Hauled two loads of rock this morning and quit around noon due to the heat. I think the heat index hit 112 for a while today. Supposed to me miserable the rest of the week too.
One of our brush trucks at the fire department (1994 Ram 2500 V10) wasn’t idling well or shifting right the last time...
Skid for a 50 gallon transfer tank this afternoon. I am renting an excavator at the end of the month for a week and it will be 40 miles from the farm where I store fuel. I bought this aluminum tank at a farm auction with a bad pump several years ago for next to nothing and put it in storage. I...
Finally got around to getting my belly dump trailer unloaded. It’s been sitting several months since the engine laid down with a load on it and I haven’t had time to get it together. Used my old GMC Briagdier with a 750 Holmes to tow it down the hill and dump the trailer out then I split the...
Culvert replacement on a low water crossing at our farm. I built this crossing a couple years ago with a short piece of plastic culvert I got at an auction cheap. This usually stays wet enough that getting a truck stuck in winter is a concern. We have been dry enough lately that I could tear it...
I looked into doing some hiking in Colorado (not my thing to begin with). One of the guys said make sure to bring a tent…that’s all it took for me to bow out. No tent was going to be better than my air conditioned room at the Quality Inn. Hard pass.
Drove home to southwest Missouri from Sault Ste. Marie Michigan on Wednesday because I had gravel orders pop up for Thursday. It was a very long drive at around 1100 miles but I made it in roughly 17 hours. Hauled 5 loads of rock on Thursday and 9 on Friday. As I was finishing yesterday, got...
First real “load” tomorrow. Headed over to the property cleanup job I’m working on.
I added some bolt on D rings since the clowns that built the flatbed left no provision for attaching safety chains. I was going to put some 1” shouldered eye bolts in the holes next to the receiver but this was...
I have learned that there are many many ADA features hidden in plain sight that most people never notice. Even simple items like the style of a door handle or a faucet are a big deal.
Drove up to Sault Ste. Marie today after staying in Ludington last night. I totally found Ludington by accident, I just needed a room for the night and ended up right on the water. I’ll definitely be going back.
Visited the Soo Locks tonight and I’m taking the boat tour tomorrow morning...
I have done two spill and fills on this one since I bought it. The first one with 5qts of Mercon LV, then 5k miles later with 3 quarts of Mercon LV and 2 quarts of Schaeffer LV. I’m going to do it again in another 5k miles with all Schaeffer. It gets down the road great but the down shifts are...