gearhead204

my neighbor built one in his wood stove used a car wheel and a shop vac for the blower, with gravity feed on the oil. would have too look at it again and get some pics.

I'd go with IH red and white........always looks good dragging a John Deere........I'm cheep myself so tractor colors are my preference, 40-60 bucks a gallon for enamel just add hardner  and buff, no clear coat to peal if left unwaxed..... just some more buffing!

2 hours ago, 6v71 said:

Cool, a Mack with a Detroit.  Now we're getting somewhere.

YEP............under YARDO'S skin

yep, a good quick shift aid when going up hill! but abut worthless as a compression brake, it does change the sound of the exhaust but that's about it!

IPD may also have an engine kit as well

You might check with some community colleges or vo-tec  schools, often they will do the work for free, and would be supervised by the instructor.     

7 minutes ago, theakerstwo said:

Guys the more you argue with this woman the more she enjoys it.

like the bumper sticker sez......arguing with a woman is like wrestling with a pig in the mud........after a while you realize the pig enjoys it!

Well its wrestling season .......and I'm used to getting nowhere

when the average U.S. farmer (the most efficient farmer in the world) feeds 160 people , I billion more mouths will take a considerable amount of farmers world wide to deal with this. if you use the U.S. numbers that would be  6,250,000 new farmers needed to do this

waiting on the next round of snow to arrive here tonight , the warm up would be nice ! 15 here now ,started the day at -5  thankfully the wind is calm tried playing with the snowmobiles but not enough snow yet about 5" of dry powder stuff needs to melt a little so we have some base. Thankfully we didn't have more or I would be moving snow drifts from all the wind earlier this week . 9 inches would be a good start for playing on the sleds  Stay warm and stay safe, seen some pics from face book, looks like some dandy wrecks on the eastern side of the country, also some good ones on I-5 out here as the westerners out here don't do snow.

just send me your air ride superliner, I will put the rears to good use 

I think she needs to do some research on the new middle class in china, and its demand for food, other than rice and fish.

4 hours ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

Our logging industry in Minnesota isn't having all those problems, and Minnesota has so many environmentalists that it's practically an ATM for the Sierra Club. Looks to me that your just trying to find something else to blame on democrats, and ignore the market forces that are the real cause of shrinking employment in logging, coal, mining, oil, and agriculture. 

I'm not an expert on logging in Minn. but what I understand that area is mostly hard woods and white pine that is exported into Canada, at least that's what they were showing on TV when I think the outfits name was Pelagrenie Logging (sure I didn't spell that right) couldn't believe what I was seeing  on the screen the guys were logging in creek basins and other riparian areas THAT IS ABSOULTLY NOT ALLOWED HERE !

The Sierra Club are small players out here any more, Future Wise and a dozen others are more common here.  and as far as Agriculture shrinking you need to forward me where in the f@#%& you are getting this info! last I checked this planet is getting more crowded every day, so unless these new people are cannibals some thing has to feed them!     

1 hour ago, HeavyGunner said:

I disagree, the timber industry started taking a steep decline in the late 80's.  The majority of the mills that closed in Montana all happened well before the 2008 housing crash. Tree huggers filing multiple frivolous lawsuits killed the timber industry here. Have you ever seen how much timber we import? I have, I watch train loads of it go by every week and I see the local reload station where Canadian trucks bring in lumber to be distributed here. The open market works when you're not handcuffed by EPA, tree huggers and every other bs group that tries to shut any industry down. The same people who drive their cars to an oil drilling protest. 

https://ncfp.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/montana-mill-closures-4_6_2010.pdf

Exactly !  same thing here heavy haul route from the boarder to Oroville Wa. to get reloaded onto train cars,  our local mill is a 1/4 mile away  from the reload and struggling to stay open, the only thing that keeps them going is they have the largest head gear left in the state, so the oversize gets shipped to them.  about the only heathy forest in the county belongs to the Colville Confederated Tribe, pretty damn sad that the Indians are better land managers that all of the well educated liberals trying to manage our lands!...........perhaps common sense is the key   

3 hours ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

For being such lovers of the "free market", you guys seem to have missed the whole reason for the lack of logging... Lack of demand for lumber due to the low number of housing starts and the pulp wood market is being hurt by the switch from paper to electronic communications. The Feds could declare "open season" for loggers, and the saws would still be quiet.

I live in a pac-rim state we  could export more wood than we saw, but foreign markets are very picky about their timber,  liberals would rather see it burn than support rural community's and schools. the enviro's have launched suit on every timber sale the state issued in the 90's and 2000's. The state has won a few in recent years, but not enough to get caught up on the damaged timber.

3 hours ago, HeavyGunner said:

Agreed, but you should know a couple more facts that might help add to my pro logger view point. In Montana the forest service used to sell somewhere between 15 and 20 million board feet of timber that is selectively harvested and closely watched by foresters.  Now Montana public lands sells less than 1 million board feet and burns up 10 to 15 million every couple of years. Clear cuts and other poor practices have long been abandoned unless you're on private land which very little of the timbered area in Montana is. No one wants to see a healthier, productive forest then loggers. Notice in the 70's and 80's how few fires Montana had?  Thank a logger for getting rid of the extra fuel load as you pointed out and keeping the pine beetles from killing all our forests which is what we have now. Anywhere you drive here the needles on the trees are turning orange from beetle kill. Then it burns and wastes the timber and money on the firewatchers. 

I couldn't agree more ! during our fires of 14 and 15 we burned just south of a million acres here in Okanogan county, the thinned and grazed land (private) was mostly a ground fire that didn't damage the trees or soil, and easily recovered from the fire. The state and federal ground that had been protected from human intervention was a inferno, that killed the trees and scorched the soil leaving many areas sterile (which causes erosion)  due to the mass destruction much of the timber was not salvaged because the mills couldn't process it quick enough. land owners were lucky to get timber removed after the fire as company's were not paying for burnt wood. and were swimming in offers to come and get it! thus our schools and other areas of our economy  that would have benefited from timber dollars did not. I am hopeful  the new administration will clean up some of our federal land and lessen the danger in our area. we too have major beetle damage in need of attention! I should also add that almost no federal timber was harvested after the fire, the government cant function quick enough to put up a timber sale after a fire, by the time they do none of the mills want to bid on the sale as the timber quality is compromised by that time.   

31 minutes ago, Hobert62 said:

The bakery I work for had to instal catalytic converter type things on our bread/bun ovens. Something about the smell of fresh baked bread.......

I would venture a guess that Opra was on another one of her diets and couldn't be chauffeured around with out smelling fresh bread and thus spoiling her diet, so with her democratic connections the EPA had to act !

you can use it but will need to ad dca, to it. napa or heavy truck store will have it and the test strips. I use the heavy duty coolant with dca added little more spendy  but no hassle testing !

10 hours ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

Keith, you appear to be operating in a fact free environment. Are you even aware of the 3 branches of government, which means that Trump alone cannot shut down the EPA, and that neighboring states and countries could sue Alaska for damaging pollution?

have you looked at the size of Alaska? it would take a half million acre forest fire to produce enough smoke to even get the Canadians attention! so I don't think that's an issue here.

see what happens when a state votes republican! ........never thought the libertards would end up protecting me.......hope they don't check individual ballets and single me out      We can burn wood if it is our only source of heat during weather inversions, (provided its a certified wood stove) ...I looked at it and certified it as such, I only burn wood in it

As for the EPA goons I say we send them to Alaska to help the wolf population avoid starvation during the winter months.

could use a few more of these signs...............I hate stopping anyways!

I think with the square footage of the mentioned sheds a "rain bird 20" should be sufficient

yes

On ‎12‎/‎26‎/‎2016 at 9:00 AM, carlotpilot said:

I have seen that critter from just about where you were when you took that pic       there is one at the port of tacoma thats very similar used to load ships & barges

Well if you get close to this one again  let me know !  I'm about 70 miles away !