No worries, been doing it for a really long time!

I'm never gonna do that stuff anymore. Doctor signed off on a permanent handicapped parking pass for me Monday.

Foot getting healed up proper?

The left foot is all healed up. just missing a toe. But the charcoh foot in the right foot is as healed up as it's gonna get. the bones are still fragile, there is deformity, and so I basically have to sit down and rest every couple hundred feet, and I have to pay attention to how I walk if the ground is uneven to keep from falling. I'm right in the grey zone of needing a custom made shoe on the right. I have to get different sizes of shoe as it is. The doctor says I gotta wear the brace if I'm gonna do a lot of walking to hold the foot at the correct position to keep additional damage from happening. I'm probably gonna need a cane to keep my balance from now on.

Well it sounds like you have a plan, hopefully you find a good balance someplace in the middle!!

Work for younger men than me. I clearly remember dodging rollers on a steep (65 degree incline) wild lands fire.

that's some high velocity fire! 2 more years and it'll be four decades since I started.

Go to running tankers or pumpers ol bean

Oh I can do all of that, but then there's that chance to get really dirty! Oh yeah, leg against the intake line giving you the scoop on incoming water supply just as fast a a gauge.

I was referring to slightly lower physical needs aspects. Didja see the pics of the new lathe I picked up?

pre war south bend? Almost looks like an Atlas but never saw one that big.

24 to 30ish american tool works the main lead screw is inside the bed.

that is a very large chunk of tooling!

interestingly ive been contacted by our local forestry protective guys about rebuilding pumps. (weird lil tie back to firefighting ) also yeah about 6000 ish pounds

pumps aren't too hard, whip up some new clearance rings and packing

Sorry but I can't help but wonder....how much carbon monoxide did you want to inhale!?!

This from another smoker

I was trying to inhale around it, we had a scramble to cut off the flank that started to spread with a shift in the wind and the smoke was hanging low and hot. It was like being on the dumb side of a camp fire for an extended period of time. We held it until some water showed up.