Good morning!!!!

[MacLawn]

Good morning boys! Had to change from air conditioning to heat this morning. Cold front moving through. Had me joe, dealing with daily pain, but usually gets a bit better after a few hours. Y'all boys who do not suffer from fibromyalgia - get down on ye knees right now and thank The Lord ye don't! Hehehehe, I thank Him anyway.

 

[sodamo]

70F and no rain last 24 hrs, another outside day

Be safe
Have a great day

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[sodamo]

Drinking second cup of coffee. 50° with rain this morning. Heading to 52° with rain until late afternoon. It's will be wet and cool outside today. Working on cleaning up my shop. May finish today. David, nice generator. Does it have auto start? What happened to the one it replaced? Good Morning All.

Thanks Ron

Yes, autostart, two wire from my Outback inverters.
Old Genset still works fine and I will put on Craigslist for a reasonable price. It is 7 years old, only about 2000 hours, but a small tank. Parts are hard to find. One of my goals this year is to get our infrastructure to a better point, more easily used/maintained, especially for my wife. We are totally off grid. The reality is, I won't be here forever and this place needs to be functional even if I not around to babysit.

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[sodamo]

Drew,

Here, LP is more expensive. My last fill up was $6.85/ gal. Have a neighbor how good a good deal on one years ago and has been paying for it ever since. My reading is it takes more LP to produce than diesel.

I've seen those units, but never got a good vibe as to the electronics etc. shipping is also a major part of my equation and is the area most good deals come apart. One this one, I only paid extra for crating, Affordable delivered to LA port and I paid to get it to Hilo thru DHX. Surprising how many companies offer Free Shipping, but give a Hawaii address and suddenly the only free is the email and any and all costs get added in. We do have a local place that puts together gensets. When I checked 8 years ago, his price started at $15k for a barebones system, the one I'm replacing cost me $6k including shipping. I figured at that price, I could upgrade periodically to a newer machine.

Don't know about a video, but will definitely get pics.

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[sodamo]

Thanks guys

I seriously talked about going smaller, even 18 or 21kw, thinking fuel savings, but ended up staying with the 24.
It does have backup, a Rigid 8500 and Hondo Eu2000, both which plug into my system but neither are Autostart.

I'm impressed with the build quality. Also more complex than the older one, even wife commented.

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[daugen]

One of these days I think we just need to take off like Drew, except drive a smaller vehicle and stay in hotels.

Geez, I just heard an echo. Exactly what my older brother told me...
At 100-200 per night in nice places, I'm not sure I want to do the math.

As for vehicles, the fifth wheel is cheap enough to have as a second home, and could even be used as a guest house when company comes. And surely if the power goes out, although I am a standby gen devotee at this point. When I was on that beach campground on Emerald Isle in NC, boy I could sure see being parked there for awhile. Time to use that metal detector I bought for a trip a few years back.
And then on the West Coast of Florida, where there are surprisingly few rv parks. And in the mountains in the summer to avoid the heat. Did a lot of thinking while on this trip as to what would get used the most, to get more value for the money spent.

I did note that Winnebago touts hydraulic slides on the two main slides out of three in its new fifth wheel trailer, vs. my current rv's electric motors in geared tracks. Almost as if they are better. I just don't know.
Winnebago makes a nice unit, the dealer had one which sold promptly and I'm sure has more on order. For sure, no matter what computerized leveling system they put on it, the show will go on this time, because I will have a full set of manual trailer jacks along as backup. And the pickup truck should be stone reliable.

 

[Larro Darro]

Good Afternoon. 1235, overcast, 66F {cold} with 86% humidity and a 10mph NNW wind blowing. Forecast calls for a high 73F this afternoon and a low of 51F tonight. We had a nice rain last night, at just over an inch. I had kind of planned on mowing today, but I set out some Rutger tomato plants instead. The wind is playing havoc with my taller plants. I'm overdue with the Florida weave, so I put in posts and drove a few stakes. An 8 lbs sledge sure fells heavier than that when you are swinging it I just came in to eat a little lunch, then back at it. I decided on breakfast for lunch. Pastrami, green beans tomatoes, scallions, onions and eggs.

Larro

 

[daugen]

. I decided on breakfast for lunch. Pastrami, green beans tomatoes, scallions, onions and eggs.

Larro

sure looks good. Larro, my first job out of college in 1971 was as a food service director for Saga Food Service. Anyone who went to college in the sixties or seventies might have been fed by Saga, they were big institutional cafeteria managers. And the one thing they drove into our heads was the mantra "plate coverage and plate appeal". Cover the plate and make it look good. Well Larro, you always get an A on that. Note that taste was not part of the institutional priority...
those eggs look like locals, nice and dark yellow.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good afternoon all. 44F and sunny this morning, got a ride in after 2 days of rain-outs. Working on putting stuff back as painter finishes a section this afternoon and starting on new slats for the vertical blinds.

 

[JDgreen227]

Larro....do you realize your post here is making your "What's for dinner" thread even more redundant? :laughing: So maybe the solution is to morph this thread into an all-purpose "Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, What's For Breakfast, What's for Lunch, What's for Dinner" thread? Do I hear applause for my suggestion? No. Do I see approval :thumbsup: for my suggestion? No. Sure is nice to be appreciated here on TBN....:laughing: