Life with Jane

[Wroughtnharv]

We’re going to have to log in today as a waste day. I probably use more pop rivets than just about any non professional pop riveter. I have four or five rivet guns, one of them is the big bolt cutter looking tool that can do quarter inch aluminum solid rivets. Now I have a smaller version like that I purchased at Harbor Freight.

None of my regular rivet tools could easily work the special steel color matched rivets for the trim. It was a nightmare trying, on a ladder, with a feels like in the twenties. I finally gave up and watched the college playoffs on the IPad, my teams lost, well, the kiddos teams lost.

Tomorrow is supposed to be warmer and hopefully we’ll do better, hopefully.

[guardrail53]

Harvey, next trip to Harbor Freight, get a pneumatic rivet gun! One of my fellow trucker's had one, man it worked slick! Thereabouts is looking good, I also like the sliding door much better! Great job! Rail!

[Wroughtnharv]

Rail I looked, handled, and seriously considered the pneumatic rivet tool. But then I thought about the air hose and decided to get one later. I’ve got the air compressors but air tools need air hoses and air hoses are something that I trip over, foot dragger by nature.

I was still iffy on the door when a neighbor pointed out that my sliding door idea would be so much better on cold days when I didn’t want to let all the heat out every time I went in and or out. Plus I have a thing about latches, I like them to be different and confusing for the unwary.

It’s supposed to be warmer today, rain this evening, so we should have a good and productive day. I’ll start it out with making pancakes, sausage, and eggs for breakfast.

Anyone taking bets on Kyler Murray playing football again next year instead of running off to the A’s the money. I’m thinking he’s gonna want to have them build him a defense so he can come back next year with a vengeance.

[Wroughtnharv]

Adopted son, he adopted us, like to say that when we got married I brought two kids and she brought two, then we had one together, he’s the oldest, anyhow, adopted son came over and we got the trim done all four corners. So I’ve got the door lock and some missing screws to do and the shop is ready to fill up and secure. This time next week we should be on our way to Yuma.

[Franka548]

Good deal Harvey, shop looks great. Yuma is waiting for you.
Frank

[ronspradley]

Shop looks good. Glad to hear y'all are almost on the road to Yuma.


ronspradley

[Lloyd in S.C.]

Shop looking great Harvey. Nice secure dry place to store your stuff while snow birding!!!!

Went to Sam's tonight, got some great steaks! Ate one, got 2 more left.

Tomorrow planning on running out to the dunes to see what everyone is doing out there. Will get some pics.

L.

[ronjhall]

Originally Posted by Wroughtnharv

Adopted son, he adopted us, like to say that when we got married I brought two kids and she brought two, then we had one together, he’s the oldest, anyhow, adopted son came over and we got the trim done all four corners. So I’ve got the door lock and some missing screws to do and the shop is ready to fill up and secure. This time next week we should be on our way to Yuma.

Looking good Harvey.

[okmunky]

Yuma might be more pleasant by the time you get there. It was cold and windy today just 80 miles north. Please find and bring back the sunshine and calm winds when you and Glenda head this way. I miss them!

To all of you here - Happy 2019! May it be your best year ever!

[Wroughtnharv]

Barb, we’ll try. But I haven’t found my wind lasso, probably in the bin with the temperature net.

You’ll have to plan on visiting Yuma around the 19th. It looks like a ton of regular denizens of “Good Morning” will be at the same place at the same time.

Dozer dawg was born in Arkansas, raised in Texas, but is a desert rat by nature. He hates the cold.

Yesterday was a tough one. We welded up the last of the pipe fence framework and started cutting in panels. It’s hard work for the most part. At 4:39 according to Apple we were at the truck having a discussion about wrapping it up and calling it a day or getting after it for another half of an hour. Glenda was playing the getter and I was acting the gotten. Then Dozer screamed out that enough was enough, wrap it up and let’s go to the house. His bark was almost a snarl, he was serious.

We wrapped it up, over a hundred foot of welding leads out, 150’ of extension cords, angle grinder with wire brush, angle grinder with cutting blade, pipe notcher, bolt cutters, spray paint, hoes, shovels, etc and so on. Sometimes old dawgs know best.

[Wroughtnharv]

Today I took a photo of Thereabouts so we have something to compare with next year.

Here’s also a photo taken April 20th, four days after close.

[Wroughtnharv]

Since the weather was so cold, old and wussey, just the way it is, I decided a piece of OSB would work great for the floor of a shelf in the shop, 2’ X 16’. It will be for that stuff you only want or need once every year or so. First I had to fab up the steel frame.

Dozer tucked tail between legs within minutes of shop time and headed up to the coach. The bright glow is an electric heater that keeps the furnace from coming on.

[Wroughtnharv]

We’re back in Jane’s sweet embrace. We pulled out from Thereabouts 3:55 Monday afternoon so we would make the propane place in time for a fill up for our journey to Yuma.

However there was a hiccup on the get go. The tow bar for hooking up the toad to Jane had one arm frozen closed so we had to have Glenda follow me in the toad when we left Thereabouts.

The second hiccup was the park we planned on spending the night was full up. So we went down the road looking for a place. It was a nightmare until we had to hang a U turn on a major highway at a cross road. Neither of us do good after dark when it comes to vision. We made the U turn, missed the park I’d called on the phone, again, and decided to keep on going. We ended up spending the night at a Loves truck stop in Bridgeport Texas.

Monday I fixed the windshield wiper arm issue. The photo with the acorn nut on the pantograph arm is the way it is supposed to be. The other one is of the nut that broke off when tightening it up. The nut is on there to capture the arm on a shoulder bolt with a copper bushing. There’s no pressure but when the nut broke off it left nothing to attach to or capture the arm with.

The remedy I chose since I couldn’t find a replacement assembly was to drill and tap the stud/shoulder bolt and Loktight in the 10-32 screw. It’s worked fine so far.

[ronspradley]

Always nice to have the right tools for the job, either at home or on the road. Easy run tomorrow and you will be at home in Yuma. Should be nice weather to welcome you.


ronspradley


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