Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
I've been watching a lot of marine and food truck wiring YouTubes lately. I might have to buy a boat just so I can rewire it. 
How'd it go today?
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TreeHouser
Ah yes the good word of Barf! He’s a Mawg.
after stripping trailer light wire (the non flexible stuff, not the fine stranded wire) cutting a strand of copper, and running it all the way through my thumb when I wired the dump truck tail lights, I will let you wire as much of my stuff as you wantI've been watching a lot of marine and food truck wiring YouTubes lately. I might have to buy a boat just so I can rewire it.
and yes, it hurt for about a week after, and also, a box cutter blade will cut the copper almost as easy as it cuts the insulation, who'da thought?
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TreeHouser
I can pass that along for you.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Board edger is not happy. I'm not sure of the key switch is bad, or if there is another problem. Tomorrow is another day.
I did get a few minutes to consolidate some of my electrical tools. I'm trying to get everything in a Packout for fast deployment and reduced searching. I don't have a 3D printer, so I just attacked the original box with the multi-tool, and hot glued it into the Packout.
I'm not proud.
I did get a few minutes to consolidate some of my electrical tools. I'm trying to get everything in a Packout for fast deployment and reduced searching. I don't have a 3D printer, so I just attacked the original box with the multi-tool, and hot glued it into the Packout.
I'm not proud.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Some five-sided posts to cut this week.
Marc-Antoine
TreeHouser
RE the stump grinder flip: it was secured before the crash, there are still two chains hooked at the front and and a binder lays on the trailer's back. Something may have broken.
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TreeHouser
I admire your optimism but he never chains it down fully. I called him out on it a few times but he laughed it off. “Never had and issue before” lol
yeah the 292 is a VERY light grinder, I can lift the back end of my buddies 292 with one hand, it wouldn't be possible to break anything bigger than a 1 inch ratchet strap from walmart
I get so much shit for spending time putting chains on my investments, I just call it job security, can't go to work if im in prison or if I don't have a machine to work with anymore
I get so much shit for spending time putting chains on my investments, I just call it job security, can't go to work if im in prison or if I don't have a machine to work with anymore
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
You just have to call the shots from the inside...
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Ran into a friend's uncle at the grocery store @6:30. He tells me I'm invited to trivia night at a local taproom by his sister, and my friend's cousin. I go, they've commandeered a couple from PA that are on vacation. We play cat and mouse for first place up until the final round. We go all in on Palindromes. There is a three way tie for first. The tie breaker is "How many times did the Pittsburgh Stealers go to the Super Bowl?" While the rest of us are trying to figure out what a stealer is, Mr. PA correctly answers 6. Just got home, I've never done a trivia before.
Kaveman
Treehouser
Ben is a personal friend. He got the ban hammer for being an autistic diva. As was right and proper.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
He had the right to remain silent, but not the ability
so like me most days (I promise I'm working on it)
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
I've been working on condensing my electrical components in my Packout storage drawers. I'm moving some low volume parts into ziploc bags with a place to write on. Labeled bags from the Jeff Bezos fanclub are like $50/100. No label bags are about $8.99/600, and they will deliver them to your couch in 3-6 hours. You just never what you are going to see on there.
knocked out a crappy little hackberry which turned out to be exactly twice the material I thought it'd be, yikes
parkinglot got new chips, primo topsoil being made up there, as I was backing the chip truck into my driveway there was a loud bang and the truck jumped real bad, seriously thought someone rear-ended me, not sure what that was but I have a feeling I might be replacing a transmission sooner than planned, upgrade time!
tomorrow we will be doing yesterdays job, had a tornado come through which prevented us from doing the job on schedule, access sucks, the trees aren't too bad but the power lines are going to suck, between the 2 tiny cedar trees and the white pine next to the wires, I think it might be more efficient to back the chip truck under the tree and just slice confetti into the bed instead of chipping it all but we will see what the plan is once I get the truck in place, the driveway will be horrendous to back the chipper down, not the worst but the worst I've backed down personally, and the longest too
parkinglot got new chips, primo topsoil being made up there, as I was backing the chip truck into my driveway there was a loud bang and the truck jumped real bad, seriously thought someone rear-ended me, not sure what that was but I have a feeling I might be replacing a transmission sooner than planned, upgrade time!
tomorrow we will be doing yesterdays job, had a tornado come through which prevented us from doing the job on schedule, access sucks, the trees aren't too bad but the power lines are going to suck, between the 2 tiny cedar trees and the white pine next to the wires, I think it might be more efficient to back the chip truck under the tree and just slice confetti into the bed instead of chipping it all but we will see what the plan is once I get the truck in place, the driveway will be horrendous to back the chipper down, not the worst but the worst I've backed down personally, and the longest too
typing up that rant about tomorrows driveway reminded me that I never have a good time backing the chipper up since I can't see it till its too late to correct on a normal width driveway around here (usually 9 feet)
so I got this idea:
so I got this idea:
Nutball
TreeHouser
That works, or "feelers" to stick up and out similarly, so you can precisely gauge when the chipper reaches the point of no correction, and the point of jackknife. The point of jackknife of course varies truck to truck, and depending on if the chute hits on one side before the other, if at all.
I think I'm going to get some snowplow markers and bolt them to the fenders for exactly this!
that truck can back that chipper into a bend that not even a pickup can achieve while still being able to back out of it and avoid jackknifing, just can't see the chipper back there
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
All of the bandits I've worked with had the snowplow markers from the factory. An old Morbark I ran in the 90's had a spot I could stick a rake in where the rake head was even with the chip box. Purely coincidence, but perfect.
Nutball
TreeHouser
A backup camera is handy too, but they can be laggy. As slow as possible is the way to go on the long skinny driveways. Many people get impatient and go 2-3 times as fast as they should, then constantly changing directions to correct. Accept the fact it may take a few minutes, and just creep so you get it in 1 shot.
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