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Morning Bart... Rook... Bill.
THE Random Chat Thread - AKA "The RCT" - No shirt or shoes required - Open 24 / 7
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Bart... If I ever make it back to the Keys... I will drink with ya at any time ya want...
Especially if your buying :P
Especially if your buying :P
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I will warn ya...
You better start squirrelling away some Rum... Jack Daniels... Good White Zin... coronas... now.
For when we drink... WE CAN DRINK ! ! !
Not too much...
Just enough to fill small pantry :P
Blak bart
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Lots of interesting finds Bart, love that crystallized piece of coral and the large rim shard.
Good morning ARC and Jim.
Best of luck to you ARC and to Bart on the impending storm.
Thank you dave....I wonder what that cut will look like on whatever day this thing stops raging. No spanish evidence this time.....except iron galleon spikes.
Growing up with snow and having worked outside in -40c temps teaches you to prepare for cold and snow events.
Years ago I was working in Northern Ontario. I'd left Timmins, ON at 5am and was heading to Hearst about 160mi west when the fuel filter in my truck froze up and I had to pull over. Well, it was the middle of January, -40c with a windchill of -55c and sunny. So I decided I should walk a mile back to town to find a service station with a tow truck, as opposed to sitting freezing at the side of the highway, this was long before there was cell service in the north. Well, after about 5 minutes of walking the skin on my legs and face started to freeze and I realized I was in serious trouble. Thankfully, about 3 mins later a logging truck pulled over, the driver rolled down his window and yelled, "what the hell are you doing, are you crazy you're going to freeze to death".
Needless to say, he gave me a ride the rest of the way to town, I'll never forget that experience.
I now carry a Roadside Emergency Kit in every vehicle I drive.
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It seems that things are crawling along slowly in the project world. Things certainly take longer to do in real time than in the theory dept.
The drains in the garage are finished and the floors were poured last week. Just painting to be done, and the original centre floor needs to be ground (sloped towards the drain)
The quotes were $5000 to cut the centre floor out and re-pour the whole pad (why
) Just cut the floor 10ft x12in. and install the drain and pour a patch, The grinding machine will rent out at a $300 for the day, so I will do a gradual slope running from the side wall of the bay to the drain. Oh this sounds so simple in theory doesn't it Jim
So I saved a cool $4250 on the one floor alone.
The docks are just about completed now the contractor just has to smooth a few things out.
The old system I have to continue of pulling it up the hill and dragging it up the road 400ft to the shop yard, where I will load most of it into a garbage bin later.
Got the 4 main corner posts in the berry patch yesterday, mostly backfilled, and will level and compact today.
Have to reinstall the 800 ft polytope that is marked off in 10ft segments for the poles and posts. (80 total)
This line will make things easier for lining everything up in the process going forward.
Plus I'll have 4-200ft ropes that I will roll up and keep for future fencing needs-just makes measuring a lot simpler.
We had a car park across most of the farm gate entrance yesterday as the hikers were out in full force doing the hike-but can't park 20 ft further away from the trail head. WTF
So go through the process of getting it towed-and at the last minute the two brainless came running down the road to save their car. (From the GTA-no less)
Then a truck parked in the entrance blocking 60% of it.
I tried to get it towed but the service was busy so I wrote a nice note on a piece cardboard and placed it under the wiper blade.
I just said I hope they enjoyed the day, and next time give it some thought on how their parking effects the safety of others and the next time it will be towed.
A few months ago a new White Porsche Cayenne blocked the entrance and caused the stoppage for delivery of the dump trucks that day.
I was just at the stage of -OK- This just cost me hundreds of extra dollars-(didn't know I could get it towed free - expense falls on owner)
So I'm sitting on the tractor-watching the truck rumble down the road.
My left shoulder kept saying dump the loader bucket of manure over the car-right shoulder said don't ( they have some great debates at times)
The different options were thought over-debated - and the left won over in the end.
Looking down on the gear box of the old Ford 3000 I saw a greasy oil soaked blue shop rag.
Now this has been laying there for a good season since some repairs were done, covered with dirt/oil/grease.
Now this new while car had white leather interior-so I greased the inner side of the door handles just enough that they would dirty up their little fingers, and justice was done.
(I realize that it might not be the most mature approach to the problem-but it puts a little grin on the left shoulder-and the right keeps shaking it's head saying-You bad)
The drains in the garage are finished and the floors were poured last week. Just painting to be done, and the original centre floor needs to be ground (sloped towards the drain)
The quotes were $5000 to cut the centre floor out and re-pour the whole pad (why
) Just cut the floor 10ft x12in. and install the drain and pour a patch, The grinding machine will rent out at a $300 for the day, so I will do a gradual slope running from the side wall of the bay to the drain. Oh this sounds so simple in theory doesn't it Jim So I saved a cool $4250 on the one floor alone.
The docks are just about completed now the contractor just has to smooth a few things out.
The old system I have to continue of pulling it up the hill and dragging it up the road 400ft to the shop yard, where I will load most of it into a garbage bin later.
Got the 4 main corner posts in the berry patch yesterday, mostly backfilled, and will level and compact today.
Have to reinstall the 800 ft polytope that is marked off in 10ft segments for the poles and posts. (80 total)
This line will make things easier for lining everything up in the process going forward.
Plus I'll have 4-200ft ropes that I will roll up and keep for future fencing needs-just makes measuring a lot simpler.
We had a car park across most of the farm gate entrance yesterday as the hikers were out in full force doing the hike-but can't park 20 ft further away from the trail head. WTF
So go through the process of getting it towed-and at the last minute the two brainless came running down the road to save their car. (From the GTA-no less)
Then a truck parked in the entrance blocking 60% of it.
I tried to get it towed but the service was busy so I wrote a nice note on a piece cardboard and placed it under the wiper blade.
I just said I hope they enjoyed the day, and next time give it some thought on how their parking effects the safety of others and the next time it will be towed.
A few months ago a new White Porsche Cayenne blocked the entrance and caused the stoppage for delivery of the dump trucks that day.
I was just at the stage of -OK- This just cost me hundreds of extra dollars-(didn't know I could get it towed free - expense falls on owner)
So I'm sitting on the tractor-watching the truck rumble down the road.
My left shoulder kept saying dump the loader bucket of manure over the car-right shoulder said don't ( they have some great debates at times)
The different options were thought over-debated - and the left won over in the end.
Looking down on the gear box of the old Ford 3000 I saw a greasy oil soaked blue shop rag.
Now this has been laying there for a good season since some repairs were done, covered with dirt/oil/grease.
Now this new while car had white leather interior-so I greased the inner side of the door handles just enough that they would dirty up their little fingers, and justice was done.
(I realize that it might not be the most mature approach to the problem-but it puts a little grin on the left shoulder-and the right keeps shaking it's head saying-You bad
)
OP
OP
- Aug 19, 2014
- 38,272
- 139,088
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Hmmm... No likes / responses from Bart... must be drinking... or ?
- Feb 3, 2009
- 41,402
- 158,547
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- 1
- Detector(s) used
- Deus, Deus 2, Minelab 3030, E-Trac,
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
Growing up with snow and having worked outside in -40c temps teaches you to prepare for cold and snow events.
Years ago I was working in Northern Ontario. I'd left Timmins, ON at 5am and was heading to Hearst about 160mi west when the fuel filter in my truck froze up and I had to pull over. Well, it was the middle of January, -40c with a windchill of -55c and sunny. So I decided I should walk a mile back to town to find a service station with a tow truck, as opposed to sitting freezing at the side of the highway, this was long before there was cell service in the north. Well, after about 5 minutes of walking the skin on my legs and face started to freeze and I realized I was in serious trouble. Thankfully, about 3 mins later a logging truck pulled over, the driver rolled down his window and yelled, "what the hell are you doing, are you crazy you're going to freeze to death".
Needless to say, he gave me a ride the rest of the way to town, I'll never forget that experience.
I now carry a Roadside Emergency Kit in every vehicle I drive.
In 1993 we started out in a storm from BC-got to Taber Alberta the first day and hunkered down for the night. The next day we set out and I drove all the way to Sudbury Ont. without shutting the car down. The outside temp was -40F windchill factor of -55F. We arrived Xmas Eve Morning-I went to start the car on Boxing day after the storm past, and the fuel lines were frozen-so we had it towed into a logging truck trailer repair facility-put it under the heat lamps in the shop for 5 hrs and bled the lines out.
Had a few brushes with Old Man Winter and I have learnt that even going to town we carry 2 packing blankets, extra water, some food, candle, extra mitts, hand warmers. dry foot wear, tow strap, cat litter, and a brain.
An old friend from that grew up in Cal/AZ used to say/complain.: All it does up here along the great lakes is:Wind-Snow-Blow/blow/blow. Wimp....
Blak bart
Gold Member
Down here we have great databases for fishing. There are certain lakes,canals,and waterways that carry different species.....we get world class blue channel cats in some of them !! I like the fried catfish too...alot !!
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