I know I'm not the only one! I mean we all must pay our bills to have homes to store and work on our toys but it seems that everything keeps going up but my paycheck!

How is everybody else dealing with this?

SAY IT LOUD.....I'M BROKE AND NOT PROUD!!!

 

I haven't done anything to my truck in a long time. :-(  

It's tough! My wife got laid-off right after my over-time at work stopped......roughly 6 months ago. I put everything on hold and now here I am. This too shall pass....  

yeah, it's all going to be okay! what do you do for work?  

I am a mold maker - I design, build, and maintain plastic injection molds. It's precision work and very challenging. Plus I can make anything I want in the CNC machines......within reason.  

where are you from moldman66?
can you take a plastic part and cnc a duplicate in T-66 aluminum?  

I am in Iowa, land of tall corn and all consuming rivers!

It depends on the plastic part. If it has complex surfaces it would be tough without CAD data. If it is more simple it can just be reverse engineered and drawn into 3D software and then programmed and machined. What is it that you need made?  

I was saving for a 4 wheeler for about 10-11 months. Save up enough to buy one and pay it all in cash. Took one look at my truck, then at my 4 wheeler, and figured I could ride er' for another year.. Then went and spent close to $5k in a matter of 3 or 4 days getting everything I will need for my truck. If I didnt have that money saved and had to do it step by step, I wouldnt get my truck done till like 2012..lol  

I'm having to come to terms with my truck spending more time in limbo while the money situation gets back to normal. I really just started this project so it's tough, if I hadn't of already started cutting some things I could be driving the truck.

Now my house hits me with another expense - bagworms! Tons of them in arborvitae bushes across the back of my lot....these things look like pine cones but are moths that are killing the bushes. All 20 bushes ( averaging 8'-9' tall) have to be removed to get rid of these pests.....nothing can be done at this point as the damage is done. Now I have to rework my yard and put up a privacy fence.

It might be a while before my truck sees it's time!  

Well you could use the wood from the moth/bushes and make a wood floor for the project. Just trying to find a silver linning.  

LOL.....what I need to do is have a party and burn all the bushes!  

heck yeah, now we're talkin...

wait... these things look like pine cones but are moths ...I'm trying to picture this... I mean, are you safe? Are they malicious and combative? Should we be concerned for you? Do you have a picture of them?  

I have a pic but it's in my phone. The only threat is to the bushes which are already half dead thanks to them. Here is a website link with info:

http://www.ento.okstate.edu/ddd/insects/bagworms.htm

I have gotten an estimate to have these professionally removed. It's a BIG job and I do not have the tools for it......I do not have the tools??? I said that? Is that possible?  

I'm sure Snap On makes a tool adequate for this...  

according to the description, it would really suck to be a female bagworm - Adult females are wingless, have no functional legs, eyes, or antennae, and are almost maggotlike in appearance.
ew the males have hairy bodies - have you considered the ghost busters?