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

[avator]

While in Montgomery this morning we stopped at a second hand place, I'm a sucker for those places, I spotted a portable table saw that looked in great shape and it was complete (guide, guard, ect). Lady said she wanted $89. I offered $50 and she countered at $55. I offered $50 again and she accepted. She didn't have a place to plug it in so I took a chance. The blade spun and the motor felt good. Got it home and plugged it in... works great.

[avator]

While in Montgomery this morning we stopped at a second hand place, I'm a sucker for those places, I spotted a portable table saw that looked in great shape and it was complete (guide, guard, ect). Lady said she wanted $89. I offered $50 and she countered at $55. I offered $50 again and she accepted. She didn't have a place to plug it in so I took a chance. The blade spun and the motor felt good. Got it home and plugged it in... works great.

Went back out to the shop after lunch settled a bit and set up a pair of folding saw horses. I clamped a 2' square hunk of plywood on them and set the saw on top. I set the guide at 2" and ripped a 1" cedar board I had laying around. Cut like butter. 
I've always enjoyed building stuff ever since wood shop in school. Next on my list is a second hand router to mount to the router table that I picked on the side of the road. I have lots of various bits that I inherited from my BIL but he no longer had the router for some reason. Pawn shops sell them all the time.
Just one more chapter to the retirement saga.
BTW.. Betty Lou's utility room is a blank canvas for cabinets and stuff.    Might be time to start collecting discarded pallets and whatnot.

[Madd Hatter]

Spent a couple of hours pounding some T posts into the ground . I placed them so I can stretch a chain between them and block off 2 roads that go into my property. 1 we don't use at all because it goes right past the septic tank and we don't want to take the chance of someone driving over it. The second one is the road we cut to get to the meadow where the burn pits and shooting range are. Don't want people just cruising around our property with out our knowing them. We don't end up with very many strangers on our roads just the local residents but it doesn't hurt to.......

[maraudinglizard]

I have water and no leaks. Will fill in the mess later when it cools off some, it is brutal here this afternoon. This area has been under a heat advisory all week. Sitting here cooling off and fix a little something eat, probably go lay down for a little bit.

[avator]

This just in...
Nick's American Bully had 12 akc registered puppies yesterday. The were taken by c section and all but 1 made it. Honey and all her babies are doing fine. They will sell for $3k each. I am waiting for pictures.
Both mother and father have the muscle tone of the one pictured below. Mother was buckskin and father was dark chocolate.

[avator]

Rollo (father) looks like this one without the white. Solid dark chocolate. He has such a serious looking face with a big head and the muscles. His eye are solid dark brown. He looks very intimidating for a small dog. His face and head looks like a gorilla to me.

[Blowpipe Sam]

Kris we call that kind of plumbing repair "park ranger engineering".

[2A Georgia]

Hit the 98 Accord with some Starting Fluid and a battery jump from the HRV.  She sputtered several times like she wanted to start.....getting closer to the drive over scrap scale than back up/spare sedan....we'll see when I have time to tinker with it again....

[Madd Hatter]

🎉🎉🎉!!! We finally had a good down pour of rain! We probably got between.25 and.5 inch of rain which is more than we've had all summer.😁😁😁

[avator]

Kris we call that kind of plumbing repair "park ranger engineering".

Are you referring to when she fixed it or when she tore it out of the ground?   

[Blowpipe Sam]

Kris we call that kind of plumbing repair "park ranger engineering".

Are you referring to when she fixed it or when she tore it out of the ground?   

Yes.

[Madd Hatter]

Just checked my official rain gauge aka a stainless dog bowel and it looks like we got.5 inches.🎉🎉🎉 It's dropped the air temp to 68f. Aahhh!

[maraudinglizard]

Kris we call that kind of plumbing repair "park ranger engineering".

Don't remind me of DEP plumbing, repairs in one state park is bad enough and forestry was no better at some of their sites.

Are you referring to when she fixed it or when she tore it out of the ground?   

Bill, with me having worked with DEP in the past that covers both.

[avator]

Kris we call that kind of plumbing repair "park ranger engineering".

Don't remind me of DEP plumbing, repairs in one state park is bad enough and forestry was no better at some of their sites.

Are you referring to when she fixed it or when she tore it out of the ground?   

Bill, with me having worked with DEP in the past that covers both.

Yeah, I'm very experienced in the art of self destruction.

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

This is a day late but I took my wife's car to town, went to the bank, got my monthly haircut, and then washed my wife's car at the carwash that she is a member at. The only thing that would make that carwash better is if they had more shade over the drying/vacuum area. Not that it would have helped as far as drying the car off yesterday, it was 101°F and by the time I pulled around into the drying/vacuum area there were very few drops of water left on it, the blow dryer just about got it done. The vacuums they have are the great!

[airgunaut]

Spent a couple of hours pounding some T posts into the ground . I placed them so I can stretch a chain between them and block off 2 roads that go into my property. 1 we don't use at all because it goes right past the septic tank and we don't want to take the chance of someone driving over it. The second one is the road we cut to get to the meadow where the burn pits and shooting range are. Don't want people just cruising around our property with out our knowing them. We don't end up with very many strangers on our roads just the local residents but it doesn't hurt to.......

What do you use to pound the posts with? There is a long stretch of very old, decrepit barbed wire fencing that I’d like to add posts to in between the old ones that are uprooted or leaned way over. I wouldn’t redo the wiring in that difficult terrain. Just want to maintain the existing boundary line before the old stuff totally falls apart.

Nobody around here wants to do any such work unless they can use a motorized vehicle and/or excavation equipment. This part of the land cannot be done except the old-fashioned way, manual labor and accessed by foot. So I’ll have to do it myself, though perhaps there is ONE fit, strong man who’d be willing to do some for pay.

I saw someone else using an iron pipelike thing to pound posts down. He was shaking his wrists out later from the pain. Hoping there is a better way.

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

Spent a couple of hours pounding some T posts into the ground . I placed them so I can stretch a chain between them and block off 2 roads that go into my property. 1 we don't use at all because it goes right past the septic tank and we don't want to take the chance of someone driving over it. The second one is the road we cut to get to the meadow where the burn pits and shooting range are. Don't want people just cruising around our property with out our knowing them. We don't end up with very many strangers on our roads just the local residents but it doesn't hurt to.......

What do you use to pound the posts with? There is a long stretch of very old, decrepit barbed wire fencing that I’d like to add posts to in between the old ones that are uprooted or leaned way over. I wouldn’t redo the wiring in that difficult terrain. Just want to maintain the existing boundary line before the old stuff totally falls apart.

Nobody around here wants to do any such work unless they can use a motorized vehicle and/or excavation equipment. This part of the land cannot be done except the old-fashioned way, manual labor and accessed by foot. So I’ll have to do it myself, though perhaps there is ONE fit, strong man who’d be willing to do some for pay.

I saw someone else using an iron pipelike thing to pound posts down. He was shaking his wrists out later from the pain. Hoping there is a better way.

 I think the trick to using one of those post drivers is to wear gloves and then don't hold it tight when it strikes the post so as to avoid the jarring of your wrists. Just let the momentum of the driver drive the post. I may be wrong, it has been a long time since I used one but I think that makes sense?

[avator]

The valve stem replacement kit came in to put new stems in a front tire on the z360 and one on the eXmark. It came with 6 valve stems, the core remover and the tool to pull the new stem in with. The tools are solid and of good quality.
The can of bead sealer should be here Thursday. This should fix these leaky tires up for good.

[Madd Hatter]

Spent a couple of hours pounding some T posts into the ground . I placed them so I can stretch a chain between them and block off 2 roads that go into my property. 1 we don't use at all because it goes right past the septic tank and we don't want to take the chance of someone driving over it. The second one is the road we cut to get to the meadow where the burn pits and shooting range are. Don't want people just cruising around our property with out our knowing them. We don't end up with very many strangers on our roads just the local residents but it doesn't hurt to.......

What do you use to pound the posts with? There is a long stretch of very old, decrepit barbed wire fencing that I’d like to add posts to in between the old ones that are uprooted or leaned way over. I wouldn’t redo the wiring in that difficult terrain. Just want to maintain the existing boundary line before the old stuff totally falls apart.

Nobody around here wants to do any such work unless they can use a motorized vehicle and/or excavation equipment. This part of the land cannot be done except the old-fashioned way, manual labor and accessed by foot. So I’ll have to do it myself, though perhaps there is ONE fit, strong man who’d be willing to do some for pay.

I saw someone else using an iron pipelike thing to pound posts down. He was shaking his wrists out later from the pain. Hoping there is a better way.

It's called a T post driver and that's what I use. I've only done 4 posts with it but can say it's a lot easier than trying to use a hammer. I do use gloves when I do any work as the back of my hands cut real easy and most times I don't notice it until things get sticky with blood.😁 My hands already burn without any other causes so I can't comment on what it does.

[avator]

I also use a T post driver and gloves. The ground here is sandy and wet red dirt. It's probably easier to drive in the posts than other places.