Oh come on cas, that’s a stupid question.
Duke sucked so hard on this deal gravity took a few minutes off and these cabinets just floated into his truck….gezzzz
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Duke sucked so hard on this deal gravity took a few minutes off and these cabinets just floated into his truck….gezzzz
casmurbax
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LOL LXCam
yea he really did scoop up the suckage on these....
yea he really did scoop up the suckage on these....
John, yeah same situation here....I had to have a rigger load them up. The cost to load was a minimum of $50 (which was $50 of my $550) and went up from there depending on size and complexity but it was worth it! I was in line with my little F250 and trailer sandwiched between some Semi's being loaded with equipment that weighed probably 50,000lbs.
It took me awhile to move things around in the shop to get the cabinets into their place for now (already thinking about the next Tetris floor plan) but here they are all together. I had to make some new feet adding 2" x 3" tube to the bottom so that I could get my pallet jack under them to be able to move them around. I used my tractor and the forks to slide the top into position.
I just started to go through the drawers to figure out what I am going to keep and how I want to arrange things as I begin to fill them up. I have two sizes of Lock Line fittings with this being the largest size.... I don't have a pump large enough to pump this volume of fluid!
I have enough drill chuck keys to last my lifetime even with how many I lose on an annual basis!
Ever seen a chisel holder like this? I have a drawer full of them... If you see them pop up on eBay you know where they came from!
I just started to go through the drawers to figure out what I am going to keep and how I want to arrange things as I begin to fill them up. I have two sizes of Lock Line fittings with this being the largest size.... I don't have a pump large enough to pump this volume of fluid!
I have enough drill chuck keys to last my lifetime even with how many I lose on an annual basis!
Ever seen a chisel holder like this? I have a drawer full of them... If you see them pop up on eBay you know where they came from!
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zmotorsports
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I think you need a few more drill chuck keys Duke. There may be a style or design that you don't have. 
taumac
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You can give everyone chuck keys as stocking stuffers for Christmas for a few years. 
casmurbax
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nice posts Duke..
yup you **** for getting those cabinets at that price......
yup you **** for getting those cabinets at that price......
zmotorsports
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I guess they are like clamps.... you can never have enough!!
Touche.
I had to take a break from the current task of reorganizing my drawer storage into the new cabinets to build a new burn barrel. One of the advantages of living in the country is the ability to burn paper (which primarily consists of all of my daily Amazon boxes.) I had made a 2' x 2' x 4' container out of 11 gauge back in 2017 but the heat and rust finally took its toll and it collapsed with the last burning. While almost 8 years is not a bad run for a burn container I figured I would go a different route and look for something that would outlast me....
I searched some scrap yards but the prices were way beyond what I wanted to pay but finally found a guy on Facebook market place who would cut me a piece of pipe. The new burn barrel is a 30" piece of pipeline 1/2" thick.
I added a couple of pieces of 3" pipe to be able to use the forks on the tractor to lift it up to move and dump the ashes. I opted to used rebar for the floor as the last barrel I had built in the floor using expanded metal and it made it a pain to try and empty when the ashes became compacted (from rain etc.. ) Now all I have to do is lift it up and pull/hammer the rebar out to empty it. The rebar will also be easy to change should they rust/burn out overtime.
I think this one should last awhile!
I searched some scrap yards but the prices were way beyond what I wanted to pay but finally found a guy on Facebook market place who would cut me a piece of pipe. The new burn barrel is a 30" piece of pipeline 1/2" thick.
I added a couple of pieces of 3" pipe to be able to use the forks on the tractor to lift it up to move and dump the ashes. I opted to used rebar for the floor as the last barrel I had built in the floor using expanded metal and it made it a pain to try and empty when the ashes became compacted (from rain etc.. ) Now all I have to do is lift it up and pull/hammer the rebar out to empty it. The rebar will also be easy to change should they rust/burn out overtime.
I think this one should last awhile!
casmurbax
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Duker, I am not sure 1/2 in is thick enough.... Just sayin....
and show us your drawers all organized!
and show us your drawers all organized!
I am going with the odds…. For me to to outlive the 1/2” I would have to cut back on the chicken fried steaks… and let’s be honest…. that ain’t happening!
As for the drawers I will post a pic when I get it done…. The hardest part is trying to figure out what should go where!
Living this, for sure!
drivesitfar
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I've seen more than a few big metal things and I think I can honestly say your burn barrel might be the biggest yet. I can't say i've seen pipe that thick ever, but nice work re purposing it.
how's retirement cause i'm guessing you are still as busy as ever?
how's retirement cause i'm guessing you are still as busy as ever?
Thanks Drives! Yes retirement has been busy which is good as it is helping me to slowly get back into shape from sitting in front of a computer all day! I have even gotten in some volunteer hours in helping to paint a church which hopefully offsets some of those indiscretions from my youth!
I hope you bought a spray rigI have even gotten in some volunteer hours in helping to paint a church which hopefully offsets some of those indiscretions from my youth!
Pretty muchSo what you're really saying is that there are not enough churches to paint to cover those blackmarks on my soul!
Have you ever had one of those weeks where nothing seems to go right... I know @LXCam has (but that's a story for another day)... First it's "LoveBug" season and my wife seemed to find the "mother of all clusters" as her windshield was so covered you could hardly see out of it and the grill so stuffed that I bet if she had driven for awhile more it would have overheated! Spent a couple of hours scrubbing, power washing, more scrubbing and finally washing her little Tacoma so that you could tell it was actually white underneath the bug spew. In the process my power washer hose blew the hose.
On the way to buy a new hose I park at Tractor Supply since our local Lowe's never carries what they say they have in stock and go to start my truck and the truck is dead. Spend 20 minutes checking connections and cleaning terminals and finally throw in the towel and get somebody to help me jump start the truck and head to O'reilly's for a battery check. They check both my Ford batteries and one tests bad the other still close to the 850CCA but of course both are out of warranty since I bought them in 06/2020. I guess I can't complain I got 5 years out of one and the other is still hanging in there....
Next day thinking I can get back to shop projects but wake up to no water pressure. Turns out the chlorinator pump for our well has seized up and blew the breaker. Spend a couple of hours taking the pump apart finally throwing in the towel again and ordering a replacement $440 pump.
Finish what I can on that and my wife asks me if I can go over to one of her friends house with the tractor to help move "some" dirt in their driveway as they have family coming over this weekend and as hot as it is will be too much work for her husband to be able to finish in time. As they say...no good deed ever goes unpunished as I load up the tractor and spend the next three hours moving about 25 yards of dirt. It wasn't such a big deal loading it up and as it was to navigate up and down what felt like a 10% grade while keeping the tractor from tipping over their bulkhead into the lake. Not only did I have to dump it I had to back spread the dirt as well. Let me just say this poor guy was never going to finish with a shovel and wheel barrow until December!
Yesterday, I finally get into the shop to work on getting some tasks done. I need to cut in half up some sheets of 14-16 gauge metal I found on FBM to use on the plasma table. I go to move my plasma cutter which I store on an old HF 5 drawer cart and the casters disintegrate while trying to move it outside.
Of course by now Murphy and I are old friends so I am thinking I probably don't have a set to match the mounting plate in all of my stash of casters. In my head I am thinking what a pain it will be to have to redrill and and get this thing back up and running. About that time I am searching for my battery terminal crimpers ( need to crimp a new battery connector on the joint battery cable to finish up the truck battery issue) and low and behold I find the sets of casters I had ordered a couple of years ago when somebody on the GJ posted that Grizzly had a big clearance sale. They were too cheap not to order and I was pretty sure back then I would never ever find a use for them but Karma finally said.... today is the day.... the one time you get to use that useless **** you normally hoard and your children will send to Goodwill upon your demise!!!
YES... a perfect match!
Makes the old cart look new again....
And.... Amazon actually delivered in two days the new Chlorinator pump and got that installed this morning... It's like making a birdie on the last hole of golf... just when you are about to throw in the towel on the game it ***** you back in to the mix!
On the way to buy a new hose I park at Tractor Supply since our local Lowe's never carries what they say they have in stock and go to start my truck and the truck is dead. Spend 20 minutes checking connections and cleaning terminals and finally throw in the towel and get somebody to help me jump start the truck and head to O'reilly's for a battery check. They check both my Ford batteries and one tests bad the other still close to the 850CCA but of course both are out of warranty since I bought them in 06/2020. I guess I can't complain I got 5 years out of one and the other is still hanging in there....
Next day thinking I can get back to shop projects but wake up to no water pressure. Turns out the chlorinator pump for our well has seized up and blew the breaker. Spend a couple of hours taking the pump apart finally throwing in the towel again and ordering a replacement $440 pump.
Finish what I can on that and my wife asks me if I can go over to one of her friends house with the tractor to help move "some" dirt in their driveway as they have family coming over this weekend and as hot as it is will be too much work for her husband to be able to finish in time. As they say...no good deed ever goes unpunished as I load up the tractor and spend the next three hours moving about 25 yards of dirt. It wasn't such a big deal loading it up and as it was to navigate up and down what felt like a 10% grade while keeping the tractor from tipping over their bulkhead into the lake. Not only did I have to dump it I had to back spread the dirt as well. Let me just say this poor guy was never going to finish with a shovel and wheel barrow until December!
Yesterday, I finally get into the shop to work on getting some tasks done. I need to cut in half up some sheets of 14-16 gauge metal I found on FBM to use on the plasma table. I go to move my plasma cutter which I store on an old HF 5 drawer cart and the casters disintegrate while trying to move it outside.
Of course by now Murphy and I are old friends so I am thinking I probably don't have a set to match the mounting plate in all of my stash of casters. In my head I am thinking what a pain it will be to have to redrill and and get this thing back up and running. About that time I am searching for my battery terminal crimpers ( need to crimp a new battery connector on the joint battery cable to finish up the truck battery issue) and low and behold I find the sets of casters I had ordered a couple of years ago when somebody on the GJ posted that Grizzly had a big clearance sale. They were too cheap not to order and I was pretty sure back then I would never ever find a use for them but Karma finally said.... today is the day.... the one time you get to use that useless **** you normally hoard and your children will send to Goodwill upon your demise!!! YES... a perfect match!Makes the old cart look new again....
And.... Amazon actually delivered in two days the new Chlorinator pump and got that installed this morning... It's like making a birdie on the last hole of golf... just when you are about to throw in the towel on the game it ***** you back in to the mix!
Finallygotit
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You know that saying, "If it wasn't for bad luck......" I hope all of that bad karma is now behind you. Glad those new wheels worked out.
Damn Duke, you definitely had one of those weeks. I’m stoked everything worked out in the end. Especially those casters, I’m still tripping over two boxes of them since I never did anything with them.
Let me tell you about my yesterdays morning. 0430 my night crew sup calls to let me know we’re missing $47k worth of cameras..
Let me tell you about my yesterdays morning. 0430 my night crew sup calls to let me know we’re missing $47k worth of cameras..
Now that is a bad way to start a day!!Damn Duke, you definitely had one of those weeks. I’m stoked everything worked out in the end. Especially those casters, I’m still tripping over two boxes of them since I never did anything with them.
Let me tell you about my yesterdays morning. 0430 my night crew sup calls to let me know we’re missing $47k worth of cameras..
Have you ever had one of those weeks where nothing seems to go right... I know @LXCam has (but that's a story for another day)... First it's "LoveBug" season and my wife seemed to find the "mother of all clusters" as her windshield was so covered you could hardly see out of it and the grill so stuffed that I bet if she had driven for awhile more it would have overheated! Spent a couple of hours scrubbing, power washing, more scrubbing and finally washing her little Tacoma so that you could tell it was actually white underneath the bug spew. In the process my power washer hose blew the hose.
On the way to buy a new hose I park at Tractor Supply since our local Lowe's never carries what they say they have in stock and go to start my truck and the truck is dead. Spend 20 minutes checking connections and cleaning terminals and finally throw in the towel and get somebody to help me jump start the truck and head to O'reilly's for a battery check. They check both my Ford batteries and one tests bad the other still close to the 850CCA but of course both are out of warranty since I bought them in 06/2020. I guess I can't complain I got 5 years out of one and the other is still hanging in there....
Next day thinking I can get back to shop projects but wake up to no water pressure. Turns out the chlorinator pump for our well has seized up and blew the breaker. Spend a couple of hours taking the pump apart finally throwing in the towel again and ordering a replacement $440 pump.
Finish what I can on that and my wife asks me if I can go over to one of her friends house with the tractor to help move "some" dirt in their driveway as they have family coming over this weekend and as hot as it is will be too much work for her husband to be able to finish in time. As they say...no good deed ever goes unpunished as I load up the tractor and spend the next three hours moving about 25 yards of dirt. It wasn't such a big deal loading it up and as it was to navigate up and down what felt like a 10% grade while keeping the tractor from tipping over their bulkhead into the lake. Not only did I have to dump it I had to back spread the dirt as well. Let me just say this poor guy was never going to finish with a shovel and wheel barrow until December!
Yesterday, I finally get into the shop to work on getting some tasks done. I need to cut in half up some sheets of 14-16 gauge metal I found on FBM to use on the plasma table. I go to move my plasma cutter which I store on an old HF 5 drawer cart and the casters disintegrate while trying to move it outside.
Makes the old cart look new again....
And.... Amazon actually delivered in two days the new Chlorinator pump and got that installed this morning... It's like making a birdie on the last hole of golf... just when you are about to throw in the towel on the game it ***** you back in to the mix!
Did you throw away the old casters or save them for parts?
larry4406
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I felt your pain last week with HF casters on Series 1 tool boxes….
I did save them and will wire wheel the **** off them and repurpose.
I did save them and will wire wheel the **** off them and repurpose.
larry4406
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It’s interesting, but the HF store near me has near lost that faux Chinese rubber smell.
Yeah I figure with the cast center wheeled clean they will have a few more miles left.
Finally back in the shop... I promised my wife we would travel and she has held me to that promise this year. We have been gone most of September October and November.
I have two compressors one in the woodshop and the other in the metal shop and I have them on my maintenance calendar (I use TickTick to keep track of everything) and one of the items that I keep rolling forward and never get to is changing the oil. Well two months past its due date I pushed it to the top of the list but it is such a pain as its to corral and ends up pouring down the compressor and is always a mess. The solution quite frankly was an easy fix but I was too lazy to get it done until today....
I also installed the Tsunami Moisture MInder on the woodshop compressor that has been sitting on the compressor since last March.... don't want to rush these things!! Still need to run the airlines into the woodshop but have to finish the dust collection before that gets done.
The Tee in the drain is for my future "DriveShaft" air drying system I am putting together so that it will drain through the Tsunami as well.
I have two compressors one in the woodshop and the other in the metal shop and I have them on my maintenance calendar (I use TickTick to keep track of everything) and one of the items that I keep rolling forward and never get to is changing the oil. Well two months past its due date I pushed it to the top of the list but it is such a pain as its to corral and ends up pouring down the compressor and is always a mess. The solution quite frankly was an easy fix but I was too lazy to get it done until today....
I also installed the Tsunami Moisture MInder on the woodshop compressor that has been sitting on the compressor since last March.... don't want to rush these things!! Still need to run the airlines into the woodshop but have to finish the dust collection before that gets done.
The Tee in the drain is for my future "DriveShaft" air drying system I am putting together so that it will drain through the Tsunami as well.
RickP
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Only since last March? You're doing pretty well compared to me!
I've been procrastinating 8+ years on a compressor water drain install...
I like that oil drain -- I'll put that on my list too (right after the water drain).
larry4406
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What is your impression of the Tsunami moisture minder? I like its details.
Larry, I had an Ingersoll Rand one on my old compressor at my old shop that I constantly had to fiddle with so I wanted to try something else. So far it has worked well on my metal shop compressor for the last few years. The only thing that is a drawback for me is that the longest cycle is around 45 minutes so it’s definitely made for a compressor that is running constantly. I have mine set to run two seconds every 45 minutes. I plugged it into a timer so that it shuts down the Tsunami at 8:00PM and kicks the power back on at around 8:00AM so that it’s not cycling all night when I am not in the shop.
larry4406
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Looking at your image on the desk top, I see it is electric powered. I was not aware of that type.
I have been thinking about the pneumatic one.
Moisture Minder Pneumatic Drain Valve
Our pneumatic drain valve is an air-operated condensate drain designed to keep consistent air pressure to counteract natural air system pressure drop.
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That looks to be an interesting option. I had an outlet installed behind my compressor just for this reason so I went with what I knew but that air pilot version might actually be a better way to go if it only cycles when moisture gets to a certain level.Looking at your image on the desk top, I see it is electric powered. I was not aware of that type.
I have been thinking about the pneumatic one.
Moisture Minder Pneumatic Drain Valve
Our pneumatic drain valve is an air-operated condensate drain designed to keep consistent air pressure to counteract natural air system pressure drop.