What's up today (bullchiting) thread.

Made a trash run early this morning. Talked with operator about weighing my 210C. Sure, bring it down. I then went to son's basketball game with the rest of the family. Good game, but they lost by four points. Oh well. They learn something every time.

Then I moved some firewood into the basement. And then drove the loader/backhoe down there. It turns out it weighs 15,740 lbs! That's with grapple on with bucket inside of Grapple. Way more than I thought. Without grapple it is 14,040 lbs. So grapple weighs 1700lbs. Apparently the dry weight from Ritchie specs does not include backhoe and maybe the cab?

Anywho, I informed the two men who are planning to come and look at it by end of week. Now they know they can't transport it on a 14,000 lb trailer.

Then I went to work on the barn. My neighbor stopped down to help out and we finished the batten boards on this gable end. A little at a time.

 

70lbs per?

 

70 pounds per bag.

 

Rainy overcast day here but still warm. Had a hard time making a day of it at work until I heard banging in the shop - peaked out the door to see hammers beating a pump shaft back into a bearing housing
I was like hey guys we took this pump out because the bearings were bad - why would we use hammers to beat the new ones in?
A few pieces of all-thread and some wrench turning all back together....didn't even need a hammer

 

That is too heavy for many of us. Usually a really good buy, but not if I can't lift it. My work around is to have them load it in the back of my van, then when I get home, I have a couple pails available to pour it into.

 

So you have to chew on it a little longer, it'll tenderize in no time! No worries!

 

They must not be farmers. 14k trailer is good up to 20k for them.

 

Glad I can still make you laugh, wildwest

 

Not good my friend. You need those finger tips! I hope there will be no more of that stuff. noticed your typing is still intact unless you are dictating. You got to take care, big storm coming! Looks like my sons are going to be able to use their sleds this year. One bought three of them last year, had very less use for them with the light snow cover we had. This year looks different.

 

That sucks...... no picture, but i just cut the tip of my index finger off today. Just from the nail up. It hurt, but wasn't that bad, until peroxide tonight (decided against alcohol) holy ***t!

Dam! Sorry to hear this Well Seasoned !

I hope you heal quickly my friend.

 

Caffeine going down. I need to move a little more firewood in. I've been doing one window full at a time and trying to keep it so I have at least 1/2 face cord down there all the time.

Then I will do some work on the barn today. 1/2 a day on it, I think.

 

Ouch Gas... now, cut that out!!! ..... ... ... monin...

 

Just loaded the stove. I forgot that it's going to get to nearly 40 today. I jammed it full, with beech, and a couple small ironwood and shag splits.

It'll get the house back up to nice and warm at least. Today's agenda, make my front storage box for the ATV, now that I have the front rack dimensions.

I'll be using the circular saw and the drill driver from my Ryobi 0ne+ tool kit I got for Christmas. Heck, I might even use the sawzall from the kit too.

 

You realize that was Well Seasoned who did that? Or was that a joke that just went over my head?

 

Happy Birthday today to shaggy wood dump hoarder