What did YOU do today?

[scotts90ranger]

Went to the swap meet this morning, didn't end up with too much, just some odds and ends mostly from $1 tables like bi metal hole saw, end nippers, a pipe cutter with a knurling bit in it that I couldn't pass up and a couple Crosman 760's for $10 together...

Then when I got home I finished mounting and filling the tractor tire, went fine, the side that was rusty is too small for the bead to hold without pressure (the pressure of having fluid in it is enough to hold it though just not 0psi air), mowed for almost 2 hours and it's still perfect so it'll work for now! The gash I fixed still looks goofy so I'll plan on getting tires for a winter project...

 

[Bgunner]

Yesterday morning while it wasn't I hot took one of my daughters outside and we played with the R/C trucks to let her experience driving them. She didn't seem to impressed with them so I don't think she will be one to get into them but we made plans to take the Summit and the TRX4 out and do a trail walk with them as just bombing around the parking lot here is really not all that fun so a different venue may help get her into it or help her decide it's not for her.

Today being humid I hid from the world and watched it pass me by through the windows.

 

[Rick W]

I’m following some of these posts out of curiosity. I was hooked on cigars until about 20 years ago. I’d only smoke a couple times a month. I got a sore throat one day. I didn’t think about it. The next time I got a sore throat that lasted for a day and I did think about it. The next time I got a sore throat for the whole weekend, I figured the Man upstairs was trying to tell me something, and I never smoked another one. Many years ago I lost several loved ones, including my father, to cancer. All chainsmokers. I’m not preaching, I’m not being critical, I’m just sharing information.

I’m watching John Wayne in “back to Batan“ right now. 1945 movie about Americans and Philippine resistance after the fall of Bataan early in the war. There’s a scene where John Wayne, a colonel in the movie, meets his General about the United States pulling out. The general has one American cigarette left, he cut it in half, so both of them could share it.

There must be a 30 second long closeup of John Wayne inhaling this thing, deeply, and blowing the smoke way up into the air. The stub barely fit between his fingers, but you could tell he was loving every single second and millimeter of it.

Can you imagine that movie today? I just thought I’d share it.

 

[Rick W]

Trailer, brakes, and bearings and a little welding today in the 95° heat. Bearings and brakes are always clean work, huh? When I came in, Lincoln and I were twins: mostly black with a few tan edges….

 

[racsan]

This. at least for as long as she lets me anyways.

 

[sgtsandman]

Weeds are growing in the yard but thats about it. Might wait until next weekend to mow again. Im ready to do nothing for a bit.

It's bee too hot and dry here this past week to worry about the yard. It's supposed to rain today and cool things off. So maybe it will need cut this week.

 

[sgtsandman]

I got the mud tires installed and the TPMS sensors trained on the 2019 (build thread) and did some more work on the spare tire mounts for the utility trailer (build thread for it) yesterday. After spending pretty much all week out in the 90+ degree heat, I'm taking the day off to rest.

Oh, and conveniently, the air conditioning for the house decided to take a dump yesterday. I guess the heat finally over stressed it to the point of failure since temperatures this high on a regular basis are not a normal thing for around here and probably wasn't configured with that in mind. So, I guess I'll be calling an HVAC guy here in the near future. It would have been better if it had decided to fail before I bought the tires for the truck but noooo, we gotta do things the difficult and inconvenient way...

 

[pjtoledo]

did some metal bending for a couple temporary (push something around the yard) trailer hitches.
I'm going to use a bar with couplers on each end to push 'n pull a couple non running cars.

 

[Rick W]

More progress on the Road Ranger for Nationals, I’ll write it up tomorrow.

Second time my workstation almost killed me.

Only took ten minutes, some wood glue and construction screws, and a wafer board scrap.

Free kitchen chairs don’t grow on trees….

 

[Curious Hound]

Free kitchen chairs don’t grow on trees….

You’re looking in the wrong place. They grow in piles out by the street in front of people’s homes.

 

[Sharky]

looks like you are giving that old wood chair another chance at hurting you...............

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Used my cement mixer to mix together dirt and mushroom manure for the container garden.
Better late than never!

 

[Rick W]

looks like you are giving that old wood chair another chance at hurting you...............

Hey hey, hey! That’s my second best, five times rebuilt free chair! Waste not want not

When I’m done building the Raith, I’ll pull the screws out and turn it into fire put fuel.

 

[mikkelstuff]

Back to the sister-in-law's today. Fixed the classic Samsung refrigerator interior water flood problem. A pain if you have never attacked one. A simple fix - clip a metal finger onto the heat line under the cooling coils and stick the finger into the drain. Stops ice from plugging the drain. Only took me all afternoon!

The hard part is emptying the refrigerator, removing all the shelves, and removing the plastic cover from over the coiling coils - without breaking the danged cover. 'Course cleaning up all the dust bunnies hiding behind the refrigerator when unplugging is another issue.

The miserable drain line was plugged as well - at the bottom back side of the refrigerator - just as noted on youtube. Ugh, more and more dust bunnies under the cover down there. Took my shop vac to clean it up.

Well I do make points with the wife for this and the sister-in-law has no help - husband died a long miserable death from Alzheimers. Also the sister-in-law pays me back with pistachio salad - ummm, ummm.

 

[sgtsandman]

I cut the grass, weed whacked where the mower couldn't reach, and weeded the future garden area. Then finished the fabrication and test fitting of the spare tire bracket for the left side of the utility trailer.