Recent content by WinterDeere

Sorry, just saw this. Sometimes when maneuvering into a clearing in the woods, whether from a road or trail, there's just no room to swing a wider arc. Likewise in my own driveway, making the switchback turn that gets me up to my barn and storage area, or aligned to back down to the wood...

The biggest subsidy Tesla ever received was their $0.5B ATVM loan, which they paid back 9 years early in 2013. Ford received 12 times that amount, $5.9B, and never repaid it. Nissan received $1.4B, and repaid it in 2017. The ATVM definitely helped them get off the ground, but it was a loan...

They still do, in southern Spain. I think it's always been less popular in the northern cities, where I was traveling this time, but even there some still do it. I will say, catching a 20 - 30 minute nap midday allows me to function just fine on 4 - 5 hours of sleep per night. Back when I had...

I think it's been a few years since subsidies were really a big factor for Tesla. Moreso for other makers later to the game.

Price is cheap for 1/2 ton Ram, only $189. I just remembered I had a whole thread on this, awhile back: https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/truck-rear-suspension-air-bags-jounce-springs.479174/page-2 I've been using that trailer a whole lot less than previously, the last two years, so...

Which air bag system did you go with? I only have a half ton, but I'm regularly pulling a 7k trailer with it, and it's forever tongue heavy. I want to avoid a WDH, because I off-road the trailer and end up having to jack knife it into some real tight spaces in the woods. WDH's really don't...

I think we all adapt to our surroundings, to some degree, so you'd probably eventually fall into it. Oh, and remember that by the sun, their 10pm is our 8pm... that's how much later their sunrise and sunset is, by comparison to Philadelphia/NY time. Since leaving corporate life and becoming...

It'd be interesting to see if Michigan upholds or blows up a personal theory of mine. I was in Spain recently, and noticed how everything happens late there. Peak lunch rush is 3pm, and no one eats dinner before 9pm, restaurants are most crowded around 10pm. But sunset in summer is after 10pm...

Hellcats don't ride like Caddy's either! It's cool tech, and actually would be very useful in any tall pickup or SUV, for managing side roll. It'd also be a nice feature to soften the suspension when the truck isn't loaded, since any static suspension always has to be built stiff enough for...

I've told this here before, but when relatively fresh out of school, my wife and I used to work in the same department with two older engineers who had come out of retirement to help our start-up get off the ground. One day we walk into their office, and one of them stops mid-sentence to look...

Assuming that photo was from yesterday? Not expecting sunrise in Michigan for another 2.5 hours, one of those states "late" in the time zone, at the western edge of it.

Wow... talk about a misleading marketing name! I had to go look that up, thinking Chevy was putting both traction control and stability control into their trucks, which would indeed be a high-end feature. But no... "StabiliTrak" has nothing to do with stability control, it's just GM's lame...

Been waking earlier and earlier these days, a sign of work stress or just getting old? Anyway, never thought I'd say "I wish I could just sleep in until 5am," back when I was a teen who could sleep until 10am when left to it. :ROFLMAO: Several hours of desk work today, and then some time in...

YKYO when you get this.

Oh geez... with that sort of shade, you're probably fine! It's really cool you built that. Bus stop shelters like that used to be common around here when I was a kid, but much less so now, it seems everyone drives their kids to the bus stop now. It's nice to think that shelter you built may...