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TheDigitalAlchemist
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AUG 03, 04:26 PM
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Every morning I have to sweep human poop off the pool apron
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OldsFiero
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AUG 04, 03:46 PM
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Built Ford tough?
Severe storm this afternoon.
I called my buddy at his body shop to see if I could borrow his buffer tomorrow. 
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A_Lonely_Potato
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AUG 04, 08:29 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]:
Much better than floating in your old backyard as the water sinks your shed and creeps up to your doorstep!!! |
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Funny, thats eerily similar to what happened to me a couple years ago. There is a drain pipe from the pond on my family's property that runs maybe 400-500yds to the nearby lake as a runoff. Unbeknownst to us, this pipe wound up clogging. The water level of the pond kept rising slowly, eventually overtaking the entirety of the yard in 15" of water! This included the garage, shop, and 2 other basement rooms. It wasn't as bad during the winter since we could walk across our new body of water, which was large enough to legally classify as a lake. When the ice melted we had to walk a couple hundred yards through the woods around the lawn-lake. During that winter, in our efforts to locate the pipe, i had to break through 9" of ice several times with our pickaxe. In the spring my dad and i rented an electric eel to shove down the drain in hopes of unclogging it. This was a bit of a last effort, as we wound up buying a little kubota 250bx and digging up the lake end of the drain, hoping to find a blockage of some sort on that end. I'm leaving out a LOT of details that i plainly dont feel like typing up haha. The electric eel did wind up working though. My dad was ready to give up and pull it back when i said the ol' adage about stopping 6" before buried treasure, we gave it the last little bit of line, heard a "cla-chunk" and then a sound oddly similar to a bathtub draining. We ran down to the lake end, to see hundreds of gallons of quite startlingly clear water. Then a massive clot of what felt like a finely woven fabric that was really roots blew out. It exceeded 30ft in length, and altogether 80lbs in weight. We put a series of filters in the way of the drain after that....
In a bit ill see if i can find some of the pictures
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maryjane
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AUG 05, 09:18 AM
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OldsFiero
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AUG 05, 10:07 AM
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This time I agree. It was one of two remaining hybrid poplars that my neighbor and I planted years ago. Not really good for firewood or lumber.
Could have been worse. It only damaged the hood, right fender and one plow light - nothing under the hood. We were able to remove it without more damage.
I was going the replace the nose next year anyway, so that I no longer have to look at all the hail dents on it that it received when it lived in Colorado before I bought it 12 years ago.
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maryjane
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AUG 05, 10:53 AM
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Patrick
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AUG 05, 01:20 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by OldsFiero:
It only damaged the hood, right fender and one plow light...
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Wow, would've been a different story if it had landed two or three feet further back![This message has been edited by Patrick (edited 08-05-2022).]
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MidEngineManiac
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AUG 05, 02:18 PM
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There used to be 2 of them at CYQS. Neat little plane, but ya would never catch me in it.
Problem is it WILL stall, anything will stall given the right conditions, even a bird. And if one wing goes before the other you got that spin.....
And ya got no rudder to get you out of it.
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OldsFiero
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AUG 06, 07:05 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by Patrick:
Wow, would've been a different story if it had landed two or three feet further back!
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Yeah, the donor truck that was given to me is an extended cab.
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OldsFiero
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AUG 07, 04:38 PM
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Who says you will be bored in retirement? I'm just now making venison sausage from last years take. Thank God for vacuum packers, still good.
Marc
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