He says it’s on a Tee Shirt from Here.
I just went and looked and didn’t see it but I found about twenty more I may have to slowly add to my collection.
Starting with this one.
Because that shit is also very true.
Buuuuuut, I gave away and entire pickup load of shit out of the garage yesterday.
I have a good friend that I used to work with that lives about a mile and a half away.
We give and swap tools and materials to each other constantly.
He’s the one that found the vintage Delta drill press at a a garage sale for ten bucks and hauled fifteen miles to my house.
He has a sister who recently bought a second hand store down at the coast and she showed up the other day and gave me a boat load of old wooden handled screwdrivers that she had been collecting out of the things she finds to sell.
Like twenty of them.
As the three of us were sitting around swapping tales a thought occurred to me that I figured would be a Win Win for both of us.
She recently bought a used Toyota Tacoma with a canopy on it and had brought that up, almost empty.
I asked how long she was going to be in town and she said they had some family gathering going on Saturday and this was Wednesday evening.
Perfect.
I told her to swing by my place Friday after work and I would load her up with shit she could sell at this second hand store and make some money off of.
I told her I didn’t want a dime for any of it, she would be doing me a huge service by hauling it off.
About an hour after I got home yesterday here she comes.
I had her back into the driveway and commenced to going through shit.
Old light fixtures, a vintage Craftsman bench top compressor that works, one of those industrial type fans that are two foot across that sits on the floor, an industrial shelving unit with a custom rolling stand I built for it, plus three or four of the old Brace and Bit drivers out of the approximately ten I have laying around
My entire collection of old Ryobi power tools, the batteries and the charger went into a huge plastic storage box and into the shelving unit we laid on it’s back so we could fill it up.
Little projects I had bought off EBay and other places that I had got put back together and painted up like a hand powered grinder with a new 4 inch grinding wheel, a few other things like that, some projects I had never quite got to like a couple more really little hand powered grinders, an antique belt driven bench grinder, some old electric motors, my old shop vac, old hand saws I bought at Goodwill, a vintage Craftsman Miter saw, an old Radio Shack hand held CB Radio, wall chargers by the bucket full, just all kinds of crap that has been laying around that I was never going to use or was just sitting and taking up space.
We had to shove hard to get the tailgate up and the canopy door down.
She was thrilled, I was quite happy to see it all go, especially to a good cause and I told her that I would set some boxes out and start going through shit she can have the next time she comes to town.
Of course you can’t even begin to tell that anything is different out in that garage right now.
The place is an absolute disaster at the moment from me digging through shit to get rid of.
But, as soon as I get my lazy ass out there and start getting stuff back up off the floor and start rearranging it, I should be able to notice a difference pretty quick.
Baby steps.
But I’m taking them.
I am determined to take some space back and get rid of shit like the above that has just been sitting and taking up room that at this point I am never going to get to to finish or am not going to use. Things that I am certainly not going to miss anytime soon.
Plus, now I have a good excuse to replace all that twenty year old Ryobi stuff.
There are other things I would like to get to but it has gotten so bad that I can’t even get through the joint, let alone actually do anything.
Here you thought it would never happen.
Even I have limits and like I said, it’s a Win Win for both of us.
I swear The Wifely Unit would call me and tell me to come home from work to kill a spider first.
I have been drug out from under cars I am working on, woken up while sleeping, interrupted while using the bathroom and called on my phone while outside to come kill spiders in this house before.
And with that, I’m off to work.
Thank God it’s Friday.
Damn, it’s too early in the morning for this shit.
Sent in by Steve….
He figures that averages out to about a thousand dollars a shot.
Damn am I glad I quit drinkin’.
If ya don’t fail once in a while ya ain’t trying the way I see it.
I guess we’ll start with the loss and get that out of the way.
Like I said, it might be different if I knew what I was doing but I try not to let fear stop me.
Sometimes you get experience the hard way.
I’m sure someone will let me know what the hell I was doing wrong there. I’m thinking I didn’t have it spinning fast enough and I was also feeding too fast at the same time.
Definitely more practice needed.
I also need to get serious about finding a way to mount my phone so it doesn’t fall on the damn floor too.
So that didn’t turn out so well but I did have a win, the follow up to the messed up drill press at work where some dumbass welded the Morse Taper for the chuck into the spindle.
I took my wedge in to work.
3 whacks on one side, spin it 180 degrees and one more whack.
I was actually surprised it came out that easy.
Once I got it out I tried to use my MT2 taper reamer up in there to clean it out but it feels like it’s a bit out of round.
What a surprise eh?
The heat of welding the fucker in there couldn’t have been good for it.
I have a new taper and a keyless chuck coming plus a couple more blank tapers.
Next I need to smear some Dykum on a taper and see what I’m getting for a contact patch before I get too serious with the reamer.
This is one of those Baby Steps kinda thing. I don’t want to go Hog Wild right out of the gate, I want to sneak up on it a little at a time.
So there ya are, a win and a loss.
Batting .500 for the week.
Could be worse.
Starting here.
I’m like, speechless!
Hopefully the dumbass won’t be able to have stupid children now either.
This is but one future option. It makes wood gas and runs a generator, all in one unit.
Apparently it is a functional prototype only at this moment in time, the website says that it is “Patentable and will be updated soon”.
There are a lot of people working to perfect Bio Gas Generating units that can be installed on your property that transforms wood scraps, and household wastes into a burnable gas that can be used to run a small generator to keep a battery bank charged up.
For those who don’t live in Sunny climates and can’t use Solar Power reliably.
Wood Gas Generators have been around a long time and have been proven to work.
They can be made to power vehicles and have been used all over the world since WWII.
Smaller units have been designed and have been used to power modern gas engines in small trucks also.
There are even “Micro Wood Chip Gasifiers’ being built that can be used to power small engines, gas grills and cook stoves.
This one has me very, very intrigued.
This guy Mike Reynolds solved the problem I kept seeing of how to generate air flow without having to use some kind of electric air compressor or hair dryer.
He used a smog pump run by a belt off the crankshaft after the thing gets going.
Skip to 5:50 in this video to see it working.
There are some creative people out there and the internet is making sure that the current crop of wannabe tyrants who are deliberately trying to destroy our way of life and our economic systems so they can reduce our standard of living to one notch above slave are going to have to rethink their plans.
You may not be able to commute fifty miles one way back and forth to work easily or take a pleasure drive like in the old days but with some of these gasifiers in various sizes at your disposal you would be able to generate some electricity, work a garden, haul groceries once in a while and take care of a small farm.
All using wood chips leaves and branches or wood pellets.
That may not be quite so viable in Fly Over Land or the South West part of this country but I guarantee you it would be more than doable above most of the 45th Parallel .
Anywhere there is an abundant supply of burnable Bio Waste actually.
However, those are plans for an “Emergency Use” unit and have been proven to be problematic because of the tar it also generates that tends to foul engines.
I would instead direct you to this website that has a plethora of alternative plans and resources.
Some people are pretty ingenious.
As the saying goes, there is more than one way to skin a cat.
There is also another driving force behind the resistance to this tyranny of late.
A very powerful motivator.
Some of us just wanted to be left alone.
The people who think they can run the entire planet just because they were born into a certain family or have access to unlimited funds are going to learn the same lesson every tyrant in history has learned, the hard way.
Being a tyrant is a fatal condition.
Clear back in the 1990’s.
No joke.
The good news is that millions of people are finally waking the hell up.
The bad news is that the ones who took The Jab are the walking dead and don’t know it yet and the coming famines are going to decimate the total population.
Harden your hearts, Death on a scale no living human has ever seen is coming.
We were warned but nobody was listening.