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« on: June 06, 2019, 07:10:04 AM »
Woke up to some good news here in Alabama. A bill proposing chemical castration for child monsters is on the governors desk. Quote from representative Steve Hurst: “These things are just horrifying. I’d prefer it be surgical, because the way I look at it, if they’re going to mark these children for life, they need to be marked for life," he said. "My preference would be, if someone does a small infant child like that, they need to die. God’s going to deal with them one day.” https://www.waff.com/2019/06/06/aclu-mandating-chemical-castration-could-violate-th-amendment/Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: June 04, 2019, 09:47:27 AM »
That’s what all suburbans should be. Well done Chief!
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« on: May 27, 2019, 03:29:13 PM »
You all forgot Don is a Pilut and he has two ground crew with him at all times on this trip! 
that's actually funny!
We have to use those as backup to the air brakes on the fire trucks. If it works for a 60k lb engine surely it’ll work for Ravin8. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: May 22, 2019, 12:23:53 PM »
Outstanding Chief. Excited to see this take off.
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« on: May 20, 2019, 09:26:19 AM »
Realizing this is a stupid question, I stand prepared for a dressing down.
In its intended application, was there a provision for e brake and why can you not source original parts?
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I’ve thought the same, but didn’t ask because I wasn’t sure if the question was ingeniously simple or my would only further reveal my ignorance on the matter. I’ve also wondered if a phone call to Dana would be of any help. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: May 19, 2019, 03:54:33 PM »
Missed the part where you made it Ken. Place looks nice and secluded.
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« on: May 19, 2019, 10:15:28 AM »
Happy birthday Jon. Our pipes and drums band had our first public performance yesterday and a Combat Medic Statue dedication. Could’ve been better, but also could’ve been much worse considering we’ve only had our pipes for 2 months. https://youtu.be/HoI06n-rhzoSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: May 17, 2019, 10:54:59 AM »
Drive safe and stop by and wash that poor truck before you leave town.
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« on: May 16, 2019, 10:51:47 PM »
No Jeep but if first gen Cummins farm trucks and Suzuki Samurais count I’m at 450.
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« on: May 15, 2019, 12:07:01 PM »
Depends on how big you want your fire/flames. A grate and some holes between the ground and the grate to let it draw air from the bottom will make bigger fire. Without it it’ll act like a fire on the ground.
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« on: May 15, 2019, 09:41:04 AM »
Looks good Dave. You gonna paint it or leave it as is?
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« on: May 15, 2019, 06:18:54 AM »
Looks like Nate recovered what was accidentally deleted a couple days ago. Well done Nate.
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« on: May 06, 2019, 10:53:32 PM »
Check northern and HF. They sell those Honda engines
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Yep. It is already in the trash. I replaced the pump a couple of seasons ago. It was rode pretty hard by my next door neighbor gardener in NJ. He put many hours on it.
I kind like the HF ones with the predator engine. Seem to have good ratings. Similar with Honda is only $100 more on Amazon though so it might be worth sticking with Honda.
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I bought an auger from harbor freight, which I believe is one of those predator machines. It is 100% junk. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: May 06, 2019, 10:37:18 AM »
Do y’all think if I build a second smaller coop, similar to the one we have now, that they would utilize both of them? Or would they just all crowd into one of them?
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« on: May 04, 2019, 11:28:07 PM »
Is that a 700 JR?
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« on: May 04, 2019, 08:44:21 AM »
Go ahead Tex. My buddy already bought a set.
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« on: May 03, 2019, 02:49:21 PM »
Co-worker of mine has a 6.5” BDS lift on a Duramax. If they don’t fit for Ryan you can pm me a price and I’ll see if he wants them. He was talking about replacing shocks last week.
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« on: May 01, 2019, 11:56:57 PM »
Axle in and hanging!
Finally!
This may be a dumb question but I’m gonna ask it anyway. With the u-bolt flipped, is there any chance of those nuts backing off and causing trouble on a remote trail somewhere? With the exception of welding tables everything you build looks heck for stout has built in fail safes. I guess my real question is, for Murphy’s sake, would another nut torqued down on top of those u-bolts hurt anything? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: May 01, 2019, 06:08:34 AM »
Thanks for the info Jon. Our do the same thing with the nesting boxes except we have one goober that’ll lay her right on top of the pile of crap. I’m planning on being able to remove or fold down a section of the boxes so they can be cleaned out easily.
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« on: April 30, 2019, 11:54:51 PM »
Wife got 9 more pullets a couple weeks ago so we now have 20 in brooders. They likely be ready to go outside soon which means we will need a bigger coop. Im thinking we’ll need at least five, maybe six nesting boxes. Anybody have a recommendation on dimensions to hold 25-27 chickens?
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« on: April 27, 2019, 09:48:19 PM »
He’s been in California a long time Chief.
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« on: April 25, 2019, 07:22:32 AM »
No doubt. By the time I was doing much of that stuff with personal guns I had switched over to an M&P.
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« on: April 24, 2019, 10:19:31 PM »
My guess is that he was probably anticipating recoil and pushing shots to the left. Those factory sights are plastic and most consider them temporary anyway. Playing devils advocate to my own point, I put almost 10k rounds through my first model 17 and it still has the plastics sights in it. I’m a fan of using the slide stop/catch to release the slide. The Vickers extended stop is a worthwhile upgrade if you go that route. https://www.skdtac.com/Vickers-Tactical-Slide-Stop-Glock-p/tng.307.htmSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: April 23, 2019, 03:04:01 PM »
All I know about Sigs is that they are as heavy as a brick. I can beat someone to death with it when I run out of ammo.
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Are you sure you aren’t talking about a 1911? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: April 22, 2019, 11:34:10 PM »
So I could pick up a 9mm barrel and switch to that?
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You’ll find them by searching 9mm conversion barrels. They basically a bull barrel where the outside diameter meets specs for the .40 slide but they’re chambered in 9mm. Mags for the Glock 17 are the ones you’ll need to run with the conversion barrel. The only problem I remember with the model 22 is that some people experienced failures after attaching a light to them. Some had it, some didn’t. The only way to tell is to hang a light on it and shoot it. My issued 22 didn’t have any trouble with a light but some others did. $400 is fair given the situation. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: April 19, 2019, 11:40:05 AM »
Happy birthday Chief.
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« on: April 15, 2019, 10:12:03 PM »
Good for you Tex. Being in a few disaster areas like that I can attest to the the fact that drinking water is key. I’m a little bummed you decided to keep that truck but glad to see you’re putting it to good use.
I’ll never be able to figure out what all that nonsense with the squatting is. I’ve joked several times I’m gonna start the slant life fad and just lift one side of the truck.
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« on: April 14, 2019, 11:01:16 PM »
Long overdue for an update here. We started with 21 hens and one rooster. The rooster died of some unknown causes (maybe living with 21 women). 5 of the hens got killed last summer by a raccoon which I caught in a live trap a couple days later. Couldn’t talk anybody else into eating it if I cooked it and wasn’t going to do anything with the hide so I drove it to the mountain and turned it lose by a creek. 5 miles as the crow flies and raccoon heaven so he hasn’t been back.
Stayed that way until two weeks ago. Last day of vacation I talked to my neighbor and told him he could let the chickens out before he went to work. By the time we got home around 1400 five were dead in the yard and one was MIA. No way to know for sure but I suspected a fox that we used to see every now and then. After that I only let them out when I was home and outside to keep and eye on them. This evening I let them out while I had some chicken and salmon on the Traeger. My wife was finishing up some kabobs so I took the baby upstairs to start her bath. When we came back downstairs the fox was 20’ off of our back porch chewing on a live Buff Orpington. When he saw us he ran across the street and sat down in a wood line behind my neighbors house. I hauled butt across the street with my favorite varmint rifle and propped up against his porch. Clean shot at a stationary target maybe 70 yards away and I freakin missed. Thought I saw fur fly and was caught off guard when he took off. Took another crack at him on the run and missed again. I had called Dan (Vietnam sniper and an all around great guy) and told him what I was doing beforehand. He was watching out the window and said I gave him a haircut with the first shot. Scorecard as of 2100 is:
7 living layers
11 chicks in a brooder
3 dead chickens in a freezer to use as bait
1 fox that got his ears lowered
1 seriously mad woman
1 man who’s in trouble for not finishing a fence and who thinks he needs more trigger time.
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« on: April 14, 2019, 12:55:21 PM »
Glad you are all safe. I have not had the TV on yet today. First I heard about it.
Prom was last night so I photo bombed one my daughters pictures. Then we went out to eat with some friends we haven't seen in a long time.
That picture should be stuck to the dash of her date’s vehicle. Just as a reminder.
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He’s not holding a shotgun though... just shotgunning a beer (I assume?) lol
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True, but there is something strapped to his right hip. Even if it’s just a pair of pliers, they could be weaponized. I’m sure Jon could find a creative way to explain that process to the young lad. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: April 14, 2019, 11:28:16 AM »
Glad you are all safe. I have not had the TV on yet today. First I heard about it.
Prom was last night so I photo bombed one my daughters pictures. Then we went out to eat with some friends we haven't seen in a long time.
That picture should be stuck to the dash of her date’s vehicle. Just as a reminder. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: April 13, 2019, 06:06:58 PM »
Glad none of the important things were injured Tex.
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« on: April 06, 2019, 09:46:14 PM »
Earlier you were against the idea of putting lights up High do to glare off of your hood? While I think they look cool up in that rack, what is the plan for the hood? Flat black?
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Will the glare be that bad from spot lights? Never had a set up there so I have no idea. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: April 06, 2019, 09:59:30 AM »
Got more axle work done, but first a couple fun things
First, remember those mirrors Dave pointed me to?
Well, let's put them on!
We put that same set on a coworkers 2016 6.0 farm truck a few months ago. Install was a little more involved because the whole door panel had to come off and there was an optional fourth screw that required drilling another hole in the door. They seem like a good product. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: April 03, 2019, 01:24:33 PM »
How does one “borrow” a plane that size?
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« on: April 03, 2019, 07:24:33 AM »
Good coolers are like good optics. You don’t realize how handy they are until you have one.
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« on: April 03, 2019, 07:17:08 AM »
Agreed on the tint. Anything darker than 35% makes the side mirrors useless at night. Its a pain in the butt to have to roll your windows down in the rain to back a trailer.
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« on: April 02, 2019, 11:08:30 AM »
My wife’s uncle shared some interesting fishing stories during our visit. They were tremendously entertaining due to his gift of story telling. I don’t share that gift but I will hit the high points.
He spent a lot of time fishing off of Paris island when stationed there years ago. After constantly having lines broken he bought a spool of 100lb test and a deep sea rod. One day he hooked into a 6’ wide, 115lb stingray and kicked off a 2 hour fight to get it to shore. Took him and three other marines to get it out of the water. Later, when something started breaking the 100lb test he set out building himself a shark rig. He acquired a 3,000lb rope, some steel line to make his own leader, and a large shark hook. He would throw us out as far as he could then rick rack all the slack on the shore before tying the other end onto the bumper of a Plymouth. This went on for weeks until finally something took his bait and ran with it, stretching the 3k pound rope tight enough to turn it into a musical instrument. Him and his buddies decided the only option they had was to use the Plymouth and drag whatever they’d hooked to land. They never found out what they’d hooked because shortly after the bumper of the car started bending the rope broke. There’s always a possibility that the line got tangled up on the bottom of the ocean but something had to pick it up and put a serious stretch on the rope to begin with. The moral of his story was that if he ever finds himself back at Paris island, he won’t be swimming.
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« on: April 01, 2019, 10:04:34 PM »
He’s probably never seen anything that ugly before. Are halibut the ones that have both eyes on the same side of their head? That ain’t right.
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« on: April 01, 2019, 08:26:41 PM »
It was a small eel but you’re right, a much bigger hook wouldn’t have fit in its mouth. I’ve caught more stingrays than I have fish. Two more today.   Strange looking critters. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: April 01, 2019, 12:55:10 PM »
Catfish=good bait!
Could you have used a bigger hook on that eel?
We were using shrimp and squid as bait. I heard the whiting are good bait but when we caught it we were about to leave so we just threw him back. I’m ignorant enough about fishing in general that I don’t know if the thing about the hook is a question or a joke. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: April 01, 2019, 11:11:32 AM »
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« on: March 29, 2019, 10:17:25 PM »
When you sink a bucket it exerts lateral force to both sides. The intact dirt opposite the wall is stronger than the wall. Energy will take the path of least resistance and my guess would be it will go to the wall and knock it over. That’s been my experience anyway.
If it were mine I would either put up a new wall or grade it out, place some large, flat rocks on it, then fill the empty spaces with monkey grass or similar. From the pictures it looks like you already have some stone there.
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« on: March 26, 2019, 09:51:21 PM »
Take it easy and don’t push it Tex. R&R is your friend.
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« on: March 14, 2019, 11:21:24 AM »
I’d like to take back anything I might have said about how having a trailer makes it harder to go off road.   Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: March 13, 2019, 11:10:49 PM »
Finally got bagpipes. If UK Customs would’ve have dorked up the paperwork twice we would’ve had them a month ago. These are hand made in Scotland and are a custom 343 firefighter set made in collaboration with a band called The Red Hot Chili Pipers. Part of the revenue from every set goes to the Fallen Firefighter Fund and the final set, labeled 343 will be auctioned with the entire proceeds going to the same charity.   Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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« on: March 13, 2019, 11:00:09 PM »
Lookin good there Chief. Where is do you source the padded clamps and other odds and ends like that?
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« on: March 13, 2019, 11:07:20 AM »
I’ve never had a seat cover that would stay where I put them. Coworker of mine has a set of neoprene covers in his Jeep and and says they stay better than most and are holding up well.
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« on: March 11, 2019, 04:45:33 PM »
Why not both? 55gr FMJBT makes some cool looking holes in steel. Call it “custom venting”.
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