What did you do today?

It's a good thing you're not mean. If you were mean, you would've handed the safety guy a torch and asked him if he could just cut the pipe off.
 
Dragged this 60 gallon C'Aire compressor/tank to my hangar. Overkill for the occasional compression test and tire change, but it was a freebie (just had to clean a few decades of gunk off of it and repower it to single phase.)

Having a truck-mounted wheel lift is so slick when there's not a helper or a forklift around. :cornut:

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I went out to Georgia a couple years ago to retrieve a gooseneck trailer I'd purchased at auction. Wanted to take my R1200GS along and ride the Cherohala Skyway, etc. but I had scrounged up enough pirate freight on uShip to cover my costs and had nowhere to put the bike. Wheel lift saved the day once again:

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ColinD said:
I went out to Georgia a couple years ago to retrieve a gooseneck trailer I'd purchased at auction. Wanted to take my R1200GS along and ride the Cherohala Skyway, etc. but I had scrounged up enough pirate freight on uShip to cover my costs and had nowhere to put the bike. Wheel lift saved the day once again:

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How’d you like the Cherohala Speedway, uh, I mean “Skyway” (heh heh)? One of my favorite rides.
 
Half Fast said:
How’d you like the Cherohala Speedway, uh, I mean “Skyway” (heh heh)? One of my favorite rides.
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Nice ride, but I visited in March so the foliage wasn't at its most scenic, plus I was coming off the winter season so I took it at a leisurely pace. Skipped the Dragon for that reason.
 
Well, I figured out what that noise was. I heard something hard go through the machine. When I was getting ready to move to a new field I figured out that a bracket welded to the head somehow broke off.

Here's the broken side:

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Here's what it is supposed to look like:

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Was getting ready to weld a piece of pipe in there to hold it, but it started raining. For the first time in three months. So we'll see if I can get the correct part instead.
 
Spent a few hours cleaning and waxing the plane. Well, the top side of it anyway. Spent even more time cleaning up the hangar. I hear the airport authority is going to be inspecting again soon, and they’re looking really hard for excuses to boot people out.
 
DaleB said:
Spent a few hours cleaning and waxing the plane. Well, the top side of it anyway. Spent even more time cleaning up the hangar. I hear the airport authority is going to be inspecting again soon, and they’re looking really hard for excuses to boot people out.
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Wow that sucks that that are looking to boot people out. How many hangars does your airport have...about?
 
My Wife and I took off this morning at 6:30am in lite mist for 40' above the runway then perfect clear. We headed to I74 for breakfast planning to watch the sun come up. The horizon started blazing but landed right before it came up! LOL we missed it.
Had a good breakfast and another smooth flight home. Landed in bit of a mist still at 9am.
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My Wife and I took off this morning at 6:30am in lite mist for 40' above the runway then perfect clear. We headed to I74 for breakfast planning to watch the sun come up. The horizon started blazing but landed right before it came up! LOL we missed it.
Had a good breakfast and another smooth flight home. Landed in bit of a mist still at 9am.
Pictures are on my wife's phone. I will try to post one.
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If you ever visit Florida, try watching the sunrise over the Atlantic, then cross the state and watch it set over the Gulf on the same day. Only place in CONUS where you can watch an ocean sunrise and sunset from the same state.

Been too many years since I've done it, and I should do it again sometime soon.
 
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finally tuned the Church’s grand (I had been wanting to do that after the Sanctuary windows were replaced but the project has been dragging on and on and on …)
 
Boru and I went out looking for some grouse. Got birdy once but no points however he did get a nice swim in and we both got exercise.

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Gary Ward said:
Wow that sucks that that are looking to boot people out. How many hangars does your airport have...about?
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Probably 100 T hangars and a dozen or so squares. We’re always told there are multi-year waiting lists for a T hangar, then you see 2-3 sitting empty for months.
 
Got the Ducati back from its annual service with new shoes, fresh hydraulics, and a recall done.

If it didn’t take a pricey tool to reset the service interval message, I’d have done it all myself.
 
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Got the Ducati back from its annual service with new shoes, fresh hydraulics, and a recall done.

If it didn’t take a pricey tool to reset the service interval message, I’d have done it all myself.
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Which Duc?
 
Nice!

I like Ducs and almost bought an 848 years ago, but when I test rode a Triumph Daytona I liked it better so that’s what I got instead.
 
Did my first instrument practice approach. It felt overwhelming. But I reminded myself, flying a Cessna 172 and Piper Cherokee felt overwhelming in the beginning of PPL training. Landing the Comanche felt overwhelming at first when I got the plane. I'm sure instrument approaches will get easier over time!
 
Scaled the T hangar in 30kt winds and screwed an airband antenna to the roof vent housing. Sporty!
 

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1. Viewed the full moon through binos while waiting for the gym to open.

2. Made a $5 bet with stationary bike lady that the new girl wearing the short skirt is wearing panties underneath. She guessed shorts.

3. Showed short skirt girl how to use the ten pound plate with handles as a wrench to loosen a stuck T bar on the leg machine. Technically, we were both right in 2. Panty lines were visible under the shorts.

4. Collected on five days of auto click harvested crops in the farm game. Barely made a dent in overall progress. Getting frustrated with it.

5. Played ball with the kitties. One of them managed to lose it under the couch.

6. Went for a bike ride. Burger Girl was washing down the outside tables and cautioned me not to sit on the seats as they were wet.

7. Researched the former '70's era Broncos player that used to go to the gym since I hadn't seen him in a while. Turns out they moved to New Mexico. Oh and by the way he accidentally stole my phone once. Long story.

8. Cleaned and lubed the bike chain. Technically I haven't done that yet but plan to.

9. Reviewed a set of plans. Looked good except a pair of pipe downturn symbols were reversed.

10. Clicked "Ready to go" on a draft client invoice. It's actually fairly rare for me to do 9 or 10 but sometimes I do play engineer.

11. Strava stalked a hot female rider I followed briefly on yesterday's ride. No luck. I felt like one of the recent threads that was posted to this forum except I doubt she's an airline captain. I mean, she might be, I'll never know.
 
Sac Arrow said:
1. Viewed the full moon through binos while waiting for the gym to open.

2. Made a $5 bet with stationary bike lady that the new girl wearing the short skirt is wearing panties underneath. She guessed shorts.

3. Showed short skirt girl how to use the ten pound plate with handles as a wrench to loosen a stuck T bar on the leg machine. Technically, we were both right in 2. Panty lines were visible under the shorts.

4. Collected on five days of auto click harvested crops in the farm game. Barely made a dent in overall progress. Getting frustrated with it.

5. Played ball with the kitties. One of them managed to lose it under the couch.

6. Went for a bike ride. Burger Girl was washing down the outside tables and cautioned me not to sit on the seats as they were wet.

7. Researched the former '70's era Broncos player that used to go to the gym since I hadn't seen him in a while. Turns out they moved to New Mexico. Oh and by the way he accidentally stole my phone once. Long story.

8. Cleaned and lubed the bike chain. Technically I haven't done that yet but plan to.

9. Reviewed a set of plans. Looked good except a pair of pipe downturn symbols were reversed.

10. Clicked "Ready to go" on a draft client invoice. It's actually fairly rare for me to do 9 or 10 but sometimes I do play engineer.

11. Strava stalked a hot female rider I followed briefly on yesterday's ride. No luck. I felt like one of the recent threads that was posted to this forum except I doubt she's an airline captain. I mean, she might be, I'll never know.
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I finally found a crack in the facade. There’s no way @eman1200 would know if the pipes were reversed. :)
 
Discovered that electric weed control now exists, a went out to lunch with an associate and while driving there he pointed out a field that his brother-in-law owns that had a heavy weed infestation in the corn before it was picked so it was electrically treated a few days ago and the weeds were dead…(exact same man… who’s field of study is industrial electrical..that I had a joking discussion with 14 years ago about how large pto powered generators should be used as to create a new class of farming implements). I envisioned a magnetron and using microwaves rather than direct current flow, but can’t argue with the result from some other entity that was apparently thinking the same thing. We missed the boat on this one. Somebody else is making them
 
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