Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[stihly dan]

still pay for it though. My wife drives a manual so I am her remote starter.

They sell remotes for manuals.

 

[DrewUth]

They sell remotes for manuals.

Yea but then you have to park it in neutral...I'd forget every time!


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[nomad_archer]

They sell remotes for manuals.

Yep I know. My wife wanted one that was dealer installed. They wouldn't do it because they use a clutch bypass and if not in neutral I guess it could be ugly. Ohh well.

 

[Bullvi22]

I can see too many ways for that to go wrong right there. Leave it in granny gear, start it up and watch it drive off

 

[Xjcacher]

My 15' Suburban takes some wacky viscosity, must have synthetic oil. Even if I buy everything from Walmart its $45 to change the oil.

And MN jacked up the license fees to be based on retail value again. (One of the few good things Ventura did was repeal that to a flat rate.). My tags are $650 per year. I'll probably buy used when the lease is up on this....just too expensive when this stuff adds in.

Yikes! I guess I won't tell you that in Ark. they're based on weight and mine are only 27.50 per year.

 

[chucker]

Yikes! I guess I won't tell you that in Ark. they're based on weight and mine are only 27.50 per year.

heck! I thought our's were low.... wife's car after 10 years old everything is 41.50 with new plates every 4 years... except tonnage trucks, commercial. my 1979 1 ton at 15,000 pounds is 96.00.........

 

[SteveSS]

I think I pay $180 every two years for 18K plates on the F250.

 

[zogger]

Tags here for me 120 clams a year for two trucks, an Rv and two trailers

 

[H-Ranch]

Neighbor is having some select trees taken out of her woods (maybe 6 acres) along with a few black walnut trees in the yard and she just told me that I am free to take whatever is down. Looks like I'll be getting some deadfall and tops this year! They are leaving a heck of a mess between ruts, pushing over the smaller stuff, and scuffing up everything they drive near.

 

[Oldman47]

Tags here are a little over 100 clams a year for my car and my light truck. If I wanted to go beyond the B truck weight rating typical of a 1/2 ton or 3/4 ton I would be paying weight fees on top of that. I could license a semi tractor as having a B-truck rating but I would get stopped every 5 miles by the county mounties wanting to have me prove I was not carrying any more than that GVWR allows.

 

[DrewUth]

Tags for my cars and trucks are $65 a year. Motorcycle tags are $75...go figure. I have two cars and a truck registered, and three bikes. I hate the DMV!


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[JustJeff]

-12 today. That's about 10 degrees for those of you who don't speak celsius. I came home to about 8" of fresh snow. About the time I got the tractor out, my youngest boy decided to just freaking bury his snowmobile in the ditch. Yanked it out with the little kubota and he promptly did it again. Aaaaa! Blew the lane out and then trudged out back wondering why the heck I put the chicken coop so far from the house! Got a couple pieces of scrounged (staying on topic here) cherry and a piece of ash blazing away to take the chill off and a bowl of chili from the crockpot. Life is good now.

 

[svk]

Woke up to -26 and its up to zero now.

 

[DrewUth]

Woke up to -26 and its up to zero now.

Jesus!


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[JustJeff]

Woke up to -26 and its up to zero now.

We don't usually get that cold. Once in a while. We are to the lee of Lake Huron and south of Georgian bay, so we get lots of lake effect snow.

 

[svk]

Successful indoor scrounging today.

My grandpa's cousin was in the tank corps in WW2. Amongst other things he received a Purple Heart. My grandpa got the Purple Heart after his cousins passed away as neither of them had kids. It then disappeared for 17 years and neither my aunt or mom claimed to know where it was. I assumed my aunt had taken it when my grandparents belongings were cleaned out as several important/valuable things "disappeared" when she was around.

Found it in a little security box on a closet floor at my parents house. It's now in my posession and will be safely stored from now on.

Also found my grandpas retirement watch for 41 years with the same company. Another thing my mom apparently didn't care about when she moved into senior living.

 

[dancan]

Woke up to -26 and its up to zero now.

Ouch
Not that cold up here in the Great White North of Eastern Canada

 

[mainewoods]

It's coming Dan, be patient! LOL

 

[chucker]

It's coming Dan, be patient! LOL

clint, it was here and on it's way out it was brutal for 3 days! low temp here was -27* with a wind chill as low as -43*......

 

[mainewoods]

Unfortunately that's all too common here, in a normal year. This year has been anything but normal and I ain't complaining one bit!