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Strouty

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Ok, outside of the office I have been fighting with some new (to me, but older) tech. I have been working on backing up my 4k and blu ray movies. Unfortunately I wasted quite a bit of effort before learning that I could make a straight backup of the disk and play it directly on my Oppo UDP 203 player from a hard drive. From there I have been experimenting with various formats and that has brought me down a few rabbit holes. I bought some hard drive setups that didn’t work with the player, spending money for nothing, then decided to pay for a bootleg firmware update that will allow the Oppo to play almost any format digital file, it currently is limited and won’t play backups of regular blu ray discs or ISO DVD files. That is supposed to be here tomorrow, then I have to figure out how to do the upgrade without destroying my fairly expensive Oppo player.

For everyone else:

Forklifts are fun.
 
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Firstram

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Strouty said:
Ok, outside of the office I have been fighting with some new (to me, but older) tech. I have been working on backing up my 4k and blu ray movies. Unfortunately I wasted quite a bit of effort before learning that I could make a straight backup of the disk and play it directly on my Oppo UDP 203 player from a hard drive. From there I have been experimenting with various formats and that has brought me down a few rabbit holes. I bought some hard drive setups that didn’t work with the player, spending money for nothing, then decided to pay for a bootleg firmware update that will allow the Oppo to play almost any format digital file, it currently is limited and won’t play backups of regular blu ray discs or ISO DVD files. That is supposed to be here tomorrow, then I have to figure out how to do the upgrade without destroying my fairly expensive Oppo player.

For everyone else:

Forklifts are fun.
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I really enjoy your posts and hope you’ll continue. I also feel you shouldn’t feel pressured to post something meaningful every day. Do your best to be productive while enjoying being yourself and share what you can! Rooting for your success!
 
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Strouty

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My main reason for not posting was that I have been back working on a plan to stay/keep the Hill. I didn’t want peanut gallery or enabler feedback on this one and I don’t think I could have handled the backlash from some people. I have renewed the lease for a year and it looks like we have a solid path forward, Dad has agreed to having both my Brother and Stepmother sign it as well. I really am not elaborating on things until I have more of the paperwork aspect handled.
 
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bimmer1980

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Glad to hear you are making a path forward. There are a lot of perspectives when dealing with the family. Give and take.

Hopefully things come together for you and the drama decreases... (and you can get back to some projects!! Forklifts and cranes and payloaders....)

...and totally understand why you would not share the details or want the opinions.
 
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Strouty

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Thanks everyone.

Just wanted you to know I am still making dumb purchases, just not heavy equipment. Paid way too much for a copy of the movie Airheads on Blu Ray. I can't wait until I start to offload some of these movies, the carrying costs are killing me. At least now I have things figured out so I should be able to start bringing some of the money I spent back by selling off things. Definitely a different sort of realm compared to the forklifts.
 
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rixtrix1

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kent_323is said:
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I saw this vehicle listed at a dealer near me today and thought of Strouty!
1998 Tahoe LS, 173k miles, $16,500
Looks super clean.
South Dakota dealer.
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Anything from a snow country state I'd recommend putting up on a lift to look at the undercarriage before deciding how clean it "looks". Being a native Nebraskan before moving to Arizona, I've seen lots of locals here getting burned by clean looking vehicles. The bottom 3" that you really can't see standing up is where they all seem to have problems- like "no sheetmetal under those new floormats".
 
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bowtiguy

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C’mon stroughty! The suspense is killin’ me. Give up some content already.

ive been with you since before the photo bucket fiasco, you‘re miles ahead since those datys.

im REALLY looking forward to your progress. Plus, i know the leaves are turning. Which means scramble mode.
 
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Strouty

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Since everyone likes drama and updates...

Random fun with no HVAC people willing to work on the propane powered boiler at a rental property. They either don't (won't) service my boiler, apparently Rinnai makes the worst wall mount units out there. Only local place that is listed as authorized repair won't come to you unless you use them for propane. I am definitely going to replace it as every time we have an issue it is a big one. Most likely going to lose this months rent as they will have to move to a motel if it can't be fixed quick. I hate this house and the entire situation ***** as it is a crazy entry procedure when they have someone in there. Fun all around.
 
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jacric2005

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Strouty said:
A lot of you don't know me, a lot of you do, either way here is a bit about me and my background:

I am 40 (just so you don't think I am a retired hoarder) and this stuff has been collected over the last 11 years. I had the basic hand tools before that, but the majority of this stuff was either traded, purchased at auctions, craigslist buys, or free. I rarely buy something new, unless it will make me money or if buying used would be too risky. I grew up on 100 acres of land and it had multiple shops and lots of outside storage. I was essentially born into the tower industry, I started climbing towers when I was little and I worked for my Father's company all through school. I built my first car at 17 from a junker with rotted out floors and a bad transmission.

I started my own company in 1999 and did well until I herniated two discs in 2004. I recovered slowly from that and started doing tower work again, then in 2010 I had a recurring issue with my hands and things went south from there.

I spent 2012 having 3 surgeries on my forearms, then the first part of 2013 in therapy for them. I just started feeling like myself again towards the end of summer 2013.

2014 was the first year that I had full use of my hands in over three years.

The last couple years have been spent working on the Salvage Garage, improving things, mostly inside, but a bit outside too. I took a bit of a sabbatical to learn more about myself, sometimes the shop is just not as important as life.
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Container envy!
 
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walrus

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Strouty said:
Since everyone likes drama and updates...

Random fun with no HVAC people willing to work on the propane powered boiler at a rental property. They either don't (won't) service my boiler, apparently Rinnai makes the worst wall mount units out there. Only local place that is listed as authorized repair won't come to you unless you use them for propane. I am definitely going to replace it as every time we have an issue it is a big one. Most likely going to lose this months rent as they will have to move to a motel if it can't be fixed quick. I hate this house and the entire situation ***** as it is a crazy entry procedure when they have someone in there. Fun all around.
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Every tech around will tell you wall hung Propane boilers are throwaway after so many years. Very efficient as long as you don't factor in the throwaway part every 10 years
 
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kaymccampbell

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Lick n stick boilers aren't that wonderful. If you must have one, then I recommend cheap ones, because they last just the same as the pricey spread.
Nothing is as good as a lovely cast iron boiler. The one I installed 30 years ago is still ticking over. It will run long after I'm gone, and with simple maintenance, long after the next owner is gone.
 
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djbmw

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Strouty said:
Ok, outside of the office I have been fighting with some new (to me, but older) tech. I have been working on backing up my 4k and blu ray movies. Unfortunately I wasted quite a bit of effort before learning that I could make a straight backup of the disk and play it directly on my Oppo UDP 203 player from a hard drive. From there I have been experimenting with various formats and that has brought me down a few rabbit holes. I bought some hard drive setups that didn’t work with the player, spending money for nothing, then decided to pay for a bootleg firmware update that will allow the Oppo to play almost any format digital file, it currently is limited and won’t play backups of regular blu ray discs or ISO DVD files. That is supposed to be here tomorrow, then I have to figure out how to do the upgrade without destroying my fairly expensive Oppo player.

For everyone else:

Forklifts are fun.
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Im a little late to the party on this one but... I rip copies of all my content and store them on a NAS that has RAID-1 duplication (essentially the movies are stored on half of the hard drives, and the other half contain a mirrored copy so that, if a drive fails, i still have a copy on the other drive).

The NAS has Plex Server installed (software that turns the NAS into a local streaming server) and all of the TVs, tablets, and phones have the Plex Player, allowing instant playback of any content at any time (even in 4k).

If I ever want to make a physical disc then I can burn a bluray disk from any physical PC in the house by accessing the NAS over the network.

If you have an older (yet still decent) desktop computer laying around you can convert it into a NAS, limited only by the physical space inside the tower.
 
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86turbodsl

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Michigan
kaymccampbell said:
Lick n stick boilers aren't that wonderful. If you must have one, then I recommend cheap ones, because they last just the same as the pricey spread.
Nothing is as good as a lovely cast iron boiler. The one I installed 30 years ago is still ticking over. It will run long after I'm gone, and with simple maintenance, long after the next owner is gone.
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I just pulled a 1930 Cast iron boiler out of my shop. It'd still be there if it supported waste oil combustion like i need.
 
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