I went to breakfast with the ham radio group yesterday morning. The group meets once a month at different locations and different times, sometimes breakfast, sometimes dinner. The restaurant was located in a small town about 30 miles south of me and a little off the main highway. On my way into town I passed a yard with a collection of Trackmobiles. There were a few more out of the photo on the right side as well. Kind of surprised me, especially since there's no rail siding there.
After getting home from breakfast, I installed the carrier on the Buick. This time everything fit well and has plenty of ground clearance. However, when the carrier is in the vertical position it blocks the license plate, which has the Missus worried. Moving the carrier around is hard on my chest, so I was of the opinion, just leave it on the car. She's not going to be happy with that, so I'm going to rig up a dolly that's the right height so I can slide the carrier in and out of the receiver easily and roll it out of the way for storage. I've got a Harbor Freight dolly with the four casters on the bottom that I can start with - shouldn't take too much to make it happen.
Shortly after getting the carrier on the car a storm came in like a hurricane - lots of rain and wind gusts. It didn't last long but it was a mean one while it did. We were just about ready to head down the basement when it subsided.
Today's job is to make the carrier dolly and get the old mailbox I drug home recently cleaned up and painted and get the dog sled pieces fixed up as well.
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