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My day off so the first thing is plow out the driveway .We got maybe 3-4 inchs of snow with freezing rain . It came up so fast as I was driving home I had to stick my head out the window to see .1/4" of ice on the windshield in about 5 minutes .

Oh hell I couldn't get that damned tractor out .Stuck! I got the old Jeep going,evidently frozen fuel line or stuff plugging the line .No matter I got to my firewood .

Damned antique Jeep and 50 year old carb .Pizz on it I'll just order a new one.Tired of fooling with it . Soo in a short fire up the Ferguson and get the rear blade on it to plow out to get to my firewood piles .First I have to find where I parked the blade at .It's out there in the snow some...

It would be great just to have a heated shop period .This old BS of working on stuff and freezing to death gets old in a hurry .

I have to change the pressure tank on the well pump here in a short .Evidently the bladder got stuck or something . Odd I've had them rust out but never had this problem before .Baffled me with the pump short cycling until I Googled it .

We have some that travel half way around the world that bill out at 5 grand a day plus travel expense .Some from Detroit are 1500 -2 g a day .High knowledge techno weenies have high priced costs . I'd imagine dumb as I am that if they farmed me out it would be over 100 an hour .I do know 22...

Yeah no doubt in California you're going to pay that much .Fact you might in the New England states as well .I suppose it would just depend on what's customary in what ever local .

A hundred an hour is probabley about standard I would guess .Hell you can pay 60 an hour to get somebody to look at your oven . On the subject Tom had around 2500 in having the guy go through his Hi-Ranger and adjust the cabling etc .The cables and control lines where all installed new before...

Well I know on the older FI unit Hi-Rangers the bundled insulated multiple control line thing is very pricey .I'm thinking around 1500 for a new one .

Oh my ,kind of pricey .What brand of lift ?

Oh I might rig the oak today .It'll take longer to rig it than it does to drop it .Double line with a snatch block in the tree to get a 2 to 1 pull .I've got way enough rope two 600 feet reels of 1" nylon I just don't look foward to moving those heavy rascals .I need one of those skidloader...

Speaking of hardwood floors I was once on a job for a large college sports complex .Thousands of square feet of hard maple flooring installed by Cincinnati floors a very large contractor of this type stuff . They sanded that stuff with a floor sander they rode on like a lawnmower .In spite of...

It's drizzling out so much for the oak today .I've gotten to the point in life I neither have to nor care to work in the rain .

Well as of this time there is no snow but in due time there will be .It's supposed to be mid 50's today but it looks a bit overcast at the moment so who knows .

Ha I'm off until next Tuesday .With luck I'll get my fall clean done so instead of trying to find stuff under two feet of snow that I can locate it without much trouble .Well sounds good but probabley not so easy . I may get on that oak I can't seem to find the time or motivation to do for some...

Old fashion cardboard is made from old growth trees most lkely .Just like old toilet paper is kind of like burlap much akin to sandpaper .Which probabley was made to resemble the Sears and Roebuck catalogs that graced many an out house .

I slept in for a change .Didn't get up until about 15 til 6 ,unusual .

O'dark thirty here in the flat lands .Todays agenda is a couple of nice ash trees ,dead of course . Both are 90-100 feet with at least 60 feet of clear log ,one would be good enough for veneer . Both are tad over two feet in diameter . Yesterday I cleaned up a few other ash but left the stumps...

Toms' skid loader took a fit on him .Damned thing won't start .Most likely the seat belt safety circuit .In off to fix the thing here in a couple minutes .

With my screwed up work this is one of my days off . Have to take the Mrs to the doctor ,finish the last coat of urethane on a pair of window valances I made of ash and repair a door bell for my mother . Rain is in the forecast so that pretty much puts the dampers on tripping some more of the...