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I prefer to use a chain instead of a strap or steel cable when doing “questionable“ stuff because if the chain breaks under a heavy load it will pretty much just drop
My great-uncle was killed by a chain flying through the door of the skidsteer he was using to pull a stump, and I know several others who have been similarly injured, or would have been if they’d been standing closer.
It absolutely does not drop when broken under strain.
 
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Timely topic. I had to pull my tractor out of the mud today. I was thinking about this conversation while I was doing it, and was extra careful to make sure there were no weak or damaged links. Thanks, folks. :coffee:
 
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A little side work for the fire station. We're getting a new gas stove and over the range microwave. Since this is where the microwave will fit I took one of the cabinets home from repair work.

The back had come apart as it was only stapled together the almost 40 years ago it was built.
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I glued it pounded the staples back in and clamped it to dry. I added more staples and moved to the inside.
 

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Then I ripped a 2x4, glued and screwed it to the inside top. Some vertical strips added with glue and more staples to give some extra abuse protection.KIMG3926.JPG

No picture of the door but it got some work too. However, I'm not sure if it will hold up. These doors are particle board with laminate over them... cheap ****. European hinges might be a good design, but not with particle board. This door might get the hinges through bolted with some SS hardware.
 

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Then I ripped a 2x4, glued and screwed it to the inside top. Some vertical strips added with glue and more staples to give some extra abuse protection.KIMG3926.JPG

No picture of the door but it got some work too. However, I'm not sure if it will hold up. These doors are particle board with laminate over them... cheap ****. European hinges might be a good design, but not with particle board. This door might get the hinges through bolted with some SS hardware.
You are correct about European hinges. I don't know how many times I have had to replace and repair doors where someone leaned on the door just a little too heavy. Few will own up to it but I have seen the handprints on the door where they were lifting their *** up using the door on a base cabinet
 
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Grabbing the knob I modified last week, it was time to get it done.KIMG3932.JPG



I loctited it in the knob and along with a nut to lock it in place, let's see how it works.KIMG3933.JPGNotice I did clean up the welds...

After screwing in the release valve I tested it out. I didn't press anything but it does work..

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In the future, I will make a better looking release valve stud for the knob. Maybe once I get some free time and other stuff done, I will make another attempt.
 
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All that beadboard I drained and finished has led to another project prior to putting up.

I have a few outlets I needed to check to see what circuit they are on. Typical old house multiple rooms on a single circuit. So I bought a few items for that upcoming project.KIMG3943.JPG

But first, rearranging some stuff in the breaker box. Something that should have been done years ago and honestly, not what I should have done in the first place.

Tools out for that project.

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Now here is the ironic thing, my plan was was to check and work on the electric yesterday....I wake up to the power being off.. WTF !?!?
 
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Been hitting work pretty hard and getting other stuff done. Last pay period I had 88 hours of overtime and it didn't leave much time for other things. I'll toss a few pictures from work up since it's been across the news and I posted a picture else where. Back story, we had an armed suspect (not going into all the details) with body armor, helmet and gas mask barricaded into his home. SRT called in, we sent medic unit to stand by, escalation called for next county over SRT, mobile command units and with shots fired at officers, OSP SWAT team called to scene. Small town, big town, this can happen anywhere at any time.

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Then parents talked about putting drain tile in across the road frontage of their woods. I wanted to do this about 2 years ago as it needed done, but was declined. Now, step-dad wanted it done and I said I would make it happen. In the next day or two, I picked up 250' rolls of drain tile to make sure they wouldn't back out of it being done. Then brought in some stone for some French drains and other supplies.

I rented a trencher Monday morning, which looking online said would cut a trench 4-6" wide. I trenched about 200 of the 500' frontage and knew this wasn't going to work. Trench wasn't wide enough and spoils were falling back in trench. So it went back to Sunbelt, they treated me right and have nothing bad to say.

I picked up the JD from home and began digging out the trench and continued. . . . This was alot of trenching but I was getting it done, weather was good until Tuesday night when a small rain was expected. Unfortunately, it rained Monday night and made what was still a wet area even worse.

This is what it looked like yesterday morning when I went back, trench full of water.


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Once I finished the trench and cut through the remaining dirt, it flowed right on through to the creek.
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From this angle at the creek, you can see the water draining out of the trench. That was a **** ton of water that came out.


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I had to pull a couple of cut off trees out of the way before trenching at the creek. You know that chain holder, worked perfect. It's nice having a chain with you and not in the way. This chain is only like 10' long. I'm going to try to get a longer chain to see what fits.
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So the evening ended with most of the trench back filled, me getting stuck. . . no comment. . . and the small shower that was expected was a huge down pour. I left JD at my parents outside so it could get washed off naturally. I'm not done, but I'm done for now until it dries up and I can finish putting in another French drain. I still need to get my JD and will grab a few pictures of the is completed.
 
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It was too wet to get all the stone in last night, before the rain came.
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This area here is another spot for a French drain, about 15-20' from the picture above. I tied into the main tile with a TEE and ran a 6' piece off of it. This is getting filled with #4 river rock to improve drainage out of the woods

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Two more pictures. You can see how some of this had settled in nicely after the rain last night. This is at the end looking back towards the driveway.20260520_101850.jpg

Close up shot of the pipe draining into the creek. The 4" tile transitions into a 4" solid pipe with a connector. I dumped a dry bag of concrete mix at the joint just an attempt to keep the water from washing put around the fitting. There's a couple bucket loads of river rock around the end of the pipe, with the project not fully completed yet, I'm happy with the volume of water draining out. 20260520_101839.jpg
 
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You might want to consider installing a 'rat guard' of some sort on that outlet. I've had to dig up numerous animal blockages over the years. One a badger over a 1/8 of a mile from the outlet.
I've considered that but most of the vermin that might consider that are '****, opossum or groundhogs. None of them will fit in the 4" pipe. Squirrels, maybe, but they don't seem to be a problem in these matters. I'm going to keep my eyes open on finding a cage/cover locally though.
 

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I've considered that but most of the vermin that might consider that are '****, opossum or groundhogs. None of them will fit in the 4" pipe. Squirrels, maybe, but they don't seem to be a problem in these matters. I'm going to keep my eyes open on finding a cage/cover locally though.
FYI, I think most Menards stock this one and I should also fit the SDR pipe:

 
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I picked up this chain for the JD chain holder. I'm going to make about a 14' chain out of it but I just need to see what fits in the tubing.

I also grabbed 2 hooks for each "new" end of the chain. The shorter chain should be good, maybe, for some future rigging at 6' long.

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I won this little Shop•vac at auction for about $10. I wanted something small and cheap for cleaning up metal shavings and grinding.
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A quick clean up with a wire brush, Brakleen and ready for some POR15. I dumped some on the inside and brushed it into the seam.
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Flipping it over, I quickly masked a tape line about where I wanted it and poured out some more on the bottom. I did the outside edge, trying not to get a run and moved to the bottom of the can. 20260521_180011.jpg

Nothing fancy to see here. Just going to be a little vac doing the dirty work. In finding this on auction, probably the biggest selling point besides the price was the metal can itself for what it was going to be used for.
 
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