I found April BS thread
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From: Metro/Brainerd, MN
Always a relief when you get the big ticket items on their way. Congrats!
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From: Blue Hill Township
Hey now, that just adds to the excitement.
Actually I didn't realize how bad it was until I used it on Monday. Oops!
Actually I didn't realize how bad it was until I used it on Monday. Oops!
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From: Isanti, MN
Good morning everyone!
Just a bit of work to do this morning, then going to buy a van. Nice day for it.
Just a bit of work to do this morning, then going to buy a van. Nice day for it.
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From: DFW, TX-GoldCanyon, AZ
Good morning guys... Last night at the ER with Mom. She had fallen and broke two of the three bones in her right wrist (and is right handed)... Got pretty bruised up in the process. We got home about 3:30 this AM and are headed back to the hospital.
Now to figure out how to get Mom into and out of the Jeep to get her back to her assisted living place. She was an in invalid to begin with.. Not sure how this will all play out..
Now to figure out how to get Mom into and out of the Jeep to get her back to her assisted living place. She was an in invalid to begin with.. Not sure how this will all play out..
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That's no good, Randy! I hope she heals up quick and learns to be adaptive in the meantime.
I managed to tweak my back (I've got a herniated disk about even with the bottom of my breastbone) moving a 3pt subsoiler frame I made this week so I could paint it. I laid pretty low yesterday from that and think I finally managed to pop it back into place about an hour ago.
The 4x4" square tubing alone calculates out at 72#, then I have a bunch of 3/8" and 1/2" tabs, angle, and gussets. The ripper shank is a known 92#+ and this frame is heavier yet.
I'm getting ready for tractor season.
I managed to tweak my back (I've got a herniated disk about even with the bottom of my breastbone) moving a 3pt subsoiler frame I made this week so I could paint it. I laid pretty low yesterday from that and think I finally managed to pop it back into place about an hour ago.
The 4x4" square tubing alone calculates out at 72#, then I have a bunch of 3/8" and 1/2" tabs, angle, and gussets. The ripper shank is a known 92#+ and this frame is heavier yet.
I'm getting ready for tractor season.
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From: DFW, TX-GoldCanyon, AZ
Thanks guys... She's in the Nursing home across the street for a week until she gets a hard cast..
Jim, that's a nice bit of fabrication there...
It would be over my doctor and wife prescribed limitation to lift though.. After 6 hernia surgeries in my life, I am grounded from lifting anything over 50# ... My back won't take much either so I am just doomed I guess.. I sure had no limits while I was young though. I remember carrying a whole pickup load of engine blocks (sbc and sbf) one at a time to load and unload at a machine shop. I don't remember what those blocks weighed, but they weren't light.
Well, out to mow the lawn I think and then try the dryer sheets on the bugs on the front of my truck..
Jim, that's a nice bit of fabrication there...
It would be over my doctor and wife prescribed limitation to lift though.. After 6 hernia surgeries in my life, I am grounded from lifting anything over 50# ... My back won't take much either so I am just doomed I guess.. I sure had no limits while I was young though. I remember carrying a whole pickup load of engine blocks (sbc and sbf) one at a time to load and unload at a machine shop. I don't remember what those blocks weighed, but they weren't light.
Well, out to mow the lawn I think and then try the dryer sheets on the bugs on the front of my truck..