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Due to last page loading issues with Part 1, this is Part 2 of Donewrken's homemade tractor build . . . and all around garage kibitzing thread. :D

Link to Part 1.

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Part 2 of Donewrken's homemade tractor build . . . and all around garage kibitzing thread. :D
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Thanks MOD's for taking care of business and thanks TUDOR for the addendum to the title.
We all hope this will all come together completing the build and may we all gain some knowledge and appreciation for the friendships that have developed in the process.
Thanks also to MTF for the great opportunity they've given us to share our thoughts and ideas.


I'm trusting you all that it (part one) didn't go away!:ROF

Now presenting :cool: My Latest Project - Part Two
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Thanks

Donewrken



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#10,463 ·
Amazing stuff, Joe.
Also did you see the link to project ELF?
The story about extremely low frequencies.

I started that at the point where he is describing how the earths geologic make up has much to do with how well magnetic fields and radio frequencies can travel. Which was one of the best uses for the rock pile according to US GEO. Also in the video, notice where China Lake is located, about00 miles north of me.




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#10,464 ·
Joe, the tin can was pretty much air conditioned throughout. Equipment rooms were like walking into a meat locker. The ship was new back then. Commissioned Nov. 1969. I was part of the commissioning crew. First WestPac cruise we caught fire at sea. The ventilation system picked up the smoke and filled the lower decks in minutes. Then the engined stopped and the ship went dark. That was 3 AM. Anyway, we got towed to Pear Harbor and after a month of repairs were on our way again. I did not sleep in my bunk the rest of the time till we got back to San Diego. I slept in the helicopter hanger on bales of rags. I slept many nights on Waikiki Beach during the repairs when not on duty. The ship had a bad oder for awhile after the fire.
 
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I slept many nights on Waikiki Beach during the repairs
Glad to hear you had excellent accommodation while in repair!!
I mean of all the beaches in the world to have to sleep on, it could have been much worse.
I was there the summer of 1968, due to my mothers plot to keep me and my friend from hitch hiking to New York that summer where there was to be a rock and role concert of epic proportions. My sister and I attended a similar concert the year prior to the one held at Woodstock NY in New Port Beach where we were operating the booth for a local Head Shop called The Crocodile where over 110,000 people attended the largest to that date concert ever held.
Well my mom over heard Dan and I talking about the concert and that if Dan did not have his Metro International running by the time we would need in order to drive there we would hitch hike. She then out smarted us by one day out of the blue asked me if I would like to go and spend the summer in Hawaii and I could have Dan come along too.
A month later we were sitting in a new 747 jumbo jet on the way to Hawaii.

Yeah, she got us , we never saw it coming and never realized it until years later. Haha!!

Don
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#10,466 ·
Good story Don. Parents have a way sometimes of being able to outsmart the kids.

That was an interesting video Don. The ship I was on had an underwater telephone we could use to communicate with other ships and especially submarines so they wouldn't have to surface to communicate. It was fun when we got around a school of dolphins at sea. We could Whistle into the phone and they would mimic our sound back to us.
 
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We could Whistle into the phone and they would mimic our sound back to us.
Cool!!!

walk the main deck with a fluorescent light bulb in your hand and it would glow in many areas! When the ship was first commissioned, nobody was allowed on deck during transmitter operations.
They didn't want you to be the next USS Eldridge.
Wow! That's a lot of loose energy to be able to light that thing up.
I'd have been concerned. . . .
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#10,467 ·
Wow! I had not seen the ELF video. I knew the Navy used ELF, but never heard that story.

Larry, my ship was air conditioned throughout, but some area didn't stay as cool as others.

BTW, speaking of communications...my ship was the LCC-20 which stood for amphibious command and communications. During a war effort. All amphibious operations would be coordinated by her. She was loaded down with bunches of radios of every type. When in operation, you could walk the main deck with a fluorescent light bulb in your hand and it would glow in many areas! When the ship was first commissioned, nobody was allowed on deck during transmitter operations. They relaxed that rule shortly after conducting radiation testing.
 
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Golden Gate Park in 1969
That was THE place to be in that period!!!

The hippies would get high on drugs and dance around naked!
Well, that's a given that we , errr the hippies would get high on drugs and dance around, was not a witness to the naked aspect of your mention. . . . .
She was a well intentioned mother who always had her kids well being as her first priority, and gifted with the most incredibly creative & talented abilities.
One of them was cooking, she gave Marie Callender pies a run for their money. LOL!!!
I sure miss those. LOL!!!

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#10,471 ·
Lots of interesting stuff today. When we were operating in Vietnamese coastal waters we would get rotated up off the coast of North Vietnam to PIRAZ station. There were usually one or two heavy cruisers there not far from Hanoi. They had special equipment to act as air traffic controllers for air strikes against the north. The carriers were a little farther south snd farther from shore on YANKEE Station. The tin cans were placed between the cruisers and shore to engage any gun boats or torpedo boats before they could get to the cruisers. Our ship had a big plotting board in CIC (combat information center). It was lit up and guys would be standing behind it with head phones on to communicate with a guy sitting, (for lack if a better term), at a teletype machine and he was constantly reading updates as they came across and giving the info for those guys to update the board so the CIC officer could tell at a glance what was going on around us.
 
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PIRAZ was Positive Identification Radar Advisory Zone.
 
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Woo Hoo it 56* here today. That's just about shorts and tee shirt weather! 😁

Project for tomorrow.
 

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The lottery is I have two 33 year old's to do the work. I just have to supply the materials and tools. 🤣

I'm surprised that the price was not more. $1300 for the 20 pieces of fencing. The posts are 10 years old but in perfect shape so............ Worth it to keep my butthead neighbor out of my yard.
My wife was YES PLEASE NEW FENCE between Jimmy and us I don't care what it costs.
 
#10,496 ·
Very strange that those middle eastern guys work in sandals and loose fitting clothing. Not safe by our standards. I've never seen those guys use a dial indicator when they set up their lathes. Still, it's all interesting!


Speaking of Swabbies and Shellbacks. I'm both of them and a Bluenose. Some would say that I'm not a true Shellback since I didn't go through the initiation. I was only about 2 years old at the time, but I got the certificate. Here is the Bluenose certificate I got when I was a Swabbie!
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Did that twice.
 
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#10,485 ·
Don, just throw a match in and burn off the vapors before using it.
 
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#10,488 ·
And just think Don, you were worried about making 10,000 post by the end of the year.
 
#10,490 ·
Does anyone have suggestions for a DIY roller compactor attachment?

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Not sure I will need one due to the rock pile being, well, a rock pile. But you never know!!
I know I would not be buying one of this type for $4,500 - $5,500!!
With steel prices way up there I'm thinking of the Flintstones tires and building them out of rocks!!!
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Oh, that really sucks!!!

Very creative way to have a ventilation hose for a fan/blower!
The blowers we used, both 110v & 12vdc also were explosion safe. They nailed the company for them knowing they were a tool we needed.
Now you can buy blowers like the ones we used for less than a hundred bucks. Hoses also, which we were nailed by the sellers. I have no idea if they are any way near what we used as far as cfm and safety aspects. The ones we used were required to meet the specks.
There was one manhole in particular I'll always remember, it was located near a freeway on the overpass. It was there prior to the overpass being built so what they did was raise the neck to match the new road. Since the hoses were only 12 - 15 feet long and would never be able to cause a complete air change within the amount of time specified, the solution was to install an eight inch diameter PVC pipe. They also installed tubing we could attach our gas testers to. I'd guess it was 30 feet to the floor. When you start down the ladder, you start to wonder how much deeper it could be. Ha!

We had large vaults down in the big city in the middle of large apartment complexes that are equipped with air exchangers, alarms wired into the network operating center and included smoke, gas, high water, intrusion and others. They were a much nicer environment to work in, no generator noise and nothing to set up, just unlock, lift up the hand rail and open the door.

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#10,497 ·
That's a keepsake for sure Joe. We never ventured that far north.
I did get the good fortune to cross the equator twice. Got initiated first time and got alot of pics the second time. Also have a document for crossing the International Date Line and one for being a Plank Owner.
 
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That's a keepsake for sure Joe. We never ventured that far north.
I did get the good fortune to cross the equator twice. Got initiated first time and got alot of pics the second time. Also have a document for crossing the International Date Line and one for being a Plank Owner.
I never crossed the International Date line by ship, but I have by air. I have a certificate for a plank owner of SWFLANT (Strategic Weapons Facility Atlantic). Yup. they are good keepsakes Larry.
 
#10,499 ·
You guys have been and done way more than me. Hats off to you!

Man those guys are ******* machinists for sure.

No fence work today is raining. Dang it Don I though you were going to keep the rain........ 😁

I think I have a Deere problem.............. Well my wife thinks it's a problem anyway! 🤣
 

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You guys have been and done way more than me. Hats off to you!

Man those guys are *** machinists for sure.

No fence work today is raining. Dang it Don I though you were going to keep the rain........ 😁

I think I have a Deere problem.............. Well my wife thinks it's a problem anyway! 🤣
What is the problem?....not enough of them? ;)
 
#10,504 ·
Joe, I just received a notification on my phone but nothing in my email, How does that happen???
Do you suppose some notifications wind up in our other realities without our knowledge???
. . . . and maybe the only way to find the answer is for us to go there??
I'm not going there!!!
at least knowingly!!
Ha!!!
I wonder if this will post to my thread or to the other one . . . . .
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Always something to be gleaned from everything. If nothing else, how not to do something!
 
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