#7 - Too hot to handle.

Well its been slow going for the past few weeks. Its seems like it is one thing after another, inlcuding to hot work outside after being in it all day. I have been helping some friends build a house for the 'not so fortunate' ex-wife. You dont want to hear the whole story, but the bottom line is she needs a place to live and Im there to help. Another cirsis intervention was replacing a water heater at my house, where a 2 hour job turned into 12. The water heater was cake, but when I turned the water back on the charcoal cartridge filter for the house imploded and sent fine charcoal mesh into the plumbing. Every stop valve and hot/cold stem had to be completely taken apart and cleaned. That means dishwasher, clothes washer, all sinks, toilets and tub/shower had to be dismantled. Maybe this is where the term 'potty mouth' came from. I used every four letter work in the book until I was to hoarse to use them any more. Then a fund raiser saturday, driving a tractor for 6 hours shuttling people back and forth to the event, your welcome Rotary and John Deere....so I have missed the last couple of weekends.
In the mean time it has been brutally hot, making for the evening work session a bit on the short side. However I have completed the rear-end and am working on the frame. I got the bed taken off after a few episodes of cutting torch/grinder. Back on the farm 'Ole Tex' liked to weld things that broke back on, thanks Tex!!! I am hoping that he hasnt left me too many surpises. The only obsticle I foresee in the immediate future is how to deal with the wallowed out brackets that hold the leaf springs in place. I am guessing I will grind off the rivets that hold the brakets in place and take them to a machine shop and have them sleeved. I dont they they will be replaced with rivets, there goes the 'back to original' thing. But time will tell.