For Stock Rigs Only

The daughter?

 

For the Team....

 

Lol

 

I was thinking a wallyworld Jon boat..

 

Yep, got that shape

 

I was planning on changing the oil in the Taco.
Wrote on the filter 9-24 with 84.1k miles.
I now have 86.5k miles.
Guess I'll put it on my Spring to-do list.

2500 miles in a year.
I should get out more often.

 

It's being retired

 

Morning.
Weekend plans include getting ready for this storm today. Pulling out the boat and getting it covered.
Arranging the garage to put three vehicles in. Fuel for the generator and tractor. Secure stuff outside.
Clean our bowling balls for another league night. That’s two.
47th anniversary tomorrow.
So i need to concentrate on speaking “woman” to figure out hints this weekend. Very tiring.
It’s a foreign language you can never learn.
And i wouldn’t change it…

BE SAFE TODAY.

 

We used DHC-2 Beavers to commute to work (10 days on, 4 off, and sometimes stay out rather than go to town (Sitka, during cruise ship season)) and during stream surveys with the USFS, fly out in the mornings for evening pickup with Alouette IIs on pontoon floats (Livingston Copters in Douglas), followed by "killer eggs" Hughes 500D with pop-out floats, and sometimes Bell 206 and AStar helos.
I flew with a pilot, later with BellAir, (in a rare dual rudder Beaver) out of Sitka that had a new engine to be broken in so we did some of that, besides coordinate rudder turns. "Push the rudder to the floor and wait... Then apply aileron. A DC-3 is even slower to respond.) He'd practice landing on ice covered lakes with straight floats, and was able to get into some small lakes, and out of them by circling to generate a wake with those waves breaking the surface tension (drag) on the floats taking off.
Take the Beaver to the annual fly-in at Valdez-Pioneer Field in early May, or watch pilots compete. In 2005, it was remarked that after news got out that first place in the short takeoff and landing competition was a set of Alaskan Bush Wheels, it smelled like NASCAR. Burning rubber...
2016 at KCOE. departing after a week. I waited for the second engine to start since the first was overhauled at Grangeville, Idaho and leaked only 10% of the amount of oil as the one overhauled elsewhere.
I shot photos in 2008 at PACV as the Super DC-3 started up, and took a nice photo as Angelo lifted off the runway flanked by fireweed in full bloom. The rain squall came in as I walked back across the ramp. The TSA guys encouraged me to photograph the plane from the steps of the small building they'd leased to work out of while checking the scheduled airline passenger flights. (Daily: Alaska 737 one flight each way SEA-ANC, Era one maybe two flights round trip ANC-PACV, DHC-8 or smaller.)

 

Morning stockers it’s sweatshirt weather, probably should see if the snowblower works

 

Wire stripping day yesterday. Chilling today.

 

copper saving?
Must be a fancy stripper clamped to the bench.
I appreciate the drill selection..

 

Yup, $3-4 per lb currently so I save scraps and strip down a couple times per year.
That there is a grade-A Chinesium wire stripper. It does the job but it takes some tweaking to dial in.

 

Ahhh a VEVOR…..

 

So there is money being a stripper

 

I think I’m going to just sit back and let Crystal take it from here.
This is gonna be fun


You beat me to it…. ROFLMAO

 

I think I need a bigger umbrella

 

YES