Meeting up with a builder tomorrow to discuss erecting a structure on the farm

Once I burn the house, I won't have much remaining and I need to get some more capability in there.

So going into the meeting I am looking at having a "Shed" like building built on skids. Perhaps later I will improve on that, but for now It will rest on blocks leveled properly and anchored in the ground with those big steel screws.

The building is a 16 X 32 with an eight foot wall and a 4 pitch roof with a few doors and windows all for $6200. They build the thing in panels, then assemble those into your building at the site.

These are the Carolina shed style buildings and I hope to have him modify this one somewhat. I want him to pitch up the roof to a 12/12 and then extend a 3/12 shed roof off to the front side. Put up a row of windows in that, then add in a floor so I can get a story and a half. The plan is to wall off a 12 foot section making a 12 X 16 room in which I want to place storage shelves, a washer and dryer, and a freezer. That will support the camper basically extending it's usefulness and utility.

That would be survival ready with a power source coupled with a cistern, which I am also building. After some time and development of the fields, a garden patch and a better pond, I will come back and build a nicer cabin with solar heated water, solar panels, and a wood burning boiler unit. I'll place that on an extensive basement that perhaps connects to other underground rooms.

Anyway, it all starts with this building...We'll see how it goes

Kinda like it so far...Watching you develop this idea...

Amazing how these threads get so sidetracked!

But, heck I stuck my hand in my exhaust pipe, just to check, and confirmed the inside is still a sooty black mess!   >:(

Love the bike Don. What idle hands get into!!! I bet the saddle tanks and pack cost more than my Honda!

I like the #1 grey cammo to.

I bet without the TC and limiters during the break in you will plenty of power. I am sure it can be tuned somewhat also to match the muffler.

I used to carry my 1911 in my tank pack on my old suzuki 750.

That empty space opposite the muffler needs a gun mount,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

I've had a Glock 19 in that tank bag since I picked it up!

Keep in mind, this ain't no carburated '60s Hog you're working on. I would think that the exhaust is fine tuned to the engine.....could be wrong.

Yep, You're wrong! ;-))

Next I improved the exhaust. Kinda caveman, but it works. The muffla' is all baffled up to keep the EPA Kool-Aid never had a girlfriend types happy. So I poked a couple holes in the baffle!

Like I said, caveman

Couldn't stand to sit and do nothing, so after the workout, I got the now rusty wrenches out for a run at the bike.

First of all I was on a weight removal tirade!

I must have removed 4 ounces, possibly 5!

I don't like safety sam stuff, so off with the reflectors!

The first one is my favorite. Bet the wife even will like it


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I'd like to do the Chevy in the first one to be frank!

I ordered three cammo pattern sheets because I can't decide which one I want to use. I think any of them would get the job done, so I thought I'd try out all three.

The Frau is pretty much against me "Red-necking out" this bike, and is insisting I leave it alone!

What me...Leave something alone!!!

Are you freakin kiddin' me!

NO!

It's:

No plan remains intact following contact!

NCO's....

Well said

Good attitude

Well, you didn't miss anything...!

Quote from: KensAuto on February 01, 2016, 08:31:39 PM

If ya have enough time to talk about it, ya have enough time to do it...there's at least 9 hrs left tonight...
,,,,,get off the couch and snap to it!!               :PokinKyle

I'm still workin hoss, pretty solidly putting in 14's... just crazy busy. No end in sight either.

Appreciate the encouragement though LOL

I drop in here with you bozos throughout the day to make sure everything running smoothly slash your DOT'ing and Don's photos haven't chewed up all the server space hahaha

And we appreciate you doin' it!

Feds are messing with nitro glycerin here. Could blow up in their face (Probably should) if they don't tread lightly!

DOTing, here I go...

Ken, are the 6.2 burbs worth having?

One is sitting near here.

I'm jealous

How far can you go on a tank o' gas?

Well, it's still figuring itself out, one of those computers that constantly learns...
It is advertised to get 74 mpg at 55 mph, constant speed and all that, but That doesn't represent real world. If I had to guess, riding back roads where you shift a lot, I would feel comfortable saying it could get 50 mpg, so with a 5.5 gallon tank, you ought to be able to cruise up 250 miles and still have enough to stretch if the refuel option failed you...

Good Idea...I have some of those tiny Omaha steaks I could combine and grind up and get, what 1/4 pound of meat!

Well, I've had two days and close to 500 miles seat time now. Anyone considering a true dual sport bike, you owe it to yourself to try out a tiger XC. Following Gerry who powered away with his 1100 BMW, and me being limited to just 6,000 RPM due to engine break-in requirements, I was not as fast as he was by any stretch of the imagination. But I was just as sure footed. Carving corners in back woods Kentucky was no problem at all. With somewhat slick road conditions the Tiger handled every thing I threw at it, to include my dragging my boot in a corner a time or two.

The engine is not as powerful as I thought it would be, but again this is a 800cc machine which would have preferred to be spun up a bit higher than four grand, but the roll on is anything but sudden. Actually the DR-650 with about half the horsepower feels stronger rolling on the throttle out of a low speed corner. The DR cannot go fast enough to actually experience a higher speed corner, so that part is all academic. The engine although having praise heaped upon it for it's torgueiness, is not torquey. It is more like the high revving sports machine engine any self respecting dual overhead cam four valve per cylinder of mid displacement engine should be. It has power but it doesn't come on all at once like a diesel truck. Limited to 6,000, I feel a urgency start to build about the time I upshift and lower the RPM.

All in all, an off road bike does not need a ton of power, and the bike easily cruises at 77 MPH while respecting the 6,000 RPM max for now limit. In another couple hundred miles (Tomorrow???) I'll be allowed 7,000, then in a few hundred more, 8,000 and so forth until I reach the bike's 10,000 RPM redline.

I'll get more info on the bike with upcoming rides, well as long as this warmer than normal February weather holds out!

Chinook Aft wheel Landing Commentary
I want to give everyone an appreciation for how hard that is to do with a hundred foot long helicopter where you can't see the back end. In all my Armee days only two things I did with a helo made my skin craw and caused me to embed finger prints into the cyclic. Those two maneuvers, in order of severity were Aerial refueling under NVG off of the right hose, and aft wheel landings like the one pictured.

The hook obviously is a dual rotor head aircraft. The flight controls operate (through a Mad...ie...crazy mixing unit) to make a single control input do whatever it is spota do to make the thing actually controllable. So as long as you are flying along counting your mutual fund contributions, all is good in the world of tandem rotor aerodynamics (Which might be bordering on a black art of some design...I’m not exactly sure)

But when you land on the aft wheels, At that moment the flight controls are really only flying the forward head, and that causes all sort of aerodynamic principles which were all solved just a moment before to suddenly pop up and say, "So how's it feel to go from being a Chinook pilot to a Huey pilot with the tail stinger tied down?!

To do that landing and more importantly to actually stay there, you have to get over top of the landing pad while taking direction from the aft crew chief. You can't see the wheels, unless you're in a spec ops bird and are looking through the FLIR screen...and the wise a$$ in the other seat hasn’t turned it upside on you just to see if you really can do it! So this bird doesn't have either the FLIR or the wise guy, just two pilots who were selling insurance two months ago and a crew chief who is wondering how in the heck did someone ever talk him into doing this crazy stuff on weekends!

Well after the chief calls you over, "Back five down two, hold your down back one, slide right one, hold your position, come straight down...abort come straight up..."What did I miss it, what happened?" "Naw sir, had to scratch my face, I'm good, bring it down ten, right three..." Yea after all that, you're on the building top, well you're on something. For all you know you could have backed into a parallel universe and the aft wheels are resting on a beach near the annual Sports Illustrated swim suit photo-shoot!

Anyway your world is now one of crushing plastic cyclic grips, leg muscle spasms and a one seventy heartbeat. Once the aft wheels are down you have to put some weight on them. You do that by placing the cyclic aft...Whoops, forgot to set the brakes..."You're rolling aft...bring it up...bring it up...AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"

OK assuming you did it right and set your brakes. Well now as you move the cyclic aft about 2", the nose would normally come way up and the aft rotor start chopping up pine trees, buildings and soldiers. None of that is authorized so at the same time you pull the cyclic aft, you need to lower the Thrust lever to maintain that nice 2 degrees or so nose high attitude. On forgot to mention, the rotors spin in opposite directions, counteracting the natural force of torque. Torque produced in one rotor helos causes pilots to get dizzy since the fuselage would try to spin as fast as the rotors, but in the opposite direction. So to keep everything nice and regular like, the engineers provided a tail rotor blade system and a pair of pedals to control the amount of spinning.

Chinook pilots know as much about this anti-torque thing as a space shuttle pilot does, so we seldom use the pedals. But now, all of a sudden, we find a forward rotor system is flying all by itself while the aft rotor system said, "Hey aft landing gear, you got it, I'm on break." So while you're moving the thrust around the amount of power to the forward rotor is varying and the nose is ah-wanting to go on tour! Being a good Chinook pilot you can't let that happen. And besides there are a couple Apache pilots circling overhead watching you and calling out insults...They regard anyone not carrying guns who kill things for a living, a lesser life form. Well, you don't want to provide them any added entertainment! So you do your professional best.

Now all the while you are making these fine adjustments, things are happening. The aft crew chief is taking a leak over the side of the roof top trying to hit some grunt, and the other grunts are given to do all the lifting of supplies or whatever off the aircraft. God forbid the aircrew should ever lift anything except for their 401K statement! So while all this is going on, your good friend and constant companion, Mother Nature shows up! She says, "Ya know, these here are hills...and proper hills ought to have wind gusts, ya know to get my pine trees makin' that pleasing swishing sound..." "And maybe a little bit more next to that noisy thing and that nasty man peeing off the roof!" So here comes a little bit more, and a little bit less, and a whole lot more and a whole lot less, and let’s make the next gust from the other direction!

The life of the hook pilot...While the Apache pilots are hoping the hook driver would have backed into a tree or something they are now no longer interested because that guy in the freight truck with rotor blades is actually pulling this thing off, and well, nothing can approach the coolness of a gun pilot (Who has told everyone he is a gun pilot) sittin' under a rotor system, slinging rockets and cannon just looking for something to kill!

I'd go on and on, now that the quoffee is kickin' in, but I have to get ready to go to church and honor a God who created men who can make landings like that!

Sophisticated.
Funnnnnny.

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Concur...!

I'm a bit miffed about the .300 thing
With the 7.62 X 39 everywhere...(Even on the darkside of the moon and also found on Mars!) why are we all go-go eyed over yet another short 7.62?

First thing after getting it home was to sticker it up

Brought it home, after a couple hour familiarization ride.

It's smooth, handles well, but is not all that powerful. Power sort of builds, although I am limited on the RPM I can use. No more that 6000 RPM for the first 500 miles... Honestly I just start to feel the power starting to come alive in the mid five grand range.

My middle boy rode with me...He is hooked!

Large protests are being organized in OR at Burns and the governor's office. Wonder if it will stay friendly?

With 4 men still holed up at the compound who will probably get shot seventy four times, we might be witnessing the start of something here...