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[SAMSET]

Sometime I might ask you to come up and talk to the kids about green energy...

id be willing to if i new anything lol, right now im still in the very early stages. i work 50 hours and can only take a couple classes a semester, so far it has mostly be gen eds. this semester is my 1st renewable energy coarse.

but someday i can do that :wierd:



SAM'if they want to learn form a hillbillyhippie'SET

 

[87manche]

One of the cool things about this place that keeps me around is watching what I used to consider the "new guys" build their rigs and watch them advance in their wheeling abilities. Some will get the itch and build stupid big rigs that are like big dumb animals (or attempt to as in my case), some will build aggressive daily drivers ane some will build purpose built rigs and the list goes on and on. It is still cool seeing people getting into the sport/club and having the proverbal fire still lit. So, keep up the builds, it keeps me pseudo entertained

Cheese "so do the mac-a-like signatures" Man

quit lying.

you stick around cause all the new guys bring their wives to events.

 

[XJ&CHZ4ME]

Yeah, well that too! You just keep showing up with Jennie and I am good

 

[*89Laredo*]

Ugh... Monday

 

[macgyvr]

Weekend of Sept 6-9 was supposed to be a TREC race weekend. They postponed/rescheduled/cancelled it because only two week turn around from this past weekend. Chaz and I were going to go to Badlands on Thursday that weekend. With no race or commitment to Badlands thinking about going somewhere else, within three to four hours from Fort Wayne. Any thoughts or suggestions?

Would do rocks and valleys but going there this weekend.

This is my last free weekend before the baby and grace is staying home.

mac 'prolly just gonna end up at badlands' gyvr

 

[ChiXJeff]

Yeah, well that too! You just keep showing up with Jennie and I am good

867-5309......

 

[RAM-ROD]

It's not the fall that hurts, it's the sudden stop at the bottom.

True statement and if you survive the "bounce" you will have to to say to yourself "this is really going to hurt."


Ram"been there once" Rod

 

[XJosh95]

Sign me up for bungee jumping or skydiving, but there is no way in hell I would climb 1700' up a tower. Just watching the video gave me vertigo and made my head wobbly. EFF that!

 

[BRIANHO13]

I jumped out of a plane once, freggin awesome.

 

[terrehautian]

I was driving yesterday to church and on the car in front of me was a bumper sticker that said, "Sky divers.... Good to the last drop".

 

[WI88XJ]

867-5309......

Thanks for clogging up my brain with that friggin' song, Jeff! :moon:



Jumping out of anything taller then me just makes no sense :wow:

 

[XJ&CHZ4ME]

I too am not a fan of heights. I get pretty shakey on top of the grain bins, especially when the wind is blowing. I can tell you that a little 8" wide single step ladder to the top is no match for winter boots and a 240# guy, I would make a good sized dent in the ground if I slipped. I usually have to do the climbing and spreader setting b/c I know that the hired kids would either do it wrong or fall off and get paralyzed. We had a hired hand years back get an arm torn off in a PTO shaft and that is one thing you dont ever forget. Safety first..most of the time

Cheese "OSHA approved, maybe not all the time" Man

 

[87manche]

OSHA approved, until the safety device gets in the way.

at least thats how farmers in my area seem to operate.

 

[ChiXJeff]

No kidding, Tyler. When it comes to defeating safety measures, farmers are world class. PTOs and augers just scare me more and more as I get older. Dad got whipped around by a tiny little 10hp PTO, ended up flat on his back, just in his underwear, while the rest of his clothes were spinning around the shaft a few inches away from his nose. Broke his heavy leather belt in 3 places.

 

[87manche]

I'll admit to the farmer mindset myself.

if a safety device causes machinery not to operate just because it's stupid, I will disable it.

I hate those stupid bars on pushmowers because they make my hands hurt.
and I hate seat safeties on riders because I'm not heavy enough to keep them depressed.

It's BS that the mower shuts off when I hit a bump in the yard.

 

[XJ&CHZ4ME]

maybe you should wear a fanny pack full of some of your nerd stuff to help weigh you down?

 

[ChiXJeff]

maybe you should wear a fanny pack full of some of your nerd stuff to help weigh you down?

Full frontal nerdity.

 

[REWSTER]

It's BS that the mower shuts off when I hit a bump in the yard.

Eat more bacon!


my fear of heights came from my partner continuously trying to kill me when i was a newbie commercial garage door installer. i switched to resadental to get away from him and he ended up breaking his back within months later. if i would have kept on doing commercial work i would prolly make triple what i do today. to many horror story's from working with that guy so i will only share the funniest one....

Twas a sunny afternoon in the village of Orland park. We were wiring transceivers to the front of the doors, because the customers were complaining that there remotes were not working. to save some time i was bolting the things up while he did the wiring. the employees had fence panels on saw horses that had just been stained. the partner ran the wire from the opener first. instead of transceiver first. well he rested his ladder upon the door and climbed all the way to the top. when he got up there to wire it up he either wired it wrong or crossed the wires, i don't know. but the door started to go up with him at the top of the ladder he panicked and just held on for the ride. sending him backwards falling onto a freshly stained fence sitting on the sawhorses. lucky for him they broke his fall from around 18ft up. he fell through them like a guy crashing through the roof in a movie. dude popped up with only one or two scratches and his back covered in stain.

 

[Rev Den]

Towers? I good to about 100'

Roofs? No limit, top of Sears was a breeze.

I make my living on rooftops.

Rev

 

[terrehautian]

I cannot do heights, while on just a ladder. If it is a lift with rails around it, it is fine.