WonderMonkey

1 hour ago, Andy bauska said:

Where is the next atv meetup? Sounds like fun. Me and my old honda would love to come! Jeepwm69 said you were old, so how old are you?

I'm 53.  We haven't had a meetup yet, but we have talked about it a few times.  The Tsunami of Doom, Covid, had prevented us from getting serious about it.  Also probably is someone declaring "We are doing it this weekend, at this place".

4 hours ago, Andy bauska said:

I didn't mean to offend you all, I thought it was some guy just trying to waste my time. Anyway, the cdi in it is the original from 1993. I swapped it to the original from my dads' 1991, and I also put a Ricks one in it too. My brother bought it for his 1990, but oddly enough it wouldn't run. It however made mine run. I am 17 at the moment and will be 18 in late June. Also @WonderMonkey, I overreacted, and I shouldn't've responded the way I did, and all my friends say I have a good sense of humor, So feel free to joke around. Didn't mean hurt anyone's feelings.

Nah, no feelings hurt.  I was just playing fun.  And yes, it was wasting someone's time for sure, as does most fun.  I was just playing around and not intending to cause any trouble.

At the next ATV Honda meetup, I'll buy you a beverage of choice, whatever it may be.  Jump into chat sometime when people are there, will will THEN commence to wasting some time.

On 12/27/2021 at 12:01 AM, LedFTed said:

Well; i been trying an old an true technique, for my knees. granted im only 66 or so, i been going up the stairs 1 step at a time, leading with the weak knee. slowly with each step. an i do the same going down. gets hard to remember one step at a time., but does show some promise for me.. slow is the key.. worked many years ago, riding race horses. repetition, did also.. was many years ago. i were 34 or less.

still, i stand behind planter's peanut oil. another matter.

That reminds me of the therapy that I'd do for a knee surgery.  Engages the muscles around the knee very nicely.

5 minutes ago, Andy bauska said:

Sorry bro, drinking doesn't get rid of my problems, it only worsens them. Plus, I am not 21 yet. Also, what kind of response is that? If you don't have anything good to contribute, then don't contribute at all. 

It was just a light-hearted response.  Take it as such.  I will continue to interject things for my amusement, though not on your posts.  I appreciate the heads up on how you like to interact.

1 hour ago, Andy bauska said:

I think this might be the case, and I really hope the new one fixes it. If it doesn't, what would you recommend I try next?

I suggest drinking heavily.

35 minutes ago, jeepwm69 said:

Last I checked, flying isn't a human right. 

 

No way these people need to be anywhere near a commercial flight, especially given what they make the rest of us go through to get on a place these days.

 

 

But what about their FEELINGS?

19 minutes ago, 56Sierra said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10418877/TSA-reveals-illegal-migrants-flying-without-proper-ID-use-ARREST-WARRANT-identification.html

Thanks for that, I couldn't find anything.  That's terrible.  They still aren't bypassing security, but the fact they are allowed to ever go through security is a sad thing.

2 hours ago, LedFTed said:

i think this story was on tucker at fox;;

TSA security passed policy[for lack of a better term]. that people without passports, IDs, can use the paperwork from being lock up to bypass security, and get on a plane..

ya might be saying; DO WHAT. tis insanity at its finest. You feel safer flying on a plane now?? hope this aint too political.

I'd check on that information.  Many forms of ID are allowed as an alternate to passports, etc. but none let you bypass security.  Do you have a link to his resources?

Went camping this weekend.  It got down to 10 degrees on Friday night.  I know that's a warm Spring day for many of you right now but we don't get much colder at this time of the year in SE Ohio.

1 hour ago, Fishfiles said:

When I was young I thought hippies were cool , as I got older , I realized hippie are dirty free loaders , LOL 

And the bad part is that most of them feel they are in the right.

1 hour ago, Freedomflyer said:

That's awesome. We still have places like that that we can get to by ATV. I am now old The hygiene is not so friendly to me anymore. I'm not saying that everybody is like that tearing up the trails is just those that are  careless and non caring about the environment that they are in That happen along now and again. We can get way back in the boonies If we want to. Also there are  Certain times of the year that people just aren't out yet. Nothing like being out and having some solitude  With the fire and the campsite.  Glad you get to get out and enjoy it.

It certainly is the few that ruin it.  When near a creek or other water source, I take campsite baths, etc.  I go out for a week at a time into Canada so I've practiced keeping myself reasonably clean.

5 hours ago, Freedomflyer said:

"As far as being allowed, well that's another story"😁

 

 It's sad that people do things so that the powers that be have to shut areas down for folks who just want to get out and use an area. The way it sounds, you don't leave any sort of footprint when you're out. I don't see you hurting one thing.

That is the one of main things that really concerns me about all the folks moving in here to our area, some of them have never had freedom to access to this kind of outdoor activity and have no clue how to be responsible when they get out in "Nature" and rip the crap out of everything. We have a few places here that rent ATV'S  and SXS's. Been out and met groups of people renting machines and they are just tearing the trails apart, taking shortcuts on switch back corners, cutting through forested areas to get to another point on the trail. Not good. We met one group one time on one of our 50" trails, one of the guys had a machine that didn't belong there, his machine was 62" wide. We had stopped on the trail to look out over a rocky cliff and heard them coming up the trail,  we quickly moved our 4 wheelers off the trail as far as we possibly could. We had just come through a tight spot to where we had about 2 inches on each side to get through and there was no way around. 60% slope going down and 60% slope going up on either side. There was no way he was going to make it and was going have back up for 100 yards around a couple of corners to get to a spot where he could turn around and then would procede to tear the snot out of the trail getting turned around. When he went by us, his tires rubbed and bumped our machines, actually moved  my friends machine about an inch. He wouldn't even wait for her to try to back it up farther, just pushed his way through.  Tried to stop him and tell him to turn around where we were while he could because he wasn't going to make it through, he went past us and stopped, his wife came walking up the trail behind him, we told her he wasn't going to get through and she said, as she rolled her eyes and shook her head, "There was no telling him he couldn't do something." I felt bad for her and  could tell she was not only embarrassed, but scared too. There were spots coming up on that trail that I would not have wanted to have been a passenger in that SXS, the tires on her side coming up had to have been right on the edge of a steep grade dropping hundreds of feet. He was followed by some friends on 4 wheelers,  we told them the same thing,  they said oh he'll get through. I said not today he won't, I asked them if they were from the area they said they had been here for a couple years and he was a friend visiting from southern Utah and had brought his machine up. Shame on them number one for even bringing him out on those trails, and number two for letting him lead their group. After they passed we moved on down the trail not wanting him to bump past us again. We moved down to a spot  to eat lunch, while eating we heard them coming back, there was a "T" further up the trail we passed coming  down, they couldn't go that way either as it was another 50" trail through a rock slide, steep up and down on either side. We just shook our heads as they drove by. Those are the type of people ruining it for everyone. Not even sure how  that moron got around the 50" gate in the first place.

With what you told me, I'm a bit of a "right versus wrong" kindof guy.  There is a point where I'd take that guys keys.  He'd get them back but I'd make him go through quite a bit of stress before he got them.  It would be entertainment for me.  I'm a jerk like that.

5 hours ago, Freedomflyer said:

"As far as being allowed, well that's another story"😁

 

 It's sad that people do things so that the powers that be have to shut areas down for folks who just want to get out and use an area. The way it sounds, you don't leave any sort of footprint when you're out. I don't see you hurting one thing.

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The reason why they stopped letting people take atv's etc. there is because of how tore up the trails would get.  No personal regard for the damage they were doing.  So the ruined it for everyone.  I've been going to this area for years and studied topo maps to find old roads and would explore them.  All by backpack.  When I got my atv last year, I knew a few of them would support riding them.  I load my stuff up and go, eventually ending up at a large creek that feeds a river about a mile away.  There are other places to go but that's my go-to.  Other people also go there as I can see signs of them, but since it's not an obvious path, it's low use.  I'm going there in Jan to spend a few days.  My brother lives in the town so I have his son (my nephew) meet me as my brother's business and take us to the get-in point around 6:30 am.  He then comes back around 10 am on Sunday and we load up and leave.  We make no fuss and am very friendly to my surroundings.

This area is awesome country.  I practice man-tracking (myself, usually), map reading, fishing methods, etc.  Very relaxing.  I take a little Bluetooth speaker and sometimes listen to music.  Other times I stare at the fire or the creek, contemplating life.

9 hours ago, Freedomflyer said:

WM,

Bummer that you have to travel so far to ride, but good for you that you make the effort to get out. Not sure I would stick with this sport if I had to make the preparations and time allotment to travel that far for each outing. Interesting that you are allowed to ride on old logging trails, ours are all shut down and closed off to OHV'S. Yet we have Forest service roads and specific trails designed and constructed for 50" wide ATV'S. You'd think the Forest service would utilize those old roads for recreational purposes,  I see them all the time while out riding but they are blocked off and closed with gates, rocks, and fencing. Still very thankful to have the access we do to trails that are nearly our back door. 

The places I go I used to backpack in, walking the old roads.  Since I have knees that don't like the miles, I now ride.  I don't go there and ride around for a few hours enjoying the sights and the ride itself, but rather I use the atv for transport.  When I get to where I'm going I park it.  As far as being allowed, well that's another story.

I travel to ride.  Either rolling farm land during hunting season, or old logging trails and forestry access roads about 4 hrs away.

On 7/25/2021 at 10:34 AM, ATC4ever said:

I just got a free set of drums last summer off a buddy i jam with. Picked at them every day all winter, but havent really touched them much lately. This is last winter...not sure why i was wearing the g/f's house coat, though she did want to film me in it 😮

Anymore videos of you playing?  I just bought a new kit and am enjoying playing it.

47 minutes ago, AKATV said:

Hi Greg

Welcome to the forum 

I do repairs on the foreman 450 and Rancher 350 speedometers

Post a few pictures so I can see exactly what you have going on, turn your headlights on so that the display is illuminated

I’ll send my contact information to your message box as well

Happy New Year

AKATV

There you go.  AKATV has fixed this issue for several members.

This an upbeat and cheery thread!

No?  Agreed.

1 hour ago, Fishfiles said:

Wow , talking about children dying at Christmas time brings up bad memories  for me , my cousin was born on Christmas Day ,  when she was 8 years old on her birthday , Christmas morning , her Dad , my great uncle , my Grandmother's brother ,  had a heart attack and passed away , when his wife , my great aunt went into the room and found him dead  , she had a heart attack and she died also , same day , same room , my cousin found them both , she went to live with our aunt who never had any children of her own and my aunt  Linda and her husband Michael adopted Debbie , then the aunt got pregnant and had twins of her own , then another boy after  that , my cousin Debbie committed suicide when she turned 18 years old on her birthday which was Christmas 

So much death to follow death, and years of anguish for your cousin.  It's too bad she couldn't resolve what she found and went through.

17 hours ago, LedFTed said:

i watched my sisters baby, choke to death, before i was 20. it takes a long time to get over that, for some. my grandma, lost two kids out of 11. it musta been harder for her. if your ever in Butler co., ky. go to a grave yard. so many kids died. [neer Peabody's coal mine, wk parkway}, KY.  was the early 1900's.

ain't quite fond of [Peabody, an the company store]. coal.. keep ya poor, an dependent..

still the way..

Terrible watching your sister's baby choke.  It would be a helpless feeling.

I first became aware of Peabody's coal in John Prine's song called "Paradise", which included Peabody's trains, Muhlenberg County, etc.

When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn.

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am.

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

On 12/14/2021 at 3:43 PM, bcsman said:

I don't think there is any amount of training that could prepare you to witness what Wonder and those involved in the rescue and recovery did.  I honestly don't know if I could handle a situation like this but certainly glad there are those who step up to the plate.  This is especially true if you are in a similar life threatening situation.....

The ONLY thing that can possibly help, but not prepare, is going through it over and over.  You talk yourself into be desensitized to it the best you can.  I've seen death in the military, but those were people actively engaged in what we were doing, not children or those not involved.  In reality, I COULDN'T handle it, but I got through it because someone had to crawl under that trailer.  When it was confirmed that it was her, I texted my director and I left.  I pulled over (eventually) when I had cell service and called my wife and sat there and cried for a bit.

On 12/14/2021 at 10:33 AM, ATC4ever said:

Sorry to read it was not a good ending. Breaks my heart to think of the last moments of that poor child. 😢 

Its mind boggling how much damage there was.... stay safe you ones affected.

It was thought that the trailer was blown through the house and that's why she was under it.  I can only hope that the initial impact relieved her from any following pain.

On 12/13/2021 at 11:28 PM, PROV said:

Wonder.. sorry you had to go through that and happy you were willing to help. Pretty bad for everyone that had to go through this.

Thanks.  I make myself do these things as I feel the pain of my effort (schedule, sleep, body hurting) is less than what they and other disasters go through.

1 hour ago, jeepwm69 said:

Awful.  I was reading a few days ago about some of the more powerful tornadoes that have hit the US, then this one hit.

 

Someone at church yesterday said it was on the ground for 250 miles. 

 

Very sad.  Lives lost, and livelihoods for those who were lucky enough to survive.  

I knew it was 200+ in length, I'm sure they will get more detailed on that number as time goes on.  Two of the lives lost were a man and his daughter.  The man was found quickly but the reason WE were at this location was to find the daughter.  I won't spell out the whole process but in the end the K9 I accompany hit on a location and eventually, through man power and a backhoe, uncovered down to a utility trailer that had blown through the house.  The dog hit again so I crawled under the trailer and near the back I noticed part of a small shirt sleeve in the color she was wearing visible through a bunch of debris.  I backed out and informed the DNR that was onsite and I and my K9 crew walked up the hill.  They distracted the mom (who was onsite) and the backhoe hooked up to the trailer and lifted the front end.  The DNR person examined what I had found and confirmed it was the girl, deceased.  Our director made eye contact with me and nodded to indicate it was her.  At that time, I said goodbye to the K9 crew, sent the director a text, and left to come home to be with my family.  I was destroyed for a while and still now I'm really down about it.  I'll recover just fine, but it was tough.  If the DNR person had not been there, it would have been me or another person in our group that would have confirmed it was her.  I would not have hesitated but I'm glad I didn't have to do this one.