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I'm not too big on the cold weather but ever since I got a 180 thermostat in my truck its been a lot more enjoyable to drive in the winter. Before I had a 160 in it and it wouldn't get warm till I got to school, Plus it runs a lot better when It can build up some heat.

Didn’t fare too well. ..



All our trees looks like that.

OOF. What happened? I know we just had the remnants of a tropical storm here in NC last night but there's no way this had anything to do with that.

2 day ice storm. Had about half inch or more of ice.

Ouch. That sucks.

BlakeGroce wrote:

I'm not too big on the cold weather but ever since I got a 180 thermostat in my truck its been a lot more enjoyable to drive in the winter. Before I had a 160 in it and it wouldn't get warm till I got to school, Plus it runs a lot better when It can build up some heat.  

Man Kentucky isn't even cold by my standards. You don't even know what I lived through half the year up North.

Never had an ice storm that bad Mighty. I remember once we had a bad one in new york, pine tree in our back yard sagged real bad. A few limbs broke around the area but wasn't worse than our summer storms.

Is this an attachment for a GT6000? It's pretty rough. I want to know what it is and what it does before I decide to cut it up/scrap it. Not sure if it's worth the work that it'll need.

The far side looks like a potato plow. The rest just seems like some kind of cultivator.

RichieRichOverdrive wrote:

BlakeGroce wrote:

I'm not too big on the cold weather but ever since I got a 180 thermostat in my truck its been a lot more enjoyable to drive in the winter. Before I had a 160 in it and it wouldn't get warm till I got to school, Plus it runs a lot better when It can build up some heat.  

Man Kentucky isn't even cold by my standards. You don't even know what I lived through half the year up North.

Never had an ice storm that bad Mighty. I remember once we had a bad one in new york, pine tree in our back yard sagged real bad. A few limbs broke around the area but wasn't worse than our summer storms.

XD Well ya know we are a little closer to the equator? But we've had some pretty rought ice storms around here before. I remember the one in 2010 cause I missed a week of school and It about killed all of our pines....spent about everyday cutting up limbs and we lost power every couple hours felt like. We all had to sleep in the living room in front of the fireplace cause it was so cold.

BlakeGroce wrote:

I remember the one in 2010 cause I missed a week of school and It about killed all of our pines....spent about everyday cutting up limbs and we lost power every couple hours felt like. We all had to sleep in the living room in front of the fireplace cause it was so cold.

Ah yes I remember that one! I was 5 at the time. Still living in Florida but the entire family, cousins, aunts and uncles and all, were all up here in NC on vacation when it hit. That was probably one of the best vacations I've had. We were probably stuck on that property for at least 3 days. I don't think NC was hit as hard as KY though. We had a ball in it. Fun times those were!

New story in Signature. Yup, it's true ,LOL.

Never a dull moment in your world.  Explosions, burning flesh...

@MightyRaze LOL, I never new my life was so dangerous till a year ago, which is when my shop manager almost cut his foot off with my hand grinder. Afterwards, the owner is standing in front of me and giving me an intense safety lecture about it because I pond off the job to him because I was busy. Meanwhile his brother was standing behind him shaking his head saying "No, it wasn't your fault". I bit my tongue to not laugh and agreed with my boss, LOL. That was when I started noticing how dangerous stuff was. I'd be yelling at people on how they was goona get me in trouble again and get another safety talkin to again, LOL. Then I got electric motors blowin up left and right of me, and they not the small one's either. Chains snappin, huge light fixtures shoring out on the shop ceiling and I got to ride a rickity box lift up 2 stories to disconnect it. The robots be trying to kill me. Fires be breaking out in the dust collection system and the first name they be screaming be mine, LOL. It's rough man....... That's just at work. I can't even talk about home, LOL.

Well, be careful with all that revolving around ya!

Thanks @MightyRaze for the sticker!

@Double W Cross Ranch I got mine, on vacation. Er,,,a.... Do you mean the top or bottom sticker? LOL.

Bottom lol. And that was me trying to get a picture with the least amount of stickers in it, LOL. I've got a bunch more way more political ones than that.

Well to break the silence I'll give everyone an update on the garage weither you care or not. So finally the exterior is now completely done. Went with metal all around and due to living in a subdivision we had to have atleast some brick to match the house. Right now we are working on getting some electricity so dad rented a ditch witch and we got a ditch dug and while we were at it we went and cut the dang phone line in half. The 811 guy was 3 foot off of where the line was really at. Being that we have school online and my mom working from home dad decided to splice it back together witch worked good (besides dad getting electrocuted ) But we had them run us a new line and this time we are going to bury it so we know where it's at. To top it all off dad bought some steel from a guy that he works with and on his way home he hit a deer with his truck. Dads fine, the deer is dead and the truck is pretty smashed up but not totaled. So it's been a pretty eventful month around here lol.

Here's some pics of the garage.

Here's my dads tundra

Hay People,
Interesting day at work yesterday. Figure I would share it. It was a "Now what's goin on" kinda day, LOL. If you believe that.
So, dust collection for the machines caught on fire early in the morning. Wasn't like fire and flames, just an ash fire in the tubes, was all. The guys tore down the tubes to get to it (hang from the ceiling), me telling them where to look. Which involved me pointing at a section and 2 guys with ladders running up them and popping clamps to drop the tube. Was what it looked like. Ended up cleaning out most of the machine, LOL. Put out the ash fire, put stuff back together, then back to work. While working, the shippers gave me a sticker of a firefighter's badge with "Junior Firefighter" written on it. Cute. Then I got a free sandwich for making Junior Firefighter.
An hour goes by. The guys run out yelling, it's on fire again. I grab tools again and run back there, by then they used the D class extinguisher on part of the fire, powder everywhere, stuff tore apart again and smoke coming out the dust collector. I see where the ash fire is this time, deep inside the machine where I can't reach, so I start popping bolts off to separate the sections of the dust collector. This thing is almost 2 stories high by the way, LOL. Yup, Climbing on this thing like a monkey, bolts popping out of it left and right and me prying the sections apart with a screwdriver (needed a crowbar and a hammer) but hay, it worked. And to top it off, me stripping down the machine didn't work. I ended up shoving a pole in the inlet and scooped the fire out onto the ground. At that point, I told the guys we are totally dismantling the machine to clean it. That sucked!! Cleaned out the whole machine by the end of the day. I had 4 kinds of funk on me by the end of the day and didn't want to wash off.
So, word has it, if I put out 1 more fire then I make Senior Firefighter. I'll then have a card fully punched out. Then the next fire I fight, I make Fire Marshall. Cool!!

So much snow outside today and I can't play tractors in it due to my back.

So my parents will only let me have one tractor and because they want the yard to look nice and we cant get a shed because I live in a neigborhood with a hoa. Which means i can only have a mud mower and nothing else and if i screw something up i dont have any parts tractors.

IT SUCKS

Anyone remember this thing?



300 and something dollars later...







Yup. My brother put way more money than it's worth into it, but it's pretty cool now. It's got a SUPER bright headlight off the stamped frame, an LED taillight/brake light, a radiator fan with no radiator (but it puts out some air), new carb, ALL new wiring harness, homemade metal fenders, new seat, new gas tank, new battery, new brake lines, new master cylinder, new starter, new coil, new alternator, new exhaust, new starter chain, new handle grips, and a new throttle. I gotta say, she's a ripper. Moves pretty good.

This guy is looking likely to be coming home with me next year. My in-laws don’t care for it. 




I’ll probably hang onto it. New blades and make it my primary mower.

Oooo nice. Looks to be in fairly good shape.


Lovin' the Stars and Stripes header Mighty!