How'd it go today?

Raised the canopy of a medium/large beech this morning for someone in the neighborhood. It had a lot of lower limbs 90* towards the ground. He wants more light for his garden. Left the truck, trailer, and gear at his place and walked home so we could go to our youngest son’s birthday party and Chuck E Cheese.

He turned 7. Good party with family and some of his classmates. He invited Heidi! He took her in the prize booth where all the tickets blow around. I think he likes her.

Went back to the job and deadwooded another beech. Made dang sure to sterilize the saws John and I used to deadwood the large beech last week as there was a small section of coral spot (nectria) on it.

Goldie the hamster escaped from the playpen last night by knocking over a running wheel and using it to climb/jump over the side. I had fallen asleep on the couch for an hour and missed the action. Upon awakening, she was long gone. Found her early this morning at the bottom of a dirty laundry bin in the basement. So glad she’s now safe and sound.
 

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Well, my address is now "The old, green F250, that's parked over..." Here's a picture of my new bedroom. Hoping to put an addition on extra quick. Being as I'm 6'2" and my seat measures 5'8", I need a little more room! Lolz.

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Here's hoping for a different, better chapter in this wild life of mine!
 
@Kaveman, might you put a platform across the top of the bed rails for a sleeping/camp stove/rest out of the weather spot with sitting headroom, and cover the bed with an ultra-simple canopy? Maybe a set of bows or A-frames made from schedule 40 pvc and cover the whole thing with tarp?
 
End of the week should bring enough coin for a camper shell, that'll improve things immensely. Then build a bed/bench along one side. Drop the toolbox off and reorganize, and I'll be pretty comfy. For now, it's embrace the suck. Was 30° here this morning, and windy, so the cab was the best choice.
 
Kaveman said:
End of the week should bring enough coin for a camper shell, that'll improve things immensely. Then build a bed/bench along one side. Drop the toolbox off and reorganize, and I'll be pretty comfy. For now, it's embrace the suck. Was 30° here this morning, and windy, so the cab was the best choice.
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You got your health, a trade and more than half a brain.
Stay focused and you’re on the up.
 

Micro pickup camper

We took a long weekend to head over to the Ochoco NF in central Oregon to do a little R&R camping...nothing going on but food, walk about a little, drink, read, sleep, then repeat. :) Here's a few pics, including our pickup camper...just a nice tall custom built canopy that we spread a huge...
www.masterblasterhome.com

:)
 
I bought a used high top camper insert for my first pickup around 92. Paid $75 for it. It needed some work cause of rotted wood, but I got it tightened up with some scrap 2x4, a saw, and a Swiss army knife. Didn't look like much, but it worked. It matched the truck, which also didn't look like much, but needed more care than some scrap lumber and a knife :^D
 
I'm enjoying the sun. Trying to make the most of it while it's here. Started the next phase of sawmill reorganization yesterday. Parked the Kubota and was planning my next move and the water pump let go and drained most of the coolant. I've never had one fail when it wasn't running before.:dontknow: I'm going to try and run it sparingly by dumping water in it tomorrow. Kind of screwed without it.

Spent some time helping a friend who is tearing his house down and rebuilding this summer. We're trying to figure out how to drive a sand point into the gravel, which is what they had forever, but the old one is rusted away. Well companies want to drill 200 feet for $15k, where the water is nasty.
 
Careful with the waterpump. I haven't had much luck in the past running machines without moving water. Not much useful work before things heated up too much.

What's a sand point? You're saying the surface water is better than deep?
 
The pump is still pumping, it's just leaking badly. I'll see how it goes. I have to get some stuff sawn asap.

Any of the neighbors who drilled deep have nasty water. Any of the shallow, roughly 20', wells have good water. A sand point can be driven with a sledge hammer, or a post pounder.
 
Dave Shepard said:
The pump is still pumping, it's just leaking badly. I'll see how it goes. I have to get some stuff sawn asap.

Any of the neighbors who drilled deep have nasty water. Any of the shallow, roughly 20', wells have good water. A sand point can be driven with a sledge hammer, or a post pounder.
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Dave, they make air impact fence drivers, check them out. Also, if you Google "diy well drilling rig" you'll have a lot to chew over.

The ex wife's Bronco 2 randomly started leaking coolant from the water pump while sitting. Apparently that's a thing with the little 2.8l v6 they put in them.

Hope tomorrow goes better for you bud!
 
Today was pretty dadgummed good, if I do say so myself, and I do.

My new boss is 24 years old. Near ten years my junior. This kid has real potential. His dad was and still is a fine climber, and Young Buck is going to go places. I'll see to it, to the fullest extent of my capabilities. He's basically buying his company from the widow of the owner, whom he was working for when he passed. He's got a few pickups a small bucket truck, a small stump grinder, a dump trailer, and from what I can tell, he's hungry. He's got plans, and he's working his young ass off. I think we're going to mesh quite well. We've kinda known each other for years, at least in passing, and we know a lot of the same people.

Ran around most of the morning, looked at a job near Hon-Dah Casino (White Mountain Apache Tribe reservation) then finished murdering a clump of aspens. I loaded the trailer, did a bit of bucking, took the stump while the boss ran some errands, then operated a rake (EEK!) and a leaf blower. Got off pretty dadgummed easy for a first day.

It feels weird being back in Heber/Overgaard, after six years, but at the same time, it feels like I hardly left.
 
Noisewall today. Marked 20 posts, and that finished out the wall part. 220 posts done twice. Once to get the foundations in, and again to set the columns. Only thing left on that job is stormwater management and signs. I'll be happy when I don't have to go back. Working next to an interstate sucks.

Shortened grass for the first time this year. Just as shitty as I remembered! It's supposed to be cooler Thurs and Fri, but it's threatening rain. Figured if I got too greedy, it would bite me in the ass, and I'd end up trying to get a savanna knocked down when the weather cooperated. Could've been worse. The heat wasn't oppressive, and I got to skip a bunch. Scared up a garter snake. That's the nice thing about a pushmower. Easy to stop when something I don't want to shred gets in the way.
 
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