What did YOU do today?

[85_Ranger4x4]

After helping me work on his truck I decided to take my shop assistant to Hobbytown, between the models, RC vehicles and 1:64 vehicles he is fascinated with the place.

So we do a quick initial lap, they had done a brief remodel and moved stuff around. After that we settled in to digging thru the 1:64 scale vehicles. From there I see the usually very happy assistant manager on his cellphone talking about a guy with a orange stocking hat and a big green camo coat. Naturally I start looking around and sure enough there is a guy with a comically oversize green coat acting shady. He looked like a bad thief out of a cartoon. His girlfriend was wearing a black covid style mask which didn't really help the looks of the situationa any.

Well thats interesting... I kinda keep myself angled so I keep an eye on questionable guy and the front door and tried to prod shop assistant to hurry up.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the police to roll in. Two cars worth of them. They talk to the assistant manager up at the front of the store before making their way back to the stocking hat guy. He is behind a shelf so I can't see anything but I hear them tell him to put everything down and ask if he has any weapons on his person.

Sorry bud, we are leaving now... we are not sticking around for a fight or whatever.

Assistant manager was towards the front and just like any other time thanked us for coming in with a smile... as I was carrying a crying kid out of the store.

Initially he was bummed because he didn't have much time there but after I filled him in he was pretty excited to hear what all was going on. He had seen the guy and decided that normal bad guys don't wear a big coat like that, only supervillains... On our way out of the parking lot a third cruiser was pulling in.

 

[sgtsandman]

Other than buying some spray paint for the new trailer suspension and looking at some flat stock that may be needed to install the trailer suspension, I didn't do much.

Once the trailer is in the garage and I can get the wheels off, I can get a good idea where the trailing arms are going to mount on the frame. If they clear the angle iron that secures the rear half of the trailer and currently is the mount for the leaf spring suspension, then I won't need the flat stock. I also need the confirm the thickness of the angle iron. I'm pretty sure they are 3/16" but I need to verify that. I do know that I'm going to have to remove and make spacers for the brush guards in front of the fenders. They currently sit almost flush to the frame, with a small gap to make sure water doesn't get trapped. The vertical part of the suspension mount is not going to slide up in there and I don't want to do any cutting if I don't have to. They way I have those brush guards built now, they can take a pretty good whack before they would bend. I don't want to weak them by cutting out the back.

 

[pacstud]

Gave my daughter's Ford Fuckus a tune up. Found a leak in the wiper fluid, not a today problem.

Then leaves. Lots. Five hours of leaves.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Mostly shop work this afternoon. They’re calling for snow and the shop was a disaster after working on the Choptop so I got the oxygen bottles swapped out, bunch of stuff straightened up and organized, plus mounted my big whiteboard. It’s not ideal (mounting it with hinges would be really nice since I mounted it to the roof), but for now it’s out of the way and more or less useful.

 

[sgtsandman]

Gave my daughter's Ford Fuckus a tune up. Found a leak in the wiper fluid, not a today problem.

Then leaves. Lots. Five hours of leaves.

I need to take care of my leaves. It needs to be dry enough first since I shred them for the garden. The shredder/vac probably doesn't care but the accumulated water dripping out of the collection bag and down my leg is a real turn off.

 

[Uncle Gump]

I thought about doing some leaves... but the trees here still have a long way to go. Next weekend will be a different story.

 

[sgtsandman]

I thought about doing some leaves... but the trees here still have a long way to go. Next weekend will be a different story.

The silver maple in the back yard is about done. The beech in the front does it's massive dump later. It has only dropped a few so far. Minimal enough that the lawn mower has taken care of it.

 

[Maritime Drag Racing]

Let my Ranger's roommate back in the garage for the winter. It had been sitting outside since July when it got evicted to make some working space for teardown of the Ranger's blown up engine. BTW they're both the same year - bought the tractor new in June 1987.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Kept working on the shop then decided to take advantage of the nice day and tackled most of the Himalayan blackberries around my old slide in camper that's been sitting for like 8 years now... it needed to be scrapped when I parked it so now it's worse... but conveniently it'll be much easier to pull the siding and such without tools! Ok, everything about it is going to suck... but it isn't going to get any better so might as well and I'll gain driveway room... Annoyingly it wasn't a burn day so I couldn't get rid of the brush but I did mow the stump and stuff so it's better, just gotta keep up on it this winter!

And I finally ran some rounds through the .22 I got a while ago, it cycled great! Accuracy I'm not sure, it was getting dark and I wasn't shooting at a target but it seemed consistentish...

 

[pacstud]

The silver maple in the back yard is about done. The beech in the front does it's massive dump later. It has only dropped a few so far. Minimal enough that the lawn mower has taken care of it.

I'm sure it's worse up there, but the trees dropping at different times is unpleasant. Out here we have a poop load of Cottonwood trees which possess leaves that really like to clump and stick. In addition to the Ash, Maple, Elm, and Oaks.

Even a giant Locust tree that dropped its massive leaves. Gotta mulch mow, then bag, get a good blend of removal and compost.

And about seventy pounds of antihistamines.

 

[sgtsandman]

I'm sure it's worse up there, but the trees dropping at different times is unpleasant. Out here we have a poop load of Cottonwood trees which possess leaves that really like to clump and stick. In addition to the Ash, Maple, Elm, and Oaks.

Even a giant Locust tree that dropped its massive leaves. Gotta mulch mow, then bag, get a good blend of removal and compost.

And about seventy pounds of antihistamines.

Because of where the trees are located, it actually works out some and the work load being spread out is nice too since I work long hours. That way, I'm not scambling to get it all taken care of all at once.

I will say, because of the structure of the leaves, the maple leaves grind up finer than the beech. That is also a mixed blessing. I can go longer with the maple leaves but dang that bag gets heavy! So, pick your poison, dump more often or deal with a heavier bag.