Bighanded

34 minutes ago, shadetree said:

i hope your not pulling that trx450 with the winch up on the front rack ??..thats a big no no !.

I spotted the winch mount position as well...figure he's lifting stuff with it, not actually pulling the bike out of trouble...but I'm still of the mindset that if the bike is still running, not trying to haul it up a steep creek bank, but fairly flat terrain and just too slippery, then you're using the bike to help get unstuck and just need a little tug from a nearby tree...stil, I've resisted the tempation to rack mount as I don't really want to find myself needing it only to have bolts sheered off.

1 hour ago, PROV said:

My buddy started syruping about 4 years ago and I help him from time to time. Last year we got 21 gallons of finished syrup. We had to dump over 200 gallons of sap on the ground because we couldn't keep up. He bought a bigger stove made for this so we can keep up.

that is soooo cool.. I'm envious that you guys have those trees and knowledge to make this happen..

here's what it usually looks like when my lil blue pony is helping me...I agree Christopher...the quad is such a huge help

beautiful 60s temps this weekend..but the honda never came out of the garage...will be the next several evenings.. I have a small island in my pond and the geese have arrived to start nesting..so before they get into it, I did a lot of brush cutting, limb trimming and several 3-5inch sapplings down...decided there are 3 significant trees that I'll take the chain saw to...and they'll fall into the water, so I've got a long tow rope that I'll wrap around the tree trunks so I can drag em out with the honda and take them to my burn pile.

nice...love to see the bounty..all wrapped n packaged..ready for the freezer.

On 3/3/2020 at 5:28 PM, LedFTed said:

Mom had a double-wide. she has gone on to the other side. i had strip's of duct work sheet, folded at 1/4 inch, so as not to over lap the vinyl siding, attached them to the house. butted the 1/4 in, up to the siding. i had to use steel wool on the corners. it stopped the mice from coming in.

+1 on the steel wool.. I had forgotten to mention I also do that on any gaps,etc...I'll try some of the tomcat bait...I worry a poisoned mouse might make a poison meal for an owl/hawk, but yeah...it won't hurt my feelings to obliterate the entire species here on my property.

yep...pnut butter on the sticky pads, and spray bottle of really strong peppermint  AND mothballs, AND major cleanings in the camper that I do wtih all sorts of cleaners to disenfect and deordorize (carpet/pet stuff) etc...and still they come...amazing.

hope you feel better Wilson

tried those....nope.

camper forums have a lot of chatter about various solutions...and agreement is that of all the stuff that "barely works"...the slices of Irish Spring bar soap tend to help the most...likley cause it masks any old scent from prior mice in habitants.

dang mice are a scourge!!!  always getting into my travel trailer..no matter what I do...I keep sticky traps, etc in there and check them regularly...and always have a couple.  I've cleaned and cleaned, put slices of Irish Spring everywhere..the whole camper smells like a soap factory.... dropping moth balls on the ground all around the camper seems to help some..there's no food, nothing left in the camper to attrack..but they'll chew up a paper towel, an old rag, pieces of insulation etc..anything and everything to make nesting.

they get into the bass and guitar amp cabinets, into the glove box of the golf cart !!

 we have a solid population of hawks, owls, snakes, fox..and the neighbors cats..you'd think it'd be tough being a mouse...and yet they just keep coming.

I'm just waking up to the Nashville news this morn.. I've emailed a cousin that lives there to see if she is ok and what the situation is on the ground...prayers for All.

i remember long time ago.. I think it was on some prepper forum talking about motorcycles..and someone brought up the small bikes like my Honda CT90..and a guy said  "12 yr old zombie skateboarders  could run you down" ...and he's likely correct...WOT throttle from a dead start...ain't an impressive thing on those little bikes...they are a joy to tool around trails and back country roads for a relaxing old school ride, but if I needed to escape a bear or a zombie skateboarder.. I'd be lunch fer sure... i might be just being silly out of my ignorance of the animal... might be that a noisey motorbike would be enough deterence for a bear....but at 1am...the brain is working overtime on the fear/alert factor.

we do my wife's annual family reunion at a place called Table Rock SC state park...they are loaded with black bears...and you have to really keep an eye out when you've got the grill going on the cabin patio.   the family rents a large cabin for the common area, meals, board games etc, several folks stay in the bedrooms there, but the wife and I haul our travel trailer down and the camp area for those is about a mile down the road..the wife didn't want to stay up half the night playing board games so she and her sister hopped in the truck and headed back to the campsite.. I had been riding earlier in the day on my lil honda Trail 90..so I had it at the cabin.. I told the girls to take the truck on back to the camper...that was about 10pm.. i stayed and played cards with the guys and when I looked up it was about 1am... I said, I gotta get back to camp....so I crank up my lil red honda and pull out...that's when i realized how dark it is out there and no one else was up and about that time of night..and that little 6volt headlight on that 40 yr old honda doesn't shine real far down the road...and having already encountered 3 bears on hikes earlier that day and one that had come to the cabin when the burgers were grilling...and momma's with cubs... my ol brain started to really think ...hmmm..if momma bear is on the roadside and isn't happy with my little sputter bike...do the geometry...angle of her attack, vs my  very slow ability to acellerate to a whopping 40mph on these hills...yeah... I'm screwed...LOL..fortunately I made it to camp, but that was the last time i've done that.

I don't know how we've managed to avoid bear on our property...they are in the area and townfolk still report them in their backyards...but in 16 years here, we've never had one come through...and I've got a dozen trail cams up...and we are out on property several times a week and we always watch for tracks of various animals.

I'm glad.. I really really don't want to have to deal with bear...even though they are relatively small little black bears...I'm not looking to tangle with one.

the foxes loved to rub all over the bobcat lure..like catnip 

28 minutes ago, PROV said:

First pic is one I got two years ago. Guy in orange is my shack partner with his 8 pointer last fall. Next pic is my 8 point from last fall. Next view are from my deer stand. 100+ year old logging trail behind a swamp I have kept open.

talk about relaxation!!  great view...the wife and I have a 2seater with wrap around rail/skirt and a top on it...and like you, we have it on the edge of an easement so...treeline on both sides and just a long POV both left and right for us...love to just sit out there and be still and listen.. we go at night a lot...9-11ish pm ..not to hunt, just to watch the various critters come through..deer of course, but we have some scent on a stump in front of a trail cam for bobcat and the foxes etc love to stop there as well..so we just sit and watch them come through... I'll typically doze off and the wife has to poke me when there's a critter or if I start to snore (grin)

1 hour ago, _Wilson_™ said:

 

local hams are just doing the usual...same kinda chats you'd get if your were sitting with a cup of coffee at the local donut shop...nothing official.

I don't want to hijack the weather thread with my zombie prepping..but I guess prepping is kinda related in that I got into it just a matter of course..living on the coast, we've weathered multiple hurricanes over the years..prepping was just a normal part of life..if you were smart at all...that way we didn't have to head to the grocery store for flashlight batteries, genset, gas at the pumps after the fact etc...and as a young kid back in the hills of Ohio, I always remembered my grandparents, uncles etc..always had that emergency kerosene heater in the basement in case they lost power, canned food, etc...it just was something that made sense, not zombies..just normal.  We also do a fair amount of camping trips, and while these days it's in a travel trailer instead of on the ground, most of our trips are off grid, so you learn things that help during disaster time...ok..back to the weather report...hopefully..winter will end soon, and along with it, the Corona19 will crawl back under it's rock til next season.

1 hour ago, _Wilson_™ said:

 

lol^^^ i can't stand auto locking hubs 

 

I bet it would, jeep with little modification .... Sure would smell good!! 

 

BH i haven't heard any radio chatter about this new virus..... Just friends and neighbors .... Along with family.... Stock up blah, blah, be prepared to stay in for 2 weeks ..... I don't think so.... Least not yet.... I'm stocked up, i alway had that habit .... I heard from a friend from Vanderbilt told me... If/when this gets rolling it could be bad.... There main concern is no sign of the sickness until said person has had it a while.... But I'm no expert.... 

8 hours ago, _Wilson_™ said:

Looks like THEY ..... Missed it agian..... 35 all give, or take...... It's now dropped to 33 and holding ..... And no rain, or snow..... I thought maybe my outside weather transmitter might have been reading wrong.... Nope.... Did a test and it's right on the money temperature 33.2 = 33. ... Humidity 45% pressure 32.00 inches... .... And no radio traffic from the brine truck frequency 159.180 mh, or MTEARS ...... Besides..... @Melatv..... Not meaning to high jack .... Your weather thread.... But i consider this thread a news update thread, the main talk around my area is the coronavirus.....Pandimic 

 

I forgot this image ..... With my above post.... K-5 military 4x4 blazer auotmatic trans 6.2 (pre chamber aka indirect injection) diesel plant .... Fish we had talked over these old tanks..... Other then the 370 CID 6.2 diesel they were great machines back in the day.... NO ECU.

very nice truck!! I'm envious...city folk wouldn't want to have to get out of the cab to manually lock the front hubs in...but that's REAL 4x4 there.

yeah..local ham chatter, among the usual stuff, is trending around the virus..preppers being what they are...ok...what "we" are...there.. I admit it.

we don't get enough weather events for it to be a topic of conversation on the radio..but I did go out to the big boat last night and drain the water out of the motor, as it threatens to drop to about 28 degrees Friday night...not bothering to winterize for the occassional chilly night with 50 degree days.. Ihave a bilge safe marine heater that I'll stick in there and call it done...cause I'm only a few weeks away from lake time!

the wife really wants one good snow...and so far , only flurries..this year...very warm n wet...we are so saturated that the water is just laying on the ground..it squishes when you walk..and it's just not draining or soaking in...man Wilson..you make me wanna go truck shopping now!!  dang it!

you guys are talkin too fancy for me...we just shove some shrimp, or a piece of old squid onto a hook, drop 3 or 4 poles into their holders, sit back and enjoy a beer and wait for that little reel clicker  to start screaming.

On 2/24/2020 at 10:01 AM, riverc said:

 

 

purty lil fish...round here we call that 'bait'   GRIN...no..seriously...that's some nice fish!

Just sayin...clear blue skies...mid 50s...this past sunday afternoon...seemed like a good day to do the final shakedown of the new engine

1 hour ago, riverc said:

 

Sounds good,bet it was a chilly ride.Got my 96 Mercury 150 EFI started yesterday at home,ready to go after some catfish.

she was cold starting...cruising no-wake through the marina docks and out of the cove...so pleasant out there...but my rig doesn't have windshields..it's a very open platform as you can see from my earlier pic post...it's wonderful when it's warm, but brother...50mph on the water yesterday...yeah...hard to ignore, even enjoying the feeling of riding...at least I had a jacket on..my mechanic was out there in shorts and a t-shirt... (a real man-LOL)

58 minutes ago, riverc said:

 

Sounds good,bet it was a chilly ride.Got my 96 Mercury 150 EFI started yesterday at home,ready to go after some catfish.

big ol catfish fillets..yeah baby...still some of my favorite!!..don't need no fancy fish...maybe a stuffed flounder on occassion, but good meaty catfish...all day long!

thought about this thread yesterday ( and the weath thread as well..grin)  did a final shakedown ride on my boat with the new 5.7 in it...temps were in the low 50s, but a very pretty day...standing around at the dock, it felt great..on the water at speed...tad on the chilly side at WOT, but oh man was it a nice run...boat motor checked out, paid that man for his great work and brought it back home...Sunday at this time of year, there was one other boat on the lake...come May...you'd be waiting to get on the ramp behind 15 other boats...

wish I could find some 91 non-E  on the road...even the 2 marinas near me on the lake only sell 89.

for over 35 years I've had a "thing " I do... every payday (every 2 weeks) on payday I buy my wife a bouquet of flowers..grocery store...it started back in the day when they didn't have direct deposit and I'd stop with my paycheck on the way home at the branch bank inside of a local grocery store ...and I'd buy her a bunch of flowers..back then less than $10 would do it..today of course..double that...but..I also buy myself a box of bullets...adds up over time (grin)