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Yes, this is a strange one for wife and me. We deal a bit with college age people that tell us their health complaints. Wife and I just look at each other, and try not to laugh at their issues. Wife even used the word "snowflakes" the other day. Never thought she would ever use that...

Kind of stupid how Docs coordinate MRIs. They usually need an Okay from the insurance carrier. So in conversation with one Doc, they said, you'll always need an ultra sound first before the carrier will sign off on a MRI. In my case, the ultra sound was inconclusive as to if the tumor...

Perception is an interesting thing. I build a Geo Dome with a 25 foot ceiling open to the top. Its a 50 Diameter with a 3 foot riser and half loft. Its not a big house, 3,400 square feet. But it feels huge even though it only has two conventional sequestered "rooms." The rest is open...

When you want your tractor to break that day. And You are digging the place for your dog of 14 years to be buried under. I grieve this way in manual labor. The sweat and effort, lets me take all this, in, and deal with it, cause the Dog was worth it.

When you have to ask a Gen Z how your cell phone works.

If some people were so minded, they could shut the entire city traffic down, just by setting off all the Ped crossing lights.

True that. We have got all these Ped crossings now. Some just give a RED. Which I think says you stop till it changes to Green. Some give a flashing RED, like you need to Stop, but then can proceed. And some give a flashing, Yellow. I stop for solid and flashing Red. Most people...

Maybe its just me, but in the last 15 years, I find that there are more people that drive as if they are entitled and drive aggressively. Driving, in my mind, is a shared risk. We share the risk because it is very convenient, and relatively inexpensive these days if you have a small...

Charlie is going to get a donation to the shelter he came from. :)

If pup, Charlie, has three more days, like this one today, we will have to put him down. Its a hard choice. Dogs give you everything they can. Till they can't. If you gave them a good life, there are no regrets.

The USA medical is so messed up that, and controlled by big pharma, I have to correct them, that the drugs are counter indicated some times. And they go "Oh, you are right on this." And I'm not a medical doctor. Yet, this happens all the time now.

"I can afford it, but can I keep up with everything myself as I age?" The simple answer is "No." I've dealt with many distressed properties. And its always the same story. Prior owner got old, and delayed maintenance. So nothing in the house works any more, and needs to be replaced...

When I hear CEO automakers saying things, I get sort of mad. They are always concentrating on the same design of vehicle. "Oh Look at this new car! Its exciting." And it looks like this? They all look like that. You need an App, just to find your car in a parking lot. They are all...

CJ5. :)

Homelite made some pretty good saws in the '70s. I had a 22 Inch Bar, New Old Stock, one with the finger chain lube pump. Inherited from the Dad. He said it never worked from the day he bought it. My Dad was not very mechanically inclined. Don't remember exactly what was wrong with it...

Jeep could be saved. But the carve out can't include Stillantis debt. If it did then it would immediately go for Chapter 11. Fire everyone. Reorganize and rehire only engineers that want to make a simple, tough, utility vehicle as a niche, retro-marketed four wheel drive vehicle.

Even in my late thirties, with an eye to the future, I designed my house to be ADA compliant back in the mid-'90's. It wasn't much more expensive than a normal house. The bath railings and things are not installed but there is structure in the walls for these and most entrances, are low...

If you own a boat,..... I always had vans with tow packs.

Worked at a place that always had too many pallets, set out for free. I tried everything with them..... tables and other furniture, planters, bird houses, dog houses, goat sheds, fire wood, concrete forms, fencing... etc. Never sold a single thing made out of these. But they work really...

The old style hay balers that had shoots to propel the bails on to the stacking wagon. ;)

As posted before, I'd go with Liquid Tape. Use a lot. Wrap it before it drys with electrical tape and then coat that.

When you have to spreed sheet your doctor appointments.

I wonder what other people do to get the noise level down. My gen is LOUD. Tried adding an automotive muffler, but that didn't really work. And tried running the exhaust under water. That also didn't work. Figured out if I set it up to reflect noise away from the house, it is much...

That may have been the case. I always ask for clear, but the attendant might not have known what I was specifying, to put in the can.

Not sure how to feel about this. Last January we had our big ice storm. Checked the 27 year old Homelite 4400 Watt generator in December with new gas and oil and checked oil and stuff and cleaned the air filter, replaced the gas filter. It always started on second or third pull...

Saw my first Cyber Truck in Eugene today. Personal opinion, is these are ugly as sin. Much bigger than I thought. And every online pic, they must have spent time polishing the SS exterior. This one wasn't dirty, but looked dull. Like it had oxidized or something. They are also much wider...

And its always some idiot with a dragging chain.

They also said, Maples don't propagate fires the way conifers do. Maples tend to shield against crown fires. I thought just the opposite. They were most interested in thinning the lower smaller conifers. That they said were the ladders to crown fires. Interestingly, there is a barrier...

Its an absolute joy to having it rain in my area of the PNW this year in late summer. Last seven years, was an egg walk, when the whole forest, just seemed to WANT to burn down in late summer, and I had to balance what the well could do, and what the 1,500 gal cistern could do to water stuff...

I found at a yard sale, a really old shop vac. It was like a drum with both the intake and the exhaust on the top lid with the motor and fan. The bearings to the fan seemed to have lost all lubrication. So I sprayed a good amount of old style WD40 in to the intake. And then turned it...

We have an apple tree that produces pretty good every year. Last month the wife and I were counting what we might get this year. There were immature apples all the way up into the upper branches. Cool, its a bumper crop. Was doing my annual soap spray yesterday, and everything is gone...

We may have to agree to disagree as to the benefits of spoked wheels. I do ride way out in the boonies and often on old roads that have over grown to become just paths. I have cast wheels. Yes, they are heavy! Way over built for a 500 CC. But I have slid into brush that would easily...

In an area that the power goes out, often, you can fill the tub for toilet flushing water. This has saved us, about five times, over 24 years. I do love a good book, and a very, very hot bath. I can also set up the laptop, on battery, and watch movies.

Don't want to question your preferences, but why would anyone want spoke wheels on an adventure bike?

Something happened that I didn't expect in domestic properties. There is no such thing as a local market any more. Anyone, in the world can buy property in the USA. It is an international market. And there are holding companies that will buy over the local market, for rentals, so that...

Its okay to me, as a reader, if the OP disappears. The Thread still has value. :) I would never use RR ties for anything on my property, aside from making steps on a trail distant from the house.

Probably a stupid question, but I'm used to asking stupid questions.... Is an official survey, by a licensed surveyor a legal requirement? By this I mean, if you and the owner walk and set boundary markers, and agree on those boundary markers, write up a land sale contract, based on...

Had an 7 year old Kenmore chest freezer that quit on us. Of course Kenmore doesn't supply the OEM thermal switch anymore. Found one, 120v, that looked like the old one, fiddled a bit with it's mounting points and connectors and installed it. Cycles just fine now, after two years. $14...

We maxed on the test kits. Once a few years later, we are positive for COVID every three months or so. This is an infection. It is sustained against going away. It will not just go away. Its still there.

Five miles just out side the Urban Expansion Plan.

Saturday mornings guy would push a cart along main street, early morning shouting, "Hay......Berries!" Not strawberries, but " Hayberries." Early 60's. Father, had a running tab with the next store Sinclair Station. Added up and paid off monthly. There were two brothers that ran the...

I have trouble putting faith in any US brand any more. I think I'm the last generation to believe in American exceptionalism.

Before buying, just look up replacement parts availability and cost.

I never in my wildest dreams, thought I was to live past 40. I'm 66 now, and understand the reasons now, why I didn't want to live past 40. :)

They are almost perfectly designed to last 5-7 years. Just buy a new one.

For any sort of resale, putting in RR ties interior, especially structural, would be a deal killer for me.

Just bought a brand new Brother all-in- one Print/Scan/Fax, MFC-J1010DW, and it has an RJ-11 port. I almost laughed when I saw the Fax functions. Its a crappy device,.... not recommending anyone buy one, but many new printers do still have Fax Capability. :)

The roadside produce vendor bought every thing at the closest COSCO. :)

Uhm.... this is not the case anymore. The land use restrictions in Oregon are basically meaningless. At least they are meaningless in Lane County.

There was an older couple that lived on the road to my house. Its an older house and rather small, and a seasonal creek runs though the property. It was fun to see the old man bridle up his donkey and ride his cart around. Both passed away and the kids decided to rent it out. This turned...

The international market is so weird now. A neighbor divided up some view properties, after clear cutting. I saw the asking prices and I was stunned. There is no freaken way, I thought, that he would get the amounts he was asking. The properties all sold rather quickly. But they sold...

This happened to us with a Subaru Hill Holder brake system. I requested that it be completely by passed, the valve was leaking and a replacement was $$$$, more than the value of the car. No mechanic would do this under hire as a bypass. So I learned how to bend and re-nipple brake line tube...

eBay became a waste of time. I'd set my limit, then just watch the bids incrementally, go up... But its only one other bidder. It finds my limit, by their last bid. Then they would disappear. eBay would contact me and say I was the last, now high bid. Do I want the item? Always...

I have the opposite problem. Trucks seem to last forever in the PNW, if far enough inland. We simply have no issues with rust. Been looking for an SR5, or other mid-sized older truck. But I want it to be a life long PNW truck. Which if not sold by a private party has gotten...

Whats your download speed. Don't go by what your service provider says. Use speed test, or any of the other sites that let you test this. Sometimes the code of the page is just badly constructed and patched. When it reads the patch, things get rearranged.

Having gone and participated in many auctions, I began to notice that the bidders in most local live auctions, all know each other. They are sort of a club, of re-sellers and don't want any interlopers. Being an interloper, I could quickly, see I was being singled out. So the strategy...

Widow of my Dad, forced an auction of all the equipment used on the farm. We needed most of that equipment just to do routine maintenance. So, yes, I was there as a bidder. Family members might be at an estate auction for this very reason, and not just to bid up prices.

For some reason, I've become the archivist for both families, Dad's side and Mom's. Both sides are now all passed away. The only relatives I can think of to transfer this family heritage to, are my two, thirty year old+, nephews that have little interest in any of it. We are 3,200 miles...

The West Coast is entirely dominated by its cities. The rural areas get zero attention. Presidential Candidates don't even bother traveling outside Seattle, Portland, SF and LA. The last candidate to visit Eugene was.. I believe Dukakus. And we are the second... or third, depending on...

A non-commercial driver's license is just too easy to get these days in the USA. In Germany and Britain, it is akin to getting a pilot's license, and people routinely have to retake the examine to pass: which is expensive. Since deregulation of the trucking industry, Which Carter did...

No. LOL....

Wife says she wants to work till she is 70. I've already retired, at 64 with enough investments to keep everything going and some plus . There is a huge difference in this. Our two worlds collide all the time. But she loves what she is doing, so I support that. She thinks she is...

Are you actually doing any thing that Libra, or, Free Office, or, Open Office can also do. I don't understand how MS even sells this stuff any more.

Dosage- Collective Soul.. Listen at least once a week.

When you want to get on your motorcycle and leave for a week or so. :)

You could watch the gas being metered.

Another Yellowstone story. This was the second time I'd been there. Saw group of cars parked on the side of the road, so I pulled over investigate. There was a huge male Bison, grazing just off the road. There were three or four people with their cameras, sneaking up to the Bison to get...

What is your spending limit? I tend to like the mid level Dells, and Lenovos. If you are going with Sold State Storage, make sure it is removable. Dell has a whole series of what they call " Rugged." These are not Panasonic Tough Books, but survive pretty well. The Apples have fantastic...

Took my Mother to the Old Faithful site many years ago. I had been there several times before. She started getting freaked out by all the Bear Warning signs and didn't want to leave the car when we got to Old Faithful. I convinced her that everything was safe, especially, here, with all the...

Many commercial landscaping crews here.... PNW... use gas powered hedgers for heavy Black Berries, along chain link fences.

Yes, that style of house, all built in the '50s seems crazy these days. Floor to ceiling glass, slab foundations, ceiling electric heating and virtually no insulation. They are like weird time capsules of an entirely different era, when we thought nuke power was going to be free.

For more delicate areas I use this head which will take line up to .105 inch. I have a measure set out on my garage work table for the lengths to cut. The ends I have to cut at a 45 angle to feed the line. Because you are working with 6 lines, this chops up the grass in to smaller pieces-...

I have an huge file of everything related to the building of our house and every appliance. Including photos of the construction. Over the years this has been extremely valuable, and will be given to the new owner if we ever sell.

When I do the weed eating, or concrete work, these pants are gone. No way I'm putting them in a wash cycle. They are five bucks at the local second hand.

I got too old, me thinks. Last time I had the tractor repaired for a transmission issue, the repair folk said I got the last and only part available, in the USA. There are no more. Seems like everything I own is like that now.

Technique, or how one a approaches the cut, for me makes a huge difference. Anything over 12 inches I'll make a first sweep with the lines or bolts at 90 degrees to the ground. This blows stuff up and out of the way. I do this again till 6 to 8 inches is left in stems. Then I go horizontal...

I looked at your list of machines, you are familiar with this pricing, I guess. I don't want to get any one in trouble, but most of the times I have dealt with New Holland Parts, even the parts guys would say this is insane, and would suggest some other avenue. There is always the guy...

What I do is extremely dangerous, so I would not suggest anyone do this. I wear a motorcycle helmet, steel toe boots and two layers of jeans, a thick coat, leather gloves, and no one can be around. Not even the dog. I use a head that is meant for the plastic replacement blades. But I...

You are so much closer than I would have ever guessed. $650. Even the parts guy said, "Are you sitting down?," as he read the number to me. A New Holland Parts person has to be one of the hardest jobs in the tractor industry now. LOL.

One neighbor, down the hill from us and not on F2, just added another "RV." This brings the total to 5 RVs, plus the house. A 40's era, two bedroom, one bath house. They are running romex 120v and garden water hoses to each of the trailers. I've been in the area long enough to know...

While in disassembly, figured, maybe I'll replace the oil cooler radiator. So I call up New Holland. It takes a long time for them to find the part, cause it is listed as an "OIL conditioning UNIT." This is basically a 10 inch by 3 inch radiator. Okay..... on honor system, with out...

These are not RVs.

Its this whole "destination" category of "RV" that has me a bit concerned. These are not "RVs" and are not really designed to be campers you take as a tow-able Recreational trailer. And they aren't really mobile homes, in the sense of the Single Wide, Double Wide or Manufactured homes...

Wish Google Earth would let you know when they are updating the photos.

When you just don't want to fix any thing any more.

Tow-able destination RV is a whole new concept to me. Mobil homes, they take the wheels off at some point and call it a house. This is something different. It will always be an RV if its on wheels and stays on wheels? I should have bought a lot of water front properties, around local...

I have an old friend that got a permit for an AG structure. He was living in a trailer at the time. I helped him build this and it wasn't an ag building at all. God help the real estate agent that has to broker this place in the future, and find there are no dwelling/occupancy sort of permits...

Was out for a drive today, and saw at least 5 more places with RVs hooked up to septic and power cords out of the house. If this was just families accommodating other family members, I wouldn't care. This seems to be entirely something else and strange. The property tax is basically a fixed...

I'm F2. Which required at least 20 acres for a single dwelling and lots of hoops to jump through. Or at least I think I still am. Recently a neighbor, was able to carve out 6 build-able lots on his 60 acres- which was also F2. I didn't think this was even possible given Oregon's stringent...

I'm seeing multi-thousand dollar two story homes moved in on wheels. Not just camper type trailers. These are bigger than the original house that is, I guess, was establishing the rent. Its very odd to me to see this happen, every where, and to think how stupid it was to follow the land...

A few weeks a go, my radiator fan was shattered from what I believe to have been a stick that got up there. These are cheap yet, difficult to replace as you have to take the radiator out, things are tight and have to be done in a specific sequence. Completed the replacement of the fan...

Personally, I've started the process of getting rid of things and converting them to silver or gold. And I'm only 66. But I know my wife, who I assume will survive me, doesn't know the value of certain things. She isn't in the same world as I am. As, I've been a studious buyer of just...

Its not an invasion if they are a native bug. Which they are.

I don't think he is an idiot. We shared a few beers the other night, and I realized that I'm of an older generation, he is of a newer one where, apps and cell phone GPS are part of their lives, and trusted to be accurate. In my case, his app was way off, and he should have contacted me...

That's what I thought also at first. New tech.... new issues. :) And people are so trusting of these apps that you have to walk them to the pin, have them run the app over the pin, and show them the app is giving an incorrect overlay.

We found the the end point on a major section line that was my boundary. And the App was 100 feet off that pin into my property as a GPS reading. Just say'en. Don't trust these Apps using smart phones thinking that the app has any legal value. :)

A new neighbor was using this as a reference as to boundaries. He got a bit in to my property thinking it was real. I can't blame him, he thought he was with in his rights. But the App was way off. Which I could show him after finding original pins and other survey markers. Then, I...

Yes, I'm in that Jasper. Off Wallace Creek. You must have a sizable place to run a International 884.

Its a smaller, well defined area to me, with 20 acres. But the ants don't follow property lines. And they are also well established across the road into another property which I help cleared. Which I included in the 400 by 400. So, I wasn't that clear about that, sorry. The ants seem to...

Doing all the tree/branch and stick clearing, yard by yard, I 'm getting a clearer idea of wildlife going on on the property. I found one area that has me fascinated, because it seems like the only area with lots of ants. Its an explosion of ants. Yet, it is a very small area, 400 by 400...

Having and paying off a loan on time, was how I was taught was the way to increase your credit score when I was younger. I don't think this was ever really the case. I think it was a sales pitch to get people stuck on credit. I've never had a loan to payoff in my life. And never carried...

Not a tractor, but I once bought a rather rare Donzi boat off ebay in New Hampshire and had it shipped to Maryland to my brother's place so I could pick it up and bring it back to Oregon. This was an incredibly stupid idea. I got it to Oregon, and then saw all that was actually wrong with...

Pushing in branches and sticks yesterday in to the burn piles ... And then this happens. Some how a branch got up in there. Fortunately the radiator is okay. :( Think I'll walk out to a field and practice some scream therapy. LOL.

Thank you Ponytug for suggesting ASV-RT120, I'll ask them if that's what they have. Or something like it. :)

My ideal is to open the trails again, but these were never large enough as a something that could remove the wood fuel load. Which had been done by hand, and shagging stuff. I've seen what a small cat track excavator can do. And I am impressed. Maybe that is the answer, and I'll just...

Out of 20 acres, I'm just now finishing up on clearing up all tree falls and debris on the 4 acres residential part of the property. Its divided into two tax lots. The other 16 is forestry deferred, difficult to access, and prop taxes on this are $400 a year. I spent 28 years...

Is this just a thread about people that read William Luther Pierce?

When the AI personality can't answer any question because it isn't designed to look that far back.

If I know a storm is coming, first thing is to fill both bath tubs for flushing water and sponge baths. Then only use the tap for drinking. We have two 50 gallon pressure tanks. The selection of canned goods makes a big difference in how much water we needed. We didn't run out of...

When the last ice storm happened last Feb, which isolated our community with so many tree falls, we got alerted that power was not coming back for weeks. We are somewhat use to this, so old timers have well stocked pantries. A very surprising thing happened. The neighbors, all phoned, or...

Canned goods is the way to go. You can always eat and make a fire. I don't understand high priced prepper stuff.

When the frontal lobotomy is a more attractive option, than the bottle in front of me.

When the check out clerk is really very pretty and young, and you feel it, and it makes you feel young again, but you counter with the fact that she is 40 years younger than you. :)

I think our ice storm in Feb killed all of them off that didn't migrate South. Seen only one humming bird so far this spring. I'm more concerned about the bees. There are no bees, or any other large insects of any kind. Frogs, and small reptiles, just seem to being doing business as...

The pillows they give you on airlines, they really don't want back. So I take them as free. I put these on my Yam SR500 seat, which extends my ride another 100 miles before entire numbness. :)

Hopping the Islands is rather in-expensive, but it is time consuming. Since you mention Pearl Harbor, that means O'ahu. Yet, I would set up home base in Maui. There isn't much in the way of public trans. Renting a car, in my opinion is necessary. I did just about all one can do in Maui...

I have a "Reduce" tumbler that we got as a Christmas present three years ago. Fits nice in the Cub Cadet cup holder and keeps the wine nice and cold on hot days. And it is fairly stout and well made. :)

In 2023 there was a law change in Oregon that said you can just place and then rent out a camper on your rural property as a tenancy. Everyone seems to be doing this now . I just go WTF, after years of complying to the rules. At first I thought these where ADUs. But nope, they are...

More "trash work" pants. Damn if the wife and I didn't have a miscommunication this year for X-mass. I specifically said, I would like cheap goodwill store work pants. She got new shirts, of which I all ready have too many. So today, I bought a dozen used pants at the second hand...

We live very close to a mill that makes pallets, small poles and stakes. I think that is all they do. They became very automated in the last year or so, which also means that there are many rejects, knots in the wrong place for a stake or pole and stuff like that. I use to buy some of...

Woke up yesterday, and didn't know if it was dusk or dawn. Then remembered that I had worked hard all day since dawn, and took a nap at 3pm. Which turned into an all night sleep till next morning. It was confusing.

In five years, the real estate market will collapse in the same way it always does. So save up with liquid cash and wait for it.

This spring is very weird in the South Willamette Valley of Oregon after our ice storm in Feb. . There are no bees. NO BEES. There are almost no pollinating insects at all, aside from very small flys.

As a safety thingy, never have any loose clothing around a chipper. And by that, I mean, wear your jacket tight or have nothing that a branch can hook into as it is being sucked in. I didn't button up my cuffs one time and the chipper ripped off my entire sleeve. Good thing it was an old...

Don't order anything till you take it apart and see what the real problem is. It could be something entirely else. I've been down this rabbit hole of thinking that I found a solution on the internet, only to find later, after taking it apart, that the issue had nothing to do with any of...

This what the forestry guys said works. 3/4 diesel, 1 part gas. I had already figured this out, but it was nice to have that confirmed by the experts. :)

It might be that things have dried out a bit, but I used the small branch method yesterday and it worked. I filled the FEL with little sticks, and dumped them on the winded side of the piles. A quart of 3/4 diesel, 1/4 gas, in small plastic containers got them all started. So three big...

Yes. It was very weird attempting to get her on my Progressive policy. Cause I though she had a clean record. The agent started looking stuff up. The wife was upstairs but I could talk to her while on the phone. "Hon, did you get any tickets in Washington in the last five years?" "Yes, I...

Wife just got a major increase with Pemco, I got a decease with Progressive this year. Then again, wife never tells me if she gets a ticket.

Using most every method suggested, these piles just will not burn. Me thinks that the ice storm somehow saturated the wood with water. And I'll have let them dry out over the summer season.

Met a young man that had just bought his first motorcycle, at the DMV the other day. We were the only two people there at 1pm. I noticed his bike in the lot, a brand new bike.... a 250 Honda dual-purpose type. He was there to get his endorsement and new license photo. We were both...

Win 7 was MS's Swan Song. Yet still, I could crack admin passwords in about 8 minutes. :)

When you have learned to work smart. And to time things. And you are old when you are the one that says, "This" has to come first, before we do anything else, from experience.

Bon Fire! Yet the most fun, would be driving "Off Road." There is something magical about this to a 15 year old that has only traveled on public streets. Most fun I ever had as a camp counselor, was letting them drive, some driving for the first time, out in an open field with no designated...

Kind of amazing that in my area, that Century Link pissed off so many people, that there are no subscribers any more to a trunk line that runs through my property. I've asked them to remove it, but they just will not even acknowledge its there. I can even give the pole numbers to them and...

Can't get the wife to ride on back any more. This has created a contention in our relationship.

Remember when you got new shoes and they measured your foot? Do they even still do this?

Yes it can. Both an aunt and a grandmother went this way. And it is rather odd to be with some one that talks about you in the third person. Yet sort of revealing. My Grandmother had no idea who I was, on a visit, but would talk about me. Very strange conversations. I know a bit of...

Well, in my case I've have not seen much of any increase, from Progressive. It has stayed at around $540 a year for the car. How ever, the Progressive motorcycle insurance, for my 500 CC, 44 year old bike, has doubled in the last three years with no claims or tickets. And I only ride about...

"Pop, Pop, Fizz, Fizz, Ooh,... what a relief it is ." :) The ol lady was an actor named Clara Peller. She died in 1987. She was world famous for the "Where is the beef?" TV commercial by Wendy's during the election cycle of 1984.

Needed to replace the radiator in my '87 Ford 1220. So I go the local New Holland dealer. Even the old guy, working in the parts department of this dealership, rolled his eyes, when he saw the replacement cost for just the parts. And in that moment I think, even he had had enough. Cause...

When on the census, it asks for ethnic origin and you write in "Shriveled."

I've cancelled just about everyone in my world. I'm okay with it. :)

It is interesting that TSA has an issue with 20K in cash, but not one with a 50K watch. :)

We have an entire kitchen drawer full of every kind of interface plug for many devices. The Europeans are right to standardize this sort of thing for charging. Its mind numbing to figure out what interface a device needs. And so many minutes wasted to figure out if its a USB-C, with...

Insurance is not a right. No one HAS to give you insurance aside from your saving account, for anything.

And yes, I had to sequester The Dog. I think think this put the cops more on notice, like, I'd come back with a gun, after seeing a full marked car, and after putting the dog away. We give police impossible situations to figure out. It was a rush when they put hands to gun, as I came out...

Its 2am. There is a loud knock at your door. Do you take the gun? I decided not to. It was police officers looking for someplace else with a warrant and someone I didn't know. They got the addresses all messed up. And were lost. But still as I came out to talk to them, guns were...

Yah, I hear you on the crafts stuff. We sort of ignore these. You should not try to sell "ART" or jewelry at a farmers' market. Its about the local land to table as food. But the organizers have to make that choice as if the ground fee for the event can pay off. So I think they...

We have several in my area that are permanent. We go all the time to these, but it is a must do when ever we hear about a new one. These tend to be pop up markets that don't do it every year. We always find something really great, like Lamb sausage sticks, other jerky's, cheeses, local...

I inherited a Bulova Accutron from my Grand Father. Its a first generation watch with no calendar. Can't use it much because the batteries are rather expensive and short lived. So that is just for special occasions. I have to take the battery out after each use. The Grand Mother on that side of...

Love this watch. It was B-day present from back in '83/'84. Switched it to a leather band. It has had 9 or so batteries, and as many new bands. Its a water PROOF watch. So I never had to worry about it and water. Model is a W350 Marlin. And I've swam in fresh and salt water with it...

Even with the rops and the belt, I find it completely impossible to not reflexively jut my leg out to stop a roll. I need a sign or something on the dash that says "Keep your feet in the tractor!"

I was very surprised reading that you should put a screen over a Mason Bee "hotel", while they are hibernating, so woodpeckers don't eat them. WE HAVE SERIOUS ISSUES WITH WOOD PECKERS 'ROUND HERE. :( I think my BIL has ill will towards me. He gave us his used little Bambeco house, but...

Do you have to buy mason bees or do they just show up if you make site/nest area for them?

I was never very good at shapening chain. I was using the dremil bit method and would get maybe four re-sharpenings then buy a new chain at $20. Tried all kinds of things I saw on the web to do it better. After our recent ice storm, I'm at it everyday now. And I was getting rather...

After our last ice storm, 20 ac, is all I can handle . Its going to take two years to get back to where we were on an 8 hour work day. I'm getting sort of sick of shagging all these branches to burn piles. But it is still better then working for someone else. Even with the hail and the...

My deed has a clause that I can't "divert" any water from a natural seasonal or year round stream. It says nothing about rain water, roof top, cistern catching. There was a bit of a fight with some of the neighbors when a Pot Farm was created up the hill from me. Ground water is...

Never heard of this. And I'm right out side of Eugene, Or. So something else is going on here. There is a huge community of small farmers that have markets all over the state, and local food production is encouraged at the county and state levels. Some thing in this Vid isn't being...

State Farm will just straight out cancel you if you make two back to back claims. Even if there was nothing claimed for 10 years. Meanwhile the wife has had many accidents, and damage to her full coverage car with Pimco and they pay out with no rate increase. Its weird, cause i wanted...

Balsa wood?

Its just crazy here in Jasper Oregon. Its getting to end of day, and I've been up and out since 7am shagging tree limbs to burn piles. There is no end to it. All I see is just more to do. A shower and a bit of wine, tomorrow is another day. Still, I wouldn't trade it for living in a...

Not there yet..... but getting closer to a balancing act. :)

If your family has a history of Viking Hand, or medically known as Dupuytren's disease, .....don't personally run a chipper. The medical costs will out weigh the utility and cost savings of the chipper. I thought this was the way to go, till my hands started to crab inwards. The doc said it was...

When you put your feet on the floor to put the socks on.

I don't know anything about the performance or price point of the Farmmac pictured above; but I am amused by the fake carbon fiber.

The biggest disappointment with the Cub Cadet XT2 is lack of locking diff. I get stuck in the silliest of places. I can only use it if the ground is dry.

Great info guys! My mistake was I built up the piles first. I should have started the fires and then built on top of them.

I have a Cub Cadet XT2 42 with the twin, "cadet engine" brought new in 2020 and I am astounded at how bad the gas efficiency is. Its the first new riding mower I ever bought. Maybe this is a learning curve for me. But, "oh my" this thing uses a lot of gas at the recommended RPM.

I've heard of folks using a shop vac, reversed to blow, to help start. I should try that. Right now, I just want a napalm flame thrower. :)

It was all day today, picking up little dry sticks, and piling them on, thinking they would get the wood piles going. Then diesel and gas as a starter. This should have worked. It didn't take. I'm doing something wrong, but so is everyone else. Cause they can't get anything started...

I use Mule Tape. I love this stuff. It doesn't snap back in any way if it breaks and you can just double, triple up, if you need more pulling strength.

Yes, we were doing our own Myth Busters before there was a Myth Busters. :)

More survey, and every maple, all of them, have a snag somewhere. Most are very small, 2 inch dia.

Trying to shoot off a widow maker is almost entirely ineffective. A friend of mine was an avid reloader. He would hand cast 12 ga lead balls then max out the power charges. I never let him load one of my guns. He was a little crazy. And I'd stand well back from him shooting. We had an...

For some reason I can't start a fire pile. I did all my old methods, that use to work, but on these piles nothing is working. I think because this is all green wood with too much moisture . No one else here can get theirs started either. The 3 to 1 gas Diesel isn't working.

I'm a bit surprised by this thread. Is the USA still enforcing any sort of intellectual property? Or did corporations just give up on filing patent infringement suits? Is it just more cost effective to let the clones in? Under license is one thing, but does China even have a court to...

Anyone else notice when being passed by an army convoy of trucks, the distinctive smell. Its not diesel. It smells sort of like cosmoline. Or something the army uses to protect the canvas.

When you have over 5 or 6 magnifying glassed spread all over the house cause you can not read anything any more. Or has type just gotten smaller over time.......

I think you can take just about anyone of a certain age, blindfold them and somehow lift them in to an original VW Beetle, with out touching anything, and they would instantly recognize it just by the scent. Like Winterdeer said. It might be cause of how they were heated off the exhaust or the...

Situational awareness. If you haven't figured out the potential energies... everything that could go wrong.. then that cut waits for another day and reflection till you have it figured out. I absolutely agree that if you start to feel tired, just stop. Its end of the perfect day, where...

You are old when they don't ask you, if you want the past 64 discount. They just give it to you, straight up.. :)

I'm coming around, that most likely, these maples are never going to recover in the way that they broke down under the ice load. They tore apart with long vertical fractures making all these widow makers. The conifers survived much better. They just dropped certain branches with clean...

Lots of them that look like this. They are most all maples that cracked off branchings at the crown. They are in areas we use. I'm thinking a long rope tossed up, tied and tethered to the tractor a good distance away. Then see if I can pull them off and down. This is just...

I've got lots of these now after the latest storm. Do I hire out, or do I toss a lead over the branch to see if i can pull it out? What is the best way to "rope" a high branch?

I can assure you that Poison Oak is also a vine. It has a smaller leader than Ivy. Every tree over 50 feet had this sort of umbilical cord, to reach sunlight light in the canopy, that was feeding the rest. :) kill them from the trees, and then use ground herbicides.

Do not burn it. Our property was covered with the stuff. It depends on your individual genetics, but I'm entirely immune to it..... my brother was highly affected by it. The first few laundry ended up in rashes for my wife. So work clothes got separated, and in some cases just...

Poison Oak, is a vine. Find all the leaders to the upper canopy and cut them.

Under Oregon legal code, Psittacines, also known as parrots, are not considered to be domesticated animals. Neither are cats. But chickens are. They have different definitions legally as what a domesticated animal is, which is a state by state determination. Dogs are always considered...

If you remember ever making a reverse charge phone call from a phone booth.

I know its 14g. The as tested fuse wire is fine. So I'm at a lost to where the issue is. The manual said a relay is here, somewhere yet it isn't there in any chart. Modern vehicles are sort of complicated. It will cost me, but I want to know now, why this failed, and where, even if it...

I was surprised of how few of my coworkers had wrist watches. They had to reach into pockets and swipe their phone. I just extended my arm and turned my wrist. :) Same watch after 43 years. :)

I've capitulated. Three days of attempting to figure this out, and I'm done. Thank you all for attempting answers. Its going to a shop.

Earlier match packs had the striker on the same side as the matches. So it was a simple fold and strike. The newer ones, you had to bend the match all the way to the back, and still do it with one hand. :)

Bitter DOG works. Stuff to keep dogs from eating things. There are many brands. Mice don't like it. Its pretty nasty stuff, so be careful with it.

When you know how to fold a match and light it with one hand. :) Remember the match companies all had to put the striker on the back side. :)

This is a general question about wire fuses. A common fuse you just pull out and replace. A wire fuse, just confuses me. Do you have to just make your own? They don't have part numbers. At least they don't my case. Is it just the gauge, or is there something else, special to the...

When you realize you are older then most every thing you own. :)