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That would have been fun. Binders had lotsa metal in them, so it would have had both traction and serious mass when it hit the end of the chain/cable.
I didn't have enough room to get very far away as the only way to be on pavement was to be on the driveway headed toward the house. But we might have tried again with more slack if the tree had shown any signs of coming lose. As it was, we could tell it was a lost cause.
I put some tools in the toolbox on Big Blue today, and realized, yet again, how dirty/tarnished/moldy the toolbox lids were. Here's a closeup of before:
So, I cleaned them. The first pass was using GoJo w/pumice and scrub brush. That took the mold out of the texture and cut some of the tarnish. Then I used Mother's Metal Polish and another brush, followed by lots of scrubbing with towels. Here's a closeup of after:
Looks good. I decided to try this stuff I found from California custom. Just got it in the mail today. It's an aluminum deoxidizer and purple metal polish. I did one of the doors on my tool box in about 10 minutes with it and I can read stuff in the reflection. Worth a try. It also got rid of all the nasty stuff around the diamond plates mothers mag and aluminum polish and a buffer wouldn't. I used a piece of house carpet for the applicator and it worked good.
Matthew sent me a link to this video, which is what he used. Sure makes it look easy. My way wasn't hard, but it wasn't that easy and didn't get the results shown in the video.
Not much, but I caught your drift, I was more into the early rock and roll, Buddy Holly, Everly Brothers, Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, Chuck Berry, most of the Motown groups, that stuff.
I actually like that stuff better than Jimi or The Doors. And, one of my favorite cuts of The Beach Boys is Barbara Ann - where Dean Torrance of Jan & Dean was in the studio and sang lead. But, since he was under contract with another label he couldn't be given credit.
And Hal Blaine played drums on that cut, as well as many others. Somewhere I have this LP:
...and asked if I thought "we" could pull the remainder out of the ground. Since he has a brand new Chevy 2500HD diesel I said "Maybe - let's try."
Do you have video of the Chevy doing its thing you can post here? I'm figuring out some Chevy quirks with this Yukon truck that are kinda irritating but I'd guess one would get used to certain stuff.
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