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I found my clothes!!! They were packed way back in my barn. I was getting tired of the Salvation Army look with just a couple of T shirts and jeans in my suitcase. I hate moving and remodeling. I miss having furniture. My desk is two cardboard boxes and a folding patio chair.

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Thanks for the link.
Nice truck with a cool bed, but the open tires to throw crap from the road up under a car isn't the best idea. Wish it had more pics, but I'm not interested in the ramp anyway, as I would move my roll back onto it.

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Yeah, I posted that on the Heavy Haulers Forum the other day but I didn't figure a ramp would work for you so I didn't let you know about it...

LockDoc

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I posted to show you the height you would have to deal with. I knew weren't wanting the truck... Tim (SpecialK) posted this for Rottenwood Garage inspiration awhile back (6 years ago) https://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/...68&postcount=5

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Did that about a year ago on the 08 Duramax. All that miracle in a box stuff doesn't work the only way is to sand em down and bring them back out to polish
...lot's-o-work

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Deer ran into me I stopped for the first two and the third slammed into the side of my truck . Dent was there from some jackass baked into me at the store . Got the money but not fixing it .

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I sand with 1500 paper and then paint them with this . The Toyota is going on three years now no fogging.

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I'll have to try that. The headlights on my black Vette are getting downright embarrassing.

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Got the last load of limbs that came off our trees from the April Fools day blizzard cut and loaded on the trailer yesterday. Normally, I would have stacked the bigger wood out by the road with a free sign, but everyone in a 100 mile radius has piles of this stuff to dispose of. Off to the compost site later today.
Pulled the radiator out of the roll back to get repaired. It was new a few years ago but has leaked at the filler neck since shortly after install. I'll bring the engine up in TDC #1 and check where the rotor is pointing. Strongly suspect the timing jumped last fall and if so, I'll replace the timing set and get it running again. If I buy a different truck for the bed, I'd like to sell this chassis for more than scrap with a non running engine...

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i am now the proud owner of the most expensive ice cream EVER but all for a good cause.we're leaving in the morning for Medina,Ohio to visit our friends that we saw last October in Ohio.Bob is fighting pancreatic cancer,a battle we know we won't win.he loves ice cream and we have been bragging about the Trueman Berry Farm not far from here and their homemade ice cream,so we're taking him some.i drove today,80 miles to get a cooler 1/2 full of dry ice,then stopped at Trueman's on the way back.the Mustang is ready to go,the cooler is packed and in the trunk.hopefully we'll get there with the cargo in good shape.Trueman told me they travel to friends in PA often and take their ice cream in dry ice and it does fine.hopefully this will work?take care.Greg.

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Wow:metal:

Great gesture to your Friend.

This is a Great thing you are doing. :metal::metal:

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Bought a motorhome to replace our travel trailer. I'm going to have to live to be 90 to pay it off. :( Guess they'll get it back, before that. :lol:

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Don't be such a tease Steven. What motorhome did you get?

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2023 E450, 24 feet long. First time I've bought that brand of vehicle. 🤷*♂️

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Went to a car show with some friends this morning and there were some nice 67-72 chevy trucks. There was one in particular that I really like. I've seen it 3 times so today I took a picture. Its the 4x4.

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Poured the footings for our house today.

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Looks like some legit footings.

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What brand is that?? :lol::lol:

Sounds like a nice rig. Lot's of good camping places in Lake Isabella and Kernville. ;)

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House??? Looks like a mansion!! Congrats :)

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Coleman. Ford chassis

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That’s what I would say is not having neighbors

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Got out today and washed & waxed Dad’s 2003 Silverado. “Ole Purple” never looked so good! I didn’t think I was ever gonna get to the end of that job…..that’s a lotta purple there!!!!
https://i.ibb.co/qCftWBF/E8-AF184-A-...60480-A0-B.jpg

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They are, more than county requires.
Just over 3000 sqft, I wanted smaller than we have now, but wife wanted bigger. This has a 30" deep three car garage.
We have ten acres and BLM behind us.

We pulled boards today and will start forming for the stem walls.

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Nice to build your own, and get things like that 30-ft deep garage. 20-ft might be a good standard for economic reasons considering most people just park in there. Personally I’d give up a ton of bedroom and living room space (they often throw in useless space there like a “sitting room”) in exchange for more garage space and storage space if I was to build a custom.

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Dad has a nice ride there, sure is shinny

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Yeah, over $5 in quarters at the car wash to blast the bugs & hardened yellow pine pollen off, then about 4-5 hours of elbow grease to get Ole Purple that clean. I couldn't wax the top of the camper shell and I couldn't get between the cab & camper shell really good, but I got the rest in top notch shape. I noticed some mildew between the cab & camper shell.......I may have to try a wash mit secured somehow to a yard stick. High pressure car wash didn't get it all.

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Finally feel we MIGHT be done getting snow, so spent all Sunday swapping snow tires off 3 vehicles. My Silverado and sons' MaliBlu have 2 sets of wheels/tires so, basically swap out. BUT the Silverado tires are stored in a loft above a work space at the back of the shop and the son's and DD's are on a rack, high on the wall, so require the use of the forklift. That hasn't been used for several months, so gets buried under "stuff" and took 30 minutes to dig out by itself. The Silverado, also, has to have the TPMS reset for the wheel sensors. The summer tires are load range E with an 80lb max pressure. The timer on the reset in the ECM is 2 minutes. I learned the first time I installed them that inflating to 70 lbs ran the timer out before I got them all deflated enough for the ECM to recognize. Now they get 40lbs for that task. Also found the source of the whine I have been hearing the last couple times I drove it. The infamous front bearing hub on the right side needs replaced. Got 125k out of it, which is more than the previous 2 trucks got on the OEM.
I don't have the summer tires for the CR-V on wheels, so that takes almost 2 hours to remove/break down, remount and balance. I seem to get slower at this task every year. :rolleyes:

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As soon as we get the house enclosed, we'll start our shop, 50' by 100'. We'll divide it 40' and 60'. Shop will be 40' and 60' for the old cars to park in. Right now we have a 40' by 50' shop and a 50' by 50' garage for the cars.

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You got some cool stuff in there. I'm digging the '58. My dad had a copper & cream '56 when he was in high school and his friend had a black '58 Convertible. They kept the girls AND the deer running at night!

I like '58's best of the '55-'58 years. Maybe it's from watching American Graffiti, but I just think it's a prettier car.

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Yesterday I moved a short wall over in my shed where we have a stand up freezer ,, getting a new one this comin Sunday and its wider.

As for the nice cars AllChevy 58 has ,,and they are really nice

the 58 reminded me of when I was staying with my SIS in Possum Grape Arkansas and my BIL sent me to Newport Ar to buy and anttena and speaker for the radio the 58 Biscayne he had in it ,,and install them,,, it was a used cop car and not sure what motor was in it ,, but to me it had a lot of horse power ,,and I did get on it a bit going and coming .. this was 1962

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Yesterday I moved a short wall over in my shed where we have a stand up freezer ,, getting a new one this comin Sunday and its wider.

As for the nice cars AllChevy 58 has ,,and they are really nice

the 58 reminded me of when I was staying with my SIS in Possum Grape Arkansas and my BIL sent me to Newport Ar to buy and anttena and speaker for the radio the 58 Biscayne he had in it ,,and install them,,, it was a used cop car and not sure what motor was in it ,, but to me it had a lot of horse power ,,and I did get on it a bit going and coming .. this was 1962

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Put the Log Hogger to work. Skids a 12' -25" red oak without any trouble.

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Looks like it works well . I just use the backhoe on mine

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There are many times a backhoe would be handy. But I just don't have one.

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Thanks. My grandma bought the 58' brand new and always said it would be mine. When she passed in 1980, I drove the car from southern California with 51,000 miles.

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I couldn’t do without it .

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That's cool. I wish I had one of my grandparents old cars, my grandfather had some neat ones.

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Likely will be around there at some point. :) It's a lot easier to handle than the truck with the trailer.

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Better make reservations. This place is filling up with tourists faster than the lake filled back up. Campers and boats are everywhere and it's only May. It's good to see boats on the lake again. It's good to see water in the lake again. It was looking a little bleak there for a while.

We went to lunch today and were lucky to get a seat which is usually no problem. The place was packed which is good to see also.

My old dog Bear bit me today. He wasn't trying to. He was trying to bite my German Shepherd because Bear's a grumpy old dog and Duke bugs him. Bear is blind and he just missed Duke and got me instead. :lol: I guess Duke moves faster than I do. :lol: I was just shocked that the old fella still had it in him. He bit me hard.

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Did you bite him back? :lol: We're both retired now, so a midweek "camping" trip isn't out of the question. We were going to camp last Sunday-Tuesday, but didn't get the gear transferred in time.