Hope you feel better soon. Hey, I still got my tonsils, and I want to keep em!!!
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Yikes. You need tonsils and adenoids looked at!
It's frustrating. I mean I'm sure they make a good product when used at a normal ratio but to promote it like they did is wrong. And they are quite pompous about it too.
tpence2177
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My friend swears by amsoil in his Chevy Cruze and takes the oil changes out to 15k routinely. I think he is crazy. I take my regular Mobil one 0w-20 to every 5k or sooner on my Camry. Oil companies can claim what they want on how good their oil is but I never see them laying down the money when someone blows up their engine.
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I switched to straight Ams in my previous suburban. Once.
Using the recommended weight my fuel mileage decreased slightly and the engine started burning more oil than it previously had. I think I changed at 7500 miles and I had added 4 quarts in that time.
tpence2177
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Almost no point in changing it at that burn rate lol. He wants to bet me that his cruze will last longer than my Camry because he uses amsoil. I told him poor engineering can't be fixed no matter how good of oil he uses. Taking oil to 15k in a turbo motor sounds like a terrible idea no matter how good it is. He had to change the transmission fluid at like 20k miles because it was black, due to Chevy not designing a transmission big enough to hold more than a few quarts. I'm not holding my breath on his cruze beating my car lol.
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Oil thread!
Philbert
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Yikes. Sounds like your friend should invest in an extended warranty.
tpence2177
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No ports on barrel, recoil not bad with factory loads, I put a limb saver recoil pad on it that helps a lot. Scope is leverevolution from cabelas, it has extra aiming points out to 300 yds. that are calibrated to hornandy leverevolution 325 gr factory ammo. It shoots very well, not uncommon to have two holes touching at a 100 yds. Middle 200 yd aiming point is right on at 200, I've never tried it at 300. One draw back is for aiming points to be on at 200 and 300 scope has to be on 9 power and it's not real clear on 9. Might not be best gun for here (bought it to use when I lived in Alaska) but I sure like it. Can get quite a bit more power out of it if you reload or use buffalo bore ammo.
Thanks.
Dang! Sounds like the "man flue" I had, hope they figure out what's wrong and your back to normal soon.
Nice looking load tnichols.
Gotta like dead standing oak
.Burning a bit of white oak and black locust right now
.Kind of a shame in this warm of weather. I was doing some cleaning up around the wood pile and getting some wood ready to sell and found the black locust in there and didn't have the strength to let it go and I ended up bringing it right into the house lol.
Nice scrounge(s)! Wow, look at all those trees. When you try to walk in the woods, do you get stuck between them?
Minor work on the bluegum today as there wasn't a lot of time. Picked up a trailer load but mostly I was pretty knackered after spending nearly 8 hours yesterday on the scrounge for a fairly meagre but high BTU return. I did cut a couple of discs off the trunk but there was an annoying branch at the base half buried in the ground that made things a bit awkward. I put the carbide chain back on the 460 to carefully cut through.
Then I couldn't move the branch which I had to shift before I could move the big round and the stupid thing was half buried in dirt through most of its length so I didn't want to even use the half-buggered carbide chain on it. If only there was some other device that could move the log for me (other than a tractor that I don't possess. Hang on, the lady farmer has one. I could ask if I could borrow it, along with everything else. Anyway....).
Yay, the woodchuck came in handy and I was able to move the round once the branch was out of the way. No wonder I couldn't move it by hand, apart from being half buried, it had a branch stub buried further. Still took a fair bit of heaving but got there in the end.
Limby's still kicking goals. The workhorse is sitting demurely in the background but also did some great work for me today.
Then I couldn't move the branch which I had to shift before I could move the big round and the stupid thing was half buried in dirt through most of its length so I didn't want to even use the half-buggered carbide chain on it. If only there was some other device that could move the log for me (other than a tractor that I don't possess. Hang on, the lady farmer has one. I could ask if I could borrow it, along with everything else. Anyway....).
Yay, the woodchuck came in handy and I was able to move the round once the branch was out of the way. No wonder I couldn't move it by hand, apart from being half buried, it had a branch stub buried further. Still took a fair bit of heaving but got there in the end.
Limby's still kicking goals. The workhorse is sitting demurely in the background but also did some great work for me today.
When I was sixteen, I went to the USA (NH) on a skiing exchange type program. It was good fun, had two months over there, enjoyed some wonderful hospitality, trained hard, met a few girls, you know the sort of thing. I loved America. I was from Melbourne which had about 3 million denizens at the time. We used to tell the Americans that we had kangaroos hopping around in the back yard at home and they'd believe us. Hahaha, funny old Americans, they'd believe anything, who'd believe we had kangaroos hopping around in the back yard, whatta they think we are, that's just crazy 
etcetera.
Here's this afternoon's pic out the window (yeah, that's my puny trailer)...
Ok, so it's possibly those Americans weren't so silly after all. Also possible that 16 year old Cowboy254 didn't know much either. Pfft, city boy.
. It's also possible that I've grown up in the intervening 25 years. Maybe. Plus, I now have chainsaws.
Kangaroos are also delicious, pity you're not allowed to shoot them. I'd never have to buy meat again, we have 20+ hoppies out the front some days in winter.
Edit: Now that I look at it, the grass could use a mow. Been too busy scrounging, the grass can wait.
etcetera.Here's this afternoon's pic out the window (yeah, that's my puny trailer)...
Ok, so it's possibly those Americans weren't so silly after all. Also possible that 16 year old Cowboy254 didn't know much either. Pfft, city boy.
. It's also possible that I've grown up in the intervening 25 years. Maybe. Plus, I now have chainsaws. Kangaroos are also delicious, pity you're not allowed to shoot them. I'd never have to buy meat again, we have 20+ hoppies out the front some days in winter
.Edit: Now that I look at it, the grass could use a mow. Been too busy scrounging, the grass can wait.
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What makes your buddy believe that a gm cruz will last 300k miles like a toyota or honda? Is he on medical marijuana?
Not gonna happen. . . no way, no how. . . PERIOD!
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He does this every time he gets a car. I just keep driving my Camry and he just keeps trading and getting something new lol. Plus my Camry has a lifetime powertrain warranty that I'm planning on keeping it long enough to use [emoji41]
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It is said confession is good for the soul.
Here goes, I left a couple really ugly stumps Saturday.
When do I start feeling better?
Here goes, I left a couple really ugly stumps Saturday.
When do I start feeling better?
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