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CHIEF

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  1. Good to know. It's about 20 minutes from me. Haven't went in over 30 years. CHIEF Jr. acquired three 69' Camaros, and plans on building two good ones out of the three. Gonna need some parts. CHIEF
  2. It's crazy to put plastic door handles on a $100k ride. It's gonna suck telling everyone to be gentle with the door handles every time, before you get in. If you can get them to put their other hand on the handle frame at the back of the handle, maybe you can keep it down to two or three replacements over time. I don't mean to rag on your new ride, I love most things about them. Marvelous engine, roomy, and comfortable, but those handles will create nightmares. CHIEF
  3. Are the door handles made out of metal? My Old Man's Escalade was piece of shit. When he got rid of it, the only one that worked and didn't fall out of the door was the driver door handle. They were about $800/each for the plastic turds from the dealership (before Rock Auto and the like), after the second set all the way around he just said "fuck it." That vehicle made me swear off Cadillacs. If it would have been a quality ride, I would be currently driving a CTS-V. CHIEF
  4. Just get on the CB and find you a convoy that will let you slip into the rockin' chair. They would never find you there. CHIEF
  5. Amen. We should not expect to pay under market, and need to do due diligence on anything of interest, and show our work. That would shift the burden of proof off of hornfan and onto the interested party. CHIEF
  6. Maybe a Surly First Right of Refusal? CHIEF
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    AMMO THREAD

    CHIEF Jr. has a buddy that has a coffee business and distillery, he works gun shows for him on a few weekends every few months. He is at the show at Amon Carter in Ft. Worth. He said there is a good bit of ammo at decent prices, if any of you are in the area. Show is open till five. Quite a few ammo sellers that apparently have large reloading setups. A lot of 9mm, .45, 5.56, and .308 sold in gallon baggies. CHIEF
  8. Ho-Lee Fuck. Your Old Man knew his shit. CHIEF
  9. Yeah, it really seems strange though. I thought the idea was to not draw attention to yourself. LEO is specifically looking for out of state tags and a bone stock rental. CHIEF
  10. Both of my searches in Illinois, they didn't even ask for consent. They had a K9 there in about 10 minutes and ran him around the vehicle with me sitting in it. They opened the back door and ran him through. It was pretty unnerving. It's apparent that rental cars are what's used to move drugs through the Midwest. No telling how many people have been arrested not knowing the history of the vehicle. I would have complied if they would have just asked, but that would probably have given me a chance at plausible deniability. I mean, I consented to a search didn't I? CHIEF
  11. Ol' Ian may want to look at this. Texas has already had a QB with a perfect composite score. Ewers is not the first in history. https://herosports.com/247sports-recruiting-rankings-trevor-lawrence-vince-young-ahah/ CHIEF
  12. I flew into Indianapolis and would drive over to Illinois, and worked up and down the Wabash river on both sides. So I crossed into both states several times per day. The speed limit was 50 mph on the Illinois side, even on major highways, so both stops were for speeding. The plates weren't always Indiana or Illinois on the rentals. One time I got one with New York plates. There is some sinister surveillance going on. CHIEF
  13. Had this happen to me twice while working in Illinois, both times in a rental car. Told the guy I was working for to buy an old beater with Illinois plates. Same thing, brought out the K9s. Had the same fear, what if they found something, and it wasn't mine. I mean I looked white trash enough, it was oilfield work. CHIEF
  14. CHIEF Jr.'s tire and rim combo is pretty killer. He runs 20" XD's with 34.5" Cooper STT Pros on a stock Dodge Ram 1500 4x4 with a 1" lift on the front (basically a leveling kit). It has that "stuffed" look at that height. The tires are about $400 a pop, but luckily, he has a couple of flats, so we have them staggered, and by two at a time. https://www.discounttire.com/buy-tires/cooper-discoverer-stt-pro He wears them down to the nub, These need to be replaced, CHIEF
  15. How old of an old dog are we talkin'? This could be part of the problem, especially if he is having health issues. Seven years ago I was up for a full restoration with my son. Now, fuck that. The last one was my last hoorah. One year I was enthusiastic, the next year I wasn't. I wouldn't assume politics got in the way, especially if you are good friends. CHIEF
  16. Agree totally. When you see lithium mines and think about how much diesel the heavy equipment uses in the mining process, and think about how much natural gas, the gas fired plants will use to produce the electricity to run the car over its lifetime, then add the amount of diesel it took to mine the iron ore to build additional power plants, if all cars are to become electric, it seems to me that a moderately fuel efficient car would have less carbon emissions over that same lifetime. How is that for a run-on sentence. CHIEF
  17. They can move that line on up into Hood and Somervell counties. There was a 14 footer in Squaw Creek Reservoir, absolutely huge. The water is warm since it is a cooling lake for the nuclear plant. It used to swim up to the boat, and we would take some cans of vienna sausage with us and fed them to it. Someone found an alligator slide-in spot by a popular lakefront restaurant on Lake Granbury. There have been a couple spotted along our stretch of the river as well. CHIEF
  18. Gotta have a good electric filet knife. The one below was the best one made in about 2016. It's a Rapala with an exaggerated serrated blade. It runs at 2800 rpms, about twice as fast as most. I get a new Mr. Twister brand every year (sigh)for Christmas from my MIL. We cast net tilapia on Squaw Creek, and you might end up with 600 fish. You will go through three Mr. Twisters at the cleaning table. One thing, this is not a knife to learn with, it is a nice gift for the guy with 4-5000 fish under his/her belt. I can halfshell a red in about 15 seconds, and filet them in about 25. I usually clean all the reds, and leave the trout to the Mr. Twisters. You can see how much bigger the motor is. CHIEF
  19. CHIEF

    Eggs

    A dozen over easy, two dozen deviled. Weed was definitely involved. CHIEF
  20. A 10k Generac or equivalent just to keep appliances running and lights on can be bout as little as $3200 and some change. Then whatever the installation cost would be. A 45kw unit (which is what it would require to run my HVAC) starts at around $13,500. I wouldn't think the installation cost would be much more. I'm not sure what the pressure is in residential lines before the regulators. Would you be able to get a big enough flow to run a generator that big? I can't imagine my 500 gal. propane tank would last more than a 2-3 days. Both would probably be a no go for me. CHIEF
  21. Correct, FLIR is not made specifically for leak detection, but for thermal detection between temperatures down to a half degree difference. A cold water, or hot water leak will show a footprint on drywall. CHIEF
  22. A buddy of mine just gave me one of his WEN brand generators. I have been loaning it out this last week. I've ran a Honda before, but this thing is just as quite and reliable. They only run $431 on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/WEN-56200i-2000-Watt-Generator-Compliant/dp/B00SMNLF4M You can set them up parallel with an additional unit, and you have 4k worth of power. CHIEF
  23. Probably depends on the size of the house. I have eight tons of a/c. It would probably triple the price of the unit needed. CHIEF
  24. That's high enough, you would think there would be "blackmarket" grifting. One person buy a meter, and people paying to tap in. Wow. CHIEF
  25. Damn right, it's the principle. They think they got you by the balls, jokes on them. Can you pull out of Travis? You are waterfront right? CHIEF
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