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I am not a gambler and only buy about 1 lottery ticket a year but do buy raffle tickets for certain things usually if they are giving away a vehicle or guns. Well I went to our local gun show a month ago and bought 3 $5 raffle tickets from our local shooting club and got a call from a fellow last night telling me I won the grand prize.:hyper: Got me a shiney new S&W MP15 Sport in .223. http://www.bmrpa.org/2013/01/01/2013-bmrpa-raffle/ 839 retail but selling in my area for around 1500, now if there was any ammo to be had for less than a buck a round I would be a happy camper but for now it will look good when I open my gun safe. Now to see if my luck holds as th…

So took a trip up to a local dealer who on rare occiasion's get's a Diesel truck in on trade for a new car/truck. He had a 2007 Dodge Cummin's From 20 feet the truck looked great all clean and shinned up. At arm's length tottaly different story. The truck was locked and i motioned for a salesman to come over. After a few polite's i asked him for some info and backstory on the truck. He said the previous owner told him it was a One owner low mile's 2007 dodge 3500 with a 6.7 and was totaly stock just debagded and Flatbed added .... Apperentaly they took the man's word and never even poped the hood or drove it!!!! He give's me the key's first thing i see is that it was not …

Thankfully I live in Idaho...

Michael, you spend a lot of time in the woods. Have you ever seen a wolf? On my bucket list to kill one. We don't have a season in Oregon yet.

Hello to all. I have been MIA for quite a while and thought I would try and let you know what was going on. The first week in last December we had a major up heavel in the family. This consumed all of us and is still ongoing at this time. I must keep the nature of this to myself for now. My job was taking me to Alabama back on december 15th. I was out getting the rv ready for the trip and had to jump up in the door way with out the steps deployed. I have done this many times. This time when i jumped I felt something give in my leg and i fell back out on the ground. It felt like some hit me with a sledge hammer and was continuing to beat me while I was laying there. It tur…

I was just informed that I have 10 days to clear cut about 45 acres of feral cedar.. I knew this was coming up, and bought a 'herd' of cheapo poulan 3314 saws for 70 bucks a piece. *factory refurbished* they look brand new. Most of these trees will be 6 inch in diameter.. but I'm going to flush em with the ground. I'll be 'in the dirt' quite a bit. (my Stihl won't see the light of day on this project!)So, race out and fire one up.... got it started and it accelerates ok when warmed up... but boggs down and dies at wot. At idle and medium throttle, it appears to be on the verge of too rich (almost 4 strokes)... about whe…

Haven't seen a post from you since the end of November I always thought you are kind of a key man around these parts

I started getting a little use out of autocad that might actually be worthy. I sense a few writeups coming on. Maybe. Anyone got a special request? I've just been taking parts off my truck and bringing them up here

I hate it and we got about a foot of it last night. I'm really missing out on $$ by not having my plow brackets for this truck... Sent from my rooted and Android-ROM'd HP Touchpad (CM9)

Ok, so here's the rundown..I replaced my electric water heater a few years ago; maybe 5-6 yrs.It's an electric unit, 50 gallon, 240VAC.A few weeks ago, I replaced the upper thermostat and both elements, due to lack of hot water.Last night, my daughter got in the shower. 10 minutes later, water was ice cold.This morning, I shaved and used a little hot water. Afterward, about 5 minutes later, I hopped in the shower.. Warm water was the best I could get out of it, and that lasted about 3 minutes, then it turned ice cold..I haven't investigated it yet, but this is insane. The breaker isn't tripped, so that isn't the issue.. I just don't know WTF is going on. The old ele…

Just a great picture..

When I signed up I saw an option to download an iPhone app for this forum. Now I can't find it. Any help and is it worthy?

I've researched the available options & other ideas I've had. I decided to use some SS strap eye anchors. I came up with a dozen from a marine consignment source. They take #10 fasteners & will fit on the inside edge of the bed between stake pockets. I think these will be a useful addition for light loads.

All in good fun! I couldn't resist.

What's the best reasonably priced vacuum y'all can recommend to me?? My current one is about 10 years old and I've never really liked it from day 1. As of now, it's last legs and doesn't suck so well any more. That's a serious observation also!!!! Thanks in advance.

Well I had my first day back to work since surgery today and to be honest I'm hurting a little. Prolly gonna be that way for a while as I have been off for four months. Gonna start putting some serious miles on truck though lol. I have a 75 mile a day drive just back and forth to work and goinf to get lunch. Plus all of my other driving I have to do.

I finished my shopping, packed my car (Cirrus). I find it's hard to dig out my keys once seated, so I've been putting my keys on the car dash in front of the wheel. Right handy once I get settled. Today was a cold day... about 30 with a stiff wind blowing. As I was getting in, the keys fell off the dash, hit the steering column... and disappeared down the tilt wheel slot! Crap-o-la!!I tried tilting the wheel down & I could just touch them but they were jammed. I tried the coat-hanger hook but FAILED. I ended up with them falling all the way to the knee panel. I couldn't reach behind it. I tried fishing some more. No luck. I couldn't see the screws but eve…

The only thing is we are going to need a heavy duty upgrade to the front suspension...