On Friday we got a day long load of Globular-Warmining .
God awful wretched stuff. Came down like sugar but set like concrete .
Now I know many that don't have to shovel the crap will say that looks beautiful . . . .
. . . yea about as appealing as sticking your hand in a running blender .
Normally the town public works department runs these rigs around here . Sometimes a smaller F-450 with a dump body .
On this occasion it required something a bit more serious .
Sunday morning we screwed our courage together and were hacking away at the berm left by the plow truck in front of the driveway . Could not touch it with a shovel and required an ice chisel to break it up. Then my neighbor Jeff came by with his plow truck and he knocked the berm down in about three passes saving us about four hours of back breaking labor. We managed to scrape off a light layer of snow from the top of the driveway with the shovels but the hard stuff was impossible to remove by manual means. Jeff then brought over his backhoe and in five minutes he did a quick job of it .
It is sure nice to know folks with the right tools for the job .
Always nice to have a friend with a working bucket on his back-hoe to help bury the occasional body deep... We haven't had a lot of snow here in the heart of the Plain states South Dakota, Yeah Me!
ReplyDeleteYea, even better when he is a veteran of the Boston Big Dig CF . He's on good terms with a few of the made Guidos down there too .
DeleteYesterday it rained most of the day so I knew I'd be having problems in the garage . This morning we had an inch of slush throughout the whole space. Spent the last four hours hacking channels in the ice outside to divert the flow and then cleaning the mess in the garage . A repeat of the Feb 2019 shit-show .
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I was stopping by to see if you have posted anything new or new comments and I was looking close at your garage and wondered if those double doors above the garage doors open up? Do you have a beam to extend to help lift and guide heavier objects in?
ReplyDeleteHi Kevin, yes, they do open up. I have my workshop up there. My way-to-long-ignored airplane project resides gathering dust up there as well. I don't have a beam, but I have a swing out steel pipe frame that is hinged on one side of the wall framing so I can swing it out and winch up heavy items with an electric winch or a block and tackle. Think about a four foot triangle wall bracket made of black pipe hinged against the wall.
DeleteIn fact I just remembered I have some pictures that show the swing out gantry rig here:
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You should have a vintage tractor with a front end loader for chores like that, Mike. ;)
ReplyDeleteIn fact we do have a vintage tractor. But the Ford 8N is thirty miles up the highway at mom's place in Freak-Port while I am stuck down here in Sakank-Borough. And that thing being two wheel drive is absolutely useless in the snow and ice. When one wheel looses traction you are done and not going anywhere. And then there is the glorified Pooper Scooper bucket on it that has only single acting cylinders on it so it has no down force at all and would skid right over the ice in this circumstance. The bucket on that thing is really only meant to muck out dairy barns and dump grain in feed troughs. No good for any digging.
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