60+ year old thread.

Morning All

Glad to hear you don't have to ride in the street...a lot safer on the sidewalk. Enjoy the rides.

Great video. Usually you see videos of them fighting in their natural habitat not in a populated area like that. There goes the "Hood"

Bummer about having to stay till Monday Charlie, but the doc is right. Hang in there Brother. Prayers and thoughts still heading your way

X2 Mike.

Glad they did get Frein and no further lives were lost in doing so. He was armed when they found him and things could have turned out much worse...on the other hand, because he was armed the State cops could have saved the tax payers a bundle of money and settled a score...we'll have to see what happens in the courts now.

 

Morning all.
Hope you had a more comfortable night Charlie.
Wild week at the shop. Lots of strange crap.
Must be because of Halloween.
Grandson is coming to the shop with mama for a oil change.
Going to scare everyone in the office with his pirate costume.
6 day weeks suck. On any week.. Lol.
Stay safe all.

Out the door....

 

Morning Ken

I was kind of surprised he let them take him alive. I hope justice is served.

 

Grandson coming in will be a bright spot in a hard week. Take care Mike.

 

on a visit from a Pirate Mike...hope he scares everyone real good...have a happy Halloween.

Hey Rob, they are going to seek the death penalty for him. Time will tell. The grands coming your way for "Trick or Treating" today? I won't be around for that today, driving for the dealer going down to Maryland to do a trade, going out for dinner tonight with friends then home for dessert. Good day. Have a good one.

 

Yep, grandkids will be hitting up our neighborhood for treats.

Hope your drive is smooth and safe. Enjoy your day.

 

and

 

WOW! I don't have words ... Just too cool.

 

That's great news. It will be nice for you to get home and rest up for awhile. Let's pray all goes well this time, enjoy the Pizza!

 

Les Paul! That is awesome. Maybe it's just me but I think he'd want you to play it, if you can figure out a way to protect the autograph.

Glad to hear you're coming home Saturday. Take progress where you can find it!

Our new snowblower got delivered Wednesday. All I can say is, it had darned well better snow now!

 

Morning Dave.

Very nice machine! Did a quick price search for up here ... pricey too, but you get what you pay for. Our first 3 Winters up here I shoveled by hand before getting the snow blower. That first season with it was a light snow year and I actually thought about selling it that Spring. Following Winter we got dumped on repeatedly and I made up my mind that I'd never go without one. Sooner or later they're worth every penny. That Honda will be your friend for a very long time.

 

Maybe it's morning where you are...

Yep pricey. But I really wanted tracks, and I am not a big fan of the friction disk drives so the hydrostatic transmission was high on my list too. Those two things really, really limit the options. I found some used ones but anything decent looking was priced almost as much as a brand new one.

My first snowblower was a Crary BearCat (pics are mine) which I purchased in between blizzards back in '93-'94. At the time everything was sold out for ~100 miles in every direction, but a local guy dug these things out of a trailer and I grabbed one. They were probably 10 years old (but unused) at the time. It was a really clever design - the entire drivetrain ran down the left side, there was no differential needed because it all ran inline, and the augers were driven through a clutch which slipped when they got stuck (as opposed to shear pins). But it was really long and really nose heavy, and it wore me out after a while.

I lived with that beast until last year, when I tried out a Yamaha YS-828 (pics are not mine but it looked identical), a virtual youngster at only 20 years old. It sold me on tracks, but soured me on friction disk drives. Unbeknowst to me at the time I bought it, Yamaha snowblowers have what amounts to a cult following in the US. They're not sold here anymore but were every bit as well regarded as the Hondas in their day. So I sold the Yammie for more than I paid for it!

 

Very cool. Thanks for sharing that, especially the pics.

 

Finished swapping out to a replacement credit card tonight. So many on line accounts and passwords that needed to be changed.

 

Your card get hacked Tom?

afternoon gentlemen

Charlie, for no more surprises and that you get to go home tomorrow


for the start of our walk and then it cleared up. Only saw a couple of young teens trick or treating. Didn't rain long, but enough for the parents to take their kids home...

 

So who's going to eat all those cookies????

 

what cookies? the ones I made the other day? They're gone. mailed to the grands and taken to work

 

And I thought they were for the Trick or Treaters. I had about a hundred or so tonight, but I just give them those little candy bars.

 

5 am is calling, Opening day

 

Good luck and stay safe.