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Ol Blue K20 06-07-2020 08:44 PM

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I have truly been blessed with children. My kids soared when they left the nest, and I'm pretty sure I have the best two son in laws available.

You're lucky, I have been considering killing mine lately. :lol: My oldest daughter's boyfriend has been put on warning, I don't like P.OS.'s and he's liable to become fertilizer.....

1976gmc20 06-07-2020 10:02 PM

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I have had the same experience with my son. I don't give him anything anymore. It took three different vehicles before I learned.

My biological father offered us a 2 yr old car (demonstrator). I didn't ask for anything; he had tracked me down 40+ years later. I happened to mention on the phone one day that I thought maybe we should find a car that used less gas than our Suburban and pickup. My half sister later told me that he had given my half brother a new Corvette in HS or college, and that junior went out and wrecked it and my dad gave him another one, which he went out and traded for another brand. :rolleyes:

Now my dad and half brother in law are gone but the half sister and her mother are mad at me for some reason. Junior was never happy about me, but now I don't have anything to do with any of them anymore. Sad about the nieces and nephew, though - they seemed nice.

We still have the little 14 yo Chevy but I think we are going trade it in this year just because it has to sit about half the year because the roads get so muddy and slick.

special-K 06-08-2020 07:01 AM

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^ multiflora roses are obnoxious around the farm in mo :waah:

Multiflora rose is obnoxious everywhere. We planted it as a gov't soil conservation program to create windrows and habitat. That program got cancelled when they saw what a mistake it was. Between the wind and birds that stuff would cover the earth if it wasn't for mowing and cultivation (and goats).

That neighbor needs to look around the yard a little more often. That's an invasive volunteer they neglected to pull up that's been growing into that tree for years. It is providing seed for all the baby multiflora rose to spread all around.
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I stuck this dogwood in the ground a while back. It didn't put out full blooms this year. A lot of trees started out funny this year

Ken O. 06-08-2020 11:11 AM

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Here is a model boat I made for a guy down in Louisiana. All carbon fiber. This is the 5th one I've done this year.

Sheepdip 06-08-2020 11:28 AM

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Here is a model boat I made for a guy down in Louisiana. All carbon fiber. This is the 5th one I've done this year.

I got a buddy who races those, in fact his whole famdamily does it.

Stocker 06-08-2020 12:37 PM

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Here is a model boat I made for a guy down in Louisiana. All carbon fiber. This is the 5th one I've done this year.

Very cool! :metal:

Ken O. 06-08-2020 12:58 PM

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I got a buddy who races those, in fact his whole famdamily does it.

Yea it's pretty fun. You get to do good hard racing without hurting yourself.

Ol Blue K20 06-08-2020 01:04 PM

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Really cool

special-K 06-08-2020 04:37 PM

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Fun kind of cool!
The Severn River in MD can get flat enough for those. The race 1/1 scale on it

Killer Bee 06-08-2020 07:31 PM

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*bending the rules a little, photo from internet*

one of my friend's race boats, he still runs carb'd big chevies :metal:

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/d5jjy8ga3jy...32282.jpg?dl=0

72c20customcamper 06-10-2020 08:18 AM

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Clearing an area about 150 x 400 of woodland to make a polo field at a freinds horse farm . I'm getting as much wood as I can haul mostly white oak . Did three loads yesterday

special-K 06-10-2020 08:27 AM

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Cutting down woods for a polo field? Such a waste. Just my honest opinion.

"The cove". The mountain valley in Garrett County, MD where my grandmother was born.

kingsolver72 06-10-2020 09:46 AM

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Not to be contrary but I see it as both parties benefiting from clearing that part of the property.

The photo of The Cove reminds me of a place south of Lawrence Ks. only no mountains but some substantial hills.
Looks like a nice place.

1976gmc20 06-10-2020 10:28 AM

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Clearing an area about 150 x 400 of woodland to make a polo field at a freinds horse farm . I'm getting as much wood as I can haul mostly white oak . Did three loads yesterday

So that square arch flips over towards the front when the tongs hit the block, to pull the log all the way up on the trailer?

Do you just manually push the arch back to skid another log up to the trailer?

I toyed with an idea like that for a while but finally decided it wouldn't work well enough or fast enough. I ended up building a free swinging heel boom which worked good except the electric winch heated up, and then later built a hydraulic loader.

72c20customcamper 06-10-2020 06:24 PM

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So that square arch flips over towards the front when the tongs hit the block, to pull the log all the way up on the trailer?

Do you just manually push the arch back to skid another log up to the trailer?

I toyed with an idea like that for a while but finally decided it wouldn't work well enough or fast enough. I ended up building a free swinging heel boom which worked good except the electric winch heated up, and then later built a hydraulic loader.

Works well . Jut release the tension on the cable and it falls back ready to adjust the chain

1976gmc20 06-10-2020 06:29 PM

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Works well . Jut release the tension on the cable and it falls back ready to adjust the chain

Wish I could see a video in action :)

How do you unload?

dieseldawg142 06-10-2020 10:23 PM

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had 3 super "B"'s and 9 flatdecks of roofing material to unload today. we got the crane guy to lift us up some help. looks small, but it's a 6000 pounder fork lift
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72c20customcamper 06-11-2020 08:04 AM

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Wish I could see a video in action :)

How do you unload?

The trailer is a dump . I dump then lower the bed to make my cuts to stove length. Pretty much keeps the logs off the ground

davischevy 06-11-2020 08:22 AM

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The trailer is a dump . I dump then lower the bed to make my cuts to stove length. Pretty much keeps the logs off the ground

That's a neat setup.

72c20customcamper 06-11-2020 10:58 AM

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Hope it works first trial run have added the grapplers and a snatch block plus some other items. Now I can drag right up from the woods . Much easier to readjust the log as it goes up

https://www.instagram.com/p/CBTIckBA...d=1kmbb6tvjef1

https://www.instagram.com/p/CBTJGbEg...d=kl8p934wygoi

1976gmc20 06-11-2020 11:45 AM

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The trailer is a dump . I dump then lower the bed to make my cuts to stove length. Pretty much keeps the logs off the ground

You must have to pin the bed down when loading ;)

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Hope it works first trial run have added the grapplers and a sntch block plus some other items. Now I can drag right up from the woods . Much easier to readjust the log as it goes up

https://www.instagram.com/p/CBTIckBA...d=1kmbb6tvjef1

https://www.instagram.com/p/CBTJGbEg...d=kl8p934wygoi

Okay, I see now … you're moving the tongs back incrementally to get the log all the way up on the trailer. I thought your arch was flipping over to the front of the trailer, like a round bale handler or those trash bin loaders.

I tried doing that once with a makeshift outfit on a pickup and quickly decided that it was too slow and difficult to make any money at it.

Sometime I will try to grab the phone and take some snapshots of some old album pictures that we have. I started out rolling logs up ramps with the dozer blade, then loading with heel boom and tongs attached to the dozer blade, then built an electric cable heel boom loader, and then finally a couple generations of home-built hydraulic loaders.

These days I just cut firewood blocks and load them into the pickup by hand. I did buy a semi-load of pulp logs last fall and have them dumped in the sagebrush on the other side of our land, so now I just haul them about a quarter mile :)

DPowers 06-11-2020 09:43 PM

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Had a nesting pair a couple years ago.

DPowers 06-11-2020 09:45 PM

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momma

Killer Bee 06-11-2020 09:47 PM

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Had a nesting pair a couple years ago.

very handsome small birds, cool picture!

DPowers 06-11-2020 10:20 PM

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very handsome small birds, cool picture!

Were right off my back porch and the Dad wasnt very happy when this showed up

kingsolver72 06-11-2020 10:48 PM

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Inside the Desert View Watchtower at the south rim Grand Canyon.

special-K 06-12-2020 06:06 AM

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momma

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Were right off my back porch and the Dad wasnt very happy when this showed up

I can here one 'chipping' out the window. Love the Cardinals. So pretty in the winter snow. It's cool they hang out year 'round. They like the cedars and hemlocks. black snake, uh oh.
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Inside the Desert View Watchtower at the south rim Grand Canyon.

Been to the canyon quite a bit but never saw that. It's cool they made it look native.

72c20customcamper 06-12-2020 09:22 AM

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Cleaned one of the pieces I found out near the barn. I think there was another smaller building in front of the stone wall . Not sure what it was for but definatly hand made

Chevyland 06-12-2020 09:27 AM

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A ChevyLand hat

For
The first person to tell me who’s house this is in ?
What room is it ?

72c20customcamper 06-12-2020 09:34 AM

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A ChevyLand hat

For
The first person to tell me who’s house this is in ?
What room is it ?

Elvis , jungle room?

kingsolver72 06-12-2020 09:44 AM

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Jimmy Page- Alister Crowley room.

kingsolver72 06-12-2020 09:52 AM

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Been to the canyon quite a bit but never saw that. It's cool they made it look native.

Yes. Hopi, I think.

Steeveedee 06-12-2020 09:59 AM

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A ChevyLand hat

For
The first person to tell me who’s house this is in ?
What room is it ?

No idea, but I'm diggin' that carved chair!

Chevyland 06-12-2020 10:49 AM

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Jimmy Page- Alister Crowley room.

I haven’t made it there yet !
Probably won’t, the place burnt down I think

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2etqIDEWapI

Chevyland 06-12-2020 10:55 AM

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Elvis , jungle room?

Yep - Pm me your address

kingsolver72 06-12-2020 11:28 AM

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I haven’t made it there yet !
Probably won’t, the place burnt down I think

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2etqIDEWapI

I didn’t think I was correct... I just had no idea...

davischevy 06-12-2020 12:06 PM

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I am deprived.

davischevy 06-12-2020 12:08 PM

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I have friends in high places.

The Rocknrod 06-12-2020 01:36 PM

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Wow, I was going to guess - Marlin Perkins

Chevyland 06-12-2020 01:52 PM

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I am deprived.

I’m sorry....
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I have friends in high places.


Maybe, I’ll take you on
One of my next bird watching excursions

:alc:


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