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["J"]

That is just plain awesome J! Congratulations and a most sincere thank you goes out for your service! Enjoy the heck out of retirement buddy.

Thanks again, but you never really retire you just move onto something else too occupy your time and Luna few extra bucks in the coffers... I'll putter around the house, fish shoot the guns and put a couple hours in at someplace too help them out as well as myself.....

Just don't want too do anything full time anymore.... lol

 

[MK111]

Congrats. Retirement is great but at times you will wonder how you had enough time to work in the past.

 

["J"]

Congrats. Retirement is great but at times you will wonder how you had enough time to work in the past.

Most of my coworkers who've retired say the same thing Frank....

 

[Ohiosam]

Contratulations buddy. Thank you for the service and sacrifices you and your family have made.

Btw if you get bored I know a farm where you can work for little or no pay.:smiley_coolpeace:

 

["J"]

Contratulations buddy. Thank you for the service and sacrifices you and your family have made.

Btw if you get bored I know a farm where you can work for little or no pay.:smiley_coolpeace:

That's about what I'm worth Sam lmao.....

 

[Diane]

Congrats on the retirement, Jay, and thank you for your service.




This has been a LONG weekend. But I learned that I can use a hacksaw w/o harming myself and I built a dog grooming stand. I didn't take other pictures, but the top bar comes off, so I can add an extender for my huge dogs, mainly Zeus. Everything is glued down except for the top bar. It's not pretty but I'm proud of it~! Thank you, Don, for your help and advice.



I also got "most" of the trench built behind my house. It's 90 feet long and this picture shows part of it. I still need to rake down some dirt, but frankly, I'm whooped and that can wait until tomorrow. Thank you, Milo, for your help and advice.



I also got a 2 foot deep by 10 foot long water hole that covered almost the full width of the drive, filled in at the bottom of my driveway. It's only temporary as I know it will wash out, but at least I finally tracked down where the stinking water is coming from (which is not from where it appears) and at some point WAY down the road, I'll be doing that project. In the meantime, I hoe'd a trench over to the creek to get some of it to run off. Hmmm, guess I can direct water when I put my mind to it! LOL

 

[teej89]

Congrats on the retirement, Jay, and thank you for your service.




This has been a LONG weekend. But I learned that I can use a hacksaw w/o harming myself and I built a dog grooming stand. I didn't take other pictures, but the top bar comes off, so I can add an extender for my huge dogs, mainly Zeus. Everything is glued down except for the top bar. It's not pretty but I'm proud of it~! Thank you, Don, for your help and advice.

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I also got "most" of the trench built behind my house. It's 90 feet long and this picture shows part of it. I still need to rake down some dirt, but frankly, I'm whooped and that can wait until tomorrow. Thank you, Milo, for your help and advice.

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I also got a 2 foot deep by 10 foot long water hole that covered almost the full width of the drive, filled in at the bottom of my driveway. It's only temporary as I know it will wash out, but at least I finally tracked down where the stinking water is coming from (which is not from where it appears) and at some point WAY down the road, I'll be doing that project. In the meantime, I hoe'd a trench over to the creek to get some of it to run off. Hmmm, guess I can direct water when I put my mind to it! LOL

Dang! Sounds like you had a busy weekend. Good work! Better get yourself a drink after all that lol

 

[DJK Frank 16]

Just seen your post J, congratulations on your upcoming retirement and thank you very much for you service!!

 

[twireman]

Congrats J!!

 

["J"]

Thanks guys.... Much appreciated.....

 

[badger]

So I got me a Chilton's for my truck and looking forward to replacing things as money and time permits. Today I replaced vac hoses and just tried to figure everything out using the manual.



Sitting on the couch now thumbing through.

I also found out my truck is a 'Yoda' thanks to the power steering cap!



Other good thing is I made a batch of baked beans from scratch to take down to Hoytmania's place in the morning. Yep started with dry beans, no canned goods! Going down to help Steve break his smoker in.

 

[Archertl]

Beans look good dale.

One of the drive shaft u joints was squeaking pretty bad on the Tacoma. I decided id go ahead and replace all of them just to be on the safe side. They are only 10 bucks a piece and since i was doing the labor myself it was pretty cheap. Now some may ask why would replacing u joints be a good thing. Well i have never done them before and i learned something new. Secondly the fact that only thing to go bad on the truck since i have owned it is one u joint is pretty amazing considering how it gets used.

 

[Hoytmania]

Damn those things look awesome Dale! Can't wait to try them out. Got two racks of St Louis cut ribs ready for a rub down and into the smoker. All we got to decide is whether we use apple or hickory for the ribs.

 

[badger]

Beans look good dale.

One of the drive shaft u joints was squeaking pretty bad on the Tacoma. I decided id go ahead and replace all of them just to be on the safe side. They are only 10 bucks a piece and since i was doing the labor myself it was pretty cheap. Now some may ask why would replacing u joints be a good thing. Well i have never done them before and i learned something new. Secondly the fact that only thing to go bad on the truck since i have owned it is one u joint is pretty amazing considering how it gets used.

U-joints can be a pain in the ass, or not so bad of a project. They are one of those things that should have grease fittings straight from the factory.
Tom, when will you be back in Ohio?

Damn those things look awesome Dale! Can't wait to try them out. Got two racks of St Louis cut ribs ready for a rub down and into the smoker. All we got to decide is whether we use apple or hickory for the ribs.

Get that meat rubbed down, trying to be there around noon. I can bring some lump charcoal too if you want.

 

[Hoytmania]

U-joints can be a pain in the ass, or not so bad of a project. They are one of those things that should have grease fittings straight from the factory.
Tom, when will you be back in Ohio?



Get that meat rubbed down, trying to be there around noon. I can bring some lump charcoal too if you want.

Got two bags of lump coal and two bags of hickory and apple chips. We should be good. Stuffing some jalapeños to snack on while we are babysitting the smoker.[emoji41]

 

[badger]

Got two bags of lump coal and two bags of hickory and apple chips. We should be good. Stuffing some jalapeños to snack on while we are babysitting the smoker.[emoji41]

I'm trying to stuff the babysitter....um I mean my bride before I get out on the road. :smiley_bril:

 

[Hoytmania]

Best of luck!

 

[Hoytmania]

The poppers are done, now to make the crab dip. [emoji41]

 

[Archertl]

U-joints can be a pain in the ass, or not so bad of a project. They are one of those things that should have grease fittings straight from the factory.
Tom, when will you be back in Ohio?

To the best of my knowledge all the toyota small trucks and tacomas have grease fittings for the drive shaft u joints. At least my 1991 toyota truck, 2003 and 2010 tacoma had them. I think there are were 4 fittings on the 1991 and the one going into the rear diff was a pain to get to. I wasn't as religious about greasing them for the first 30k on the 2010 as I am now. I think that might have had something to do with the one failing. Now if it goes through mud they get purged with new lithium grease.
I plan on coming home for two weeks in oct to hunt and go to the TOO gathering.

 

[Jackalope]

Most newer vehicles will not have grease zerks on the U-Joints, hubs etc. good luck finding a replacement u-joint from any auto part store that has them. Most hubs today are sealed assemblies also. If a bearing goes bad it's a sealed hub replacement.