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Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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-27 on the house and -30 on the way to town. Friends about 20 miles west of here had -44.
Looking like that’s going to be the coldest night of the year for us. Warmer temps coming next week.
Looking like that’s going to be the coldest night of the year for us. Warmer temps coming next week.
Yeah, automatics definitely have their place. I find automatics especially useful when I'm hauling a heavy load. I don't have to keep frequently shifting gears. This is even more true when I'm driving in a hilly part of the country.
It’s 57° here, forecast is for 52° tonight. People here have been talking about it’s been “so” cold here, lol. (It was a little colder). I tell them it’s not cold, and they act like I’m crazy. I’ve been in colder places. In Germany we slept outside in our sleeping bags at -27°, that was during a field exercise near Baumholder. I was fine, but our canteens were all frozen solid on our hip. They’d bring a water trailer out from a heated shop, every day.
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.
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.
What a gem lol
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…
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!
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!
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.
Also improper install, damage included and items such as weights being dropped in.
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
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!
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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!
Replaced now. The Light dept was still there working at 2am this morning. Glad your wife didn't get hurt and the van too.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
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!
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.
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.
