Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

If any of your buddies trap shoot, one might have a sack of lead shot he'd let you borrow ...

Great idea ... and actually a local TBN friend does shoot trap ... so that's a possibility :thumbsup:

but I have a hard time imagining even lead providing enough clamping force in all the right places. Those overgrown alligator clips artists and woodworkers use might work, but you'd probably have the same problem with distortion I ran into with the bungee cords.

Right ...

I wonder if one of those vacuum food packaging machines could be used? Put the glued up sole and shoe in a bag, suck all the air out, and wala! Boot stuck inside a plastic bag! :laughing:

LOL ... additional waterproofing :thumbsup:

 

[rswyan]

Off today. Headed to Bryan (where my van is broke down at BIL's place) to put the gas tank/new fuel pump in it.

Kyle,

The van a General Motors product ?

I guess they are notorious for the fuel pumps going bad ...

I've heard that a lot of folks just cut a hole in the floor to facilitate replacing the fuel pump and avoid having to pull the tank.

I've also heard that part of the issue might be keeping the pump cool ... have friends (in the expediting biz) that won't let their GM vans go much below a half tank before they fill it up, to try and avoid the issue.

 

[rswyan]

Bup and rip,

Glad to hear you guys got your HVAC issues sorted out ... :thumbsup:

 

[8n Bruce]

Hi Kyle & RS always found a restricted fuel filter would take out a fuel pump real quick .Usually if a filter was found to cause a drivability concern ,the pump burnt up in a few hundred miles after replacing the filter. 30 yrs. GM drivability trouble shooter. Have seen water in fuel cause enough restriction to do this . Long time reader ,specially like this thread ,you are all such great guys . Thanks for the nice reading , Bruce

 

[RedNeckGeek]

66F when I got up this morning and sunny to partly cloudy today. High around 95F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.

Starting at about 3PM yesterday a series of thunderstorms tracked overhead, huge, bruise purple clouds full of lightning, wind, and rain. The first barely wet the ground and lasted only a minute or two, and I thought we were done for the day. But at about 6 the sky again turned black and an even bigger storm started heading in from the east, following the same track as the earlier one. Lightning was much more frequent, enough to bring out a CalFire spotter plane to look for "smokes" where the lightning touched down. A neighbor to the east called just as all this was kicking off and provided a blow-by-blow preview of what was about to happen here as first the wind then the pounding rain hit his place.



This time the lightning and thunder were much more frequent and closer, and the wind strong enough to drench the front porch viewpoint from which I'd watched the first one. But again the cloud passed in only fifteen minutes. I'd planned to use the grill for dinner, but thought it best to check the weather radar to see if any more was on the way. Sure enough, an even bigger cell was headed in, this time some twenty miles long north to south. Got a fire going anyway, and was just sitting down under the patio cover to enjoy a meal as the first drops began to fall. It started off gently enough, but quickly built. Even more lightning than last time, both cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground, and wind strong enough to carry the rain under the patio cover, driving me back inside with my plate. But dinner would have to wait because I couldn't miss what was happening outside.

By this time the sun was low in the sky and shining into the rain producing a nice double rainbow (regrettably the photo doesn't do it justice).



As the storm advanced into the sunset, the sky turned bright orange as the rain continued to fall.



It took a little more than an hour for the clouds to pass. The blue sky returned, but not without crimson tinged accents on what was left of the storm. All told we ended up with about 0.37" for the day, small potatoes compared to what the folks in Texas and Virginia saw, but rare for this time of year in California.



Later I learned that there had been several fires from the strikes, all of them dealt with quickly. In 2008 a similar storm cost this community over 200 homes, some say due to the slow response of the fire fighting agencies. It's certainly dry enough to do the same now, and it was great to see the spotter plane on the job and hear that men were on the ground almost immediately.

 

[daugen]

Well, cameras don't work well when you leave the freshly charged batteries on the kitchen table and drive off without them. Bummer, I was definitely in old tractor land this morning. Pleasant drive an hour North East to Edenton NC where I got there just in time for the parade to enter the high school. I got there, hard time to park for sure, and was really disappointed there were so few tractors there. The reason of course for that is they were in the parade coming right at me.

And I was standing there feeling seriously foolish holding a camera with no batteries in it, sigh. Quite a few smaller older JD's, a marvelous assortment of over a dozen Farmalls of all letters, all smoothly purring by, versus the noisier JD's.
Surprising number of older JD's with what must be worn clutches, as when they pushed the hand clutch forward (what I grew up with) the tractors would jump forward worrisomely since they were all lined up close to each other. I was waiting for a rearender to happen. Whereas the Farmalls purred through like luxury liners.
Few other brands, except wow, this is Ford Country. A number of Ford Workmasters restored beautifully, at least ten Fords overall. Thought of Larro and others as they paraded by.
Funny, no 8N's, you always see them, but mostly 30-50hp rowcrop tractors that once I'm sure worked the local fields. And now were barn queens with a few exceptions.

The oddest was one fellow driving a rototiller with a sulky, sort of like the Asians do.

A nice part of the parade was that at least one out six drivers were women. Older usually, and clearly had many seat hours. The best tractor was not because it was fancy or anything but it was a mid size Farmall with a utility hauler on the three point hitch nicely configured to carry his wife along on her wheelchair. They knew everyone. I just thought it was nice for them to have found a way to get around the farm together. Not the setup for conversation, maybe he wanted it that way.... Now we drive UTV's...

Lot of craft exhibits, a forge of sorts and one guy with a big iron cook pot heating up with a wood fire under it, filled with one inch squares of what looked like suet or pig fat. First I thought he was melting candle wax but no...
making soap? His neighboring exhibitors were a little worried the whole thing would catch on fire and I walked on with a smile.

Some really old knives on display, clearly work knives that looked like they came out of the iron age, very crude and home made looking. Probably made locally by a blacksmith two or three hundred years ago.

and no pictures. Six lashes with a wet noodle.

 

[Eric Salop]

Lovely atmospheric sunset RNG. Your UTV should be clean after that downpour.

and no pictures. Six lashes with a wet noodle.

Maybe nothing from your camera Drew but your great descriptions of the day made some good pictures in my head - and you gave them me with sound too !

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Txdon looks like a speed bump to me!
Larro happy birthday to Margie, hope she had a special day.

June 6 and the only reminder in the local paper was in a Snoopy comic. Sad!my
Thank you to all who presently serve or who have served in the past. Remember all who made the ultimate sacrifice .

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My dad was disappointed it wasnt mentioned on the news this morning. he went across a few days later.

 

[dave1949]

68F & sunny. T'was a super outside day, 70F, nice breeze, sunshine, low humidity. I made good use of the weather on the field clearing project for six hours then it was No mas, No mas.

Have a good weekend all.

 

[DABSGT]

I was out playing with the dogs and they kept heading towards the hill behind my property went to see what they were interested in this is what I found. Wonder if related to Larro's.

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