Weekend is over...what did you get done?

Getting ready for Hale Mtn. Bought some new Spicer joints with the correct snap rings just to screw everything up. I messed up a grease seal on a joint and then bent a snap ring trying to take it back apart. Luckily I had a total of 4 Spicer joints so I installed a different one and this time it went together fine. I wasn't able to straighten out the bent snap ring so I was forced to use a clip instead.

Ugggghhhhh!!!! Lesson learned to to have plenty of snap rings on hand just in case and test fit before you start.

Bought a new 13mm 12-point socket so I can change the shafts out tonight.
 
Had a terrible wheeling trip. Was really just a trip out to our favorite lake spot, but someone had a few too many and wondered off into the woods, got stuck, and then the monsoon storm came, and stuck became very bad.

Everyone tried to recover everyone, it went terribly. By the end of the night I was the only one still moving around not stuck, I had a few new dents from trying to get others, busted a tail light, busted a mirror, and was now missing 1 winch cable.

Sad Night.
 
XJfreakHO said:
but someone had a few too many and wondered off into the woods, got stuck, and then the monsoon storm came, and stuck became very bad.
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and that is why you don't drink and wheel.
 
^ What Ken said!!!
 
We weren't drinking and wheeling, we had a small fire going by the lake and were drinking a few beers. Just a calm night. Most of us had a few beers and were completely fine when we went to leave. However a certain person, who thought it was pretty funny, kept saying "Man I didn't slide into a hole, I slid into a 12 pack"

Jackass. :/
 
Ill just explain this in a way I hope you can understand.

I had 3 or 4 beers, over 4 hours. Do you know how alcohol works in the body? The amount of alcohol your body burns through in an hour is equivalent to 1 drink per hour, thats one shot, or a beer, or a glass of wine. Meaning my BAC would have been no more than .03 when I was leaving, and probably closer to .00

12 Beers in the same time however, puts a persons BAC at between .08 and .10

That is the distinction between myself and my friend, I was complete within my legal rights, he was not. I was in complete control of my vehicle, he was not.

Thanks for playing.
 
I'm a Gunnery Sergeant in the Marine Corps. How many drunk driving safety briefs do you think I've had over 15 years? How many do you think I've taught myself?

The impairment of your motor skills starts after the first beer. Your hydration level, your digestive metabolism and your body type determine just how impaired you are. Keep drinking, think you are fine. I've had Marines get DUI's after "3 or 4" over a few hours. Unless you hit yourself with a breathalizer before you started the jeep, you don't really know.

Drink when you're done wheeling and not driving home or don't drink. It's even worse that you let your friend drive after he had 12. If you were perfectly fine, why didn't your good judgement kick in and tell him he shouldn't be driving after a 12 pack?

I've seen too many Darwin incidents. Too many dead 19 year old Marines who were "fine to drive." Don't try to justify your dumb actions with the BAC speech. And if you're going to drink and wheel, keep it to yourself. We don't need NAXJA involved in people being stupid.
 
RedHeep said:
I'm a Gunnery Sergeant in the Marine Corps. How many drunk driving safety briefs do you think I've had over 15 years? How many do you think I've taught myself?

The impairment of your motor skills starts after the first beer. Your hydration level, your digestive metabolism and your body type determine just how impaired you are. Keep drinking, think you are fine. I've had Marines get DUI's after "3 or 4" over a few hours. Unless you hit yourself with a breathalizer before you started the jeep, you don't really know.

Drink when you're done wheeling and not driving home or don't drink. It's even worse that you let your friend drive after he had 12. If you were perfectly fine, why didn't your good judgement kick in and tell him he shouldn't be driving after a 12 pack?

I've seen too many Darwin incidents. Too many dead 19 year old Marines who were "fine to drive." Don't try to justify your dumb actions with the BAC speech. And if you're going to drink and wheel, keep it to yourself. We don't need NAXJA involved in people being stupid.
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I own a breathalyzer because I never want to get a DUI seeing how easy it is since the legal limit is set entirely too low and, in my state atleast, between .05-.08 it is at the officer's discretion to as whether or not he thinks you are impaired and so say you blow a .055 which is well below thw legal limit, if you have a power tripping cop who sees it as a game to throw people in the drunk tank then he could still take you in if he wanted to. So if you are in Georgia think of the legal limit as .05. Anyways I have been out plenty of times and maintained only having about a beer an hour or if I have 2-3 in one hour I wait atleast 2 hours after my last one before I go driving. I test in my breathalyzer and I blow safe. The DUI are highly skewed by MADD Mom lobbyists. They think they improved the safety of the roads by getting the legal limit lower because now they get more DUIs. Well yeah you lowered the limit so now more people qualify as driving drunk. That makes as much sense as saying well my credit card is maxed out so I'll just raise my credit limit, doesn't make your debt any less but hey you can buy more shit. The government doesn't care about lowering the limit because that means more revenue from DUIs. I sat in a alcohol/traffic school class to get a ticket dropped and they told me all the same stuff I am sure you tell your men. They also told me that if I never touched a drop of alcohol all but 3 separate occasions a year but on each of those occasions I got hammered, then I still qualified as an alcoholic. That is absolutely outrageous and unrealistic, that is saying so if I celebrate on holidays like St. Patrick's day, 4th of July, and New Year's and I get drunk hey I an alcoholic. Please, my parent's come home form work and have a glass of wine with dinner so based on the kind of standards of what the government has set, they are raging alcoholics. MADD Moms would be thrilled with prohibition if it came back and the government won't complain because the tighter the restrictions the more qualifying violators which means more that will be paying fines and the more revenue they will bring in. What was intended to be a safety rule has now been horribly twisted into a money making machine. You sat through classes that were being taught by those who read a hand book that was given to them by the government. They are by no means an expert in the field of drunk driving. On top of everything else Alcohol effects everyone differently so 3-4 beers for a bigger person who is by no means new to drinking alcohol is completely different from the way it affects some 19 year old kid fresh out of high school who had his first beer maybe 2-3 years prior at best. Placing blame on alcohol is irresponsible and ignorant. Blame should be placed on the person making poor decisions.

And let me just say as a disclaimer I am in no way condoning REAL drunk driving. I have taken away plenty of keys from friends and even those I barely knew because they were going to try and drive when they were clearly drunk from mere observation of their behavior. I have paid for cabs for those that wanted to drive home impaired. I believe in safety first and foremost. But to believe the delusional views and standards set by the government is ridiculous. Don't believe what the government tells you all the time, go out and find out for yourself. Think for yourself!
 
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Ben824 said:
I own a breathalyzer because I never want to get a DUI seeing how easy it is since the legal limit is set entirely too low and, in my state atleast, between .05-.08 it is at the officer's discretion to as whether or not he thinks you are impaired and so say you blow a .055 which is well below thw legal limit, if you have a power tripping cop who sees it as a game to throw people in the drunk tank then he could still take you in if he wanted to. So if you are in Georgia think of the legal limit as .05. Anyways I have been out plenty of times and maintained only having about a beer an hour or if I have 2-3 in one hour I wait atleast 2 hours after my last one before I go driving. I test in my breathalyzer and I blow safe. The DUI are highly skewed by MADD Mom lobbyists. They think they improved the safety of the roads by getting the legal limit lower because no they get more DUIs. Well yah you lowered the limit so now more people qualify as driving drunk. That makes as much sense as saying well my credit card is maxed out so I'll just raise my credit limit, doesn't make your debt any less but hey you can buy more shit. The government doesn't care about lowering the limit because that means more revenue from DUIs. I sat in a alcohol/traffic school class to get a ticket dropped and they told me all the same stuff I am sure you tell your men. They also told me that if I never touched a drop of alcohol all but 3 separate occasions a year but on each of those occasions I got hammered, then I still qualified as an alcoholic. That is absolutely outrageous and unrealistic, that is saying so if I celebrate on holidays like St. Patrick's day, 4th of July, and New Year's and I get drunk hey I an alcoholic. Please, my parent's come home form work and have a glass of wine with dinner so based on the kind of standards of what the government has set, they are raging alcoholics. MADD Moms would be thrilled with prohibition if it came back and the government won't complain because the tighter the restrictions the more qualifying violators which means more that will be paying fines and the more revenue they will bring in. What was intended to be a safety rule has now been horribly twisted into a money making machine. You sat through classes that were being taught by those who read a hand book that was given to them by the government. They are by no means an expert in the field of drunk driving.

And let me just say as a disclaimer I am in no way condoning REAL drunk driving. I have taken away plenty of keys from friends and even those I barely knew because they were going to try and drive when they were clearly drunk from mere observation of their behavior. I have paid for cabs for those that wanted to drive home impaired. I believe in safety first and foremost. But to believe the delusional views and standards set by the government is ridiculous. Don't believe what the government tells you all the time, go out and find out for yourself. Think for yourself!
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Very nice, I also own a hand held breathalizer, we take it anytime we go to the bar, or out drinking, hell after a night of drinking at the house well see who can blow the highest before grabbing a few glasses of water and hitting the hay. Over a .03, wait a few hours. Over a .08, your staying the night or getting a cab.
Ive done the same courses, and was told I was at Stage 3 out of Stage 4. I drink maybe 1 night a week with dinner (usually 1 but sometimes 2 beers), and once a month Ill go out and throw em back with friends. Years ago I used to party and drink like a fish but not anymore. The man insisted if I continued to drink like I do I will become an alcoholic.
For the record, when my buddy left, his passenger who doesnt drink was driving, when we got there to pull him out, he was back driving. Out of my hands.

Its just not worth discussing here though. :doh:
 
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This isn't the first time you have brought a drinking and driving conversation to this forum. We have a strict policy to protect our members, families, friends, and image. I would heed a warning not to further this discussion and leave it alone, you are treading on thin ice with a lot of people,
 
Cnickgo said:
This isn't the first time you have brought a drinking and driving conversation to this forum. We have a strict policy to protect our members, families, friends, and image. I would heed a warning not to further this discussion and leave it alone, you are treading on thin ice with a lot of people,
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some people like digging when they're in a hole.
 
whatever.... if he wants to drink and wheel it will catch up to him quick, ive got too many problems of my own to give him a speech. if you go do it, best of luck, dont get killed or do something stupid that gets places shut down.....


.....really dont talk about it here.... if you feel like your being wronged and you want to talk like that go elsewhere
 
shortxjdoug said:
whatever.... if he wants to drink and wheel it will catch up to him quick, ive got too many problems of my own to give him a speech. if you go do it, best of luck, dont get killed or do something stupid that gets places shut down.....


.....really dont talk about it here.... if you feel like your being wronged and you want to talk like that go elsewhere
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Couldn't have said it better.

In other news, I spent the day in West Virginia riding around on a 4 wheeler. It was nice to get away for a day and play in the woods without it costing $100+. Even if it was 8 hours and 400 miles worth of driving in one day.
 
Well I spent the day putting all my bumpers back on the heep, and getting rear LED lights put in. They are AWESOME! I also scored a sweet rusty's skid and put my radio back in the truck.
 
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