Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[sean donato]

For a lot of years, all we could afford was no name tires. Can't say I ever had an issue with any of them. (Out side of my wife's unique ability to find nails/ screws with her tiers. ) if you do some digging around, you can usually figure out if it's a major name off brand and if they are any good.

 

[sean donato]

The 2009 f150 came with Hankook tires on it. Put almost 40K on them. Did really good in snow and held up good hauling loads of scrounged wood. On the second set with another 40K miles on them. Ready for the 3rd set. Been buying them from the Ford dealer since they price match.

I've liked the hankook tiers on the jetta. Pretty decent for what they are and have been wearing reasonably well. The previous owner put them on shortly before I bought the jetta. I've put close to 50k miles on it since I've had it. I'll be replacing them before this winter, probably with the same tires.

 

[Lee192233]

My wife brought home 2 pork butts yesterday. So I did pulled pork. Put 'em on the Traeger at 12:30 pm, they were at 175° at 8 pm, wrapped them in foil and pulled them at 195° at 9:30pm. I put them in the cooler and shredded them this morning. Ended up with 4 quart jars to freeze and enough to give a little to our parents and a couple meals for us this week.I love freezing it in jars, lasts for months.

 

[EchovsStihl63]

For a lot of years, all we could afford was no name tires. Can't say I ever had an issue with any of them. (Out side of my wife's unique ability to find nails/ screws with her tiers. ) if you do some digging around, you can usually figure out if it's a major name off brand and if they are any good.

We used to cure Big O and another light truck tire that I can not remember where I work. They were built on the same machines and cured in the same presses as the "name brand" tires.

Tires 1000% do have a shelf life, climate, UV exposure and storage conditions play a big part into it. After seeing how they are manufactured, it would make anyone slow down and drive a little nicer, you are riding on a whole lot of "air" and pieces of stuck together rubber.

 

[SS396driver]

Well $850 later and about an hour and a half we have hot water with no leaks
Old tank
New just about identical except the new one has a different gas valve and says Performance on it


But it’s much more efficient the old ones estimated cost was $511 per year based on 1.87 per gallon . New is 441 @ 2.28 per gallon