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Great thread. Give us some more "living there" info, please. Living here. I'm going to guess its somewhere near the square root of the opposite to Manila. No jeepneys for sure. Our local town is 1 mile long and bout half that wide, we've got two gas stations, two grocery stores, one bar, pizza place, Mexican place, couple a cafes and a hospital. There's a decent size school k-12. Our county is huge so the school district would run prolly 50 miles wide and 25 long (north-south). Town to the east is 40 miles, south 25 miles, north 16 and west they have a rural post office and gas station and there's a big wilderness area beyond that. Small small town 'Merica I've done residential construction most of my life and have been farming the last several years. The last year I've been working full time for a guy who I worked for several years ago. I started working for him after we built a horse barn for him we set up a couple pivots for him last year and I farm 60 acres for him and about 40 for myself. This winter I've been remodeling an old dairy barn for him, turning into a guest house, it's about a 140 miles from home so I've been leaving at 4:00 am Monday, drive over, work 7:00-4:00, stay night at a motel, work 7:00-4:00 and drive home. I'm off Wednesday then repeat Thursday-Friday. The novelty has definitely worn off. I've got a few pics if yuall are interested in construction projects. We started like so Firefighting's been slow lately, mostly since everything happens when I'm gone. I did flag traffic at a wreck about two weeks ago. There was a shooting the other day they got toned out to help with cardio. Toned out as a 15 female that had been poked. They wouldn't admit anything about a gun don't know if it was a suicide attempt or what. Then there was a fatal wreck the next day. Our department is all volunteer, we do 150 calls a year. Compensation is $10 bucks a call. Up from $6. Nobody does it for the money. Not sure on the size of our district we respond about 20 miles in all directions from town. I'm new on the department so don't know much about the equipment suppliers. We got a new Dodge 4500 rescue truck last year, we have three one ton ford brush trucks, two tankers, and two pumpers one new and one old. No classic graveyards I'm afraid. I worked on my pivot irrigation project and got the towers put together, welded up a 30' overhang, not how it's done from the factory but I used leftover parts. My high tech equipment
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Mar 23, 2016 18:43:25 GMT
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Works though, so doesnt need to be fancy. On another note, I bet any discarded vechiles you photograph and put up here would be interesting simply because they are different. To us anyway?
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borcombe
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Mar 28, 2016 10:15:49 GMT
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Book marked. I am kind of getting used to having some space again after leaving UK for the 2nd time. Love to see how others do their thing. Cheers
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sherv
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BEAMS VVTi Powered 1987 ST162 Celica ..More power.Better brakes.Coilover suspension.Still 80's Cool.
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Mar 28, 2016 14:15:01 GMT
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Good to see snapshots of how people run their lives in other countries,good stuff!The fires we have seen on TV,must be horrendous with the large firestorms that just seem to swallow up acres within a blink of an eye.Scary wibblepoo to be honest
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Been slacking with updates, I'll try a quick one, got in at 8:30 pm tonight so it feels like summer. I ditched power to my pivot project And we spent a few days in Colorado with family. The Front Range is quite impressive, flat plains up to foothills and up and up to 14,000' peaks. Way to many people for my tastes. we shot some prairie dogs, hiked with the kids and hung out. This was parked in town, I think I'd rather drive the one on the trailer.
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Wow - there's a guy who takes his trucking seriously; most folks just tow something small, like a Smart car, behind their RV!
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Wow - there's a guy who takes his trucking seriously; most folks just tow something small, like a Smart car, behind their RV! "You just put the kettle on Honey and I'll pop down to the local store in the fifth wheeler"
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Apr 17, 2016 15:57:41 GMT
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Well I've been and raided the piggy bank. My swather was a 1980? 12' cut Newholland. It worked but was pretty well worn out and I didn't want to sink more money into it and didn't really trust it. So I sold it and yesterday drive this home It's a 1995 so not new by an means but a huge improvement in terms of life left, plus it has an air ride seat and radio! I ran into a snag on the pivot. Old fart of a neighbor had agreed to give me an easement for the new three phase power supply but changed his mind when it came time to sign the whole one page legal document.l The pole is 50' onto his land and they were planning to set a pole on my land and run an overhead line. There is a easement already for my residential supply so nothing would change as far as needing a way to get trucks in. He is currently in Arizona for the winter so may just wait until he's home and talk again. I could do a three phase converter and transformer off my residential line if needs be, just a $1000 or so into the other already.
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Apr 17, 2016 21:53:22 GMT
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interesting stuff on the Swather
From my youth in the uk disc mowers are the more popular option for grassland. For a big set up front and rear mounted mowers on a big tractor is the preferred option. I assume its like this as transport is a bit of an issue in the uk with stuff over 10ft.
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Apr 17, 2016 23:40:20 GMT
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Probably 90% of the new swathers would be rotory. They run autosteer @10 mph and could cut everything I've got in an afternoon. They also run $120,000 or so. I've used a pull type and wasn't super impressed, maybe just the fact your looking back all the time but seemed like it wouldn't cut clean at the higher speeds. Grass is definitely harder to cut than alfalfa and also doesn't need a conditioner. Some of the big multi head machines are sweet, say 40' or better at a time and 4-500 hp. This machine has a German sickle system with every other section fliped upside down. The farmer I bought it from is anal about maintenance, changed all the fluids every year, adjusted valves every other year. He gave me a big box of spare parts and a toolbox with all the sockets and wrenches to fit this machine.
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Very interesting and somewhat familiar, I lived in south west Montana for a year about a decade ago and spent some time travelling through Washington state at different times delivering bulls and playing rugby of all things!
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BT
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Apr 18, 2016 19:00:49 GMT
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You guys get some seriously cool trucks that make me incredibly envious.
I have a tiny gay little 2.5 turbo diesel crew cab that can only just fit width ways inside a parking space, length ways it's no where near fitting in a normal space, it has pulled a tonne or two in its time but nothing major. Thing is I love it to bits.
You guys get these chronic super Duty bad boys that pull 13.5T have 400hp and are just straight up badass! A guy in my town used to have a 2015 Silverado Dually thing, it just about fit in one lane and I could have parked my truck in the bed!!
Plus I bet you get generous parking bays.
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^^ and I'm jealous when pistonpoppper was talking about his diesel Ranger and 30 mpg! I had a couple of Rangers a 1993 and a '99 and got 15-18 mpg, same as the F350 does. What do tradesmen use as work rigs? parking is a pain, if there's only a single spot open its a three point maneuver. Fortunately not much of a issue locally, the newer rigs are a lot better.
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Apr 20, 2016 23:48:29 GMT
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This thread has been quite short of firefighting content. I've been to two different structure fires in the last couple of weeks but never grabbed any pics. Thought yuall might be interested in our extrication training we did last night. First we just practiced cutting up a car, we have the jaws of life, a hydraulic driven shear and expansion tool. It quite easily cuts through a front pillar, the cutting surface is about 5" it also has a snout that can be used to pry open doors. We also have sawzall, gas powered demolition saw (12" round blade) and lots of hand tools jacks, slide hammer, pry bar, that sort of stuff. I didn't realize until last night but it's possible to cut a windshield with a sawzall or demo saw, we cut around both sides and top and folded it down onto the hood so we could get to the 'victims'. Also they spray glued the side windows to stop them shattering everywhere, we ended up peeling the whole top back on our first car. Then we did a simulated wreck where the victim was impaled with a piece of steel so we had to take her out strapped to the seat back. Gentle of course. And that's yours truly standing in the last pic
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BT
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Apr 23, 2016 11:29:30 GMT
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^^ and I'm jealous when pistonpoppper was talking about his diesel Ranger and 30 mpg! I had a couple of Rangers a 1993 and a '99 and got 15-18 mpg, same as the F350 does. What do tradesmen use as work rigs? parking is a pain, if there's only a single spot open its a three point maneuver. Fortunately not much of a issue locally, the newer rigs are a lot better. Over here tradesmen rarely use pick ups, they opt for "the white van" mainly due to the load space being larger and more accommodating to the large loads of plasterboard and tooling. For example a LWB HT transit will load a whole lot more than any European pick up. My truck will legaly take a payload in the rear of 1.25 tonne and tow 2.7. Luckily my truck fringes on the border of private/commercial, pay tolls at private rate and can also use household refuse sites. I work for a fabrication firm and we have a van derived flat bed, so looks like a large panel van at the front but has a flat bed conversion, much like your bed conversion. However with that legally I can only load 200kg more than my pick up, only advantage of it is the rear bed is far larger. I hear a rumour that we will be getting a version of the raptor for the uk in 2017. This excited me greatly.
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Thanks for taking the time to do this thread. It's neat to see things from a different perspective.
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If Washington State was in the Philippnes... Thank God it's not!
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bazzateer
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Apr 29, 2016 17:50:29 GMT
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WA (PNW - Seattle) is the only bit of the US I've visited so far. Loved it and the people. Even the winos were polite and friendly!
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1968 Singer Chamois Sport 1972 Sunbeam Imp Sport 1976 Datsun 260Z 2+2 1998 Peugeot Boxer Pilote motorhome 2003 Rover 75 1.8 Club SE (daily) 2006 MG ZT 190+ (another daily) 2007 BMW 530d Touring M Sport (tow car)
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bazzateer
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Apr 29, 2016 17:59:32 GMT
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I know everything in the US is bigger but DAMN!!! Those potatos are HUGE!!!
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1968 Singer Chamois Sport 1972 Sunbeam Imp Sport 1976 Datsun 260Z 2+2 1998 Peugeot Boxer Pilote motorhome 2003 Rover 75 1.8 Club SE (daily) 2006 MG ZT 190+ (another daily) 2007 BMW 530d Touring M Sport (tow car)
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