Tiny Tillers

[Inspector507]

patrick,
I know what you mean about the different cans of mixed fuels. I labeled my containers with a permanent marker AND marked the fuel tank of each unit to help me in my old age /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Egon]

Patrick:

add power assist to one of our mountain bikes

Thats what those power bars and gator aid are for. But then there is also the case when a bear comes up behind and some unknown afterburner effect takes place as the bike accelerates of it's own violation.

Egon

 

[patrickg]

Egon, Wash your mouth out with lye soap... Power Bars? Gatoraid???? I truly disllike the taste of gatoraid. Even after over 3 decades off and on in Southern California I still eschew trendy crap.

I think adrenilin would be sufficient to make a fair difference but a griz can hit 40 MPH for a while and that is a strain on most surfaces that aren't tilted way down and that old wives tale about how bears can't run downhill, forget it, its BS.

A mountain biker from the lab where I worked had a close encounter with a puma. He dismounted and put the bike between him and the cat. Everytime he thought he could mount up and split the cat got argumentative again. Standoff went for nearly an hour and covered a considerable distance. This was real close geographically and temporally to the incident where the puma literally ate the lady jogger. Incidently on a favorite trail near a favorite camping spot of ours.

Now had he had a gas poered tiller he could have fended off the cat even better.

Patrick

 

[Egon]

Patrick:

Don't use gator aid or power bars either. Find fruit juice and all the food I can possibly stuff in work best.

Used to be able to maintain 40 MPH on the level and no wind for about a mile but coundn't do it anymore.

My worst experience on a mountain bike involved a stationary 2 ft. dia. tree that didn't want to move.

Egon

 

[Alan L.]

I'd like to give a follow up report on the little Honda tiller, but my wife won't turn loose of it. She considers this HER tool, and she does all the tilling with it. Of course it could be because I don't have a FLOWER bed.

Anyway, she loves it. She has become so confident, she even tackled my Stihl FS85 brush cutter / trimmer today. She claims it was too long. Did I mention she's 4'11"?


When I was finishing up on the tractor today, after disking and planting and disking and boxblading, and being wore out. I looked over and she was backing my truck with trailer up to store the trailer, disconnect the pickup and park it in the shop (garage), because she knew I was worn out.

Later this evening I asked her what she did with the ramps, figuring she just backed the trailer up with them on the back. But she said she took them off and put them on the trailer. They are so heavy I even strain with them. Did I mention she's only 4'11"?

 

[patrickg]

Egon, I had the Air Police (USAF military police) after me once when I was riding my 10 spd downwind at Minot AFB ND. Don't know how fast I was going but I was pedaling as fast as possible in top gear. So fast that if you should ever stop pedaling you can't catch up again until the bike slows down (of its own volition) narrowly missing a violation. First I had to catch up to the wind then go as much faster than it as I could. I had such a head start on them that by the time they pulled out of their speed trap hidy hole and gave chase I was turning into Base Ops and took the bike inside the building. A bear wold probably been slower than they but possibly more persistent.

I don't think I could have got much help from the Honda. Lateer that day I had to walk back pushing the bike as the wind was too strong to pedal into it even in granny.

Patrick