why not a windmill and mechanical pump? When I looked into a solar well pump it became expensive fast. you need solar and batteries and inverters and then the pumps don't like anything but really clean power. If it were me I would go old school. maybe someone will chime in with different experience since I was looking at 200ft lift.
I would love to play with a D6 or D8 sometime, they just look like a ton of fun. If I end up getting a dozer it would likely just be a D4 or similar sized machine, not sure how much I'd use it, but if I have it I'm sure I'd find a way to use it more often.
I really didn't think about using a traditional windmill, never really crossed my mind to be honest. I'll look into that, I do like the simplicity of that though, a much simpler setup in the long run. Thanks for the suggestion.
Well I'm done with a small outage at work that took most of my time the past week plus. To catch up a few weeks ago when bailing the rancher discussed with me taking the pasture on the southwest corner of our place and planting alfalfa, then square bailing that to sell starting next year. I agreed but needed to cut the grass a little lower before disking and planting, a couple hours a few days after work of some tractor therapy helped:
His new car is a '65 Chevelle SS Impala, 350 CID engine, TKO 600 5 speed manual trans, 9" rear with 4.33 gears and 275 drag radials, fiberglass hood and trunk, it is more of a drag strip car than a street car but was built almost as a show car, it is very impressive how nice and clean it is inside, outside, and underneath.
Yep, you got me there, Malibu SS trim on the Chevelle, I was just a little off.
Thanks for the catch, I have it fixed in the original post now. I do enjoy a little time on the tractor especially when I have the shade and it isn't 100°F out. Today the high is 91°F, but from here on it is all mid 80's and getting into the 50's at night, I'm all for that kinda weather.Thank you Mike, it has certainly been a fun time this summer just enjoying the vehicles a bit and not doing much maintenance work on them. I have to admit the photo in the shop isn't my shop, that is the owner of the Mustang and Chevelle, he just lets me store the Viper there and allows the cobra to visit from time to time.
To me the smell of fresh rubber is nice, sadly the cost of new rubber is not so nice. That old machine works great, just not for a lot of the wheels on new vehicles or painted/polished wheels, it is great for old steel wheels though.
I don't care either way if the check has my name on it, open for business 24-7 for the right price.
I believe so, they are pretty intermitant, I'll go months without an issue, then out of nowhere they do something like this in just a few days. I am fine with any critter that eats mice and rats, but I refuse to get a cat, I can't stand a "domestic" animal that will climb on vehicles and scratch the heck out of the paint, not gonna happen again.
I've taken this summer pretty easy in the shop, but it is now show weather again and I'm planning to hit it really hard, I need to get this one done then rebuild the Pink Jeep. After that who knows, but I have plenty to keep me busy.
Right there with you obviously, now if I could park everything I care about in a nice shop I would be tempted to get a few.
It sure is disgusting, luckily I found this one early and they were just beginning the nest, now where those 4 bait blocks ended up is anyone's guess but eventually I hope they all die. I'll never get them all but I'll sure try to get as many as I can until then.Seeing your critter nests sure doesn't make me miss the farm one little bit. I hated having to de-animalize a tractor or truck that we only used seasonally.
I did buy one vehicle that didn't look like it had any animal infestation, after repairing it I was getting ready for a test drive and the HVAC fan sounded like it was going to come apart, luckily it was just FULL of rat poo, I didn't like that one bit. The poison blocks do a pretty good job, but I built one of those peanut butter water bottle bucket things last year and it worked surprisingly well, I think I got over a dozen mice and a couple rats with it, might be time to break it back out.
I've seen these advertised but hadn't ever looked at getting on seriously, I'll pick a few up and give them a try. Seems there are better reviews on this one, but same concept:these new fangled bucket traps look to be a good improvement on the bottle trap. gives them no chance to back out. skip step 4
Freezing in Florida?
That's not a bad idea, I was out of antifreeze last year and couldn't justify buying more just to go in a bucket to kill mice. I won an auction earlier this year and got 11 gallons for $30 or so, I think I can talk myself into it now. I'll keep ya'll posted on the success of this venture.nah, that was when I also used the bottle/bucket in Ohio. we didnt have these trap door buckets, must have been 1 or 2 that didnt fall for it because they ate the peanut butter on the edges somehow.Freezing in Florida?
JB
Is there a reason Vipers don't hit that mileage? Because they are all trailer, garage queens? That never get driven?This past weekend I took a trip to Missouri for my fraternities homecoming celebration to meet up with some friends and discuss the business of the house, it was supposed to be pretty cool in the mornings when I like to travel but nice and dry during the day. I opted to take the Viper, on the way I hit a milestone that many Vipers never reach:
Funny enough I got my best mileage ever in this car, hitting a corrected MPG of 20.7, this was incredible to me especially with all the hills and traffic sometimes slowing to 50 before picking the pace back up. While there I parked next to an H2 with a Duramax swap, the photo doesn't do it justice, but my car was miniscule in comparison:
I did see a funny sign in their workshop I felt like I needed to share:
Back home I worked on the RX-7 a bit more, rebuilt the rear brakes, from this:
to this (yes it is the other side):
I tried to tackle rebuilding the front calipers and all of the front suspension but kept running into roadblocks, parts and tools on order soon enough though. I turned my attention to machining an AR 80% lower, sadly the machining guide I bought didn't match up with the lower and wouldn't seat quite right:
This left a witness mark on the lower:
I modified the jig and used a friends mill to complete the task, fully assembled and it worked great, now to clean and lube to be ready for the next few jobs. I have a couple more to machine but will do a lot of the pre work at home before returning, it is pretty cool to take a bunch of parts and make a functioning firearm in a single day.
JB
Probably because a lot of Vipers get driven hard on track and the road and end up crashing/catastrophic failure of the engine.
This past weekend I took a trip to Missouri for my fraternities homecoming celebration to meet up with some friends and discuss the business of the house, it was supposed to be pretty cool in the mornings when I like to travel but nice and dry during the day. I opted to take the Viper, on the way I hit a milestone that many Vipers never reach:
JB
Apologies for the late reply, I am trying to use the last of my vacation for the year so took off from Oct. 28th to Nov. 2nd. I'll share some photos later, but worked on the RX-7 some, did a clutch swap in one car and started a manual swap in another for a friend.
I think a lot of it is that the owners want to keep them low mileage for the value, personally I'd rather have this 70,000 mile car vs one with 700 miles, untold deferred maintenance, dried seals, rotten tires, who knows. I know a few have over 100,000 miles but they are pretty uncommon.
There are plenty that end up that way, the Viper owners group in Oklahoma has monthly meetups and are all driving events, I haven't made one yet, but it is nice to see they at least drive them, some of the events are even track days which worries me more than street driving.
It is a 23 year old Dodge after-all, I'm just lucky the transmission didn't fail.Sounds like a great trip JB. Glad you were able to get the ole' Viper up to the 80 MPH milestone.
Sorry, couldn't resist JB.
I did learn it is easy to drop to 4th to pass and click off 3 vehicles and two semi's and not have to upshift, I was in deep "Go straight to jail" speeds though.JB, we ordered a red 1968 GTO and I babied it for the break-in period. Once the break-in oil was changed we took the car on a 100 mile drive to show it to my parents. Stuck behind a long line of cars going ten miles under the speed limit on a 2-lane, I pulled out to pass. I was used to driving a 1962 Rambler Classic station wagon, which would have spent most of the afternoon on that pass. I was 500 yards past the ancient truck at the head of the line before I pulled back in the lane. Happy laughing kids in the back seat, not so thrilled wife up front. Different story when she got behind the wheel.
