Norm thanks. I'm planning on a bob cat to level and then set the pavers in gravel sand, then top dressed with concrete gravel mix between the joints

 

Jim - I'm going to assume you're pouring concrete cylinders to set your corner posts & side wall posts or framing some form of concrete pad to support your corner/side posts. Great job for your laborers.
Keep an eye on them make sure they set the damn anchor bolts correctly.

 

That sounds fine, I know it's another day's work - trust me - compact that sand with a commercial machine before you set those pavers.

 

Thanks again. Will definitely compact and use preachers between pavers

 

Norm, I just doing the prep work. I'm going to have installers erect everything [1st roof and braces] then later walls and doors and windows. Im just spreading the work out so I don't have to permit with the city

 

Chris, I definitely saw your car. It was a ad for Lions vs Chiefs. Pretty cool!

 

I read your other thread, also - spreading out the work. Compacting is the way to go - especially if you're spreading out the work. You'll be so thankful you compacted after several years. Bobcat is good, no matter what you're running over the soil, scraping, leveling, etc. the soil is going to be beat to death. I'd strongly recommend an admixture of #57 stone + sand, compact then set your pavers, preachers.

 

Thanks Greg! I've been seeing the commercial more and more (couple times today) as we approach Thursday night's game. I'm pretty excited that the story of the car being in the NFL segments is going to be in a future issue of Journey with Olds. I don't know which issue yet, but I'll let you guys know as soon as I do. I honestly don't remember if I posted this pic or not, but here is a pic of the car parked behind the NBC Sunday Night Football film truck when they were shooting the original pre-game segment for the Packers vs Lions game on January 1st, 2017. That pre-game segment featured the car driving around to various Detroit landmarks.

 

Last post 50248? Posting glitches?
Where's Mike?

 

Perhaps, no one posted yesterday?

 

Mike is on R&R Jim has been cutting grass, Norm [I'll bet] is on the golf course and Chris is either benching 280 lb in his home gym or petting his bulldogs

 

Not today. I played yesterday & the weather was absolutely oppressive. Opted not to deal w/ it today.

 

Hi everyone.

Jamesbo is right, I've been on sabbatical. Had a bit of a procedure done and have been relaxing afterward. I've tried to keep up but have been sleeping quite a bit.

Chris is that the truck they transported your car in to filming? I can see a commercial right there. The door opens slowly late one night, smokes billows out as the car backs slowly down the ramp. Yes it's trite, but cool.

I've done absolutely nothing for over a week. That's okay, I planned it. In fact my neighbor has been mowing for me and he does a better job anyway. I hope he'll do some more work on the Chevy while I'm laid up.

Okay gonna run off to bed. Hope everyone is well. See you's all tomorrow.

 

Mike, you are my hero.

 

Keeping a watchful eye on hurricane Lee past several days. Winds >180mph expected to develop next 12hr - 24hr. NOAA/NHC hasn't made any landfall predictions on guidance maps. Looking elsewhere to other models it appears Lee will turn Northward of the Leeward Islands heading up the Eastern Coast out @ sea towards Nova Scotia.

 

Mike - Whatever your procedure, I hope your recovery goes well and you're able to get back to your normal activities soon! Missed hearing from you on here.

That's a cool scene you described, but the Semi in the pic wasn't a car transport. It's just the NBC Sports mobile command post and equipment hauler they take to every game they are broadcasting. That film shoot was in Detroit, and the car at that time was local (Warren, MI) and just driven to the film shoot.

 

Norm - I've been watching various models also and all I've seen are showing the storm curving N/NE parallel to the coast but well out to sea. I sure hope that's what happens for all you folks along the eastern seaboard.

 

Chris - Thanks. No $hit. >180 mph, Imagine the shipping lanes of ships having to renavigate that beast.

 

Same old same old weather here.

 

Hi everyone.

Beautiful here, not too hot. Might go over to my house this afternoon and see if I can dig up a little trouble.

Thanks Chris, things are going okay. Not as fast as I had hoped, but progressing. It's very weird not going home after watching TV in the evening, and not having any plans. Eh, I'll get back to work and it will feel like I never left.

Well I've done nothing, so I need to rest. Hope everyone has a good weekend.

 

Mike - The gals in the hangar look forward to your speedy recovery & return...

 

Gee, Norm, I'm feeling better, and I wasn't even sick. Hey Chris, the Lions won @ K.C. wasn't expecting that. There has been a lot of hype for the team this year, but I generally try to ignore it.

 

Dan - Honestly, I thought it would be a close game, even with KC having the home field advantage. The Lions made huge strides the last 1/3 of the season last year, and made several acquisitions to help themselves in the off-season. When I heard Travis Kelce had hyper extended his knee earlier this week and would not play last night, I knew it was going to be a tough row to hoe for KC, especially with the loss of a couple other of their key receivers during the off-season. The less experienced receivers dropped some key ***** at critical times, and what should have been an easy reception turned into that pick 6. A recipe for disaster! I'm not taking anything away from the Lions, I thought they played really well and really hope they make the playoffs and go far!

 

Such a wonderful thing to see....

 

Already Norte. Enjoy your weekend olds friends

 

Am I ever going to enjoy the weekend, Jim. The most difficult part of the siding is complete. Relaxing day of painting today. Enjoy the lakeside views.

 

 

Hi guys - Absolutely gorgeous stretch of weather we're in right now. It's only 58° right now at 0730 and headed towards a high of 82°.

My wife is off today on a 20-mile (not a typo) hike with my youngest daughter. Despite the nice weather, I think they're nuts, but if they think it's fun, more power to them.

With the nice weather, I went to a nice cruise-in yesterday evening that was only 4-miles from my home. If you want to check out the pics you can find them here.
https://classicoldsmobile.com/forums...st-1-a-174618/

My step-daughter's boyfriend snapped this pic when I got home from.the cruise-in yesterday evening. I just thought it was a cool pic. I may get this one blown up and framed if it isn't too grainy and washed out when blown up.



Hope you all have a great day!

 

Chris, Cool pic

 

Thanks Jim! Hope you're having a nice time at the lake.

 

Hi guys,

My wife and youngest daughter finished their 20-mile hike in 7-hours and 59-minutes, I'm pretty damn proud of both of them!

 

Where did they stop for lunch?

 

A brief stop at mile 12 to fill their canteens at an aid station and that was it. They both carried light backpacks with energy bars and fruit, no lunch stop, it was eat as they walked.

 

I’m thinking their hike was very different than the Arizona hikes I am familiar with. As in no one even knew we were there, and obviously there were no aide stations in the wilderness to give us water or aide in the case of emergencies. Glad they had fun with their excursion.

 

I have semi-repaired my lawnmower which shat itself a couple weeks ago. I had put a new belt on it and I thought that the tension and the heavy grass had bent a pulley shaft, tossing the belt when I shut the blades down. A simpler event happened; the nut fell off. I either lost a lock washer or it was a nylock that wore out, and the problem is I could not see the damn nut ever under the deck.

So, today I took the deck off the unit, a task of several unpinnings of linkages and dragging it sideways. I found that the pulley shaft was fine and all it needed was a new nylock. A spring has been broken for a while, it is the disengage the blades spring.

The deck looks like an equilateral triangle pointing down. The two blades are the top corners, the engine is the bottom, and the belt goes around all three on the outside. Pinching the belt tight are two idler pulleys in between each blade and the engine. One idler pulley is fixed, and is the shaft for the arm of the other pulley. The pto cable pulls this moving idler pulley in, and it tightens the works. It is the bolt that this system turns on that backed out, knocking out two pulleys. The broken spring pulls opposite the PTO cable, to make sure when you disengage that it does loosen the belt and apply brakes to the belt.

Right now, I have weak springs on there, and it will engage fine, but will spin with little power when disengaged. I can mow with it like this, and I am ordering the proper springs to fix the remaining problem.

 

Kenneth - Their hike was 3/4 on hilly (but not mountainous) trails that were either rocky or compacted dirt. The other 1/4 was on secondary roads to get from one trail to another. We have hiked 14-mles in one day on the SW side of Rocky Mtn. National Park with a 2,500 feet elevation gain on the hike to Lake Verna and 12.5-miles with a 3,800 feet elevation gain to Longs Peak. She said today was a walk in the park compared to those.

 

John - Do you have lift or you working on terra firma?

 

Cardboard on the grass today.

 

Dang - That's a tough job.

 

It was not bad this day for three reasons, as opposed to two weeks ago.

1. I organized my tools first.
2. It was 80, not 100.
3. I did not take the harder shortcuts.

I am fortunate my IGA and Tru Value store, which closed and sat empty, is now a NAPA and Ace Hardware. I now have these stores 2 miles from house, which is nice.