60+ year old thread.

Evening all:

got the replacement license and doe tag in the mail today, AND a form to fill out for jury duty during hunting season ! After a quick look at the form, I noticed that there is a question asking if you are over 75, and if you are, do you wish to opt out of jury duty, the answer will be YES and YES!
Just thinking, that extra income would be nice though!

 

I ordered a hoist trolley from Amazon thinking I would get a chunk of I-beam and mount it under the trusses in the new shop so I could pull engines. Priced a local welding shop here and they said I'd have to buy a whole 20 foot stick at $295. OUCH! So I have a recycler down the road and on the way there is another welding shop. He said the first welder had called him because the first guy's supplier didn't have any I-beam and his price for the same beam was $210. Still seemed pricey so I headed for the recycler. They had a nine foot piece, three feet shorter than I was hoping to get, but adequate... $31.50

 

Finally! Now, I hope you do very well out there!

 

We've had Hulu for about 3 years now. Issues are rare and typically more of an ISP issue. They also have some cool original programming.

 

Thanks. Inadvertent side to this little adventure, was I finally signed up for free ROKU, available on all our sets. I'm not telling the wife until next week! Too many questions! But free is free.

 

sixtys/wannabes/project workers. No coffee, too late in the day. Crab feast was extra special this year because more cousins came. I think more will come next year. Thanks Uncle Dick!

I've had knee, hip, and shoulder joint issues. By far the biggest PITA was the shoulder. I separated mine, which means I ripped the little bit of sinew that holds the bones together that hang over top and hold the joint in place. Two different surgeons agreed with my google research that surgery would be a crapshoot, so I have been living with it since 2016. One of the surgeons told me that 75% of NFL players have at least one, which I can believe. The same guy told me that in a year I wouldn't even remember it had happened.

Wrong. It hurts every day. More some days than others. I finally gave up trying to protect it and decided to "go big or go home" and do stuff like swing a maul into oak with it. Funny thing happened: it still hurts, but less. And I can move it further without wincing. Sometimes I even come close to forgetting about it. I think I'm forcing my body into figuring out how to deal with it. And I especially think that the more and farther I move it, the better.

I can't say what will work for anyone else. But shoulders are weird.

 

We've used Roku for even longer than Hulu. Lol. Works well enough just not much on local stations. Lot of odd stuff you can add to your list of channels, most of it free. Lots of older programming with and without commercials.

 

Well, alright!
Sensitivity seems close enough to get started. I think I have enough instant light for the purpose!

 

I obviously need help. I find myself waiting for this guy to drop his pretty fair price, so I can afford what I need to do....



I am with the fever!

 

Thanks Kurt, it's getting tougher and tougher to get a deer around here on open land. Last year we could/should have had 4 but ended up with 2, I got one and my buddies grandson got a small buck that neither his pappy nor I could shoot because of antler restrictions. My buddy and I did a lot of hunting to end up with only 1 deer between us, hopefully we can get 1 deer each this year. We will also have 2 of his grandsons with us on Saturdays, the one that shot the small buck last year is no longer a junior hunter and now needs to abide by antler restrictions, the younger one can still shoot a spike or Y as a junior hunter.
Now we need to teach the older one how to navigate the woods without getting lost!

OH! AND! He who hesitates is lost, and the early bird gets the worm, come to mind on the truck!!!!

 

I don't hunt or like that, but I sure appreciate all the work that those that do put into it! States just should not make it this hard to do what is a good thing for the environment, and the community. I do love it if one of my friends wants to share some! And, it's a cool sport that I proved no good at!

 

Negotiate? Make an offer? Tell him you like it... but.

That's why I've never bought a finished product. There is always something I would change, and paying for someone else's tastes, just to throw money into changes, is a loser. Most car people get that.

 

Already went and saw it. At the moment, it would just take too much to make it what I want. And he has already reduced way down. I'm skating a stupid fine line. But as is - it could never replace the Taco as a DD. And a third vehicle just for fun? Wife is totally not there *yet.
I've looked at convertible Miata, much cheaper for convertible hill country fun, and no.....

 

But damn, when he used the aircraft ignition switches and fired it up in the garage, not THAT had a cam. And a Glorius noise! And it won't go away just yet. I may go back yet....

 

Well you could always build your own. I'm putting a '78 Chevy chassis underneath a '58 M37 body. So far I have about 4 grand in it and don't expect to put much more in it. Maybe another two thou.



Just like building a model car when we were kids. Just a larger scale.

 

well, if you saw the garage door open......
And we're just here in the suburbs of tiny Lockhart. I've already got too many neighbors with junk.
Everything has to have a place to go.

 

Well there's a difference between "junk" and not junk. Junk sits and rusts away. Not junk is a work in progress with actual progress.

 

They keep it until the police haul it away,
I have no fab or metal working skill, and no real resource I would trust that I can afford. So, the fine line is what they have done, what I could do with it, and would I be kicked out of the house if I brought it home. Not and easy line, but I keep looking because....

see, there's this....

 

I like that year. I also like the '55, and had one. If I was going to drive an old Chevy today it would be a '67, maybe '8... or even a square body ('74 thru '87) I had one of them too. One of the reasons I'm using the square body chassis today. I liked that truck.

And I get the conundrum between too much work and too much money. It's hard to find something done well and enough without spending your bank account.

 

I've got back, knee, and shoulder problems from foolishness in my teens and twenties. For years now I've been trying to protect everything and it just seems to get worse. The abuse of my last job didn't help either. Then, New Years morning (about 2AM) I wound up on the floor in so much pain I ended up taking an ambulance ride to the ER. They didn't help me other than to help wait the back spasms out. I decided enough was enough. Doctors weren't being much of a help, so I started researching my back issues and found some stretching and core strengthening exercises that I figured couldn't hurt me any worse than I was hurting.

The stretching, moving, and strengthening has been a great help. I think the key was taking it slow and letting my body tell me when enough was enough. After a hard day, the back, knee, and shoulder will still hurt, but not nearly as bad and I recover a lot overnight. All with only an occasional Ibuprophen. The more I've read, the more it seems movement and staying loose is the key.

Shoulders are weird, though.