The Original O'l Farts Club.
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giggy
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i did that yesterday, had to clean it up.I would think LH threads design would be standard but wht the heck do I know. I made one of my first mistakes as a young outside machinist apprentice with left handed threads. Will never forget that lesson… good luck and don’t skin up your hands along the way
Back 10 years ago and more - getting from Manila to Subic Bay in the Philippines was always a pain by road - just getting out of Manila could take 2-3 hours - then another coupla hours on the motorway till you would arrive at the old USA naval base of Subic Bay - where I had a nice house in West Kalayan - (just up the hill from the base) -
Vasco's was the bar
restaurant - I used to drink/eat at right over the water on Subic Bay - run and owned by an Aussie mate of mine called Brian Homan - an old treasure diver - who had a dive museum - behind the bar -- anyway - next to Brian's place was Subic Seaplane - owned and operated by an ex US Marine - who had an old Cessna seaplane - he would pilot for hire - and over the years he would fly me all over that area - and beyond - but mostly the Manila-Subic-Manila route - which was a far-far better way to arrive at or leave Subic - landings and takeoff's were always exciting - and the view - Wow!
* 5 hours by road (heavy traffic) or 25 minutes by seaplane - was a no-brainer
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moose eater
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Every now and then a youngun' has to spread their wings, or paws, and find out what lies beyond the horizon.@moose eater , come and get your puppies.
Kodiak bear cubs were found in Florida, thousands of miles away from their native home: 'Climbing on my car'
The two brown bear cubs had been roaming around on a road in a rural area in north Okaloosa County, about 50 miles northeast of Pensacola, Florida.www.yahoo.com
We saw that when the polar bears began (in limited numbers) moving away from the coast and some were encountered by truckers on the Haul Rd up to Prudhoe Bay.
Yours were probably just a little more motivated than the average.
I suspect amphetamines.
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oldfogey8
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I read a bunch of stuff from Ivor Cummings, an Irish chemical engineer, who is on this stuff like white on rice. The censorship that the ‘leaders’ in Ireland are implementing is straight out of 1984. The problem here is none of the MSM outlets have anything to say about anything against the govt narrative so a lot of our population is clueless and will stay that way because they have been conditioned to believe everything against the narrative is white supremacy.
I just grew some Show Leopard. Good stuff.....real hit with the locals around here. Lost the mother so I have to start all over for more. Short little girl. Good yield.
Off to the dealership for an oil change.
moose eater
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OleReynard
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The second he started coming off that bike, it'd been all over real fast.Walking back from the gymalong the Thames River tow path - (where the old barges used to be towed by horses) - I got into a verbal confrontation with some idiot half my age or more - due to him cycling along this path - which has plenty of signs telling everyone to dismount and walk with their bikes - since many young children - older people and dogs - use it to escape vehicular traffic - and only a few yards from the tow path - is a dedicated cycling route -
Standing in front of his cycle as he approached - I put my hands️ up - stopped him - and told him that there was a cycle route - 'over there' -pointing to the route that he should have been on -
He obviously knew that he shouldn't be cycling where he was - but decided to try and force the bike past me - which failed - then he kept saying 'You have no authority over me' - and started using threatening language to try and scare me off - which failed also - it was a stale mate - until he finally dismounted - and so I let him pass - but he remounted his bicycle - as I said - 'At least someone pulled you up on it!' - maybe he will think twice about cycling that route again - I hope so
He'd look pretty funny with a handle bar stuck up his ass.
I'm just waiting, patiently I got some penned up aggression that needs to be let out.
oldfogey8
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Interesting stuff. You were on to this long before I had a freakin’ clue. I became enlightened early on in the pandemic. My wife was fired and shamed for exercising her right to bodily autonomy and I dove in head first.
moose eater
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I know. Would've scored poorly on American Bandstand.
we got that too!No yeti in merry old England joe........just some dirty old feet.
moose eater
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I bought about a 50-qt. Kong cooler, made in Iowa. Good cooler and nice folks. Folks there cut me a deal during a sale on shipping.
Also got a Yeti 35-qt. and a Canyon Creek 50-ish qt. in a rotomolded cooler.
Techni-Ice/Techniice out of Australia is one of the best, and their port of entry is in Florida. This year they went public, selling shares or stocks, but their ordering process was too convoluted for me a few years ago.
I can pre-cool the rotomolded coolers, then load them with whatever I'm tossing in, and have them last close to 7 or so days in the bush, and we travel (when going to Aishihik Lake and other road-accessible places) with a small energy-star-rated 115-AC chest freezer that weighs about 20-30 lbs. and fits in the front corner of the bed of the truck, under the canopy, as well as behind the front passenger seat in the camper van.
With those items and a small Honda generator, we can extend our stays in the bush nearly indefinitely.
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moose eater
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I'm holding out for a day that we're above +10 f. or so to get the vehicle ready for the drive to Anchorage in a couple weeks or so.
dogzter
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moose eater
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That and tie-rod ends.
