Recent content by 93Cobra#2771

Southeast Tennessee, halfway between knoxville and Chattanooga. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We had quite the show in east TN. Lots of reds/greens. Could just barely make things out with the naked eye, but iPhone did its magic and we had some strong colors. I'll get some posted up later.

Absolute truth.

Just looking at the campers being towed down the road, I'd say 1/3 of them don't have the hitch set up correctly. I'd also say more than half of the half ton trucks are well over most of their ratings. Not that they are going to fall apart because of it, but some have no business pulling what...

Not my video. If it's a pretty long driveway, I'd go ahead and invest in a land plane. You'll be kicking yourself for not doing so earlier. If you use the yard box, use it when ground is wet/soft. That helps it cut into the hard pack better and lets you get rid of potholes. We had a monsoon...

The box scarifiers aren't really usable on a driveway. They are more for busting up dirt, like a mini plow. They are too far apart and too big to do what needs to be done. Land plane scarifiers are basically short pegs and much closer together. Idea is they completely bust up the top crust...

You can make a box blade work, but it takes lots of practice. First I'll go through and drag it all down, cutting any humps/holes out and "stirring it all up". The goal is to get rid of surface irregularities at the hard packed base. Then, I shorten my top link so the edges of the box are the...

I do not.

Mine's a side hustle, not passive income: I set up weight distribution hitches for people with campers. Simple job, I have the tools, and I'm out two hours at the most. Price runs 200+, and usually ends up around 300-350 according to how much work I do. You'd be surprised (or appalled) at the...

Wife has been summoned for jury duty twice. She didn't have to serve either time. Just had the once a month standby waiting on a phone call. There is no getting out in our county in TN. They defer you and you serve one way or another. I've always wanted to be called for JD, has never happened...

It's not just machinists - many, many trades are suffering the same issues. Spoke with an civil engineering firm yesterday that is turning away work unless it's on developments that they created. Spoke with the president and he said they can't keep enough surveying staff. Started farming it out...

It's pretty rare to get the low res images to generate anything usable. I've always treated it like this, and say it as such to my customers "someone, somewhere, had this hi res image to start with - if you want the same quality and the same image, you're going to have to track down whoever...

I don't hate it. I find it more interesting to see with two doors than the vert top. Either way, I'd drive it.

First off, work on it as a native AI file until finished. Then save as your dxf file. There's a ton of settings you can play with before doing the auto trace with regards to how tight it pulls the lines, how many colors, etc etc etc. You are going to have to play with the settings until you...