UncleWillie
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I am not going to complain too much. I got 20,000 pounds of it for $98. Much cheaper than gravel.You know, We Paid for that road. You'd think they Give us back our share!
Old #7 - OR -Building a work truck
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UncleWillie
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Give a gorilla crayons and tell him to draw a schematic..
Now I just need a dry place to work.
And if anyone needs professional drawings done.....don't call me.
Now I just need a dry place to work.
And if anyone needs professional drawings done.....don't call me.
UncleWillie
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Well, it runs better now.
UncleWillie
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No work done on the truck. But I did decide to look and see if there was still paint under all the mud today.
UncleWillie
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I was supposed to start a large job today. It fell through, so suddenly I have a fairly free week.
#7 had a list of small problems that needed to be addressed and that I didn't want to do. Something screwy in the front end, alignment was garbage, muffler was rusted out, exhaust manifold had a broken bolt, the wipers worked on some odd circadian rhythm of all their own, and something else that I forget. Maybe Steph will remember. So we took it to the shop. When I pulled in the parking lot the belt started squealing, so I added that to the list.
With my back problems it was smarter to let someone else handle it.
So I did something that was really needed on the wife's truck.
FedEx had dropped off a package for Ferddy the truck. The stock mirrors were way too small to be useful for anything but driving straight ahead. With a trailer they were useless. $187 on Amazon and we were in business.
Tada
I thought about leaving it like this
Done
And extended
The hooked right up to the power and adjust perfectly. I can actually see behind the truck.
#7 had a list of small problems that needed to be addressed and that I didn't want to do. Something screwy in the front end, alignment was garbage, muffler was rusted out, exhaust manifold had a broken bolt, the wipers worked on some odd circadian rhythm of all their own, and something else that I forget. Maybe Steph will remember. So we took it to the shop. When I pulled in the parking lot the belt started squealing, so I added that to the list.
With my back problems it was smarter to let someone else handle it.
So I did something that was really needed on the wife's truck.
FedEx had dropped off a package for Ferddy the truck. The stock mirrors were way too small to be useful for anything but driving straight ahead. With a trailer they were useless. $187 on Amazon and we were in business.
Tada
I thought about leaving it like this
Done
And extended
The hooked right up to the power and adjust perfectly. I can actually see behind the truck.
UncleWillie
Rarely serious.
- Joined
- Dec 29, 2010
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Since we don't have a lot of jobs coming in we are concentrating on cleaning up the mess that happened in the 9 months of rain we had. We would get back from a job, toss everything in a pile, and then flee inside the house before the mud swallowed us whole. Things outside got bad.
The next day Heath told me he had read the owners manual and wanted to learn to drive the tractor. He then proceeded to tell me what every lever and control on the tractor did. He did the work, so I taught him. There has never been a happier 8 year old on earth.
I gave him a job to do with it. There were lots of riding mower tires laying around from where we jerked them off a mower to take ti to the crusher. Then all needed to go in a building down the hill. So he drove around, loaded the tires up, and then took them down and put them in a building. He worked for about 4 hours straight and loved it.
The next day I actually did some work on #7.
And yes, the carport did actually get... mostly
The next day Heath told me he had read the owners manual and wanted to learn to drive the tractor. He then proceeded to tell me what every lever and control on the tractor did. He did the work, so I taught him. There has never been a happier 8 year old on earth.
I gave him a job to do with it. There were lots of riding mower tires laying around from where we jerked them off a mower to take ti to the crusher. Then all needed to go in a building down the hill. So he drove around, loaded the tires up, and then took them down and put them in a building. He worked for about 4 hours straight and loved it.
The next day I actually did some work on #7.
And yes, the carport did actually get... mostly
