I added a rotary plow to my roster, yesterday.

Now - if I can just figure out where my wife put it, I'll try and post a picture.


Honeeeeeeeey? :?

can't wait for pics! I've been wanting a rotary plow for my own collection!

Well, if it's anything like my wife...

I went lookiing for a new tool I bought a few days ago. It was inna plastic bag from the store. Well, she was doing some cleaning and decided to grab the bag off the table, stuffed it with trash and put it in the large bag that goes to curbside. If it weren't for me looking to use the thing it would have made it to curbside to be a mystery evermore. I asked her if she saw the bag from Home Depot. I started doing that nutsy whipping around the house looking under cushions and such. I asked if she threw any bags out. "Only what I put in the trash". BINGO. There it was. About elbow deep (and I won't say more).

Good luck with the search.

Mark

I just heard from wife. It seems that my rotary unit did not, in fact, make it into the house along with the other purchases made yesterday. It is still in the car, in Denver.

I brought all of her stuff in...

And then they say we're always pickin' on them.....

MountainMan Wrote:It is still in the car, in Denver.

Since your info says you live in Palmer Lake and your car is in Denver, I can't help but wonder...
How'd you make it home without your car? hock:

Boomer Wrote:Well, if it's anything like my wife...

I went lookiing for a new tool I bought a few days ago. It was inna plastic bag from the store. Well, she was doing some cleaning and decided to grab the bag off the table, stuffed it with trash and put it in the large bag that goes to curbside. If it weren't for me looking to use the thing it would have made it to curbside to be a mystery evermore. I asked her if she saw the bag from Home Depot. I started doing that nutsy whipping around the house looking under cushions and such. I asked if she threw any bags out. "Only what I put in the trash". BINGO. There it was. About elbow deep (and I won't say more).

Good luck with the search.

Mark

I did that once... I bought $200 worth of giftcards for my LHS (to save for the Rapido coaches that are coming soon!) and sure enough, somehow the envelope containing them made it into the garbage... not just any garbage, the kitchen garbage. Then the cat box was emptied into same said garbage, along with the ferret box...

I didn't realize it until about two days AFTER my wife took the bags to the dumpster out back. Thankfuly I got out there and opened it up to notice that the truck never came yet... the worst part? it was burried about half way down, and stuck in that disgusting bag of animal poo and food! but I got my giftcards back! One hour before the truck came to pick up the dumpster!

I took an hour long shower after that....

TrainNut Wrote:

MountainMan Wrote:It is still in the car, in Denver.

Since your info says you live in Palmer Lake and your car is in Denver, I can't help but wonder...
How'd you make it home without your car? hock:

Ah...you noticed that, did you? It's actually easy - she went to work the next morning and so did the car, while I am retired.

Meanwhile, the item in question turned out to be in the house the whole time, but in the pecial place" where she puts things she doesn't want to lose track of. As you might surmise, that isn't the same "special place" I use, so of course I couldn''t find it.

BTW - the rotary plow is a kit, and my initial inspection reveals several things that I want to upgrade or add while assembling; however, assembly instruction are straight forward, and it looks to be an evening's project (unless I go crazy on the upgrades!).


Now I need to finalize my paint scheme, road name and logo, which means deciding a whole list of confusing issues that make my head hurt. :? I have "Givens", "Druthers" and "What the's".

Wiredup Wrote:I did that once... I bought $200 worth of giftcards for my LHS (to save for the Rapido coaches that are coming soon!) and sure enough, somehow the envelope containing them made it into the garbage... not just any garbage, the kitchen garbage. Then the cat box was emptied into same said garbage, along with the ferret box...

I didn't realize it until about two days AFTER my wife took the bags to the dumpster out back. Thankfuly I got out there and opened it up to notice that the truck never came yet... the worst part? it was burried about half way down, and stuck in that disgusting bag of animal poo and food! but I got my giftcards back! One hour before the truck came to pick up the dumpster!

I took an hour long shower after that....

Ewwwww...... I feel your pain brother. I had the EXACT thing happen to me (except substitute ferret leavin's with hamster leavins) about 8 years ago.

Here's the whole crazy mess as it went down. I had just celebrated a year of service with Amtrak and decided to celebrate with a little extravigant spending. Unfortunately, though, it wasn't model railroad stuff, or even stuff for me: I bought my (now ex fiance) a black hills gold bracelet, & ring, earrings (the necklace was on order as the one that was there at the jewelry store had a bad clasp). I had a month earlier purchased a Korber HO Roundhouse, 3 additional stalls for the roundhouse and several Athearn & MDC cars. It all came in a LARGE box from Standard Hobby Supply in NJ. I used to order from their ads in MR.

Dude, in September heat in the San Francisco Bay Area in the middle of the day when you realize that when she took out the garbage last night, she threw the large cardboard box away that contained the jewelry hidden disguised as a shipping box from the hobby shop with a bunch of foam peanuts in it (I buried the jewelry in the bottom), you get REAL sick to your stomach. And I lived in an apartment building at that. For some reason, though my neighbors were mostly Caucasian and African American, we all ate a LOT of Chinese take out, which multiplied the "Dirty Jobs" factor ten fold in that heat. Thank GOD for my neighbor Tre'. He and his lovely girlfriend, (when he finished laughing, and she quit saying "OH MY GOD!!" rolled up their sleeves, jumped right in (well, he jumped in the dumpster with me, she was in a business suit so she organized the garbage we were pulling out keeping an eye out for the box herself). We got all the way to the bottom of the filth, grime, old food, cat litter leavin's (Thanks Rusty!) and everything else in that dumpster when a neighbor I didn't really know too well, but I knew he collected Nascar Die-Cast came out to dump a box of packing peanuts (the box was full of foam peanuts, he decided afterward he just wanted the box itself). He came up to the dumpster, and dumped the box. As soon as he did, he jumped back realizing that "HEY! What are you doing in the garbage". Tre's GF (I can't think of her name for the life of me, but she was such a sweetheart, a real friendly doll of a lady) said "LOOKING FOR THAT BOX!!". It fit my earlier description entirely and had the Standard Hobby Supply mailing label on the flaps. I said "Did you get that box out of the dumpster last night"? "Yeah. It was trash, so I figured it was ok". "It is, but could I finish dumping the peanuts?". Bingo! Since I had Chop Suey (I hope.... ) all over my hands, I had him hand the box to Tre's GF who carefully dug all three little boxes out.I too took an hour long "Ace Ventura" type shower, and took Colleen out to Black Angus when she got off work where I gave her her gifts. When I paid the bill, I bought a $100.00 gift certificate. Colleen asked me why. I said it was for our neighbors, that they had helped me out of a HUGE jam in getting her her jewelry. I told her I'd go into details later, but never did. To this date, i don't think she has any idea.

Moral to my story? Guys.... there is a REASON taking out the trash is a man's responsibility.

MountainMan Wrote:Ah...you noticed that, did you? It's actually easy - she went to work the next morning and so did the car, while I am retired.

Meanwhile, the item in question turned out to be in the house the whole time, but in the pecial place" where she puts things she doesn't want to lose track of. As you might surmise, that isn't the same "special place" I use, so of course I couldn''t find it.

BTW - the rotary plow is a kit, and my initial inspection reveals several things that I want to upgrade or add while assembling; however, assembly instruction are straight forward, and it looks to be an evening's project (unless I go crazy on the upgrades!).


Now I need to finalize my paint scheme, road name and logo, which means deciding a whole list of confusing issues that make my head hurt. :? I have "Givens", "Druthers" and "What the's".

Hopefully, this will help inspire you:

<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV_XPxYTb-A">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV_XPxYTb-A</a><!-- m -->

Video taken last year by one of our board members of our SP Rotary at the Western Pacific RR Museum in Portola. Unlike the UP who only uses their fleet when they *absolutely have to*, we look for excuses to plow snow with ours!

Tom Wrote:

Wiredup Wrote:I did that once... I bought $200 worth of giftcards for my LHS (to save for the Rapido coaches that are coming soon!) and sure enough, somehow the envelope containing them made it into the garbage... not just any garbage, the kitchen garbage. Then the cat box was emptied into same said garbage, along with the ferret box...

I didn't realize it until about two days AFTER my wife took the bags to the dumpster out back. Thankfuly I got out there and opened it up to notice that the truck never came yet... the worst part? it was burried about half way down, and stuck in that disgusting bag of animal poo and food! but I got my giftcards back! One hour before the truck came to pick up the dumpster!

I took an hour long shower after that....

Ewwwww...... I feel your pain brother. I had the EXACT thing happen to me (except substitute ferret leavin's with hamster leavins) about 8 years ago.

Here's the whole crazy mess as it went down. I had just celebrated a year of service with Amtrak and decided to celebrate with a little extravigant spending. Unfortunately, though, it wasn't model railroad stuff, or even stuff for me: I bought my (now ex fiance) a black hills gold bracelet, & ring, earrings (the necklace was on order as the one that was there at the jewelry store had a bad clasp). I had a month earlier purchased a Korber HO Roundhouse, 3 additional stalls for the roundhouse and several Athearn & MDC cars. It all came in a LARGE box from Standard Hobby Supply in NJ. I used to order from their ads in MR.

Dude, in September heat in the San Francisco Bay Area in the middle of the day when you realize that when she took out the garbage last night, she threw the large cardboard box away that contained the jewelry hidden disguised as a shipping box from the hobby shop with a bunch of foam peanuts in it (I buried the jewelry in the bottom), you get REAL sick to your stomach. And I lived in an apartment building at that. For some reason, though my neighbors were mostly Caucasian and African American, we all ate a LOT of Chinese take out, which multiplied the "Dirty Jobs" factor ten fold in that heat. Thank GOD for my neighbor Tre'. He and his lovely girlfriend, (when he finished laughing, and she quit saying "OH MY GOD!!" rolled up their sleeves, jumped right in (well, he jumped in the dumpster with me, she was in a business suit so she organized the garbage we were pulling out keeping an eye out for the box herself). We got all the way to the bottom of the filth, grime, old food, cat litter leavin's (Thanks Rusty!) and everything else in that dumpster when a neighbor I didn't really know too well, but I knew he collected Nascar Die-Cast came out to dump a box of packing peanuts (the box was full of foam peanuts, he decided afterward he just wanted the box itself). He came up to the dumpster, and dumped the box. As soon as he did, he jumped back realizing that "HEY! What are you doing in the garbage". Tre's GF (I can't think of her name for the life of me, but she was such a sweetheart, a real friendly doll of a lady) said "LOOKING FOR THAT BOX!!". It fit my earlier description entirely and had the Standard Hobby Supply mailing label on the flaps. I said "Did you get that box out of the dumpster last night"? "Yeah. It was trash, so I figured it was ok". "It is, but could I finish dumping the peanuts?". Bingo! Since I had Chop Suey (I hope.... ) all over my hands, I had him hand the box to Tre's GF who carefully dug all three little boxes out.I too took an hour long "Ace Ventura" type shower, and took Colleen out to Black Angus when she got off work where I gave her her gifts. When I paid the bill, I bought a $100.00 gift certificate. Colleen asked me why. I said it was for our neighbors, that they had helped me out of a HUGE jam in getting her her jewelry. I told her I'd go into details later, but never did. To this date, i don't think she has any idea.

Moral to my story? Guys.... there is a REASON taking out the trash is a man's responsibility.

thank god my dumpster dive took place during the freeze! But it was also dark out... nothing looks better than the new guy in the complex (yes, this was in our third week in our new place) diving through the dumpsters with a flashlight at 9:00pm.

Tom Wrote:

MountainMan Wrote:Ah...you noticed that, did you? It's actually easy - she went to work the next morning and so did the car, while I am retired.

Meanwhile, the item in question turned out to be in the house the whole time, but in the pecial place" where she puts things she doesn't want to lose track of. As you might surmise, that isn't the same "special place" I use, so of course I couldn''t find it.

BTW - the rotary plow is a kit, and my initial inspection reveals several things that I want to upgrade or add while assembling; however, assembly instruction are straight forward, and it looks to be an evening's project (unless I go crazy on the upgrades!).


Now I need to finalize my paint scheme, road name and logo, which means deciding a whole list of confusing issues that make my head hurt. :? I have "Givens", "Druthers" and "What the's".

Hopefully, this will help inspire you:

<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV_XPxYTb-A">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV_XPxYTb-A</a><!-- m -->

Video taken last year by one of our board members of our SP Rotary at the Western Pacific RR Museum in Portola. Unlike the UP who only uses their fleet when they *absolutely have to*, we look for excuses to plow snow with ours!

Thanks! There is nothing as satisfying as watching heavy machinery doing the work it was designed to do.

Yeah, it's a great marketing tool for us as well. How many places do the public get to get up close to an operating rotary plow?

I want to sell plastic sheeting by the yard at special events, fire up the rotary and toss watermelons in the blades, but the President of the FRRS told me to go... well... I won't repeat it here.

Hehe, another grisly action scene - perhaps for the next James Bond movie?

Ron

The first time I stood in front of the blades of that thing when we first got it, I couldn't help but think "Man, what a way to go... ")