took it easy some on Sunday only worked 6-7 hours
don't remember Saturday
legs are doing some better
9 hours worked Monday
15.5 on Tuesday with some of it 98º in KS and was a bit rough
9.5 yesterday with NO breaks on Tuesday-Wednesday....
only 6 hrs so far today.......took a quick break to eat some beef and bacon wraps
it's HOT and WINDY out there..........
picked up 2 - 10' x 4" augers with electric motors at one place
loaded them inside the 'Burb...they were laying in NASTY goatheads..
nasty enough one "soft" looking green one stuck me in the finger and bled from it
then went 30 miles on backroads and picked up a 60' grain auger and the axle
was over 10' wide....so had a bit of a trip
sent down a road with a 12' 5'' clearance and was at 12' 6" or so
in the middle of nowhere, no way to back out,
too far out to let air out of tires which were cracking some
and about 1/4 mile from hwy 40....
So chores done for today....did some figuring on how to shorten
that auger which has a HYDRAULIC winch....so was stuck with the clearance
where it was set...not even my big pipe wrench could force it to lower it
went and spot sprayed some thistles.....and it's like 86º out
had it hooked on my hitch with the ball off with a bolt and washers
set up a safety chain for it
that fucking train underpass...metal....had to unbolt it....after just getting it
set up just 12 miles before and then going down dirt roads I barely fit on
went easy at the underpass....so just tapped and backed off....and cussed
the SOB for setting that fucker that high KNOWING full well how I'd be leaving
so that auger ain't exactly light....picked it up and set it on the bumper
tightened up the chain and squeaked under.....knowing some geometry helped
then got it bolted back up and then it got REALLY dark being on the west edge
of the time change for KS...
got on hwy 40 and the lane ...had about a foot extra to stay ON the road
never mind the lane.....limped 23 miles and couldn't see but barely the tires
when my flashers were on.....got to that next small town and there was a HUGE
dirt lot....parked my ass in it.....was so damn wound up from fighting that thing
onto my hitch and then dealing with it again at the train underpass and then
white knuckle steering with semi's flying by 6" to a foot away
couldn't sleep and it was 92º outside, so ran the AC in the 'Burb
and ate 3 cold sandwiches and finally got about 4 hours sleep
then yesterday through Pueblo, CO....fun....Cañon City with gobs of lights
then 2 passes plus 60 miles on canyon with tight curves
plus construction everywhere with narrowed lanes
about a 400 mile trip with it.....and white knuckle driving for most of it
so my ass is pretty whipped..........
so right now am thinking load my belly up with something
and take a nap.....tomorrow's another day.....
but after I find me a mechanical hand winch for it.....about $50
can use the telehandler to hold it up while I switch winches
hope that bastard's ears were burning in KS when I cussed him
for setting that damn thing so high at the ass end...
but
no problems with cops for which I was grateful
might just be my ass is getting too old for this shit
