buckeyefarmer
Epic Contributor
And don't pass a vehicle in the right lane by using the on ramp.
Advice from the voice of EXPERIENCE !!
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aledobud
Bronze Member
Always check that the motor is turned off before pulling a boat out of the water. Those four strokes are really quiet.
Have a second rope attached to the boat and trailer when launching by yourself, just in case the winch strap comes unhooked. Oh, and make sure the winch strap hook spring is not broken.
If things like this happen often, sell your boat.
Have a second rope attached to the boat and trailer when launching by yourself, just in case the winch strap comes unhooked. Oh, and make sure the winch strap hook spring is not broken.
If things like this happen often, sell your boat.
Oaktree
Super Member
And make sure the old gasket didn't stick to the block. Double gaskets don't seal very well.
Never go to bed with someone who has more problems than you do. Stepson learned that one the hard way.
TemporaryKubotaOwnerMark
Veteran Member
Yeah, what is it with those idiots? My wife has center-punched one, but I have had a half dozen run right into the side of me.
Mark's Ancillary Rule: Always assume that the deer following the one that ran in front of you is not the last one in the bunch, and the one following him is probably stupider than the one you just missed.
Larry Caldwell
Elite Member
Is that what they call it nowadays? In the old days, we called it the throttle. You set it and went. :laughing:
buckeyefarmer
Epic Contributor
Mine has cruise, different than the throttle which it also has.
DuckSlayer1017
Platinum Member
Don't put white gas in the tiki torches when you run out of tiki torch oil. Just ask my uncle.
The more in a hurry you are, the more likely you are to leave something undone, unfastened, or untightened (for example, the nuts on a new Pat's Quick Hitch) causing more time and delay.
The more tedious the job is, the less helpful is the advice the love of your life gives you.
Gasoline fumes flow downhill. After pouring several cups into what you think is a yellow jackets nest be sure you are upwind and uphill before dropping the match. (I had on shorts and my wife actually asked me if I had shaved my legs.)
Pouring a quart of gasoline into a 55-gal drum and then filling it with dry leaves is a fast way to burn all the leaves but the explosion and leaf residue raining down on the neighbors tends to irritate them.
A yard stick is not long enough to drop a match in a barrel filled with gasoline fumes. It is recommended that something much, much longer be used.
RSKY
The more tedious the job is, the less helpful is the advice the love of your life gives you.
Gasoline fumes flow downhill. After pouring several cups into what you think is a yellow jackets nest be sure you are upwind and uphill before dropping the match. (I had on shorts and my wife actually asked me if I had shaved my legs.)
Pouring a quart of gasoline into a 55-gal drum and then filling it with dry leaves is a fast way to burn all the leaves but the explosion and leaf residue raining down on the neighbors tends to irritate them.
A yard stick is not long enough to drop a match in a barrel filled with gasoline fumes. It is recommended that something much, much longer be used.
RSKY
This got me to thinking.
About fifteen years ago my lawnmower building burned to the ground. I parked my mower in it and went in the house to check on my wife who had come home from work sick. I heard a thud but thought nothing of it. The phone rang and I picked it up and the neighbor across the street asked me if I was intending to be burning my building. I said no and heard another thump, gas can exploding, and ran outside.
Anyway, a couple hours later all the neighbors were standing in the yard looking at the remains of my lawnmower and building and the neighbor across the street said that she, "couldn't believe I actually called him and asked him if he intended to be burning his building".
It was quiet for a minute, then another neighbor lady said, "I don't know, he has done some mighty strange things over the years".
All ten or twelve of the ladies then stood there nodding their heads agreeing with her and I was standing right there with them.
RSKY
About fifteen years ago my lawnmower building burned to the ground. I parked my mower in it and went in the house to check on my wife who had come home from work sick. I heard a thud but thought nothing of it. The phone rang and I picked it up and the neighbor across the street asked me if I was intending to be burning my building. I said no and heard another thump, gas can exploding, and ran outside.
Anyway, a couple hours later all the neighbors were standing in the yard looking at the remains of my lawnmower and building and the neighbor across the street said that she, "couldn't believe I actually called him and asked him if he intended to be burning his building".
It was quiet for a minute, then another neighbor lady said, "I don't know, he has done some mighty strange things over the years".
All ten or twelve of the ladies then stood there nodding their heads agreeing with her and I was standing right there with them.
RSKY
mapper
Veteran Member
Add to that trucks that are used off highway such as logging trucks can get baseball sized rocks stuck between the tires, you definitely do not want to be behind one when it comes out at highway speeds. A DNR coworker had this happen to him near Port Angeles, the rock put a 6" deep dent in the expanded metal safety shield behind the seat after taking out the windshield about 6" to the right of his head!