Morning all…
Woke up this morning and found that one of the two springs on the garage door had broke. 25 year old double wide wood door and I can’t lift it with the remaining spring. Trapped at home. Guess I’ll have to work on the layout and run trains.
Any suggestions on how to lift a beast of a door without squashing yourself? The only thing I can come up with is calling over friends and neighbors.
Can’t really complain because the door is 25 year old. Time for a new door and opener.
MAKE SURE YOU RELEASED THE TRACTOR/GUIDE FROM THE ELECTRIC OPENER !! SHOULD BE ABLE TO OPEN THEN
The guide was released, but the door is too heavy to lift unaided (looks like I need to eat more Wheaties and spinach). I’m guessing the second spring is so old it isn’t doing much.
I can lift it higher than the motor, so I guess that means I’m stronger than 1/3 of a horse… [:)]
But since this is the mid-Atlantic they probably used quarter horses… so I’m stronger than 1/3 of a quarter horse.
LAZ you Yankee you. Learn to speak plain English.
MISS EDNA thought you wanted a tipple.
I just bougth you 3 boxes of coal [lying right next to the TPC’s on the floor]. [Like I told you to tell her].
Doug, Maybe I was not too clear. I already belong to TCA Western Division. What I was thinking about joining or actually rejoining, because I am a former member, is The Toy Train Operating Society (TTOS). They have a bigger meet in Southern California than TCA. I do enjoy the friendships at TCA but I need a better venue for trading trains.
Chief, hope Frankie’s dog is OK. Some of those dog problems seem like they would be expensive with todays prices on vet bills. That’s why I don’t have anymore pets. More power to those who can afford them though. Personally, I’m having a tough time just meeting my own medical expenses especially with the drug companies’ policy of the sky is the limit on prices and they have the government’s blessing. Can you say “Donut hole” ?
Ray
THANKS CHIEF!!!
I must have GRITS FOR BRAINS???
I’ll get to repay you when the NS Dash 9 comes out.
Thanks again,
laz57
FIFE, U DA MAN.
Gee you should plan all my days this sounds GREAT!!!
GO RAVENS!!!
laz57
I think I will pull the covers off of my head, hop out of bed and go look out the window to see if the world has ended yet. Besides, I’m getting hungry. [dinner]
Hey Don, care to give us a firsthand account about what those founding fathers were actually thinking? [:D]
Howdy Boyz & Girlz !
Tried logging in last nite but there must have been some issues somewhere. I was way to pooped anyway.
The munchkin was here thursday and for some reason he felt that 4:30 am friday was a great time to wakeup. By the time I got home from the museum I was done for the day, in bed and out like a light by 9pm.
The box cars that I had stuffed full of cotton batting were as quiet as a church mouse yeterday. Great way to soften the noise that sometimes comes from those rolling echo chambers.
Buckeye, are you looking to expand your garden rr ? Check these out, will bring back a pleasant memory or two.
http://www.newenglandtoytrainexchange.com/01-23-09/lot925.htm
Well all of yesterday’s trainstuff is put back up on the shelves but will still need to service the locos before the job is complete.
Later all, need to start prepping for company this evening. [sigh] [zzz]
Jim,
Feel free to put pictures that you take of my car on the thumb drive. Those pictures will be higher resolution than the ones that we would copy from the SPF page, plus, there might be some on there that didn’t make it on the forum.
Have a good day everyone!
Wes
Howdy all.
Linda was out this morning, so I was watching the kids while she was away. Let them watch Disney Playhouse while I dozed, then we fired up the ol’ boilers on the steam engines and got the Christmas trains around the tree runnin’. Probably the last weekend for this - we’re gonna start taking everything down tomorrow.
I doubt that it’s the second spring not being strong enough, it’s more likely that with only force on one side it can’t properly pull the door up. I’ve been able to life a double door with a broken spring, of course it wasn’t solid wood. You might lift it a bit then put a floor jack to lift it up higher. At some point enough of the door will be “lifted” so that it should slide up easily.
Afternoon All!
Snow blown…round one. Snow picking up again…
Back from a local gun show. Mostly rifles and shotguns. A Sig 1911 did catch my eye. But alas, not today. Neighbor returned the track I lent him for Christmas. His bride bought him a small Fastrack layout for Christmas. He has a Sig arms pistol and shoots quite often, and offered to take me out shooting.
Pork chops tonight!
Kurt
So I get out of bed, put on my homemade Chessie bath robe and my Thomas the Tank slippers and go downstairs. Through the dim light, I see that there is a pile of mail on the table.
Mmmm…a letter from city hall. Let’s see what it says…
My identity was stolen!!! What?! It says that I need to open an account with LIFELOCK before some hooligan cleans out my bank accounts and chicken coop. It says they threw a bunch of trash into an “unsecured” receptacle in the parking lot and there were papers that told my life’s story and more caught by the wind and scattered for miles. These unsecured documents may have even blown below the Mason-Dixon Line!!!
Help: very heavy snow all day, If you guys don’t come dig me out I could be like Buckeye, stuck in the house for days. I know I have the trains but my wife is here too.lol.
Don, I saw Jon/s signature and followed suit! Back from fighting through the snow to see the middle boy wrestle (unsuccessfully - too bad). Ray, the TTOS sounds like a great option - you’re right, I get my toy train acronyms mixed up. Watching the Ravens game - all those Tennesseans dressed up like a Bears game and it’s 53 degrees with a little rain. Sheesh. Maybe only 8 inches or so here. . .Oh Buckeye, look out for those revenooers…
Doug, remember the LAZ statement. IGNORE IGNORE IGNORE. Off to Fireman’s dinner.
Afternoon all. Well its afternoon for my schedule. Went out and cleaned the driveway.The neighbor’s driveway behind, next door neighbor’s and all sidewalk’s.Thats the only problem being the only one to have a big two stage snow thrower. Only used a little over one and a half gallon’s of gas at least. I blew all the snow from our drieway into the backyard so the kids would have a big snow pile to play on. That was a hit. When I was finished with the driveways I shaped it into a sled hill for them. They liked that even more. Well dinner will be done in 10 min. So after dinner its time to go out to clean up the rest of the snow. Hopefully some train time after that. Talk later.
Test, test, test… I-I-I-Understood, Chief. Dennis [tup] Doug M [(-D] RT [tup] Laz [tup] (Better watch out, I think Chief is mailing you some of those special pellets he found under his house!) Yo Chief, hope the doggie is feeling better and all goes well! Too much to post about, but glad that I don’t have snow piled up over my house, we get the rain and a little snow and ice here and there this year, but keep getting bands of warmer weather. Sir James - hope you did get out of the house? Just leave the trains and go hang out with Pat for a while and she will start the tunnel for you? Just kidding! I know she will get out, has to get to the grandbabies! Too much to post about everything, but thanks everyone, lots of good stuff in the past few days and really got a couple chuckles here and there [:)]
Worked 6 hours OT. Stayed up too late a couple nights and I’m crashing now. Watching a locomotive I bid on on ebay, don’t know whether I hope to win it or lose it, lol! I want it, but I don’t want to tell Char about it - she will be a little peeved. Don’t want to end up on restrictions!
Tardis is stocked up and ready to go, so just waiting for the screen to light up a little. I think Sir James wants to grab some trains and go down to Rich’s for a visit?
Well, after 3 hours of angst, the RAVENS survived to move on. Lousy game, and I’m quite sure Dan D and the Tennessee faithful will bemoan the non call of delay of game til Easter…
rt - Thanks for the info.