Wyoming B.S. Thread

Yeah..thats why 20ga is better..it's thinner...14 is thicker..no need for that thick at all.

And its not that MIG is easy..its fucking not easy on the body. Your problem is it is so thin you just blow right through it. If you can't weld 20-22ga steel with the stick you're fucked. You'll just blow through it and make your hole bigger and bigger. That's my point.

So skip the 14ga. Not worth the practice at all. Just get some 20ga and go from there because thats why you have to weld too and 20ga is the thickest stuff you'll be able to hand form in a nice way with just hand tools.

Don't be dense Even though I know you are. Im just trying to save you hassle and time.

 

Yah, saves so much time (from not having to think about it). Have thought about some covers for random folks; problem is that I'm cheap, and the covers aren't.

Doood, talk about getting too far ahead of ourselves. A few days at home and suddenly 35s?, after years of being happy that you were out exploring all summer in a truck that didn't break shit like Frank b/c it wasn't right on the edge? The green truck on 33s is so much more capable than you give it credit for.

Get that stump removed from the side yard to keep yourself busy.








You know I'm just giving you a hard time. Do whatever you want, of course. I mean, if you're going 35s, I think you should try LT as well. Will make a bigger difference than the 35s, if we're all being honest about things. I'd go that way first myself - way more comfortable travel (which is what you like about the orange truck).

 

LOL that's fair!

This...is proof...that slowly....very slowly...I'm working my way into your brain

"LT, 35s, Supercharger"

Do it



do it



DO IT!

 

That would be a real advantage for you here. Because as a beginner MIG welder you'll still suck and it'll be better than your stick welding. Imagine how good it could be if you got good with a MIG. At least give yourself a Fighting Chance. I get 75% off FedEx shipping, I could probably just send you this spare welder.

 

Fuck it if he doesn't want it I do haha

 

You have a ways to go until you are reaching the limits of 33s @m3bassman. Just from what I noticed. I believe that you said something about the right tool for the job... Referring to a jeep for technical crawling when I did the hard line on the trail with you. I was on bald Coopers too, you mentioned you were not impressed with a few pages back. You do you, 35's do look awesome on these truck with minimal lift.

Are you locked in the front yet? Real skid plates?

 

Yep.

33 + two lockers will get you a lot farther than 35s and one.

 

definitely gonna make it worse without gears

 

@m3bassman , not to pile on, but the idea of trying to MIG weld 14ga to the tin foil firewall metal gives me the creeps. Doing it with stick just sounds like blatant masochism. Either way, you’ll likely blow thru the body metal before you ever get good heat on the 14ga. Not to mention the issues of forming that Monty mentioned. The patches need more than a little concavity to clear the tires at full stuff and lock.

 

Well apparently my eyes don't work the same as y'alls haha

 

eh thats the thing. All art is subjective be it visual, aural, or whatever. Especially because no one person hears or sees or feels the same from the get go.

 

It may not be your eyes at all. Most likely the computer monitor.

@Blackdawg after viewing your 4 images on my calibrated monitor. I am going to change what I said. I like #2 and #3 on it best for the details in the shadows and colors, expecially the colors in the sky. I did see the red highlights before. That may be because of the wide gamut monitor I use to edit with tho. The colors are in the data but they may be outside of the colorspace of many standard sRGB monitors.

 

yeah that is were I noticed the biggest differences were the details and clarity of images overall. Like I said, the LR processed photos seem soft to me. Which I don't like.

 

I'm confused? I was under the impression you had been working from home. No? Is your employer still making you go into the office to do your work?

What exactly does 'a 21 day lockdown' mean? Is that the same as a shelter in place order?

 

I just go in to my store room and get some. We put away some essentials a few years ago for just such an occasion. Hopefully people will learn from this, and when things get back to normal will stock away some essentials a little at a time. We haven't done any shopping since this started. Figured we are good, leave everything for those that didn't plan ahead. We are however planning on going to town this afternoon to fill the wife's prescriptions. Be interesting to see what things are like. Haven't been to town in almost a month. I might pick up some oranges if they have them, ran out of fresh fruit a week ago.

 

True. I’ll be editing photos, step away for a bit and when I come back want to redo all of them because I was staring at them too long and didn’t make them look quite right...

Good point. I was using my laptop and briefly looked at them without expanding them or going directly to Flickr to view them.

After looking at them in more detail I do like #2 better except near the edges where I feel like there’s too much blue in the cliffs off in the distance, however the rest of the picture’s colors pop more in #2 imo.

I like the detail in the cliffs and shading of the sky of #3 more than #4 but like the lower contrast of the darker areas more in #4 that makes those areas show a lot more detail to me. If it was possible to lower the brightness of the right cliff slightly too as it seems almost too washed out.

Not that I should be judging these pictures too heavily as they all look better than most of mine haha

 

Officially have a stay in place order in MT now

 

our store was fully stocked today. Who knows how long that'll last though.