Duck Pond Redneckery

[Duck]

No more #@$&ing squirrels in the old unused chimney making noise all the time.



For some f*n reason they wanted $200 for a cap like the one on the other chimney. This chimney is unused and it's entry ports are sealed. So I just capped it with a 12 dollar duct cap.





If the wind blows it off, I'll just attach something heavy to the inside & put it back up.

3 pictures in one post. Surely the Ravioli Methuselah will be along shortly.

 

[GAnthony]

No more #@$&ing squirrels in the old unused chimney making noise all the time.

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For some f*n reason they wanted $200 for a cap like the one on the other chimney. This chimney is unused and it's entry ports are sealed. So I just capped it with a 12 dollar duct cap.

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If the wind blows it off, I'll just attach something heavy to the inside & put it back up.

3 pictures in one post. Surely the Ravioli Methuselah will be along shortly.

dumbass...you could have got a masonry drill bit, masonry screws, and drilled at least 2 holes opposite each other and made that a permanent repair, or you could have bought some masonry contact cement and made a permanent repair....

 

[Electric Chicken]

dumbass...you could have got a masonry drill bit, masonry screws, and drilled at least 2 holes opposite each other and made that a permanent repair, or you could have bought some masonry contact cement and made a permanent repair....


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Flextape.

 

[Duck]

.you could have got a masonry drill bit, masonry screws, and drilled at least 2 holes opposite each other and made that a permanent repair, or you could have bought some masonry contact cement and made a permanent repair

I thought about that.

But the actual pipe is clay and it's been in direct sunlight every day since 1917. I figure it's brittle, and Tapcons would split it.

 

[Rigjockey]

I thought about that.

But the actual pipe is clay and it's been in direct sunlight every day since 1917. I figure it's brittle, and Tapcons would split it.

The same year @GAnthony was born.

 

[GAnthony]

The same year @GAnthony was born.

1817..............

 

[GAnthony]

Flextape.

yeah, that flex tape is wider now, dumbass @Duck could have done that........

but, no-no-no-noooooooooo..................he's gotta make use of that spayshell lift...............

 

[Duck]

yeah, that flex tape is wider now, dumbass @Duck could have done that........

but, no-no-no-noooooooooo..................he's gotta make use of that spayshell lift...............

I think I just figured out why you're such a crabass all the time.

You live in town, surrounded by PEOPLE.

You should move out to the country and grow tomatoes & wheat so when you retire, you can spend all your time making raviolis from scratch.

Then you would be at peace with the world around you.

 

[389 Hood]

I am striving for it myself. Just 15 more working days. I can't wait, but it scares the hell out of me. I think I'm in a decent section of the state to survive. Not city, not country.

 

[Duck]

Last night Sarah got sick of her long hair and grabbed a pair of scissors.

We ended up in the bathroom with clippers & I gave her a buzz cut.

When my dad saw it, he said "we gotta get a picture of you tearing up a picture of the pope"

 

[Electric Chicken]

I think I just figured out why you're such a crabass all the time.

You live in town, surrounded by PEOPLE.

You should move out to the country and grow tomatoes & wheat so when you retire, you can spend all your time making raviolis from scratch.

Then you would be at peace with the world around you.

He'd also have to plant some can trees.

 

[GAnthony]

I think I just figured out why you're such a crabass all the time.

You live in town, surrounded by PEOPLE.

You should move out to the country and grow tomatoes & wheat so when you retire, you can spend all your time making raviolis from scratch.

Then you would be at peace with the world around you.

it's not that i am surrounded by people...

it's like the United Fucking Nations and third world here.

they ain't people, they are rude, ignorant, smelly, drive by with music blaring, pushing baby carriages with like 43 babies in them, and walk to the laundromat with thier clothes in 2, maybe 3 large garbage bags on the weekends.

 

[Electric Chicken]

it's not that i am surrounded by people...

it's like the United Fucking Nations and third world here.

they ain't people, they are rude, ignorant, smelly, drive by with music blaring, pushing baby carriages with like 43 babies in them, and walk to the laundromat with thier clothes in 2, maybe 3 large garbage bags on the weekends.

Except for the 43 babies, that's me.

 

[Duck]

My dad is buying an enclosed 12 Ft trailer from the guy who was the instructor at my community college CDL class.

We went past on the way back from a rescue mission.

I had to go get my dad and his motorcycle because it's throttle cable broke & it was stuck at idle.

So I had my li'l red Harbor Freight trailer with his motorcycle on it. There's no mirror on the passenger side of my dad's truck, and I can't see the trailer anyway unless I open the tailgate.

I thought for all of about two seconds and I'm like "fuck it I'm gonna park in the ditch, I ain't gonna embarrass myself trying to back this thing into his driveway - he's literally the guy who taught me how to back semi trailers"

 

[Electric Chicken]

My dad is buying an enclosed 12 Ft trailer from the guy who was the instructor at my community college CDL class.

We went past on the way back from a rescue mission.

I had to go get my dad and his motorcycle because it's throttle cable broke & it was stuck at idle.

So I had my li'l red Harbor Freight trailer with his motorcycle on it. There's no mirror on the passenger side of my dad's truck, and I can't see the trailer anyway unless I open the tailgate.

I thought for all of about two seconds and I'm like "fuck it I'm gonna park in the ditch, I ain't gonna embarrass myself trying to back this thing into his driveway - he's literally the guy who taught me how to back semi trailers"

I ran into my CDL instructor at a local guard shack. She was working there.

She only got to see me go forward, thank goodness.

 

[Duck]

I ran into my CDL instructor at a local guard shack. She was working there.

She only got to see me go forward, thank goodness.

Steve is retired from Yellow, and he's been retired since before 2004 when he was doing the CDL instruction.

His pension is from the Teamsters union, not Yellow, thankfully for him.

The last time I saw him was 2 years ago at the fire department assistant chief's funeral. I guess they were good friends.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Steve is retired from Yellow, and he's been retired since before 2004 when he was doing the CDL instruction.

His pension is from the Teamsters union, not Yellow, thankfully for him.

The last time I saw him was 2 years ago at the fire department assistant chief's funeral. I guess they were good friends.

I was gonna say from all the...



But that predates it.

 

[Duck]

On the Snorkelift



But there's no power at the platform outlet



To be more specific, there's no neutral available at the platform.

If the platform is literally touching the ground, I'll get 120 volts between the hot (blue wire) and the platform itself. But only 1 volt from the blue wire to the neutral, which is the brown.

 

[Duck]

Inside the control box on the platform:



The outlet is on the right side. Brown is supposed to be neutral, blue is the hot, and white is grounded inside this box.

Below is inside the control box on the base of the machine.



The orange cable going into the bottom left of the box (bottom center of photo) is where the AC power cord comes in and connects to the two wires that go to the platform.

There is 120 volts available right there. Neutral is available at that end of the brown wire.

But somewhere in the 42 feet of cable between this panel and the one on the platform, there's a break in that brown wire.


I bet I could simply tie the neutral to the ground at the platform and at the ground controls box, and it'll work but it'll be using the whole machine as the neutral wire.

I don't know if I wanta do that.

 

[389 Hood]

Best you can do for a test is ohm the brown wire all the way up the boom if it's accessible. Using the machine itself as a neutral may cause failures of other components and leave you stuck at the machines upward limit. Now we want pictures of you getting down!