I’ve been working in shops for 20 years and I know what they’re called. For some reason when I’m filming it’s like my brain shuts off. I stutter, lose my train of thought and mis speak and mumble a lot. Kind of weird because if I’m not filming I don’t have those problems.

You just set the temperature and it self regulates.

Thank you. I make them when I’m able too. Been a busy year hauling some big projects so I’ve had limited shop time.

I bought this last summer 2023. I don’t have the model. It just says ryobi 40v on the case. I just went on the Home Depot app and entered “ryobi weedeater” and it was the first one to pop up. It says they’re $159 now.

English is a difficult language to learn. Don’t give up. Keep studying and someday you’ll get there.

It holds the lock out pin out momentarily. Not all new adjusters come with one. A flat head screw driver will do the same thing.

I would rather haul this thing to the scrap yard than empty the hopper after every cook. I don’t think anyone would ever buy one if that were the case. We bought a cover for it. Keeps them dry enough. I’ve had them swell up a couple of times and so far the auger hasn’t gotten stuck. It did error out this Saturday for some reason. I unplugged it and plugged it back in and it worked fine after that.

@@MikesMischief too bad for that - that's why i have a Camp Cheff pellet grill. It has a pellet dump shoot on the back bottom of the hopper, and the burn pot has a trap door on the bottom to empty the burn pot and a pellet feed feature on the alger tube to empty it as well as to pre-prime the pellet pot before starting. I take the extra (few minutes) after each cook. I had to take the pellet shoot out and clear a clog shortly after i bought it a few years ago - because i did not know about the pellets swelling and clogging it up back then - and that was just from humidity- not rain.

Yeah most trucks should crank and start with 2 good batteries. These new trucks are complex and you’d have to make sure the wire ends were still attached to the remaining battery terminals. Older trucks were 24v and you got the 24v by connecting the batteries in series but they quit doing that in the 80’s except some military trucks. It gets down to -30°F here in the winter and we need all of the cranking power we can get. The batteries in this truck were from the factory. That’s about 6 years on truck batteries which is unheard of. They’re $120 each at Napa and I’m certain the other 2 weren’t too far behind so we replaced them all. Weak batteries cause early failure of the alternator and starter so it’s a no brainer.

It’s my coworkers pickup. They gave him very generic answers at ford but they did fix whatever it was.

They have some really nice trucks.

Yes they do

I might do another ghost town video this Halloween again. Check out some other ND ghost towns. We just had a little one so I’m taking a break from making videos to help out more around the house. We’re out of minot too.

Dude I’m terrible at making these videos. I never thought anyone would actually watch them haha. It’s just an expensive hobby that I’m not very good at and I’m ok with that.

When I first started making videos I didn’t know how to get unmodulated music. I would literally have to play the song on my Chromebook speaker while my phone recorded it in a voice over on the video editor. It sounds pretty bad but it was the only way I knew how at that time. I’m taking a brief hiatus from video making at the moment because we just had a baby on June 5th and I have more responsibilities around the house for the time being.

Tell me you’ve never worked on tires without telling me you’ve never worked on tires…. The tire beads are like giant rubber bands with steel wires in them. They have to be stretched over the outer part of the rim. The gap when they’re not beaded up is too big to hold back air so the tire won’t inflate. You must use a bead blaster or starting fluid like I did to get a huge burst of air to push the beads out.

@@MikesMischief yes I quite understand that part but after you used ur ignition source it just flamed it looked like and the tire didn’t stretch it could just be the pov or I’m just super stoned rn but it looked like it wasn’t over the outer part of the rim

@itryxz1983 I’ve done this a couple hundred times and I know exactly how to position the tire and the right amount of ether to use so there isn’t a huge woof usually.

@@MikesMischief that’s fair I only really seen when they do the huge woof so that makes sense my question has been answered I’m too stoned😂

Not a bad thing to be on a Friday evening that’s also the first day of summer. 🔥🪴

Dawn dish soap and water.

We just plug the small ones. If we get a big hole and have to dismount the tire from the rim then we go though it and put patches were any plugs are. We burn off a set of rubber about once a year. Plugs are considered a temporary repair but they will last the life of the tire in my experience.

I’ve been working in shops for decades and I’ve never seen someone mount a can just to get the measurement. I’ve used a long square when a can blew out and there was nothing to measure. You can measure from the center of the s-cam to the face of the bracket with a long square because the bracket itself is a square surface that is normally flush with the face of the can when mounted. Square is square so it doesn’t matter if you measure the top, middle or bottom as long as you’re measuring from the same square surface. When the spring is shmucked inside I use a metal coat hanger or wire to get the measurement if it’s not too far gone. The average person is too lazy to mount and then unmount a can for a measurement. Probably the “correct” way but certainly far from the most common.

@@MikesMischief i dont unmount mine. I cut it off while its still on the bracket.

@@TORAH-613 this is the right way to do it. anyone that matches rod lengths is just following the prior mechanics footsteps. sometimes, even the engineers footsteps... it can be done but i think its payrate subjective

I think most guys way least port patch the exhaust side using the gaskets as a guide. There’s a lot better channels for information on porting heads. We’re just kind of idiots with some air tools.

They used to hook the loop onto a tank and undo the clamps and then drive forward. Then spend 5 hours fishing the new one back through the pulleys. I thought there had to be a better way. I begged them to give me an hour and if it didn’t work I’d do it their way. I wasn’t sure if the weld would hold but it does.

We got two guys at the yard right now fishing one through. I tried to tell them

Haha. Damn. I used to haul scrap cable from the drag line cranes at a coal mine. 3”&4” thick and miles long. I asked them how they string the new one. I am 90% certain that’s where I got the idea. Next time.

Maybe they can get a 1” rope and fish that through. Unwind the first foot and wrap the strands around the cable and use some gorilla tape and wrap it up a bunch. It might be strong enough.

My dad wants me go give my son this truck for his first vehicle but I’m worried that it will be hard for him to find parts in the future. It needs a transmission now and I’m still trying to decide if I should have it done or just take the truck to the auction and get him something that the parts are easier to find. I have done more brakes on semis and heavy trucks than passenger vehicles. Truck brakes always come with a hardware kit. I forgot that passenger brakes don’t normally come with a hardware kit. I think it’s a Superduty rear axle but I’m not 100% sure.

If you’re using them on a header board mounted to a structure they should be on first. These are being used in reverse where the runners are holding up the end boards. Its a small but effective way to ad a little extra strength. It’s a way to distribute the force of the screw heads over a larger connected area, the runners aren’t “hanging” off of the bow or stern. They’re holding it up. I’ve had this boat out 20+ times on some really big lakes. 25mph winds. Huge waves it just plows right over them. You can’t even type a clear, coherent sentence. I can’t imagine you would have anything intelligent to poorly type out anyway.

I’m a ford guy by birth. I was surprised just how simple the repair was. The more I work on GM vehicles the less I like fords. I got lucky on the radiator. Guy should put a piece of cardboard or an old mud flap behind the radiator there just in case.

Everyone wants 2 batteries a charger and the tool. Every cordless drill, impact driver, sawzall ever sold as a kit has come with the tool, 2 batteries and a charger. I really wonder how much more expensive lithium batteries are to produce. Is it really 4-5x more expensive than nicad batteries? Seems like a racket to me. One battery lasts about an hour when new. An hour of weed eating is plenty for me.

Most of these towns I got from a list. Wing I came up with on my own because I have been through there a few times over the last 20 years. I’ll admit it seems to have started to come back some.

@@MikesMischief I happened to be looking at it on google earth recently (about the 100th time) and discovered a relative because of a mailbox! 😀

I would argue that most people born and raised in a metropolis of any kind would go through wing and see it as a ghost town. I see it as a very small town. I hauled many oversized loads through Bismarck and the permitting company would route me through there if I had a load over 18’ tall due to the stop lights in Bismarck. I went through there once in about 2007 just sight seeing. Houses in Bismarck are expensive. It’s only a 45 minute drive and a retired or work from home person could save a lot of money buying in wing and driving to bismarck once a week for grocery’s. I walked the cemeteries in all of these towns and there were a lot of names from the early 1900’s that are now big well known names. I didn’t add any footage from the cemeteries because I thought it’d be disrespectful. I kept telling my gf they’re not haunted and she would ask if I’d go there at night alone and the answer was a predictable…. no ma’am.

@@MikesMischief Hi Mike. I didn't realize Wing and Bismarck were so close together timewise. My mother grew up on a farm outside of Wing and went to school in town. Recently I was looking at Wing on goole earth and saw a mailbox with the maiden name of her paternal grandmother. Turns out we're related! I'm doing my family tree so I was really excited. I still have extended family there, I just found out. I understand about not taking pictures of headstones but wish you did, Hint hint. 😃

@ameliafroehlich2577 I mostly film truck and tractor related stuff. I made this video as a Halloween special. I’m still trying to figure out this KZfaq thing. It’s just a hobby for me. I feel like it’d be 50/50 on people finding it disrespectful/interesting. I just think how I’d feel if some KZfaq guy was filming my families headstones to make $5 in ad revenue. I don’t know if it’d bother me or not. But we live in a time when it’s hip to be offended and some folks look for reasons to be a victim. It’s weird to me what gets views and what doesn’t. The algorithm is temperamental so I just try to stay within reasonable lines and stay on topic. ND is like a big club. You’re either in the club or out and if you pi*s off the wrong person you’re out and no one will hire you. People will refuse to do business with you etc…. I am already barely in the club so I’m trying to not get kicked out completely. No joke I had a very experienced welder/fabricator tell me he didn’t know how to remove 4 bolts and cut a metal bracket to install a pump on a semi of mine one time. I had worked for his neighbor for a few years and when I quit my boss told everyone we know not to do business with me. If there’s a name in a town you’d like me to look for I’d be happy to and I could even bring a crayon and a piece of paper if you’d like to have a stone-rubbed copy. I’ll be filming tractor pulls and threshing shows all summer but I will probably be back out in September filming another ghost town video. I have an instagram if you have a P.O. Box you could send it to me there.

You have to get your finger tips a lot further in there if the S-cam is reset. I had a pry-bar kick out one time and the tip of my finger got caught between the roller and the shoe. They had to superglue the tip of my finger back on. Also I had to replace the can on this brake here also. The big spring was broken so I didn’t even bother backing the shoes off. I hate fighting the lockout on the adjusters so I wait until the new rollers are in and just crank it until they drop into the curves. I don’t know if it matters but I like to squirt some grease into the adjuster and crank it around so the worm gear isn’t riding on the same spot as the previous set of shoes and to make sure the adjuster functions internally beyond the last point it was resting. It also helps the new grease distribute more internally. I saw this hack and wanted to try it for myself.