New England B.S. Thread

That is annoying for sure... I've literally only participated on the NE regional thread lol. Mostly, its one dude talking to himself every morning.

I tried the index card method. FUCK that method.

 

The one time I used Plasti-dip, I just blasted the wheels and didn't treat the tires or do the index card method. It took a good bit of time to get all the plasti-dip off the tires but it did eventually all come off. If I ever do it again, I'll use the Tire Wet crap on the tires and I guess Plasti-dip just doesn't stick to it and comes right off.

 

Honestly, I just shot it right on the tire. I mean, the tire is flat black, the wheel is flat black... I didn't see any overspray, nor did I care really lol.

 

That was my one saving grace, I shot it right at the tire also and laid on on thick so it did eventually peel off, just took some time, a lot of cussing and a toothpick. I was using a dark silver color so it was noticeable. I'll likely break down and have to derp the black wheels on my truck. They're starting to get rock chips in the paint so, in a year or so, I'll either have to swap wheels again or make the decision to keep these and use dip to keep them looking decent. There are new hardeners now that make dip more durable that I'd go with as well as chemicals to specifically get brake dust out of dip. It's slowly becoming a better option than paint for things like this, in my opinion.

 

My solution for chipping was to hit my wheels with an aggressive wire brush in my drill, then bedline them with duplicolor in the blue can.

 

Noted on both those, I figured the cards would be a PITA. I'll see if I can find the tire wet stuff you're talking about.

 

I'm buying a chain fall tomorrow AM to be able to lift/flip the bed easier and safer, as well as help me position the sheet metal safely.

I have to start measuring all the sections I need, primarily the center section of the bed first, then get that spot welded in place, weld on the cross supports, and work on filling the holes in on either side of the bed. Then I'll work on kinda remaking the wheel wells with diamond plate once the floor is pretty much done. The wheel wells are soft in some spots for sure.

 

Chain fall, don't you have a winch on any of the 18 vehicles you own?

 

The cards are super easy and only take about a minute a wheel to prep.

Get index cards at the dollar store.

 

Won't work for what I need to do lol

 

Yup or playing cards

 

Playing cards are meant to be counted..

 

Why bother? They all come with 52

 

What are you people doing over the weekend? The GF and I are going to some sunflower festival thing somewhere in NH tomorrow.

Saturday evening/Sunday I'm going to try to get the floor cut and welded in place!

 

I used the crappy old decks or free decks... Never my good cards I actually use

 

I've got 6 cords of firewood to be stacked, that is currently sitting on a driveway that's going to be re-graded and graveled any day now. No time to waste. If anyone is looking for something to do...

 

Tomorrow's "road day" for the camp road. Since it's a private road all of the residents get together and spend a day doing maintenance like trimming brush, grading, mowing, chipping, marking/moving obstacles for plow season, etc. Those of us with tractors & string trimmers putter away at it all summer long, but throwing 20 people at it for the day gets a lot done.
Then I've also got a tree job to do, taking down a leaner that has grown up against a garage and is damaging the eave. So that'll be a couple of hours, either Saturday if we finish early or Sunday if we don't.

Plus my Flowmaster is supposed to be waiting when I get home today, according to FedEx. So that'll be on the agenda this weekend as well.

Pass. I already cut, split & stacked my 6 cord for the house this year, plus another 2+ of pine, down at camp.

 

Work Sunday... Hours for this job are getting ridiculous.

 

My back hurts just looking at that... No thank you!

We live on a private road, and it gets pretty bumpy. My neighbor across the street has a cool little metal rake thing he adds weight to and drags behind his quad, but since he's the only one with equipment for the road, no one else pitches in. He's changed his approach this season to "fuck it, someone else can do it"

I plan on contributing snow plowing for our road this winter, so that's my contribution! Hopefully my little 20R doesn't let us down! (though I have a lead on some Fisher parts for the F-250 through one of our suppliers). I might grab an 8-9' minute mount for the Ferd. I'm hopeful that the little 82 will do it though!

 

There's three or four of us with CUT's and enough of a mix of blades & York rakes that we keep it in pretty good shape. And then the same # of us have plows, but the association pays a contractor to handle the bulk of it because everybody with a plow truck also works a normal job. He covers the storms, and then we knock back any drifts that form between storms.

If you plow with the storms, you shouldn't have any trouble. But if you get a 2 footer and let it pile up first....All bets are off.