Andy,
Help out, you mean you stole all that gear for a $105.00 Great score.
I must go and check to see if
MY jack is still here.
It is nice to know that it can lift a tractor.
Its great to know that level vials are still available..
Have a good one.
Technically it was a fair public auction. I just didn't bid on the good stuff, took the leftovers which seemed like suitable materials.
You get your jack back when I get my three DeWalt's back.
The little jack did OK on the tractor, but it has a front loader on the ground and didn't want to lift just one wheel. But it came up enough to spin around.
I thought $21 for a precision vial was a deal. Now I just have to design a level to go around it.
I also bought 4 small vials for $0.77 or something delivered from the homeland. How can they do that?
Thanks for the visit!!
If you get the right controller it already has everything ready to load G-code and run.
I can show you some that are shipped from CN.
"I bought a little stuff just to try to help out"
Well done Andy. Now that is what I call a good post purchase gloat! The "vertical pump" looks like a coolant pump for machining equipment. Could be quite handy.
At least if you don't use the brass fittings they could be re-cast to something nifty too. Some brass hammers to start with!
Two large boxes of Froot Loops too!
So I don't even need Mach3
Which of their models do you recommend. I looked at their site for a bit and am confused now...
Nobody wanted the pump, so it went with the square and other tools in the front of the picture for $10. 1/3 hp seems a bit strong for a coolant pump, however. I'm assuming it's a transfer pump but could be wrong. No markings on the pump but unless it's not matched to the motor, at 3450 rpm and 5" diameter impeller it's going to put up some real pressure.
I was stuck on a "four boxes for $10 each" bid and got the brass to melt. Already used a billet machined 1/2" pipe thread street ell to connect my tire machine to a new regulator. I'm almost even.
The total failure of my life is based on things like this: buying a box of fittings to melt down, then being unable to melt them because they are new and could be used. Even bad fittings, I think "maybe I could machine off the bad part and braze it to another fitting and save some work some day."
Right now I'm leaning toward aluminum bronze hammers. Copper and a dab of aluminum seems to make a good product.
I got me a 1/2 Cup jack for my birthday as they come so highly recommended by the GJ elite
Haven't busted it out yet but I already love the fact I can carry it; not like my Walker Roll a Car.
My HF in SW Tulsa has already labeled those jacks as 1/2 Cup. They don't even know why, it's just what they're called.
Andy, Andy, Andy. I hardly think that the truckload of (really neat and useful) stuff qualifies for posting in your "Cleaning" thread. Seems to me you are headed in the other direction. But I guess the cool pictures of the tractor tire fix make up for it.
Well, it was hardly a truck load. I didn't even have to go back with a trailer. Not much of an auction when you can haul everything home in what you drove. But, yes, I had no place to unload the junk so it's in my way. But I am enjoying admiring it as I step over it.
Tire fix was not cool, it was warm that day.
Bobby, well done and happy birthday..
If they can lift a tractor it will do me..
I won't be happy until
1/2 Cup jack is part of the common vernacular of those who have never heard of GJ. It won't be long.
Andy: nice haul and did your friend deliver it too cause i don't recognize that vehicle that all that stuff is sitting in?
good to hear you are maybe almost done with your taxes. we really got lucky with our guy cause he was doing the corporation taxes for the company we both worked for 30+ years ago and he said he'd be happy to do our personal taxes and he's been great ever since. sure we pay, but that must mean we made something and we were audited a few times and other than a little inconvenience everything was ok.
hope you got to chase the bull a bit today just to get both of you exercise and BIG CONGRATS ON THE NEW CALF.
cheers
Took the taxes to the Zumba teacher last night. She was pleased but still worked me hard. My tax preparation is not cheap but I really don't want to keep up with the basis of the assets I have. Accelerated depreciation schedules, and basis adjustment upon foreclosure are not logical rules. She explained it to me one time, and since it was not logical to me I just threw up my hands and asked her to please keep me out of jail. I really don't want to meet new friends and prefer to be slow to develop intimate relationships.
New calf came into the pen at two days old this morning. Usually it takes them three days to come in.
He was getting warm milk on a cold day.
Thanks for the visit!
Andy
Thanks for your help with my computer problems (All better)
Do the cows get so cold that they build themselves a hay coat for the winter?
Does the cold bother the young ones?
Never been a rancher!!
Don't know that I helped much, but when I worked for big companies and had a computer problem I'd call IT (they think they're it) and first response was did you reboot? 95 times out of 100 that would fix the problem, if only temporarily. Our TV/Internet/Telephone router has to be rebooted a couple of times a month.
I only see them putting hay on their backs when they are well fed and have plenty of good hay. I genuinely believe it is a display of excess (like diamond rings).
Reasonable cold does not seem to bother them. You seem to get more calves born on a cold night. I always say it squeezes the calf out. My son-in-law says they shiver until they fall out. I had three born one 5F night a few years ago. Hard icy snow covering the ground. That pasture was about three miles from the house and when I finally got there to feed the kids were running around playing. One of the moms though I was up to no good and put me in the truck bed.
Mom licks them dry when they're born which stimulates blood flow and develops their bond. I'm sure it warms them too. She has a BIG tongue.
You've got the antique ranch.
Looks like the back of the FJ.
That's what I thought.
Guster: well i thought the only yellow car Andy owned was the Chevelle with the 454 in it and didn't know (or remember) he owned a FJ. it's hard to keep up with his fleet as he kept adding to it and then giving a few away almost weekly last year.
Here's the daily drivers this morning, left to right FJ Cruiser, Caboose, CRV, Standard, F-350, 3600 Show Truck.
I bought the FJ in 2010, it is an 07 and had 60,000 miles. They stopped making the yellow ones and I was afraid to wait, had been wanting one like Guster. But only a yellow one. It's my escape car: I can load it up and go anywhere. I drove it to Houston and left it down there two years while I was working there and flying home weekly. It's great in crowded traffic, little guys stay away.
Only reason I know is because I noticed it before and it is the one vehicle I do covet!
That and those Mercedes G-class units. If I ever suffer from a midlife crisis and some disposable income that may be where me weakness led me.
Same here, Gust. Only I didn't wait for a mid-life crisis and had no disposable income. It was an emergency purchase because they quit making yellow ones. Did I already say that?
Thanks for the visits, guys! Zumba teacher's husband is coming over to swap tires on rims today. At least I won't be bored...
