Right Now!

[TEWKS]

Police Unit? Yeah, it was most likely done on purpose.  
 

edit… To be honest, that stuff happened a lot more in the past. The rivalry has softened a bit over the years I think. 
 

#2 edit…

I just spoke with a retired guy 87 years old (still sharp). He was telling me about some of the pranks played on each other. The old center station had a long hallway with doors on both ends. The bunk rooms were off that. The doors were never locked back then. Anyway, the cops wrangled up a snapping turtle sometime during the night, probably crossing a road somewhere in town. They cracked open the door and let it in the long hallway to greet the firefighters on their next call! 

[9Mary7]

4 hours ago, TEWKS said:

Yeah, it was most likely done on purpose.

Wasn't mine but yes, probably done on purpose.

And the pranks back and forth were frankly hilarious..........

[wbw6cos]

Fun, fun, fun.  

[TEDZ]

I can relate.

[9Mary7]

[TEDZ]

Mine was a bad Trans. Control Unit.  Damn Autoshift.  

What's your diagno$i$

[wbw6cos]

Been there.  Done that.  With previous company.  Usually, it was a speed sensor on Auto Shift.

My Right Now issue was an air valve (or manifold) made a loud pop at speed and rapid air loss was next.  I lost primary air supply..  Made it to shoulder.  Definitely, not a roadside repair, hence the hooker.  

The affected part is in the frame above the air tanks.  Something popped up and air escaped.  It would stay down.  

 

Not sure what it was, but it had a bunch of air lines in and out.

 

[roadscholar]

CADS meeting tonight, which of these four is not like the others : )

 

 

 

 

Tim and a few of the guys are leaving after work tomorrow headed to South Carolina where he’s competing in the Sand Blast Rally on his Beta 390, 4 of the guys are tagging along as his pit crew.

 

 

 

 

[TEWKS]

 

[roadscholar]

That’s Tim in the background, about 4 years ago he hit a deer and totaled his Africa Twin A/S. He also busted up his spinal cord and laid paralyzed on a sparsely traveled dirt road in W. Kansas for several hours until a farmer (who said he almost never uses that road) came along and called 911. He was in the last hours of trying to complete an Iron Butt Assoc. Dusty Butt 1500 Gold which no one had ever done (1500 miles in 24 hours on all dirt). 

 

For a year or so prior he asked me to make a route that he could do it on somewhere in the Southeast. I tried a lot of different stuff but there were always too many paved connectors and not enough continuous dirt to make it work in the required time. I told him it was impossible this side of the Mississippi and that he’d have to go out west or at least the Great Plains which is what he did. 

 

It took over a year for him to mostly heal up and another for him to completely, his doctors said they’d never seen such a miraculous recovery.

 

He knew he was probably close but thought it was short of the 1500 when he crashed, but sent his paperwork in after he started recuperating. At the Iron Butt yearly awards banquet and after calculating all his documentation Mike Kneebone surprised Tim and announced he had completed the 1500 in 24, was the only person to ever do it and they were retiring the ride from then on because it was nearly impossible, too dangerous, and they didn't want anyone else attempting it. He's never entered a Pro Rally before either but I like his chances : )

 

[Hosstage]

29 minutes ago, TEWKS said:

 

That ain't a leak.

Now that's a leak!

[Rougarou]

Soooo, the wife bought me one thing

 

not to be outdone, I bought her two things

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the two things ate quite fun offloading by yourself 

[ESokoloff]

Ummmm, you did remove the tailgate retaining cables to allow the gate to drop further right?

 

The dryers not too bad but washers are Heavy.  
My uncle was very proud that he replaced his washer & dryer several years ago.

He was 92 at the time & had done it by himself.  

[Rougarou]

5 minutes ago, ESokoloff said:

Ummmm, you did remove the tailgate retaining cables to allow the gate to drop further right?

 

The dryers not too bad but washers are Heavy.  
My uncle was very proud that he replaced his washer & dryer several years ago.

He was 92 at the time & had done it by himself.  

 

nope, just frictioned them down 

 

 

im doing the first load now

[Hosstage]

That's an awfully nice lawn machine!

For the washer and dryer, I actually own my own appliance moving dolly, a heavy steel unit acquired from U-Haul in 1969 by my parents who tried to return it but were told it's not on the list. Ok. It has old school fan/motor belts on a bearing assembly, rather than slides, to roll over the steps.

It has been borrowed by almost every one I know over the last 50 years, family, friends, coworkers. It's shocking I still have it, but it sure makes moving appliances like that much easier.

I can hear Rougs now; "Moving dolly? We don't need no stinkin' moving dolly!"

[Rougarou]

Just now, Hosstage said:

That's an awfully nice lawn machine!

For the washer and dryer, I actually own my own appliance moving dolly, a heavy steel unit acquired from U-Haul in 1969 by my parents who tried to return it but were told it's not on the list. Ok. It has old school fan/motor belts on a bearing assembly, rather than slides, to roll over the steps.

It has been borrowed by almost every one I know over the last 50 years, family, friends, coworkers. It's shocking I still have it, but it sure makes moving appliances like that much easier.

 

Sometimes the old stuff is just plain gooder.  I've got a dolly, but that was for once I got it off the wifes truck.

 

Just now, Hosstage said:

I can hear Rougs now; "Moving dolly? We don't need no stinkin' moving dolly!"

 

I get that a bit.

 

At work, we have these GSA safes, a little two drawer guy will weigh in at 300+/- lbs and the five drawer guys are 500+lbs.  One of my co-workers, bout my age, needed a two drawer.  So I go in my space and pull him one out.  I don't use no stinkin' dolly, I just start yanking it across the carpet.  I put it outside his door and say "here's your safe".  All in all, I only moved it about 100ft, good exercise. 

 

The next day, another co-worker comes to me and says "Daryl asked me to help him move that safe,.....he didn't want to ask you since you moved it by yourself",....I thought,....weak biotch-do some damn pushups.

 

When I first got the job, the site lead told me not to move the safes 'cause the company has facility people that do that and I'm not insured if I get hurt doing that.  I told him, "you'd never know I got hurt moving a safe at work anyway".

 

I can easily get a dolly, but then I gotta go on the antique elevator, down four floors, get in the facility room, hope one of their dollys is easy to find, back on the elevator, to the room, play tilt-o-safe to get it on the dolly.   By the time I do all that, I could have the safe moved.  And no, the safes we have aren't on wheels.

 

 

 

[Red]

That's not a leak.  It's a Rorschach test for Harley owners.

 

[roadscholar]

Missed the good light by about 30 minutes, on the way to St. A  for dinner.

 

[TEWKS]

I want a convertible!  Winter wasn’t going to slip away quietly.

[ESokoloff]

On 3/3/2023 at 11:20 AM, Rougarou said:

nope, just frictioned them down 

 

 

Try the cable trick (but then again I have an Avalanche so your cable/gate may vary). 
Per chance, can you rotate the dryer door 180° so it’s easier to transfer the load from the washer?

[roadscholar]

19 hours ago, TEWKS said:

I want a convertible!  Winter wasn’t going to slip away quietly.

 

I think you want weather where you can use a convertible : )

[TEWKS]

Back in the old days, we had to get on those yellow buses and take them to school, up hill both ways, in the rain, sometimes snow even.

 

Silly kids today don’t know that’s where all the cool shit happened, if ya didn’t get caught that is. 

[roadscholar]

On 3/1/2023 at 10:03 PM, roadscholar said:

That’s Tim in the background, about 4 years ago he hit a deer and totaled his Africa Twin A/S. He also busted up his spinal cord and laid paralyzed on a sparsely traveled dirt road in W. Kansas for several hours until a farmer (who said he almost never uses that road) came along and called 911. He was in the last hours of trying to complete an Iron Butt Assoc. Dusty Butt 1500 Gold which no one had ever done (1500 miles in 24 hours on all dirt). 

 

For a year or so prior he asked me to make a route that he could do it on somewhere in the Southeast. I tried a lot of different stuff but there were always too many paved connectors and not enough continuous dirt to make it work in the required time. I told him it was impossible this side of the Mississippi and that he’d have to go out west or at least the Great Plains which is what he did. 

 

It took over a year for him to mostly heal up and another for him to completely, his doctors said they’d never seen such a miraculous recovery.

 

He knew he was probably close but thought it was short of the 1500 when he crashed, but sent his paperwork in after he started recuperating. At the Iron Butt yearly awards banquet and after calculating all his documentation Mike Kneebone surprised Tim and announced he had completed the 1500 in 24, was the only person to ever do it and they were retiring the ride from then on because it was nearly impossible, too dangerous, and they didn't want anyone else attempting it. He's never entered a Pro Rally before either but I like his chances : )

 

 

Kid was bringing out someone’s food tonight, kitchen said it was for the guy with white hair and a beard. Tim in the yellow shirt was grinning all night, came in 3rd in the Sand Blast Rally, 8th overall, and won best rookie award. 

 

 

Warned him it was like a drug but it may be too late : )

 

 

[roadscholar]

Know you guys are tired of hearing it but if you’re gonna ride offroad you have to learn to stand on the pegs, the sooner the better : )

 

 

 

[Rougarou]

Woke up to this blizzard. Weather people did not call for this and Im out of bread and milk. Roads will likely be shut down and i suspect power will go out at some point. We’re just not set up to handle this massive amount of snow

 

 

[wbw6cos]

Hunker down!!

[roadscholar]

Move south, go for coffee : )  Trans Fla start yesterday.

 

[LBump]

1 hour ago, Rougarou said:

Woke up to this blizzard. Weather people did not call for this and Im out of bread and milk. Roads will likely be shut down and i suspect power will go out at some point. We’re just not set up to handle this massive amount of snow

 

 

At least you can see your trees.

[TEWKS]

 

[Hosstage]

4 hours ago, Rougarou said:

Woke up to this blizzard. Weather people did not call for this and Im out of bread and milk. Roads will likely be shut down and i suspect power will go out at some point. We’re just not set up to handle this massive amount of snow

 

 

Call in The Guard!

[TEWKS]

1 hour ago, Hosstage said:

Call in The Guard!

To Richard, that be like me calling in Mildred on a five alarm fire!   

Spoiler

Only a joke NG people,  I work with one who is a mild mannered warrior! 

 

[roadscholar]

Where else you gonna get Korean BBQ at a hole in the wall pizza joint : )

 

 

Josiah makes a KTM 1290 look like a 175.

 

 

 

[TEWKS]

I just bought a flying camera! 

[wbw6cos]

Nice!

[ESokoloff]

1 hour ago, TEWKS said:

I just bought a flying camera! 

What could possibly go wrong??   
 

[Hosstage]

Don't forget to register it with the FAA!

And SAG.

[John Ranalletta]

4 hours ago, TEWKS said:

I just bought a flying camera! 

 

Consider downloading FAA's b4ufly app

 

[MikeB60]

Keep away from Russian Jets!

[9Mary7]

And Chinese weather balloons!!

[TEWKS]

I haven’t even had the chance to “find out what could go wrong”  I’m still working on getting the batteries charged, they kind of skimp on that part of the setup. They don’t give you the correct cables it seems. 

[wbw6cos]

My Mavic Air II came as a kit with extra batteries and a charging hub.  Yeah, I had to juice up all 3 batteries before I could get it flying, but there was enough power to perform a short test flight in the house.  

[TEWKS]

Looks like I may need this   and this along with a couple extra batteries. Thanks for that info, William! 

[wbw6cos]

Did you try a USB to C-type connector for charging?   Most cell phones use those.

[TEWKS]

I did find one, it belongs to an external portable cell phone battery. The others are for the iPhone and they won’t plug into the drone’s battery.  And none of this helps when tech savvy isn’t your thing, but you try anyway.  (I try) 

[TEWKS]

Maiden flight and all the parts are still intact!  This thing is going to be fun! 

 

[Rougarou]

Shelf brackets

 

cause another stall is coming out

 

That leaves two stalls staying. While there were three horses here, the property doesn’t sufficiently support three. One died of old age(put down), dont think the horse people will get another one. And, they dont stall the horses anyway, just used a large one for medical treatment 

 

 

 

Anyone want any white oak barn wood😁

[MikeB60]

Jet on a stick.

[Rougarou]

Back at the barn

 

 

[MikeB60]

14 minutes ago, Rougarou said:

Back at the barn

 

 

Nice line up I know a tractor mechanic!

[TEWKS]

49 minutes ago, Rougarou said:

Back at the barn

 

Oh man, Gump would be jealous!