brought home my AD3 today
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Topic: brought home my AD3 today
Posted By: darrel in ND
Subject: brought home my AD3 today
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2016 at 7:01pm
Today I hauled home the AD3 road grader that I bought a few weeks ago. Shameless will like it, because it is kind of a pink-ish color. I am not sure what my plans for it are going to be yet. The engine is out of it. Came with it, but I guess it's not in the best of shape. The previous owner was operating it (3-71 detroit), and he said it back fired, and then started blowing smoke out to beat heck. He had plans of a full on restoration. He had sand blasted the whole thing, and painted it, what was supposed to be orange, but looks pink. Not sure if it has faded or what. Then the guy got a different engine for it, but it turned out to be a 4-53, instead of a 3-71, and after that, I think he just kind of lost interest in it. I got books with it, decals, and 6 tires. I am not sure what the tires look like yet, because I have to go back for them, the engine, sheet metal, and a bunch of other miscellaneous parts. I'll keep ya'all posted.  
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Posted By: Indy4570
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2016 at 7:43pm
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one word comes to mind looking at those pics... SWEET!!!!
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Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2016 at 9:25pm
| rat rod it! |
Posted By: AC Mel
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2016 at 10:08pm
| Darrel,Darrel!! What about the HD5? finish the 5! We're proud of you though. Any body that follows our posts knows that we're pretty guilty of gettin the next one before we get the last one done (kinda fun huh). We actually have a AD3 in waiting that we have to go get sometime. We have several tractors that look pink also, it's a paint thing. (fades) That's why we spent $2000.00 on paint for the HD 15 restored dozer. It has become our biggest expense for restoration projects, cause we can't control it. Proud of you for getin some pictures posted too. The 371 is still a good choice if you have everything to go back in there. Keep us posted (LOL). |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2016 at 10:09pm
what a great idea. Why didn't I think of that. Is all you nebraskans smart like that. Darrel |
shameless (ne) wrote:Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2016 at 10:16pm
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Hey Mel. I have been tinkering on my forty-five road grader, also, instead of finishing the five. I am starting to feel some urges to get back after that five again soon. Maybe them urges are coming from my wife telling me to finish it up and use it to clean out her corrals, or else. ..... Maybe you could answer this question for me too. The 3-71 out of my lunched out HD7 should go right into this AD3, shouldn't it. That is if it ain't shot from sitting for so long. Darrel |
Posted By: AC Mel
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2016 at 10:41pm
| I would say yes, 371 is a 371, that's right you have a parts tractor. It would be good if you get all the 371 parts and different brackets that were originally on the grader too. |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2016 at 11:35pm
| put a 4-71 in it then youll have an AD4.AD3 is a dog.Takes most of the engine to move the machine. |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 03 Nov 2016 at 12:23am
| you gonna use that thing to shave off catus's? |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 03 Nov 2016 at 6:37am
don't have much cactus around here maybe go down to New Mexico and help ole Joe out with them goat head things. Darrel |
Posted By: CAL(KS)
Date Posted: 03 Nov 2016 at 7:49am
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2nd the 4-71 only difference between an AD3 and AD4. but if you have a 3-71 just sitting, hard to no go that route ------------- Me -C,U,UC,WC,WD45,190XT,TL-12,145T,HD6G,HD16,HD20 Dad- WD, D17D, D19D, RT100A, 7020, 7080,7580, 2-8550's, 2-S77, HD15 |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 03 Nov 2016 at 12:36pm
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I went after the rest of the parts for this machine today, and am now more confused than ever as to what to do with it. I bought it sight un-seen as a parts machine for my forty five, but like everything else, now instead of having a runner and a parts machine, I have two machines that need parts. Except this AD3 doesn't need many parts, except for an engine. I know; that's kind of a biggy. But everything else for it is there, and according to the guy I got it from, it all works. I tend to beleive, because if it was a POS, I don't think that he would have ever started the restoration on it. All of the loose parts I picked up today, such as the hood and grill, are all immaculate. And like I mentioned earlier in this thread, the whole machine has been sand blasted and painted. Un-fortunately, the paint is faded away to a more pink color. On parts that were out of the sun, they still have a brilliant orange color to em. Got six very good used tires for it along with the deal also. It does need cab glass, too, but that is not as big of a deal as it may seem, because many glass shops can cut the shapes, and provide the rubber molding to install it, and once you catch on to installing it, it's not difficult. I guess, what it all boils down to, is in my fantasy world, I am going to go pull the engine out of my old dead HD7, put it into this AD3, put er all back together and have one sweet ole motor grader. In the reality world, I'll get this done about the time hell freezes over. So, I am not really officially putting it up for sale......yet, but I am officially looking for interested parties who may be eager to jump all over this project, and take it off my hands. The only reason I would have for not selling it to someone interested in it, would be if my wife or son put there foot down, and say absolutely not. Spread the word, think it over, give me ideas, let me know. Thanks, Darrel |
Posted By: AC Mel
Date Posted: 03 Nov 2016 at 2:57pm
| Darrel, We love it!,welcome to" ALLIS CHALMERS COLLECTING 101" Don't know how many times we have located a specimen of a certain model of something that we think we can work with, drag it home and start thinking about it (just like your post). Before you know it another one shows up, geeze it's better and we have to have it also, then the next one comes along,it runs already and is even cheaper yet! Drive it on the lowbed and off again. WOW! now you have 2(or more maybe) parts machines and one that runs. So your problem goes like this. DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT GETTING RID OF THE OTHERS!! it aint gonna happen! You're not going to get rid of any of those parts unless you're passing some on to AC friends. Looks like you have room in the north 40 by the HD7 for storage of parts machines (maybe out of sight of the Mrs.) I'm sorry to break this to you but you have "IRON DISEASE" but you'll be able to deal with it as long as you keep that AC I.V hooked to your blood stream. How do you think we got over 60 pieces of stuff? I'm thinking your list is getting longer HD7, HD5G,545, COUPLE OF GRADERS, SOME WHEEL TRACTORS? We love it, yep that's what you got! I want to coin the phrase first. 'THE ALLIS CHALMERS COLLECTION OF NORTH DAKOTA" The only known cure for "IRON DISEASE" is to get more. So keep this in mind right now scrap is worthless, it's cheap to get this stuff and you can keep it ,cause it's not worth getting rid of, anyway welcome to the club. |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 03 Nov 2016 at 3:29pm
Yes, Darrell just keep enjoying it, it's not a bad disease and we enjoy your company 
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Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 03 Nov 2016 at 4:26pm
| Mel, you must have a few more years of wisdom than me. You did hit the nail on the head. My wife got home, a little while ago, ,and looked my new treasure over. No way that it's going anywhere now. Guess it's my project now. I do think that maybe my son and a couple of his buddies may be pretty eager to get after this, too. I know that if a project like this would have come my way when I was the his age, I'd been all over it. Darrel |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 03 Nov 2016 at 8:38pm
| When I used to plow roads with the V plow on the township AD 4,I wished it had a 6-71.High banks would make stretches 3-4ft deep.Get a run at it in 6th and pull it down to the bottom and grab 4th,which wasn't good for much before you were just spinning.Chains on all 4 drives.It took a lot of backing up and blasting into it be fore you got a narrow path all the way through.Then do the same thing hitting the bank trying to throw it back.Very time consuming.Needed more power. |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2016 at 4:12am
| yep....I agree with Mel all the way! you and he always seem to come up with some pretty interesting items! and we/I love the pics! oh....well if you don't have any cactus's, what do you call them things that grow wild....when I was snow mobileing up there, I saw little humps in the snow all over, didn't think much about them until the snow mobile stopped on one, and I didn't! others up there said they was cactus's and don't give when ya hit them! I know that's true now! |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2016 at 8:20am
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Shameless, where was you snowmobiling at up here in North Dakota? We do have a few cactus in our pastures, but not so much that I am going to run out there with the road grader to get rid of it. When ya hit that cactus, did you have to have your ole lady pick thorns out of your gonads. ? I am awful disappointed in ya, that ya haven't commented on the pretty pink color that my road grader is. Or maybe you is upset cause it's already pink and so you can't sneak up here and paint it pink. Lol. And ain't ya got nuttin better to do at a quarter past four in the morning than to be on the computer. ? Darrel |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2016 at 9:38am
| damn....you sure gots lots of questions! I don't remember the name of the nearest town (prolly cuz of the schnapps), and no, no thorns in me, cuz I flew over the danged thing! and yeah, since it's already pink, what you need me for? lol now...since yer hauling a pink grader, I could help you with painting the trailer pink! and...as for the time of the morning....it was time for me to gits up and take a pain pill for my back....plus I can only sleep about 1-3 hours at a time anymore....sometimes I go go right back to bed, sometimes not, then i'll be up for a couple hours....really sucks! |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2016 at 9:48am
| that wasn't a very good day up there that day! we was there for snow machine races. I was entered and when my race heat came, my face shield fogged up and I had to throw it open to see, then in the last turn of the race (I was 1st at the time) the snow had been thrown outwards and that left bare frozen dirt, which the ski's on my sled caught, and it threw me and the machine over the embankment of the track. after I gots my breath back and was starting to get up, the rescue crews were just arriving, and as luck would have it, the bottle of schnapps I had in the tool box (forgots to take it out before the race) had flown out and busted! (what a waste) then one of the schmucks that arrived on scene disqualified me to race any more cuz he seen that broke bottle out there! PffffT! so we decided to to out and sight see since we was already there, and that's when I found that danged cactus! I AM NOT EVER GONNA GO SNOW MOBILEING IN ND EVER AGAIN! PfffffT! |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2016 at 5:59pm
more likely, the official caught ya lickin up the schnapps snow...
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Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2016 at 7:58pm
| You probably got a cactus on your tongue from licking up the scnapps. You couldn'thave been anywhere near where I grew up. There, they would not have let you in the race without having schnapps, or sumpthin like it. Now if you didn't share it, they may have dis-qualified you. Darrel |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2016 at 10:07pm
| make a good sno-cone....wouldn't it! lol |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2016 at 10:11pm
| between snow machines and bull riding, that's prolly why my back is shot to hell! |
Posted By: Ian Beale
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2016 at 4:06am
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Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2016 at 9:46am
| Shameless, you used to ride bulls. ......? I don't think anything would surprise me anymore. Ya know them PETA people don't like bull riders much either. Lol. Darrel |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2016 at 10:28am
| what is a shaggers back? and I know all bouts PETA at the rodeo's! we (I) kinda had it out with them one night! and yes....I rode a few of them....never made the 8 seconds, and decided early on, there was not enough beer in the USA to make me keep doing that chit! whew! that was WAY worse than roping that mailbox from the back of that moving pickup! |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2016 at 1:16pm
| Man, I tell ya. These last few posts sure do explain a lot of questions I had before, such as "how did ya gets the way you are?" Lol Darrel |
Posted By: Ian Beale
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2016 at 4:11pm
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Shameless FYI http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shagger%27s%20Back |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2016 at 5:38pm
A pain in the lower back, usually attributed to having too much sex I've got the worst case of shagger's back after meeting that girl last weekend |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2016 at 9:41pm
| LMAO.....is there any such thing as to much? I was always told it was sposed to help the back! |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2016 at 12:40am
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Wow! I am confused now. I always thought that it was your eyesight that you had to worry about if'n you was getting too much. Not your back. Learn something new everyday, I guess. What's all this have to do with an AD3 road grader. .? Cause if you get shagger's back from running a road grader, well, I dunno. Guess I can't wait to get it running. Lol. Darrel |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2016 at 4:15am
| I guess we all thought you was want'in some "shagging" in the cab when you gits it running! |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2016 at 4:17am
| Mel would prolly even like to see that! lol |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2016 at 7:30am
| I thinks Mel probably has a few more scruples than that. Not so sure about you!!!!! Darrel |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2016 at 7:59am
| I have scruples....last time I saw them, I think they were rolling around in the back of my pickup! |
Posted By: Ian Beale
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2016 at 2:32pm
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Shameless "
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Posted By: Indy4570
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2016 at 3:10pm
| question for you guys, ok a few questions. are most opf the industrial 3 cyl DDs the same engine? What is the cost of a running 3 cylinder detroit diesel? The reason I ask is I saw a roller, like a tired pavement roller , running, with that engine for $2000 on CL, I dont need one but was just curious. |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2016 at 3:14pm
| I had a 3 cyl Detroit in my HD5, it was real thrifty on fuel. (I don't like "thrifty", I like "cheap")! |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2016 at 3:20pm
| yep...Ian....with a few other things too! oh....and I think my "give a damns" bounced out! |
Posted By: WDman1951
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2016 at 7:46pm
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Guess I have to make another trip over there to play with his latest toy maybe make me some more rotobales while. At it. I agree the hd5 would be fun that way I can say I drove an allis crawler instead of just a sweet td9 today. ------------- 1951 WD 1945 C 1936 WC |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2016 at 11:12pm
| that would be a start on the foregivness Cody! |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2016 at 11:14pm
| sooooo....is it running yet Darrell? |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2016 at 1:45am
no, haven't even got it unloaded yet. Trying to gets my sunflowers combined. That might pay the bills better than my custom road grading venture. Not by much, though. Darrel |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2016 at 2:33am
| you better hurry up and gits them things out before that 4 letter word shows up up there! what is a normal yield on sunflowers per acre? |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2016 at 8:01am
| 1,500 to 2,000 lbs per acre is a respectable yield. Some may get 3,000 lbs on a field or two, but rarely would a person average more than 2K accross every acre. Darrel |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2016 at 10:42am
| and prolly sold by the 100 wt? bird food? |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2016 at 4:12pm
| Yes, sold by then hundred weight. Some go for oil, and some for bird seed. I am not sure where mine are going to go yet. I haven't contracted them anywhere. My screw up of the year was to not take a $19.35 contract offer about 3 months ago. Now they are down in the 14 dollar range. If you fire up your snow machine full blast this winter, that will drive the bird seed market up, so let er rip. But don't tell none of the other fellas that I gave you permission to do that. That'll be our little secret. Darrel |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2016 at 9:06pm
| o-k....I won't tell anyone either! |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2016 at 2:40pm
| Just keep it out west |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2016 at 11:06pm
| Cody....me thunks....you and me gotta go visit Darrell this winter, and sit in his nice warm shop with a bull whip to keep him working on his new grader! maybe then he'll gits it done over this winter! I wonder what all he has to eat up there? |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2016 at 12:10pm
| Heated shop. ..? In my dreams. Just have a slant wall quonset with no insulation or heat. And it needs a good cleaning out. Even the walking trails through it are getting cluttered. And as far as food goes; good gelbvieh beef. Darrel |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2016 at 9:54pm
| hummmmmm.....Cody....maybe we better wait awhile, til he gets his shop cleaned up a bit, don't think there's nuff room to sits right now! oh....and I spose I could bring my diesel heater and a big tarp! |
Posted By: Ian Beale
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2016 at 4:03pm
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Darrel Have you had a chance to check if the AD3 gearbox looks similar to the Ac 45? |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2016 at 12:20am
| At a quick glance, it looked different. What I noticed first off, was that the engine/bell housing/transmission is all bolted together on the AD3. Looks like there is a drive shaft between the bell housing and transmission on the forty-five. Darrel |
Posted By: Ian Beale
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2016 at 2:59am
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Darrel There is a short drive shaft. WHAT! You haven't greased the u-joints yet? It seems to be easier if you haven't got the batteries in - I haven't checked for access from below as ours is on a battery set rotation - I'm not rich enough to leave a set to expire in a rarely used machine. I was curious on that short run of AC 45's that looked like they had straight cut gears. |
Posted By: Ian Beale
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2016 at 3:13am
Well there were those old fashioned helpers like "Dr Skinback's Horn Provoker - one drop of provoker keeps your tool like a poker" And another whose name escapes me at the moment that Edit "Sexadrine" "Stops your peter from backing out and your back from petering out" And in the versitility of English Neither have direct connections to "Tickling the peter" despite your hopes - That is stealing from the till Mods - censor if beyond the pale |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2016 at 9:08am
| well...Darrell....you've had a day of rest now from your journey, time to start on the grader! I shoulda sent sum tarps back with ya! |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2016 at 9:23am
| Hey, maybe that grader would just fit into one of them sheds that you bought. Could bring the grader down to you, put up your new shed around it, and you can put it together for me. In the mean time, I think I better get a little fix on the other road grader and get it operating. It is set up for a V plow and a SNOW wing. (Notice emphasis on SNOW). Darrel |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2016 at 10:48pm
| yeah....and it's out there just a pumping away! must have a pin hole leak somewhere tho, I felt a little bit of snow here today! no biggy, will look tomarrow! someone gots the fans running, wind is blowing like crazy here all day and tonight, so I don't know where this sweet snow is going yet! oh....and it's still while, I ain't pee'd in the machine yets! |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2016 at 10:49pm
| while=white |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2016 at 9:17am
| Darrell....you better gits busy on that thing, since the 190 ain't going no where! the nozzle on my machine is spinning wildly! |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2016 at 3:51pm
| Yeah, yeah. Don't remind me about how the nozzle on that stupid machine is spinning wildly. I am heading out right now to see what I can do with them brakes. And maybe you could just haul one of your new sheds up here and put it up right over top of one of my road graders, we'll put a space heater in it, and YOU can go right to work on it. Think the forty-five is a better option than the AD3, though, because at least it has an engine in it that runs. And it also has mounts for a V plow and snow wing. Just have to fix the power steering, the blade rotation gear box, and the front wheel slant mechanism. Maybe some cab glass would be in order, too. That should keep you busy for a couple days. Thinks that come Tuesday of next week, you'll be working pretty fast. 30 below with the windchill forecast for that day. However, if you get the shed up before Monday, it may get buried in snow, so you essentially wouldn't have any windchill. But I think the 5 below before windchill might be enough to keep ya hopping. Darrel |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2016 at 2:04am
| shucks....I haven't even gone to get them new sheds yets. maybe Monday or Tuesday I will, I gotta be home from Thrusday on thru the weekend to feed critters as the old lady....oooops....I mean the loving wife will be out of town for police business! you better goes to TSC and buy sum PVC pipe and tarps and makes you a tent! if you can gits the skid steer into yer Quonset, just start pushing stuff out the front so you can gits in outta the wind and that pretty snow that might be coming your way!! |
Posted By: Ian Beale
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2016 at 2:47am
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Darrel Have you got a manual for the 45 yet? Otherwise I can scan that section out of ours and send if you give me an email. If the problem is in the steer unit at the front that is not for the faint hearted but is doable to get at |
Posted By: Ian Beale
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2016 at 4:01am
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Oops Now I've got through the CRAFT* I see I've done this. * CRAFT = can't remember etc |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2016 at 8:11am
| Yep Ian, got the stuff you sent me, plus found a complete manual, too. Just short of time. Darrel |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 07 Dec 2016 at 1:30am
| you gots all winter now! |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2016 at 12:17am
| well?....have ya done anything yet? i'll bet it's feeling good that you will be re-doing it so it can go play! don't hurt it's feeling now! you gots a tent/shop built yets? WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING? whew! |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2016 at 9:04am
| Would have to move rock hard snow for 2 days to even get to it now. Darrel |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2016 at 9:08am
| Think I'll take out a loan from the Shameless national bank, buy that M100 in Minot, run it over to Tioga and have Mitch puts a little fix on it, then haul it home and have a good use able road grader. Keep the other two, and fix them when times is better. Darrel |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2016 at 12:51pm
| me also thunks....you need to build you an enclosed shop building! you ain't gittin no younger! |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2016 at 7:46pm
| You are absolutely right, Shameless. I've dreamt of a heated shop ever since I was a little boy. Just guess I never got my chit together enough to get one. I am not giving up on the idea. My son who is on board with me now, shares my passion for working on stuff, fabricating, building, welding, restoring, and all of that fun stuff. I hope we can get a shop for him soon, so that he can enjoy it for his lifetime. Darrel |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2016 at 9:52pm
| that might fly by yer nurse better than you askin for one! lol |
Posted By: Ian Beale
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2016 at 2:04am
| Seems to me Darrel that you need the Shamless National Bank to finance the putting of your shed on a rotator so you can keep the closed end pointing at where the wind is coming from? |
Posted By: Ian Beale
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2016 at 2:07am
| And I have looked out of a plane at Bismark in deep winter and was glad that I was just passing through |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2016 at 4:20am
| pretty...wasn't it? |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2016 at 9:33am
Shameless, if you don't quit describing snow as "pretty", I'm going to come down there and. ......well, I don't know what I'm going to do, but it ain't gonna be pretty. Darrel |
Posted By: Ian Beale
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2016 at 2:59pm
Pretty bloody cold IMO Darrel - it is all relative. If you're inside a snow storm seems to have two pluses over a dust storm Looks a lot cleaner Does a much better job of keeping the beer cold |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2016 at 9:55pm
| BINGO!...top that...Darrell! LMAO |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2016 at 10:07pm
| Uhhhhhh, I guess no one wants a warm beer, cept Germans. Darrel |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2016 at 8:07am
| you gots yer PVC framework and tarps hung yets? |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2016 at 2:12am
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Don't forget the British, they like warm beer too! ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: Ian Beale
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2016 at 2:39am
John Actually the Brits use cellar temperature And for real warm beer. Pre the event of decent refrigeration in the Oz outback (where snow is in imagination only and the water cooler might be 100F) Southwark beer from South Australia was a winner. Described as "Cold, the worst beer in Australia. Hot, the best". Comment from the north suggests that Victoria Bitter is its current replacement. |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2016 at 3:56am
| bet ya'll didn't know that you can drinks more American beer that's warm, than you can when it's cold! |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2016 at 3:56am
| don't ask....how I knows this! |
Posted By: Ian Beale
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2016 at 4:56am
Shameless That it was American beer indicates your tastes? In the spirit of Mad Magazine "complete the advertising slogan" "Coors Beer - brewed with Rocky Mountain spring water. Lots of it" |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2016 at 12:44pm
| Ian...I don't drinks no Coors....cuz I pee'd in the stream above the factory, and i'm afraid i'll gits it back ina can! |
Posted By: Ian Beale
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2016 at 5:20pm
Shameless One ecology text I thought I should take more notice of after I read this bit "Even a gallon of beer takes 150 gallons of water to make - most of which seems to end up in the beer" On beer temperatures - one of my presents is "A Factometer thermometer - 97% mostly true" Which reckons 40 F is "ideal for serving most craft beers". Merry Xmas to all |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2017 at 1:43am
| if'n I drinks any beer, and it don't gives me the squirts or a headache then it's a pretty fair beer! taste helps a lot too! a local store used to sell "pepper beer" I don't remember who made it, but it has a jalapeno pepper in the bottom of each bottle. now that beer tasted great....until the pepper taste hit you a few seconds later. I remember my nephews (before they were of drinking age) wanted to drinks sum beer with me. so one night I fed them that beer, to this day they don't drink any beer and they are in their 30's! LMAO! and I gave the rest of the bottles to my sargent cuz he liked hot spiced food! he came in the next day and called me all kinds of nasty names and then I had to do foot patrol for a week! whew! |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2017 at 9:05am
| Shameless, I didn't know they made a beer that didn't give ya the squirts. I didn't even know that a turd was supposed to be solid until I was 30 years old. Darrel |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2017 at 2:13am
| LMAO......whew! |
Posted By: Ian Beale
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2017 at 5:22am
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Darrel You could try this on Shameless " Trouble Brewing
Claude Morris
He came walking through the forest in the summer's glaring sun In his left hand was a bottle, in the other was a gun. His beard was wild and bushy and his hair was shaggy too And his old straw hat was full of holes where tufts of hair came through.
I stood and waited for him as he came with steady stride And I studied his appearance till he halted by my side. He wasn't old, nor was he young, but somewhere in between, And his heavy eyebrows almost hid his eyes of greyish green.
Then he handed me the bottle. “You must have a drink” he said, And I heard him cock the rifle he presented at my head. “Yes, take a swig of my home brew and you will be the first To have a chance of trying out my recipe for thirst”.
The rifle never wavered, and it pointed straight at me, And that close-up gaping barrel was a nasty thing to see. I lifted up the bottle with a very shaky hand And a silent prayer to Heaven as I followed his command.
I swallowed twice and God Above! That brew had come from Hell! I know my head exploded and it drowned my dying yell. I fell upon the dusty ground and grovelled there in pain Vowing he could shoot me but I wouldn't drink again.
When pain and shock receded and I staggered to my feet, It was awful! It was awful! I could hear my voice repeat. Then I heard the brewer speaking and he said “Yes, I agree! Now give me back the bottle and you hold the gun on me”! |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2017 at 5:25am
| LMAO.... |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2017 at 12:10pm
| Thought I responded to that poem yesterday, but I see it's not there now. Yes, I got a good chuckle out of that poem also. Darrel |