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Feb. 15th, 2007 08:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickWhat kind of yahoo drives up to visit his summer cabin in the middle of the week after a major storm plows into the northeast? (One who builds very tidy and awe-inspiring stone fences, that's what kind.) More dozing this afternoon following a full work day. (Yesterday I got out of work early so that I could go home and do... other work. Yay?) Add an hour to the totals for Valley activities.
That'd be 4 hr. 15 min. for 2007. I should probably do something about widening the road out (it's two dozer passes wide, which is about one and one-half dozers wide due to attrition and plow-roll) but we're not expecting any more snow and it's supposed to be forty next Tuesday. Maybe I'll get motivated. It could happen.
I sprung for a new can (it says for "gasoline and diesel engines" on it and Bill said that would be fine) of starting fluid. It actually sprays instead of dribbling. It also has a lid to protect the spray button, this being a feature I looked for when shopping for a can of starting fluid.
I also unhooked the chain from the ass end of the dozer because I was tired of stuffing it back into the box where the starting fluid lives. It didn't stay in there particularly well and I didn't want to back up over it and break something. It is neatly piled, with all accessories, on the garage floor just underneath the end of the grader to be both handy and out-of-the-way.
My driving is improving by leaps and bounds. It really is a matter of logging the hours. I don't imagine I will ever get tired of the way the damn thing turns, though. That's just... man, it's tough to believe that they didn't make it fun-like-that on purpose.
Final dozer thought for the day: If you were needing a halloween costume for a bulldozer, you could do a pretty good job with some large-diameter PVC pipe and a lot of olive drab paint.
That'd be 4 hr. 15 min. for 2007. I should probably do something about widening the road out (it's two dozer passes wide, which is about one and one-half dozers wide due to attrition and plow-roll) but we're not expecting any more snow and it's supposed to be forty next Tuesday. Maybe I'll get motivated. It could happen.
I sprung for a new can (it says for "gasoline and diesel engines" on it and Bill said that would be fine) of starting fluid. It actually sprays instead of dribbling. It also has a lid to protect the spray button, this being a feature I looked for when shopping for a can of starting fluid.
I also unhooked the chain from the ass end of the dozer because I was tired of stuffing it back into the box where the starting fluid lives. It didn't stay in there particularly well and I didn't want to back up over it and break something. It is neatly piled, with all accessories, on the garage floor just underneath the end of the grader to be both handy and out-of-the-way.
My driving is improving by leaps and bounds. It really is a matter of logging the hours. I don't imagine I will ever get tired of the way the damn thing turns, though. That's just... man, it's tough to believe that they didn't make it fun-like-that on purpose.
Final dozer thought for the day: If you were needing a halloween costume for a bulldozer, you could do a pretty good job with some large-diameter PVC pipe and a lot of olive drab paint.
