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On 3/16/2026 at 1:10 PM, mrsmackpaul said:

Magic man, turned a big green truck into a stack of green money

 

Good job 

And, as usual, I bought the truck and spent a pile of money on it, then sold it for way less than I paid for it at first. If it's sold that is, as of now I still have the truck and Michigan guy still has the money.

Speaking of Tonka trucks, there's a place not far from here where there's dozens of Tonka trucks sitting on some shelves, outside, in a yard. I don't know a thing about them as to who's they are, why they're there, or anything else just saw them sitting there. I took a drive-by picture but I'm pretty sure I deleted it. 

However, I did find them on street view.

7 hours ago, Brocky said:

Same here, but so far just one quick heavy shower.

Same here, high winds and sideways rain and it was over in about 5 minutes. Carport's still upright.

...and we've got high wind and severe thunderstorm warnings for today.

We raised tobacco when I was a kid, that was many years ago. And my Dad and grandfather would make a plant bed in the woods. I don't know why it was in the woods, maybe the richest dirt? Anyway, they cleared a spot, tilled the soil good, then cut 4 poles to put on all 4 sides of it. They sowed the tobacco seeds inside and covered it with a big white cover like cheesecloth. I guess so frost wouldn't kill the plants when they came up, and the poles kept the cover off the plants. And they would always put tomato seeds in it, so when everything came up they had enough tomato plants for half the county.

Dad grew his own sweet potato slips too, but he would just put a sweet potato in a hole in the ground and cover it with sawdust and it would sprout lots of slips. He still had a little plant bed for tomatoes and peppers every year too, long after we stopped growing tobacco. Still had enough plants for everybody in the neighborhood.

But when I was a kid many years ago there was 6 of us in the family and our garden covered a half acre, there wasn't much we didn't grow.

Just now, Vladislav said:

Best of luck! Fingers crossed.

Thank you Vlad.

34 minutes ago, 70mackMB said:

Tom, lf you are space limited in the garden. Grow your sweet potatoes in a tire tower. Look on the www for unlimited sites for instructions. l do know tires hold a crap load of dirt!    .....Hippy

Thanks, I will do that. I just happen to have an old tire out here, but I probably need more than one to make a tower, right?

I do have a huge flower pot that I was going to plant one in too. 

Never tried carrot chips, but I never met a sweet potato I didn't like. We make sweet potato fries- or chips- a lot. I never planted sweet potatoes but my dad grew them every year, and Zina just ordered some sweet potato slips from somewhere so we're going to plant a few this year. I never planted any because they take up so much room.

It's got 3 or 4 long pins driven into the ground on both sides to anchor the bottom but the whole top part sways back and forth. We've had a lot of unusually windy days here, unusually strong winds, and I was just afraid that eventually that back and forth motion would wear through the screws in those corner braces, creating a domino effect and eventual catastrophic failure of the entire structure. 

Pretty big words I'm throwing around there, eh? 🤣 

19 minutes ago, tjc transport said:

and some holes drilled in the sides to releive wind pressure would not be a bad idea either.

I was thinking 🤔 of just taking some of the side panels off. If I did that I could see what the neighbors across the road were up to again too, I can't see them now 🤣 

24 minutes ago, Geoff Weeks said:

Closing off the back end will help as well as keeping debris from blow in. Cables in an X with turnbuckles to tension will do a good job as well.  Closed back end with X cables would be the best.

I didn't want to close it off completely, I asked the guy when he put it up if it was going to take off like a kite the first time the wind blew.

He said "no, that's only when you close them in".

Just now, mowerman said:

No suggestion in your issue sorry tom good luck … but I did delete a tread before… I didn’t have any trouble.. but I don’t remember what I did 

I thought I had too, I was thinking when you tapped "edit" it gave you the option to "delete post" too, but I guess not.

I did what Larry suggested and it looks like the pictures are back, I haven't put any cables in the carport yet. I was thinking of putting an X brace in the far end, never considered the sides.

Just now, mrsmackpaul said:

Dunno, can't see no photos here to add comments to

 

Paul 

I somehow made a double post and I tried to delete one, but that seems to have failed too.

I've got this carport

And when the wind blows it sways back and forth probably 6-8 inches at the top.

Today I got in the big green International that runs now and it swayed over against the door so tight I couldn't even move the door.

It's normally about this far away.

So I'm wondering if I should ignore it, or add some braces to stiffen it up some, or take take some pieces of the siding off so the wind can blow through. Anybody got any thoughts?

nothing to see here, can't delete the dreaded double post...

18 minutes ago, Vladislav said:

No!!! 

Alu fronts correspond with the alu tanks. And the rears are asking to complete the line. If the truck has tandems they could be different than the front. Or you can paint the fronts white and the tanks either. But you'd get the look of more like a fridge than a fashioned highway truck.

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