My truck this past month includes: HMMMM........ except for the payment nothing.

I was helping dad cleanout the garage last night before I came in to work ( a total disaster, FEMA would have even had trouble!! LOL) and I was saying it's amazing how much less time we spend in the garage working on vehicles nowadays. We sold the 84 we had built together a year and a half ago and since it's either farm equipment, wood working or piddling that's done in thier. No truck projects, tune ups, repairs etc. In a way it sounds good in a way it doesn't.
While cleaning we were both amazed at what was laying around in the place, an active farm for the life of the garage vs. a few years of piddlin with project trucks and bigger automotive projects and which do you think accumulates more useless junk, or should I say Ford gold. Every little part that was saved becase "well that fits an 84 or it will go on an 87 but not an 84, I'll find someone who needs it." Of course there's always the proverbial "it coud be used in an emergency" description of somethign that you have replaced that still worked just not 100% up to par.
So we decided to send some of those od Ford pieces of Gold to teh scrap yard to be turned into new Fords or rice burners.

 

Morning/evening Taz checkin in

 

Morning Taz.

 

Morning Mike Lemme guess your about to check out

 

You are amazingly accurate. Tonight was my monday, things are back to normal. Have a good day.

 

Taz I guess you'll be checking out soon to hit the road. I'll be here holding the fort for the next 2 hours.

 

Just over 2 1/2 hrs left in this shift... . Pretty much survived another one.

 

2 1/2 hours left here too......ofcourse less for you now, Ken.
Man, I cant wait to get outta here. When I get home, I'm grabbin a couple tennis ***** and taking my dogs out to play. Chase tennis *****, chase cows, let em go swimmin in the creek. Well maybe not the creek. My wife wigs out when the hit the creek and dont get baths. They got baths Sunday...not sure I wanna go thru all that again today.
I thought about workin on a few projects waitin on me......naw, maybe tomorrow.

 

Well today is Thrusday for me and since on my last day of the week I don't like to sleep till late that night (when normal people go to sleep) I like to sleep on Wed. night (the evening before I go in for my Friday) so i can be up all day on the actual Thursday (my Friday) and sleep that night (like normal people). To anyone but a true midnighter that would be confusing, but I'm sure you guys will figure it out. Anyway after ig et out of here I have some electrical work to do at a house for one of my mom's friends, a chainsaw to work on again and I'll probably do some more clean-up work on dad's garage. I also have a generator to replace a fuel line on (no big deal) but he wants a shut off and dump on it so it won't sit there and keep feeding the line full of fuel all the time and he can dump the tank without un-hooking the line. Luckily this generator was made back in the day when the company realized that "yes people will work on their own stuff" and the tank is threaded with a male 1/4" nipple out of the bottom of the tank and the underside of the tank is completely unobstructed. I think a genius farmer must have been on the design crew of this generator. It is the easiest thing I have ever worked on as far as getting to stuff.

The chainsaw is a Stihl 024AV and the chain keeps tightening up after it runs a little bit and isn't oiling to my satisfaction. I think what it amounts to is the bar and chain both need replaced.

 

I also have several fences to replace and work on this weekend. Too much fun associated with that, if it were keeping in cattle it wouldn't be a problem but trying to keep in dogs is a different story. I have an 80'x80' section fenced off for the dogs to run in, one gets out any time you let her out of her pen and she has taught my boy, who never got out, how to get out. That fenced area has been up for two years and my boy has never got out, he's been free in the area for the better part of that time and the last few weeks he has learned how to get out. The strange thing is he could clear the 4' high fence anytime but he never has, he has found a way underneath. AARRRGGGHHHHH!

 

When I get my next day off I have two things that must be done, first I have to straighten up my shop enough to get my wife's vechicle inside, that has to be done first so I can get on with item two, replace the starter on her 4wd. For now she is grounded untill I fix it. But today when I get home the only plan is to get to sleep so I can come back in for a 6pm start of shift.
--Ken

 

I have the next two days off. I was scheduled 72 hours this week. Seems someone did some thinking and decided my workin so much for so long must come to a stop. So now I'm down to 60 hours a week. I enjoyed the extra cash flow.....but it was sure startin to wear me down. Even my kid told me enough is enough.
So two days off.....I'm gonna make it R&R timeas much as I can.
Have plenty to do.......but have decided it'll wait.

Good luck on the shop cleaning.

 

Only 60 pep, you're starting to become a slacker. LOL!!!

 

You're right there. I imagine a couple weeks only working 5 days a week will have me thrown off....caught up, and bored. Caught up......yea right.

I been sittin here thinking of all the stuff I need done before I leave for the winter, in 33 days. Wow.... I have three tress I have yet to cut up. When their cut up, I'll have about 4-5 cords of wood to split and stack. Wanna put on a new set of gutters on one side of the house. Have to clean up two barns (straighten). Finish gettin my truck up to par for the trip and winter. Straighten some personal issues for my absence.
I'm sure I'll think of some more.

 

Bored????
Just come to FTE night sit check in. Like Hotel California: "..you can check out anytime you like,....but you can never leeaaaav!!..."
There's always eomeone here.

I'm going home boys, catch yall tonight.