What did you do today?

[adsm08 3,148]

6 minutes ago, HyperPete said:

 

I was brought up learning that anytime I borrow something, it is my responsibility to repair or replace the item (owner's discretion) if I damage it, or it breaks while in my possession.

 

When I was in my early 20s, I borrowed the neighbor's circular saw to make a quick repair to my parents' house on Cape Cod.  My neighbor stored it in his open shed (in view of the beach).

 

I took it home & plugged it in, and it began throwing sparks everywhere on the first cut. My fault for not testing it before I borrowed it. In any case, I replaced it with a brand new one and left it in my neighbor's shed when I was done. My loss, his gain, but that's the way it goes when I borrow something. 

 

This may be abnormal nowadays, but that's the way my parents raised me in the 60s & 70s. I think it's a good rule to go by.

 

That's how I deal with things that I borrow, but I don't get too worried about it when someone borrows my things. I recognize that most of my stuff is 40 to 60 years old, and well past the end of it's intended life. I Frankenstein things together to unnaturally extend their lives, and so there are often lots of little things that are wearing out, that I am keeping an eye on, expecting them to break at any time, so I'm not going to get worked up if it happens on someone else's watch. I'll just fix it and get on with life.

 

The other thing though, is the fact my dad and I are getting to ages where certain aspects of our relationship need to start reversing, particularly in terms of who is taking care of who, and I don't think he is quite ready to accept that.

[HyperPete 868]

8 minutes ago, adsm08 said:

The other thing though, is the fact my dad and I are getting to ages where certain aspects of our relationship need to start reversing, particularly in terms of who is taking care of who, and I don't think he is quite ready to accept that.

 

That's a hard thing to deal with all around...

[ebinmaine 72,426]

In the upper right part of this bare wall we are installing a very large air conditioning and heating unit. That's why that electric plug is there above the door. In the upper left part, that's where the wood stove chimney will go through. Yesterday evening I started shuffling things around a little to get these metal shelves back away from the wall six or seven inches. You can see the difference between the two in the second picture. I still have to move the third one of course.

 

 

 

[19richie66 17,624]

On 7/2/2025 at 7:11 PM, 953 nut said:

Nice suicide knob there @19richie66, that made the trip worthwhile.                   

You want it? First thing to come off 🤣

[Mickwhitt 5,114]

My old pond pump that has been going for 20 years needed a service. I lost the filter basket long ago and just used it to pump water for watering the garden.

 

So I decided to have an afternoon in the machine shop modifying the pump by making a filter mesh for it that's easy to remove for cleaning.

 

The outlet pipe was also the wrong size for the size of hose I have, so I had to turn a new adaptor out of black nylon. 

 

 

 

I also moved the power box and tidied up the wiring and hoses around the pond

 

Bit of landscaping to be done and it will look better. 

[adsm08 3,148]

Fishin.

[ebinmaine 72,426]

Hikin'.

[HyperPete 868]

Today I pulled down my weather station and gave it a thorough cleaning, inside & out.

Now I'm getting accurate wind speed & direction, and I expect the (formerly clogged) rain gauge will be accurate again.

 

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KPAWELLS47

 

[8ntruck 7,782]

I wrote a check to renew my Red Square supporter status when I discovered I was unable to load a picture to this thread.  It is going by snail mail, so it will be a week or 10 days before I can do that again.

 

Guess I should check my email a bit more often....

[ebinmaine 72,426]

5 minutes ago, 8ntruck said:

I wrote a check to renew my Red Square supporter status when I discovered I was unable to load a picture to this thread.  It is going by snail mail, so it will be a week or 10 days before I can do that again.

 

Guess I should check my email a bit more often....

 

 

I'm not amazing with technology but @Handy Don might tell you how to "resize" a pic.  

[TonyToro Jr. 1,927]

Quad ridin’.

Clocked in over 50 miles.

Edited July 4 by TonyToro Jr.

[8ntruck 7,782]

1 hour ago, ebinmaine said:

 

 

I'm not amazing with technology but @Handy Don might tell you how to "resize" a pic.  

Na.  My red status ran out today.  That takes away my ability to post more pictures.

 

Just got in from rearranging the tractor shed to get my C-195 roller under a roof.

Edited July 5 by 8ntruck

[MainelyWheelhorse 1,461]

4 hours ago, adsm08 said:

Fishin.

 

4 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

Hikin'.

 

‘Fourth of Julyin, but I gotta go to work tomorrow so now relaxin.

[nylyon-(Admin) 7,880]

10 hours ago, 8ntruck said:

I wrote a check to renew my Red Square supporter status when I discovered I was unable to load a picture to this thread.  It is going by snail mail, so it will be a week or 10 days before I can do that again.

 

Guess I should check my email a bit more often....

 

Got you covered!

[ebinmaine 72,426]

3 minutes ago, nylyon said:

 

Got you covered!

 

 

That's pretty cool Karl...

[ebinmaine 72,426]

On 7/3/2025 at 7:52 AM, ebinmaine said:

In the upper right part of this bare wall we are installing a very large air conditioning and heating unit. That's why that electric plug is there above the door. In the upper left part, that's where the wood stove chimney will go through. Yesterday evening I started shuffling things around a little to get these metal shelves back away from the wall six or seven inches. You can see the difference between the two in the second picture. I still have to move the third one of course.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I decided that this morning's project was going to be to empty the large gray shelf and move it from the interior of the barn to the workshop.

 

I needed to reset the two smaller, darker colored shelves for better level. Using the strap to the doorway and some additional blocking on the floor, that was accomplished. Then I installed the large shelves. All are screwed to the wall at the interior purlins.  

Now, I can start moving things from the shelf closest to the far corner onto this large shelf.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ohiofarmer 3,372]

I got a free pellet stove. The exhaust port was carboned up really hard stuff, so off came the forced draft fan near the exhaust port.

  The feed auger was full of pellets that got wet and swelled up. I finally drilled out the base of it to use a rebar to pulverize the now solid mass and she cleaned out.

  At the opposite end of the exha

ust fan there was a clean out which probably was never accessed..The scraper removed enough to fill a pie pan which probably explains all the crud and crust at the exhaust. Not too bad working in front of a squirrel cage furnace fan.

    These things list at over three thousand. They have more system controls than an Englander, so maybe because they have thinner heat exchangers they might put out more heat. Anyway, the thing is cleaned up enough that I will no longer look like a coal miner....

Edited July 5 by ohiofarmer

[ohiofarmer 3,372]

Oh and another marketplace find is this very nice condition double scissors lift. It let lifts from about seventeen inches to sixty four or so rated 660 pounds

[8ntruck 7,782]

5 hours ago, nylyon said:

 

Got you covered!

Thank you very much @nylyon.

[Handy Don 13,980]

29 minutes ago, ohiofarmer said:

Oh and another marketplace find is this very nice condition double scissors lift. It let lifts from about seventeen inches to sixty four or so rated 660 pounds

Very nice find.

I have a similar single-scissor lift good for 1000 lbs to ~35” that I use all the time. I do use it only on very hard surfaces (concrete and pavement) since I’m leery of heavy stuff high in the air!

[8ntruck 7,782]

Todays  experiment- posting a picture from my tablet.  Unlike all of the young ones out there, my working experience with computer operating systems is from the stone age - punch cards, paper tape, Fortran IV, and IBM OS2.  I'm barely  literate in the current world of Bluetooth and Android.

 

Already done - Bluetooth transfer of the photo to the tablet from my phone.

 

Looks like i got it figured out.  While out shopping yesterday, we treated ourselves to a new piece of Lodge iron:

Edited July 5 by 8ntruck

[HyperPete 868]

2 minutes ago, 8ntruck said:

Todays  experiment- posting a picture from my tablet.  Unlike all of the young ones out there, my working experience with computer operating systems is from the stone age - punch cards, paper tape, Fortran IV, and IBM OS2.  I'm barely  literate in the current world of Bluetooth and Android.

 

Already done - Bluetooth transfer of the photo to the tablet from my phone.

 

Looks like it might have worked.  While out shopping yesterday, we treated ourselves to a new piece of Lodge iron:

 

I maintained OS2 (and Novell) on a token ring network many years back.

[Handy Don 13,980]

I marvel at the pace of change.

The first computer that I programmed was a Clary DE60)--32 words of memory--each program was a stand-alone tool.

My new mobile phone has 128 Gb of memory (i.e. 2 billion times as much) and has an entire ecosystem of globally available tools (apps). 

In 1964 I marveled at having a video call between two hard-wired terminals across the NY World’s Fair grounds. Now my grandchildren assume that the only useful real-time communication is via FaceTime--even if they are in a car traveling down the highway (on a voice-only call one asked “Where are you, Gramps, I can’t see you?"! 

[adsm08 3,148]

23 minutes ago, HyperPete said:

 

I maintained OS2 (and Novell) on a token ring network many years back.

 

That's funny, because sometime between then and now I broke a token ring network using Novell and XP.

[Ed Kennell 41,800]

After 4 years of using a 20" table mounted slide rule to calculate the water HP, brake HP, and efficiency of model turbine test data, I entered the computer world in 1968 with a WANG programmable calculator.   It used a cassette tape.