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Random thought for the day

I agree there should be a standard, but then they couldn't force you to buy a whole new power tool every 5 years by changing the battery type.

Mine are all a standard type and never need recharging. Every hand power tool I have has a 115V cord on it. If I have to go work somewhere there is no power, my generator is mounted on a pallet and I don't even have to get off the tractor to slip the front edge of the bucket under the hooks welded on the back of the generator pallet. Convenience comes at a price.

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You go McGyver! Looks like some industrial air tanks on the pallet behind the generator... and I see a boat on a trailer in the background... is that the "skinny water" boat you mentioned?
 
You go McGyver! Looks like some industrial air tanks on the pallet behind the generator... and I see a boat on a trailer in the background... is that the "skinny water" boat you mentioned?
That is not air tanks, it was fuel tanks for the sawmill I used to have. Got too old and crippled up to ramp logs and throw green 2x10s around, so I sold the mill. Washed the tanks out and use them to put diesel in when I have a big job going with the tractor now. I sold the glass, skinny water tunnel hull. That boat sitting on the trailer is an old flat bottom Tracker. It will float in about 2 inches of water, but the prow is not designed for rough water and I wouldn't take it out on the salt flats. A little wind comes up and it would sink trying to get back in the canals.

I need to go buy a lottery ticket. I kept an old cell phone that was not connected to the web out in the shop to take pictures of things I took apart, so if I had to wait 6 months to get the parts to fix it, I wouldn't forget how it went back together. Had not used the the old phone in a good while, so I brought it in the house to put on the charger and top off the battery. When I flipped the case open something was sticking in one of the slots inside the cover. I pulled it out and it was 2 new twenty dollar bills. I guess somebody stole my ragged old smart phone and when they saw how old and scratched up it was, they felt sorry for me so they stuck $40 inside the cover and brought it back.
 
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