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  1. On 3/20/2024 at 7:32 PM, CleverNickname said:

    I've often wondered what the etiquette about pissing on a hike. Felt weird, but how can you drink 3 or 4 L and not go? But I'm pleased the NPS officially told me to go ahead and water the trees.20240310_105400.thumb.jpg.f565d4b2e91c28b8547c647d5a1fe19d.jpg

    On the first Philmont trek with my son’s scout troup, the first teaching moment from our ranger was to cram 10 of us into one of the stall’s of a Red Roof Inn composting toilet at the turnaround and explain the no pee in the toilets.  It actually didn’t smell bad at all and the reason was not peeing in the toilet which kills the good bacteria, IIRC.

     And don’t pee on the trees either as rodents can be attracted to the salts and will gnaw on the bark of pissed on trees and shrubs.   Like the proverbial cow, piss on a flat rock.

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  2. That sprayer will work fine.  There are some recommendations for different spray nozzle sizes but I just use what came with the sprayer.  

    Here’s a couple of PDFs I saved a few years ago with different mix ratios for different applications and a slide deck from one of the AgExt BrushBuster seminars.  There are some of the seminar videos on YouTube if you want more info.

     

     

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    Killin’ mesquite, honey locust and huisache is serious bidness.

     

     

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  3. Help a no-nothing here out ~ What do y'all spray the mesquite remnants with?
    I don't think my cousin sprayed shit, but he had all that cleared area hit with a disc, then plowed, and then had grass seed planted.
    Is he going to get a nasty surprise soon?
     

    Yes, if it was just dozed and not root plowed your gonna have a bunch of sprouts pretty soon.

    We use Remedy and diesel in a 1:4 ratio for trunk application 1-4” diameter, applied with a backpack sprayer. You can go to 15% on smaller diameter smooth bark plants. Sendero is supposed to be even more effective but is twice as expensive. Remedy is probably 80% effective in our mesquite. We just hit the leftovers during the next years spraying. I like to spray in May before it’s too hot. By Feb of next year, last years mesquite will be dead and rotted enough to break off by hand at ground level.

    You can find a lot more info on the Texas Agrilife Brush Busters website.
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  4. Help a no-nothing here out ~ What do y'all spray the mesquite remnants with?
    I don't think my cousin sprayed shit, but he had all that cleared area hit with a disc, then plowed, and then had grass seed planted.
    Is he going to get a nasty surprise soon?
     

    Yes, if it was just dozed and not root plowed your gonna have a bunch of sprouts pretty soon.

    We use Remedy and diesel in a 1:4 ratio for trunk application 1-4” diameter, applied with a backpack sprayer. You can go to 15% on smaller diameter smooth bark plants. Sendero is supposed to be even more effective but is twice as expensive. Remedy is probably 80% effective in our mesquite. We just hit the leftovers during the next years spraying. I like to spray in May before it’s too hot. By Feb of next year, last years mesquite will be dead and rotted enough to break off by hand at ground level.

    You can find a lot more info on the Texas Agrilife Brush Busters website.
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  5. Those Buck 110s are burly.  I've got one, but I don't carry it too often in part because of the weight.      
    My mother-in-law gifted me the Schrade Uncle Henry that her second husband carried for years before he passed away.  It's a USA-made Schrade (prior to 2004) and is about the same damn knife as the Buck except the pins are flush with the handle, the blade shape is a little different, and the steel is 440A instead of the Buck's 420C.  I love messing around with both of those knives.       

    The Buck 112 has a 3” vs the 3.75” on the 110 and the 055 has a 2.375” blade. Choose your size. The 112 with a drop point vs the clip is a nice looking knife.
  6. Just got treated for Dupetryn’s, again. My hand will be out of commission for a bit, and yeah, it’s the one I “use” if you catch my drift

    What did your treatment entail? I’ve got pretty bad knots on the little and ring finger tendons of both hands. Haven’t consulted a specialist for it yet, just consider them ribbed, for my pleasure.
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  7. Came real close to buying one of the yeswelders during Black Friday Amazon sales but ended up passing for the time being. Project Farm YouTube guy did some videos on cheap mig inverter welders and the Yeswelder came out favorably. I would just consider it disposable if you end up frying the circuit boards.

  8. We’ve enjoyed our GD Imagine. Camped this weekend and it was our 32nd trip and 91st nights sleeping in our trailer since we picked it up in Aug 2020.

    We haven’t had any major issues with ours so our experience with GD is pretty good at this point. GD has a good reputation for handling customer support issues but there are still plenty of FB and forum posts of people having issues and not getting any satisfaction in getting it fixed.

    My main two gripes are I wish our trailer had a full 3/4” plywood subfloor instead of the lightweight aluminum/foam/ply laminate sandwich they use. I also wish they didn’t use particle board for all the cabinetry. Any moisture and that crap instantly grows mold and fungus. Most of the other stuff I can deal with so issues with it doesn’t bother me too much.

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  9. Get the extras

    And check the payload capacity vs what’s in the truck and the actual hitch weight. Older 4x4 Crewmax Tundras had a terrible load capacity, 1340 lbs in the case in my 2007. 4 adults, a couple hundred pounds of gear in the bed and 10:1 hitch weight got you to about 4-5k lbs of trailer.
  10. Must have been in the air this weekend. We cleaned out a couple shelves in our office/computer and I trashed some parallel port printer cables, dsub 25 ribbon cable and a dsub25 male to male cable used with Carbon Copy or some other disk copy software back in the day. Also pitched some old software: Flight Sim 97, Visual Studio 2003, etc. kept the OEM MS-Dos 6.22 diskettes still in shrink wrap.

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  11. Did you spray all that mesquite earlier? Just blading and not running a root rake seems like a good way to have a shit ton of mesquite root sprouts in another month or two.

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  12. We’ve owned a 20’ KeyWest DC for almost 20 years now.  Great boat with the the kids growing up and I’ve been 30+ miles out in the Gulf fishing with 3 guys one day and pulling tubes or skis at the lake the next.  When we bought DCs weren’t as popular but now they are everywhere (including GW’s recently announced 41 ft’r).   Pursuit makes a really nice 23’ DC that hits a lot of the marks for me as does the GW.   I don’t like the 23’ KW with its integral rear seat as it eats up a lot of cockpit space. 

    Are you planning on towing the boat?  If so, your tow vehicle could be a limiting factor.  
     

    Here’s my 19 yo boat at the lake

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    And here’s the DC I’d buy after hitting the powerball

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  13. 9 hours ago, Gladeite said:
    Count me in the 5mm Sheridan fan club.  This was around 1970.  No telling how many thousands of pellets went down the barrel.  I would save up my money to go to Treasure City and get a new yellow box of 5mm pellets.  Nothing quite like the feeling of material wealth that was attributed to carrying a full box of pellets.  I did not need anything else, until about 1975 and a church hayride changed my focus to girls.  

     


    I bought a 5mm Sheridan Blue Streak for my son when he was 9 or 10. He could barely pump the thing a few times and didn’t shoot it very much before he moved on to a 22lr. A while after I bought the gun, Academy or Walmart had the 5mm pellets on clearance at a great price and I bought a lifetime supply of them. Probably have 15+ 500 count tins in my ammo closet. I use it around the house for my backyard varminting. It will still thump a raccoon in the head with good results.

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  14. Simple, bulletproof, trucks.  Not much else you need to say.  You can expect 250-300K miles out of them with basic maintenance.  No frills.  Minimal tech.  But they just keep performing YOY.  I was always a Ford guy, but I also keep my trucks 9-10 years, and after 140k+/- miles each Ford started to shit the bed and the repairs got more and more expensive.  This is why they hold their value so well
    The only "tech" I really need is Bluetooth.  I run everything through my phone anyway (GPS, podcasts, etc.).  Two things I miss:  auto-folding mirrors and an outlet in the cab to plug in something like a laptop.
    I'd get a "cat" guard, as they are targets for catalytic converter theft (here), but other than that they are monsters.  I got the 2019 TRD Pro, so it does have the leather seats.  The stock Michelin AT2 tires are fine in town, but I had issues at the ranch so I upgraded to larger, Cooper AT tires.  The bed is covered and full of soccer crap.  Chairs, stadium seats, blankets, umbrellas, etc.  The cabin is massive.  We took a trip with both kids and both dogs and they all were fine in the backseat.  
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    I had a 2007 TRD 4x4 Crewmax that I traded in on my Ram in 2020. ~265k miles, had a starter replaced at 80k, did the water pump a couple of times, replaced a steering hose once and that’s about it for the repairs. Other than that it was a really reliable vehicle, just getting toward the end of its life to ask it to tow a new travel trailer.

    I still have some Bilstein front shocks, a transmission filter and a set of plugs I was going to change out when I traded it in. I probably have a few of the element style oil filters that go in it too. Anyone need any of that stuff?
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  15. On 1/24/2024 at 9:32 AM, Sandman said:

    I buy certain items that I take to work for breakfast and lunch. I get pretty pissed if I go to pack my lunch in the morning and I don't have my breakfast/lunch because some inconsiderate ass thought it was ok to eat that stuff that they were specifically told not to eat. Now you have fucked with my routine and I am not happy. We have a kitchen full of lots of things to eat, don't touch these 1-2 items. It's not hard.

    But my kids are grown and moved out, so this doesn't happen anymore.

    Shoulda just made a sign for your shelf in the fridge.

     

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  16. 11 hours ago, Cajun said:

    I have so many questions.

    Just a stupid fucking cow who has done this 3 times with that same hay ring.   It is a lightweight one even before one of the rings broke off the bottom.   She gets her head under it and just pushes her way in.  
     

    I came up the the place this time last year and found these tracks all over that one 50 acre pasture and it took me a bit before I realized what was going on. 
     

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  17. Took us about an hour to to hook up and drag it straight out of the storage bay, drain the main tank, drain the water heater, open low point drains and blow all faucets, hose connections and drains. We added some anti-freeze into the ptraps, backed it into the bay, set the jacks and unhitched. Probably over cautious but a little time now hopefully prevents issues when whe want to use it next month.

  18. 1 hour ago, UT_OB1 said:

    The tooth just to the left of my two front teeth had to be removed. It’s been out since thanksgiving. My dentist convinced me that being in the front a bridge was the way to go instead of an implant because they said it would like better.  What are your thoughts on bridge vs implant?

     

    I was shocked yesterday when I found out it was going to be $4k after my insurance covered their part. 


    Stu!

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