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[Chilli]

Yeh... Uh huh Yeh... Uh huh Uh huh

 

[Oregon Viking]

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[Oregon Viking]

 

[Oregon Viking]

 

[Oregon Viking]

 

[pepperj]

Yesterday I reinstalled the new hydraulic pump shaft parts. Hooked everything back up filled it with oil.
Zippo, nadda, SFA!
Nothing moved, no grinding noise though.

So today was a rain day, hooked up the rest if the mig welder.
The mig's male plug didn't like my female plug.
So off to buy a new plug.
Gee 20 yrs since I played around with welding.
Sure need to get some practice in again.

Called the hoarding farmer up regarding the splitter and the Ford 4000 backhoe.

"I haven't thought about it yet"

 

[newnan man]

Yesterday I reinstalled the new hydraulic pump shaft parts. Hooked everything back up filled it with oil.
Zippo, nadda, SFA!
Nothing moved, no grinding noise though.

So today was a rain day, hooked up the rest if the mig welder.
The mig's male plug didn't like my female plug.
So off to buy a new plug.
Gee 20 yrs since I played around with welding.
Sure need to get some practice in again.

Called the hoarding farmer up regarding the splitter and the Ford 4000 backhoe.

"I haven't thought about it yet"

I've had a lot of male plug/
female plug issues myself!

 

[Oregon Viking]

Yes please!!!


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[Oregon Viking]

Spring Chinook Season Extended on the Columbia River!

With the upriver spring Chinook return on track to come in higher than originally forecast, Oregon and Washington are adding more fishing days to the season!
Biologists now expect 155,500 adult spring Chinook to return this year—up from the initial forecast of 122,500. That means more opportunity for anglers while staying within conservation limits.

 

[Chilli]

Recently acquired and read an account of the Charles Sturt expedition searching for an inland sea.
Not this account.

Mystery of an Inland Ocean

An intriguing history can be found within the desert environment of Australia’s Red Centre. Imagine carting a whaleboat more than 3500 kilometres over land in search of a mythical ocean with no roads or maps to guide you. This is exactly what the British explorer, Charles Sturt, attempted almost...

lostinaustralia.org

Friend : you live on a harsh continent.

I have watched a few shows on the early explorers and they certainly did it hard. This from an Aus poem about Australia. The bit about droughts and flooding rains couldn't ring truer than at this moment with us in drought right now and in NSW our neighbor state they are having major floods. Some places there with over 200ml of rain, roughly 8 inches, within 24hrs.
"I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!"

 

[Oregon Viking]

Bandon Oregon.

 

[Chilli]

Spring Chinook Season Extended on the Columbia River!

With the upriver spring Chinook return on track to come in higher than originally forecast, Oregon and Washington are adding more fishing days to the season!
Biologists now expect 155,500 adult spring Chinook to return this year—up from the initial forecast of 122,500. That means more opportunity for anglers while staying within conservation limits.




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Your looking younger! Whatever your doing keep it up 👍

 

[Oregon Viking]

I have watched a few shows on the early explorers and they certainly did it hard. This from an Aus poem about Australia. The bit about droughts and flooding rains couldn't ring truer than at this moment with us in drought right now and in NSW our neighbor state they are having major floods. Some places there with over 200ml of rain, roughly 8 inches, within 24hrs.
"I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!"

People have storage tanks for water? I know as a kid we had a 10,000 gallon tank for water. We never used it though. I grew up on 500 acres and we had springs and well water.

 

[Chilli]

Strange here today. Im seeing pictures with no text, then a few minutes later there's text with them.
Earlier on Gare didn't have an avatar then suddenly he did.

 

[pepperj]

I've had a lot of male plug/
female plug issues myself!

$20 fixed him right up

 

[Chilli]

People have storage tanks for water? I know as a kid we had a 10,000 gallon tank for water. We never used it though. I grew up on 500 acres and we had springs and well water.

Yeah near every place here in town has a rainwater tank. We have a large one here. Every property outside of the towns have multiple tanks. We get such extended periods of no rain though that sometimes the tanks run dry and people living rural with tanks only, buy water to fill them.

 

[ARC]

G morn T Crew.

 

[CreekSide]

Good morning
Happy Friday

 

[ToddsPoint]

Good morning!☕️ Forecast says rain possible next three days and cool. It’s the end of May and the furnace is still running. A cool summer coming?🤔

 

[robertk]

Good morning all.

No rain here yet, but they're saying a lot of rain is coming. We shall see.