What did YOU do today?

[Curious Hound]

No comment…

I don't believe "no comment" = "all of the above".

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Fireside Photoshop

 

[JoshT]

I do believe "no comment" = "all of the above".

FIFY

 

[Curious Hound]

FIFY

Dang. That’s what I thought I wrote.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Dang. That’s what I thought I wrote.

I figured that’s what you intended but I wasn’t about to correct you

 

[Bill]

I submitted am order on Rockauto, then looked at their selection of shocks to see if there is anything better than the KYB Excel-G.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

More fireside photoshop

Incredibly awesome, just me, a laptop, a cool breeze, several million bugs and a roaring fire. Very relaxing.

 

[Bgunner]

bad day today ..sadness. RIP Rocky.

i couldn't be more grateful..for such a fine animal.


Rocky was a service level animal and has been at my side for 6 years and actually saved my life one time.

the vast majority of people can never understand that level of trained working animal that only lives to serve you.

most people that meet me dont even know i am crippled up as i get around pretty good half the time.

the very few days he was not with me of the 6 plus years i was blessed to have his presence, he was with my daughter getting vet care where she worked ... then at home with my wife.... recently young bob had him for two days....

less then 40 days total separation in 6 years. he traveled all over this country with me wherever i went ...bar restaurant.... hospital....


life definitely wont be the same.




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I'm sorry to hear about your loss of such a fine friend. Just know that there are some here that can Empathize with the hardship that you are enduring.

A few months back I lost my best friend Jax, a very empathetic dog, That was always there when my ptsd acted up. While not trained for it he naturally new how to get my focus on him and helped pull me out of it.

Know that you and your family will be in my thoughts and prayers while you are going through this tough time. It's hard to loose a loved one.

 

[mikkelstuff]

Changed the oil in the wife's 2012 Ford Edge - but with a new approach. There is no way to jack up this Edge with a single floor jack. I like to run it up on ramps but, having no help, am always fearful doing this - what if I run off the ramp ends?

So I purchased a cheap $16 baby/pet wifi camera which I can monitor on my iPhone. Then positioned the camera so I could watch a front wheel as I drove up the ramps. Worked great!

 

[racsan]

I got a lot done today. I had been wanting to see how my 4cyl escape did towing the big trailer with the tractor on it so went for a lap around the countryside with it. Took the deck off my lawn deere, cleaned it up & repaired a crack that was about to become a hole where one of the lift points are. After it cooled I painted it & stored it upright against a wall for the winter, put the tire chains on the deere as I use it and a lawn cart when I clean out the chicken house. Id rather put them on now then wait until its bad out. Next I did the zero turn . It just needed the deck cleaned, wasn’t too bad really. Then the push mower which was quite the mess. After I scraped it out I sprayed the underside of it with wd-40. Sold another push mower I had bought back in may. It was a $20 garage sale find. Hadnt ran in years. I spent a day getting it cleaned up & running, changed the oil & had it ready for a freind who was going to be moving. Well they moved last week-and dont have a yard. So-down the road it goes. Pretty much broke even on it but dont care, happy to have it gone.

 

[mikkelstuff]

Reading racscan - why I love xeriscape here in the Colorado front range. No more lawn to mow! Besides, watering lawns in this semi-desert is a waste.

 

[Bill]

I made sure all the parts I ordered from Rockauto were in the box. Now I need to order rotors and brake pads.

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[scotts90ranger]

I did a lot the last couple days, both days I started off walking around the field at my moms/brothers place looking for deer, spooked two yesterday but didn't see either, today spooked a doe and saw it but that was it... was too busy both days to walk around at dusk instead of dawn...

Yesterday after walking around the field I went and helped at the tractor pull grounds and ended up helping pull all the bleacher boards off that we put on like a month and a half ago so they could get tarped for the winter so we can stain them in the spring. Then around 6pm I headed to the inlaws since their kitchen sink was leaking, turns out it was just the hose from the valve to faucet, replaced that then got home and cleared off a trailer so I could haul something for my mom today. After we got back from doing that I grabbed my brother and two pieces of roofing metal he had and we went to town on my boat shed and finished it aside from putting some of the #12 screws in to plug some unused holes (used metal) and making two short patch pieces since two pieces were like 2" too short... we even got the boat in the shed tonight! On the end of the shed we even got a start on the firewood lean to on the end to square the thing out...

So, here's some pics, first off is pulling the axles off the trailer with the tractor:

Then we get to the completed pic of the boat shed:

Then the boat in said shed, I'm a foot further from the wall than planned and could have gone back another foot but good enough for now so it's covered for the inches of rain that's coming this week:

 

[Jazzer]

Today I picked up some grade 8 bolts and nuts.
Last week I hauled a half ton of flume gravel in my '87 and twisted the rusted PS front leaf spring bracket. I used a cutoff wheel on an angle grinder and removed the rivets and punched them through. One was a bear as it went through another bracket inside the frame rail and punching it would just make the inner bracket bounce.
I ended up drilling it out to 3/8" and that lessened its hold enough to punch through.
New bracket comes Thursday and should take about an hour to get it back in service.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Monday I did the first round of mowing leaves and getting some more things put under the new lean to to get ready for the rain that showed up today.

Yesterday I helped my brother with a tractor again, one of the fuel lines was basically a hard brake line and was worn through and not seating at the flare so we just went to town and got a $7 brake line that matched up and put that in, then the low pressure pump wasn't working and he conveniently had one "in stock" so we put that on and so far that is working, raining so no testing yet... he said maybe friday.

Tonight I drug home some pallet wood and some angle iron pallet frame things and disassembled those so now I have more 1x6 lumber I don't have anywhere to store and a couple sticks worth of like 1" angle iron that was free other than the one cutting disc I used extracting it... then I screwed around looking at the welding cart on little mods, I need to mount the welder plug at the end of the extension cord that's on it which will also let me tap into it and get 120V so I can use my power strip that I mounted on the cart so I can run grinders that I also have plans to make mounts on the cart for... I'm a 1 man show so there won't be grinding going on while welding so don't stress on me doing things too wrong for the breaker...