Global warming

It only takes a little snow and a lotta blow to make the Versatile look insignificant.

Farming would be easier inside

Snowed in on the 19th & 20th of April. Who'd a thunk it?

The other republican

Every third firing 3 or 4 tubes decide to burn their propane inside the mixing tubes. The tubes get scorched, the racket is annoying, and the pros pass responsibility back and forth.

Mom's got new tubes, new igniter, updated controller, manometered pressure checks, checks in the combustion chamber..... and it still whistles.

(the combine idler is still on the drill press)

Our resident republican

Squalling like an overtaxed republican at 40 psi, Albert said, 'the packing gets hard.'

I said, ' Would you come fix it?'

Albert said, 'no.'

Two hours of digging out packing, and two hours of repacking would have cost enough to replace the pump.

But hey... we have a relic in the basement still pumping water!

(And the combine idler is still on the drill press.)

FIRE

Do you remember the road south past the ST a couple of miles? Fullbright's tall wheat grass barriers and blow dirt piles? Well, good ole FSA says no more easy money. Somebody has to burn off the cover and kill the grass so that someday the government will pay to put it back into grass?

Shortgrass prairie

While cutting up a blown down tree, we find tenants inside. No rent do they pay. The state forester must be befuddled. We sent him some of the tenants, but he says 'don't worry. be happy'

yet again idler arm

After the table is centered, then we can center the hole in the arm in the center hole left by the last guy.

You can see that a 1-1/2 inch shim will be close.

Then we can bolt down the y-axis. A little beercan shim and it is still better than Jacobs.

More idler arm

Prairie edge finder (1" bit in a 1+" hole). Sorta like Sonoran's Global warming show found all the edges in town.

Seems like we can find the center more accurately than Jacobs can.

Drill out the idler arm

The 1/2 reamer is the long tall texan.

a passel of pauluses on Easter Monday:

Mary

Jairus

Nate

Grandma Gerry

Grandma Myrna

Patch

Grandpa Ralph

Roger

Idler shaft rebuild

Down 4 inches the TIR is about .012.

TIR is less than .001 on the top of the shaft.

The square shows me how bad the light is and how bad my eyes are.

January hot flash

How'd it get hot enough to paint in the middle of January?

What's burning? ................ time

believe it or not it's over a 100 deg F inside

8N 2nd step of the 12 step program: new person

So... Primer equalizes all the phalts... then over the top we make her red..... Nate is checking surface temperatures---- IR surplus. way less that Omega. No books to burn.

We hope the new 'pretty guy' Sales can weather the storm as well---- but enamel beats a flush. especially a four flush.

8N recovery

blasted off the corruption and corrosion(hope that Tester succeeds as well in Congress) and laydon some primer. Sortof like neutering some pharisees?

Leessee-
it took an edge finder
a 2 axis dro
a caliper
a 3/16 bit
a 3/16th dowel
a bandsaw
a table mounted vise
a dab of glue
40 pounds of bullshit
to fix the train

Twas the week before Christmas & Grandpa stepped on the...

This photo might be of santa's workshop or it might be a perspective view of the real reason for toys.

D's train axle gets an overhaul on Joe's mill.

Myrna's shot:

Sitting on the floor softening our butts for an extended Boeing seat design test. ( they can send folks to the moon, but haven't figured out how to design seats that don't cripple?)

Brigitte,Caeli,GrandPA ralph, Great GranDma Gerry, Joe, D., and Nate wait in Portland for frisking.

No Rain in Maine

December 19th, 2006:

All the Paulus wimmen in Maine gathered at PWM for a photo op.

Great GranDma Gerry

Grandma Myrna

Mum Briggitte

Caeli