What did you do today?

[8ntruck 8,829]

The plumbers showed up today.  Unloaded their mini excavator and waited for all of the utilities folks to mark where their various pipes and wires are located - none of which were in the area where the digging was going to take place.  But, tis the law, and better to be safe than sorry.

 

About 6 1/2 feet down, the sewer pipes were located.  Big soggy soft spot around the house trap.  The trap (clay piece) appeared to have a crack on the inlet side.  Lots of buildup in the pipes, suggesting a slow flow for some time.  The house trap is now gone, replaced with about 7 feet of 6" PVC and a clean out tee.  Back fill is scheduled for tomorrow.

[CasaytheMann 108]

Almost done with cutting the tree up. I'm sure giving the 20v batteries some exercise.

 

 

[953 nut 65,791]

20 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

Part of my job is picking up credit after the work is done. We take pictures of pretty much everything that we do. I showed up here. Park across the street. Nothing unusual. Started filling out the paperwork and I looked over to the pallets that I was about to go fetch and I see this....

 

 

 

Guard cat??!?

[ebinmaine 78,614]

2 hours ago, 953 nut said:

 

I tried to visit but it took off...

 

Ya know. If that was a dog? I wouldn't have ever gotten outta truck. 

 

I figured I'd take my chances on the kitty though.  

 

 

[ranger 1,854]

How about this one? 🙀😂😂😂

[Beap52 2,224]

20 hours ago, 8ntruck said:

The plumbers showed up today.  Unloaded their mini excavator and waited for all of the utilities folks to mark where their various pipes and wires are located - none of which were in the area where the digging was going to take place.  But, tis the law, and better to be safe than sorry.

 

About 6 1/2 feet down, the sewer pipes were located.  Big soggy soft spot around the house trap.  The trap (clay piece) appeared to have a crack on the inlet side.  Lots of buildup in the pipes, suggesting a slow flow for some time.  The house trap is now gone, replaced with about 7 feet of 6" PVC and a clean out tee.  Back fill is scheduled for tomorrow.

Good to get that job done. 

 

It seems to me that the utility folks make sure their side of the meter is covered but once it's on the homeowner's side, they don't seem to mark out those lines. The advertisements on TV state safety as a major concern and why they don't sound out lines up to the side of the house must be because some kind of litigation looking over their shoulders.

 

When you started talking about  sewer problems, the first thought I had was Orangeburg.  That stuff should have never been put into the ground.  At least you still had clay pipe. 

 

Now for the replacement deck!

[C100guy94 52]

Got a hernia surgery 

It sucks can tell yea that. 

All's I wanna do is go outside and ride on the tractor 

 

[953 nut 65,791]

7 hours ago, ranger said:

How about this one?

Or this one.

[OldWorkHorse 3,138]

Spent the last few days cleaning up my tree line along the property. Wheel horse is definitely a big helper. Loaded up the trailer about 12 times to drive it all down the the big pile. Going to be getting a chipper here in a few days to make it all go away. Coming along nicely, I can finally walk into my tree line. 

[OldWorkHorse 3,138]

48 minutes ago, C100guy94 said:

Got a hernia surgery 

It sucks can tell yea that. 

All's I wanna do is go outside and ride on the tractor 

 

Had double few years back. Not at all enjoyable. Good luck with your recovery!

[C100guy94 52]

2 minutes ago, OldWorkHorse said:

Had double few years back. Not at all enjoyable. Good luck with your recovery!

Ohhh yea give me a 6 pack of that double nooo way man. No way. 

They did mine robotic or w.e they call it 

[C100guy94 52]

3 minutes ago, OldWorkHorse said:

Had double few years back. Not at all enjoyable. Good luck with your recovery!

Alright how long was it till you could sit and least joy ride on a tractor ? 

 

And man how long was your recovery time had to be a while

Edited Wednesday at 12:21 AM by C100guy94
Forgot to add the last half in

[OldWorkHorse 3,138]

6 minutes ago, C100guy94 said:

Alright how long was it till you could sit and least joy ride on a tractor ? 

 

And man how long was your recovery time had to be a while

Lucky for me had mine right after Thanksgiving and the snow was light that winter so I dont think I saw any seat time till the following spring. Out of work for 12 weeks and light duty got 6 months? 

[OldWorkHorse 3,138]

8 minutes ago, C100guy94 said:

Ohhh yea give me a 6 pack of that double nooo way man. No way. 

They did mine robotic or w.e they call it 

Ok few! Mine looks the same. I thought i had just got the new guy!

[C100guy94 52]

11 minutes ago, OldWorkHorse said:

Lucky for me had mine right after Thanksgiving and the snow was light that winter so I dont think I saw any seat time till the following spring. Out of work for 12 weeks and light duty got 6 months? 

 

10 minutes ago, OldWorkHorse said:

Ok few! Mine looks the same. I thought i had just got the new guy!

Hahahaha I thought the same. 

Was a female surgeon she put her signature on top of where she was doing surgery so her coworkers knew she oked it 

Crazy right

[ebinmaine 78,614]

Got a little workshop time.  

 

 

[adsm08 4,405]

Tonight the boy and I went over to his girlfriend's house. Their tiller needs some work, so I picked that up to bring home, said boy is going to be doing the work. It's just a simple fuel line replacement, may need to clean the carb, don't know yet, and I'll have him go over all the grease zerks.

 

Her (the GF) mom also asked me to sharpen the blades on their JD, that was bought used at the end of last season, because it's been cutting like crap. I jacked it up and found three new blades that were installed upside down, so the blunt end was doing the cutting. Flipped them over and that was that.

[Handy Don 16,461]

16 hours ago, adsm08 said:

I jacked it up and found three new blades that were installed upside down, so the blunt end was doing the cutting. Flipped them over and that was that.

She (GF's mom) ought to be looking for a labor refund from whoever put those on there or thank them because the mistake probably lowered the selling price!

[8ntruck 8,829]

I got some seat time on the GC1720 today.  I used the FEL to take several large, heavy items off of what is left of the deck and placing them on the utility trailer for a trip to the storage locker.  Today's project about justified the purchase price since I didn't have to wrassle the items down the 4 steps to get them off of the deck.

 

I'm seriously considering a set of forks for this thing.

 

Deck is now clear and ready for further demolition.

 

Muscle memory for the 2 pedal hydrostatic drive is improving.  I only stabbed the forward pedal once with my right foot instead of pressing the brake with my left foot.  For now, I'm only running the engine at 2000 rpm until I get smoother on the controls.

[Bar Nuthin 2,414]

 

1 hour ago, 8ntruck said:

I used the FEL

Got about half of my old pool area sand loaded and hauled to the back of my property, using a trailer, shovel and the C-141.  Sure makes the idea of a FEL appealing.

 

 

1 hour ago, 8ntruck said:

I'm seriously considering a set of forks for this thing.

 

Funny, I was just contemplating how to fab a set of small forks to attach to a snowplow frame. Nothing major - just for moving things like mower decks, rear ends, etc. from my shop out to the shed.

Edited 1 hour ago by Bar Nuthin