Stercorarius

Modern tractors have a three position light switch. Park, road, and work lights plus the option of toggling every light individually in the computer. If you're pulling bobtail or an implement with lights it's a dick move to road with work lights on. The road lights won't blind people. Depending on the implement though I have ran with my rear lights on to make sure people can see the implement. Just two years ago when Deere overhauled their whole lineup they switched from HIDs to bright af LEDs that give you a good couple acres of coverage. Running in a field with four other ones at night can get a bit irritating. They're so bright you can almost see the difference between the things that are real and what your mind is seeing. It makes sense because you want to see the t post in the field before it goes through a quarter million dollar or more machine. Almost makes up for needing DEF.

Was using a Hilti core drill while kinda crawling in water. It had shocked me a few times. It finally locked up and lit me up like a Christmas tree and just never worked again. Didn't realize how tight everything clenched up. New year's Eve two years ago. About nine at night. Was about ten below. Was wearing a ten dollar pair of leaky uninsulated PVC boots. Probably had first degree frostbite already. Was jumping in a 721. Some guys stopped me and said that the latches on the skid steer were frozen and they couldn't get them off. I walked over. They had the bucket at chest height pointed straight down. My first thought was hey dumbasses put that down before someone gets hurt. Nope didn't say anything because I had barely turned seventeen and didn't have the balls to say that to a fifty year old man. They said they had been trying for hours. Wouldn't budge. My dumbass points and says these ones? Guy inside the skid steer says yes. I was expecting frozen and so I reach over and jiggle the latch. No resistance. Just springs undone. Que slow motion oh shit moment. Throw the latch back in everything is still for an instant but I was too late. It just falls bit down right across my foot. Splits two bones and bounces off three others. Could hear the fireworks from the ER. They gave me just a brace. I wish I took a picture of the x Ray's. I'm a dumbass so I just walked on it while I waited for a cast. Turns out that the bones were v-d down and walking on them pushed them back into place and I didn't need surgery. Walking on them the whole time I was in a cast made that take four and a half months and never heal right. I'm pretty sure I rebroke it at least a little in a lowboy related incident the day I got it off. Still hurts like hell sometimes.

Think dry firing a bow vs. shooting an arrow. Dry fire a bow and it will ruin it in a hurry because the inertia has no where to go and so the bow will tear itself apart. Shoot an arrow and it carries all the energy and it can be useful. If you go using the latch to stop your grinder without anything on it it will treat it up. With the nut on it, the nut will absorb the energy and back itself off. Regular grinders with regular nuts make it a piss poor idea to try it. They weren't designed that way. If you don't want to utilize improvements in tool technology, that's no skin off my back so I won't judge.

From the tick thread:

One-key is a good idea that was pushed to market before they got it working solely so Milwaukee could lay claim to being first. The tracking wasn't tested enough. It doesn't work most of the time in most cases. The reason it sells is because the big throbbing veiny red milwaukee marketing plan gets rammed in your every orifice. The whole thing is just a well choreographed scam. Milwaukee can go stick it where the sun don't shine. I reached out to Milwaukee and they asked me what problems I was having getting it to work and l told them the problem was on their end. They didn't even give a shit enough to respond. So yeah, they can sit and spin. Milwaukee makes some decent products, but I sincerely hope nobody is using the "tracking" as a reason to buy their crap.

Yeah, that's right, obsessed. Don't fuck around on my watch. Free with purchase of $200 puller.

The fact that it lasted the years is what is amazing. Mine would look the same if they didn't get stolen every 11 months. No companies design power tools to meet the jobs in demanding environments when that's only a small percentage of sales. Most of them go to tradesmen. His sleeve looks like he must have just got a new jacket.

Two adaptors, a socket, and a trailer spindle.

I get a legally mandated raise to match minimum wage.

So these HF hammers are shit in the cold. One hit. Second hit most of it flew off.

Price is still a little more than I can afford for bitch mittens that aren't water proof.

I was really into SketchUp about eight or so years ago when it first came out. Got pretty good at it, but there are only so many uses for SketchUp a ten year old dipshit could come up with and I stopped using it. I use the Autodesk Inventor suite almost exclusively now. That program is ?????????. It can do a lot of useful animation and modeling. Way easy to find dimensions too. I got it free though as Autodesk is awesome and offers all of its software for free to students. I got it last fall during my senior year. I haven't fired up my computer since then so I don't know if I can still use it now that I'm not a student. Way easier to learn and use than SketchUp. This was a prototype I mocked up in there that I haven't gotten around to having printed.

Need a bigger drawer.

Bought well built a portapress for King pins.

Back in the day when I had time on account of I still bothered going to high school I'd more or less have the same problem. No $ for anything I wanted to do and too tired from 5 hours of work and 7 hours of school to do anything. Couldn't sleep no matter how tired I was, still can't. I'd get in my car and leave all hours of the night. Hammer down. Put in a new CD. Hammer down. Get bored and frustrated. Hammer down. There goes third gear. Wish I had 50 more horsepower. Hammer down. Hit the peak speed. Wish there was a cliff in town. Hammer down. That kids is the story of how I lost my license the first time and how I wrecked my first couple cars. Good times. Don't really have free time anymore.

U win, DM address

Tbh, this is the first time I've heard of it. Listening to it now. Thanks.

Looks great until it gets too cold or old and you have to use your beater level to hold the doors up because the struts don't work anymore.

And who could forget: And he came back a few hours later and finished the concern.

Picked up some Ernst racks while checking on my proto order. The 90 tooth is coming in on either tomorrow or the next days shipments. This Homak came today. I got it loaded up how I wanted it so I could reasonably do most basic maintenance tasks. I could do it all with how I set it up...... except lift it. I couldn't even budge it. I got it down to a more manageable 80 or so pounds.

Only thing I can think of is that it's a spanner for carflex.