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My VW diesel did it to me. Just shy of 4K later it runs great again. Pain in the butt!

You will get your reward in heaven my friend. I am sure they are grateful.

The United States Flag flying backwards on a uniform drives me nuts. Fire and police chiefs from huge departments representing their state on the national news and somehow the person who is the departments seamstress can’t fly the flag right. That and putting the letter U in Nuclear twice. Other...

Depending where you are bring bug repellent. Bad season here for the flys and other biting friends.

Letchworth state park is a neat place to hike and paddle.

On top of a housing boom we have mega wear houses being built. They sit empty. Even ones filled are laying off people. They get a huge tax break to build it and then walk away. Lehigh and Northampton counties used to be relatively rural. Now it’s all big trucks and new exits leading to huge...

I was always a St. Bernard guy until this new miniature Australian Shepard. If I had the time I think it could do my taxes.

Awesome story! A neighbor makes or breaks the peace one has at home. Thank god mine too are great people… and part time. We watch the place and plow his driveway and cut the grass if their not around. In return he pours bourbon that I could never afford. All works out.

I enjoy waking up and checking out the groan and the word association game. I’m lost how if your somehow offended by it not being about tractors you wind up even looking at it. Who twists any of our arms to look at any section.

39 and foggy in north east Pennsylvania. Winter starts later here the last few years and runs later. Ski areas look terrible.

Great movie! Smokey and the Bandit. I liked Fred.

My mom passed away in April. Her Poltergeist busts our chops at least weekly. I consider it a blessing. My mom actually busts my wife’s chops more often than mine. My wife was my moms home care nurse her last few months and my wife chats with her almost daily to this day. Please consider it mom...

That particular stretch of the Lehigh gorge state park is loaded with snakes of all kinds. If the season you can’t not see a poisonous snake. I had one swim right in front of me years ago while in a kayak. My first experience with a swimming rattle snake.

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Be kind and rewind!

Blockbuster store?

I have a pair of Lacrosse insulated boots that I can’t complain about. I got frost bite back in the 70’s as a kid. My feet are usually cold but these keep me warm while moving snow for hours.

In north east Pennsylvania we were asked to pull in our bird feeders this summer because of something killing off birds that was transmitted from feeder to feeder. We just put ours out for the winter. A few cardinals that’s it. Chickers are gone. We usually have hundreds.

We talk about this often. At what point do the insurance companies say we’re not doing business here. Some places get hit constantly.

But even school districts are handing them out to superintendents who don’t work out. Ours right now is being paid not to come in his last 6 months or so and an interim super we pay her $700 a DAY to clean up the mess. Now the district is interviewing for the next superintendent. We have been...

My M7060 picks up a ton of wood pellets off a truck like it’s nothing. Once I have the ton it gets lowered right to the ground. I thank god I only have a very short trip into the garage. I can feel that the tractor ain’t too happy. For that project I wish I had a skid steer.

As luck would have it it’s my left hand AND I am totally left handed.

How bad was that. That surgery is coming down the pipe for me. Not too bad yet but it’s coming.

It’s wet enough here that we burn them out if I can reach them with a long stick and a rag burning on the end.

Pain is always the worst when it happens. For me I was 27 and had chest tubes ripped out after having my aorta replaced. I am now 57 and had herniated disks L4/5. My new awful is the nerve pain. At least chest tubes pulled out ends. Just had the disk problem fixed and still nerve pain on the top...

You may save nothing buying two bikes for say $1,500 and after your first 10 minutes the wife’s hands fall asleep and or your neck hurts. Bikes are like hiking boots or trail running shoes for me. I have to try them on. Trek has bike stores all over the place. Even Virginia. [emoji13] you can...

Way back Kate Smith sang God Bless America for Flyers games that mattered, not the National Anthem. The game don’t start till the fat lady sang. During the Broad Street Bully days.

Although it may be piggy backed onto the city.

I think New York is a county in New York. Go figure.

I’ve had several bosses over the years that if “Their” team lost our entire station suffered. Had the purple paint law been in effect back then I would have painted my work mail box purple. And my back! [emoji13]

Why would any country or city spend the money to build all this nonsense for a bunch of spoiled rich kids. If we must continue to have the olympics why not just have it at the same neutral play ground every time. Winter games in Switzerland n summer games in the Netherlands ? Save us all money.

The coal region of Pennsylvania has a language onto its own. I live maybe 45 minutes away and have no idea what some of their short cuts translate out to. An old Sgt. We had here from there would bounce over to it and it sounded almost foreign. He called it Shendo-Speak.

Congrats on your new toy!

Google “Tri-clover firehouse burned down by member “. One of our volunteer firemen back in 1990 burned down his own firehouse so he could come to the rescue. Idiot went to our church too. Can’t write this stuff.

Some sort of half governmental entity auctions it off. But one can’t just sit on it. Detroit land bank maybe?

Look at Real estate in down town Detroit. It looks like Berlin after the war. You can buy a city block for almost nothing. Only catch is you have a rather short time to either knock it down and replace or fix up what’s there.

With identity theft today one needs to check on their young kids credit. I took an identity theft maybe 10 years ago where a kid was looking for college loans and his identity was shot by some dirt bag who ran his credit into the ground. Good luck straightening that out.

Yep! As a kid we watched phili fall apart as every night (almost) another Phili mobster got killed in a very public place that my dad would think nothing of walking through. (How I wish I didn’t know know what my dad never knew).

OBOZ hiking boots last me longer than anything else. I have very narrow feet so a lot of the suggested boots so far are off my list. OBOZ is from Montana so it’s kind of American? God knows where they are actually put together

Oh the perception dancer. Still the best all round kayak. (My current life jacket is purple so still on topic)[emoji38]

To the OP.., if I have learned nothing else lurking this forum if you don’t leave this most knowledgeable group some financial boundaries your advice will be all over the map.

The Lehigh gorge state park is a great example of the state saying enough is enough. (In Pa.) rafters were shot at for floating through several hunting clubs land. The state said that’s that and made the entire run a state park on both sides of the river. I guided that river for years. You still...

Pennsylvania has done nothing to educate the public about the purple paint law. If I didn’t have to take legal updates I would never have known. Funny thing is along our state game lands and a huge water authority here they use paint to let you know you CAN play there. A little education of the...

My dad passed away about two years ago from Alzheimers. Prior to him being diagnosed we got him hearing aids to the tune of about 4K dollars after insurance kicked in. He hated them n never used them. His doctor told us there is a correlation between lack of hearing and Alzheimers. There is a...

Try crossing the country in a TESLA. If something goes wrong your average garage can’t touch it. I have friends with towing services and they are afraid to touch them.

As usual Messicks has a decent YouTube video comparing what you are using and what you are looking at. All in the same rather high grass field at the same time. Neil also explains how each works and the pros and cons.

Sorry, a tad off the original topic.

Maybe if your lucky enough to have settled in a place not too close to a city life is almost the same as when you were a kid. I am 57. As a kid my dad thought nothing of taking us to down town Wilkes- Barre or Scranton or Hazleton in north east PA. to go shopping. Today forget it. The cities...

AND the cops in the last north philly shoot you talk about are on the hook for shooting back if I remember correctly.

Some people think they are just kids. What do you do with an 8 or 9 year old who was raised like an animal? They don’t have that chip most of us have about right and wrong. Lots of guys in state prison were introduced to the system when very young. That system no matter how you feel about it is...

Altoz makes this mower I am talking about. I googled it. Pretty cool. Yes my M7060 is not gentle on our lawn but our lawn is rough anyway mostly because if where we live. I take the good with the bad.

Driving yesterday I saw a tracked zero turn mower! I guess they exist but never saw one. It’s pretty neat and the guy on it appeared to be zipping along. It was a nice lawn so I am only guessing it somehow doesn’t tear up the grass.

Mental toughness is gone. I retired from the State Police. The younger kids think nothing of coming in late by 15-20 minutes! I came in 1 hour early. They have no mental toughness and to compensate piss all over the general public. They can’t talk to anyone. Best part of that job was pulling...

At the risk of steering this conversation back to the gentleman minding his own business being killed by two juveniles who because they are under 10 years of age escape the justice system because they are legally not culpable … I can only guess the parents will be sued in civil court. If they...

I live in PA just next to New Jersey and close to NewYork. I take my gun to neither state. Between magazine capacity laws and what ammunition you can have nobody can keep track. Hollow points are fine in PA. Jersey forget it. Those alone get ya jammed up. Not worth getting locked up in my mind.

So while I am reading this thread I get a call from Denver Co. I am in Pennsylvania so I dumped it. As it turns out my upcoming back surgery here in Pa. is going to be monitored by some company based in Colorado. They wanted to chat about it. You can’t win.

My wife picked up a ring at a flee market that looks like a huge red n yellow flower. You fill it with some kind of schmutz n the hummers drink it while you sit outside drinking your favorite beverage. Have not tried it yet.

It doesn’t mean that much to me to mean that much to you. (Neil Young)

And they grow in total shade and blasting son. We do not have poison ivy up here nor can we get ivy to grow.

My wife uses Ligularia plants. They actually produce babies all over and will even grow in a stone driveway. Nice looking. First to come up every year and last to pack it in. AND deer don’t touch them which for us is a must.

A quick google search says humming birds feed their young by regurgitating bugs and nectar for only 3 weeks. By then the little ones fly on their own . Pretty quick to be out on their own for eats.

Messicks does a decent review comparing a work master 75 to a power star 75. It appears the loader capacity is greater on a power star. I could only guess the 120 would shake out the same. Depends what you need for lifting.

I am not being smart . Sorry if I came across that way. I know what my wife pays in shipping with her business and it’s just baskets and pottery.

So after one pours money into this machine what would it cost to get it to Alaska? And where in Alaska? Would one float it there or truck it through Canada?

Here in the northeast any county fair has almost every brand you could ask for along with special fair pricing. How special the pricing is I am suspicious of.

A friend of mine is truck shopping. A used dodge 2500 diesel, 2008 with 80 K miles. The used truck lot is asking more for it than when it was brand new in 2008. What bank is going to finance that? Or do they? I have no idea.

Good friend bought a Bad boys mower, older and needed work. Sunk a few hours into it . He beats the tar out of it. He loves it.

Congrats! That should shine up nicely!

Quality tractor in chambersburg pa has a 2015 1025 R TLB asking 17,900 with 225 hours on it. No mower. For what it’s worth.

The only real don’t is to turn it off during the process. I guess you can but it will want to regen as soon as you start it again. Mine always asks me to bump up the rpm’s so I bump it up until the idiot light turns off. I lose no power. I have 60 hours and have had 3 regen’s so far. It sounds...

I went through this a little over a year ago. I need to be able to move a ton of pellets off my truck with pallet forks. My JD 3320 was not going to do that. While shopping two large Deere dealers both told me to move a ton I needed to go to a 5 series tractor. Several Kubota dealers said the L...