Where is everyone #5

I don't want to sound like I'm gloating, but personally got bout as fortunate as could be.. Power only out couple hrs, cable/internet about a day. Couple minor tree limbs down, initial thought 2 fence panels, but ended up doing 6 panels & 5 post total.. My folks only lost 2 screen panels off their pool cage. Some of our close friends just got power back last night, yet are less then 9 crow fly miles away..

Ian's initial track was going make landfall up here, but turned about 100mi early & hit Fort Myers, Nort Port, leveled Sanibel Island. There was higher sustained winds further east than near the gulf coast here. We only saw cat 1 winds of 75mph sustained for about an hour.

Dakin dairy, one of the localish farms (Myakka) lost upwards of 250 milk cows. Some drowned, some crushed by the barn, others trampled. Most their hens are MIA too..

Got wore down by the little woman & got my ankle looked at yesterday after the bruising showed up. No fracture, "compound sprain" whatever that nonsense means, but they put me in a frickin boot for 4 weeks. Fat chance.! Can't operate the clutch with that goofy thing. I'll give it weeks end before I go truck'n..









Side note
Recently got a lawn guy. I sheet canned em. Apparently he don't know what a weed eater is?

 

I had the boot when broke my foot. I hope you have an ez pedal clutch Lol or that won't be fun

 

300$ ticket instead of a 800 I was in and out in 10 min

 

11’ lanes in the construction, could get interesting at 10’-6” wide. Called my dept of highway buddy, he’s checking for me things for positive….

 

Waiting on a pilot car to get across some side roads around the construction…..

 

See screw don't u wish u had one of them fancy emission snortin no clutch havin automatic trucks ???

Glad to see u guys fared out ok from that storm , that looked crazy as he'll downthere on tv. I couldn't imagine

 

Ifta time. Just over 17k miles Q3 running just the 93 and 6.34 mpg

 

I'm betting he wishes he had something to snort with that thing growing out of him Lol

 

Yep, I am. Had a feeling at the beginning, that I wouldn't be long for the job, especially when I joined them because it looked like they did flatbed/stepdeck work, but never was given that opportunity, so I found my exercise doing the work I was doing. Enough that I knocked about 20-30 pounds off my body during that time, which is what I wanted to do, working there. I have at least one other job that I can be doing when I finish some home chores, which is why I wasn't all that upset, but it's a local job driving single body dump truck and the reason for going for the other place was to get back to the refreshing tractor/trailer work, so I could refresh the skills that insurance companies insist on. So, either I do what I retired from 15 years ago, or I start looking to do the flatbed I wanted to do, so yeah I was happy to shake off the 'beta male' job.

 

That's exactly what I'm saying!! Darn thing ain't broke, I ain't wearing that stink'n boot!! Lol

Honestly I'm not sure if I got an easy pedal or not.? Ol Buck had a 12609b trans, Peaches has a 14609r. I haven't driven many other tractors other than my own, but these 2 aren't super stiff. Just assumed the lower torque rating made them that way..? IDK