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Good Morning, and Happy New Year to all of you.

Got my wife's 80 just about finished... waiting on some suspension components to sort out the telemetry changes from the lift.

2025 is going to be "The Year of the Pig" for me. Zeke has been waiting patiently to get some special loving. He's going to love what's coming... lol. I've kept a few secrets from a rendevouz with @bobm ;) and I'll spill them shortly... :flipoff2:

When I get started, I'll revive the "Next Steps with Zeke" thread and document progress.

Here's to a great 2025.
 
Happy New Year!!

Continued my tradition of being asleep when the new year rolled around. Feel good and well rested today to work in shop!
Wife and I were in bed well before midnight. Made eggs benedict for breakfast and then she went back to bed while I went to the shop. Have to clean up now and go to my sister's for lunch.
 
I was trying to fix the heater in the old shop (and then trying to keep the sprinklers from freezing) on NYE. Only have a 10’ ladder, which wasn’t tall enough. I got the cover off, but wasn't tall enough when standing on the second rung to see inside. Wife was unhappy about me being on top of a ladder “at your age” <grumble>.

So I called around and borrowed a little (85K BTU) propane burning construction heater to try to get the temp up to 70F and then see if it would make it until morning.

Didn’t want to sit in a closed shop burning that much propane for 3-4 hours, so I sat in the truck outside, going back in every 20 min to check on things. Didn’t want to accumulate too much of the CO I knew had to be there.

I got the little shop to 68F around 1am, s*** off the heater and went home.

Was down to 15F outside about 7:00am/sunrise, and the shop was down to 50F at 7:15am when I arrived.

Got a taller ladder, and found a plugged drain. Looked like it was full of PVC cuttings (maybe from the original install.) So much for my theory that it was a flame detector carboned over.

Came home. Watched UT beat ASU.

HNY to the sty!

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Yep. Always look for the easy solution first! I seem to always figure it is something big or complicated and often it is not. Your wife is right. Stay off ladders especially ones that are too short for the job at hand.
 
Funny! My uncle taught me years ago about pintles. He called them "brother in law" hitches. When his brothers in law would ask to barrow one of his trailers, he'd say sure. All his trailers had pintles on them and nobody back then had those, only the 2" ball bumper hitch. :) All my trailers have pintles!
 
The livestock dogs got another one last night, another large male. I looked up breeding time for the red fox in MO. Jan. and Feb. are the hot months. I hate to see two nice animals get killed for no reason, but they came into a fenced 20 acre goat paddock and these two new young dogs are aggressive. Everybody at the barn will sleep good tonight, hopefully.

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Finished 95% of the work in the new room and admittedly have slacked off since New Years Day. No way I was not putting up a Christmas tree so it’s time to take it down and finish the base moldings and move some more furniture in place. The heavy stuff makes it easy to put off.

As for ladders? I have heard this lament for the last year.. “are you fu**ing crazy?”…”get off of that ladder now”. Like the rest of us, it goes in one ear and out the other. I will be nice to get back to working on the FJ40. Gotta lotta stuff to do. 2 new differentials, @orange45 double seal output shaft install, steering knuckle rebuild and disk brake conversion. Load of parts waiting in boxes.

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