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Normal things you can find in our barn between dried lumber: a deer shoulder blade (and some other parts).
Must've been Slinky the pine marten stashing them there. Mice can't haul this and nobody larger fits between the planks.
Offered it to Roxy, who sniffed it but lost interest quickly. Probably too old!
Framed up the temporary foundation cover. Chop chop, it's going to snow!
Got another two trailer loads of rough cut planks and sawed them into boards for covering the tops. Still need another load, but I'm almost at the bottom of the old lumber pile.
Rox with trophies. She's got a treat for listening well and also found a stork feather somewhere.
Also keeps stealing our shoes from the purgatory*, which is not so worthy of treats :P
* The airlock enclosing the exterior doors and dirty shoes in cold climate buildings [LT:tambūras]. I call it purgatory because its neither in nor out.
Noah Gragson apologizes to Daniel Suarez for spinning him at Homestead
On Lap 254 of 267 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, the one and only on-track incident occurred when Noah Gragson…
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Winners and losers from a different NASCAR Cup finale at Homestead
The 36th and final N…
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These carrots are super sweet after the frost.
Apparently the frost triggers a process that converts starches into sugars to produce their own anti-freeze.
Anyways, yum. @vaviurka cleaned, shredded and froze a few packs of them.
Figuring out where exactly the battery goes.
Turning it around made the fat cable runs a lot shorter, which is really good because according to my calculations this winch may, at full load, draw absolutely astronomical currents through its undersized (included) cables.
Either someone's been exaggerating or they're superconductors. Or will be briefly, as they flash to plasma.
It also has to hang a bit off center to avoid blocking the clutch lever.
Alas, that daylight thing still seems broken, so I packed it up for today.
Bit of progress on this project, because unbelievers can just go and work on a Sunday if they like 😇
Cleaned up the rust, reinstalled the winch and fairlead to align everything, tack welded it, then removed everything and welded the seams.
The rear welds needed grinding flat so it fits flush against the tractor mounts. Also added some triangles from the scrap bin to reinforce the fairlead risers, just because.
Bit of good old rust converter, which to my surprise worked fine in +5°C.
Test fit on the tractor passed. Getting a bit heavy to move around.
Next up, scavenging some sheet metal for making a battery box and mounts.
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