Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

50F, sunny, and winds gusting to 35MPH when I got up this morning.

I was out cleaning up blown down limbs from the last couple storms yesterday and ended up with about a quarter cord of new oak to buck and split. As usual, the reach on the Stihl HT131 was just enough to cut one of the higher broken trunks. Couldn't just leave it there because it was right next to the driveway and was a widow maker for sure. There are still a few more out there I'll finish today, hopefully working out the kinks and sore muscles in the process

I remember the winters of '78 and '79 when I still lived in Ohio. Several rounds of freezing rain and long stretches of sub zero conditions, and my car froze to the street for a couple of weeks. Got as far away from there as I could as soon as I graduated! Hang in there fellas, Spring can't be too far away!

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Frozen tire fluid?

Dave,

Yes indeed! I hopped on today in warmer weather and no more thump, thump, thump...

Driveway is clear enough my car is in the carport for the first time in a week....

 

[Eric Salop]

Trails End - Thanks, checked the bolts and they are all tight. Must admit the way the washers sit under the bolt heads had me looking when I first got it too.

Eric--What kind of harrow is that and what kind of tines are on it? I could use something like that but have not been able to find a tine stout enough to take the abuse. Is it home made?

Definitely not home made !

If I showed you anything I made it wouldn't look any where near as nicely finished.

It's a shame that I didn't get to buy my farmland until after my dad (also called Eric) died, otherwise I would have had a good supply of spare tines. He was a spring maker for the "Tempered Spring" company and made up by hand the samples and prototypes that later got produced on machines.

Wherever he went he couldn't resist getting a close look at agricultural machinery and the parts they were made from. Often he would end up making replacement spring steel parts for the farmers he met. These parts were only made to help someone out, not for money.
He told me these little freebie jobs were known at work as "government jobs", with his employer turning a blind eye as long as he did it in his break.

 

[dave1949]

Dave,

Yes indeed! I hopped on today in warmer weather and no more thump, thump, thump...

Driveway is clear enough my car is in the carport for the first time in a week....

That's good. The temperature must have been just below your fluid freeze point. That is probably a rare thing in your location.

I had to blow the driveway and dog walk loop this morning, just a bit too much to leave.

We made it to 35F! It's pretty sad when 3 degrees above freezing feels good. After going into town the car looks like the rim of a salted Margarita glass.

 

[Trails End]

Glad to hear that all the bolts were tight. At first, I was reluctant to mention it, but then realized
that I'd feel bad if it was loose, and I didn't mention it.

Wow, what a day - first day in many where the temperature got up above freezing (40F) here in the highlands
of Candia, NH. I got a little seat time today using the tractor as a people lift for my step son so he could
rake 24 inches of packed snow off his travel trailer that he stores here for the winter. Earlier in the day, cleaned
up 3 to 4 inches of snow that fell overnight, and - NO WIND - I didn't look like a snowman after snowblowing.

 

[300UGUY]

Trails End - Thanks, checked the bolts and they are all tight. Must admit the way the washers sit under the bolt heads had me looking when I first got it too.




Definitely not home made !
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If I showed you anything I made it wouldn't look any where near as nicely finished.

It's a shame that I didn't get to buy my farmland until after my dad (also called Eric) died, otherwise I would have had a good supply of spare tines. He was a spring maker for the "Tempered Spring" company and made up by hand the samples and prototypes that later got produced on machines.

Wherever he went he couldn't resist getting a close look at agricultural machinery and the parts they were made from. Often he would end up making replacement spring steel parts for the farmers he met. These parts were only made to help someone out, not for money.
He told me these little freebie jobs were known at work as "government jobs", with his employer turning a blind eye as long as he did it in his break.

That's what they were always called at my work. I made parts for a lot of folks, tractors, balers, mowers. Even a couple of airplane parts. But after about 2001, my employer tightened things up quite a bit. Any government jobs were severely frowned upon.

 

[murphy1244]

30 and starting to drop. Have a cold front moving in snow is starting -4 tonight and a high of 5 tomorrow.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

That's what they were always called at my work. I made parts for a lot of folks, tractors, balers, mowers. Even a couple of airplane parts. But after about 2001, my employer tightened things up quite a bit. Any government jobs were severely frowned upon.

Yes, same at my last employer. We even made or repaired things for people in management. Then they lowered the boom and it all came to an end. Even closed the surplus store where they sold off scrap metal and odds'n'ends. They even fired a machinist that took home a ream of copy paper he'd rescued from a dumpster.:shocked:

 

[Thomas]

Good day to keep roofs push back snow banks and those hard to get places w/bucket loader...34F,but warmth will be short live for another attic blast visiting this week.

 

[JDgreen227]

Not here much (this thread anyhow) because been postwhoring like mad to get my thread in "Related Topics" to the 500 mark...:laughing:

Also been going over the wedding and reception plans, dealing with the hall rental people and related ilk, trying to keep the ceremony and reception total under the 5 grand mark...honestly now, would you agree to pay a $3.50 a person champagne toast when half the guests there will be under legal drinking age? Lotta spiffs in the final total, but I love to haggle. Catch you later on:

Oh....it's 24 degrees now, good evening, and "What's for supper" well for me it's reheated leftovers (good ones though) bye guys....