All the electricity went off.
No computer.
No television.
No radio.
No working at the work bench in the dark basement.
Couldn't even make a cup of coffee (electric coffee maker).
So I spent some time talking with the wife.
She seems like a nice person.
So.................you posted this by hooking a generator to your bike to create the juice needed to power this single post.
What now? Computers need electricity to operate? What are the batteries for then??:D
Dave Lindell, post: 418210, member: 55 wrote: All the electricity went off.
No computer.
No television.
No radio.
No working at the work bench in the dark basement.
Couldn't even make a cup of coffee (electric coffee maker).
So I spent some time talking with the wife.
She seems like a nice person.
You know what spooning leads to, right?
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forking.
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After reading above, I'm thinking of how nice it is when power is off.
Kerosene lamps.
Wood stove.
Phone is off for a day or 3.
Maybe play in snow.
Soft piano playing.
Nate The Surveyor, post: 418234, member: 291 wrote: After reading above, I'm thinking of how nice it is when power is off.
Kerosene lamps.
Wood stove.Phone is off for a day or 3.
Maybe play in snow.Soft piano playing.
And another little Nate is on the way!!! :laughing:
It's a positive thought... Thanks. I kinda doubt it... She usually does not get preg, when nursing is baby's only food and drink source.
Nate The Surveyor, post: 418317, member: 291 wrote: ....She usually does not get preg, when nursing is baby's only food and drink source.
Couldn't she put the baby down for just a little bit...?
And now you know why I always say the most important thing in the survey rig is reliable power for all the toys, otherwise they are a big paperweight!
SHG
I kinda like it with the pwr off.
I grew up without power.. 'cept an old generator... For occasional use.
We had an outhouse. Hand crank wheat grinder. All our day to day surveying... Transit, tape, nails, flagging, abney level, old hand crank Monroe calculator, slide rule, automatic pencils, shiners, all worked without power.
We worked out of a '57 Ford panel truck.
Still got the truck. I did not know it, but dad bought that old truck, from the telephone co. With my mom's money. Mom recently reclaimed her truck. It has a straight 6, and a semi-auto trans.
Shifter is on the steering collum.
1st gear is at the bottom. 3rd is one notch up. To catch 2nd, you take off in 1st. Get it up to about 20 mph, slap it up to drive, or one notch up, (keep the gas on) and while its shifting, pull it back to 1st. Now you are in 2nd.
3rd was just push the shifter up to 3rd, while in 2nd.
To go from 3rd, to 2nd, slow down to about 35, pull it down to 1st, and you are in second. Slow to about 15, and it would drop to 1st.
If you were running 45 mph, in 3rd, and you wanted 2nd, (passing gear), you just pulled it down one notch, (while holding foot on gas), and it would grab passing gear. The old truck got some 16 mpg.
It said F100 on the side.
It's been through a flood now. And needs alot of things. But, it is restorable. The bed on it is wood.
N
I think they referred to those as "Ford-O-Matic" transmissions. Bullet-proof they were.
PS Nate -My phone battery died yesterday mid-sentence. By the time I got the charger plugged in a client called and my A.D.D. took over for the rest of the afternoon. Hope your wife didn't spend all your money! 😉
