Write a project journal?

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I'd like to remind you that if you are doing a project, from small to large, consider putting up a journal (Project Journals are in the left hand menu). It will help people when they go to do something
on a tractor like yours. I'm doing one right now on the D14 rebuild (http://www.yesterdaystractors.com/cgi-bin/projectblog.cgi?mode=detail&blogid=349) and have done one on each step of
working on this tractor. They get spider well so if you put the work into writing it up, people will find it and it will ease their task if they happen to be doing the same thing. It involves taking a few
pictures as you go, but that's turned into a good process for me, sort of caps the days work to post them up.

I will change the format of the journals as more people use them and critique how it works. You can just send me an email with your ideas, or post to site comments to expound on them. Whatever
changes I make will keep your work intact. I'm currently thinking of putting the better photo upload in, and changing the format to be easier to read (larger fonts and less of the lines surrounding
all the sections, more like a regular blog format.

Thanks for considering it.
Chris
 
evening chris, I am doing a winter work over on my mm m5, getting it all up and running after 20 years of being parked in the poplar trees at my friends acerage. I have been posting my progress on the mine forum here, can I transfer those to the project journal?
 
No, I don't have any way to transfer a forum post to the journals. They are designed to be entered as you do a project. I was going to add an option where it will post to the forums a message that the journal was updated, but not the other direction.

The main benefit is that it's all in one place and stays there, unlike posts where they roll down the forum as people post other topics. Discussion is valuable, but the journals aren't duplicating what the forums do, it's more a personal blog on the project.
 
I like to but I'm doing a Johnny cash overhaul one piece at a time. Whenever i get cash and time something gets done. I'm looking forward to retirement got a long list of things to do.
But im keeping all records and someday I'll be glad to post
 
I hear you there. I started this "Caddy" in about 2009 (I think I blew the engine in 2006), didn't work on it for years because YT took all my time. Finally decided to do a little each day, at least most days, and that's what I've been doing since last summer. Some days just 15 minutes. I actually like it better one piece at a time, always keeps me anxious to get out and steal my shop time. The only problem is keeping the parts organized when you have long periods of time between tasks and have other jobs to do in your shop. Having a modern phone helps because I have photos of every dissassembly, way more than I put in the blog.

Fortunately, I'm sure I'll end up with only one headlight on each side ;-).
 
John it is under resources
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I should have said this earlier, even if you normally use only modern view, you have to login to classic to create or update journals. It's the same username and password, but classic creates a different type of password cookie that's easier for the program to read.
 

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