Pellet heads!! What's up today?

here's a video of the engine move on Saturday. Northwest 80-D Moves 20-Ton Fairbanks-Morse 32E

YouTube

this is challenging me! copy/paste - Northwest 80-D Moves 20-Ton Fairbanks-Morse 32E - into the youtube link.

i don't know why i cant get it to work, but i had the same problem over on SmokStak posting it

 

Northwest 80-D Moves 20-Ton Fairbanks-Morse 32E - YouTube


This works


Way cool stuff.
Thanks for sharing

 

Weather is changing a bunch today.

An unusually active weather pattern for July is approaching today with rain here and Snow in the higher mountains by the weekend.

I am not complaining about the cool weather.

The house remodel project is winding down, and with the last of the paint work done on the walls it is nice to be picking up and putting the tools away.

Still some little tid bits left, but no worries.

Really loving the final look.

Son in law text me the other day and wanted to know if I would go half on a plasma cutter with him.

Sooooooooooooo, he finds a basically new one on Craig's list for $600.

The thing originally sold for $700

Not a bad unit and works ok

Then life got interesting.

The kid is rebuilding a flat bed he bought to go on his dually pickup so he can haul ?????

The old bed is rusty and nasty and he is trying to cut a 1/4" tread plate deck off so he can remove the original sheet metal deck that's under it (Rusted through in many places ... COASTAL RIG)

The plasma cutter soldiered on for about an hour until the cutting tip went away.

Of course the package of spare parts was missing.

I figured I could stop at the local welding supply and get some, ahhhhhh WRONG.

Unit is an Eastwood and everything is GET IT OFF THE NET.

ARRRRRRGH.

Then there was the issue of waaaaaay too much moisture in the air coming from the compressor.

Plasma cutters just do not deal with moisture AT ALL

Soooooooooooo, go get a water trap (dual bowl) and a paint gun final word filter to go on the cutter itself.

Then the steel for the bracket to hold the water trap to the compressor, the bolts/nuts etc, hose, fittings and such to connect it.

Then there is the spare parts package for the cutter with electrodes, tips, swirl rings and other "consumables"

So by now we have added another $250 to the cost of the beast.

Really looking like it would have been far better to have ponied up the buckos for the $800 to $1000 unit that is fully self contained with it's own air pump.

Just plug it in and go.

Never ends eh.

So now we wait until the spare parts arrive.

Would have been far better to get a name brand (Miller or ??) as consumables are readily available.

 

The rain has arrived, although still light it's coming down.

Was about 74 F this afternoon at 1 pm and its MUGGY now.

Will dampen the fire danger enough that by tomorrow we can burn some trash and junk left from the remodel.

Nice change though.

 

Muggy here too, might have to get the dehumidifier out. I would rather not because it runs the light bill up.

 

This morning is cold and damp. 59 F outside. Wife is complaining about the chill. She has the heat on.

 

Well, that would be great if I had any land, but I can't even get a fire permit because I don't have any place that is 40 feet from my house (except right at the wood fence at the property line - and then it is within 15 feet of the 500 gal propane tank - probably frowned upon). Had planned on building a fire pit, but in the last year the town went from following state guidelines of 20 or 25 feet (I've forgotten which) to 40 feet. I could probably have convinced someone I had 25 feet

 

Made several trips to the dump on Tuesday (vacation day). Two trips to take all the limbs from the trees I took down - I was pulling in to load up the wood from the trees, and a lady was there finishing loading them into her vehicle . So took one more trip to the dump with my trash, recyclables and the twisted creation of two dead 8' tall lilacs that were twisted all out of recognition by Oriental Bittersweet (which I had cut from its roots last fall so it was dead too). Looked like I had a giant vine wreath in the back of the Explorer.

 

Friday Having cocktails with my honey both of us venting about work and we are getting some rain
life is good

 

Happy belated 4th of July
2 sleeps and off to Monaco for the first leg of my trip to France
Will be staying at the Fairmont Hotel

 

So here are the pics of what was taken down, the wood the lady picked up, and the truck loaded with tops and bittersweet.

 

Be safe and have a great time

 

Nothing much here.
Fire on for a bit.

Still recovering from the LR/DR remodel.

Just a couple little things to do still, but nothing thats got me excited

 

I like the new avatar

 

Cold and rainy....tempted to light the stove for a bit and dry things out

 

It's still dirty so why not if you need too

 

Rainy day here , but that's a good thing we need it some random pics from around the yard