I want to start a new thread about nothing, and let it run...

[pmorris92223]

We've been living with 110+ Temps for the last couple of weeks and today it's down to 85. Almost nice, we can enjoy our patio for a change. The tomato harvest is done and between bugs and heat and a crop harvest that wasn't worth the effort we'll buy our produce from a gal up the road that has amazing heirloom tomatoes and peppers. Lessons learned, pick your battles.

Originally Posted by ducksface

107°f yesterday.
We have a frost warning tonight at 31°f
Welcome to 7,000ft in a national forest.

I'm setting up my diesel cab heater in the greenhouse tonight.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07YF...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It will also live in the basement of the 24.1 as auxiliary heat if ever needed.
If I had a diesel coach I'd have one of these built into every heater register.

If fits in the gator also.
It'll ride in my tractor when I'm using the damn 3point, have to drive the tractor in reverse, snow blower.

The best for tents.
Absolutely wonderful when working under a vehicle.

[ducksface]

Mine too.
Between it taking 8 months to find out my black beauty tomatoes were really some generic sauce tomato and the Cherokee purples never having more than two ripe at a time, the romaine going directly to head, the crook neck killing off all the female buds I got lots of basil and sparse else.

I'll be all trees next year with the tomatoes as an unmanaged accessory.
I'm going all automatic hydroponic next year. This year was hydroponic, a hybrid hydroponic dirt with an air layer, and dirt. They all tasted the same.


Heater is hooked up, it's 60 degrees here already and racing down the mercury channel.

I don't know the propane vs diesel expense but we're starting with the diesel.
Propane is probably best since I don't have to vent it and it's $1.99 a gallon all winter long on Wednesday at our little local store.

I bet I'm on propane before the end of the month.

[ducksface]

I'm in Farmington new Mexico (on purpose) for a couple of days with nothing to do.
I'll try to make some antique stops while here and I guess I better check Craigslist.
Edit: I looked through it and Craigslist just made me sad to see some people posted used things for 150% of retail because they're stupid or because they hope we're stupid.

I drove the 500hp 502ci 8.1L avalanche from Williams az to Farmington.
Silly thing got 15.3mpg at about 72mph average.
My 5.0 f150 only gets 16.5mpg

[ducksface]

My dad is 85.
No one likes working with him because the old fart will literally, work you into the ground.

I post this so you'll see where my
Find a way to fix it yourself, waiting for a warranty appointment is sometimes silly
bullcrap comes from.

[MTHook]

Originally Posted by ducksface

My dad is 85.
No one likes working with him because the old fart will literally, work you into the ground.

I post this so you'll see where my
Find a way to fix it yourself, waiting for a warranty appointment is sometimes silly
bullcrap comes from.

Not my Dad but when I was 17 years young the fellow that was doing the brick/block work on our new house asked if I could fill in for his helper. Being young and dumb I said sure $.50 and hour looked pretty good.
We started work about day light, my job was to hand mix mortar and keep him supplied with 12" blocks.
Didn't take me a New York Minute to get behind and I stayed behind all day, hands blistered sun baked for $6.00. That 65 year old man never stopped, humped blocks to catch me up, set block and mixed mortar to try to keep me caught up with him. One day was enough for both of us, he thanked me for my work paid me. He must not have hated me because he did take me fishing a couple times.. I wish I had the strength he had when I was 65. Never mess with an old fart, you may come up on the wrong side of the deal.

[Jimbo56]

Originally Posted by ducksface

107°f yesterday.
We have a frost warning tonight at 31°f
Welcome to 7,000ft in a national forest.

I'm setting up my diesel cab heater in the greenhouse tonight.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07YF...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It will also live in the basement of the 24.1 as auxiliary heat if ever needed.
If I had a diesel coach I'd have one of these built into every heater register.

If fits in the gator also.
It'll ride in my tractor when I'm using the damn 3point, have to drive the tractor in reverse, snow blower.

The best for tents.
Absolutely wonderful when working under a vehicle.

So it doesn’t spit out horse fumes? Can it be used safely indoors? How long does it go on a tank of fuel?

[ducksface]

It requires an outside exhaust but I've used it in the shop and the diesel smell is very light.
It has an air intake that can be from outside for fresh air intake or left inside for recirculation. The burner had its own intake.
So no fumes comingled.
It isn't like one of those awful kerosene jet heaters on construction sites.


On high it runs 32 hours on 2 gallons.
It idled on low in the greenhouse for 12 hours and used about a quart.
Idling/Low puts out plenty of heat. I think had it been plumbed into the 24.1 ducting it would have used the 24.1 fan and kept the entire coach warm at 40° outside Temps.

There are hundreds of youtube videos.
They're kind of a cult thing and some videos get into reprogramming and alternate fuels like peanut oil and air fuel ratios.

It has a wireless remote control.

There's a company making water heater attachments for them so you get hot water and hot air from them.

They're a knockoff of heaters costing close to $1,000 used by truck drivers to heat the sleeper when the truck isn't running.

[MLP]

Originally Posted by ducksface

Mine too.
Between it taking 8 months to find out my black beauty tomatoes were really some generic sauce tomato and the Cherokee purples never having more than two ripe at a time, the romaine going directly to head, the crook neck killing off all the female buds I got lots of basil and sparse else.

I'll be all trees next year with the tomatoes as an unmanaged accessory.
I'm going all automatic hydroponic next year. This year was hydroponic, a hybrid hydroponic dirt with an air layer, and dirt. They all tasted the same.

For great tasting tomatoes and sweet too, use two shovels full of steer manure in a five gallon bucket to make a tea. Do cover the bucket(s)! After five days add some fish emulsion and mix. Poor around the tomatoes and all other garden veggies. Don't use the solids. Put them in a mulch pile for next year. It makes the best veggies you will ever have. If your garden is not far away from the house, keep the windows closed.

My neighbors slam their windows shut fast! They do like the produce, but I do not tell them about my home made fertilizer.

[lwmcguire]

Originally Posted by MLP

For great tasting tomatoes and sweet too, use two shovels full of steer manure in a five gallon bucket to make a tea. Do cover the bucket(s)! After five days add some fish emulsion and mix. Poor around the tomatoes and all other garden veggies. Don't use the solids. Put them in a mulch pile for next year. It makes the best veggies you will ever have. If your garden is not far away from the house, keep the windows closed.

My neighbors slam their windows shut fast! They do like the produce, but I do not tell them about my home made fertilizer.

We did the very same for years when canning tomatoes and other veggies. Works exceptionally well and we had tomatoes that tasted great, right until picking them ahead of a hard freeze; and then storing them in cardboard boxes in dark for another month of fresh great tasting Tomatoes

[ducksface]

I just went to a fun place.
You walk through their front yard and there is a refrigerator with whole Unpasteurized milk, Unpasteurized butter, 3ggs and tomatoes(fruit of the day) Prices are written on the item and you put your money in a locked box and serve yourself.

There's a place selling honey in needles California doing the same thing.
It's an oddity in the west.

So, we bought the milk and we're making chongos(look it up).

Three gallons of milk Was 18 bucks.
I go to the Mercado(we don't have one within 100 miles of us) tomorrow for Carne seca and the cross cut beef ribs and a Squat load of Mexican food and candy goodies.
.
Will buy more milk for homemade Mozerrella to go with the sparse tomatoes and basil.

I landed an industrial mister fan for 15 bucks at the elks lodge yard sale and a $600 swamp cooler I'll take for now and deliver boat accessories as a trade later. The electric capstan is worth more than his whole boat but it'll be a great addition. I'm tossing in fancy ropes and bumpers and a box anchor, maybe two if I have two, and three sets of scuba with tanks. I'm a pretty easy trade.
The pontoon boats are long gone. That is all residual stuff.
Except as a rope winch I've never found a use for that capstan on land....

My kind of weekend.

[ducksface]

I had to go to four tractor supply stores but I landed four seats marked down from 189 bucks to 44 bucks.
New seats for the gator and the backhoe.
I saved $540ish bucks.
The seats I have were just starting to go bad. Sun darkened and their first cracks were showing up.

I'll take two of the old seats and make removable jump seats for the gator.
We can add this luck to the other Farmington trip luck.
The fours stores were
Farmington, Gallup, Holbrook and Flagstaff... All right on the way home.

[ducksface]

Well, here's my $15 misting fan.

https://m.northerntool.com/shop/tool...MaAhHgEALw_wcB

$713 plus tax retail. Who in their right mind would pay that for a $30box fan with a $12 dollar store mister attached? I wasn't even sure about the $15 except it was a nice neat system and will sit on top of a 5 gallon can....

Plugged it in, works like new. I need to wrestle a bit with a plastic gland nut(yup, it's a real thing and that's its real name) to replace some brittle ice maker size water line due to brittleness.

THAT and the seats and the swamp box cooler was a hellofa yardsale/closeout weekend.
$700 saved on mister fan(was halfassing a garden hose handheld spraying on a piece of burlap and a box fan for the greenhouse )
$615 saved on swamper. (see half-assed burlap arrangement above and I had priced the ridiculous price just last month. And. I. Almost. Paid. Retail.... )
$540 saved on the incredibly overpriced seats.
(and 12 medium quality Brand new wood gouges for a wood lathe. $2. I don't need them but they'll make fine garden dibbles 'cause wood lathes be too skeery por mio. I have two wood lathes. They have become fine bookracks)

The Fan, the cooler, and two seats were all on my purchase list. They all had such stupidly high retail prices I was whining like a sissy on a troop train about having to buy any of it.
Lucky weekend.

[MLP]

Wow. Your trip was well worth it. Finding the things that you are needing and looking for in one trip both used and new at fantastic prices is almost unbeliveable and a bit lucky. Good for you.

[ducksface]

I went to the swap meet today.
500 people there.
I wore a mask for no particular reason other than there's always one in my pocket.
I walked through the whole place, maybe 4 acres,
I actively paid attention and found 4 people wearing masks.

Town is packed like on the fourth of July.
Maybe another 400 or 500 people on sidewalks.
2 masked.

Did I miss an edict?

[taylorbob1]

Originally Posted by ducksface

I went to the swap meet today.
500 people there.
I wore a mask for no particular reason other than there's always one in my pocket.
I walked through the whole place, maybe 4 acres,
I actively paid attention and found 4 people wearing masks.

Town is packed like on the fourth of July.
Maybe another 400 or 500 people on sidewalks.
2 masked.

Did I miss an edict?

I'm in Calif where masks are required inside a 24hr Fitness gym, and at the grocery store (in addition to all other indoor places)

I went to a Men's gathering at my church on Tuesday eve
Inside and crowded, 80-100 men, close and personal, singing-laughing-talking
I saw maybe 5 masks max. and they were pulled down below nose and mouth

Many Californians seem to be repudiating the Democrat Governor in the name of Freedom.

I realize that this virus is contagious, but it's still unclear what % of people "actually die" from Covid19
Currently at 2-3% of those who catch it in the U.S. based on test data
But large majority (most) of the deaths occur to those over 65 with other risk factors, so the death cert ends up being labeled as a Covid death

Remember, we started out with...
- we don't want to over-load the hospitals
Then we moved to...
- we can't live normally until the cases are reduced (or eliminated)
Now we are at...
- this is our new normal until everyone has a vaccine (sometime late 2021)

It's very frustrating

[pmorris92223]

Let's see we have 200k deaths and many people with comorbities (hypertension, etc.) were the victims. Many of us are of an age group where we or someone we know have had covid 19 or we know people who have died. Whether they had contributing illnesses or not they are still dead and covid was a cause of their death. Masks are a pain but I'm not going to take the risk of contracting the virus or passing it along to someone else just so I'm not inconvenienced.

[ducksface]

The punchline is and it can't be disputed :
A COVID death is a billable death.

But I wear a mask.

[ducksface]

Yeh, we're not going anywhere.
Just had to pull it out of its house so I could clean.
If I don't get it back inside before dark the critters form a conga line....

[MLP]

Originally Posted by ducksface

Yeh, we're not going anywhere.
Just had to pull it out of its house so I could clean.
If I don't get it back inside before dark the critters form a conga line....

Since you know that... in the past did you play the music for them?
All right I just could not help myself. COVID boredom.

[taylorbob1]

Originally Posted by ducksface

The punchline is and it can't be disputed :
A COVID death is a billable death.

But I wear a mask.

I watched an interview with a Dr who basically said the same
That his hospital administrators insisted her include COVID on as many death certs as possible
Obviously it’s a money play