How'd it go today?

[cory]

That's insane.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Had someone almost do that to my dingo. Picked up a bucket of waste/drained oil to put in the dingo hydraulics 😳
Really could have ended poorly had I not seen it just in time

 

[Dave Shepard]

Wiring harness issues may be moot as it the harness, caught fire this afternoon. Will take a closer look in the morning.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Found this last week. Was test driving the 7.3 to check on something I was working on and saw this in the neighbors yardfor 600.00.. 180000 on it. Katy needed something that gets better mileage than the Yukon. So we'll be selling that after I button that up. Runs great.. not much bad with it. Coupleofplug wires, an ac switch, freon, battery, brakes, cleaning, oil change. 5 speed. 2 liter.
2002 Protoge5. Kid was given the car, did not like manuel trans and let it set.

 

[Nutball]

Wow, great deal, looks good.

 

[Nutball]

I hear a carpenter bee munching in the ceiling

 

[WoodCutr]

I hate those things, worse than wasps or bald face hornets

I got stung/bit by probably close to 100 sweat bees the other day, didn't bother me, I've been lit up by yellow jackets a lot, they suck but doable, atleast they don't eat my house and I can knock the nests down with a pruner pole, we do get a fair bit of the red velvet ants which are supposedly one of the most painful stings on the planet, never tried it and not planning to either

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Ugly weld and grinding day. That is all.
Finish this and onto a brake job and oil change

 

[Dave Shepard]

Worked on the tractor again. Temperature sender or caught fire. There is no electricity going through it. Unhooked the 12v going into the cluster, no smoke. Starts with the button now. Does not charge. One day/disaster at a time with this poor old thing.

Water pump on a DT466. They make everything exactly 1/16" too small to be a decent job. IH dealer wouldn't sell is the pump they had in stock. It was $380,for something like that. They ordered an aftermarket one for us that was about $200. Thank you!

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[Dave Shepard]

It is no longer a mystery why my board edger won't start.

 

[Dave Shepard]

I just got home to find my microwave randomly starting and stopping. It wasn't 9n fire or glowing, so I unplugged it.

This morning I found a tube of shoe goo I didn't know I had. I just took my boots off. Both heels need to be glued.

The ghosts are busy today!

 

[Nutball]

You could start charging for tours of your haunted house

 

[davidwyby]

Name that bird

Which butterfly pic is better?

Not running yet but the hydraulics hold

 

[flushcut]

Second pic.
That would make a pretty sweet chip truck pulling a 24” crane fed beast.

 

[davidwyby]

Second pic.
That would make a pretty sweet chip truck pulling a 24” crane fed beast.

Probably need a 5.9 transplant.

 

[WoodCutr]

Probably need a 5.9 transplant.

6-71 detroit!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

More ugly welding today.....
I finished getting the coupler set. Ground the shat out ofand painted it so as it was not as ugly.
Today I was making (welding) some ramp hooks/slots for the new ramps on the white dump trailer.
6000# 7' aluminum ramps on sale for 300.00 for the pair was too hard to ignore.
Get this done, I wont feel so old picking up the old ramps anymore
Burned up my grinder cutting the slots though. I had dropped it in the dirt, never switched off, so it ingested quite a bit. Blew it out, but the damage was done. Poor ol Makita ....
Slots are almost done. Wed I reckon

 

[Nutball]

Name that bird

Which butterfly pic is better?

Not running yet but the hydraulics hold

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I'd add a helper cylinder up front, since the leverage on that looks bad, and it sucks when something won't dump. Trailers do it all the time, I've never had a truck not dump.

 

[Burnham]

Name that bird

Which butterfly pic is better?

Not running yet but the hydraulics hold

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I'll guess that the feather is from a flicker.

 

[davidwyby]

More of the truck for those interested.

 

[SeanKroll]

Wild truck there, David.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Indeed. Seemingly a rarity. Some thing my grandfather might have driven.

 

[Kaveman]

Name that bird

Which butterfly pic is better?

Not running yet but the hydraulics hold

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Bird is a northern flicker.

 

[Burnham]

There's that echo again.

 

[Dave Shepard]

There is a tractor shortage on the farm during haying season. I found a couple of batteries and got this old timer out of the bushes. Like it was just shut off yesterday.

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