Voodoo

1 minute ago, 1trailmaker said:

Echo is underrated 

Could be, I've never had one. Had a Husky at one of the farms I worked on and it was not as reliable as the Stihl saws we had. That's a one off, but it built brand loyalty to me to Stihl. i can honestly say my Stihl products are as good as I've ever found. IMO worth the extra money they may command..

Lol, I still buy Ski doo with rotax 2 stokes. Brand loyalty...but I am very familiar with rebuilding the rotax 2 stroke engine....that's both good and bad 

2 hours ago, Mainecat said:

Buy from whoever dealer is best. All good saws. I buy Stihl but I have a close dealer that’s great.

True dat. My stihl dealer at my last house was awesome. Bought a used John Deere lawn tractor, Yamaha generators, $40.000 Kubota 5740 they brought in from another dealer, on my request, many Stihl products and a used land pride finish mower, that was going to auction. Got the finishing mower home  and the gear box was fucked. Called them the next day and was asked if I bought it at auction. Nope, bought it sight unseen from Rob, my go to sales guy pre auction. They tore it down and it needed a gear box. They did everything I expected. 3 options. All my money back. Give me a new gear box, I install. They install a new gear box,  for cost of labor only. I chose option 3. Sold that mower 10 years later for most of what I paid for it.

Stewarts in Ospringe, Ontario

My new stihl dealer Hastie's in Springmount is the same top notch service. Bought a 160 saw, a pole saw and some other stuff. 

Dealer is paramount. 

Have a MS290, early 2000's,  going to use it today. It's cut dozens of bush cord. Been a bulletproof saw.

10 minutes ago, franks pond said:

we have a custom made stainless box on top of our woodstove at camp,two lines plumbed to a hot water tank,beside it a plastic barrel for cold water both in attic,a sump pump in the stream that runs under the camp and a bunch of valves to fill the tanks.hot and cold water at the kitchen sink,shower and small sink beside the shower,separate line for cold water for the hunting dogs

Buddy used to heat his pool with something similar.

3 minutes ago, $poorsledder$ said:

State I'm in may have put restrictions on the outdoor units, in my town neighbors were complaining about the smoke.  I knew someone that was burning skids from work and it seemed like a pretty good setup.  Do these things have a catalyst on them?

Same here in places, even backyard fire pits are verboten.

Mine can smoke like a bastard until it gets rolling, but I'm zoned as a farm and neighbors are a fair distance away.

No emission controls of any kind.

I have an outdoor Polar Furnace, installed before I ran gas to the shop. Only use now is to burn cardboard and crappy wood from around the property. It'll burn anything. 

https://www.royallboiler.com/

Y'er fucked!

download.jfif

Wow.  

Love the "you are actually breaking the law"...who the fuck elects cunts that would make it illegal? We should all be worried.

Facetwat Karens probably ratted her out in seconds.

9 hours ago, Highmark said:

That makes sense from both sides. If Republicans think the post office will lose by accident or on purpose then be %100 sure and vote in person..

If Democrats think the same, then Republicans should be quite happy that Democrats vote by mail.

That's just playing the odds but the bad Orange man doesn't do math very well and the senile senior forgets about it daily.

On 8/27/2020 at 12:26 PM, Snake said:

 

Awesome.

Had a chance to buy one in the 80's...shou;d have

27 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

Holy fack that is gnarly.

Squish and rip injury.  Good news was it was an older truck. The pins were sloppy and that gave some wiggle room. It was pretty nasty. Only one broken bone so we managed to keep the gubernment people out of it...we'd had a bad year already. One guy, newbie, got his arm darn near ripped off by the mixer, shirt got caught on the drum as it's rotating...contractor had to grab the remote and back the system up to release his arm.

The truck wouldn't have even puffed smoke as it ripped his arm off....

I grew up on a farm, run big, powered shit all my life..I know better.

ER doc was a pretty cool dude, helped him out with gauze dabbing as he sewed that shit up. I thought the white stuff I originally saw seconds after I got my hand out was bone. Nope, tendons. That's better. If it was bone, that meant the tendons are gone and you're fucked. Think we were  a couple hours all in.

LOL, self help instructional video attached.

Why not online voting instead you say?

We have, up here anyway the Canadian version of the IRS. 

The Canada Revenue Agency mails access codes, to the registered address of the Social Insurance Number, after you apply, so someone needs that to finally activate an account and set up a password. I did it. generated a one shot only password Christ himself couldn't figure out.

Seems to be very secure.

Bots managed to access over 5000 accounts...because stupid people used email addresses and duplicate passwords stolen on the dark web.  Our CRA had to shut down its web portal. So even what should be secure, is seemingly not

Concrete mixer truck at work.

Had my hand on the lower edge of the main chute after I tossed up the flip chute up...well it flipped back down. Stupid rookie mistake 12 years in. Doing 3 things at once while chatting with the contractor. I was featured in the company wide,  what not to do safety brief.

Could  have cost me my hand.

First thing I did after I pulled it out was try move my fingers, Yay they respond!

Almost no issues at a year later, %90 of the strength back and only slight range of motion degrade.

Sooner or later my Wolverine like healing abilities are gonna run out.

Well known "acrobat"...

Stripper pole?

18 hours ago, Highmark said:

I had a deal done on a mint 1997 RXL SKS some years back.   Told the guy I'd take it set up a time to meet as it was about a 5 hr drive.   Texted the next morning to tell him I'm leaving and when I'd arrive and the fucker sold it out from under me.   Sled had only 700 miles on it and was in showroom condition.   

LOL

I was an hour and a half into a 2 hour drive and the Mother Fucker sold a pair of sleds I agreed to pay full price on and I would be there within three hours.

Bastard didn't even call me, I saw the ad disappear so I called him, " yah, they are being loaded up now"

I'd take a 1985 V-Max 

Think Tesla stole the idea for their truck...

4 hours ago, Angry ginger said:

aka robin motors.

 

I thought subaru sold off their small motor business a few years back to yamaha.  

 

 

 

Wisconsin Robin aka Subaru on my splitter...It's at least 30 years old. Muffler, carb kit in 30 years 

16 hours ago, Stephen Hawking said:

I paid $200 more to get a Kawi motor in my riding mower about 4 years ago. I think it was money well spent. 

Kawi in my Deere mower and parts are a breeze. Local dealer has most in stock or next day...

2 hours ago, Tomas. said:

That's a nice purse he has there lmao.

 

I also never understood the riding without appropriate gear. I don't mean leathers, I am talking proper gear with shoulder, back, elbow, hips, and knee armor as well as the proper textiles to prevent abrasion.

Sure the wind feels awesome in your tee-shirt and on your helmetless head but I highly doubt it will be worth the feeling of the first responders picking bits and pieces of you off the pavement.

Even half helmets to me are a bit of a bone head idea. Local guy got a rock just above the eye that came from over top his windshield.

And another guy dropped his bike and his chin hit the curb. Give me a full face helmet every day of the week.

While I can admit to wearing some questionable apparel, the full face helmet was always on.

1988...Once a certified sport bike lunatic, I always wore at least an armoured jacked,  race bike gloves, leather boots and jeans at a minimum....saved my ass when I slammed into the back of the Mazda diesel doing 80 kmh in the acceleration lane..think I hit him at 140 kmh.  Got a bloody nose from the helmet hitting me, as I went through my fairing, then his truck cap.

Then as me and the bike slid down the 401 at around a hundred K, one internal zipper in the jacket ripped me a scar I still have today..

Once stopped, I was able to get up and pull my poor mess of a Gpz 550 off to the side of the highway..

Bike got a flat bed and I did eventually fix it

OPP that did the accident scene dropped me off at the party I was headed to, after we stopped for a coffee.

Had to gt me for "follow to close"...a pretty minor charge all things considered.

Good times.  Most cops are good people.

It is an interesting debate but the bottom line is no matter how many ballots get lost. spoiled or otherwise canceled by subterfuge from either side, you get a turd sandwich.

Turd with a side of socialist dementia  or turd with a side of mental midget.

No matter who wins, y'er fucked

12 minutes ago, Matt said:

My neighbor put his house up last week.  He had 6 offers over asking price, 2 of which were cash by 3 PM the next day.  Housing market here is super hot.  Inventory is way down compared to normal.

Boat dealers can't keep boats in stock.  Local Malibu dealer is completely sold out of 2020s, even some of the uglier floor models.

People have cash to burn.

That's awesome...but...

I can see a scenario where governments will have little choice but introduce a wealth tax.

If business and employment taxes can't feed the bloated government it's unfair share, which is likely for some time...I'd hide your money, not flaunt it.

Personally I invested in .556, .762, and the devices that eat them.

Here in Canuckistan, the black face boy King is raining down money from his castle balcony.

It seems he comes out daily and waves his hand, money falls from the sky.

Here is a sobering website, for those that pay taxes in the true North strong and free.

https://www.debtclock.ca/

If you live in Ontario, man, woman or child, you owe $45,000. If you are a single income family of four, that's $180,000,  just in case you went through Ontario's shitty school system and can't do basic math.

For sure.

The last sport bike I owned was a '89 zx 10..bike I could not afford at 19 years old...good for 280 kmh rung right out...140 hp. 

New version of that bike is 200hp and at least 100 pounds less....the super bike of that version is pretty crazy.

This is a not the production machine but still pretty cool....

17 hours ago, Dieselgeek said:

I'd rather have a Supra. 

Super hot MILF next door bought an '85...still remember her and the car. I'd have hit both of them....and there ain't much from the 80's car scene that are worth remembering.

Had an '85 300zx na, bought in around '93...handled pretty good but the HP was lacking.

I reconsider..GM had the GNX and ford had the 5.0 mustangs...they didn't handle worth a shit but they have a cult following and some level of performance that made people look again in the 80's...those 5 litre mustangs made the jeeps look good for handling..but they did go quick in a straight line.