Pellet heads!! What's up today?

Little bit of rain this am. We /I really need it. (I cause my well is shallow ) I know we are are big beer drinkers here, but I had severl Angry Orchard last night and they were, um .. intoxicating.

Doggy

 

Putting away skids from big box store....

 

schoondog Been to their distillery in Walden? Nice place, plus you get to try 5 (6?) decent sized glasses of their ciders at the end....free.

Our Orchard

IMO, best of all is Crisp Apple.

Would make a nice ride on the bike.

 

Oh, the horror. Quick, get the vacuum.....

 

Quick save them , save them!

 

We did ride by it a few weeks ago, but didn't stop. I will put it on the list of things to do. We have a customer that makes apple alcohol drinks and,... well Angry Orchard is better. Doggy

 

They include two brushes in the set I got; 4" and 3". I used the 3" brush which went thru smoothly (and churned out some soot) until it hit the angle. Maybe I can experiment and cut the 4" down to 2.5 and see if that helps. Maybe I'm just too much of a spaz to work with this complicated stuff

 

whatta ya do for a day job?

 

#1 Spaz.

 

My wife brought home 2, not one, 2 of those things a few weeks ago. They aren't much older than that one. They raise hell chasing each other around the house. They took over the dogs bed and he doesn't do anything about it.

 

Are ya spinning the brush as you try to push past the 45 ? I have a straight shot down to the stove on my set up so its pretty easy. Sorry your havin difficulties.

Doggy

 

I tried saving spills like that, but once they hit the cement, I found that no mater how clean I thought the floor was, it wasn't and there was grit in with the pellets. So now, any pellets that hit the cement become mulch, or save them to mop up a liquid spill.

 

Good for her.

 

OK Jay, now how many does that make. I have six. Not planned that way. Momma had kittens and we were not able to part with them. All are neutered now. We had planned for her to have kittens but had intended to sell them. We became too attached to them. Ours have very long hair and are high maintenance.

 

Been a couple days.

Rain came in and stayed all day yesterday WETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT it was.

Had a fire most of the day up until about 9 last night.

Been working on the Army Deuce and a half project the Son in law and I started last fall.

Trying to get the last minute stuff done before the rains start for real.

We are not using the original engine so we sold it to a fella.

Getting the cab off that 60 plus year old beast was a hard task for sure.

Trying to get the frame stripped bare so we can start fitting a V8 diesel into the project.

Switching over to full air brakes, 10 hole Bud type alloy duplex wheels all around.

Gonna be an ARMY MONGREL

Started out life as an M211 6X6

The plan is to make it a four door crew cab as well as the repower.

Using a 6.2 liter GM diesel with a turbo backed by a Turbo 400 tranny.

Engine will have a bit more oooomph than the old 302, but not enough that it's gonna break things.

Twin stacks to let the turbo whistle in too

 

More pix

What it looked like before the tools got hold of it

 

what a few drinks of vodkas can't fix............