So if you didn't do anything airgun related what did you do today?

[Blowpipe Sam]

My saw makes a 1/4" kerf, so on a 8" wide cant that's 12' long I'm making 864 cubic inches of sawdust per pass, give or take.

Sweet! The smell of that just can't be beat.

I have a rather complicated system with two septic tanks and a lift pump.  I have TWO filters that have to be cleaned about once every three months. 

I'm sure there's a joke there about being full of it.


What did the public flush that they shouldn't have? Diapers at the very least I'm guessing? I'd pay to have it cleaned. I'm a wuss like Bill when it comes to poop.

For natural smells there's not much better than fesh cut spruce, hakmatack, or fir. Running fir tree boughs through the shredder is amazing.

What don't they flush!  I have pulled from jammed macerators blades cell phones, underwear, tee shirts, towels, golf balls, shoes, wallets, sunglasses, rocks, keys, dentures, tools, wigs, toys, uncounted baby diapers, and an entire spool of 30lb. test fishing line.

I drove a couple of boat tours this morning and then the weather shut us down.  A strong line of thunderstorms moved through starting about 2:00 p.m.  I was about a half a mile from the dock when a bolt of lightening hit within about a mile of us.  That's the signal that it's time to go home.  Got a brand new motor which I had never run at max RPM so I had a big grin as I pushed the throttle through the gate.  I only had about a dozen passengers aboard so we got up on the plane at around ten knots.  She hit about twelve knots plowing upstream which ain't too bad for the old scow.  So that was my excitement for the day.

[Madd Hatter]

Dentures!?!? 😳👀 Did you even get jack potted with the wallet or was it just a pickpocket disposing of the evidence?

[maraudinglizard]

What don't they flush!  I have pulled from jammed macerators blades cell phones, underwear, tee shirts, towels, golf balls, shoes, wallets, sunglasses, rocks, keys, dentures, tools, wigs, toys, uncounted baby diapers, and an entire spool of 30lb. test fishing line.

Dentures!?!? 😳👀 Did you even get jack potted with the wallet or was it just a pickpocket disposing of the evidence?

I worked in a Florida state park in the mid 80's and it was built during the civilian conservation corp era so you can imagine what kind of shape the plumbing and septic system was like. Even back then people flushed stuff down the drain that didn't belong in the septic system. Did a whole lot of digging that summer.

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

I found out this old Screw Jack I got from my dad's stuff works great for lifting the mower to change the mower blades. I put jack stands under the front axle before I changed them though. 

[Tater]

I found out this old Screw Jack I got from my dad's stuff works great for lifting the mower to change the mower blades. I put jack stands under the front axle before I changed them though. 

In the bottom pic, photoshop some smoke behind the rear tires and it will look like a sweet wheelie.   

[avator]

I found out this old Screw Jack I got from my dad's stuff works great for lifting the mower to change the mower blades. I put jack stands under the front axle before I changed them though.

I have one of those. I find it a great tool for pulling fence "T" posts.

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

I found out this old Screw Jack I got from my dad's stuff works great for lifting the mower to change the mower blades. I put jack stands under the front axle before I changed them though.

I have one of those. I find it a great tool for pulling fence "T" posts.

I spent/wasted a couple of hours looking at mower jacks online yesterday morning, trying to decide which one to get. Then I remembered I had gotten this jack and decided to try it first. While a hydraulic jack would be nice this jack gets the job done just as well and I saved the $.  In the past I always just removed the deck to change blades, this was quicker.

[avator]

I went one better...I hung a deer skinning pulley system in the Red Shed. Now I just pull the mower in, fasten a couple straps to the leg spreader and raise it up. Slide a couple jack stands uinder and I'm good to go.
I also have a deer skinning pulley unit that goes into the Reese hitch on the truck (think tow truck). I can back the truck up to the mower if it's not running for some reason.
These are things that were left behind by the previous tennent..... free is good.   

[Blowpipe Sam]

I like your redneck engineering Bill.

I told them at work that I was getting too old for running the weed whacker this year so our maintenance mechanic revived an old Sarlo push mower for me.  We've got a small utility trailer I can pull behind my Kubota UTV so I loaded it up today with landscaping tools and headed for the Lodge.  I spent the morning happily  working on the landscaping in front of the Lodge.  I mowed everything that the big zero turn riding mowers can't get and actually did do quite a bit of weed smacking.  It's stick edging that I've really got to give up.  That and using the big Stihl hedge clipper above my head.

I've recently graduated to "Senior Ranger" here at the park by dint of attrition.  Two other fellows have just retired leaving me with the most time in grade.
It's kinda scary because these people here haven't figured out that I'm faking this #?&@!  Generally I'm making it up as I go along.  In the past no one has ever listened to me or paid any attention to what I was doing.  I got along because there was always someone else that wanted to be in charge and I could just coast.

Just to be clear here I am a professional slacker who has managed to skin through life without ever lifting a finger to do honest work or acquiring any usable skills or common sense.  I've been described as "a man with no business being anyone's role model".

Now there's this bunch of bright eyed youngsters looking to me for guidance.  Clearly someone has blundered.

Tempted to tell them "Second star  to the right and straight on til morning".

[avator]

I like your redneck engineering Bill.

I told them at work that I was getting too old for running the weed whacker this year so our maintenance mechanic revived an old Sarlo push mower for me.  We've got a small utility trailer I can pull behind my Kubota UTV so I loaded it up today with landscaping tools and headed for the Lodge.  I spent the morning happily  working on the landscaping in front of the Lodge.  I mowed everything that the big zero turn riding mowers can't get and actually did do quite a bit of weed smacking.  It's stick edging that I've really got to give up.  That and using the big Stihl hedge clipper above my head.

I've recently graduated to "Senior Ranger" here at the park by dint of attrition.  Two other fellows have just retired leaving me with the most time in grade.
It's kinda scary because these people here haven't figured out that I'm faking this #?&@!  Generally I'm making it up as I go along.  In the past no one has ever listened to me or paid any attention to what I was doing.  I got along because there was always someone else that wanted to be in charge and I could just coast.

Just to be clear here I am a professional slacker who has managed to skin through life without ever lifting a finger to do honest work or acquiring any usable skills or common sense.  I've been described as "a man with no business being anyone's role model".

Now there's this bunch of bright eyed youngsters looking to me for guidance.  Clearly someone has blundered.

Tempted to tell them "Second to the right and straight on til morning".

Yup.. I'm a repurposing fool..
BTW... I used to tell them... East til you smell it then south til you step in it.

[Back_Roads]

 Funny how one ends up on the top of the heap sometimes

[bReTt]

I've recently graduated to "Senior Ranger" here at the park by dint of attrition.  Two other fellows have just retired leaving me with the most time in grade.

Congratulations!  You deserve it I'm sure 🦾

[bReTt]

Two of the boys and myself have dentist appointments today for teeth cleaning.  Instead of making the hour commute to work each way and only being there for 4 hours I decided to take the whole day off work. 

So far I have slept in, cuddled with the Mrs., made cappuccino and surfed the web.  I'll piddle around doing some small things until appointment time then get my fangs washed up professionally.  I'll make a run to the grocery store on the way home then Mrs. P and myself are headed out for the rest of the evening.  I'm sure we'll go walk along the edge of a body of water and then eat some grub and coffee but not necessarily all in that order.  Then it will be time to come home to our peeps and we will settle in for a quiet evening. 

I'm not much of a reader but I have started reading "Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant".  I didn't know much about him other then the survey info a kid gets in an elementary education.  I'm finding that he was really a rather amazing individual without actually pursuing to be one.  It is almost like he was the right guy, at the right place, at the right time when he was needed.  So far he seems to have been a very humble person, which is a character quality that I admire.

[Blowpipe Sam]

Funny how one ends up on the top of the heap sometimes

The scum also rises!

Honestly my whole life has been spent avoiding responsibility.  You will not find a less responsible person than me!
I am undoubtedly the laziest Homo Sapien to ever occupy shoe leather. 
I slacked off at the waterfront office all day.  I drove four boat tours but that's not work.  Tomorrow I'm stuck in the penalty box (ranger station) all day.

[Madd Hatter]

Two of the boys and myself have dentist appointments today for teeth cleaning.  Instead of making the hour commute to work each way and only being there for 4 hours I decided to take the whole day off work. 

So far I have slept in, cuddled with the Mrs., made cappuccino and surfed the web.  I'll piddle around doing some small things until appointment time then get my fangs washed up professionally.  I'll make a run to the grocery store on the way home then Mrs. P and myself are headed out for the rest of the evening.  I'm sure we'll go walk along the edge of a body of water and then eat some grub and coffee but not necessarily all in that order.  Then it will be time to come home to our peeps and we will settle in for a quiet evening. 

I'm not much of a reader but I have started reading "Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant".  I didn't know much about him other then the survey info a kid gets in an elementary education.  I'm finding that he was really a rather amazing individual without actually pursuing to be one.  It is almost like he was the right guy, at the right place, at the right time when he was needed.  So far he seems to have been a very humble person, which is a character quality that I admire.

The thing I love about the guy is his father in-law gave him a slave and Grant set him free which didn't go over with his father in-law to well. 🤣 Grant did it when he really could of used the help.

[Back_Roads]

 What I did today, this was before I decided to make the 15 minute drive with the mini excavator to make easy work of this mud pit.
 Had 2 tractors spinning wheels for 45 minutes yesterday in the same spot.

[Spacebus]

I am jealous of the mini ex!

[Sqrl Klr]

I found out this old Screw Jack I got from my dad's stuff works great for lifting the mower to change the mower blades. I put jack stands under the front axle before I changed them though. 

In the bottom pic, photoshop some smoke behind the rear tires and it will look like a sweet wheelie.   

I like that. Dan get in the seat, have your wife take a pic, edit the jack out of the pic and you'll have a new wheelie avy.

I mowed everything that the big zero turn riding mowers can't get

You'd be surprised what a zero turn can cut because I often use it to brush hog my trails cutting 4ft high brush and saplings as thick as 1/2". Yep you have to go over it a couple times to get it really good looking but it does a good job. I have a tractor and brush hog too. Something went wrong with the mower the other day while cutting grass so I'm glad I put the hitch on it for ez towing with the tractor.

[Blowpipe Sam]

I found out this old Screw Jack I got from my dad's stuff works great for lifting the mower to change the mower blades. I put jack stands under the front axle before I changed them though. 

In the bottom pic, photoshop some smoke behind the rear tires and it will look like a sweet wheelie.   

I like that. Dan get in the seat, have your wife take a pic, edit the jack out of the pic and you'll have a new wheelie avy.

I mowed everything that the big zero turn riding mowers can't get

You'd be surprised what a zero turn can cut because I often use it to brush hog my trails cutting 4ft high brush and saplings as thick as 1/2". Yep you have to go over it a couple times to get it really good looking but it does a good job. I have a tractor and brush hog too. Something went wrong with the mower the other day while cutting grass so I'm glad I put the hitch on it for ez towing with the tractor.

We have several Z TRAC 950’s at work which I use for prepping trees that have eagle nests or some other sensitive critter nesting in them for big prescribed burns.  I’ll take that mower cross country through the flatwoods and clear cut a 16’ diameter circle down to bare mineral soil around a tree as a fire brake.  These things are tanks.
Unfortunately they can’t fit down some of the paths in the gardens and they can’t negotiate the boulders in some of the landscaped areas so I need something smaller.  I used to do it all with a weed whacker but my shoulders can’t take it anymore.

[bReTt]

Two of the boys and myself have dentist appointments today for teeth cleaning.  Instead of making the hour commute to work each way and only being there for 4 hours I decided to take the whole day off work. 

So far I have slept in, cuddled with the Mrs., made cappuccino and surfed the web.  I'll piddle around doing some small things until appointment time then get my fangs washed up professionally.  I'll make a run to the grocery store on the way home then Mrs. P and myself are headed out for the rest of the evening.  I'm sure we'll go walk along the edge of a body of water and then eat some grub and coffee but not necessarily all in that order.  Then it will be time to come home to our peeps and we will settle in for a quiet evening. 

I'm not much of a reader but I have started reading "Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant".  I didn't know much about him other then the survey info a kid gets in an elementary education.  I'm finding that he was really a rather amazing individual without actually pursuing to be one.  It is almost like he was the right guy, at the right place, at the right time when he was needed.  So far he seems to have been a very humble person, which is a character quality that I admire.

The thing I love about the guy is his father in-law gave him a slave and Grant set him free which didn't go over with his father in-law to well. 🤣 Grant did it when he really could of used the help.

Yes! Grant seemed to have had a deeper understanding of human nature. He was also compassionate even after defeating Confederate/Rebel armies.