What are you doing today, II

[NorthernRedneck]

I go through about a face cord in the garage over the winter. My back can't handle a full trailer of wood on a good day so I do it in spurts. Every time I go out bird hunting, I cut a few logs and load up the back of the sxs. I'm behind on that though.

 

[NorthernRedneck]

Let's see. I was supposed to drive my daughter to school this morning. She wasn't feeling good. Ok....see ya. Off to the deer blind for a couple hours. Nothing moving. I headed to the city to pick up a couple used tires to make a full set with the ones I bought yesterday. I now have an almost new set of goodyear duratrac mud n snow tires for only $200. They're going to be installed Friday. New ones installed are around 2k.

I came home and took a load to the dump then brought a load of desks and end tables up to the loft above our garage for storage.

Next on the agenda is picking up my son from school in the city to take him for an appointment. Then off to a meeting this evening for the snowmobile club to plan on grooming the trails.

 

[m1west]

WOW, you do it a lot later than I do.
In the last couple days, I put up all the firewood I had around... for the winter of 2029-2030. My firewood is stacked deep. I've learned from experience (medical issues, e.g. hip replacement) that circumstances arise whereby getting firewood on any particular year may not happen.

That was a couple years ago for me when I ruined my knee for about a year. That pile I have been cutting down trees and branches all summer in the morning, usually 2 tanks of gas on the saw. You are likely in an area that gets a lot colder than it does here. Daytime temp in January is 50 and right at freezing at night. I usually don't light up the fire during the day as my wife and I are working all day. I start a fire around 3pm and go to bed around 9, house has good insulation and its still over 70 in the morning at 5am in the house. Now the Cabin, thats a different story, last year I saw -17 on the surveillance camera.

 

[m1west]

 

[m1west]

Today I installed a bypass fuel filter on my PowerWagon, hopefully it fixes intermittent vapor lock.

 

[tommu56]

Today I installed a bypass fuel filter on my PowerWagon, hopefully it fixes intermittent vapor lock.

I thought I had the same issue with my old 56 jeep or I thought it was but found the coil was opening when engine got hot

 

[m1west]

its defiantly fuel, carburetor bowl goes dry. Good thought though. When it happened it would surge then quit, turn it off for a minute and it would restart and be fine till the next time.

 

[m1west]

 

[m1west]

I have all the down trees cleaned up in front of the house from last year and have moved around to the side, This oak tree that lost a big branch last year has to be more than 300 years old to my estimation, its more than 60" in diameter. This tree was here before we were a country let alone Ca. being a state. I is a big branch, I had to cut it into pieces where it layed to get it small enough for the excavator to handle. The first go netted all the Cushman wanted and is about 2 days of burning.

 

[tommu56]

0430 confirmed house fire next company's territory we are on first due on it too home after fire showered headed to Y for 0900 water aerobics' class just made it in time, 1100 DOT CDL physical, 1300 at DOT to turn in physical paper work. Get home one hour to coast until I have to go to bus stop for grand son I might have fallen a sleep waiting????
I think its going to be early to bed to catch up on my beauty rest.

 

[m1west]

Now that the weather postponed my cabin trip, I think I will work on the RaidTrac

 

[NorthernRedneck]

Head cold. Splitting headache and dizzy all day. Happy Halloween.

 

[tommu56]

I had eventful day got the propane lines in at the tank and to the cabin, then added valve on the old 100 LB
system to be removed later date after I get the 500 gallon tank filled next year I'm adding another 500 gallon tank.

 

[m1west]

I had eventful day got the propane lines in at the tank and to the cabin, then added valve on the old 100 LB
system to be removed later date after I get the 500 gallon tank filled next year I'm adding another 500 gallon tank.



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I took my wood stove out of my cabin for the remodel, I've been using a Mr Buddy propane heater. it works good but goes through 5 gallons of propane in a day and a half.

 

[m1west]

 

[m1west]

Now that I have the excavator, the wood cutting will be done soon so I switched gears to de silting my drainage ditches. I don't know when was the last time they were cleaned out. Last year we had some really heavy rain and the driveway to the shop ( where I am sitting to take the picture ) completely washed out into a muddy mess that you had to get a running start to make it through with a 2x, also up the hill is the horse arena, and the water has been standing there making another mess in the winter. Now when I'm done it can all drain down to the county ditch at the main road. I have been using the dirt to raise the driveway and take all the dips out. in total its about 700' of ditch to clean out.

 

[NorthernRedneck]

I was busy yesterday. First off, we finally sold our older fifth wheel trailer last week. The guy didn't have a fifth wheel hitch installed yet in his truck so I delivered it 20 minutes away. Then came home and loaded up a trailer full of carpenter tools and headed to my buddy's place to help him build walls to close in his hot tub. We got the back wall done. It's built in 3 panels bolted together and secured to the side posts with long carriage bolts. I had the old window from my bus shelter turned deer blind sitting at home so I donated to the cause.

This morning, I am heading to my deer blind to watch birds and squirrels feast on my pile of deer feed. I've got two tags which allows me two does or a buck and a doe. I actually don't care about the big trophy rack. Can't eat the antlers.

 

[Melensdad]

Coached my Purdue team at the U of Chicago Dual Meets on Saturday. Which was nice because that is only a 1 hour drive away from home.

My girls are UNDEFEATED. I only had 3 at the event, so they fenced every bout. Also fenced at least 2 transgenders, and beat them. But it was also pretty clear that these newly minted wimin, who my girls destroyed, didn't have much training. What they did have what size, speed and strength, but no skill. Give them until the end of the season and I'm sure they will be winning bouts.

Boys are doing well but we had some of the "B" team in the event to get them qualified for the national competition that will take place at the end of the season. Should be a good year.

 

[FrancSevin]

Resetting all the clocks.
I hate it.
Taking all of the clocks off the wall and putting them back up is a pain.
Running through the hours on the radio and stove clocks is, ironically, a true waste of time.

And now my body has to reset one hour, so I was awake an hour early today and could not go back to sleep. This will go on for a week or so.

And for what?
DST is bullshit.

 

[NorthernRedneck]

Happy Sunday Franc. Lol. I hate dst as well. Especially up here. Like we benefit from having daylight at 7am when it's now gonna be dark around 5pm. I spent the morning in the deer blind. Missed a nice doe 20 minutes after first light. I may go back to help build another wall on my buddy's hot tub enclosure later. He was out in his deer blind this morning as well.

 

[Sud0]

Looking at my crypto portfolio and crying. Also looking for a job.

 

[NorthernRedneck]

Happy Sunday Franc. Lol. I hate dst as well. Especially up here. Like we benefit from having daylight at 7am when it's now gonna be dark around 5pm. I spent the morning in the deer blind. Missed a nice doe 20 minutes after first light. I may go back to help build another wall on my buddy's hot tub enclosure later. He was out in his deer blind this morning as well.

We got the back wall built this afternoon. Same design. 3 separate panels bolted together. Carriage bolts through the corner posts of the gazebo. All the lumber is scraps from a local sawmill. They have a pile of lumber destined for the chipper where they sell to the public for a buck a board. And he got all the osb board free from another buddy who was moving. The window came from my deer blind.

 

[NorthernRedneck]

Well, today just got a whole lot easier. I was out in the deer blind for a couple hours this morning then packed up early to change out one of the front tires on my truck. But that's a story for the rants and raves forum. I figured I'd call it early hunting to do that so I can bring the remaining front tire in to get different rubber mounted at a local shop. I'm having to do it one tire at a time on the fronts using a spare tire to keep me going.

I then turned my attention to the hot tub. I replaced the circuit board a couple weeks ago and it was working fine for a few days until the temperature sensor started acting up. I had cut the power to the tub and ordered a new sensor. I had a water tote loaded up ready to drain half the water into it to change the sensor. When I removed the panel to expose the circuit board, I put power to the tub again and jiggled the wire plug in for it and heard a click. They're plug in ports. The sensor wasn't fully plugged in. It's heating up now. But I'd planned on half the day messing around with it. Oh well. I'll go sit in the deer stand later this afternoon watching the birds and squirrels feast on corn and pumpkin.

 

[FrancSevin]

Big storm last night. Some two inches of rain. High winds. A tornado about five miles north of us.

One skylight leaked. Only 45 years and now it leaks. A huge unit @ 4' X 7', it lets light into the middle of the house over the stairwell to the lower-level family room.

I lost one big oak branch. About 12" in diameter & 30 feet long, that landed where I used to park my truck. No damage. Just a mess to cleanup. Also, a similar but smaller branch from the maple landed on the patio.

Once things dry out, I can caulk the skylight. The tree branches get cut up and added to my firewood supply.

AND::::::::::::: I voted!

 

[Melensdad]

Picked up a Facebook Marketplace 'find' a couple towns over. HOT WHEELS toy set for Kobe.

Vacuumed and steam mopped the hard floors in the house.

Did some laundry.

Sanded down a newel post top that needs to be refinished. My goal was just to get the varnish off the surface. Along the edges (it is a square) the finish is completely worn away, but on some of the flat surfaces the varnish and stain are in reasonable shape. I sanded lightly, just going after the varnish but trying to leave most of the stain. Tomorrow I will try to match the stain. If I get close enough then I'll work on larger sections of the stair case.

Obviously watching election news, but since I voted a couple weeks ago, no need for me to go to the polls.

Leaving here at dinner time to drive down to Purdue's campus to coach fencing. I'll leave campus about midnight to drive home. Hopefully on my way home I'll hear some very good news about the election on the radio.

I was asked to be a guest coach for University of Illinois Chicago/Circle's fencing club. Not sure when I can fit that into my schedule. Maybe next Wednesday, which is not ideal for them, but it might be the only time I have free in the near-ish future.

 

[NorthernRedneck]

Resetting all the clocks.
I hate it.
Taking all of the clocks off the wall and putting them back up is a pain.
Running through the hours on the radio and stove clocks is, ironically, a true waste of time.

And now my body has to reset one hour, so I was awake an hour early today and could not go back to sleep. This will go on for a week or so.

And for what?
DST is bullshit.

Talk about a kick in the nuts. I was just finished setting all the clocks in the house to the new time. Then the hydro kicked out for about 30 seconds. Yah. That happened.

Anyways, onto bigger things. Today? I'm watching all the liberals end the drought up here with their whiney tears.

Starting the day with a nice soak in the hot tub (it's alive and well). Then I'll make my way to the deer blind for a couple hours. Afterwards go and pick up my remaining tire for the truck and install it.

 

[Melensdad]

Other than playing on the internet and watching the news in the background I've been sanding, staining and varnishing the stairs. Not refinishing the whole thing, just taking off the varnish in the worn areas, touching up the stain, then revarnishing. Figure I'll be done tomorrow?

Hamburgers for dinner.

Probably a bourbon later.