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Was playing with my dog yesterday. He’s always looked like a snaggle tooth. But one tooth look odd, was brown and just didn’t look right. So, I’m checking it out, it’s a friggen fox tail weed. Pull it out with tweezers…and another one…and another one. Had 3 jammed in there. His teeth are jacked, two are loose around where the seed was embedded and another tooth is loose in the other side.
 
Pull up to work today and there is a huge crane beside the building, with a big new Ac/heat unit clearly going on the roof. It is only a 3 story building and I am on the ground floor.
I've seen enough YouTube videos to know how this is going to end - I'm expecting a crane boom to come down across my desk any minute now....:lmao:
 
45acp said:
So for the last month, this bright green lizard has been living in the shop. See him every other time we're out there. The kids named him Green Bean.

Daughter has been filling beer bottle caps with water and leaving him drink bowls all over the shop.

In my chair-
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Under a toolbox-
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climbing on the crawler-
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"Look man, you gonna switch insurance carriers or not?"
 
so, m12 standard is 1.75 pitch
m12 banjo bolts are 1.5 pitch
m12 fine is 1.25 in jap stuff
m12 extra fine is 1.0 in bastard shit

so I've historically had trouble finding standard 1.5 pitch banjo bolts, they were the only size the parts stores didn't stock
now it's flipped on its face, can't find a damn 1.25 pitch one, I know I've got one around somewhere but I can only turn up 1.75, 1.5 and 1.0 in my parts pile

gonna be cutting down and drilling out a bolt pretty soon, dammit
thought about cutting a groove down the side of the bolt but that seems a little hokey even for me
 
M92PV4U said:
I Think a trolley on the top of the I beam with out riggers from it coming down at an angle as wide as the truck and contacting the ground would be a good idea the bottom 6'~ would be removable & adjustable while the top would ride the trolley back to the truck and attach to it for storage. Or maybe I'm over thinking it:homer:.
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I wound up just building it with no extra supports whatsoever. I'll get pics this Sunday. Maybe.

I'm gonna build a couple foot tall bolt on rider for the middle of the big beam to run a chain and turnbuckle over (like the flat stock top strap on an engine hoist) and pad eye the shit out of the uprights and cross bars so I can pin in supports to cross brace all that shit for the real stupid stuff.
 
arse_sidewards said:
I wound up just building it with no extra supports whatsoever. I'll get pics this Sunday. Maybe.

I'm gonna build a couple foot tall bolt on rider for the middle of the big beam to run a chain and turnbuckle over (like the flat stock top strap on an engine hoist) and pad eye the shit out of the uprights and cross bars so I can pin in supports to cross brace all that shit for the real stupid stuff.
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Oh hey dude :beer:


Where dafook ya been? :flipoff2: :laughing:
 
arse_sidewards said:
I wound up just building it with no extra supports whatsoever. I'll get pics this Sunday. Maybe.

I'm gonna build a couple foot tall bolt on rider for the middle of the big beam to run a chain and turnbuckle over (like the flat stock top strap on an engine hoist) and pad eye the shit out of the uprights and cross bars so I can pin in supports to cross brace all that shit for the real stupid stuff.
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Why does it NEED that much stickout? What load needs that?

If it's for loading logs, can't you just pick up one end and get it on the deck, then do a second pick and lift/slide the rest on. (exactly like how those "log arch" trailers are used)
 
Muckin_Slusher said:
Why does it NEED that much stickout? What load needs that?
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16ft log on a 14ft trailer.

Or a fuckin car that isn't in a state where it can be rolled up a ramp. :laughing:
Muckin_Slusher said:
If it's for loading logs, can't you just pick up one end and get it on the deck, then do a second pick and lift/slide the rest on. (exactly like how those "log arch" trailers are used)
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Yeah I can. But the beams were 12ft long so 10ft of stick-out it was the easy thing to do.

I don't truly need it but if I can make it not destroy itself it'll be real nice to have.
 
arse_sidewards said:
16ft log on a 14ft trailer.

Or a fuckin car that isn't in a state where it can be rolled up a ramp. :laughing:

Yeah I can. But the beams were 12ft long so 10ft of stick-out it was the easy thing to do.

I don't truly need it but if I can make it not destroy itself it'll be real nice to have.
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Trailer! :laughing:

Better use a pintle hitch or hammerblow coupler.
 
Had a woman ask me to look at a pistol that had been her grandfathers and was recovered from a flooded safe.
It was a G3 G17 with a ser. # of 007. Just kinda cool.
Turns out I still had enough parts to replace everything in it, including a new barrel. I ran a chamber reamer in the org. to clean it up (it was crusty and wouldn't take a round) told her to just set the original parts aside in a jar of oil and keep them.
 
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