Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

Speaking of solvent, seems you can't get varsol anymore....I must have had a few gallons that had lasted me until now (since forever)...What do people use now?

There's a bulk petroleum/card lock place in town that carries cleaning solvent. I asked for Stoddard solvent. I don't know what's in it, but it's not kerosene, and is petroleum based. Expensive though, something like $10/gal. Could be there's a similar place in your town?

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Time to get a RFID shielding wallet. Does anyone else use a shielding wallet?

Been waiting on Allet to come out with a nylon spinnaker cloth version of their Napa Leather version RFID wallet. Been using the non-RFID ones for years, and really like the storage layout and very thin profile. Can't use a leather wallet; allergic to the chemicals used in the tanning.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning, outside temperature sensors tell me it is 0C/32F, which possibly helps explain why the white stuff falling outside looks like genuine snow from inside the house, yet as soon as I ventured out I quickly realised it was something much more sinister, almost like a creature from one of Drew's Sci-fi novels.

It may look, sound and smell like falling snow, yet in truth this is a superficial disguise for a chilling flesh seeker that mercilessly uses human skin to extract sufficient heat to instantly transform itself into an invisible state, while allowing it's increasingly miserable victim to live on to be stung time and time again.

SLEET !

:laughing:

 

[daugen]

yukky weather Eric, sleep in!

36 degrees here, up early, went to bed early, all that play farming wore me out. And more today, going to try to disc the field in nice sunshine later, after lunch. Still won't run machinery on Sunday morning, too old fashioned, besides don't need to.

Well, if it means no more snow for Texas, I guess it's all on me now. Mr Wahl, it's time to lose two ounces of weight.
Pure white beard does make me look older but if I stay warm, fine. I have Spring flowers popping up too, have planted hundreds of bulbs along the fence posts and it's nice to see what comes back. We have another big cold blast coming again, I'm sure, but the these plants are saying
Andiamo. (probably the second favorite boat name on the Chesapeake after Carpe Diem)

Eggs and sausage this morning, had to hunt down some "all natural" sausage without MSG, and then will plant beets this morning.
There is an old garden saying, with lots of plaques merchandised, that one is closest to God while in a garden, or something to that effect.
I seem drawn to planting and gardens on Sunday, the connection with the soil seems to help with the feeling of being rooted in faith.

64 today, 67 tomorrow. Marvelous. I'm waving to CWB...where are those leaping snowmobile pics for this year?

 

[wngsprd]

Could be the bar id plugged with sawdust and the oil has to go somewhere. Ed

That's what I was thinking.

 

[wngsprd]

Some guys are just dicks, what can I say. LOL

Well said. Good luck on the hunt for another tractor.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all, 49 this morning a 5:00 and going to 60!!! I"ll take it. Will take it easy today, might get into a little something.

Don, I keep a broken hacksaw blade in my chain saw box. It broke at an angle and is kinda pointy on the end. Ground the teeth off and use it to dig the saw dust out of the bar groove, then a pick to clean the holes in the side the oil goes into and you are done. Used to use a putty knife but the saw blade takes up less room in my box and is not ground to a point.

Have a great day, Ed

 

[wngsprd]

34 going to 61. May let the woodstove go out today.

BEF, nice looking treadmill...and treadmill fuel (apple pie).

Drew, hope your head isn't too banged up.

RNG, great Costco story. The chicken IS worth waiting for. Haven't really seen rude people at our Costco. Seems they are just like in other stores, somewhat focused, and in sort of a hurry. I'm always amazed at the tenure of Costco employees...talked with one lady the other day who has been working there 35 years...I mentioned that must have been at their first Richmond location, and she was so proud of that and said she was part of the team in charge of closing down that store when they moved to their new bigger location in the West End. It's a busy place, and or course, no sales people, but I've found when you seek out help from their staff, or even other customers, they are great.

Sharpened another chain and cut another load of firewood yesterday. Cut a bigtooth aspen, about 50 feet tall and over a foot diameter...don't usually mess with them, since they are not the best firewood and don't have many in our woods, but this one had fallen over and was leaning on a big pine...always a challenge bringing down a leaner. It split so easy, I felt guilty using the gas log splitter. Cut a little maple, too. Still have a couple more oaks I needs to cut.

 

[daugen]

Drew, hope your head isn't too banged up.

Thanks. Shaken but not stirred...

Ed, good tip on the chain saw, something strong and thin and easy to hold. I usually blast the heck out of my chain saws with an air gun, and yes it's a huge mess,
but I have the luxury I suppose of having a gravel area to the rear of the barn and it's my cleanup area. And while I have no intentions of creating a Superfund site here, I can't encapsulate and dispose of all of it. Though I suppose I should... as one old enough to grow up with a dump on our farm and our own incinerator.

I fed that beautiful granite fieldstone incinerator, a work of art smooth sloping up to a central vent, for at least fifteen years. When it got full, I had to hand shovel the ashes out of a rear hatch into heavy 55 gallon barrels, roll them up 2x8's onto the back of a wooden
farm wagon, and then haul them about half a mile away to the far end of the farm, in the deep woods, where the dump was. Getting that mess out the barrels was a filthy job too.
Miserable job, and I was the low man on the totem pole.

But, and one must always look for silver linings, it gave me seat time on the JD B. Pucka pucka pucka. :tractor:
Then we had to get rid of the incinerator, actually it was cleaned out and kept for awhile longer just because it looked so neat, and the dump for sure was excavated and bulldozed over.
I remember my father saying something about the sins of the past visiting upon us when he got the bill for all that. But he knew the farm could never get sold in the modern day without cleaning up those messes first. And in hindsight, he always wanted to do the right thing. Just back then if you had a lot of land, you had your own dump. No garbage trucks back then in the country.
We are only on this earth a relatively short time and we should improve things, not mess them up for future generations.

 

[ronjhall]

Speaking of solvent, seems you can't get varsol anymore....I must have had a few gallons that had lasted me until now (since forever)...What do people use now?

I use Mineral Spirits (paint thinner) for most cleaning projects.