I was just thinking.....what if it said "checking out"..... It's all about perspective I guess. Anyways, it has been yet another long week of stress and anxious money shuffling. It isn't a bad thing to do when you have plenty of money. Of course I don't have it, so the problem has been having enough to keep work going and having enough to start the next week. What's worse is many others whom I either owe or who owe me seem to think I have lots of $. The grass does seem greener where ever I'm not standing. On the up side, if you know I am not loaded, then you are most likely a friend or at least friendly. If you have any doubts then you can't be a friend because you don't know me! lol
This week started out looking great. I spent four days last week rebuilding the hydraulic system on one machine. Monday we moved lots of material. Tuesday we got one pull up to the landing and the transmission pump went out on that same machine. We didn't know for a while what the problem was so I called the equipment place and they put me on the right track. I had to go buy a pressure gauge to read the pressure coming off the transmission filter. It was running about 25% of normal. So the next step was to replace the filter. It looked bad but replacing it did not return the pressure at all. The only logical thing left was the trans pump which controls the shifting and direction of the transmission. That afternoon we spent pulling the hydraulic pump, then the trans pump. When I took the pump apart it was obvious what was wrong. The insides were wore out badly. I then ordered the new pump and picked it up the next morning, bright and early($1300!). I gotta say I got a great deal on this machine. It was nearly scrap metal priced. I suppose the guys that had it didn't even know where to start fixing it. It looks like they never cleaned it or check anything on it. Every filter in it has been jammed with crud and all the hydraulic cylinders and seals were leaky. I think there are about two more seals to fix and I have to rebuild the brakes. After that it really will be like a new one.
Maybe by this time next year I will have everything updated for work. I am still not sure where this road is taking me but there have been some doors opening. Y'all have a good rest of the day.
-DCW
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Crazy Weather Crazier People
All those pics I posted of the snow that fell on March 1st are viewed a good bit. I hope to post some pics I took later that day of some of the same shots. By 1pm the snow was GONE. The following Monday the temps reached 81F....27C for those who love alternative metrics.
For the last nearly 20 years I have been complaining and carrying on about the insanity that is a bonding agent between leftists and political power. It really boils down to "self", but look at all the ways one can glorify his or her own existence. The primary catalyst for the last 20 or so years is all about the environment. Even in pretending that you are really helping others it really is all about you looking good and feeling good about how you look...good. The only problem is that, to folks like me, you look like a witless moron.
If I could be a judge for a day and I could be given the opportunity to resolve issues about the environmentalists I think most folks would, I dunno, invest. Imagine sitting in court and hearing a case involving an environmental group and a group of foresters. In every case the environuts seek to shut down such operations as it "is proven" to cause X amount of environmental damage. It somehow is worse than a forest fire? Anyways I would set up a standard that got all environmental groups past and present that wish to stop the flow of forest products from our plentiful woods together for one simple rule. Sure, we can stop all logging of public lands that equal up to what represents their consumptive capacity as the environuts that they are. In trade, all those who signed the petition or voted to stop forest operations will now have to live without ANY forest products in their lives, forever.
Is that a deal?
Can you imagine how your life would change? (supposing you were one of them) Can't have a vehicle because, if nothing else, much of the rubber used comes from rubber trees. Many of the parts, including the electronics, use resins straight from the woods. There is a lot of food ya can't have either. Might be because the food is from a tree that is monocultured, some of the food itself is derived from the tree, and last but not least, the packaging is almost 100% from the forest. Even what you thought was plastic might be cellophane or "super paper". Cotton is a type of tree. Look out ladies and gents....no comfy clothes. Did you know there is an ever growing percentage of electricity that is now generated with biomass? In some places that is all that is used. And your house? Lumber, linoleum,furniture, that fancy cutting board has to go. Okay...so you could be one of those folks that never bathes and never shaves... It is your right to be ugly and smelly, but it is my right to threaten you for stinking up the air I breath and messing up my view. You should also remember that staying warm is not an option. Even that broken up, dried out piece of wood that taunts you in the winter is, was, or will be food and or shelter for some precious creature, but not you, because you aren't precious at all. Gosh, not much left of you now. Your poor kids! They are going to be dumber than rocks. The paper, pencils, desks, and many of the teaching tools will no longer be allowed in your life. Maybe you don't mind going back to cuneiform written with chisels.
If you did all these things and thought you had the upper hand just wait until someone brings up the fact that basically all the east and much of the west was covered in timber. Even steel and many other products including the food in your life come from ground that had to be stripped for you to have the life you do. So, just do us all a favor! Move to the Sahara and carve out a living over there. It'll be a perfect fit. You and your children will be illiterate, ugly, smelly, probably starving, and you will have to use your hand to clean your backside. Hope you like your new life. I know I will be enjoying your absence too!
God Bless!
Daniel
For the last nearly 20 years I have been complaining and carrying on about the insanity that is a bonding agent between leftists and political power. It really boils down to "self", but look at all the ways one can glorify his or her own existence. The primary catalyst for the last 20 or so years is all about the environment. Even in pretending that you are really helping others it really is all about you looking good and feeling good about how you look...good. The only problem is that, to folks like me, you look like a witless moron.
If I could be a judge for a day and I could be given the opportunity to resolve issues about the environmentalists I think most folks would, I dunno, invest. Imagine sitting in court and hearing a case involving an environmental group and a group of foresters. In every case the environuts seek to shut down such operations as it "is proven" to cause X amount of environmental damage. It somehow is worse than a forest fire? Anyways I would set up a standard that got all environmental groups past and present that wish to stop the flow of forest products from our plentiful woods together for one simple rule. Sure, we can stop all logging of public lands that equal up to what represents their consumptive capacity as the environuts that they are. In trade, all those who signed the petition or voted to stop forest operations will now have to live without ANY forest products in their lives, forever.
Is that a deal?
Can you imagine how your life would change? (supposing you were one of them) Can't have a vehicle because, if nothing else, much of the rubber used comes from rubber trees. Many of the parts, including the electronics, use resins straight from the woods. There is a lot of food ya can't have either. Might be because the food is from a tree that is monocultured, some of the food itself is derived from the tree, and last but not least, the packaging is almost 100% from the forest. Even what you thought was plastic might be cellophane or "super paper". Cotton is a type of tree. Look out ladies and gents....no comfy clothes. Did you know there is an ever growing percentage of electricity that is now generated with biomass? In some places that is all that is used. And your house? Lumber, linoleum,furniture, that fancy cutting board has to go. Okay...so you could be one of those folks that never bathes and never shaves... It is your right to be ugly and smelly, but it is my right to threaten you for stinking up the air I breath and messing up my view. You should also remember that staying warm is not an option. Even that broken up, dried out piece of wood that taunts you in the winter is, was, or will be food and or shelter for some precious creature, but not you, because you aren't precious at all. Gosh, not much left of you now. Your poor kids! They are going to be dumber than rocks. The paper, pencils, desks, and many of the teaching tools will no longer be allowed in your life. Maybe you don't mind going back to cuneiform written with chisels.
If you did all these things and thought you had the upper hand just wait until someone brings up the fact that basically all the east and much of the west was covered in timber. Even steel and many other products including the food in your life come from ground that had to be stripped for you to have the life you do. So, just do us all a favor! Move to the Sahara and carve out a living over there. It'll be a perfect fit. You and your children will be illiterate, ugly, smelly, probably starving, and you will have to use your hand to clean your backside. Hope you like your new life. I know I will be enjoying your absence too!
God Bless!
Daniel
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Once a year......
The pics uploaded in reverse from what I thought it would. Oh well! I will have a few more soon. Enjoy!
Well, I remember saying "what a way to bring in December" on December 1st 2008. It snowed but never did stick. Well fast forward to March 1st 2009. Got it right this time even though the ground is too warm to keep from melting it like butter in the microwave. It is fun while it lasts.
Well, I remember saying "what a way to bring in December" on December 1st 2008. It snowed but never did stick. Well fast forward to March 1st 2009. Got it right this time even though the ground is too warm to keep from melting it like butter in the microwave. It is fun while it lasts.
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