Duck
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I remember you starting that thread, good stuff
I was aiming for a spelling bee joke. Lame, I know
Duck Pond Redneckery
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Duck
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I decided to hold off on the redneckery until I get set up better. I just realized it's stupid to have two different workshops while the majority of the tools are in a shed between the two workshops.
This here is what a rollaway tool chest looks like when it's hanging from a front end loader outside in the rain in the middle of the night. It's pretty much the only way to move it through the grass. It's too heavy to roll it up into a tilt-bed trailer by myself, in the rain.
Then I spent a few minutes picking up all the tools from the floor of the new barn & putting them away but when it came to organizing my sheet metal box full of sockets, I got a case of the fuck-its & went in the house.
Tomorrow I'll go get the other two rollaway tool boxes, the drill press & my workbench.
Oh, .. and yes that's a Matco sticker on a Craftsman box.
This here is what a rollaway tool chest looks like when it's hanging from a front end loader outside in the rain in the middle of the night. It's pretty much the only way to move it through the grass. It's too heavy to roll it up into a tilt-bed trailer by myself, in the rain.
Then I spent a few minutes picking up all the tools from the floor of the new barn & putting them away but when it came to organizing my sheet metal box full of sockets, I got a case of the fuck-its & went in the house.
Tomorrow I'll go get the other two rollaway tool boxes, the drill press & my workbench.
Oh, .. and yes that's a Matco sticker on a Craftsman box.
Duck
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It's masking tape. One drawer is labeled "freedom wrenches" and the other is labeled "metric wrenches".
Duck
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If all you want is a portable 120/240 volt AC generator, go buy one. I don't know why, but just a simple belt driven generator head (no engine, frame, wheels, gas tank, etc) costs almost as much as a whole generator of the same wattage. So unless you have a reason to need to drive your generator around the yard at 6 mph, you're better off just buying a regular generator.
Yeah I looked at some prices.
Mine's gonna have a car alternator 'cause it's not intended for AC. Just DC.
I might not even do that. My dad wants me to sell him the mower (yeah right I'll just give it to him) and put an over size pulley on the engine so it goes about 10-12 mph. He wants it just for driving to the park & back to fly kites.
Duck
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They just migrated in there. One project after another, in a building like 200 feet away from the one with the tools in it. Finally I just said fuck it I'm bringing them all in here cuz this is the only barn I can actually lock up.
The other barn...
Well, ..
Just put it this way. This is the door latch I made for it.
Outside:
Inside:
Yeah um.. See that round thing up against the wood on the door with all the holes in it? That's where the spokes used to go through. That's a bicycle wheel hub, axle & bearings.
The flatstock is welded to the axle.
Duck
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It holds back the wind so far. That's about all it's good for. And it used to keep stray cats out until they realized they can just climb up the siding & get in through a missing window pane.
Tool chest didn't tip over. I was just being a lazy slob all winter & leaving the tools in a pile on the floor instead of putting them away.
revelation1911
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That reminds me of when I worked at the garbage company the head mechanic
heard there's a radiator leaking he immediately grabs the brazing torch and solder. next day truck had a brand new radiator in the box in front of it.
heard there's a radiator leaking he immediately grabs the brazing torch and solder. next day truck had a brand new radiator in the box in front of it.
Duck
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I don't know why every idiot with an acetylene torch & a brass rod thinks he knows how to braze, or even what it's for.
Some guys think it's "brazing" when you weld steel to steel with a steel rod using a torch.
I've fixed many a radiator in my day. Ok two. But one of them had lots of leaks in it.
Brazing was a pain in the ass, .... then one day an old geezer in his 90's told me to take a carpenter's pencil & draw lines on the metal & the molten brass will not cross that line. Then brazing suddenly got really easy for me.
Some guys think it's "brazing" when you weld steel to steel with a steel rod using a torch.
I've fixed many a radiator in my day. Ok two. But one of them had lots of leaks in it.
Brazing was a pain in the ass, .... then one day an old geezer in his 90's told me to take a carpenter's pencil & draw lines on the metal & the molten brass will not cross that line. Then brazing suddenly got really easy for me.
Duck
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Actually no, .. I've been using my ATV for that lately. The only thing that li'l red ridin' mower has been used for in the last 10 years is as the "Redneck Express" power unit. We get all loaded up & go cruising around the farm taking turns riding on the couch. One time Matt pushed the clutch halfway in going down a hill & the speed got out of control because the trans was disengaged but the brake wasn't applied. He wiped out & I flew off the trailer & spilled my last beer.
Duck
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No I just didn't give a fuck because the wood on the door was originally painted red anyway, and the only purpose for painting it was to prevent rust. I'd have painted it pink if that's the only color I had though.
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I know.
You'd think that makes them completely pointless, huh?
But I still enjoy doing it.
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