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sonny #3968 03/07/2023 01:41 PM
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3/7/23 at 11:39 am. --- sun is out, wind blowing, getting ready for next wave of storms heading this way! lol!


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3/7/23 12:55EST Sunny out, beautiful day and not a gumball tree in sight

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3/12/23 5:04 pm rain here again.


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sonny #3988 03/12/2023 06:55 PM
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rainy here too. not hard but enough to screw up out door plans


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0752AM 14MAR23 cold and really windy here..hoping a big tree branch, broken off but hanging-widowmaker..comes down out of a tree here instead of renting a boom lift to take it down...50ft up in an oak tree(but not in my way)

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7:20 am 3/14/23 no rain/snow, YET! Looks like N east cost could get ruff weather!


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sonny #3996 03/14/2023 09:51 AM
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I've got a few widow makers hanging up in one of the old sweetgums but there's no getting to it with a lift. I'll have to strap on the old spikes & climb for them. Like you bunk I'm hoping for the wind to take them down while no ones under them.


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Freeze warning here for tomorrow.


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Rrrrrrgg sweetgum trees..let me go fire up the chipper

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Wanna borrow MOOSE ? He will solve the tree problem without climbing! lol! --- Just reach up 25 feet,--close the clam and back away with the tree! lol!
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That would be nice for a couple of these trees however I can't get to them. my man-made stream and ponds in the yard are in the way and there's a big ditch on the other side of the fence that keeps me from getting close enough from the other side. I was going to try and use my bucket truck from the other side but the ditch sets me too far away from my bucket to reach it and anything bigger than my bucket truck won't fit between the trees and the ditch.


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sonny #4001 03/15/2023 01:00 AM
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Ditches never stopped MOOSE before! He tore houses down buy just driving thru them, grab the eve,--go thru the wall and down into the basement and out the other side! 60,000 pounds with a big rops over the top! kinda looks like Marvins "kill dozer"! only with a 4-in-1 clam bucket hi-lift loader on it lol!


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sonny #4002 03/15/2023 04:22 PM
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yeah Sonny I remember seeing pix of it-its a beast!,I like the way the serial number tag says "Do Not Overload"!! Yeah right! -but we have our own moose here-a comparatively sized,straight stacked Cat 977L but it would destroy the lawn+driveway getting it into position..easier safer and faster to just get a tow behind man lift..of course the high winds we've been getting lately here at 40-50mph, Im waiting for it to come down in the middle of the night LOL

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Well been keeping busy with the Solara convertible I got. The window separated from the top I had to fix that the water trough that catches the rain off the back of the roof head split from dry rot so I had to replace that that was a bit of a job. Did the timing belt because it has 175,000 on it and I don't know had it ever been done or not so I decided to do it because it's a zero tolerance engine. Took it for a test drive today.... man I'm happy to have it done.


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Ya! them "zero " motors scare me! lol! Glad you got it done. We had a skiff of snow and 35+mph winds here and 13* for the low with high winds all day so far. sun is up but still cold.
Did a internet auction today,--got a few small things,---well cept a big old ripper! lol! Neighbor got a few things, so Monday we go pick up our treasures!

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Pulled the tarp off the MG& shoved it back in the shop. from the time I pulled the tarp off until I actually got it into the shop, it collected a nice layer of pollen.


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sonny #4007 03/19/2023 08:18 AM
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Good Morning world🌞


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sonny #4008 03/19/2023 12:33 PM
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Almost noon here, --- 11:30, --- suns up wind not too bad today. gotta find a 5/8" fine thread bolt a few inches long to finish making my bearing puller. --- have all the other pieces ready to weld together.
Now I have to take the head off one of my 560's and get the motor un-stuck and running again, need it at the farm to mow crp acres this summer.


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0815PM EST 3/20/23
got too much sun today at the auction yard..had to climb into the cab of a $250K excavator and fire it up to get some arctic cold A/C to cool down with..couldnt dig any holes though

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got our treasures home/unloaded/put away! Got a slant eyed chimineese chainsaw, ( Tornado Tools brand) and a sthil 011avt,-- it needs starter dog worked on but has good compression.


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sonny #4019 03/24/2023 08:11 AM
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Been working on the road this week. Spent two days working in Bridgeville Delaware. Got a room in Pocomoke City Maryland for the night. going to spend the day working in a OakHall Virginia then back home. been a while since I did a three day road trip for work.


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Have a couple of 6 gallon boat cans I'm going to fill up while I'm on the Eastern shore with non-ethanol gas for the small engine equipment at the house. The two marinas that have it near me in Virginia Beach got the price jacked through the roof. Gas is always more expensive at the marinas. I get it at the Royal farms right before I get back to the bay bridge tunnel to go home.


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sonny #4038 03/31/2023 04:16 AM
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0412Am EST 3/31/2023 up early here got a lot to do, first pot of coffee..going to steel dealer later for another section of rectangular steel tubing for the front golf cart bumper..cart has an aluminum I-beam frame so Im using 316 stainless flat to make brackets from the aluminum to the steel bumper for no corrosion..the last bumpers wee just steel on aluminum and what a mess the galvanic action made..got a lot to do today

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worked on another horse today,---got it ready to till with . Alittle rain tonight and of course the wind!


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warm today but winy as hell


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554am EST 4/2/2023
still getting big gusty wind here after yesterday evenings storm with 60-70mph winds, got some <1 in hail as well..went outside and watched trees swaying in the wind at 45degree angles..
thought I was gonna lose a few. havent been outside yet to do a damage survey the wind was intense last night. saw that Delaware got a tornado

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High winds from the south pushes the water up the bay and causes flooding. we stopped by the campgrounds to see what Our site looked like and see this dude hanging out because his den is under water.
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sonny #4043 04/02/2023 11:31 AM
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Wondered if you got hit or not! Radar was showing a LOT of mean shit down your way lately.--oh,--and another one just at the left coast headed this way by early to mid week and they say it could pack a real punch again following the same path as the last 3 storms.
This time they were showing snow for us,--not gonna happen but all bets are off this year!
Tornadoes came across just North of Springfield,IL. and took out a horse frm and let over 100 horses out,--none killed but the had to go chase them down, scattered the big barn 8 miles across country, then went on to destroy another horse barn! Horses escaped that one too but barn and fences gone there.
That one left a wide trail of destruction across the middle of the state from what I hear.

We just have wind here again but thats normal for us out here on the tundra! lol!

4/2/23 10:30 am


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MONDAY 3 APR 23..723PM EST
watch it Sonny lot of tornadees and bad storms headed your way again..gas up that generator

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Ya , looks like another round on the way! ---- not far from here the other day it took down over a mile of power lines! Snapped the poles off 4 feet above the ground and destroyed a trucking company. stacked their trailers and trucks on top of each other in 1 big pile in the yard.
kinda that time of year for storms!
4/4/23 9:52


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Well you know the weather is definitely crap when we're getting tornadoes on the east coast and especially as far north as Delaware. That tornado was not very far outside of Dover


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06858AM EST 4/15/2023
yep im still here gettin it done

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Still here, still checking in, don't always remember to post.

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4/15/23 8:18 am. looks like another hot day here in the midwest!


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4/16/23
8:20 64* here now with a high of 85 expected today. Gearing up for another trip to Bridgeville Delaware Tuesday.


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10:25 4/16/23 39*, 35 mph wind and light rain today. was 80* yesterday here.


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8:34 am 4/17/23 cloudy and snowing here!


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4/18/23 9:58 PM
Got everything fixed I needed to in Bridgeville. Spending the night in Seaford because I have to pick up a machine in the morning & deliver it to a store in Oak Hall, Va. that's on my way home so it's EASY money.
I'll be glad to be back home. Have too many projects to get back to work on.


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4/19/23 wind here again, we were sposed to get rain but now they say not til Wed.
Road trips that pay are good!! Its the ones that dont pay that are the bummers! lol! Be safe out there!!


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0708AM EST 4/20/23
wrestling two mower tires onto wheels..very difficult to mount and seat because theyve been compacted in a box for shipping

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