Duck Pond Redneckery
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Electric Chicken
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I love my sister too much to put her through that.
Electric Chicken
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They're just in wonderment that it's still on the road.It's never good when your car is on the lift and you look over & there's 3 guys standing there pointing at something. That's how things get expensive.
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Duck
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Perhaps they've never seen an American made vehicle.
When the drunk guy hit it, it completely destroyed his 21st century pos. They had to haul it out on a flatbed. I drove mine home.
"crumple zones", eh?
It wasn't THAT much of an impact. I mean, it didn't even bend anything structural on the van.
The other guy's engine ended up in his passenger foot leg room area. If anyone had been riding shotgun they'd have lost their legs below the knees.
I think the 24 year old Dodge won that battle.
Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
I had One of those Dodge Caravans, They are built like a tank.Perhaps they've never seen an American made vehicle.
When the drunk guy hit it, it completely destroyed his 21st century pos. They had to haul it out on a flatbed. I drove mine home.
"crumple zones", eh?
It wasn't THAT much of an impact. I mean, it didn't even bend anything structural on the van.
The other guy's engine ended up in his passenger foot leg room area. If anyone had been riding shotgun they'd have lost their legs below the knees.
I think the 24 year old Dodge won that battle.
Unfortunately, too many small things made it not worth fixing anymore. Also the right-side door was rusted out. I am not sure why every Caravan I have seen has the right-side door rusted out Bubba that primers and paints the right-side door panels is no good at his job.
Duck
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According to Google Earth it's almost exactly 1 kilometer from my greenhouse to my next door neighbor's barn to the east.
Using the measuring tool I drove the van north up a different road til it was exactly one kilometer in a straight line from my greenhouse.
I got out & pointed my bright green laser at the greenhouse and called Sarah and had her look out the window of the house.
She said it was lighting up the whole interior of the greenhouse and the laser beam looked just as bright through the air as it does when she's right there by the laser itself.
It was raining right before I did this, so there's a lot of humidity in the air.
So I'm measuring distances and angles with Google Earth and photoshop.. (first thing I did was figure out how to change it to feet & miles instead of meters and kilometers.)
I'm going to see if my neighbor will let me attach a mirror to his barn.
His barn is about a hundred feet south of my greenhouse, (and 3000-some feet east) so the laser beam would hit the west wall of his barn at a 6.3 degree angle relative to true east. If I can figure out the current difference between magnetic and true geographic north at my location (MAGVAR = magnetic variation) the compass heading of the laser beam would be 96.3°
Assuming his barn is oriented perfectly true to geographic north (not magnetic north) a mirror flat up on the barn wall would reflect the laser back to a privately owned bridge on the other neighbor's property.
I'll have to correct for elevation too. I think his property is higher than mine by like 6 feet. Don't ask me how I figured that out because I don't remember. It was years ago.
So I'd either have to place the target 12 feet above the bridge, 12 feet above the elevation of the laser on the greenhouse. Or use shims or washers to mount the mirror on the barn aiming slightly downward. I'd need to make that adjustment REALLY precisely, like turn a fine threaded bolt through a nut on the mirror bracket at the top to push it away from the wall in super small increments as I turn the bolt.
It'll take 3 people to do this in any short amount of time. Or I can just ride the 4 wheeler across the fields because it's winter and there's no crops. It'd be a lot easier with two guys on cell phones.
I don't know if my neighbor is smart enough to understand the geometry. Probably. My dad would if he was here.
But if it hits the target on the bridge and it's still bright enough to see the beam in the air without having to blow smoke at it, I can probably bounce the laser back to the starting point next to the greenhouse.
Using the measuring tool I drove the van north up a different road til it was exactly one kilometer in a straight line from my greenhouse.
I got out & pointed my bright green laser at the greenhouse and called Sarah and had her look out the window of the house.
She said it was lighting up the whole interior of the greenhouse and the laser beam looked just as bright through the air as it does when she's right there by the laser itself.
It was raining right before I did this, so there's a lot of humidity in the air.
So I'm measuring distances and angles with Google Earth and photoshop.. (first thing I did was figure out how to change it to feet & miles instead of meters and kilometers.)
I'm going to see if my neighbor will let me attach a mirror to his barn.
His barn is about a hundred feet south of my greenhouse, (and 3000-some feet east) so the laser beam would hit the west wall of his barn at a 6.3 degree angle relative to true east. If I can figure out the current difference between magnetic and true geographic north at my location (MAGVAR = magnetic variation) the compass heading of the laser beam would be 96.3°
Assuming his barn is oriented perfectly true to geographic north (not magnetic north) a mirror flat up on the barn wall would reflect the laser back to a privately owned bridge on the other neighbor's property.
I'll have to correct for elevation too. I think his property is higher than mine by like 6 feet. Don't ask me how I figured that out because I don't remember. It was years ago.
So I'd either have to place the target 12 feet above the bridge, 12 feet above the elevation of the laser on the greenhouse. Or use shims or washers to mount the mirror on the barn aiming slightly downward. I'd need to make that adjustment REALLY precisely, like turn a fine threaded bolt through a nut on the mirror bracket at the top to push it away from the wall in super small increments as I turn the bolt.
It'll take 3 people to do this in any short amount of time. Or I can just ride the 4 wheeler across the fields because it's winter and there's no crops. It'd be a lot easier with two guys on cell phones.
I don't know if my neighbor is smart enough to understand the geometry. Probably. My dad would if he was here.
But if it hits the target on the bridge and it's still bright enough to see the beam in the air without having to blow smoke at it, I can probably bounce the laser back to the starting point next to the greenhouse.
Electric Chicken
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You need a job.
nah, being a former wrencher myself....it gets serious when the roach coach comes and everyone swirls around the car, looking at it......It's never good when your car is on the lift and you look over & there's 3 guys standing there pointing at something. That's how things get expensive.
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in fact, i see that's a Firestone place......you do know those guys get a commission on everything they find wrong and sell you, right..???
that's why i walked off that job, and then got back into driving.
Duck
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Electric Chicken
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Yup. A lot of us have to make our own way.Jobs are for people whose grandparents didn't own any Microsoft stock.
389 Hood
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Help us, at least me out here. The pic is very fuzzy. Are they border jumpers, black, white, chinese, mexicans? Who is dumping them?
Anyone that knows Miami Gardens, knows that it is the hood of hoods in Miami. Second only to what is known as Overtown, but I think the Cuban Mafia straightened that out a little. Too many of their own were getting problems in the area.
Anyone that knows Miami Gardens, knows that it is the hood of hoods in Miami. Second only to what is known as Overtown, but I think the Cuban Mafia straightened that out a little. Too many of their own were getting problems in the area.
Duck
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Miami Gardens is the name of a bar in Peotone, IL exactly two miles from my house, locally famous as one of Al Capone's hideouts during prohibition.
It's also called Edwin's Roadhouse.
They're border jumpers from Mexico or Central America. Dumped here by the scumbag democrats as an assault on our community like they've done in so many other places in the country.
If I was the police chief I'd order them delivered to the local democrat party cult headquarters or to representative Robin Kelly's personal residence.
alot of duct tape
Duck
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Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
Don't worry they practice catch and release up here.Nah, they'd kick us out. And then they'd lock up @Rigjockey for aiding and abetting.
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