I truly do not know how the Emps do it, out there in the sun. Bad enough working the shop that turns into a sunpowered oven, even with crossflow push by big fan. I was flat drenched and dripping wet by 2. Toss in the sunlight directly and I’d have fallen out.
Attachment plates for the truck bed were Fabbed up today, and I welded them on at the last last minute before I had to take off early for personal business stuff. No bolts in place yet, but I do have sections of 5/8″ rod ran through for alignment. Once I have the bolts, I will put in two at the lowest point, then lift the front of the bed up and drill the bolt holes where they are needed. Then its truly detail time, wiring, welding on the fuel fill holder,
Its a J,O.B.
Personal stuff done, Water change over details now known ($94 cash deposit and ID) Mail Box details discussed with Post Mistress. (that still messes with me,,, used to call the head of the PO post master,, now??? headscratcher this modern world of acceptable nomenclature.) Most important part of the personal stuff: My side of the deed has been signed and notorized. Now it gets sent to Unk and then returned. Filing fees and Attorney fees all paid. Paralegal said then they file it and I get the final copy in the mail. So daggum close to where I can say “This is mine” and have standing. I can now, but the legal standing could be questioned.
I did drop the bomb on Bad Cuz and GF. There is nothing over there in their interest anymore. I find them over there, there had better be a damned good reason, and I DO have cameras up. (a wee fib, I only have one, but they don’t need to know the reality. I want them paranoid.) A small detail. There is a small creek (usually dry this time of year) between my house and their property (that ain’t, but I digress) There is absolutely ZERO reason for them to cross that creek line. The road doesn’t go anywhere past Unks, The communal burn pile is in no mans land just past the creek on their side. I repeat, there is zero need for them to cross that creek line. Now, How to train them to that thinking. Ha,, they are vultures, any thing that looks like it could get a penny in salvage is ‘fair game’ in their playbook.
Homey don’t play that way. You could call me a scrounger as well, but I don’t go for the dollar figure from the scrap yard, I go for the ‘how can I repurpose this’ value standard. or the “I can fix it!” I may (and have) rebuild a mower engine, or just replace the Carb of a cheapy version tossed on the trash heap, and then turn around and give it to someone in need. I don’t like going to the scrap yard and seeing viable things just ‘thrown away’ for a few dollars (usually far below the potential value.)
And something a mentioned in passing to FredL. I don’t like seeing Southbend lathes being broken up and peiced out on EvulBay. I do understand that there is a valid market for those parts, but those parts mean one more old friend has been dismantled and is no more. And chances are, the bed and ways were sold for Cast Prices to the local yard. Shipped out to China to be resold back to the US as some janked up alloy pipe or rapid produced machine tool that won’t be worth shit in three years.
The quality of pipe/stock we have been getting is getting sketchy at best. Even today, while welding on that bed, there was definitely some occlusions in the C-channel that made up the bed. I hit that spot and the spat blew the puddle apart. I looked at the factory welds nearby, and they had the same problem. Just that one bad spot, so far, but its becoming a daily occurence with our pipe and stock we get from our supplier.
but I digress. I need to not dwell on the woulda-coulda’s in a world so far out of my control. And, believe it or not, I don’t want control over the big picture, I’d just like to see quality return to the world, and this ‘planned obsolesence’ shit get shit canned like it should have been from word go. (and there I go again. Must be the heat. )
Alright, this time, I AM stepping away from the keyboard and getting into something that keeps my front paws bizzy.
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