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It is tough, because a lot of people are giving me great advice and I know what should have been done, but the problem is that it should have been done 5 years ago and now I am tangled into things. I wish it was easy, I could make it quicker, but it would involve creating more problems than I would like to. I sat down with Dad and told him that I can't take the yoyo anymore, not that it will fix anything, but he understands that we need to do something stable and agrees that his issues are only going to get worse. We are going to start to sell some towers, he has gotten away from trying to develop the land and we are putting that into tree growth to reduce the taxes, it also makes it expensive and a pain to take back out, so that should discourage him from trying to "develop" things in the future as well. I have explained to him that if we can get his liabilities cut back, remove some of the overhead by thinning the herd, all his expenses should go down.
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We make the best decisions we can, based on the information we had at the time.

Only 3 kinds of problems. Don't know / Can't / Don't want to. Respond with Information / Help / Motivation as appropriate.
 
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Picking up a few supplies then headed to the Salvage Garage. My original plan was to haul the military forklift from the Hill, then use it to move stuff out back, not sure I am going to do that though. I am a little worried that if I do, it will take away the sense of urgency I need to finish Clark. I am going to have to think on that for a minute or ten.

We cleaned up things a lot yesterday, going to pull Clark out of the bay for a bit so we can get to the racking and clean up all that stuff. We installed some cabinets for the mill and lathe, added some hooks for common used tools. I have a few more ideas that will take a bit more time to implement, so they are on hold for right this minute. When I post some pictures the difference in the shop will be very obvious, I am excited. Who knew that two weeks of help was all it would take to motivate me. ;)
 
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Problem with a irrevocable trust is that once signed it cannot be changed. So if a successor trustee dies or becomes incapacitated problems may arise . All the advice I've read says use a revocable trust (which my wife and I did some years ago). Then if things need to be changed it can be amended (happened to me).
Maybe Maine has a law like AZ where a paralegal can prepare the trust and other need legal docs (will, powers of attorney, etc). Lot cheaper than using an attorney.
 
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I am going to wait on update pictures, I am beat and not where I thought I was going to be, frankly it looks worse than when I started. Had to jam a bunch of stuff inside because we are getting rain tomorrow, then the parts washer that we fixed decided to leak and I had to transfer the fluid to a Rubbermaid trash barrel, between that mess and some of the other projects (no spoilers), I am tripping over things again. I can see the ight at the end of the tunnel, but right now I just need a bit of a break. I am doing a few lighter things, then I am going to pick up some supplies on the way home. I was at the Salvage Garage until 10:30 last night, a bit too much for me, but I didn’t want to have the parts washer fluid everywhere. :(
 
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Totally understand... had a few of those days in the shop as well in the past.....
Forklift cylinder rebuild, plastic and cardboard laid out, and the cylinder still ended up spilling hydraulic fluid all over the floor...

Had a steel barrel of older parts washer fluid leak after the barrel had rusted at the seam.... yeah, that was a mess to transfer to buckets...

Regardless, sounds to be progress happening!!!

..and it just started pouring in PA after a day of windy...
 
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Absolutely. Only one. It is however, self-evident.
1-You're screwed.
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That sounds about right. :(

I had a small win last night. I needed a four prong 240 volt outlet and I was thinking that I was going to have to run some new wire as all my current outlets are three prong. I checked the panel and the wire I ran years ago was the three wire, not the two wire, so I already have it run, just have to do a bit of reworking at the outlet. I am going to daisy chain a three prong outlet under the new four prong, the machines don't get used at the same time and this will eliminate having to make an adapter.
 
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We ran into a "lack of motivation" wall, I tested things and had one air leak that needs to be addressed, so far no liquid leaks.

Also my replacement barrel for the parts washer showed up and I decided to just put some epoxy tank sealer in it, figured that would probably make it last 50 years instead of the normal 30...
 
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Firebrand said:
Always nice to be a surprise contestant in the Rapidly Leaking Liquids game show Action Round! Well played!
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I had a commercial riding mower with hydraulic cylinders to raise/lower the deck. One time I removed the cylinders to do something. I forgot to hook up the drain/return lines (Just a rubber hose with hose clamps). I had done this at the end of mowing season so the mower was just sitting. I went into that area some months later and there was a quarter of inch of hydraulic fluid across a large area of the floor. Cleaning that up was real fun.
 
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Now fun finding big puddles under something, years ago my Dad did a stupid, he cranked over a 7.3 diesel with no injectors in one head, you can still see oil from that on the wall at the shop.

As some people have guessed, been working on the CNC plasma table, got it functioning last night, but not dialed in totally yet. It cuts with more of a bevel at the bottom of the parts than I think it should. I have been seeing where hypertherm says that on the "good side" of the cut it could have between 1 and 3 degrees of bevel and on the "bad side" it could have between 3 and 8 degrees of bevel, seems crazy to me. We can cut square, but the bottom of the part is bigger than the top (think trapezoid), played with feeds and amps through the G-Code, but the air flow is internally handled by the plasma cutter. One thing that really frustrates me is that the plasma cutter has post flow air for cooling purposes, so whenever the torch is triggered, when it is stopped, the air flows full blast for 30 seconds. Learned really quick to make sure not to end near the edge of the table as the coolant bubbles up and splashes everywhere. I have not found any way to adjust this down, so I cut a part for 8 seconds and it has to cool off for 30, doubtful, the cutter is rated to cut 1/2" plate at 100% duty cycle, so I would think 20 seconds of cut on 1/8" aluminum wouldn't need to cool off very long. :(

The table coolant looked beautiful for a few minutes...

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The integrated programs are super easy to make just about any general part without really using any sort of external CAD software, there are a few things that are still not understood, but I am sure I will be able to get it figured out. I wish I had more time today, but I had to fix a roof that was leaking and then was stuck doing some office work. I should have some time tomorrow, it is exciting, but I also need to finish picking up the shop itself, things are a general mess. The plasma table kind of became the project, once we put it where I wanted it, things were clear that the plugs and air lines were not in a great location. We rerouted the drain to the front of the table, added a front air fitting for the plasma cutter along with a pass through plug and 120 volt outlet. This way you plug the table in and then plug into the table so you don't have to fumble with the back of the machine much at all. We also added the main power switch to the pedestal and put two more USB ports on it. We did a few other things, but they weren't anything fun.


I want to bundle some of the cords together, also going to add a ground distribution so that the table can be grounded, but also use another line to ground the piece being cut. We were thinking that the ground could be part of the issue with the bevelled edges. I am sure there will be more to do as I use it more. Right now, just know that it will cut reasonable good parts is better than wondering if the mice made it into a hotel in the back corner of the shop...
 
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Working on finding lots of practice steel, I am still digging so I expect to have even more. So far there are four types, aluminum, stainless, mild steel, and some copper. As I do more over at the Salvage Garage, I just want to leave the Hill and be at one place. I still want the extra time so I can dismantle things at the Hill, but I am only planning on one more winter at the Hill. Also going to be hauling most supplies and tools over to the SG as the Hill will be more dedicated to taking things apart and there should be far less need for tools and supplies. This all makes me happy and hopeful, that is definitely a good thing.

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I ended up finding a bunch more, there is also a bunch outside at the Salvage Garage, going to try and get it all inside, just do t really have a place for it right this minute.

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Got the parts washer back together and filled, think my transfer pump died at the end, everything was submerged, but nothing was actually flowing. Just another thing to add to the list. :(

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It isn't bad, I have more trailers than anything. The state is issuing a new style plate and if you want to keep your old number/letters, they make you pay $25 per plate as a one time transfer fee. You were supposed to be able to do this reservation online, but they make you do it in person if the registered weight is over 10k pounds, so I either had to go into the state BMV branch or go to the two towns separately, in the end I still have to go to the one of the towns anyways as Dad did not register his truck in December and the BMV can't do the reservation without it being current, typical.
 
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