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Hot damn bro! Looking like the back of my pathfinder out there!

How’s that auger do? Is it worth buying? Not that I have ridgid (I ain’t against an 8th battery system though) but I’ve been curious as hell about that thing, especially after all these posts for this damn deck

I still got 4 hours before I hit the fiat mine. Eating breakfast and then I’m gonna work on wiring my bumper until the youngin wakes up lol

Custom built cupola (by my buddy Evan who I haven’t yet convinced to get on Nostr) with the weathervane from Good Directions. It’s a thing, and it spins, so that’s a win.

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What a day. Didn’t get as far as I wanted but I have a functional winch now, set up on quick-connects for power and ground. I did manage to clean up the wiring for the passenger side fog light, so that’s cool.

#Carstr #OffRoadstr #GrowNostr #ShadeTreeMechanickin #Handyman #SkilledTrades #Toolstr https://nostr.build/av/0a1d14a73a1ba1b4db9842949e74d0e1e6f868cff1f9217edae510879050394d.mov

I get aggravated anytime people wanna do stuff outside during summer too. I spend all day everyday in the heat making my living, I don’t sit outside in the same heat for fun lol

Oh my wife has zero patience for such things. She did the self blood test thing at like 7 weeks for our first daughter and this one, which is also a girl. Gonna be so much estrogen in this itty bitty house lol

Congrats to you too! Y’all know what you’re having?

Dude, are we like long lost twins or some shit? My second youngin is due any day now lol

Especially with a moon pie

Holy shit that’s possibly the best thing I’ve heard, I can’t believe I hadn’t thought of that!!!

Spent a few hours on the bumper this afternoon, it’s finally all coming together. Got some details to fanangle tomorrow and hoping to wire up the turn signals and fog lights properly and hopefully wire up the winch. Got a couple more recovery points to add at a later date also. It’s all coming together now.

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Youngin woke up and chowing down on some eggs and ham. She actually seems to be picking out the ham and playing with the egg, which normally she loves eggs. I ain’t mad though, she’s my little carnivore lol can’t forget the raw goat milk to wash it all down either lol

#GrowNostr #RiseAndShine #BoDaddyMornings

My YouTube is right there with you, fabrication and off road videos intermixed with old McDonald had a farm videos lol

Oh absofuckinlutely. Hell I’d be fine if it was all still dirt roads lol. Shit pisses me off everytime I have to do something like this, but now that I’m using my trailer daily I figured it would be less of a hassle to go ahead and get the tag now when I had the time of day (I’ve had and been using this trailer since 2019 lol)

Ah, the joys of standing in line for hours to ask the crown for its permission to use my personal property on the crown’s pathways…

#RegistrationIsBullshit #GrowNostr

Let’s give this a try on this rainy Monday off. Had a good solid week of work and money making, time to enjoy a day or two of rain and see what I can get caught up around the house. Maybe even get my front bumper finished and the winch mounted so I can run some wires.

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That’s pretty much what I’ve come to realize too, they’re basically consumables these days. Gone are the days of my father where he had the same tape for 20 odd years lol

Well, I suck at daily updates here recently lol. Anyway, Thursday, took inventory of all our materials and what we were gonna need to finish the #HugeDeck, and then did what we could with what materials we had on hand (the color Trex we’re using has to be ordered). Also, my trusty Kobalt 35ft tape measure gave up the ghost, I was sad to see it go. I’ve had it probably 5 years or better, and Kobalt discontinued the model. Spent several days after noticing the break starting trying to find a suitable replacement (options are slim in 35ft) and decided on the Hart “Pro Grade” because it has the fractions labeled and had some good reviews. We’ll see. Tapes are a thing where I’m a bit contrarian, I’m not a fan of the Stanley Fat Max, which seems to be the go-to. I’ve had several (my boss in the commercial gig liked them) and they seem to only last me 9 months to a year.

Friday, went to another client’s house to finish caulking their rear windows, driveway, swap out light fixture in their laundry closet, and hang some rope lights on a tree. Came home to put my spare tire on my 5x8 trailer only to find out the spare I been carrying around since I bought the trailer was the wrong rim and was missing a valve….sometimes you just need to stop and look at things y’all lol. I’m probably gonna go ahead and bump up to 5.30-12 tires, Amazon has 2 for $120, and then I’ll keep the best 4.80-12 that’s currently on it as a spare. Since each wheel is on a free spinning hub the different size spare shouldn’t hurt anything in “just get it home” situation. I’ll probably swap the axle to be mounted under the leaf springs when I do that wheel swap also.

That brings us to today; gotta start out by picking up an 8ft 4x4 and a few bags of concrete, then we get to dig holes…again. There’s about 8ft or so between the gazebo and the perimeter fence, and we gotta fill that gap so the silly dogs don’t make an escape.

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