Day #5 come and gone!

One of those days!

So I slept in a little and got a late start…6am building cables. About 2 hours later I realized that I no longer had the right terminal lugs since I had to go to Plan B yesterday. Or was it Plan C? In any event I didn’t have the right number or size of lugs. I swore I had more lugs…but couldn’t find them if I did.

So off to town…first stop Ace Hardware then the local solar shop whose owner is a dear friend of mine. Lugs purchased, but wrong size hole…no problem, a drill would solve that. I was almost home, after 1-1/2 hours, and I got this call from my neighbor…he stuck his truck and needed help. Well, you can’t turn down a neighbor in that kind of need…can you?

He had been out looking for his lost dog, was coming out of a big sandy wash and slipped into a “rut” and couldn’t get out even with a big ‘ole 4×4 GMC with 20” tires. Well, as I came rolling up on him…let’s say it was more like a canyon he had dropped the entire left side of his truck into. He was sitting on the frame, dented fuel tank, buried “pumpkin” and the front end was buried as well. He needed a professional recovery vehicle…but no money to pay for one.

Three hours later with a front loader 60hp Kubota tractor, 2 shovels, and a pick we had him hooked to the Kubota ready to pull out. It work smooth as silk…my wildland firefighting and off-road 4×4 days paid off.

As we were ready to take off he got a call…someone might have spotted his lost dog. So my wife, my neighbor, and myself all headed the 4 miles to look for the lost dog. No luck, it wasn’t him…after an hour looking.

Back home, late lunch, back to work…at 3pm…worked will 7pm. Last of the cables built, battery switches mounted…but none of them hooked up, I was just too tired and didn’t want to make mistakes. I will do it all in the morning. But I had to take pictures first for this post and later articles.

Oh, and guess what? I found the missing terminal lugs. So out of a 13-hours work day…6 hours of actual work. Way behind…and a most frustrating day! But maybe Day #6 will be the day it all comes together!

At the beginning of Day #5 –

At the end of Day #5 –

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