Shop Time w/T.W. Friends

hasn't yet

 

Found a sweet spot in my yard to get a signal
Still no power but I am home for the night, power company is on the main drag 3-5 miles away soo maybe tonight. Chucked all the fridge stuff, and had the barn freezer go bad so to the dump. You all be safe I got chicken to grill

 

Sorry Jeff.
Freezer loss sucks…
At least your safe…

 

THIS

 

Good evening friends! Hope you all had a great Saturday!

Hopefully your power will be back on soon @Jtcmedic

 

Thanks for all your hard work serving your community Jeff. My guy across the street is retired FPL lineman and he said the obvious- the crews out there are looking to restore power in the biggst chunks first so it looks good on paper, the sections like the other end of my street where 6 houses are without will be pretty close to dead last to get it back...

 

Those people at the other end of the street should take note and invest in self sufficiency... generators, supplies etc.

There's a whole thread on here about being prepared... ya know the whole outlandish Zombie Apocalypse scenarios, but there is good information about generators and the like.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/are-you-prepared-trying-to-be-more-self-sufficient.831494/

 

Floridians by and large are a prepared type of people. I will definitely peruse that thread I enjoy that type of thing myself. That end of the street has natural gas fed to it so a few have Generacs and never really lost power.

 

My personal experience has been different. If the crews are right there and the fix is not extensive and time consuming and they have the tools/replacement parts on hand then they may make the repairs quickly and not choose to come back.

 

On the subject of power losses, my neighbor 2 fields away used to be our lineman. So power loss was short lived. I still have a generator and have a transfer switch so not to back feed to the line.
Back in the day people would get a dryer outlet end on their generator cord a plug it in to the outlet so they had power to the whole house. I'm sure you all know that danger.

 

Good morning everyone, I hope you have a pleasant Sunday

 

Good morning shop crew, have a great, safe and blessed Sunday.

 

Good morning guys, hope you are enjoying the weekend

 

Morning all
No power but nice weather and windows are open
You all have a great Sunday

 

Now here is a useful idea for cheap, dust collector boxes made of pegboard & lumber.




Some OSB added inside to reduce the interior volume and direct the dust to the vacuum port.

 

Good afternoon friends! Have a wonderful, blessed Sunday

 

My dept aren’t lineman, we’re substation techs, but help when we’re needed. We definitely start at the subs and work our way out. The lineman do the big jobs, we get the small stuff. One guy in my dept worked for a week straight last year with a contract crew on 1 road getting less than 6 people back in power while the lineman did the big stuff.

We had a small storm rip through yesterday, we got called in to work on the coast. We were in Surry cutting a tree off the line at 8pm and the lead said he wanted to do 2 more tickets. Even if there’s nobody home, we want to get everyone back in lights, it just stinks when we can’t.

 

On a different note I went to clean my garage woodstove and found this,

 

time to check the flue screening?

but the good news is that they catch fire nice once dried out.