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I don't know whether a Honda Super Cub or Trail counts here as a motorcycle but I've been pricing them on Facebook Marketplace. There are an unusual number of ads claiming 300 miles of use. I can't believe so many people ride exactly 300 miles and decide to sell the bike. Can someone explain...

My first time attempting to fill a cartridge with grease was from a five gallon pail no cartridge and no pump. I tried to hold the bottom of the barrel in the grease and suck the grease into it by slowly pulling back on the plunger. Grease went many places and very few were inside the gun...

I just did the math to figure how some guy got an Allis Chalmers B in the bed of a pickup, over fifty years ago. The B is just over nine feet long, the wheels must have rested partly on the tailgate. I do remember, the pickup was low on the springs and it looked like a dangerous undertaking.

A neighbor set a field on fire, the fire truck came and drove over the concrete septic tank breaking the lid.

I've never owned a Cub but once bought a two disc semi mounted pull behind plow for one at an auction. I advertised it for resale and every call I can remember was from someone who wanted a single disc belly mounted plow. They must be good plows.

The soil you're moving looks like it had been previously been dug up and dumped there. Is that the case?

Good work? You got every trace of mahogany stain out.

Last time I checked at Wal-Mart, all of the cargo pants I found there were made of stretch material.

I sometimes thought the modern versions were built somewhere off shore by the same company and sold here under different brand names. The trouble was, Two never showed up at the same auction and by the time I saw another I'd forgotten the company name printed on the last I'd seen.

There's another similar tractor labeled TILMOR. https://www.tilmor.com/en-us/products/33/tilmor-tractor

https://www.tuff-bilt.com/

It looks like the the Allis Chalmers G which was last produced in 1955 with a small four cylinder liquid cooled engine. Sometime in the 70's or 80's modern tractors began to show up occasionally at auctions that looked to be based on the G. I remember them as having an electric 3pt hitch in...

I don't think they're as tasty when reheated but haven't noticed them being soggy. I put one on a plate for 40 to 50 seconds and set the microwave on 4. If meat is reheated too hot it ruins the taste imho.

I usually buy the small double patty cheeseburger deal at McDonald's and get another for one dollar. I live alone and often buy six or eight burgers that way. Two to three burgers make a meal. Most times times each burger has a receipt stuck to the paper it's wrapped in. Rarely one receipt...

The only American made Craftsman socket I remember breaking was on a lug nut, with a breaker bar. I think they were called flex handles back then. I never broke an American made Craftsman ratchet.

Many of my doctors are dead.

I knew I was old when the ladies at the drive through windows started calling me baby.

David Johansen aka Buster Poindexter, dead at 75. He sang Hot, Hot, Hot.

I haven't called anyone. I don't like talking to sales people.

Thanks Peter. I have an appointment with.the doctor in a few days and am keeping a bp chart if I remembered the date I had the ribs correctly, th bp spiked on the day I had ate them. I was craving ribs and it might have been because my body knew they'd help. So far the.room hasn't been...

Guys Thank you for straightening me out. It appears that my wife was just plain wrong. We've been married fifty years and we're both slowing down. I've looked at Schwab and got lost in the details. I'll check out the other two that were recommended and if one is smart enough to dumb it...

I'm on a trial dose of blood pressure medication. My theory is that the dose is too high causing me to get dizzy when I first stand up. The ribs might have raised my bp enough that my bain now gets enough blood to keep me from being dizzy.

About all I know what to do with money is spend it. Now I've got to start taking disbursements from an IRA that I've had since the 1980's and my wife says there are tax advantages in a Roth IRA to stash in it in, with an eye toward taking some out periodically or leaving it to her or our son...

I've experienced dizziness in varying degrees off and on for several weeks. The other day it left and hasn't returned after I ate something special....... a rack of ribs.

That sounds much better. Thank you.

Thanks, I usually want it towed to my house. It sounds like I'd best stick with AAA.

How long does it take for a Geiko truck to arrive?

I believe it was Easter weekend last year, 2024 that I called the number on my AAA card several times and waited for hours before finally calling numbers I found online and located the man who'd bought the local AAA contract. He hadn't heard from the dispatcher in all of those hours and had to...

I loved my Gateway.

Melba Monygomery The narration might get on your nerves. I think it's a bot.

You'll need a real charger in the future. I'd probably buy one and try it first.

I'm glad you got what you paid for. How long was it from when you first placed the order until delivery?

Anita Bryant who seemed to sing an orange juice commercial several times a day has died at 84.

The pallets already have agents in Congress.

Is the box to the left of the steering wheel full of moon shine?

I've learned something today. Sorry about the dog.

Do bald eagles attack live food? I heard they were carrion eaters.

When I was a kid, my father, brother and I were exploring a small, overgrown farm that my grandfather had traded some land for. Dad was alone and started making a racket when he discovered a chicken concrete chicken brooder in the bushes. He claimed he thought it was a still. Dad was wrong...

If TBN jail appears to be imminent, we might plea bargain for corner time.

That's why they called him Randalph.

Only the one about Randalph the Red Nailed Pallet.

I don't remember this happening except with TBN.

Is anyone else getting popup ads that cover the screen when you try to type? It's hard to post with an espresso machine in my face.

Sorry, I was too lazy to type out the full name of the forum. I don't know much about it and couldn't find any of the fun drone comments over there. I'll try again later. Here's a copy of the post from management with a link to what I call the love or hate thread. Muhammad Administrator...

The drones thread has been moved to the love it or hate it forum. That must mean that the pallets have won.

I can tell basically the same story only, I made it to seventy-one. It took eight months to get most of the soreness out of my neck and the doctor told me to squat instead of bend over. Things'll never be the same.

Sparc's last post was on Nov 21, 2022. I hope he's safe and sound somewhere.

I didn't want it answered. If sparc had found the truth, those of us who were having so much fun with the thread would have had to claim he'd been lied to so we could go on with our wild speculations.

It was probably solved somewhere along the way but we enjoyed trying to out do each other with silly explanations so much that we didn't let on and kept adding more pages.

If there are, it's time for action.

We first heard of pallets in the fields of New Jersey in 2013. More recently, large drones were seen near New Jersey airports. Now mysterious large drones have been spotted over locations in New York. Something similar began in New Jersey on October 30, 1938, in a place called Grover's Mill...

Was the husband convicted? With her thumb showing up at the sewage treatment plant, it sounds more like he chopped her into tiny pieces and flushed her.

The link below has information regarding which items can be delivered as early as the same day ordered. Had I found it sooner, I might not have started this thread. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G202075470

Jack Jones who sang The Love Boat theme song died October 23, 2024.

Oaktree, I think your not having Prime is the reason your warehouse shipments sometimes take longer than those from third party vendors. Quite often after ordering through Prime I get a notice that I've saved something over nine dollars on shipping. With my number of purchases and some other...

Please update us if you find out what's going on.

All but one of the items estimated to arrive on Friday came today. I used to get a notice they were coming sooner than the original estimate. If one came this time, I missed seeing it.

Thank you. I might investigate that further.

I have yet to figure out the best way to consistently close out FreeVee presentations I don't like without watching a commercial.

Thanks to all who contribute. I'm learning things.

Yes, I'm a Prime member. It saves some hassle.

I made a mistake when I said that one scheduled delivery was eight days away. It was actually Friday to Friday. The one I thought was eight days away is expected on Thursday. They seem to be shooting for seven days at most and often do much better. I thought all of the trucks might be...

I just ordered a tap and die that are skipped in my set. The estimated time of delivery is Friday, Oct. 18. That's the same estimated time of delivery I've gotten on everything I've ordered for the last few days. For one order it was eight days away. Does anyone here know what determines...

A building contractor once told me "buy cheap" expensive tools walk off.

I don't really know FEMA's directive firsthand. If things are, as MAX-24-Dean stated "Federal Emergency Management Agency is an after the fact manager, not a quick response right after all the hell broke loose" I've been wrong in thinking they were supposed to have been at the scene first.

Tito Jackson https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/tito-jackson-member-famed-jackson-family-performed-brothers-113718898

Tommy Cash I once saw him do a tribute to Johnny and got his autograph. Both, when he played guitar and signed , I noticed he had very long fingers...

I keep reading about places like that. Unfortunately, I 've never found one.

Thanks for reminding me, I need to take my pills.

When you often use the 'search orders' feature of the Amazon site to find out whether you bought an item or only checked to see if they had it.

You were probably right the first time and I simply forgot.

You and I remember it the same way, except, I must have forgotten the sister. I figured more would turn up. This year makes fifty years since the last one came in and even the Japanese don't live long enough for there to be any left, I don't think...

When you ask yourself why you haven't heard of any stubborn Japanese soldiers surrendering lately and discover the last one came out of the jungle in 1974.

Leonard Hayflick, who discovered that normal cells can divide only a certain number of times, before death ensues has died. His cells quit dividing after 96 years.

The gray shade made me think the wood might be beginning to rot, also. My uncle used to talk about "shot borer" holes. I think he meant holes left by powder post beetle larvae.

Late one night I took the trash to a dumpster near the railroad track and a man jumped out. I didn't get a picture.

When you confuse Milli Vanilli with Vanilla Ice.

My complaint is that idiot over in the next county who thought I had nothing better to do than wait all day for him to deliver a load of hay.

Thanks for that information. My New Holland made those cutoffs and I never knew why. It seldom missed a bale and I left well enough alone.

Hasn't JD been putting Yanmar engines in their smaller tractors for years?

Joe Bonsall. July 9, 2024 BTW If anyone knows why the Oaks sang at Johnny Cash's funeral instead of the Statlers, please tell me. https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/07/09/joe-bonsall-oak-ridge-boys-cause-of-death-als-obituary/

Mrs. John Beluchi dead at 73. Today, I found out not only that John had a wife but, that she was in Animal House with him. https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/judy-belushi-pisano-dead-john-blues-brothers-saturday-night-live-1236061762/

I hope Peanut lands on his feet.

I'm on an Amazon Fire 10 tablet and only have the problem when I stretch the text more than it wants to be stretched. Sometimes it has to be too small to read to prevent it from jumping around. It was jumping as I typed this until I pinched it down to a hard to read size.

At the prices quoted for the laser, I'll have to stick with a soak in white vinegar.

I've seen a statement or two on the WWW that seemed to indicate some people, presumably ladies included, are aroused by tattoos. If I'd known that all those years ago...

We had a FedEx driver who was a gorgeous blonde. Last time I saw her, the blond part had grown out and the gorgeous part wasn't holding up very well, either.

Thanks. I like it!

Over fifty years back a neighbor went north to visit his daughter. He came back talking about how bad the roads were up there compared to ours. This puzzled me because most northern states rank ahead of SC in many areas and I don't think our roads are to be bragged about. Some things I've...

Got a photo?

Be ever vigilant. There's no telling what those things are up to.

I've seen it happen far too often.

You know you're old when, you aren't sure whether you just swatted at a gnat or one of the many floaters in your eyes.

I thought I'd get quick answers just not that quick. :) Thanks to all who replied. You told me exactly what I wanted to know and my curiosity is satisfied. Stuck

Today, went by a crew installing underground cable on my e bike. A pickup truck was slowly pulling a cable that must have been attached to the some type of electrical conductor through a tube that was already installed. There were holes at equally spaced intervals down the tube and leaning...

This probably wouldn't work with a bear.

That got me laughing! :ROFLMAO:

I once saw a video of a track saw cutting some shapes that might not be as easily, or possible at all, to cut on a table saw. When I couldn't figure a practical use for those shapes, I clicked away.

I checked the label on the cargo pants I got from Wal-Mart, they're 2% Spandex. at one time I couldn't find any cargo pants there that didn't have some type of expansion material in them.

Having bought manuals for various machinery over the years, I've learned that details of some photo copies are difficult to see. This is especially true of parts manuals where small numbers are sometimes blurred on photo copies. A slightly used dealer copy from ebay once solved that problem...

Thanks for the likes, guys. I hope the administrators will notice and put the lists of related articles back at the bottoms of pages. They were very helpful.

Correct answer! Excellent edit!!! (y) (y) (y) (y) (y) (y) (y) :ROFLMAO: I caught some of the other times I did that this week.

Have we done this song? Well I hear you went up to Saratoga And your horse naturally won Then you flew your lear jet up to Nova Scotia To see the total eclipse of the sun Well you're where you should be all the time And when you're not, you're with some underworld spy Or the wife of a close...

i've read that electric bug zappers attract more bugs (mosquitos i think) than they kill.

Could Smith's Road have been the location of an actual blacksmith's shop?

Thanks guys. That's what I needed to know.

I've been watching various people braze carbide to the end of a piece of steel to make a lathe bit and never see them reharden or temper the carbide. Does carbide not lose it's hardness at brazing temperature?

I should be thankful for that.

You know you're old when: You count Your medications and realize you could emulate sixdogs and change your TBN name to sevenpills.

I'm amazed and don't even know what a Hospital Chief Engineer does. Did you take courses similar to a civil engineer or an architectural engineer and also go to med school?

Exactly!

Nature abhors a vacuum. There's no need to worry about a declining birth rate.

I thought you were an optical surgeon. Are you also an engineer or am I totally confused?

Nature abhors a vacuum and we're sucking in laborers in from our southern border at an alarming rate. Look at a construction project or the lines in Wal-Mart and you'll see evidence of that.

From what I've read about the predictions in the 1968 book The Population Bomb, it seems that a decline in the birth rate will be a blessing. There's also the assertion that after the decline in the population of Europe following great human die offs caused by things like bubonic plague that...

The record department in the department store where I used to work had one of those testers. My father-in-law used to make good use of it.

All of the burger chain burgers are about the same to me. The chain that used to advertise fish that goes crunch here was Long John Silvers. After getting an order of soggy, greasy fish on two occasions, I quit going there and they soon left town. Good riddance!

I usually go to Hardee's these days. Why? The lines are much shorter.

The Sears farm catalogs were good references for technical knowledge.

During the war, I saw a news feature about the little guys who had to crawl into the booby trapped tunnels in Vietnam. They were called tunnel rats.

You know you're old when, you remember how proud you were that your radio had "six" transistors.

One time I reported someone dead who wasn't, so I'll put this as a question. Is Duane Eddy dead or not? Wikipedia says he died yesterday.

The thing I miss most about TBN'S old format is the related threads list that appeared at the bottom of pages. I think we had a thread on this topic several years ago and some of the guys made running pipe under pavement seem easy. Now I can't find the thread.

Are the bolts metric or American?

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I'm the OP and don't remember a call or text for Marvin since starting the thread. Good riddance.

I got the plug that solved my problem off of another machine that somebody gave me.

In the 80's I used to plant an acre or two of watermelons and sell them door to door. The neighborhoods where people sat out on porches were the best places to sell.

My mother used to talk about buying a bag of candy for a penny during the depression. Now, I wish I'd asked her what sized bag.

You remember the phrase, "Don't trust anyone over 30", and realize the person credited with coining it is now 84 years old.

Financing reminds me of the title a song called, "The Games People Play".

I don't need the lift function and think you're right on all counts. The recliner is paid for and I'm cheap, so, I think I'll fool around with it to see If I can get any use out of it. Thanks :)

My wife has bought another of those recliners that push her into a standing position and given the old one to me. After little more than a year, it's become uncomfortable to sit in. My theory is that the seat pillow has gotten packed into it's case as the lift mechanism has pushed her forward...

Now, I'm craving BROWNIES.

I'd have been tempted to hang up on the jerk and be the proud owner of two O2 tanks.

I lost a tank once. Never did find it.

The bending part would be another application for what someone called "the blue wrench" otherwise known as an acetylene torch.

One of my first part time jobs was in a department store where I was required to wear a neck tie. Many times I forgot mine and had to buy a cheap one in the men's department before going on the floor. I didn't like ties then and don't like them now.😖

I was in an entirely different group just now and the two other men were having a conversation about the ties they'd bought. That's when I left and came over here. o_O

Just thinking about wearing "...a suit, white shirt, tie, wingtips" makes me miserable. I'm thinking about specifying that I be buried in a pocket tee shirt.

You are correct, Sir. Sometimes I watch old episodes of TV's The Untouchables. Walter's narration is my favorite part of the show.

In the same vein as the Schnozola's quote, you know you're old when you know who opened his show with some variation of, "Good evening Mr. and Mrs. America, from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let’s go to press."

Just remembered, a little girl fell to her death in the shaft of the elevator I rode in most often. It might have had nothing but a stretching scissor gate before that. All I remember from that elevator were doors. I think I've seen the stretch type on freight elevators fairly recently.

Only vaguely. It was a rare occasion that I rode on an elevator.

You know you're getting old when: You remember riding in a six story elevator with an elevator operator.

Trying the easiest and cheapest fixes first seems a good idea as long as they do no harm.

Channel locks must be how I got by before I bought the basin wrench.

I've read or heard all that about starting fluid. That's why I usually check the labels. Every can I can remember said it contained lubricant (for the upper cylinder, I think).

My mother got angry when I called it a sink. She said it was a "lavatory". My mother was suffering from Alzheimer's at the time and got angry at nearly everything.

One, that I can remember. Just thinking about working on my back, squeezed beneath a sink, with my head against a wall makes my neck hurt.

Thanks for so many responses. In my non professional option they were all valid.

I was afraid straight gas would wash the oil off of the cylinder and I was out of starting fluid when I used the mixed gas.

I told you the problem "wasn't in the gas". Pay attention! :)

Good try.

Good guess.

It was easier than that.

Good try.

Bingo!:)

If you guys want to play, we'll see who answers the basic small engine question first. Walk behind wouldn't start first time this spring. It had been under a tarp on a lift table since last run.. Pulled cord and got only one tiny pop Put chainsaw mix of gas and oil into carb, got nothing...

Thanks for that explanation. I though the wait had to do insurance. Funny and true!:ROFLMAO:

One of the pluses of my particular cataract surgeries is that corrective implants came along with the operations. For the time being, at least, I only need cheaters for close up. They come two pair for around fifteen dollars and I have several pair so I can wear one while waiting for the rest...

I got in the house a couple of days ago and still had the replacement in one hand when I picked something up with the other. It was the lost item.

You know you're getting old when you've bought a replacement item for one you couldn't find three times with in a seven day period. Then found the one that was missing when you stored the replacement.

Forty or fifty years ago Oregon's governor requested that people quit moving there.

Now I know. Thanks! :)

Please tell me WHY tires came wrapped at all. It's puzzled me for decades.

My favorite Andrew Camarata episode is the one where he tells how got started in excavation. What's yours?

From that information, I reason that Matthew's most used machines have well maintained batteries and the rest get the Honda generator and battery charger treatment. That would probably be the most economical plan for engines a sit idle for so long.

My son used to live in Atlanta. The traffic makes it a good place to stay away from.

Thanks for pointing that out. I hadn't noticed.

I often wonder how he keeps the batteries from going bad in machinery he won't get back to for a year at a time.

Sometimes I wonder how many of those card catalog units were turned into parts drawers.

Those bad roads are beginning to sound kind of appealing. :)

I kind of liked those cartridge pens because i could bleach out my many mistakes with Clorox on a Q-tip. o_O

He says the families appreciate it.

My brother likes to attend funerals. Personally, I hope the next funeral I attend will be my own.

Gulp!:-(

You know you're getting old when you go to a restaurant and are served by third generation members of families who's young grandparents once served you.

It was over thirty years ago when I had that plow. If cub owners preferences are like they were then you might be able to get a two disc at a low price. The belly plow will be more dear. I hope you find one.

I once bought what I was told was a two disc rear mounted plow for a Cub, at an auction. Not having a Cub, I marked it up and advertised it as such. Few, if any people were interested in the two disc rear mounted plow, but, I had several inquiries as to whether it was a one disc belly mounted...

I was about to suggest silicone before reading your last sentence.

I feel much younger now. Your dad was older than my granddad.

You know you're old when you realize both of your parents would be 100 next year.

I had two of those, at different times. The cheaper one as driven by the front wheel and the other from the back. Each had advantages and disadvantages.

And in your welding helmet

The lights are seldom bright enough anymore, either.

Thank you. I believe you've cracked the mystery.

A wise decision.

When you won't get a new pet because it's life expectancy would be greater than yours.

I seldom wore safety glasses because they made my regular glasses fog up and paid for it when I got a sliver of steel in my eye while drilling. Now that I have implanted lenses that came with the cataract surgeries, I get by with just the safety glasses.

My eye doctor was complaining about my face sagging, too.

You sudden lay realize you haven't found a steel penny, an Indian head penny, or a Buffalo nickel in your change in decades.

Thanks for the tip. We're in fire ant country but, these look too small and I don't know what kind they are.

I made a mistake on Rowdy Yates. It was the scout, Pete Nolan, that I eliminated Rowdy was the ramrod.

The exterminator told my wife the lone ants walking around in the house are scouts and if they're killed, the rest won't follow. I just got one called Flint McCullough and another that claimed to be Rowdy Yates.

I watch lots of YouTube videos to learn to do things the most suitable way. If the presenter has a finger missing, it makes me think I should watch someone else.

You know you're old.when you put your sweatshirt on over your tee shirt because you're cold. Pretty soon, you have to remove the sweat shirt to take your blood pressure and remember, that's why you had it off when you got cold.

That's what I've been planning to do.

My wife watched it, too. Those in the "I Can Name That Song" thread can expect some lyrics from that movie.

You know you're old when you're proud of yourself for finally getting the year right on checks and realize you've written the wrong CENTURY.