Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[svk]

Well that was interesting.

My suburban started riding very rough and lots of feedback through the steering wheel.

One tire on each front and rear (different brands) had belt separation with wires working their way out of the side of the tread.

I usually run tires out of rubber before they fail. I acquired both of these as good used so I’m guessing these were both older tires. I’ll check date codes when I go to the shop next.

 

[svk]

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What a gem lol

 

[GrizG]

100%, agree.

Sticks great till you're in an underpowered 10 wheeler plowing cul-de-sac or any other scenario where you're constantly going front and back, or constantly stopping and starting. It's a big reason short run and vocational trucks are automatics for years now. I prefer stick for many reasons, but automatics have their place.

There are so many stop signs around here that sticks are not fun anymore. Back in ‘85 I liked cruising up Rte 28 through the Catskills in a stick equipped 1985 Scirocco. It had the power and handling to easily cope with the long steep hills and twisting roads. I did it once or twice a week to go woodchuck hunting in Bloomville. The driving and hunting were both fun…

 

[MustangMike]

I used to see those cheater chains on the school buses around here, but I don't think they have them anymore. I guess if you don't drive in the snow, you don't need them!

I learned to drive on my parent's cars (both autos, 64 Galaxy with a 352 and 65 Country Squire with a 390), but I bought my first used Mustang when I was 18 (a 67 fastback with a 289 - 4 speed) and have had stick shift cars ever since, including 9 of my 10 Mustangs, 2 Ford Rangers, 2 Ford Explorers and 2 Thunderbirds (85 Turbo Coupe and 92 Super Coupe). However, my 2019 F-150 was ONLY available with an automatic, and that 10 speed is spoiling me.

Gone are the days when you give up performance or fuel economy because you choose an automatic! If you are towing a heavy trailer and using the cruise control, it will sometimes triple downshift going up a steep hill, but it does not lose speed!

If I had to replace the Mustang with what is available today, it would be tough to stick with the stick knowing that it is both slower and gets worse mileage!

I don't like launch control ... I feel that if you have a fast car you should have to know how to drive ... but it is not going to change back again, and the auto works much better with it. It even limits tire spin when auto shifting ... and the sticks come with Rev Match ... WTF!!!! I know how to drive, I don't want that crap!

 

[MustangMike]

I did it once or twice a week to go woodchuck hunting in Bloomville.

Every year I used to go up to my aunt's farm (125 acres in West Winfield) with my 220 Swift to reduce the chuck population.

Then one year my cousin told me "Don't bother ... the coyotes have taken all of them". Was the end of an era!

 

[GrizG]

Every year I used to go up to my aunt's farm (125 acres in West Winfield) with my 220 Swift to reduce the chuck population.

Then one year my cousin told me "Don't bother ... the coyotes have taken all of them". Was the end of an era!

Yeah… the coyotes did a good job on the whistle pigs. The urban woodchucks are a different story… an endless supply of them to the point they are a problem. Some are easy to get in a Havahart trap and others won’t get anywhere near them.

You hunted about 60 miles north of where I did.

 

[JimR]

Well that was interesting.

My suburban started riding very rough and lots of feedback through the steering wheel.

One tire on each front and rear (different brands) had belt separation with wires working their way out of the side of the tread.

I usually run tires out of rubber before they fail. I acquired both of these as good used so I’m guessing these were both older tires. I’ll check date codes when I go to the shop next.

I have seen that happen when tires are rotated from one side to the other side. The belts start working in the opposite direction and let loose. I have had it happen to me once with steel belted radials.

 

[JimR]

We had a little bit of excitement next door at our farm tonight. A Toyota Tundra met a light pole. The driver was okay. The truck not so much.

 

[chipper1]

I have seen that happen when tires are rotated from one side to the other side. The belts start working in the opposite direction and let loose. I have had it happen to me once with steel belted radials.

Also improper install, damage included and items such as weights being dropped in.

 

[chipper1]

We had a little bit of excitement next door at our farm tonight. A Toyota Tundra met a light pole. The driver was okay. The truck not so much.

Wife got hit in our "new"(08)honda odyssey tonight, she's fine and the van just got a bit scuffed as far as I could tell. Guess she stopped at a light that changed quickly because the train came thru town, there was fresh snow on the ground, but it was still 100% his fault.

How's the light pole

 

[MustangMike]

You hunted about 60 miles north of where I did.

You and I must have crossed paths a bunch of times over the years.

Before I built the new cabin, the wife and I would often have dinner in Walton after we hiked up on my property.

Our Dalmation was fine being in the car with widows cracked for the hour or so we were in the restaurant.

She loved to go up and hike with us!

 

[GrizG]

You and I must have crossed paths a bunch of times over the years.

Before I built the new cabin, the wife and I would often have dinner in Walton after we hiked up on my property.

Our Dalmation was fine being in the car with widows cracked for the hour or so we were in the restaurant.

She loved to go up and hike with us!

It sure seems likely we crossed paths!

One of the girls we knew at SUNY Delhi, Annie, lived in Walton. We'd been to her house and her uncles' (two or three of them lived together) farm to shoot. At her house there were guns stacked in every corner and against furniture 10+ deep of every room down stairs... run of the mill stuff but likely a couple hundred of them. She told her father about me. He told her to tell me that I didn't see the good stuff... seems he had a lot more upstairs! Lots of fond memories from that neck of the woods!

 

[JimR]

Wife got hit in our "new"(08)honda odyssey tonight, she's fine and the van just got a bit scuffed as far as I could tell. Guess she stopped at a light that changed quickly because the train came thru town, there was fresh snow on the ground, but it was still 100% his fault.

How's the light pole

Replaced now. The Light dept was still there working at 2am this morning. Glad your wife didn't get hurt and the van too.

 

[StihlsawuserMS361]

The school superintendent lived on the same street as I but about a mile away on the “city end.” I lived on the old farm, dead-end, end and was about 200 feet higher in elevation. He’d drive up our street and around a few others and decide whether to close the schools.

My son used to work for a school bus company. Among other things he managed the on-bus video cameras and data, and trained new drivers. He told me that the company has flail chains on buses in the Binghamton, NY area and others but not in the Hudson Valley. Those and automatic transmissions are the only way they can recruit drivers…

Binghamton here....I remember those days all too well. Now they cancel school due to local weathercasters saying we "could",or "might" or "possibly" get 'X" number of inches. I guess it's the liberal way of covering your hindside for local school superintendents!

 

[svk]

I have seen that happen when tires are rotated from one side to the other side. The belts start working in the opposite direction and let loose. I have had it happen to me once with steel belted radials.

Probably a good reason why we should all go back to bias ply tires, right @Whitespider

 

[svk]

These tires lasted me about six months and one was free and the other one was $20 so I don’t feel too bad about it. I was just surprised to have two different brands separate at the same time on different ends.

Speaking of guns… I knew this old guy who used to work at one of the mines. He was probably the cheapest SOB I’ve ever met and I’m sure he still had the first penny he ever made.

He was one of those guys that was such a good saver but had his own skewed views about what to do with the money. He saved up a ton of money but he made a lot of bad financial decisions. He certainly had a low seven figure net worth, but had he listened to a decent financial advisor he probably would’ve been worth $10 to $20 million.

He more or less ran unofficial pawnshop out of his house and had acquired about 300 guns over the years. He said he would give people money for their guns as well as gold and silver coins when they were in a pinch and give them the option to buy it back at the same amount later and nobody ever came back to buy them back.

I told him I would buy the whole collection over the series of a couple of years and just to name the price. He never named the price, but he did give me a list of all the guns one time and it was pretty impressive. Not much super high dollar stuff, but a lot of real classics that our fathers, grandfathers, and grandfather‘s probably hunted with. I regret throwing that notebook in the fire a few years back, but I knew he was never going to sell.

He was so obsessed with getting everything from his estate into his kids estates tax-free that like I said he had made a lot of foolish decisions with things. Eventually, he, his wife, and both of his kids died within about a four year span, so nobody really got to enjoy anything.

He had purchased a newer house because his wife wanted a newer house, but they were still living in the old house because he “needed to redo it” before selling. Of course that never happened either because it would’ve required spending money to redo. I told him to sell it for what you can get out of it and move to the new house so you guys can enjoy your retirement. But he wasn’t going to do that.

 

[davidwyby]

Only saw starter I've ever broke was on a husky 55 closed port. I checked the compression, 180psi, stock .

Gotta keep fat rope on em. Skinny rope will get down between the previous wraps like a loose wound winch and split the wheel.

 

[farmer steve]

No chains for this bus. No snow days for the kids either.

 

[mountainguyed67]

 

[JimR]

I saw this for sale on FB Marketplace and couldn't believe the price. I have 2 of them.