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**special-K** · 02-01-2022, 02:08 PM

I need to start getting out to make some money. But yesterday I also put that little coffee stool together. My sanders are buried, so belt sanding the top and oiling the thing up will come latter. The only thing I bought were the finish screws

72c20customcamper · 02-01-2022, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by special-K

I need to start getting out to make some money. But yesterday I also put that little coffee stool together. My sanders are buried, so belt sanding the top and oiling the thing up will come latter. The only thing I bought were the finish screws

Nice . There is a big market for just that kind of item

72c20customcamper · 02-02-2022, 06:03 PM

Really can’t wait for warm weather. Can’t work on the trucks no heat in my barn or tent . Decided I needed a new mallet so I made one out of a couple pieces of firewood Ash head and walnut handle. Didn’t get any pictures of the mortise but I did it with the drill press and hand chisels. The piece of a hickory is for the bath vanity .

**special-K** · 02-01-2022, 03:07 PM

Ohhh... I thought that was a picture of a boat hull

So Mark, it looks like the barn had a hay trolley. I guess that's not still lurking up there, is it? I had one like this, but I ended up selling it at Carlisle

72c20customcamper · 02-01-2022, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by special-K

Ohhh... I thought that was a picture of a boat hull

So Mark, it looks like the barn had a hay trolley. I guess that's not still lurking up there, is it? I had one like this, but I ended up selling it at Carlisle

Haven't seen one but once I get up there again it may be buried under barn swallow nests and droppings

72c20customcamper · 02-01-2022, 06:23 PM

Finished the sheath for my knife hand stitched with wax thread .

**special-K** · 02-02-2022, 10:29 PM

Nice! the silver lining behind the cloud is you are getting some great alternate things done.

I put the snow birds on my front porch. Roof was clear and temperature was eased up, so good day for it. They are stamped stainless steel. I had them sandblasted to help paint adhesion. Picked them up last week, primed and painted them with the DTM primer/paint left over from my garage roof. Let them cure in front of the woodstove.

It was good to have pictures from doing the porch roof for locating the purlins, but I still pulled some screws to take a peak to be sure I was fastening into them

**leddzepp** · 02-02-2022, 11:08 PM

**FleetsidePaul** · 02-03-2022, 01:53 PM

Long post. But I had a busy day.

I started moving stuff into my new place. What a PITA. Just me and my wife and she got grumpy fast. Double PITA.

It get's better. When we get there, there's no water or propane. It's been shut off. Great!

Water company is closed. Propane company is closed. Are you starting to see where this is going?

I had called the water company in the morning and they screwed up the order. The propane is on me. I couldn't remember which company it was. It's different than the one I use. But it's their tank in the yard.

So. I buy a bunch of bottled water to keep the toilet working. My wife insisted on spending the night despite having no water. I wasn't too worried about the propane. The place has a wood burning stove.

We brought potato salad, and stuff for sandwiches. But. We didn't bring any silverware.

Time to go out to eat.

We went to the WORST Italian restaurant. It was so bland. I don't think that they had any spices in the place. The food was tasteless. I asked for some pepperoncini to kind of doctor it up. They didn't have any. They're an Italian restaurant and they don't have any peppers?

And they only had one beer. I don't mean one brand. They only had one bottle of beer in the place.

The water company was Johnny on the spot once I got ahold of them. They were there in 5 minutes. Propane was not. I've never used them and they said I had to fill out a credit application and I had to go to their office 20 minutes away to do it. I couldn't do it over the phone or the internet. And they would slide it under the door because of Covid and I could slide it back under the door.

We were driving there and Mama's getting pissy again. I fill out their stupid application, slide it under the door, and we start heading home. I see Wienerschnitzel and I'm hungry. I suggest that we stop and get some chili dogs.
Bad idea. She wants to go home. Now she's mad. So, then I was really dumb and told her to just drop me off. I'll find a ride home.

So. I'm standing in the Wienerschntzel parking lot watching her drive away. I thought to myself "She's not coming back' Might as well have a couple chili cheese dogs while I wait for the bus.

This place was the weirdest Wienerschntzel that I have ever seen. They sell liquor there. High end stuff. Not what you would expect from a fast food joint. A wall of booze.

Then she cooled down and came back and we had hot dogs and Pepsi's. All was well. I didn't need that bus after all.

Tough day. And the good news is that I get to do it all over again this weekend.

67ChevyRedneck · 02-03-2022, 06:11 PM

^You have the best stories

72c20customcamper · 02-03-2022, 07:24 PM

Drilled a 1 1/2” and 1 3/4” holes to mount the fixtures . Dry fit everything just for my own piece of mind . I have to seal the holes with Waterlox just in case . Thought I bought a copper ptrap but I can’t find it so off to the plumbing supply tomorrow if I can . I just want to test it since I still need to do some mud and tapeing.

57taskforce · 02-03-2022, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by 67ChevyRedneck

^You have the best stories

Absolutely agree with that!

**72 tigger** · 02-03-2022, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by 57taskforce

Absolutely agree with that!

I know! Why is my life so boring??

57taskforce · 02-04-2022, 12:36 AM

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Originally Posted by 72 tigger

I know! Why is my life so boring??

Somehow I think I might be good with my life not being that exciting

my wife woulda left me at wiener schnitzel if I was in his shoes for sure haha.

**special-K** · 02-04-2022, 07:03 AM

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Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper

Decided I needed a new mallet so I made one out of a couple pieces of firewood Ash head and walnut handle.

Very nice. Making your own mallet is easy on you wallet. I'm a poet and didn't even know it. Probably because it doesn't rhyme. But hey, it's spelled the same.

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Originally Posted by 57taskforce

Somehow I think I might be good with my life not being that exciting

my wife woulda left me at wiener schnitzel if I was in his shoes for sure haha.

My X would have pulled out the Coleman and fixed us something up on the back bumper

**special-K** · 02-03-2022, 11:01 PM

What did you do today not on your truck, Paul?

I wrote a story about a day in my life

We have a pizza place in Mt. Airy that is really successful and I don't understand how. I guess they were the only one at first and nobody knew what good pizza was. Just circular red food is all, no spices. No one corrected them on proper English conjugation on their name either. It's called New York J&P Pizza. "Man, that New York place sure makes good J&P pizza"

The guy's from Sicily. Why not call it Sicilian pizza? Do people in Sicily crave NY pizza or do people in NY crave Sicilian pizza? I call it suck hind leg pizza

Mark, that Waterlox is great stuff. I really like it. I did my kitchen back before I knew about it, so stuck with Helmsman, less natural looking. I use Waterlox on everything with a lot of water exposure like your vanity.

**Steeveedee** · 02-03-2022, 11:40 PM

Pizza wasn't even invented in Italy. My claim to fame today was taking my wife in for a colonoscopy. No, really, at the hospital!

**Getter-Done** · 02-03-2022, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Steeveedee

Pizza wasn't even invented in Italy. My claim to fame today was taking my wife in for a colonoscopy. No, really, at the hospital!

Pizza (The Geometry food)

A (Round) Pizza in a (Square) box sliced in (Triangles)

67ChevyRedneck · 02-04-2022, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Steeveedee

Pizza wasn't even invented in Italy. My claim to fame today was taking my wife in for a colonoscopy. No, really, at the hospital!

History or Discovery had some neat 2 season food series I started watching.

While there were a bunch of places along the east coast that sold pizza, it never got a national foot hold, and it was closer to "Italian" pizza and not what we're used to today. Pizza Hut and Dominos are credited for creating the pizza we all know and love today. The "cola wars" is another really neat one to watch.

72c20customcamper · 02-04-2022, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by 67ChevyRedneck

History or Discovery had some neat 2 season food series I started watching.

While there were a bunch of places along the east coast that sold pizza, it never got a national foot hold, and it was closer to "Italian" pizza and not what we're used to today. Pizza Hut and Dominos are credited for creating the pizza we all know and love today. The "cola wars" is another really neat one to watch.

There are very few Pizza huts ,dominos or other chain "pizza" places left around here . Plenty of mom and pop places that still speak broken English here .

72c20customcamper · 02-04-2022, 11:12 AM

Freezing rain with freezing fog since 4 am power is still on but the generator is fueled and ready to go

67ChevyRedneck · 02-04-2022, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper

There are very few Pizza huts ,dominos or other chain "pizza" places left around here . Plenty of mom and pop places that still speak broken English here .

Same here, the ones that are left are a small spot in like a strip mall thing.

I miss the 80s/90s pizza huts with the big red roof, buffet, all of the colored glass lights, the big red drink cups, and the deep dish pizza... They're all but gone here.

I'm actually a big papa johns fan (lived on it in college) but for some reason my wife hates their pizza, so that means we never get it

KW5413 · 02-04-2022, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by 67ChevyRedneck

While there were a bunch of places along the east coast that sold pizza, it never got a national foot hold, and it was closer to "Italian" pizza and not what we're used to today. Pizza Hut and Dominos are credited for creating the pizza we all know and love today. The "cola wars" is another really neat one to watch.

I have fond memories of Shakey's Pizza...one of the 1st / early pizza franchises. Their 1st store opened 1954. The one we went to had a rinky-tink piano and on the weekends they usually had a Barbershop Quartet to sing along with.

**Sheepdip** · 02-04-2022, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by KW5413

I have fond memories of Shakey's Pizza...one of the 1st / early pizza franchises. Their 1st store opened 1954. The one we went to had a rinky-tink piano and on the weekends they usually had a Barbershop Quartet to sing along with.

We had a Shakey's Pizza, and on Friday/Saturday night's two local high school boy's played old ragtime music, one on piano and one on banjo. Actually, very talented.

Rich84 · 02-04-2022, 12:19 PM

Working from home today..Very strange. Don't think I could do this for more then a day or 2. It's Friday so happy hour is gonna come early today.

I'm going to light a fire later and chase the wife around the house. It's 35out there now so no ice yet.

02-01-2022, 02:08 PM	#1
special-K Special Order Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mt Airy, MD Posts: 85,863	Re: What did you do today not on your truck... I need to start getting out to make some money. But yesterday I also put that little coffee stool together. My sanders are buried, so belt sanding the top and oiling the thing up will come latter. The only thing I bought were the finish screws Attached Images __________________ "BUILDING A BETTER WAY TO SERVE THE USA"......67/72......"The New Breed" GMC '67 C1500 Wideside Super Custom SWB: 327/M22/3.42 posi.........."The '67" (project) GMC '72 K2500 Wideside Sierra Custom Camper: 350/TH350/4.10 Power-Lok..."The '72" (rolling) Tim "Don't call me a redneck. I'm a rough cut country gentleman" R.I.P. ~ East Side Low Life ~ El Jay ~ 72BLUZ ~ Fasteddie69 ~ Ron586 ~ 67ChevyRedneck ~ Grumpy Old Man ~

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72c20customcamper Registered User Join Date: Jul 2018 Location: Catskill Mountains,NY Posts: 8,216	Re: What did you do today not on your truck... Really can’t wait for warm weather. Can’t work on the trucks no heat in my barn or tent . Decided I needed a new mallet so I made one out of a couple pieces of firewood Ash head and walnut handle. Didn’t get any pictures of the mortise but I did it with the drill press and hand chisels. The piece of a hickory is for the bath vanity . Attached Images __________________ Mark 72 c20 custom camper Husky edition, 66 SS396 Chevelle 1964 Hawk, 63 Avanti,62 lark 1969 AMX , 1968 c20 stepside ,85 K20 1977 Suburban sold 68 anniversary.

02-01-2022, 03:07 PM	#4
special-K Special Order Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mt Airy, MD Posts: 85,863	Re: What did you do today not on your truck... Ohhh... I thought that was a picture of a boat hull So Mark, it looks like the barn had a hay trolley. I guess that's not still lurking up there, is it? I had one like this, but I ended up selling it at Carlisle Attached Images __________________ "BUILDING A BETTER WAY TO SERVE THE USA"......67/72......"The New Breed" GMC '67 C1500 Wideside Super Custom SWB: 327/M22/3.42 posi.........."The '67" (project) GMC '72 K2500 Wideside Sierra Custom Camper: 350/TH350/4.10 Power-Lok..."The '72" (rolling) Tim "Don't call me a redneck. I'm a rough cut country gentleman" R.I.P. ~ East Side Low Life ~ El Jay ~ 72BLUZ ~ Fasteddie69 ~ Ron586 ~ 67ChevyRedneck ~ Grumpy Old Man ~

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72c20customcamper Registered User Join Date: Jul 2018 Location: Catskill Mountains,NY Posts: 8,216	Re: What did you do today not on your truck... Finished the sheath for my knife hand stitched with wax thread . Attached Images __________________ Mark 72 c20 custom camper Husky edition, 66 SS396 Chevelle 1964 Hawk, 63 Avanti,62 lark 1969 AMX , 1968 c20 stepside ,85 K20 1977 Suburban sold 68 anniversary.

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special-K Special Order Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mt Airy, MD Posts: 85,863	Re: What did you do today not on your truck... Nice! the silver lining behind the cloud is you are getting some great alternate things done. I put the snow birds on my front porch. Roof was clear and temperature was eased up, so good day for it. They are stamped stainless steel. I had them sandblasted to help paint adhesion. Picked them up last week, primed and painted them with the DTM primer/paint left over from my garage roof. Let them cure in front of the woodstove. It was good to have pictures from doing the porch roof for locating the purlins, but I still pulled some screws to take a peak to be sure I was fastening into them Attached Images __________________ "BUILDING A BETTER WAY TO SERVE THE USA"......67/72......"The New Breed" GMC '67 C1500 Wideside Super Custom SWB: 327/M22/3.42 posi.........."The '67" (project) GMC '72 K2500 Wideside Sierra Custom Camper: 350/TH350/4.10 Power-Lok..."The '72" (rolling) Tim "Don't call me a redneck. I'm a rough cut country gentleman" R.I.P. ~ East Side Low Life ~ El Jay ~ 72BLUZ ~ Fasteddie69 ~ Ron586 ~ 67ChevyRedneck ~ Grumpy Old Man ~

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02-03-2022, 01:53 PM	#9
FleetsidePaul R.I.P. E.S.L.L. Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Kernville CA./ Lake Isabella CA. Posts: 11,419	Re: What did you do today not on your truck... Long post. But I had a busy day. I started moving stuff into my new place. What a PITA. Just me and my wife and she got grumpy fast. Double PITA. It get's better. When we get there, there's no water or propane. It's been shut off. Great! Water company is closed. Propane company is closed. Are you starting to see where this is going? I had called the water company in the morning and they screwed up the order. The propane is on me. I couldn't remember which company it was. It's different than the one I use. But it's their tank in the yard. So. I buy a bunch of bottled water to keep the toilet working. My wife insisted on spending the night despite having no water. I wasn't too worried about the propane. The place has a wood burning stove. We brought potato salad, and stuff for sandwiches. But. We didn't bring any silverware. Time to go out to eat. We went to the WORST Italian restaurant. It was so bland. I don't think that they had any spices in the place. The food was tasteless. I asked for some pepperoncini to kind of doctor it up. They didn't have any. They're an Italian restaurant and they don't have any peppers? And they only had one beer. I don't mean one brand. They only had one bottle of beer in the place. The water company was Johnny on the spot once I got ahold of them. They were there in 5 minutes. Propane was not. I've never used them and they said I had to fill out a credit application and I had to go to their office 20 minutes away to do it. I couldn't do it over the phone or the internet. And they would slide it under the door because of Covid and I could slide it back under the door. We were driving there and Mama's getting pissy again. I fill out their stupid application, slide it under the door, and we start heading home. I see Wienerschnitzel and I'm hungry. I suggest that we stop and get some chili dogs. Bad idea. She wants to go home. Now she's mad. So, then I was really dumb and told her to just drop me off. I'll find a ride home. So. I'm standing in the Wienerschntzel parking lot watching her drive away. I thought to myself "She's not coming back' Might as well have a couple chili cheese dogs while I wait for the bus. This place was the weirdest Wienerschntzel that I have ever seen. They sell liquor there. High end stuff. Not what you would expect from a fast food joint. A wall of booze. Then she cooled down and came back and we had hot dogs and Pepsi's. All was well. I didn't need that bus after all. Tough day. And the good news is that I get to do it all over again this weekend. __________________ 1971 Custom C/20 1970 CST 20 1970 C/30 Flatbed 1983 C/30 Dually 2015 Corvette Z51 2021 Corvette Z51 1991 Cadillac Hearse 1982 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz 2000 Porsche Boxster S 2020 Jeep Gladiator 1973 VW Thing 1973 Plymouth Satellite wagon 1963 Baja Bug 1959 Bug Dune Buggy 1970 Baja Bug 1987 Jaguar XJ 350. R.I.P. El Jay R.I.P Jessie. R.I.P Grumpy. Every day is a gift from God.

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72c20customcamper Registered User Join Date: Jul 2018 Location: Catskill Mountains,NY Posts: 8,216	Re: What did you do today not on your truck... Drilled a 1 1/2” and 1 3/4” holes to mount the fixtures . Dry fit everything just for my own piece of mind . I have to seal the holes with Waterlox just in case . Thought I bought a copper ptrap but I can’t find it so off to the plumbing supply tomorrow if I can . I just want to test it since I still need to do some mud and tapeing. Attached Images __________________ Mark 72 c20 custom camper Husky edition, 66 SS396 Chevelle 1964 Hawk, 63 Avanti,62 lark 1969 AMX , 1968 c20 stepside ,85 K20 1977 Suburban sold 68 anniversary.

02-03-2022, 11:01 PM	#16
special-K Special Order Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mt Airy, MD Posts: 85,863	Re: What did you do today not on your truck... What did you do today not on your truck, Paul? I wrote a story about a day in my life We have a pizza place in Mt. Airy that is really successful and I don't understand how. I guess they were the only one at first and nobody knew what good pizza was. Just circular red food is all, no spices. No one corrected them on proper English conjugation on their name either. It's called New York J&P Pizza. "Man, that New York place sure makes good J&P pizza" The guy's from Sicily. Why not call it Sicilian pizza? Do people in Sicily crave NY pizza or do people in NY crave Sicilian pizza? I call it suck hind leg pizza Mark, that Waterlox is great stuff. I really like it. I did my kitchen back before I knew about it, so stuck with Helmsman, less natural looking. I use Waterlox on everything with a lot of water exposure like your vanity. __________________ "BUILDING A BETTER WAY TO SERVE THE USA"......67/72......"The New Breed" GMC '67 C1500 Wideside Super Custom SWB: 327/M22/3.42 posi.........."The '67" (project) GMC '72 K2500 Wideside Sierra Custom Camper: 350/TH350/4.10 Power-Lok..."The '72" (rolling) Tim "Don't call me a redneck. I'm a rough cut country gentleman" R.I.P. ~ East Side Low Life ~ El Jay ~ 72BLUZ ~ Fasteddie69 ~ Ron586 ~ 67ChevyRedneck ~ Grumpy Old Man ~

02-03-2022, 11:40 PM	#17
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02-04-2022, 11:12 AM	#21
72c20customcamper Registered User Join Date: Jul 2018 Location: Catskill Mountains,NY Posts: 8,216	Re: What did you do today not on your truck... Freezing rain with freezing fog since 4 am power is still on but the generator is fueled and ready to go Attached Images __________________ Mark 72 c20 custom camper Husky edition, 66 SS396 Chevelle 1964 Hawk, 63 Avanti,62 lark 1969 AMX , 1968 c20 stepside ,85 K20 1977 Suburban sold 68 anniversary.

02-04-2022, 12:19 PM	#25
Rich84 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Woodbury, Ct. Posts: 1,665	Re: What did you do today not on your truck... Working from home today..Very strange. Don't think I could do this for more then a day or 2. It's Friday so happy hour is gonna come early today. I'm going to light a fire later and chase the wife around the house. It's 35out there now so no ice yet.



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