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  1. 34 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Yep.  You don't nuke the stumps it just makes it worse.  We have a couple of backpack sprayers that make it a little more manageable, but it's still as big PITA and a never-ending cycle.  

    Any brand rec's on a backpack sprayer that will survive remedy/diesel?    Been using a 2 gal hand sprayer and am tired of lugging that thing around.

  2. On 10/11/2018 at 6:59 PM, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

    We're in East Texas, so it's about a five and a half hour drive to get there. It's six hours to Horseshoe Canyon Ranch in Jasper, AR, and they have over 400 climbing routes plus a number of bouldering problems. It's just not worth it to go to Reimer's Ranch when there is better climbing in the Ozarks for us if the point of the trip is to climb. I'll probably try and make it out to all of the Texas climbing destinations one day, but it's just not worth it right now while I am trying to learn to be a better climber.

    Are all of the routes there on the ranch itself?  How much is just day climbing? There isn't anything listed on the website  

  3. Nice. What were your thoughts on selecting that model?

     

    I've been window shopping a bit myself. I was thinking 5800 first but after looking a bit think I'd spend the extra money to move up to the M6060 or even the M7060.

     

    I would get a FEL with 3rd function, 6' HD brush hog, and a grapple right off the bat. And shop for a used 12' batwing later on.

     

     

    Also, who did you buy it from? I've got verbal quote from 3 different dealers and they have all been with $1500 on what I would want.

  4. If we are going to dream (and I could put Walter Mitty to shame) my cruising plan would be to retire at 55 and take a 5-7 year circumnavigation.   

    Boat criteria would be 2 full cabins/ 2 heads and 1 or 2 sea berths to sleep 6 without using the saloon couches.  Enough tankage to cruise 800-1000nm under power.  Enough solar/wind gen and battery (perhaps LiFePO4s) to run all fridges/freezer/electronics without needing daily top offs from the main or gen set.  A watermaker is a must and dive compressor/gear would be nice to have aboard.  Electric furling main and genoa would make for easy handling for a crew of 2.

    I figure $200-300K purchase price for a 15-20 year old boat and have a $75-120K refit.  Budget $4-5K month expenses and running maintenance.   Sell for $200K when done.

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  5. 5 hours ago, AUS-97HORN said:

    really, really amazed he didnt haul off and slap the ever-living shit out of her afterwards, because she sure as fuck deserved it.  

    "but, but, you cant hit a girl"      

    BULLSHIT, you fucking haul off and do a BLIND full roundhouse haymaker on my ass, especially when it looked like his dancing had nothing to do with her.... im going to fucking see red and do a blind rage reaction.

     

    then everyone can call be a woman beating asshole and I will nurse the shit out of my black eye and tell you all to go fuck yourselves.

    Didn't you see the guy in the video?  He looked like he couldn't have slapped a mosquito.  The chick is balled up ready to hit him again.  I think she would have whipped his ass.

  6. 2 snugtop extravision toppers on two different trucks and will buy another when I get a new truck next year. Will order the truck and the top on the same day.

  7. 5 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    You were going to dump a Garand over the side?  Bro.......

    Do you even mexican prison?  

    Not sure I would cruise with firearms.  Seems like there are tons of issues with them dealing with customs and clearance when you have them not to mention countries that outright ban them from coming into port.  Hiding them would be an issue if you ever tried to use it or were caught with them.   Probably better awareness of your surroundings is more crucial and not transiting the gulf of adean  and areas of Indonesian or the Philippines if you are headed for a circumnavigation.   You are not going to fight off a boat of  guys with AKs anyway.   Look on noonsite.com and you'll find most issues to cruisers are stuff stolen off of boat decks at night or mugging/assaults that happen on the backstreets of town on drunken cruisers.

    As for the OP original cost, I think you will be low at $2k month if you are actually cruising and not just trying to live aboard cheaply at some anchorage.  Here  is a spreadsheet of the detailed cruising costs of one retired couple (www.SVBebe.com)  that  completed a circumnavigation over 10 years and tracked costs to the penny.  They had a ton of other travel and medical costs in there and old boats are expensive to maintain but I would think these are realistic costs that might be incurred.

     

    Budget+Actual+Cost+Summary+for+website+2

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  8. 11 minutes ago, Llano Estacado said:

     


    Tsk tsk tsk.

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    You need to decide if you’re working with engineers or O&G trash.

    FTR - I’m aware my old manager wears white velcro New Balances almost everyday, and the one before that wore 10 year old work boots.

     

    Midland should actually be a Carhartt FR shirt and Ariat FR jeans with steel toe redwings.

  9. Do spend a lot of time browsing Yachtworld and watching SV Delos and La Vagabond videos?  Do you have a spreadsheet with boat purchase costs, maintenance/living expenses, gear and spare parts lists that you play around with every day or so?  Have you tracked your retirement accounts/assets  and have a number set that is a kickoff point?   Have you figured out where would be the best place to spend 6 months to a year doing a refit on an older boat before heading out?  Do you want to cruise the Carribean/Bahamas/around the world or do you want to just live on a boat somewhere relatively inexpensive?

     

    Do you yearn?

  10. 20 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

    sam's legs are freaking me out. 

    Didn't even noticed she had legs.  Was focusing on Haleigh's tits, hoping they would jump out.

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