Wild and Free

Man talk about a bad weekend. I love the ranch hands on all my rigs, trick is to make sure to hit them dead center and not try to avoid them, if you try to avoid them and catch them with a corner they tend to swing around and cave in doors and fenders ect, dead on and they bounce off to the side of the road and cause less damage. I have nailed more than my fair share to have developed a technique in the proper way to hit one. We have a different scenario than Mike does in the mountains, very tall grass along roads and open roads where they tend to be suicidal and come out of nowhere and always in front of you. I have had a couple run dead center into the side of my vehicles over the years already. I drive 40 miles of gravel back roads everyday and it doesn't matter if you are going 20 mph or 75 mph when they jump out of tall grassy ditches you can't see them until you have very little time to avoid or brake for them. Gotta love triple A, have had it since I got a drivers liscence and it has paid for itself time and again even with all the extra perks and discounts you get for being a member.

Young living essential oils are the best thing on the planet for fast MRSA and super bug free healing wthout use of synthetic medications that bring along many more health issues, they also work wonders on animals my wife uses them on her horses. PM me for details, wife and I are both distributers. Hope he saddles back up. I have been riding motorcycles since not long after I learned to ride bicycle, 1976 Honda trail 70 and up from there dirt bikes to cruisers as Mike said. I Had one bad MC accident where a car didn't see me & pulled out in front of me and stopped dead center in middle of road when she spotted me, I couldn't stop or avoid her and t-boned her in the driver side at 20 mph, totalled the car and the bike but I bought the bike back from insurance and fixd it and sold it to another guy who put over 100k miles on it after i sold it. I had numerous injuries but walked away from it on my own and didn't have a hospital stay just a visit to the hospital for a doctor to tell me what I alredy knew and am still feeling the effects of some of the injuries 20 years later yet.

Going to be a busy weekend, Wife is going to be gone for a business trip for 4 days, it is my 4 day weekend so I am going to be getting stuff done, friday haul tractor and Saturday will have my 20 foot stock trailer "My wood hauler" and cutting firewood from a ton of downed trees in my area from nasty straight line winds clocked at between 85-105 mph this weekend. I will try and get pics of my wood hauler filled up with a load of tinder "20' long X 7' wide gooseneck stock trailer". My back hurts already just thinking about it.

Well I have an actual paying load coming up on Friday. Brother in law sold an old john Deere 5020 tractor and the buyer wants me to haul it to his farm, will be about 100 miles +- loaded one way and around 275 miles total for the day "rough guess" going to the in-laws farm and back home added on. Will get pics sometime this weekend. He agreed to pay me $500 to haul it for him.

Just got home from work and watching my neighbors fireworks show, has about 20+ vehicles in his yard and his pre 4th show has been getting bigger and longer every year wife said it has been going for a couple hours now. Plan on hitting 3 different bodies of water in 3 days this weekend. Friends bought a lake lot on Lake Audobon and invited us there so tomorrow that's the plan, and want to hit lake Sakakawea right next to it on Saturday and probably closer to home on the Missouri river by Bismarck Mandan area sunday for a day on the sand bars. Tomorrow morning have to clean up the yard from 2 days of 50+ mph winds, the trees did some major shedding, and Saturday morning my wife has an appointment to get all the horses and donkeys hooves trimmed before water fun begins.

I personally never owned a mopar car but a lot of my high school classmates did and we had fun with them. I had a 1970 chevy Monte Carlo with factory 402 Big Block with 4bbl and 400th tranny and 3.30 rear gear ratio and that car was a lot of fun, rode beautiful and did 18 mpg running 65-70 down the interstate, It would break the tires loose when asked to even rolling at 50+ mph.

Chrysler finally came to play again and in a big way. http://t.autos.msn.com/news/dodge-challenger-hellcat-gets-707-hp http://editorial.autos.msn.com/blogs/post--dodge-challenger-hellcat-gets-707-hp

I agree the new SCR rigs are a lot better than the DPF system rigs and you hit the nail on the head big time by saying they are not to be used as a daily drivers, the new diesels are made to work, that is what my arguement is for looking hard at the new gasses which are absolute power houses anymore too and can hold their own in the towing and hauling categories and are much more suited when it is not needed on a daily basis.

VERY good is all dependent on ones perspective of how much time one wants to live behind the wheel. Most of the oil trucking jobs start out in the mid 20's / hour and go up from there..................but that has driven up all the driving jobs that are nonrelated to oil into similar pay ranges as a lot of folks flocked out to the oil fields and to gain any interest from anyone else looking for jobs all other companies had to anti up the pay scale as well. Six figure income is easy but the hours are extremely long behind the wheel and that brings out the bad attitudes and bad mouthing of the industry and area over time .

You do not need to be in the Bakken to find a driving job here, Driving jobs are everywhere and with almost every type of company. If you want to work 60 hour weeks and fight the traffic and bad roads then the bakken is your thing if you like to live life outside of work there are many many driving jobs as well as anything else you could dream of here all across the state. Don't believe what you hear and read about the crime, it isn't what you hear about on the news, you double the population of towns in 3-5 years it will bring along with it some bad apples but that is human nature, the statistics show that with population figures in on top of crime stats that crime has actually fallen over the last few years, the rumors are rampant though. Every place has crime but oil booms bring in some folks looking to exploit those with full pockets and the lonely.

What is your career path? Its not just the Bakken oil fields that supplies jobs here, pretty much any career path you want is hiring across the state. Pm me if you want info.

With the short summers I do not spend much time inside on the computer. Just got home from Utah and pretty much any non raining and light wind weekends are spent boating and or camping and trying to prep for the net 6 months of winter. You know how it is.

Hehehe...................All the science he puts into his work and no mention of the ugly topper he has on his rig. I have personally had one as have several of my friends who have on all sorts of pickups and I can say they easily can make 2+ mpg improvement alone with absolutely zero driving habit correction figured in. Look at suburbans, same drivetrain / chassis as a pickup a lot heavier and most of the time do better mileage than a pickup..................................

The convention is at the Salt plaza in SLC today through thursday and the farm day is on Friday at their lavender farm in Mona. Mike, I would stop in and check on you two if we were driving out there but flight schedule won't allow it this trip even though we will have a rental car, wife didn't sign up for bus ride to and from farm soon enough and it was full.

Going there for the Young living essential oils annual convention. Will be at their Lavender farms in Mona UT for a full day. Would like to check out the lake at minimum, not really intersted in sports or city attractions we are more of a natural attraction couple and like to see the country side rather than city life. The Clarck Planetarium sounds interesting to see. But not sure if we can schedule much around the convention, maybe a couple hours a day to play if that, any exploring may be limited to Saturday morning after looking at the schedule. http://www.youngliving.com/convention/en

We don't know what the company charged for them, the $1200 is what the private individual is trying to sell them for as he doesn't need them.

Going to be headed there for a few days tagging along with my wife who is going on a business trip. Anything we should see or do in the short time we will be there? I don't know how much play time we will have though which is the hard part of planning any extra activities on this trip.

HMMM....I figured someone would have heard of them one way or the other, guess not.

The stock head gasket and bolts will hold about 10-15 psi more boost than the HX35 is safely capable of even if you did have enough fuel to run it that high, generally 40 psi is the safe limit of the stock head gaskets, anything over that and you could develop issues. But the stock boots can let go at or before 40 psi, always a good idea to run over all the clamps about once a year to make sure they are tight. The stock HX35 is good to about 30 psi before it is out of its rated MAP. 30-35+ psi and you are making it unhappy

You will not find a faster spooling turbo than your HX35 and you are 100% totally safe at those temps and have nothing to worry about. With an EZ and 275 sticks you are as safe as it gets. Any bigger turbo and you will spool a lot slower and you will see higher egts with your set up due to lack of fuel to spool a bigger turbo. You could look into HX35 hybrids with different exh housing but that would be about as far as I would take it on your rig. Any upgrade should be to retire the EZ and get a comp instead.

I am not wanting to buy them just wanted to know if anyone had heard of the company, this is the only diesel forum I visit anymore so I do not keep up with the jones' so to speak on new products and what's working or not for folks. http://www.bismanonline.com/mandan_nd/new_reman_injectors_for_dodge_cummins_2004_5_thro Spend more time reading on pontoon / boating and political forums /blogs and dreaming of moving to the gulf coast some day. Lifes priorities are changing as they tend to do.

He is asking 1200 for the set of 6 which is what set off red flags not knowing if he got them that cheap or if he is just trying to get rid of them.

Found a set of new reman 04.5-07 injectors on a local classified site and have never heard of this company. http://www.gbreman.com/catalog.aspx Just wondering if anyone has any experience or info on this company. The price the guy is asking for a set of 6 remans from this company is almost too good to be true so am wondering of quality ect.

I can say that in my area where we have a lot of open roads most gasser vehicles made since about 1990 are running to 300K+ miles same as diesels are, the bodies are shot before the engines on most vehicles now days unless they are open road pavement queens. Not sure how you guys are doing the math on justifying a diesel running cheaper than gas fuel wise when diesel has been averaging 50 cents a gallon more than gas for the last several years and empty daily driving they both do the exact same mileage and loaded maybe a gasser sees 3 mpg less so its not even a close comparison saying a diesel saves money taking into account everything else that costs extra with a diesel. I am commenting on the OP asking about the expense of a diesel and mentioning a gasser as a remote possibility but in what he described as his intended use a diesel just doesn't even come close to penciling out to save money no matter how you look at it. If he wants a diesel stay with what he has or buy a new one and don't even talk money savings in the same sentence, either you can afford it or not it is a huge difference between the two and not even a debate worthy topic if the whole picture as I have been pointing out is taken into account.

They changed the vehicle licenses a few years ago here in the state and now pickups are licensed on the GVW rating along with the passenger capacity since they are used as cars with the crew and mega cabs as well as heavy tow rigs now days. So you are not kidding about the extra it cost to license as well. Not to mention insurance on a diesel is higher than a gasser too.............. oh smack another strike against the diesels and yet another cost to add on against the diesel. Should I stop now or keep going on the things people are overlooking on the "Bigger picture" or "Real World" expenses.