What did you do today....other than work on your car!?

[moparedtn]

Hot and humid as heck today. Mowed the entire estate, then spent some rare time fussing over
Fred's appearance.
Why? Cruise-In, of course.

Proof I actually DO still take the wheel sometimes...

@Sahara 's polar bear out front and proud...

Wife and I went somewhere air conditioned to eat supper, while Fred soaked in the attention.

 

[kiwigtx]

Chased a few dirty threads....and went to my local Butcher for some meat.....casserole steak and beef sausages. Topping up the freezer.

 

[69a100]

Which Hotdog joint?

Bill's drive in in south Evanston, on Asbury av./Western av. just north of Howard. Been going there since 1970!

 

[Geetex]

Bill's drive in in south Evanston, on Asbury av./Western av. just north of Howard. Been going there since 1970!
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Thanks. Next time I'm up that way I'm going to stop in, I love a good dog. Chicago style with no tomatoes.

 

[YY1]

Today-

Busted up more river rock from the screen porch/ hot tub removal project.

Slow going. Hard on the wrists, arms, back, knees, and *** in general.

It wears me slap out to get one 3 foot by 5 foot rectangle done.
Tough as nails indoor/outdoor carpeting is glued real good to the river rock.
I gotta squat and kneel to cut it with a carpet knife in about 3-6 inch strokes while also pulling up to gain clearance for the blade.
Then stoop while I grip the carpet with both hands and forcefully pry it off.
Takes about 5-6 efforts for that 3x5 piece.
Then use the tool I made, a 4" mason chisel wedged into a 48" 4x4, to pound/scrape up the glued on river rock that comes up in random sheets from 12x8 all the way down to individual pebbles.
The weight of the 4x4 takes some of the *** bust out of it, but not all.
Each 3x5 section yields slightly more than two 5 gallon buckets of rip rap, and each bucket weights 41 pounds!
Today I did two sections plus cleaned up the residuals- about 175 pounds plus the carpet.
Fortunately it was overcast and sprinkling today and only 85 degrees.

My *** is whooped.

 

[kiwigtx]

Today-

Busted up more river rock from the screen porch/ hot tub removal project.

Slow going. Hard on the wrists, arms, back, knees, and *** in general.

It wears me slap out to get one 3 foot by 5 foot rectangle done.
Tough as nails indoor/outdoor carpeting is glued real good to the river rock.
I gotta squat and kneel to cut it with a carpet knife in about 3-6 inch strokes while also pulling up to gain clearance for the blade.
Then stoop while I grip the carpet with both hands and forcefully pry it off.
Takes about 5-6 efforts for that 3x5 piece.
Then use the tool I made, a 4" mason chisel wedged into a 48" 4x4, to pound/scrape up the glued on river rock that comes up in random sheets from 12x8 all the way down to individual pebbles.
The weight of the 4x4 takes some of the *** bust out of it, but not all.
Each 3x5 section yields slightly more than two 5 gallon buckets of rip rap, and each bucket weights 41 pounds!
Today I did two sections plus cleaned up the residuals- about 175 pounds plus the carpet.
Fortunately it was overcast and sprinkling today and only 85 degrees.




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My *** is whooped.

Have you tried a hammer/impact drill with a wide chisel bit?

 

[YY1]

Yesterday-

Well at the shop developed a leak where the line from the head goes underground to feed the hose bibs. 1 1/4" gate valve male adapter to 1" bushing got brittle/rotten.

I did a "outside the box" repair to avoid having to cut and couple the short horizontal section.
I cut a cross hatch pattern on the male adaptor, down to just above the OD of the bushing, then chiseled and peeled most of it off. I then filed down a couple stubborn areas and finished off with my "secret weapon" of PVC repair- a drywall sanding screen.

Three projects that day. The leak, a belt for my shop fan, and I needed to replace the power cord on my tire changer and while I was inside, thought I might weld in a patch where the foot pedal guard used to be and paint the panel, so I need a close match rattle can.

Say, all small parts. Let's take the bike!
OK, back from Lowes with 2 cans of paint and some fittings and Advance with the last 47" belt they had...but it was Kevlar!
Back to work.
Everyone keeps their PVC cement and tire plug cement in the refrigerator, right?
Smart folks in Florida do.

BTW- check out the temp, the humidity is actually VERY low today, but those temps.....
Upper is outside, lower is inside the shop.

There's that....now about that red paint...

 

[YY1]

Have you tried a hammer/impact drill with a wide chisel bit?

Can't find one for my air chisel wide enough.

 

[YY1]

Not a bad match-

A little bright maybe, but I think I can live with it.

Gad to grind off the two bottom bolts.
Still need to drill them the rest of the way out.

...and I also started cutting down this tree.....for the third time!

Kind of a bitch to get in there.

That's about half of it and some were grown through the fence.
Now I need to cut the trunks so I can get to the branches on the other side.

 

[Daves69]

...Then use the tool I made, a 4" mason chisel wedged into a 48" 4x4, to pound/scrape up the glued on river rock that comes up in random sheets from 12x8 all the way down to individual pebbles.....

Way back, I had our toolroom machine the end of a mason chisel to fit my air hammer barrel. Worked fantastic.

 

[69a100]

After a week in Chicago, I came home to harvest these sweet bad-boys this morning! There's about 2 pounds worth there! Nothing like homegrown!

 

[Beep!Beep!]

I had borrowed a trailer from my neighbor to store some of my junk when I moved and was building my new home and garage. I almost had it ready to return and found out that he had died a couple of weeks ago, he was only 4 years older than me and I'm 55 . He had a stroke and was in the nursing home, not sure what happened, you never know, I talked to his sister and returned it,sad. I also had my painter text me that my car was going to be ready for me to come get it but have heard that before. Probably will sense I just cleared out the trailer and my garage is a mess again.

 

[Richard Cranium]

After a week in Chicago, I came home to harvest these sweet bad-boys this morning! There's about 2 pounds worth there! Nothing like homegrown!
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Ours in NH will be popping in a couple of weeks.

 

[Cranky]

Got through with the 8 3/4 for a customer a few days ago. It went ok except for the customer thinks he can drill retainer access holes in the flanges fairly easily by hand with a unibit so I'm insisting that he go ahead and do that. This is and will be my last rear end job for anyone but myself going forward. Other than that, I've been trying to get things done around here before the temps surpass 95 degrees. Had 100 day before yesterday and 97 yesterday and well, the 100 didn't feel as hot as the 97 did. Don't remember the humidity the day before but yesterday is was 50% at the hottest part of the day 83% in the early part of the day when the temp was 84 and that was around 6:30a....and no breeze at all.

 

[SlingLow]

Final grade completed, road fabric down, landscape wiring installed and buried (in conduit where it will be under hard surface), irrigation system adjusted where necessary. Ready for rock.

 

[patrick66]

Today, I'll be mowing the pasture. We've had seemingly non-stop rain since July 5th, and half of my pasture is over three feet high. I got through mowing halfway back on June 30th when my PS pump crapped the bed and leaked like crazy! Tried a bottle of PS stop-leak, to no avail. So, I'll add another quart of fluid, finish the mowing, then remove the pump to rebuild. There are two pumps available on my Ford 4000 Diesel tractor, and they are pretty different. A new pump is $777.00 USD (!!!), so a rebuild kit at $40.00 is the prudent way to roll.

I have a feeling the safe path here is to replace the water pump, both radiator hoses and PS belt, as long as I'm in all that.

 

[dadsbee]

 

[SlingLow]

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Your 'other' stuff is a lot more peaceful and enjoyable than my 'other' stuff.

I'd love to head out on the lake with a cold beer, a good book, a fishin' pole - and no bait so the fish don't bother me.

Gotta git er done so I can coast...

Love your pics and posts @dadsbee . Keep 'em coming.

 

[Charles Cook]

Getting ready for the Terrazzo lay out.

 

[Charles Cook]

Had to check on my crew installing carpet tile on a job that had Partition walls and full of furniture.
Dang I get all the hard jobs.