I’ll keep it in mind .
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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It's warm enough here that I'm only burning one fire a day. That means ugly wood...
I really dislike the way winters have been the last few years. 30s and 40s in December and January, 2-4 weeks of real cold, teens and below, in February and then, bang, up to the 40s and 50s in a couple days. There seems to be no more gradual temperature transitions.
I really dislike the way winters have been the last few years. 30s and 40s in December and January, 2-4 weeks of real cold, teens and below, in February and then, bang, up to the 40s and 50s in a couple days. There seems to be no more gradual temperature transitions.
We hit 60* yesterday and probably again today. Junk silver maple in the shop stove to take the chill off.
Tell them to go pound honey.
I'm going to do it. That sounds like Liberals.
The splitter has a 5" cylinder on it now, pushing force won't be any different. The rod is just 1.5" though, I was really surprised how quickly it bent, considering I left off the stick as soon as I saw it start to twist. The new cylinder should retract quite a bit faster. Supposed to show up today, I'll have to locate some heavy walled tubing to accommodate the 2.375" step down in the rod for the push plate. Which, so far, has been a bear to find someone local that has any in stock, or would bore the I'd out for me. Times like this I severely miss having a machine shop at my disposal.
Insurance reasons would make the most sense, I guess. Still bums me out. I used to have such a good time digging through the piles and finding gems in the trash. Got a lot of good stuff over the years.
You got me on this yesterday, but I did a double take on it when someone replied: Gran Torino. LOL, and I'm not even a Ford guy! I know what you mean on movie and feeling though. FYI - I had a boss one time that lived a mirror image to that only with Mopars, not Fords. Almost scary how close the movie portrayed his life.
Oh yeah, I would not do well in an HOA and I never have to worry about being in one now.
Everyone who works on Stihl saws has a T-27 T wrench!
I hate clamshells, and will ONLY work on 440s, 460s, 461s, and 660s. No desire to get involved with the homeowner saws, or the more complicated newer ones.
I'll stick to my "wheelhouse"!
EchovsStihl63
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I am going to pretend reading "HOA" is not getting me all spun up as I have stuff to focus on and get done today lol. I have never had to deal with them but watching the fields around me succumb to cookie cutter townhouse and single family HOA style developments really dampers this guys spirit. We just watched as this historic farm established in 1748 was razed earlier this month due to county over reach and developers chasing the all mighty dollar and commercial zoning. The log cabin that was inside the early 1800s expansion that you see there now may have been the oldest house in the county.
Or 2 or 3 or a dozen!
I have never encountered a HOA that wasn't ran by raving idiots.
I'm glad I don't have to put up with that crap from the HOAs. But I sure feel for those of you that do.
One of the guys I work with, had the chance to get rid of the hoa in his development. There was a clause after 10 years to disband it, when the time came his neighbors voted to keep it. He's been talking about moving somewhere else after his son graduates just to get away from the hoa.
From past experience I know that Wisconsin maple syrup and cheese goes over very well at the Iowa GTG's I've gone to in the past but I'll have to remember to bring 15 pounds of cheese curds as with 10 pounds we almost ran out last time.
Where you there before the HOA ?
Back in 2022 on a trip out to Colorado I drove through part of Kansas and saw 2 of the MK50-3 (former MK5000C) locomotives on the Kyle Railroad east of Phillipsburg, KS. In the early 1990's Morrison-Knudson's railroad division MK Rail, long known as a locomotive rebuilder announced it was going to begin a new high horsepower locomotive building program to compete with EMD and GE. The first new locomotive was the MK5000C, powered by a Caterpillar 3612 V-12 diesel prime mover producing 5000 HP from over 13,000 ci turning a Kato 16P12-27000 main alternator powering 6 traction motors was able to make 118,000 ft/Ibs of tractive effort. 3 units were completed in 1994 and were leased by the Southern Pacific in full SP paint, with the last 3 going to Union Pacific in 1995 in the standard MK lease scheme. However by 1996 Morrison-Knudson had declared bankruptcy and MK Rail had become MotivePower, and all 6 units had been returned with no interest for orders (also Southern Pacific was bought out by Union Pacific that year), work on 3 more units was stopped, these sat in storage until 2001 when they were scrapped and the high horsepower locomotive program was also ended in 1996. An unused MK5000 cab was used on the MPEX 5000 to try and market the cab for use on rebuilt locomotives but this also went nowhere with only a single unit created. Eventually the 6 locomotives found their way to the Utah Railway but after 1 year in service durability issues with the Caterpillar diesel engines and the Kato alternators had sidelined all 6 units. The new owner of MotivePower, Wabtec, rebuilt the 6 locomotives with EMD 645-16F3B diesel prime movers and EMD AR11 main alternators taken from SD/GP50 locomotives and the MK5000C's were reclassified as MK50-3. The locomotives continued to work on the Utah until 2017 when coal traffic (the railroads biggest commodity) had ended. Genesee & Wyoming, who owns railroads all over the US and the world, had bought the Utah prior to this, moved the 6 MK50-3's to one of it's other railroads. The MK50's now call the Kyle Railroad (which operates on former Rock Island trackage in Kansas and eastern Colorado) home. 5 units are still in the Utah's grey/red/yellow paint, with 1 in the G&W orange/black/yellow scheme. The Buffalo & Pittsburgh SD40-3 was quite aways from home out in Kansas, but G&W is known to shuffle power around it's various railroads to where it is needed.
OH_Varmntr
Burner of stored sunlight
That's some tough love right there...It's nobody's fault other than their own.
I think some people don't realize what a hassle HOA's *can* be before it's too late. Or they want to live in a specific neighborhood. Or their wife wants a picket fence and 2.5 kids. Or... whatever. But yes, mostly avoidable.
