What are you up to?

Don, I'll gladly tell where I was 25 years ago the night it hit something like 26 below.

I was on the rooftop of a frozen pizza factory the made Taylor Street brand and public school pizzas in Elk Grove. At such low temperatures, the refrigerant (R-502) gets the oil in a holding freezer's refrigeration system a little funky, causing the system to shut down on the low pressure control. My job was to climb up on the roof, walk to the other end of the building, take off the cover and hit the control's reset then pray it stayed on.

The night Mayor Daley #1 died... On a roof, while my dad tried to get a new fangled electric ignitor operational again.

Good Times...

Thus the reason I didn't follow in my dad's footsteps.

well i don't know about you all but things have come to a grinding hault here for me I don't mind having very little heat in my home one can allways snuggle up in a warm blanket or two but running out of fire wood once allready in the shop just down right sucks got about a rick the other day but looks like i my have to save that for an emgency besides running out of wood my compresser seems to have bit the big one ,guess it didn't like the cold either.. if anyone happens to see santsa please tell him to leave me lots of coal !! If not it may be a long cold winter...

I don't think we'll have tooooo many days like today. When it gets this cold, we don't even think about going to the shop.

Maybe you got lucky and the pressure switch is just frozen from too much moisture... maybe.

I'm waiting for it to warm up tomorrow to go to work. Luckily I have a few apts to paint over the next couple weeks.

Later,
Rip

it kinda still runs it just sounds like someone is grinding coffie beans ,, I don't think thats a good thing oh ya my mig welder is just about to bite it too it's funny there both made by the came company and there just about the same age i guess it's right that they die at the same time

Who made them? How old? Is the compressor oil-less?

Try to stay warm and dry over there.

Getting ready for the rain,
Rip

i'm pretty sure the oil was to cold when it was running /trying to run .. it warmed up the other day i changed the oil and it was full of shavings it still runs but it takes forever to pump up and sounds like shit i figur it's got a smoked head . it's set up outside in a little room off the back of my shop guess it just got to cold for it as far as my mig welder go'e it's not that old but it is about the cheapest one you can buy ive only gone thou about 5 spools of wire but i've had it for over 3 years so i'm screwed on the warenty same with the compresser i got 2 other compressers a 2 hp and a 3 hp not very good for anything but tires and maybe a few small things
but i really need the mig still got a bunch to finish yet maybe if it warms up it might work better right now it only has the low side left hi side don't want to work at all right now , it's been the worst year i have ever had as far as my tools go so far this year i lost /broken my 3" grinder , my angle die grinder, my air hammer, my 3/8 drill, my jig saw, my sazall . 2/ 1/2 " breaker bars , 2 /9/16 sockets and now my compresser and my mig ..
I must say some of them were well over 20 years old . I still have tools from my very first tool set but dam it's been a really bad year for tools and not tryg to live on disabity check replacing them really sucks anybody know a single lady with a really nice set of tools

Frigging snow....why did it snow another six inches today...because I snow blowed out my driveway yesterday. Mother nature just likes to keep me busy...and I guess at my age it's good to keep moving. Pretty good blog you started here donivan. Kinda lets you learn about some of the members here. I miss working on my van...I hate when progress halts. Too expensive to heat the garage this winter so I'm going to start hauling everything inside the house that I can...I got my front bumper to finish that I took off a 77 Chevy van and shortened 7 inches and need to shorten the back of the bed from a conversion van so it will fold down in the 67. My girlfriend is going to love me but she'll get over it. Hope you all stay warm this winter and have a Merry Christmas...

Hey rip...Love your haircut!!! When my mom was going through chemotherapy for cancer and lost her hair I shaved my head in support and have had it that way since.

I can echo the concerns on the heat, Its hard to justify warmin up a building for a few hours of work time, I did finally venture out today from the homestead, Its a freakin winter wonderland allright, I made some more scrap metal today by gettin things ready to mount up the dual master cyl and patched up some more floor, after crawling around under the van for a couple hours I looked out the windows and another mini blizzard had kicked in, Its just hard to get anything done in this weather for sure, be back in the backhoe diggin myself out agin tomorrow. I hear ya on the gas prices there Don, I just wish propane would make the same drop ,, they seem to like hanging on to the high side with that.

mo_1040 wrote:Hey rip...Love your haircut!!! When my mom was going through chemotherapy for cancer and lost her hair I shaved my head in support and have had it that way since.

That is why mine is shaved, mom is still bald like me and going through treatments. She has been fighting this for almost 11 years with 2 recurrences and is doing better now than most days. She and dad live next door and I see them all that I can.

Later,
Rip

No, but I was there in spirit. Got home late (again) and we went to a restaurant/bar after halftime for a bite to eat. Must of been 35% Packers fans there. If I missed an important play, I had to wait for the replay to figure out if I should smile or pout.

I bet everyone inside the 0 to 2 degree UFO had brought their own booze and wasn't feeling a bit of pain till today. I believe it was actually warmer in Green Bay.

This weather is starting to wear on me. 2.25 Hours to get home tonight, then off to Home Cheapo to try a find a shear bolt for the snow blower. "We don't have any 'shear bolts', but we 'hardened bolts'. Will that work for ya?"

Maybe I should catch a flight out after the holidays and visit my Aunt and Uncle in San Diego then go take on that sump.

yah sounds good we got over a foot of snow in CT! my plow truck decited to jump time , the whole yard is burried, cant do anything till spring now. mabee ill join ya and scope out at all the earlies! i want a kereosine salamander from santa then mabee i can take the plow off the dead gmc yard dog and put it on my power wagon . Happy Hollidays Everyone!!

well i had a very good christmas I had some really great weather here and i got some work done in the shop . got the front axle out and got it striped . It's just about ready for sand plasting and paint










well it don't look like the pix are going to work so make belive there's a very dirty straite axle sitting on the grown in front of my shop (a couple difforent angles) and a couple shots of my van without and axle

I was just sittin here trying to figure out how to see my gallery photos. I gave up on that and decided to check out what everyone else is up to. With all the pages here it would seem you all are up to a lot (6' 0 here, I couldn't resist either).

After yesterday being freezing cold, they are actually calling for some really warm weather here in Kentucky. So i guess I am up to just saying
"Hey" from Kentucky.

Dodging the kids' new nerf guns!!! Great weather the past two days, came home today and the temp in the house was 71 (heat was off)!

Later,
Rip