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Hand Tools, Power Tools, Welders, etc / Re: Bosch L-Boxx
« on: June 30, 2015, 05:35:46 PM »
I like how they fit together, that is great. I have a question- do you worry about having to "unclick" all three to get to the bottom one or the middle one etc.? I like that you are integrating it into a support structure for the table but still not sure of "taking it apart" when you want to access it. Just curious, not trying to be a PITA in any way.

Could they be put on end so you could grab one and unclick it without disturbing the others? (I am not sure how the mounting mechanism works or if they could be done vertically with the mounting hardware underneath them attaching to the side/back section of the case? thereby having the handle up)

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Faith Discussion / Re: Immediate prayer request!
« on: June 29, 2015, 07:10:27 PM »
Oh man. So sad. I will say a special word for this young woman tonight. Glad to hear she is improving albeit little bits right now.

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Faith Discussion / Amazing day at church
« on: June 29, 2015, 01:13:45 AM »
So my wife is dealing with some excruciating things with her parents. The minister used today's Gospel from Mark 5:21 and wove it into the sermon about controlling what you can control and giving up to God that which you can't.

So many times I find myself saying Sunday morning I just want to sleep and then I have an experience like this. So damn humbling. I leave renewed and feeling better. It always makes me wonder why I fight it. But I do all too often. I am weaker than I should be sad to say. But so glad I went today.  :-[

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Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant / Re: racism...........?!
« on: June 28, 2015, 01:30:51 PM »
Thanks for posting this. I never knew the pieces of the flag and what they stood for. I did know there were lots of black slave owners in the south and also ask people who rant and rave about things if they are more concerned with the fact that the US ended slavery or that slavery still exists today in Africa and the Middle East. Most of them have no clue about any of it sad to say.

Be angry, but be angry at the liberals that promote these lies, falsehoods, and events that never actually happened. They are your real enemy. They are the opposite of truth and good.

Ditto ditto ditto!!!

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D.O.T. / Re: New Purchase
« on: June 28, 2015, 09:26:29 AM »
Thanks redneck....that's helpful. Cool stuff. Is that better for some reason than hanging weights? I just always have seen either wheel weights or plates for ballast.

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D.O.T. / Re: New Purchase
« on: June 28, 2015, 04:42:31 AM »
Nice looking rig. I'm sure it will do a lot of work for you. Can I ask an ignorant question- you said you had the rear tires filled with beet juice....is it really beet juice? Or is that just a phrase? And if so why not a water/antifreeze mix of some sort? Is it heavier per gallon or aomething?

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Firearms / Re: New sling!!
« on: June 27, 2015, 11:52:14 PM »
Some serious talent there! So great to have a great piece like that and a nice story about where it came from. You are fortunate!

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So Allen West has a very interesting take on the gay marriage ban ruling by SCOTUS. They used the 14th Amendment to say that some states can't ban something that is allowed as a "right" (I am setting aside how SCOTUS arrived at THAT logic as he is in his article).

But here's the interesting part- using this logic, and now potentially this PRECEDENCE, how can a state ban CCW or other gun laws that are more restrictive in some states but not others? Interesting read:

http://allenbwest.com/2015/06/yeehaw-this-side-effect-of-the-gay-marriage-ruling-will-make-liberals-explode/

(I am not sure of the protocol here about C&P info from other websites so figured it was safer to provide the link)

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Site Rules & Introductions / Re: Howdy from Taxachusetts
« on: June 27, 2015, 01:46:45 AM »
Mrs Wilber it is then! hahahahahahahahaha

LMAO!!! Oh MAN!!  ::)

LOL

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I have done a ton of flying including a 18 month stretch when I was on the road just about every week. SW was my airline of choice unless I was going to the west coast. Their flight attendants are really great. Thanks for sharing that. Definitely reminded me of some of the flights I was on with them. Not all were as funny as the woman in the second video but most of them really had a great attitude. So much better than some of those battle axes that flew for the other airlines.  :o

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Share Your Recipe / Re: whats for dinner tonight
« on: June 26, 2015, 07:24:30 PM »
dang some good looking food here!  :P Wow.

I have a remote thermometer as well although a different brand....can't remember which one but so great to be able to set it and go do other things. So nice to be able to check the grille temp too. And the digital instant thermometers are key as well.

A great use for some of the burnt ends is in baked beans. Really adds to the flavor.  That is if you can keep from eating them all as you make the beans. Not that I would know anything about that.....  ::)

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Share Your Recipe / Re: A coupla favorites
« on: June 26, 2015, 07:14:57 PM »
it is....and easy! So its got two things going for it!  ;D

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Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant / Re: SIEMR
« on: June 26, 2015, 06:19:49 PM »
You're startin' way too soon with this DOT stuff...hmmm (Moderators, keep an eye on this one!) ;-)

Hmmm....D.O.T. (Derailleur of Threads) is a term coined by this site some time ago. Used to describe those undisciplined, unruly, out of control, adolescent minded, good for nuttins' who inhabit our site here!

Hey!! I resemble that remark!  :)

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Bug-Out Bag and Camping gear / Re: Lights
« on: June 26, 2015, 06:13:14 PM »
A buddy of mine Army paramedic, SAR etc. uses his headlight with the strap extended and around his neck. He said that way when you have it on and someone calls your name and you turn toward them you don't blind them. But it works well still that way for working with your hands. I have done it that way a few times but am not as comfortable with it flapping around. But I get his point. nothing worse than losing all your NV when you get blasted in the eyes.   

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Site Rules & Introductions / Re: Howdy from Taxachusetts
« on: June 26, 2015, 05:44:41 PM »
Thanks guys! KensAuto- Mr Wilbur? Dunno who that guy might be but it aren't me I assure you!  :)

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Share Your Recipe / A coupla favorites
« on: June 26, 2015, 02:56:20 PM »
So being the FNG here I'm wandering around the forum looking at different stuff. And maybe cause its lunch time I wandered in here? Or am I just always hungry.  ::)

Anywho....I was raised in New England by Yankees so barbecue might as well have been something from Australia as far as I knew. (Oh and did I mention my Mom is a lousy cook? ha! Love her dearly...but cooking is not her strong suit!) Then as I got older I tried ribs....mmmmm.....oh buddy. Had to learn how to make those! Then brisket....fahgetaboutit! Had to do that. Then I moved on to pulled pork (I like to have both traditional BBQ sauce and traditional NC vinegar sauce...mmmm!). My son loved that so much I ended up doing 90 lbs of it for his HS grad party (along with home made brisket baked beans and slaw  ;)). THAT'LL keep ya busy! (especially on a small grille! yeesh).

Last weekend I made carnitas which (I only recently learned so sorry if all you guys already know about it) is a Mexican pulled pork sort of thing (albeit with completely different spices than traditional pulled pork BBQ). So I'll share this one as a recipe since its easy and tastes darn good. I made it with a grilled corn salad too and was a hit last Sunday Father's Day.

So start with a Boston Butt....I like that better than a picnic roast. Well primarily cause I'm lazy and don't like skinning the shoulder if I don't have to.  :-[ So I cut up the Boston butt into 1" "steaks" with one big chunk with the bone left in it. I layered the crock pot with cut up onions. The put the pork cuts on top. Tossed in cumin, cinnamon, salt and pepper (see? TOTALLY different spices than my regular pulled pork which is definitely a BBQ recipe and also is done with smoke on the grille). Added 2 bottles of lager (I would use any beer except light beer). I set it on slow an went to bed. Sunday AM I got up and it was fully cooked. I drained off the liquid (saving it), then shredded the pork. Added some liquid back.

Saturday when I did the pork I had also made fresh pico de gallo. Diced up about 10 plum tomatoes, about 5 or 6 Vidalia onions, 4 or 5 jalapenos, and added about a cup of chopped cilantro. Added equal parts vinegar (I used red cider but any will do), and extra virgin olive oil. Let that just sit until Sunday.

So Sunday I also made the grilled corn salad. For this I started by grilling the corn (corn grilled is just light years ahead of boiled/steamed). Also grilled some poblano peppers. Let the corn cool a bit before cutting the kernels off the corn. Pulled the blackened blistered skin off the poblanos and chopped them up. Made a mix of olive oil, lime juice, and some salt. Poured that over the corn and poblanos. Then cut up some avocados, red onion (small slices) and chopped cilantro. Then mixed all together (don't mix it too hard you don't want to beat up the avocados too much). This is just amazing.

Now where were we....oh yeah... the pork.  :P So back to the grille.....added more charcoal....let that get ripping hot. Took my trusty cast iron made in China  ::) camping griddle....threw it on the grille and started adding the shredded pork. It sizzled and smoked putting a nice crust on the pork. Turned it a few times. Took some off....added more....kept at it till I had cooked it all up that way and it was all nicely crusted and hot.

Now the tortillas....corn tortillas....a little oil on the grille....toss them on....give them a minute or so (I honestly forget how long...30 seconds when the grille is crazy hot? more if its just warm)...flip them and do the other side...the point is you want to heat them nicely and have a little brown on 'em but ultimately warm not crispy. They still need to be soft enough to make tacos with them.

Oh yeah....forgot the creama (I prefer this so I can drizzle it over the tacos instead of big clumps of sour cream)....couldn't find any creama around here so I mixed sour cream and heavy cream and a touch of sugar. Let it set until it flowed together nicely and was "soupy" like. (Sorry that's a technical term donchaknow?! ha!)

So now all comes to the table....grab a tortilla, add the carnitas, some pico, drizzle the creama....a side of grilled corn salad. Mmmm. Good eating!  :)     

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Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant / Re: SIEMR
« on: June 26, 2015, 12:49:28 PM »
Wilbur- you mean you'd never seen a group of skunks "having a ball" before?  LOL!

Oh man!  ::)

I know I know.....I started it. Ha!

 ;D ;D

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Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant / Re: SIEMR
« on: June 25, 2015, 09:24:46 PM »
Oh man! Well told! Glad the smell is gone. That smell is just the nastiest when delivered from point blank range.

My house has a walkout basement. Well one night about midnight.....everyone's in bed. The GSD wants out....so I open the back door (level 1). She goes tear a**ing out the door, down the steps and down toward the back yard after something....I run to the bathroom right off the hall look out and see a skunk on the patio. Yeesh....this will not end well. I yell for her and she skids to a stop and comes right back in the house (thank gawd). Now I gotta figure out how to get this skunk to leave without stinking up the joint. Hmmm.....my feeble mind thinks "water"...that'll do it. So I go in the kitchen....get the stock pot....fill it up....go back to the bathroom window. Now the skunk is right below me 1 story down still nosing around. So I let fly with about 2-1/2 gallons of water. Oops....bad idea. I swear there was still water leaving the pan when I could smell that mr. Skunk decided water was an imminent attack and spraying was going to work! Yikes!! And of course it's one of those really hot humid nights with air just dripping. I slam the bathroom window....run in the kitchen and slam that one. By the time I get upstairs to close the window in the bathroom up there (also on the back of the house) the smell was so bad it woke up my wife from the bedroom on the front of the house. I mean all this happened in about 15 seconds and it woke her out of a sound sleep. She responded as she normally does whenever I am sprinting panicked through the house...."what did you do?" Ha. She knows me too well. Fortunately the smell disapated after a day or so but lesson #1 for me was don't pour water on skunks. Lesson #2 I learned from my son when he was about 5. Don't kick dead skunks no matter how much you want to. (He won't ever again although that may have had more to do with my wife making him strip naked on the back steps I dunno). Did I say I hate skunks?

Although I did see the weirdest skunk behavior ever one night driving home. It was right down the street from the house and a whole ball of skunks (literally....about 4 or 5 or 6 skunks...I really don't know how many it was) were all wrapped up in a ball rolling across the road. My first thought was darn I can get rid of a bunch of skunks here as I started to swerve toward them...but some smarter brain cells kicked in and said "hey dummy....you'll have to burn your vehicle to get rid of the smell!!" So I just watched them....and then quickly drove by them. I still have no idea how normal or weird that particular form of skunk behavior is.

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Coffee Induced Early Morning Rant / Re: Patience and a squirrel
« on: June 25, 2015, 08:00:56 PM »
Having not hunted squirrels I can't connect in the same way but substitute the gurgle of a brook...an old fly rod...a rising trout that takes that old fly your Dad gave you...the beautiful speckles on his body as you grab him and I am with you 100%. Same story....slightly different setting. But patience is the key for sure.

Loved it thanks.

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Thank you for this. I knew it was 13 times but did not know why sad to say. Glad I know it now. Thank you.

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Site Rules & Introductions / Re: Howdy from Taxachusetts
« on: June 25, 2015, 07:45:54 PM »
Thanks all....definitely appreciate the welcome! Texasredneck I'm workin' on that....to Maine. Well her and me anyhoo....not the entire fam damily! (Her Dad had 6 brothers and 2 sisters! Ha. But Maine is my favorite state (my Mom was from there) and has everything....rural living...ocean...mountains...etc. so that's the goal when the youngest graduates highschool. Fortunately my middle one (son) and youngest (daughter) love the outdoors as much as I do so they love the idea. ;)

See you guys around the forum...and thanks!

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Site Rules & Introductions / Howdy from Taxachusetts
« on: June 25, 2015, 06:56:20 PM »
So it appears I am a new member. I registered yesterday and then today (while waiting for the "approval" email) I figured I would try to log in and haha it worked!  :) Well....I think so anyway...we'll see if this actually posts when I try!

So I'm a married father of 3 kids ages 14-21. Living in the bleep-hole of Massachusetts (I was raised here...moved out west and then fell in love with a great Italian woman from here who wouldn't leave being near her family so back I am). I like to fish, hike, anything at all to do with the outdoors. Proud (vehemently proud) 2A supporter (which as you can guess is not easy in MA  >:( ) Conservative Christian (very active in our local church- former treasurer, finance committee member, etc. My wife helped found our church's food pantry which now (dare I say because of this wonderful economy we have???!!!) has 200 families getting help (and our little town only has 9000 people in it!!). I work in financial services and when I read Don's intro about how he started this website I knew I had to try to join. I used to work in Tower 2 in NYC before the 1st WTC attack. So that day has special meaning for me as well.

I have owned lots of vehicles almost all 4WD's....76 FJ40, 80 Chevy K10 SWB, 82 GMC K2500 4" lift, 92 GMC Jimmy, 03 GMC Yukon (as well as a BMW 540 and a few VW Jettas thrown in the mix). I do as much of my own maintenance as I dare (rebuilt the engine of the FJ in my driveway, did the clutch in the K2500 in a buddy's driveway in 10 degree weather, yada yada yada) an drive vehicles until the scrap guy makes me an offer I can't refuse (the Yukon has 240K miles, the BMW 225K). I keep vehicles mostly stock (so far!) and put more time and effort into camping gear etc. Don't do as much hardcore rockcrawling sticking mostly to logging roads and the like. So I doubt I will have much technical knowledge to add here to some of the builds I see- you guys are light years away from my skillset!  :o

Hoping to do a small build of a new (new to me?) 3500HD Duramax in the next year...finances and God willing. The threads I have read here (I found my way here by following Don over from one of his old posts on ExpoPortal) are really great. So much more in depth and really providing the drill down on so many different parts of a build. Plus I like that there seems to be much more full sized focus as well as much more similar beliefs than in many other areas of the interwebs.  ;) I'll shut up now!   

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