What did you do today not on your truck...

[allchevy58]

Originally Posted by LockDoc

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It was a nice day yesterday so I drug out the small parts cleaner.

I had 3 small buckets of rusty nuts, bolts, springs, clips brackets and other stuff. I let it run for about an hour and it cleaned everything up really good. I dump the sand and parts into a stainless tray that sits over a plastic tub. The tray has holes in it that let the sand fall through. Then I use the HF magnetic pickup tool to pick up the parts and put them in the small tub. It works excellent.

LockDoc
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I like that, looks like it work well.

[57taskforce]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

Tyler, that does look sweet! Think you can get mine shining that nice?

Originally Posted by special-K

That's why I don't shine mine up. Got tired of people asking me to do theirs . It really does look great. Good thing mine needs a good paint job. Speaking of a paint job, could you...?

Lol thanks guys. Ryan, I’m pretty sure all turds polish up, some are just a deeper shade of “brown” than others I like yours a lot the way it is honestly.

Funny you mention paint Tim, as much as I really do enjoy the polishing work on paint, the older I get the less desire I have to paint anymore. Read that as I’m getting too lazy and short on time to do the proper surfacing and prep work to paint correctly when I was doing body work for a living out of high school it was a breeze to get it all ready. Now that it’s been closing in on 20 years since I did it daily, it feels like it takes me forever to get it right.

[67ChevyRedneck]

I always painted dirty stick figures on walls and sent pics of them to my wife while she was at work before I painted over them.

I did a lot of our home renovation work when I was laid off in 2008/09. I got bored easily...

If anyone ever slowly tears my shop down... they're gonna find some funny a$$ stuff ...I like to leave messages too...

[special-K]

Hey Paul, while we're talking about your "other" marriages I thought I'd share this cool truck you might be interested in

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by special-K

Hey Paul, while we're talking about your "other" marriages I thought I'd share this cool truck you might be interested in

Sorry. Not interested. I'm done. I finally got it right. It took long enough.

[FleetsidePaul]

Gray water. Ew! Yuck! And I thought I was having a rough day.

I had set my fire pit on my deck when I moved. Using a fire pit on a wooden deck is a really bad idea so I went to move it to the slab in back.

Well i dropped the grate and it went right though the boards of my deck. My deck is sealed on the bottom with just a crawl space to get underneath.

I open the door to the crawlspace and it's all funky and nasty with cobwebs under there except for a new shiny stainless steel grate way over on the other side.

So, I crawl in there through the nasty's like I'm breaking out of prison. I thought that was bad before I read your post.

[FleetsidePaul]

Today I went to season my new/old cast iron griddle in the oven. It was the first time I've used this oven.

Now I don't know much about ovens but I do know that flames shouldn't be shooting out of it.

Turns out whoever converted it from gas to propane didn't know what they were doing. Hence the bonfire that I quickly shut down.

If you ever want to wake up fast. Just get an exploding stove. it works better than 10 cups of coffee.

I fixed it. Works like a charm now.

[cwcarpenter98]

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

Today I went to season my new/old cast iron griddle in the oven. It was the first time I've used this oven.

Now I don't know much about ovens but I do know that flames shouldn't be shooting out of it.

Turns out whoever converted it from gas to propane didn't know what they were doing. Hence the bonfire that I quickly shut down.

If you ever want to wake up fast. Just get an exploding stove. it works better than 10 cups of coffee.

I fixed it. Works like a charm now.

Never a dull day in the life of Paul! I hope I never experience an exploding stove inside a house

[LT7A]

Originally Posted by cwcarpenter98

Never a dull day in the life of Paul! I hope I never experience an exploding stove inside a house

No kidding.

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by cwcarpenter98

Never a dull day in the life of Paul! I hope I never experience an exploding stove inside a house

Then steer clear of my ex wives. They exploded in the house all the time.

The stove was easy. It didn't have a big mouth on it running full blast. I could just turn it off.

[Boog]

Oh man. That could have been REALLY bad.

[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

Today I went to season my new/old cast iron griddle in the oven. It was the first time I've used this oven.

Now I don't know much about ovens but I do know that flames shouldn't be shooting out of it.

Turns out whoever converted it from gas to propane didn't know what they were doing. Hence the bonfire that I quickly shut down.

If you ever want to wake up fast. Just get an exploding stove. it works better than 10 cups of coffee.

I fixed it. Works like a charm now.

Yeah, I bet you were excited for sure! I can relate sort of. One day I came home to work and found the stove on fire. I shortly figured out the culprit. There were left over pizzas in boxes on top of the stove and our genius dog was up on the front of it eating it. Somehow she turned the knobs and was able to ignite the front LH burner which was under the pizza boxes. When I walked in the flames were touching the bottom of the kitchen cabinets. No one else was home. Like a moron the first thing I did was reach for the burner knob to turn them off. Hey dumby, it's plastic, and hot seeing how ashes are falling down on the floor and the floor was smoldering. Yep, really great deal!

[Dieselwrencher]

Yesterday we had to go pick up the kids from the in laws and load their bicycles up. On the way over my wife wanted me to drive her car so I could listen to a noise she heard. That meant she had to drive the green monster. That's what the kids call my new to me Sierra Grande Longhorn. I'm still not sure what weird noise she heard, because I heard nothing out of the ordinary.

We are having an abnormally warm spell for us and I decided to start cleaning up some remnants of the junk I drug to my Dad's the last year. But first, we had to unload the sleeper I got for my dad's 47 Dodge project.

I was able to get the rest of the 70 442 hull and frame loaded before it got dark. That poor car has been setting rotting for 40 years. There wasn't much left of it. I also had 3 different 71=72 front clips to tear apart and get rid of. It's crazy how fast stuff accumulates.

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

Yeah, I bet you were excited for sure! I can relate sort of. One day I came home to work and found the stove on fire. I shortly figured out the culprit. There were left over pizzas in boxes on top of the stove and our genius dog was up on the front of it eating it. Somehow she turned the knobs and was able to ignite the front LH burner which was under the pizza boxes. When I walked in the flames were touching the bottom of the kitchen cabinets. No one else was home. Like a moron the first thing I did was reach for the burner knob to turn them off. Hey dumby, it's plastic, and hot seeing how ashes are falling down on the floor and the floor was smoldering. Yep, really great deal!

You're lucky that you got home when you did. My buddy at work turned on the power at a house. Nobody home and it had an electric stove and the new tenants had put boxes on it. You guessed it. The power went on and burners were on. Big fire. The place nearly burned down.

[Stocker]

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

You're lucky that you got home when you did. My buddy at work turned on the power at a house. Nobody home and it had an electric stove and the new tenants had put boxes on it. You guessed it. The power went on and burners were on. Big fire. The place nearly burned down.

That's why I never put combustibles on the stove top, especially overnight. The burners won't turn themselves on..... but what if they did? Odds are against it, but anything can fail.....

[57taskforce]

Ryan, sounds to me like she just wanted to drive mean green to me

[LS short box]

Today we went for a 4 hour snow mobile ride. Rented from a local company. I was great fun.
We sold our sleds about 15 years ago. It was fun to get out and ride the trails.
Weather was great. Sunny and about 20 degrees.
The trails run thru property that you would never get permission to ride on in the summer time.

[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by LS short box

Today we went for a 4 hour snow mobile ride. Rented from a local company. I was great fun.
We sold our sleds about 15 years ago. It was fun to get out and ride the trails.
Weather was great. Sunny and about 20 degrees.
The trails run thru property that you would never get permission to ride on in the summer time.

That's pretty cool! You must be way up north in MN? All of our snow down here is gone for the 2nd time the past month.

[special-K]

Just saw this on the local news website this morning. I imagine it was a propane explosion
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/frien...-fire/39311932

Like Stocker, I never leave anything combustible on top of the stove or any heaters. The kitchen stove. Better safe than sorry.

[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by special-K

Just saw this on the local news website this morning. I imagine it was a propane explosion
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/frien...-fire/39311932

Like Stocker, I never leave anything combustible on top of the stove or any heaters. The kitchen stove. Better safe than sorry.

That was a big explosion!

We always remove the knobs off the burner valves now when it isn't in use. Yes, we still have the dog.

[cab4word67]

Originally Posted by special-K

Just saw this on the local news website this morning. I imagine it was a propane explosion
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/frien...-fire/39311932

Like Stocker, I never leave anything combustible on top of the stove or any heaters. The kitchen stove. Better safe than sorry.

Reminds me of the flood in 96, We were saving a condo downtown from water so we pulled the new carpet and set the roll on the counters. Well yes the stove turned on and although we saved the condo the new carpet had to be replaced again.

[special-K]

Wow! I hadn't even read the article and didn't know there was a video that captured the explosion.

Good idea with removing the knobs. I had a place I knew was out of gas for a long time. When I had the tank filled, with no one home, they had to put a lock on the tank because it didn't pass the leak down test. They said pressure dropped like a rock. No one had any reason to try the stove. We all knew there was no gas. But what I found was one knob had been turned wide open somehow. Good thing there was no gas!

[Just call me Sean]

I'm digging a ditch for a water pipe at my house. Every time I dig something in my yard I hit garbage. This time, I found at least five shirts, several old pull top beer cans, some plates, some cups, a five gallon bucket, and I just finished cutting through a rolled up carpet. I swear one day I'm going to find a body. 15 feet done, about 50 feet to go.

[Boog]

Reminds me. One time the guys where my wife worked needed to haul off some dirt. We had some ruts beside the house so I said sure, we'll take it. Got it all smoothed out, leveled up. After a couple of rains metal and glass started surfacing. All done, I picked up 1 five gallon pail of shards of glass alone. There must have been a burn pile on their lot at one time. Some small bits of glass bottles were from 30s & 40s.

[72c20customcamper]

Originally Posted by Just call me Sean

I'm digging a ditch for a water pipe at my house. Every time I dig something in my yard I hit garbage. This time, I found at least five shirts, several old pull top beer cans, some plates, some cups, a five gallon bucket, and I just finished cutting through a rolled up carpet. I swear one day I'm going to find a body. 15 feet done, about 50 feet to go.

Sounds like your built on an old dump . We were digging footings for an addition to my uncle's body shop .did it by hand during slow periods . We hit a layer of coal ash and under that we found all kinds of old medicine bottles couple of old tin toy trucks . Biggest was a hood light and fender from a model t . It actually made us look forward to digging seeing what treasure would be unearthed