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4 hours ago, Vladislav said:

No less than awesome!

And the great collection of dogs!

Thanks Vlad!

This is the house I grew up in, and both of my parents lived there until they passed away. I believe it cost $8,000 to build in 1964. I have no idea what it's worth now, but I'm pretty sure they financed it for 20 years. To me, 20 years sounded like forever in 1964. 

A house just down the road from us was just put on the market. 3 days later the sale was already pending, $279,900. 1 acre of land.

Beautiful place, but geez!

1 hour ago, Joey Mack said:

the Clintons are related to a handful of deaths,  McDoogle, Vince Foster, Epstien,  I  have forgotten a couple more right now,  possibly JFK Jr.  but not sure......

Yep, there's quite a a list. I've seen them all posted before somewhere.

I remember hauling structural steel to Lynn, Ma. in the 80's and I don't remember a thing about it. Everything in that part of the world looked pretty much the same to me. 😂

Happy birthday!

Speaking of grilling, I ordered a new offset fire box for the Char-Griller smoker. It was starting to rust a little bit, my own fault, but the rest of it is in pretty good shape. It's my own fault because one of the worst things you can do with a grill or smoker is to leave ashes in it. They absorb moisture and cause it to rust very quickly. I'm guilty of not cleaning the ashes out until the next time I'm starting to cook something. You know, food gets done, "let's eat" and cleaning the ashes out of the smoker or grill is about the last thing on my mind.

This is the new unit installed. It's slightly smaller but not enough to make much of a difference, I wouldn't think anyway.

The old one looked like this when I took it off.

My son said he'd like to have it for a freestanding grill, so I put the legs on it and covered the hole in the end and slapped some Hi-Temp paint on it for him.

I even wire brushed the cast iron grates and reseasoned them for him. They were rusty too, from being in the shed, but I don't remember ever using them but once. They fit across the top on that little edge there.

I didn't need it, I have more grills than I know what to do with now.

And there's another little round one like the one in this picture in the shed, along with the Pit Barrel Cooker.

14 minutes ago, Joey Mack said:

Other Dog,  this one is for you..  I told you a while ago that You inspired me to smoke some Yummie goodness..   I'm trying something.  my wife doesnt like skin on chicken, so i pulled the skin and saved it.  then i smoked these 1/4's till they got a good color then I covered them with the skin to keep them from drying out..  i expect them to be Yummie.. 

Have you ever done this with chicken, if so, how did it come out?   

Hoping for a good game today,  Jojo

I've never done it myself, but I saw Myron Mixon, AKA "the winningest man in barbecue", do it on TV on the barbecue competition show I used to watch all the time. It was called "Barbecue Pit Masters" I think, and I learned a lot. They smoked ribs, brisket, whole hog, chicken, or Boston butts, pretty much something different all the time. They had a certain length of time to cook then they turned it in for judging. Great show.

Anyway, he cooked chicken thighs and he pulled the skin off first and scraped it on the inside, then put it back on before he put it in the smoker. His came out great, and the skin was crispy, which is what he was shooting for.

On 2/8/2024 at 9:29 PM, Mean Green said:

Isn’t it a shame how much people waste I’m the same way I hate seeing something that’s good thrown away I was at work one day and watched the parts man toss a brand new Alcoa hub pilot 24.5 polished rear wheel in the dumpster cause it was out of warranty I couldn’t get in the shop fast enough to get a ticket to take it home and fish it back out 

It truly is. I know I told the story here when it happened, but I still think of the time I watched the woman at the bakery that I was parked behind throwing away hundreds of loaves of bread in the dumpster out back. Not a thing wrong with it, just loaves the bread trucks had brought back because it was past the expiration date and they couldn't sell it.

I was tempted to go dumpster diving and get myself a few dozen loaves, but with my luck I'd have gotten arrested for trespassing or something.

2 hours ago, mowerman said:

Reservations all made for June …. See ya soon… bob

Great!

Talk about fake- just this morning I saw sleepy joe on the news saying that the problems at the southern border were the direct result of the previous administration. 

What? Really?!. and the sad part is that some people actually believe his b.s.

8 hours ago, fjh said:

I used to squirrel away various parts in my tool box bottom drawer that our parts guys seemed to have a hard time getting saving them from rebuild kits ect,  Trunnion inner washers was a common save as not every job was worth using them! 

I did that too, when I worked at a garage when I was just out of high school. I would save all sorts of small parts, like brake springs and adjusters when we replaced them with new pieces, all sorts of things that I thought I might use...someday.

On 2/6/2024 at 5:51 PM, Joey Mack said:

I dug through all my small Mack parts and only found 2 straight keys..  This is how they get us..  Make essential small parts obsolete.  I wish I had a crystal ball 10 + years ago..  I may have bought a few of them, as well as other smalls..  Mack's price is $85.00..   I saw a PAI version for $103.00..  None in stock..

This has nothing to do with your parts issue, but as for the crystal ball- I've said many times that if I knew then what I know now I'd have bought a bunch of the old metal flake gear shift knobs every week, they used to have a whole aisle of of them at every truck stop. Now they bring unbelievable prices on e-bay or wherever you can find one. If I had bought some back then and put them in the deep freezer I could retire.

10 hours ago, kscarbel2 said:

I have a lot of respect for Senator John Kennedy.

Me too.

16 hours ago, Joey Mack said:

I guess theres enough illegals here to vote for Democrats, to tip the scales.  So now its time to look like a hero and close the border. They are saying that Republicans are at odds about it..   B.S. !!!   We had a President who was getting it done!!  What a sad state we are in..   Very sad........

I'm with you there, 100%!