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All corporations take the fun out of every job eventually, in my opinion. They'd replace us all with robots if they could (and eventually will). Just give me a good severance package and they can have my job.

Is there like a highlights version of their 3-hour podcasts? I'm a big fan of Gunner's videos, but I wonder what the average podcast watch time is.

I let both Cats out to play this week in the Chippewa National Forest. The Catalyst now has about 4-1/2 hours total time and the Riot has about an hour for the season.

You had one, too? I'm a retired Chief, and one of my predecessors was able to get out from under a business that was losing money when a fire conveniently gutted it. One of my regional fire school seminars was taught by Jamie Novak, a very respected fire investigator. I think that was the most interesting class I ever had as a firefighter. One day of the class was all classroom. As we were in class, the local fire department was at an old farmhouse, setting each room on fire using a different method. The next day, we had to go to the house and figure out how each room started. In my assigned room, it was just charred remains. Jamie suggested that we wash down the room with water from a fire truck conveniently located just outside. Once we did that, the pattern of a liquid accelerator was clearly visible on the floor, and we were able to piece together what happened without any further assistance. After we'd covered all of the rooms, we went back to the classroom where he showed us video of each fire. I learned so much from Jamie, that was a great experience. After that, I've been to several fires that made me suspicious and where we called the state to investigate. Arson is a lot more common than people realize, especially when money is somehow involved.

I left the group. Instead of being a place to help others find ridable snow, it has turned into a place where people tell each other not to go snowmobiling. I couldn't take it anymore. Most of our trails up here in nordern minneesoda go through public land, with only a few sections of private land (by me, anyway). I was able to get in a couple of shorter rides after work this week, some ditch riding but mostly open trails.

I don't think they were ever completely sold out. However, there were a lot of people who walked away from a spring order. The public will never know how many, so maybe it was just one guy who lost his job at Walmart. But, we shouldn't assume there wasn't any. I think there were more than we realize.

We have enough for some good ditch riding, and I still have a sled with LAST year's gas in it, so I think I gotta get rid of it somehow.

AC5S video with Ben Langaas:

That's a great testimonial. The way he posted on Facebook, it sounded too good to be true. And, I keep looking at other clutch people, like BDX and Speedwerx, and they've got nothing about belt size. I just wasn't sure what to believe. However, the way you've explained it, I think there's definitely merit the belt. Since I don't have a spare for my Catalyst, I'd be willing to give it a try next season.

The claim from Thunder Products on social media about the stock belt being too short has come up again (Snow Tech infomericial). Has anyone tried that to see if TP might actually be right?

Yeah, but does it bridge the bumps better?

Your quote looks fishy. There's no charge for the standard stuff - running boards, bumpers, etc. I wonder if the dealer accidentally added accessories to your quote. The way it is, it's not right.

I had tunnel flares on a fan cooled Indy back in the 90's and they did a great job keeping snow off my back. Didn't do shit for cooling.

This winter, the Timberwolf in Marcell, MN hooked me on a concoction that includes vodka, peppermint Rumchata and a couple other chocolate/coffee flavored things that they called a peppermint martini, or something like that. I'll bet this brandy would go well with that in place of vodka. In other news, brought to us by Polaris....

Which is better: Boyeson V-Force Why?