when Going on a search warrant on a meth lab, there are two choices:
It was lightning. From the sky.
Same here. One of the great advantages in living in rural America I'd say. Having said that I do remove the keys from the tractors and disable the starting batter via an interlock when I leave a unit in a partially finished field overnight, I worry about the malicious damage factor more than anything else. They are insured (like all my equipment is), but I don't want to go back in the morning and fine some kids have fiddled with the equipment. I always err on the side of caution when doing that. Around here (at the farm) I don't. Been seriously considering dropping the theft coverage on my car and truck too. Both have standard transmissions and I've read that car thieves avoid stealing cars with standard transmissions because they don't know how to drive them...
One reason I don't own an HST tractor and never will. The other is parasitic power loss and third, the complexity if it ever fails out of warranty.
Thank you for being interested! It needs a new interior, for certainThank you for posting that. I enjoy looking at any old vehicles, even if it's something I wouldn't want to own. Those old Jeeps are special though. My father bought a '62 Willys pickup when I was 3, and worked the crap out of it for 13 years. He took care of it though so it was still in good shape when he sold it. I had a chance to buy it back 2 years later when I was just out of HS... I still kick myself in the tail for not jumping on it.
That Wagoneer is in amazing shape. If it could talk, just imagine the stories we'd here.
Thank you again for posting it.
Probably because people lost their minds and no longer understand what the word 'generation' means. Historically, it is a 20 year span because at one time most people who were going to start a family would have dine so by age 20...if anything, generations should have become longer as modern humans, especially those from industrialized countries, tend to wait longer. Marketing people and sociologists decided they couldn't wait for 20 years to put on labels and sell books, so they shortened the time down to 13-15 years. Boomers are 1945-1964. Gen X should be 1965-1984...that got dropped down to 1980 (as short as 1976 to some). Gen Y should be 1985-2004 (now considered 1981-1996) Gen Z should be 2005-2024 (1997-2012). My wife and I are considered Gen X by any measure. Our kids should all be Gen Y, but now only one is in that group, the others are Gen Z. The Mellinial label goes with Gen Y, but it makes no sense. Supposedly for when they became adults, but the math does work there either.
i do not know. What?
And here I though it was just me being paranoid. A little before my time ( the start of use of SSN as Service #'s ) it was pretty common practice to do that with dog tags. Personally I have a tag on every major set of keys I own. Not all that worried about ID theft, my credit has been "Undeterminable" for over two decades. But I did loose my keys once in Atlanta on a looooong weekend way back in 1992. I thought I was screwed and would have to replace the ignition on my beloved 1983 CB750 Nighthawk. No worries, swung by the mail room and my keys were waiting on me. Dunno if they still do this but back in the day anything with ID tags attached or a Military ID card could be dropped in a USPS mail box and be delivered free of charge. Never lost my keys again, TOP was the one in the mailroom and smoked my @$$ like a pack of KOOL's.It is a bit frustrating that they make vehicles these days with city folks in mind, ignoring us country folks. By that I mean everything is made to deter theft. Car doors lock themselves all the time when you don't want them to, anti-theft systems causing horns to beep all the time because someone leaned against a car. Can't buy a motorcycle anymore that doesn't need a key to unlock the gas cap.
I find these built-in anti theft devices a nucense where I live.
Ever since I was in the service I have had one of my dog tags attached to my key chain. This was viewed by some of my friends to be incredibly stupid; an invite to the finder to steal all my stuff. However in the last 50 years I have lost my keys twice. Both times they were returned to me later by the finder who was able to find me because of the dog tag. Maybe I am lucky, or maybe it is because I am not so attached to my material possessions that I want to live a life of continual paranoia to protect them. I do find myself a bit duplicitous in that regards as I do lock my car when I go to the big city
I learned to drive stick on a rental Suzuki Samurai on a booze-blurred vacation in Aruba in 1989
Don't feel bad, I get all mixed up on the generation names. Lol
