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welcome 70monte

Winch solenoid is acting up, works intermittently, don't think it is the switch, replaced that last fall with a good heavy duty one. Will have to get the meter out and figure it out. Should probably change brake fluid, I am sure the previous owner didn't. 

lookin good fish, cigs and phone are dry, oil cooler fan under control, all is well!

Fired up the smoker today, ground up 7 lbs. of deer 3 lbs of pork. stuffed the casings, refrigerated over night. In a 200 degree gas smoker for about one hour then added smoke for an additional hour. After 2 hours and 45 min.an internal temp of 160 put them in ice water to cool for an hour. Cut them placed in zip locks and 9 of ten bags into the freezer and one into the fridge. Fantastic!

welcome from Nebraska

welcome aboard!

Bighanded: is that MP17 configured the way you have it considered an SBR?

Dam impressive work!

welcome!

fish, figure out where and how you are going to mount that fan controller to keep it dry?

Love that Flux M17!

would be great to see how he mates up the two cranks and bolts the two cases together.

Keep us updated with progress pics.

Buckchop: that Diamond T is the nuts!! Are you going to chrome the grill and side louvers? Then paint her black with some gold accents/stripes, One fantastic ride!

97% of the land in this state is privately owned, not many places to ride. one small trail near where I dear hunt, short and crowded.  Most ATV's in this state are used by the farming community. I use mine as a tool, snow removal, hauling dear, brush and general yard work.I envy some of you folks that can ride out your backdoor in snake country, mountains and hills. None of that here. 

checked it out, looks good, Thanks

On 3/17/2020 at 7:09 AM, Nanook said:

I put two 100W silicon heat pads on the case where the oil sump is. These pads are fairly common up here. The use of two pads warms the whole engine up. I’m running Shell Rotella 5W40 synthetic oil. Never had any problems starting. Napa carries silicon heat pads, Alaskan and Canadian companies make heat pads, Kats or Yukon are a couple brands of pads. 

Thanks Nanook, I will see if I can find them.

I am familiar with Howard's Feed and Wax, used  it on old wood decoys I  used to collect  back in the day. Sure did brighten up the old paint.

Fish: nice desk. My daughter has a 100 year old black walnut dinning room table. she has  had good luck with a couple of coats of Johnson's past wax applied about twice a year.

looks like he is having a blast!!

Tim: Welcome the the best bunch of folks around!

Stevie: Welcome to the group!

On 3/15/2020 at 9:49 AM, Nanook said:

 

I’ve put 13 hours on the Honda snowblower and 20 hours so far on the Honda Foreman plowing. Main problem this winter was it being too cold to move snow! I have silicon heat pads on both of the above to warm the oil...was a tough winter this year.

Nanook: You guys still have a couple of months of winter to go ,Right? Do the silicon heat pads make that much diff.? What kind did you have? My carburated Rancher is really cold blooded, have thought about some type of "block" heater.

went to the shop, plugged in the charger, Put the blade on the Rancher in November, hasn't moved since. No plowable snow events this winter. Exact opposite of last winter, plowed 6-7 times. That is SE Nebraska.

the last two days it has been in the 50's, started snowing about two hours ago, ground is warm enough it is melting as it hits. more  times than not we get a snow storm during boys high school basketball tourney, right on schedule