What did you do today?

[Handy Don 10,633]

4 minutes ago, Mickwhitt said:

If his daddy didn't I doubt he would have had a job. 

And so hard to know what daddy was thinking by keeping him on, right?

When assigned my first pair of steel capped toe shoes in the factory I also got stern warnings about what they would and wouldn't stand up to. They had pictures that really got my attention. I listened.

[ebinmaine 63,214]

There are those who would refer to those type behaviors as the natural culling of society. 

 

 

 

 

[Mickwhitt 4,156]

I hated the safety posters around college and work. Mangled hands and eyes with acid in them.

But I did learn from them....

I had a 12v truck battery explode right in my face when I was discharge testing it. Thought I'd blown out the hydrogen from the cells but its tricky stuff and up it went first spark.

Luckily the casing ended up stuck in my hands not my face, the acid went straight in my eyes. Id seen a photo of a guy who had got a drop in his eye and ignored it overnight. Lost the sight no bother.

So I ran straight to the toilets and put my head in the pan and flushed, several times. I got a bleached fringe and my overalls rotted but my sight was saved.

Next day the workshop had goggles at every battery charger, eye wash stations everywhere, the whole 9 yards. 

 

[meadowfield 2,545]

my brother once accidentally touched a spanner briefly to ground whist tightening the battery terminals on a truck...

 

One of the batteries exploded in his face, he did the same as you - basically hosed himself down and dumped his overalls and clothing.

 

He has a 2 inch scare on his chin from a piece of plastic going in and no other damage...  his clothes just fell apart like wet newspaper!

[Jeff-C175 7,195]

2 hours ago, meadowfield said:

touched a spanner briefly to ground whist tightening the battery terminals on a truck

 

Guilty here... but the battery didn't explode.

 

Probably a good time for this:

 

ASSuming we're talking about NEGATIVE GROUND, reverse the below if POSITIVE GROUND.

 

ALWAYS disconnect the negative when working on the positive!

 

When removing a battery ALWAYS  remove the NEGATIVE first.  ALWAYS remove the POSITIVE last.

 

When installing a battery  ALWAYS replace the POSITIVE first.   ALWAYS replace the NEGATIVE last.

 

Edited February 8, 2021 by Jeff-C175

[OldWorkHorse 2,992]

Put the Blower and chains back on the 314 today! Worked like a charm still gonna get wheels loaded for more weight but still not disappointed with how she preformed on her maiden voyage in the snow! My other half even wanted to try it out! (Slowly getting her addicted to wheel horse and she dont even know )

[ebinmaine 63,214]

10 minutes ago, OldWorkHorse said:

other half even wanted to try it out! (Slowly getting her addicted to wheel horse and she dont even know

Super awesome excellent and also wonderful

 

[ebinmaine 63,214]

@OldWorkHorse

It occurs to me you're going to have to buy a trailer that will easily haul a minimum of 2 tractors now. 

 

[ebinmaine 63,214]

Trina was putting something up on the top shelf and noticed a draft. 

I got up on a step,  held the phone camera and took a picture of the dark... Showing a light stripe. Where the wall was separated from the sill. 

 

So she crawled up in there and layed out some spray foam.  

 

Good to have a "Not huge"  person handy. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Pullstart 59,743]

@ebinmaine she deserves a trophy!  BAM! I stuck one in the picture for ya!

[ebinmaine 63,214]

28 minutes ago, pullstart said:

@ebinmaine she deserves a trophy!  BAM! I stuck one in the picture for ya!

Man oh man if you only knew.....

[Jeff-C175 7,195]

I think it's a good thing that spray foam is not brown in color!

 

I should own stock in that company.  It gets used extensively around here.  Rodents will not chew through it.  They take one bite and run.  Must be the formaldehyde trapped in the cells.

[ebinmaine 63,214]

14 minutes ago, Jeff-C175 said:

Rodents will not chew

That's not surprising ... I don't like the flavor either

[Jeff-C175 7,195]

36 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

I don't like the flavor either

 

You should try the bio-degradeable packing peanuts!

Not bad with a little salt added.

[Stormin 9,975]

2 hours ago, Jeff-C175 said:

I think it's a good thing that spray foam is not brown in color!

 

 

 

  Some shaped like that I sprayed a dark brownish colour. On a visit to the eldest daughters new abode I secreted it behind her settee. I was told later she went mad at the S-in-L. Told him to clean up his dogs mess and not let it in the house again.

[ebinmaine 63,214]

14 minutes ago, Stormin said:

 

  Some shaped like that I sprayed a dark brownish colour. On a visit to the eldest daughters new abode I secreted it behind her settee. I was told later she went mad at the S-in-L. Told him to clean up his dogs mess and not let it in the house again.

Yooo izz a mean old nasty human and that makes you more awesome. 

[Handy Don 10,633]

20 hours ago, OldWorkHorse said:

Put the Blower and chains back on the 314 today! Worked like a charm still gonna get wheels loaded for more weight but still not disappointed with how she preformed on her maiden voyage in the snow! My other half even wanted to try it out! (Slowly getting her addicted to wheel horse and she dont even know )

 

A new gateway drug...

[Pullstart 59,743]

Got a new axe.  Split a truckload of wood. Taking a coffee break.

 

 

Edited February 9, 2021 by pullstart

[Tractorhead 8,611]

Why you breath so hard ? 😂

 

i could remember you have also a hydraulic splitter,

Or was this just for exercise purposes?

😉

[Pullstart 59,743]

11 minutes ago, Tractorhead said:

Why you breath so hard ? 😂

 

i could remember you have also a hydraulic splitter,

Or was this just for exercise purposes?

😉

Old and out of shape, I guess!  I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to get the splitter to the wood.  It’s in a field far from help if I get stuck.

[lynnmor 6,796]

The head seems to be lighter in weight than it should be.

[Ed Kennell 35,844]

It'll probably take me 2 days to recover from watching that.    

[Pullstart 59,743]

2 minutes ago, lynnmor said:

The head seems to be lighter in weight than it should be.

After swinging it so many times, I’m not sure what to think about that   I need to get to the sugar shack for my 28” Fiskars to compare the heads, but that one is a beast!  Here it is in action a couple years back.

 

 

[Tractorhead 8,611]

May be a solution to put the stumps on a Trailer in back of any Wheelhorse and bring them to the Splitter?

Seattime and Fun..😎

 

[Stormin 9,975]

3 hours ago, lynnmor said:

The head seems to be lighter in weight than it should be.

 

 The axe or Kevin.  

 

Must admit I used to split my logs like that. Now I'm older and  knackered wiser, I use Stefan's method above.