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If it hae a particulate filter but just runs higher emmisions temps, thats the way to go if you want/ need higher horsepower. Although the tractor dealers have pretty much perfected the regen cycle now. The biggest issue i've had with def systems is customers running the system out of def...

Most commercial warranties i've come across were 2 year, 2000hr bumper to bumper, and 3yr 3,000hr emmisions. [emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369] I wonder what the 5yr warranty encompasses.

There are a few folks that scalp their yards around me. Then spend $$$ on water to keep the stuff green. I'll cut the yard down to 3" in the spring, but thats because it grows really fast. As it starts getting dryer out, I'll bump it to 3.5" and the up to 4". Then fall I'll start cutting...

The deer are a lot friendlier and taste so good [emoji39][emoji39][emoji39]

A couple years back just before we purchased pur property, the Coyotes were bad and harassing the cattle across the street. Neighbor to the south of us, went out with a night vision scope and thinned them out. The ones that were able to avoid the purge moved elsewhere and haven't been back...

Nice rainy and cool today. Weather set in at a nice and balmy 65° out a little while ago when I ran out for lunch. We've set a record today as being the coldest day in August for Arkansas.

Scr isn't added to a machine under 75 horsepower. So the only requirement is a DPF. Some manufacturers require the unit to regen to burn off the excess soot. Other manufacturers run higher exhaust temperatures and don't regen. Other than the B33xx that had major issues, kubota has it pretty...

Ram is a 2023 5500.

Our F550 diesel flat bed weighed around pretty close to 8,500 lbs. We have to run them through a scale and get a weigh slip when they come in so we have an idea what we can haul with them. The exhaust brake on our dodge 5500 seems to work as you say on larger roads where I have room. We have...

We have to use the regular brakes on the 5500, even with the exhaust brake. But the truck weights in at 19,500. I could see not having to use them if it was in a flat bed.

So.... thats how you split a tractor!!!! [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]

My brother totaled a house with a road grader one day. He was driving it from one jobsite to another. Started down a really steep hill and the engine died. Hit a house at the bottom of the hill, tore through the covered porch and knocked the house off it's foundation.

The new dodge diesels come with a Jake brake. At least our 2023 5500 service truck does. I tested the braking with it off and then on, and it does make a difference.

One night put after dark, I was walking my pooch. The cattle were by the road so I stopped and was talking to them. I turned around and shined the flashlight into the field behind me, and there were five deer about 20 yards watching me...

Some people just like waisting money [emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369]

As far as parking goes, I drive a regular cab F550 service truck for work. It fits in a regular parking spot.... barely. With very little room on the side. So if I don't want to be boxed in, I need to park in the back forty and hike. But it's roughly the same lengh as my coworkers crew cab...

[emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji1787] I figured you must have been short on coffee [emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji23]

We ran into the growing pains of fiber going out on occasion in the rental neighborhood we were living in for a couple years. They were still building homes in the neighborhood when we moved in. Most of the outages were someone either clipping the line while they were building one of the...

Yup.... takes an extra 20 seconds to make sure it's hooked up properly with the pin installed [emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369]

I filled the backup alarm on my service truck with black rtv sealant. It still beeps when the truck is in reverse, but it doesn't wake up the whole street when i'm reversing into my driveway in the middle of the night [emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji1787]

I've had a couple trucks derate but never down to 5 mph. I've had to turn on the beacon lights to keep from getting run over going up some hills because I couldn't get over 45mph going up them [emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji1787] I've had 2 - 08' model f250 and an f550...

Dad had a weiney dog that would come running if he fired up the vacuum cleaner. Dog would come into the room and flop on his back in the middle of the floor [emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787] Gypsy, when she was a pup, thought it was the best thing in the...

I've been able to get my GSD with the hose from the shop vac once, where she let me vacuum her. After the first time, she gets up and leaves the room [emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369]

It's the amount of chihuahua's we sweep up in one sitting [emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369]

I have some 30ft test leads with alligator clips on each end. It was a give me from Matco a couple years ago in a Christmas giveaway. If i'm running into an issue where someone got creative with wiring, I'll break out those leads and my ranger test box. I'll hook the ground lead to ground on...

Same here [emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787]

Yup..... same inner and outer coat [emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji23] I'll feel your pain [emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23]

That ain't nothing [emoji1787][emoji23][emoji23][emoji1787] Wait until you experience shedding from a dog that has two coats (inner and outer). We got two dogs that have inner and outer coats. A German shepherd and a siberian husky. If you look at the photos, they both look like they got the...

Mom's boyfriend had his old dodge truck sitting for a week while he waited for a part to come in. A week later he put the part in and took it for a test drive. It was cold that day so he kicked on the heater and it popped the fuse to the blower. [emoji848][emoji848][emoji848][emoji848] He...

The guy who has cattle across the road from me has a 100hp Massey. He loves it. Ice cold AC in the cab, and a pretty intuitive and comfortable layout in the cab. I couldn't tell you the model. He actually had purchased a 100hp deere, but after waiting 6 weeks for them to deliver it and pick...

As it should [emoji16][emoji16][emoji16] I had my boss get mad at me for strapping a tire down to the bed of the flat bed just to haul it a mile up the road to a tire shop. This was literally right after he stated that it was up to me on whether or not I strapped it to the bed of the truck...

Those idiots are the worst. They think they are untouchable because of who they know. I seen a guy who was the brother in law of someone big in a company. This guy ignored the new guy who pointed out that he should probably reset his tracks before he got stuck. Guys reply was that he's been...

My German shepherd does that. She will ask to go outside. You let her outside and she turns right around and looks back inside [emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23] You have to go outside with her. She does the same thing for walks. She went over to the door, looked back and...

I've demoted and threatened employees that they would be sent home for the day and wouldn't be eligible to use sick time or vacation time to cover the lost time. Their reply was "you can't do that!!!!" My reply "while technically that is true!!! All I have to do is make 1 phone call, and the...

Ive seen the after effects of someone checking battery water level using the same method [emoji33][emoji33][emoji33][emoji33]

I wasn't disagreeing with you on that part of it. The results are similar as to overseas by comparison when it comes to solar. A bunch of fly by night cowboys installing one day and out of buisiness the next. Leaving the gullible in the lurch.

It's similar here with solar. You pay big money for an install thinking your going green. Financed it.... with funny fine print and weird interest rates. Company does a half arsed job on the install, doesn't have it wired correctly. Then goes out of buisiness and your stuck with a mess and...

Good afternoon fellas. 100° out again. Picked up little man this morning and took him to church. Service was good as usual and visited with some friends. Message was about identity crisis. Paster talked about getting cut off in one of the roundabouts in town. Said for a couple minutes he...

My pellet grill works as a smoker as well as a convection oven. I live in a camper which has an oven about the same size as a child's easy bake oven [emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji23] So I do most of my baking outside in the pellet grill.

They were good [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106] I got half a pizza left for when you get here. Loaded with sausage, onions, and bell pepper [emoji16][emoji16][emoji16] Fat free mozzarella so my wife can eat it. I top the meat and veggies with oregano and garlic salt to boost the flavor before...

Another hot one today. 100° out. Ran to town today. Ran to Walmart to pick up some supplies for the camper. Then to sams club. Changed out the water in Sasha's pool. Walked the pooches a couple times today and then hibernated inside trying to stay cool. Gotta be at the daughters for...

Pizza on the pellet smoker tonight.

Caught this by accident today. Was changing out the water in her pool.

My daughter went with Samsung appliances when they had their kitchen appliances replaced. Two over stove microwave replacements before they got a decent one. And the flat top stove was replaced once within a year. The oven on the second stove was eay off on temperature. But she got...

It gets to a point whether you smarten up, or your gonna get tuff [emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369]

Unfortunately once someone gets past the 90 day probationary period, it's next to impossible to fire them. It's much easier to run them off. I see lots and lots of dirty jobs in his near future.

Watched that moon as it came up last night while ealking the pooch before bed. It was a gorgeous dark yellow color

Locally, it's hard to find someone that can work on a geothermal heat pump. And if you purchased a home warranty, good luck filing a claim on it. It's pretty much a guarantee that they don't have a contractor that can work on them.

Time to head south east my friend. People are a little more down to earth and tend to mind their buisiness [emoji849][emoji849][emoji849][emoji849] Half the homes along my street have tractors. They don't get butt hurt either if you shoot a predator in the middle of the night.

Sasha found a tea jug out in the ditch. It became her most favorite toy [emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji23]

Here's the Trex plant just down the road from my shop. It sits on 300 acres. 3 out of the 4 buildings are up. The one on the left is just shipping and receiving.

Snitches get stitches!!!! My next door neighbors in the rental house were from Cali.... and had that busy body attitude. I had to stop by wife one night from going next door, ringing their door bell, and punching whichever one opened the door...

Knowledge of what your working on really helps [emoji16][emoji16][emoji16][emoji16] I have one tech in my shop that i've about given up on. He's dumber than a stump. If you tell him something to make his job easier..... he does the opposite. He was replacing a starter solenoid the other...

We replaced the deck boards with trex at our last place. My only complaint about it, was the blue color really showed the dirt from the dogs. But..... the little electric pressure washer we use to wash our vehicles cleans it up pretty quickly.

My wife's a nurse/ department head for a nursing home. So she's been on both ends of this. Both the Medicare coordinator position and a long term care coordinator, had the task of getting that list together from the patient of all their meds. She's also called Dr's out about medications that...

There is a small floor jack thats light enough for my wife to use in one of the storage bins in the back of her car. She also has a 2ft breaker bar and the correct socket with it as well. She doesn't have the strength to break loose the lugnuts with the lugnut wrench that came with her car...

I went in to my doctors office to get antibiotics for a dog bite. It was my dog who had gotten injured and latched on pretty good when I went to help. So I didn't need rabies vaccine or anything like that. I happened to be allergic to the two most common drugs prescribed for a dog bite. So...

These were my thoughts as well. Ive dealt with some thorn apples on my grandparents property in vermont. It was hot out that day. But I ended up going back inside after having one arm throughly cut to shred. I came back out wearing my winter carhart pants and carhart coat plus thick leather...

I just had to dip into my retirement fund to pay my wife's doctor bills.

I thought the $5 was changed to $100 [emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369]

I carry a swedge jack in the back of my truck for my tandem axle landscape trailer. I also carry my 1/2" impact, torque stick, and sockets with me when I haul that trailer. I just drop the swedge under that good tire on that side and drive forward a smidgen.

I haven't had to ever use a sledge to remove a lugnut in the north. I have had to use a sledge and then add a portapower to the mix to remove an inside rear dual wheel that was frozen on from rust and corrosion.

My grandfather built his own wood stove. This thing was Satan's abyss on steroids [emoji3062][emoji3062][emoji3062][emoji3062][emoji3062] It took 24" chunks, and the fire box was 24" tall, by 36" wide. It was extreme overkill for their 900 sqft 2 bed, 1 bath home. Darn thing was heavy...

He had it down to a science using that wood. Never any issue. [emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369]

I have a friend that will collect all the Osage orange he can get his hands on for firewood.

Thats what I was thinking as well.

I work on stuff stuff daily. Sometimes ridiculous amounts of bolts. I'll use my impacts and save my joints as much as possible. [emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369]

Maybe in Cali. But go into the local sams club after a natural disaster or snow storm. They will have 4 pallets packed by the door with ice generators loaded up on them.

That doesn't work, when the person installing the lock, is also the one inhaling the cheese [emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369]

I've seen some farmers dredge their ponds with a tractor powered manure pump, and an agitator that stirs up a manure pit. The backed both units into the pond. Agitated the water, and then pumped the slurry with the manure pump. They set up a bunch of hay bails to act as a filter and collect...

There are some growing pains when a new fiber system gets up. We've experienced a couple outages. One of those outages took a while to get back up, since a car missed the turn and mowed down the distribution network up the street. At work, we were losing the fiber regularly. They've been...

My wife and I say that about food. It's horrible, it sucks, I'll eat it and take one for the team so it doesn't go to waste [emoji51][emoji51][emoji51][emoji51]

My brother and I tried to give the cat a bath at 2yo. We had just witnessed mom the day before give the cat a flea dip. There was only one water source immediately available to two 2yo...... the toilet [emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji1787] Mom heard splash, splash, splash...

Ice cream doesn't last around me [emoji51][emoji51][emoji51]

A girl in school with my daughter spent a year at children's hospital learning to walk and do most tasks we take for granted. She was texting and pulled out in from of a pickup at the last second. Got T-boned in the drivers door.

Thats a parents issue versus grandparents issue. My oldest grandson got spoiled when he was with us. But also held accountable for actions. Oldest grandson just signed on with a local baptist college.

Depends. More and more are going to aluminum. The ultralites have aluminum framing for sure. There are several places in the cubbies in my fifth wheel where you can see the aluminum.

I picked up a dune buggy go-cart, repowered it, put in 5 point harnesses, and gave it to my two older grandsons, much to my daughter in laws dismay [emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji1787] I think that thing caused several Grey hairs for her. Of course I accidently...

Half the time, my mailman will leave the door wide open. On a couple occasions, i've had to lay my mail out on the counter to dry out before opening. And on a couple of occasions, half my mail didn't make into the mailbox and found a fee letters laying in the ditch...

I had a customer when I installed alarms systems, that ended up putting in a locking mail box. He showed me a video of why he had to do that. The elderly lady next door had dementia and thought his box was hers. She kept running off with his mail. After he put the locking mailbox, she would...

I have no choice but to do mail order on one of my meds. It ships UPS and they deposit it on the porch. Or if it's raining, they will leave it on the grill under the front of the camper.

I let the heathen (Sasha) in today for the first time. She did some exploring, then her and Gypsy decided to play. I let them go at it for about a 1/2hr and then took Sasha back to her pen. Gypsy is an old girl and was trying to keep up with the ball of energy. After Sasha went back out...

Yeah, granny did teach him that. But it was a joint account that she contributed too equally. You should see his face when we were taking him out somewhere and granny had just gotten paid. I would correct him and tell him we were actually spending grannies money tonight...

Nice in the low 70's for my morning walk with the pooch. We stopped by the dog pen and grabbed Sasha as well. That was going really good until both dogs decided to play and they got me tied up in both leashes [emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji23] Put Sasha back...

Im not sure what the average cost is. But the cost for my F550 service trucks recall cost Ford $8,000 to a third party utility bed installer to remove and reinstall the bed of my service truck so Ford could install a frame support behind the cab.

Im a diesel mechanic, so I've invested in the 1/4" impact driver, 3/8" and 1/2" impacts. Plus work bought me a 40vlt 3/4" drive impact. Depending on what I'm working on, I could have all of them out on the bench [emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787] I use the living...

I gotcha. I have an ATV/ mower lift for mine, so it gives me enough of an angle to get in there.

Dang..... thats a good question. I went down a rabbit hole and could only come up with a 30lb and 40lb extension for 3/8 drive. Might have to do with the amount of flex on the smaller diameter extension[emoji848][emoji848][emoji848] Now i'm gonna have to ask the "Tool Man" snap-on on Monday...

Get yourself a 90ft/lb torque stick. Then you can leave the impact on high and just hammer till it stops. I have a 10 piece kit at work that goes from 60ft/lbs to 150 ftlbs.

We did a family vacation a few years ago to Florida. Son, daughter, their spouses and the grandkids. So 9 of us. We paid for the condo rental, they just had to get themselves there. We had a great time. Little man was 8 months old. During that trip he becomes a Papa's boy...

They will not have it in stock. Will want to charge you out the wazzoo to get one shipped in. Then you would have to buy a whole bag of them because it can't be separated [emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369] At that point, I give up on them and run across town to start bolt...

I would bet my paycheck ot won't happen though. We got 3 years under the current administration and there isn't any telling what will happen after that. What happens if the next administration goes after those pieces of equipment because they determined it was unlawful to lower the emmision...

Here's the view on the diesel laptop while I have our large Hyundai forklift doing a service regen. The exhaust is still getting up to temperature. It will hit somewhere between 1000° and 1100° to burn off the carbon. I had the check engine light popping on, so I figured I would hook the...

No, I work on rental equipment. So I have a laptop to connect to it supplied by work. Licensing fees would be prohibitive for me out of pocket. It's $6k up front, and $1100 licensing fee each year. I have the truck software as well which will work on anything from a 1/2 ton pickup up to...

Depending on the horsepower they aren't required to have def fluid. So thats a slew of sensors that you don't have to worry about. Some models do not require regeneration. They still have a particulate filter. But they run hotter exhaust temps to burn off the carbon. So doing some research...

My youngest grandson (4yo) if leaving with granny, will broadcast in a very loud voice "We're going to spend your money!!!!!!" No manipulation involved. He's very direct and honest about it [emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

Morning fellas, 73° while out walking the pooch. Helped a third party welder chase a crack i had on a fuel tank. We finally got that fixed. Now chilling in my office waiting for some software to update on my diesel laptop. Then I'm fixing to trigger a forced regen on a 300hp diesel i got...

Definitely [emoji51][emoji51][emoji51]

We walk about 800ft on asphalt and about 1600ft on gravel. Hence looking for something with a more robust tire. Realistically, I could put a dog bed in a kids wagon and pull her along. [emoji848][emoji848][emoji848]

That sounds exactly like what my neighbor was using to take her cat for walks [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]

I bet the diesel mechanics are loving the b20 blend.

There was a lady in the rental neighborhood i used to live in, that had something similar except it enclosed. She would take her cat for walks in it. [emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23] My shepherd wasn't sure what to think of that...

Do they make those in an off road model for a 90lb pooch???? My baby girl is getting up there. I tigure at some point i'm gonna have to push her around for our walks [emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369]

Mmmm..... I love pad Thai. There was a noodle place locally that my wife and I would hit frequently that had really good pad Thai. Then they shut down for a couple months, renovated, and changed their menu. No more pad Thai, and their food now sucks [emoji22][emoji22][emoji22][emoji22]...

California is running a huge deficit. So how are they subsidizing poor red states???

The manufacturers are global entities. Before final tier 4 came out, the manufacturers got wind that Europe was going to tier 5 emmision standards. Rather then reinvent the wheel. Manufacturers made sure the Final tier 4 here in the US would meet Europe's tier 5 requirements. So even if we...

78° this morning when I left for work. Got up to hades outside. Then a nice thunderstorm just blew through dropping a ton of rain and cooling it off. [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106][emoji106] Probably gonna be some sticky once the sun comes back out [emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369]

Our weiney dog ran a tight ship in the back yard. Squirrels were his nemesis [emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787] He was sitting under one of the oak trees looking up at a squirrel. All of a sudden a half eaten apple comes tumbling out of the oak tree and misses him...

Mail order medication really sucks when there are billing issues. I had to do mail order for my maintenance drugs until CVS opened up a local pharmacy. I had some major billing disputes with them. They were billing me for 3 - 30 day supplies instead of billing me for a 90 day supply at a...

Gypsy is 10 now and still loves rides. But my truck is just a hair to high for her to get in on her own now. She will get her front paws on the running boards. Then get them on the carpet for the back floor boards. I keep the back seats flipped up in the stored position. Then she gets...

Arkansas just passed a law that PBM's can't own or operate pharmacies in the state. I'm waiting to see how this plays out in the court system since i'm stuck using one of those PBM managed pharmacies.

We do our big walks before sunrise and after sunset with the pooch. With it being 100° outside when I get home, she goes out, does her buisiness really quick, and then boogies back to the door to go lay under the AC vent [emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23]

It's been low 80's the past couple days before sunrise. Temps going home ranged from 103° on the interstate, dropped down to 102° on the country roads, and 100° in my driveway. [emoji3062][emoji3062][emoji3062]

That's the truth. And the look they give you!!!! That one look just rips your heart out [emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23] The husky gets sassy if she can't go for a ride [emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23] She will tell you exactly what she thinks of that...

A coworker had a half brother to my shepherd. Same mom's different dads. He was always saying that he was really protective. I stopped by my coworkers house to drop him off. As he got out, his pooch climbed in. Sat in the passenger seat waiting to go for a ride...

You lose HP with CNG. At least when gassers have been converted. I haven't had any experience with a diesel on CNG. I've had to pull my share of oil field workers up hills here in Arkansas because they didn't have enough giddy up to make it up on their own. The gassers on CNG would stall out...

I prefer meditation and faerie dust [emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji119]

My shepherds twin Brother is very protective. There were only 3 people that could enter my daughters home when they weren't there. Their old roomate, my wife, and I. When I walked into the house, he would run around screaming like a little girl, then demand belly rubs...

Our newest two work trucks have crash cams. They record all the time. But are only accessed in a wreck. (I hope [emoji51]) One watching inside the truck cab, one with a front view of the traffic ahead of you. So if your in a wreck, they will know if you were driving distracted, picking your...

I'm that person boogying through Walmart listening to the tunes. If I find myself on one of those people of Walmart videos, I'll make sure and sue for royalties [emoji51][emoji51][emoji51][emoji51]

No, I've been on two of the other drugs for it that are advertised heavily on TV. Taltz was $6000 per shot. Requiring 1 shot every 4 weeks. I'm not sure what the cost of Tremfaya is. This one requires a shot every 8 weeks. My employer changed how they handle the specialty medication...

I had to go on government assistance in order to get one of my medications. After insurance picks up 70%, i'm on the hook for $2,000.

My psoriasis medication was $6000 a month. Insurance would only cover 70%.

We had a heat pump in our last office. I walked out back for something and noticed the the outside unit was a solid block of ice. Snapped a picture, showed it to my boss and said he should probably give the Land Lord a call...

Sasha watching the deer.

Or lazy and sleep all of the time like my sister in law. She thinks walking her around the driveway is enough exercise for her. Then she's inside ignoring her the rest of the day [emoji2959][emoji2959][emoji2959][emoji2959] I told her she needed to spend a lot more time with her, as well as...

I was getting close to San Antonio once and had some dude pass me on the turnpike (I had the cruise set at 80). He was pulling a 40ft trailer loaded to the gills and doing at least 90mph. My big issue with him was the large tablet he had in front of his face. He was reading a flipping E-book...

Excessive show of horsepower [emoji16][emoji16][emoji16]

I had a weiney dog catch a squirrel. He came up to the back door and knocked to come inside with what I thought was his toy plastered to the glass door. This was normal for him to knock and press his toy to the glass. I let him inside. He went straight to my wife, she started freaking just...

Definitely. Gypsy is pretty much therapy trained. We just couldn't afford to finish up the training at the time. It would have been another 6 weeks and $1500 we didn't have at the time. Then we got busy, so we never got her back for it. You should have seen her with an elderly lady that...

She's a love bug and cuddle muffin. And mouthy!!!!! [emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji1787] She definitely has the husky attitude and is a chatty Kathy [emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23] She gets overly hyper if you go out in the pen. It helps...

Fiddle around and find out at it's finest [emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787] I have my sister in laws husky on the property since her ex husband who was supposed to be watching her, was neglecting her. She's in love with her Uncle Daren [emoji16][emoji16][emoji16][emoji16] I...

We had a Jack Russell terrier that was protective of my daughter. She had a guy friend over. Kid thought it was funny to tease Jack. When the boy got ready to leave, he went to give my daughter a hug. Jack lunged and was swinging from the kids crotch...

My German shepherd is very much a people pooch. Everybody is her friend, and she's never met a stranger. She was trained extensively to not be food or treat aggressive. We have had young grandkids her whole life. We also had her professionally trained, by kids. Random kids were her handlers...

In my case I was referring to an idiot that decided to show off horsepower in view of a cop. Many states have laws for people impeding the flow of traffic. It's usually targeting the left lane campers and idiots matching the speed of the vehicle next to them. How can a cop prove your...

Took the girls for a walk tonight. Gypsy is the shepherd, Sasha is the 1yo husky. Been giving them quite a bit of time to get used to each other. This was the first time out walking together. We'll ease Sasha inside next. They did pretty good. Lots of kisses from Sasha and no hackles...

I had to point out to my sister in law that she was being trained today [emoji16][emoji16] She's got training treats in her room for her pooch. Well Gypsy figured out that they were there. The nose knows!!!! So every chance she's had today, she would go into the room and sit. She would then...

Our service trucks and flat beds have after market back up cameras installed when the trucks were outfitted. The newer ones also have blind spot cameras as well that come on when the turn signal is activated. The camera is triggered by the back up lights normally, but you can also turn it on...

I feel for ya. My grandfather had dementia as well. It's rough, trying, and a big heart ache all rolled into one.

I have a Ranger trailer light tester box at work that handles everything but the commercial trailer. It's set up for the 7 pin rv plug, plus it came with the adapter that does 6 round, and 4 or 5 flat. I pinned out and changed one side of a 6ft semi trailer cable to the 7 pin rv plug. This...

My display in the truck is about 6" so I got a really good view when I have maps up. For me, it's a glance at the screen about the same lengh of time as it takes to check the speedometer. Then i'm back looking ahead, checking mirrors, checking gauges, glancing at the back up camera to make...

You can get up to speed as fast as you want. It's going over that speed that will get you a ticket.

I had someone pass me on the interstate yesterday with their phone plastered in front of their face. Caught up to them when they were exiting the interstate. Phone was in the same place. Had someone cut me off one morning a couple weeks ago. Merging onto the interstate while texting on their...

Is that a higher end lot lizard for a nicer truck stop????

That chaps my butt to no end. I had to switch from a once a month shot that managed all my symptoms to a shot every other month for the treatment. But the every other month treatment doesn't work as well for arthritis. This issue is the pre-approval process for the medications. Insurance...

Morning fellas. Calling for 88° today with a 50% chance of rain. Ran down and filled up two 30lb propane bottles for the camper. Still running $23 plus tax per bottle. Got my gas cans filled up with non ethanol for mower. $3.69/ gallon. And filled up my diesel cans for the tractor as well...

I was shocked when my wife called, told them who she was, and simply stated that if they want to get paid, they needed to file a claim with her insurance first before billing us. 2 to 3 months later, we recieved the new bill showing what insurance covered and what we owed them...

Or sick your HR department onto the insurance company. My employer has over 6,000 employees just in the US. So it's a pretty decent account for an insurance company. Plus the HR department as contacts we don't. My wife had to have reconstructive surgery on her elbow from a fall. She...

We ran into that once with an ER doctor. The hospital was in network. But the doctor assigned to my wife was out of network. We had a simple answer for the ER doctor when he sent us a bill and surprisingly it worked. [emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369] My wife simply called him up...

They still are called lot lizards.

The 7 way heavy duty is found on semis and large commercial trucks. Everyone that I get comes with the standard color code in the middle. I haven't come across any that have the yellow and green as your turn signals in almost 20 years.

I realize that. But if the RV plug is labeled by color, you need to know what that color actually does on that plug. If you just match color for color like quite a few people do, you get a mess. One light stays on all the time, the parking lights blink when you turn, your trailer brakes come...

Drones will freak out my German shepherd. I kept hearing a buzzing sound but couldn't see it at first. Boy the hackles stood up on gypsy's back, and she was looking at it and growling. Thats when I looked up and realized it was a drone. Then we were off!!!! I got dragged back home. She...

We have my wife's sister living with us at the moment. So the door to the bunk room usually stays closed. The door is a sliding barn door for the bunk room. My sister in law went to bed and my wife and I were still up. I'm in the bathroom just finished taking a shower when I hear a ruckus from...

My sister in laws daughter in law is non binary. Met her once. She's a whackadoodle for sure. I'm waiting for her to get brought up on neglect charges since she handles all the diagnosing of the 4 kids illnesses and refuses to take them to the doctor. I worry about what would happen if one of...

Morning fellas, 76° this morning and fog again. Gonna be another hot one. It hit 100° yesterday. Supposed to be similar today. Took these photos this morning. First one was a little after 5am when I was walking the pooch. Second was down the street from me about 5:45am. Low hanging fog...

Here's what im talking about for the colors for a 7 pin rv plug. Now compare ro the diagram you posted from e-trailer. But if you look at the diagram i posted, They have the color code listed twice. One is wrong, the other is correct. [emoji2357][emoji2357][emoji2357] This is from a...

Go down and get you a 7 pin replacement plug and open it up and check how it's labeled. Then wire it based on the color code provided by E-trailer. You'll get a rude awakening when you test it out. That color code you posted on that diagram from E-trailer is wrong...

Replace a 7 pin rv plug on your trailer and use that color code. You'll be chasing your tail for hours. I replace a couple of those plugs a week. I can tell you that using the color code I provided for your trailer and plug into your truck, your trailer will work properly. Red - left turn...

If i'm good with what ever time I can get in, i can see my doctor within a week for a regular appointment. If i have something to see him about sooner, I need to be caller number three as soon as they open for a work in appt. That means watching the clock and hitting dial as soon as the...

Seems like they could have at least called in a temporary supply to get you through until the office visit [emoji2369][emoji2369]

The 2" hitch on my tandom axle landscape trailer is rated for 7,000lbs. I made sure the 2" ball on my truck meets the 7,000lb weight requirement as well. Mine has brakes on both axles as well. My 2" bull dog hitches at work are rated for 7,000lbs as well.

If someone is used to how a four flat is wired, and they apply the same color code to a 7 pin rv plug, then it's easy for that to happen. The 7 pin rv has a totally different color code for what the color is used for. The exception is white is ground. I see that mistake quite often...

Mom ended up with a $1.5 million Dr's bill for a years worth of chemo every 4 weeks. She was flipping out and crying because she couldn't ever come close to paying it. At the time both she and my step-dad had been laid off from their jobs, so no insurance. I told her if it came down to it...

Good morning fellas. 80° and fog at 6am this morning. Gonna be another scorcher. [emoji3062][emoji3062][emoji3062] Daughter showed up Tuesday at the hospital with pizzas. So we had a pizza party in the hospital room to celebrate my wife's birthday. Wife got discharged from the hospital and...

My fence to separate is done. I just need to sink a couple posts and add a gate. The other 4 acres plus a fenced in back yard will be after the house and shop get built.

Years ago, a good friend was a Ford technician. He and a couple of the other techs kept trying to figure out where a large wind noise was coming. I happened to stop by and drop something off that I had borrowed from him and he said they were having a hard time figuring that one out, and...

I enjoy seeing the fawns close by [emoji16][emoji16][emoji16] I spooked the fawns yesterday morning when I took my pooch for her walk at sunrise. Poor buggers were crying as they were running away [emoji22][emoji22][emoji22] They were hanging out by the dog pen, where my sister in laws husky...

Im slowly working on getting my property fenced. So far just a half acre. The rest will be fenced after we can get a house built. Although, I've been enjoying not having the back yard fenced. I've seen a momma deer and a couple fawns on occasion over the past couple weeks.

At my last place, the mailman smoked my mailbox a couple times. Each time, I bent the box back into shape with a pair of pliers. At the new address someone driving a dually plowed my mailbox over. Judging by the tracks, they must have had one of the rr duals leave the road and dragged the...

We have a barred owl that hangs out on a fence post by my mail box, or on one of the posts just to the north of my driveway. He gets cranky and starts cussing me out if I accidently spotlight him and disturb his hunt [emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23]

Thats a pet peeve of mine. Including me having a really tough talk with my daughter after she decided to re home one of her pooches after she had a kid. I told her she made a life long commitment to that pooch. I get really mad at irresponsible pet owners. They move out to the country and...

You and me both brother... it's been a long road and lots of PT sessions. Now with this surgery, it starts back over for another 6 weeks or so.

Pill pockets wouldn't work for our jack Russell. He would eat the pocket and spit out the pill.

Been a rough six months. My wife broke her elbow at the end of January. Broken radial head, torn ligament and dislocation. This required two surgeries. One to install hardware to secure her elbow. One to remove the hardware. And one manual manipulation in between. She had an allergic...

My neighbor had a 36" diameter oak tree splinter like the one in the video. Except his tree splintered into 8"x30' strips, with the top just dropping straight down since it didnt have anything supporting it anymore. A couple of those strips ended up in my yard 60ft away. We heard the boom...

My jacket Russell terrier was a lunatic when it came to killing snakes. That is until a big old copper head got him on the snout. His poor face swelled up really bad, to where he had a turkey goiter under his chin. Then had to figure out how to give him this big old horse pill of an...

I bought a packet of dot reflective tape strips. Put one strip on each side of the mail box, and then cut another strip in half and wrapped them around the post in a couple spots. What prompted me to do that was pulling out one morning with my service truck and almost smoking the mail box...

Trex is just finishing up the first 2 buildings of four in their plant next to my shop. Huge massive 500 acre complex. Their main building makes my shop (old large trucking depot) look like a little kids play house [emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23] I wonder...

I had my water bill quadruple one month. This was way before smart meters. I called the water company and asked about it. She got pretty defensive over the meter reader. But I was trying to convey that someone transposed a number because what they had listed for the reading was way over...

I wear my steel toed work boots as well.

If something i'm working on goes together way too smoothly, I know I should stop and call it a day. If I keep going, that gremlin is fixing to show up and make my day absolutely miserable. [emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23]

Coworker had a compressor on his ac unit that malfunctioned and stayed on continuously. His electric bill jumped pretty drastically.

There are scam calls going around for "income tax relief". I get a call each day from them, different number, different state each time.

Years ago i got called out to a drilling rig for a service call on a 3" diesel powered trash pump. Employee neglected to roll the engine over to the compression stroke and hit the compression release. So they broke the pull cord. In the employees infinite wisdom, they then removed the pull...

You got lucky... we were told it didn't leave the yard for less than $900. . He tried the smaller truck first, but it didn't have the Butt to get the forklift out. So he ran back to the shop for Matilda [emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji33][emoji33]

I was gonna drop my air compressor down to 10 or 20 psi and try that like they do in the pet stores. I can't keep the shepherd anywhere near anything that sounds like a vacuum or similar. I got a 50ft hose for my compressor, so I can plug it in, in the shed and reach out where we are washing...

Thats a pretty large wrecker. What were you driving??? We buried a forklift once and had to have a semi tow truck come over to winch it out. Dude was literally a block down the road. $900 [emoji2369][emoji2369][emoji2369]

That was my thought on them as well. I had just spent almost $2k getting the unit fixed. A pressure valve went bad inside the house, and the unit was short cycling and burned up the fan motor. The last thing I wanted was for them to jack something up with the unit and it cost me more money...

New owners so no signed agreement with the power company.

Locally, entergy wanted to put a device on my air conditioner to shut off the compressor during peak usage. I told them no and refused to sign for permission. I had an energy efficient model, high end windows, and added 10" of insulation in the attic. When it was 110° outside, my ac would...

Seems like something would be screwy if the oil pump had zero pressure at idle. Granted, if it's not circulating oil, depending on what scored, would it have shavings in the oil pump?? [emoji848] [emoji848][emoji848][emoji848] Years ago, we had an engine shop rebuild a couple Mitsubishi...

I've been reminding my coworkers that if they have anything they need to do out in the yard at work, to do it first thing in the morning. We got 7 acres of asphalt around the building, so you don't want to be working out there in the afternoon. I had a coworker bring the 500 gallon bulk fuel...

Thats giving me nightmares for my upcoming adventure this weekend. Gotta bathe both my German Shedder, and a Siberian Husky. It's gonna be sheddageddon x2 [emoji33][emoji33][emoji33][emoji33] I wonder if they will allow me to blow them off afterwards with compressed air...

We have a house being built on 4 acres across the neighbors driveway from us. Between dump trucks, dirt work, and builders, it's pushed the snakes across the driveway. In one weekend I killed 3 water moccasins, and a copper head. The copper head was a big ol' fat ornery cuss. He lost his...

Got my sister in laws pup over to the property. Husky pup, almost a year old. Man I would love to be able to bottle that energy and sell it [emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji1787] Been slowly introducing her to gypsy. But its gonna be a few more days before we try allowing her...

Ive known a few people over the years that were like that. [emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787]

We had fog heavy fog and temps of 78° this morning. We're gonna feel like we are being steamed later today [emoji3062][emoji3062][emoji3062]

The rental neighborhood i lived in for a couple years had the breaker panels outside next to the meter. These were brand new homes 4 years ago.

My coworker refers to home as an "Al Qaeda training camp" This refers to his 3 kids when they get into mischief [emoji23][emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787][emoji1787]