Duck Pond Redneckery
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Blood
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just get it over with and get a helicopter that way you can do the neighbors bushes to
AH!!
That'd be cool.
A little drone helicopter with sharpened blades to trim the hedges.
My hedges haven't been trimmed in over 30 years...
but if I had one of those I'd trim them every weekend.
why do it yourself have duck fly overAH!!
That'd be cool.
A little drone helicopter with sharpened blades to trim the hedges.
My hedges haven't been trimmed in over 30 years...
but if I had one of those I'd trim them every weekend.
Duck
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One time when the river was at flood stage we were haulin' ass & I was only using the trolling motor for steerage. When I recognized a landmark that I'd measured with Google Earth to be one river mile from the launch point, I used the calculator on my phone to figure out that if we kept up that pace we'd be at the take-out point in 37 minutes. So I did about a 170 degree turn & headed into the woods. (The river was at flood stage, remember.) We tied up to a tree & hung out for about 2 hours getting drunk just because we didn't want the trip to be over with so quickly.
This was taken from my F-150 about 3/4 mile from the river. That gravel road is only about as wide as that F-150 is in length, with 3 foot deep ditches on either side.
With no way of seeing where the edges were, and the water getting deeper, I decided to back up about a mile. I was really nervous because I was in the Ranger & my idiot friend Keith was in my F-150 & he can't back up worth a crap.
We went into Indiana & took Rt 41 down across the river & came back to the same point on the river except the south side where I knew the ground was a slightly higher elevation & after driving through this stuff slowly for 3 miles, ...
.. we reached the river & found a dry spot in the gravel road:
So we unloaded the rafts & left Brian there to get them bolted together while Keith & went to Momence, IL to ditch the Ranger & come back.
What this has to do with deep cycle batteries, I have no idea. But when I get on the topic of rafting I can't shut up.
But I've got a couple of smashed trailer lights to replace. Stupid lawn mower hit them.
This was taken from my F-150 about 3/4 mile from the river. That gravel road is only about as wide as that F-150 is in length, with 3 foot deep ditches on either side.
With no way of seeing where the edges were, and the water getting deeper, I decided to back up about a mile. I was really nervous because I was in the Ranger & my idiot friend Keith was in my F-150 & he can't back up worth a crap.
We went into Indiana & took Rt 41 down across the river & came back to the same point on the river except the south side where I knew the ground was a slightly higher elevation & after driving through this stuff slowly for 3 miles, ...
.. we reached the river & found a dry spot in the gravel road:
So we unloaded the rafts & left Brian there to get them bolted together while Keith & went to Momence, IL to ditch the Ranger & come back.
What this has to do with deep cycle batteries, I have no idea. But when I get on the topic of rafting I can't shut up.
But I've got a couple of smashed trailer lights to replace. Stupid lawn mower hit them.
Duck
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Crap.
Found my connecting boards. One of them is perfect but the other ain't gonna work unless I use a C-clamp to hold it til I get the bolts in cuz it's twisted.
I thought keeping pressure-treated lumber indoors away from the sunlight would keep them from warping.
One more needless trip to Menard's.
I've dealt with twisted connector boards before though.
Only have one paddle. I think I remember we lost one last time cuz somebody was being stupid.
Oh, .... and how the hell does a barn made of nothing but steel & treated lumber create so much dust?
Seriously. In two years, there was enough dust on my trolling motor that I had to bring it in the house & use the handheld shower head & a rag to wash it.
Found my connecting boards. One of them is perfect but the other ain't gonna work unless I use a C-clamp to hold it til I get the bolts in cuz it's twisted.
I thought keeping pressure-treated lumber indoors away from the sunlight would keep them from warping.
One more needless trip to Menard's.
I've dealt with twisted connector boards before though.
Only have one paddle. I think I remember we lost one last time cuz somebody was being stupid.
Oh, .... and how the hell does a barn made of nothing but steel & treated lumber create so much dust?
Seriously. In two years, there was enough dust on my trolling motor that I had to bring it in the house & use the handheld shower head & a rag to wash it.
Sinister
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I made a box. Don't look to closely at the cuts. But it's square and level which is a huge improvement over my table thing I made for the dehumidifier in the basement. And that's my waste oil container in the back ground. It contains waste oil from my 94 Explorer beater that I drive to yard because I changed the oil myself!
HEY GUYS...can I be a redneck too now??
Pleeeaaase....
I could always post the pics of my plow tank (86 F250) pulling crap out of my woods that I sent @Duck if you're not yet convinced...
HEY GUYS...can I be a redneck too now??
Pleeeaaase....
I could always post the pics of my plow tank (86 F250) pulling crap out of my woods that I sent @Duck if you're not yet convinced...
Duck
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That box looks like a side kit for a Radio Flyer wagon. 
Ok here's where you went wrong with the table.
Needs cross thingies on the other 2 sides.
And if you ever plan to stand on it or anything, some diagonal shit would make it rock solid.
And yes the used motor oil in the house adds a few redneck points but doesn't quite earn you the official Red Green fan club membership. Not til we see you use it as an accelerant to get a campfire going or something.
Ok here's where you went wrong with the table.
Needs cross thingies on the other 2 sides.
And if you ever plan to stand on it or anything, some diagonal shit would make it rock solid.
And yes the used motor oil in the house adds a few redneck points but doesn't quite earn you the official Red Green fan club membership. Not til we see you use it as an accelerant to get a campfire going or something.
Come and listen to a story about a redneck Duck
Poor farmer boy barely kept his family fed
Then one day he was revving up his Ford
And out through the pipe came a bubbling oil
Blown engine that is
Texas douche bag
Well the first thing you know old Duck's a millionaire
Forum folk said, ya gotta move away from here
So he said to the Mrs were getting outta here
Load up the Ford and pack it full of beer
Hills, that is. Swamping pools, hardware stores
Poor farmer boy barely kept his family fed
Then one day he was revving up his Ford
And out through the pipe came a bubbling oil
Blown engine that is
Texas douche bag
Well the first thing you know old Duck's a millionaire
Forum folk said, ya gotta move away from here
So he said to the Mrs were getting outta here
Load up the Ford and pack it full of beer
Hills, that is. Swamping pools, hardware stores
Duck
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Got a reply to the e-mail I sent to Minn Kota.
It's a 5 speed, so ...
1 - 8.4 amps
2 - 16.8 amps
3 - 25.2 amps
4 - 33.6 amps
5 - 42 amps
The stereo draws progressively more amps the longer it's been on, since the volume level seems to increase on the same linear path as the blood alcohol level of the passengers on the raft, if the two levels were to be compared on a graph by some bored scientician.
Gonna have to bring The Geezer tomorrow. It's always good to have a sober person to pull the unlicensed trailer even though it's all back-roads from here to both the launch & take-out points.
Cool that's about what I figured. I thought I saw it written somewhere years ago but couldn't find it to verify so I sent 'em an e-mail.
It's a 5 speed, so ...
1 - 8.4 amps
2 - 16.8 amps
3 - 25.2 amps
4 - 33.6 amps
5 - 42 amps
The stereo draws progressively more amps the longer it's been on, since the volume level seems to increase on the same linear path as the blood alcohol level of the passengers on the raft, if the two levels were to be compared on a graph by some bored scientician.
Gonna have to bring The Geezer tomorrow. It's always good to have a sober person to pull the unlicensed trailer even though it's all back-roads from here to both the launch & take-out points.
Duck
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I bought it in 2008.
you should have bought it at wal mart they take anything back
Duck
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I think I did.you should have bought it at wal mart they take anything back
Aint nothing wrong with it though. I was just wondering what it's current draw is.
ah ok
Blood
Driveler Emeritus
The raft looks like a cool project.
I wonder a bunch of bilge pumps would push it.
You know, like thrusters.
You can buy those little (500 gph) bilge pumps for around $20 each and they don't draw much.
I had one hooked up to a nearly dead lawn mower battery the other day to move water between a couple of my fish tanks and it still seemed to pump about as strong as it does with a big charged battery.
I wonder a bunch of bilge pumps would push it.
You know, like thrusters.
You can buy those little (500 gph) bilge pumps for around $20 each and they don't draw much.
I had one hooked up to a nearly dead lawn mower battery the other day to move water between a couple of my fish tanks and it still seemed to pump about as strong as it does with a big charged battery.
Duck
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I've wondered if it's possible to take the jet drive out of an old junk jet-ski & powering it with a 5 or 8 HP Briggs & Stratton or something. I don't need speed though, I need power. I don't think jet drives are energy efficient. I bet a lot of energy is wasted creating cavitation & noise.
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