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    EV owners of today and tomorrow

    Looked at a Model 3 today. I'm 6'4", 250 lbs. It was such a pain trying to get in that I didn't even drive it, not going through that every day.
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    EV owners of today and tomorrow

    My gripe with EV's is that I pay $.30 a gallon for road use tax, EV's don't pay any road use. A survey done in June of 2024 46% of EV owners say that they will switch back to ICE because of the poor availability of chargers.
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    My Industrial Cabin Build

    I like this one.
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    Things that happen in your small town that you wonder if it happens everywhere?

    After my wife died this year I was going through some of her things. Found a sympathy card from 1968 when her sister died in a car accident. It was addressed "to the family that lost their daughter in car accident" with the city name on it. Small rural town of maybe 100 people.
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    My Brothers Estate

    "Our one boy just turned 18, but after my wife and I saw how my parents did it with me, we will set up the same estate to have our one son included." You have to be careful how you do this. A guy I worked with put his son on the deed, a few years later son was getting a divorce and the daughter...
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    Latest grab by auto manufactures

    My brother works for a company that builds instrument panels for a popular SUV, they have about twenty different wiring harnesses for the IP depending what options are on the car. It makes no sense to me to have so many.
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    Today, would you buy an EV vehicle.

    I always figured if it wasn't for global warming we would still be in the ice age.
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    Today, would you buy an EV vehicle.

    What the story said is he wants to cut management jobs but add to production workers.
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    New garage time!

    Whenever I've seen metal studs all wiring was done with armored cable. I don't know what code would be.
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    This place controls just like google does.

    "One ton of AC extra for each window." That wasn't you?
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    This place controls just like google does.

    I think you're the one that brought up windows, and then you didn't like that people disagreed.
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    Big Barn’s Retirement Farm Shop

    Wanted to thank everyone for the thoughts and prayers.
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    Big Barn’s Retirement Farm Shop

    Lost my wife two weeks ago. It certainly changes your world. I tell everyone to be sure your spouse knows how much you appreciate them.
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    Too late

    My buddies wife always asked "Do you need it or want it?"
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    Ugh!! Water Well contractors...

    Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs is really pushing people to get into the trades rather than college and massive student loans. He has a web site about it but I have never checked it put.
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    Ugh!! Water Well contractors...

    I recently saw a newspaper article saying that 51 percent of college grads are making less than $30,00 per year, I'm retired from manufacturing maintenance and haven' made that low amount since the late 70's. Many go and get student loans and can't find a job in their field. All the operators in...
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    paint

    When my little brother was in high school he thought it would look cool to paint his radiator with aluminum paint, car instantly started to overheat. I remembered reading in Hot Rod magazine that black displaced heat the best, painted black and the overheating went away.
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    I just bought this...

    That is a tachometer showing 678 hours.
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    DIY hydraulic hoses?

    Field Attachable Hydraulic Hose Fitting - 30 Series Fittings Where To Buy Parker's 30 series fittings are a two-piece field attachable style fitting which enables you to quickly and easily make hose assemblies right on the job site without special tools.
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