Paul, they did leave with fewer golf balls than they arrived with, and they found at least one half buried that I probably ran over the last time I mowed. I figure the balls are always too low for the mower blades to hit, but it would be interesting to hit one and see whether it became a missile or whether it just got cut in two./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Bird

 

[RobertN]

Gosh, this is off this topic, but...

Some years back, my uncle built a 4th of July cannon from a back-hoe down rigger hydraulic cylinder. He welded gantry mounts on it, and reinforced the breech and muzzle. He drilled and tapped it for a fuse hole( He did a lot of other stuff to ensure it would work without blowing up, ect...).

At first, he lit it off with a bit of black powder, just for the boom on the 4th, and new years.

Well, he and a friend started looking at it, and found the inner diameter mic'd out just a hair larger than a golf ball. Works real well! He has a target berm for his other black powder rifles. It is pretty accurate at 100 yards.

They also found that they could pretty accurately place them out to a mile. Note they did take safety precautions before doing this so... He is really concious of safety, and made sure he wouldn't hit anybody or thing.

Anyways, it's pretty cool to fire off!

RobertN in Shingle Springs Calif

 

[Bird]

RobertN, this reminds me of the hilarious story by Patrick F. McManus about him and his buddy building a cannon with sewer pipe to shoot croquet balls and the ensuring explosion (I have to read every book McManus writes and my wife thinks I'm crazy when I'm laughing so hard while I'm reading).

It's been so long since I played with firecrackers that I can't remember for sure, but I think it was half inch galvanized pipe that we cut a notch in the threads on one end, inserted one of those silver firecrackers with the fuse on the side so it stuck up through the notch, screwed a cap on, dropped whatever we were using for rifle balls down the barrel . . . .. Did you ever wonder how any of us survived to adulthood?/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Bird

 

[Hawgee]

To stay on topic. I would have to say when bad weather refuses to leave, I'm reminded of a phrase passed to me some years ago. "There is no such thing as bad weather, just different kinds."
As to propelling objects larger than .49"! I always thought of it as a reality check to see where you were living. The difference between the man on a gas powered lawnmower trading sugar thru his kictchen window and the guy charting leather hardballs out of a howizer and a seasons worth of sugar on the pantry shelf. Yes, it is a wonder we survived or careful instruction and deployment. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif Now which one sounds more ominous.

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)