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    Smart guys, SOLAR

    I was looking through some HF adds, and looked at their solar panels. Knowing very little about the technology, I was wondering, 2 different types of panels, some with all the stuff and other with no controllers and stuff, at the same rating and the same price almost. What is the difference...
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    What are they called

    I know that I should know what those bolt feet are called that go on the bucket to keep it from digging into the drive way,, OK its been a bad day
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    Oil prices

    Man talk about sticker shock, I went got gas for the ew gen set, so I didn have oil figured I would stop pick up 2 quarts and a bottle of sta bil 25 bucks later I walked out the cheapest oil they had was 6.98 a quart and gas treatment and tax was the rest.. Gawd dayum Im getting old !
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    Gas question

    I have run reg 87 along with sti ble in all my small motors. I was told that for this I should run 89, or E0 gas, which I cant find any place anyway. Lots of stations say they have it but nobody has it, if you know what Im saying. I was wondering if anybody really runs E0 or a higher octan gas...
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    Do I really need ?

    A gen set with the inverter technology ? The old 5.6KW set is well, almost 30 years old and used hard some winters, while the Tecumseh motor has been more or less trouble free, it uses more oil now that before and Im sure I could find a HF clone to fit, but do I really want to go that route? So...
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    PIT masters

    Pit Masters, I have a nice pork loin I want to smoke but I dont want to do the old standard hickory and salt brine. Something new and exciting, from someone that has done it. And something a bit different for pork belly too.
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    Question for the colective

    Boys I need some ideas because I know someone has already done it some place. Has anyone come up with something to put a boom pole on the FEL? Remember I dont weld si any ideas would be super
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    OK whats up

    WHats up with all the Chat w/ an expert on line adds? They are filling up the bloody page!!
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    Strawberry moonshine

    I know there are several members in here that dabble in the adult beverage hobby. I have come in position of several frozen bags of strawberries, that may or may not be past their prime flavor date. So I need to do something with them. Now the apple pie moonshine, and cherry bounce and the peach...
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    Happy Star Trek day

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    O ring question

    OK the "B" which I am beginning to believe stands for bitch, blew another O ring on the grapple supply at the quick connects. And I do not have any that fit. It is a 1/4 inch supply line and every thing I have is too big or too small, does any one know for sure what size it is ,SAE or Metric?
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    EDC question ( Asking for a friend)

    Well since the 320 is now regulated to being nothing more than a down rigger weight, unless Sig works some kind of magic. The question remains, what do you EDC. The 1911, has hung for years, until all that steel started to pull belt and pants down,,, not a pretty sight I must admit. So the hunt...
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    Another strange call

    I just got a call from Cali, woman knew my name and gave a name of some woman I was living with and wanted to know when we were displaced from some address in LA. Told her I have never been off the ridge. And she insisted that I was the person she was looking for, until I hung up. I dont know...
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    Gear heads

    OK the old Silverado is 10 years old,, how did that happen? And I got a flyer from my chevy dealer about a deal on a 25 Silverado. Now Im not really ready for a new truck the old 5.3 is a work horse. But the flyer is talking about a 2.7 Turbomax. So has anybody had any real world experience with...
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    techno geeks

    OK, so I don't get many phone calls, and when I do I always check the number. Lately a lot of calls come in ring 2 or 3 times and stop, no message no name nada, so I have to assume they are robo calls. But lately some calls have come in for numbers ,the look like I should know them. So reverse...
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    It didnt rain today

    Well it didnt rain so far today and yesterday either, at least on the ridge it didnt rain. So I took the BX over the hill in the orchard, cause grass was ,, well really HIGH .I mowed it and only made a few ruts for any water to run off. But the interesting thing is. I didnt have the tractor put...
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    Kind of a serious question for my friends in the GWN or any one that knows

    This morning I was chatting with a friend from the GWN, yes I do have a friend. And was told that their vacation for the fall visit was not going to happen. Because they read, heard, what ever that they were going to need a 250 dollar visitor visa to cross the border even with valid passports...
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    TS or RK middle busters

    Anybody have experience with either of them ? I have read good and bad reports on both, but Im thinking the bad ones saying they twisted up were being put on bigger tractors than what they were designed for. Anyone ?
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    LOttery

    No I didnt hit, but I am wondering why on a 203 mill ticket, if you take it in one lump you only get 92 mill? Why do they take over 50%? In the GWN you get it all , so where does the other 101 mill go, and who has their fingers in that pie?
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    OK one more bytch!

    This morning making coffee and I hear a loud crack,, WTF was that? It sounded like something hit the house, I looked out side and at the walls inside, just in case there was a errant flying object intercepting with the wall. Nope nothing, then I noticed the cell phone, the back of the case is...