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My fallen brothers, I give you my respects...Hot shot crew killed in AZ fire.. 19 people. I have not read anything about it, but I bet it was a crownout. Question is whether or not they used their shake-n-bake bags, or how effective it was if at all.My father in law was a smoke jumper and suffered through a crownout. Shake n bake bags were not as advanced as they are now. Used it to hold air as him and his crew jumped into a pond. By the time it was done, the pond was gone...These people truly served our country!

http://www.wunderground.com/weather-forecast/US/WA/Yakima.html?MR=1 Its a big heatwave hitting the PNW too! Arizonans, you can keep your HEAT! The rv thermostat said 95 when I got home. Both AC's running. Put the awning out, seemed to help a little... Work was fun... Atleast I only have to work 10 hour days in it instead of 12's. Sweet 4th of July, my saving grace! It was reported to be 19% humidity, but walking out, you would swear 100%!!

Hey, your inbox is full! Can't PM you!talk to me!

AND if you get rid of your truck in the process, let me know, as I would buy yours!

Mine went the other way around.. I split myself into a pile! You just get into a splitting frenzy sometimes and don't realize you gotta crawl out of it somehow!

I got mine from genos as well. Great kit. Even gives you spares. But if you don't screw it up the first time, you have parts left over for a second re-seal!I would give you a couple tips:1. Know how to drain/fill the ps fluid through the lines. I coul not figure it out so it made it a bit messy for me.2. You may have to install the pump/ps unit together as one. I felt it was easier to do it that way in a way as you gotta mount it back in with the gasket to the timing case and gears have to mesh together. But you don't have to fight putting the vac pump back on after as it can be cluttered and cumbersome to do.3. Its heavier than one would think when putting it back on in this fashion. Trying to gently reinsert everything, you may want a second help to help hold the weight. Second person will need to be under the truck to hold it up for you as you re-align everything and stick the bolts in.The rebuild itself was easy, its the removal and install that can be more of the trouble.

I've looked on CL locally, but dunno where there may be other popular places to look to find that apple of my eye...With the type of trailer I'm pulling, the idea of getting into another truck to pull this beast becomes more enticing to me.I'm pretty sure this sort of truck is out there, but at what expense or where??I would prefer:98.5 Dodge Ram 3500 dually 5 or 6 speed. Extended cab longbed, with the 99-02 interior but has the 12 valve engine and tow mirrors.If I can find it with less than 100k miles, I would be all ears! Price is not a big problem... Anyone seen this gem?

One good food for thought, look into getting a winch crane attached to the trailer and use log tongs to load and off-load the trailer. Those 100lb. rounds will become cake work!

...and on that day, the people will rise, blood will be shed, justice will be served!

I dunno how much your trailer weighs, but I highly doubt it is as much as mine. I don't think you will have any problems puling it as I don't with mine...

NO MERCY!

I can't help but laugh.. But I also do feel sorry for the guys in a way too...On my dreaded trip to Yakima, I encountered a couple fords on the side of the road. Hazards were on and was getting hooked up by the other to be towed by a couple chains.I pass them up and go on my way. I make a few hills and this and that cruising on average between 50-55mph. Not too much longer after, I see them PASSING me. Wow... okay, so someones got some brains!As irony goes, lo' and behold, I see them at an off-ramp, with both of them on the shoulder of the off-ramp with the one towing the other broken down from over-heating! :lmao:The cloud was a billowing from that ford! It was only a matter of time until they seen a couple vultures hovering them!...fords, go figure!

I'll take the smell of cow crap over the wind! I'm curious how bad this is gonna be for me in the winter... I thought the palouse region was bad... I noticed at times how tense mybody was. My left hand was gripping the wheel so hard, it had cramped up and was tingling.. MY back was screaming at me for being so tense and just not laying back in the seat. I also was hoping a 1 ton dually would also allow me load the rv to its GVW. I'm learning to live without, being in this trailer, but I still need a few more things to make it a year round possibility... Although, I have not found any dodge trucks that are rated to pull a 16450 lb. trailer... I'm not sure about overall length. Whatever a quad cab short bed is plus 37' 8" trailer... Yea, the trailer is like a friggin' billboard! But there is no way I could settle for a travel trailer. What love can do to a person! ...sigh. Yep, I need to tow it in these sort of things more, so I know what I and the truck is capable of... ..lol, saying the truck needed to cool down was more of an excuse for me to stop at the rest stop so I could get out and walk around and go pee... The whole trip, I had the OD lockout on. I tried having the OD on and I noticed the EGT's would just stay too high. So I left the OD locked out... Also, with my tow/haul valve body in, its probably going to drive differently than a stock 47e... So do you think a dually would really not be worth getting, instead upgrade this truck with more add-ons to make it pull better? I've also noticed that on towing guides, etc. that a 1 ton pulls less than a 3/4 ton... Although, it probably pulls it better and more stable... HA! The trailer is 8' 8" wide! All I can do is keep it in between the lines. Thats probably why I had a death grip on the wheel. Any deviation would pretty much have caused me to be over the line or in the shoulder. My mirrors, believe it or not, do not allow me to see 180 degrees all the way back. I have to stick my head over further to get a rear view. My blind spots are still okay, though. Wonder if I should/need to get mirror extensions, etc.. ...speaking of FORDS! I'll start another thread on that one.

^Our govt. acts in this context. Yet, the american people sway back and forth like trees in the wind. If people would understand that behind closed doors, both sides conspire for the same ending. Get behind the curtain, look up and see that it is the puppetmaster behind the whole act...

Yea, I was just gonna chime in about this as another alternative. As long as the material you drill is not too thick, a step bit works great. If its too thick, you get a tapered hole. Except them step bits are spendy! A good one cost as little as $30!

Whoever is drving that viper, sucks. Even was beat by a mustang! Thats one heck of a drag race! Tractors!

PICS!

SO, the big day had came...My job finally called me to leave town and head out for the work. Took a while to pack and get everything situated. Seemed all like a blur to me!Biggest struggle me and the wife had was trying to figure out wha absolutely had to be packed and what did not. I made it a goal to not exceed 1k lbs. in goods. We did our best. We set out, weighing EVERYTHING! It was probably the most time consuming part of it all!We finally reached a final weight of 880lbs! Under our 1k lb. goal. But I saw it as a good thing to have less, as we will obviously have extra weight when we move it again after living in it for a while. Things like groceries, etc.So we strived to get out of town and into our rv spot by Saturday night. HA! Still packing... we did not finish pasking until 1am and then got up at 9am. Beat tired from work and packing from previous days.Finally got going at about 3pm on the evening of SUNDAY! Our black tank was about 2/3 full as well. Extra weight in front of the trailer axles. Wanted to hit the CAT scales again and also wanted the black tank empty as well. Found a REALLY nice rv park on the way. In fact I wish we would have been there for my last job! :duh:So I got there and paid the dump fee. Hooked up my new dump system, the SEWER SOLUTION! Its quit the setup! Thats another subject! I gotta tell ya, that black tank made the truck a bit squirrely! It was UNBELIEVABLE the difference that dump made!Hit the scales after! Heres the numbers:Truck:Front: 4200 Rear: 3000Gross: 7200Combined:Front: 4160Rear: 6400Trailer axles: 10940GCW: 21500As you can see, pin weight was 3400 lbs! Thats my fault for not properly distributing the weight. Next time we move, were putting alot of out clothes, etc. in the toy hauler area...So, after all this we still has a good 200 some odd miles to drive! Took I-90 west towards Seattle from Spokane. Took about 2 hours or so to get to Moses Lake. Had about 1/4 tank left. So I stopped off for fuel.BUT!This trip was not without flaws...VERY BAD day to pull this billboard! I will let you in on a secret... I grew up in Spokane, then gravitated east to Idaho. Never went west in Washington!BOY! I never realized how flat, and deserted it was in central washington! Sagebrush everywhere! We ran into agricultural areas along the way, but it was mostly sagebrush! WHERE DID MY TREES GO!!! :banghead:I could not help it.. I started cursing and a cussin'. I wanted to turn around and tell my boss I'm not working in this hellhole! But, it helps when you have an important person in your life that relies on the money, too... sigh.There was a portion of the road hat dipped down and goes under a bridge. But right before we took that dip, WHOA!!! Outta no where, the strongest gust of wind hit us like never before. I literally thought we were gonna end up on our side! So I hit the trailer brakes and got that thing back on track. I never knew I could react so quick!So we got into Moses Lake. Went to a Safeway to fill up. I'll tell you this, just as quick as we arrived, is just as quick as I wanted to LEAVE! I see the turn to pull into the safeway parking lot, start favoring the inside lane for a wide turn, slowing down. Guy was in a ford truck wanting to turn into traffic. Still had room to pull in. Outta NOWHERE here comes this broad in her little car! :mad:EMERGENCY STOP! FULL BRAKING! I stop feet from her car, traffic is stopped, people are just pulling up right behind her like, I'm a friggin; prius!BACK UP WOMAN! I could see the utter shock on her face as she almost met her demise by a freight train on pavement. Funny noises were made by the truck, and I was sure everything in the trailer was thrown forward and probably broke. Finally got to the pump. Had the wife check the trailer, nothing important moved or was broke.My sister was there and it was the last time I would see her, her husband, and my new nephew for a while. Time was running tight and I had a very sour experience in that town...We get back out on the road, heading to Ellensburg, to then cut south for Yakima! Little did I KNOW! The GEORGE!!!I tell ya, I cannot believe what I got myself into! Wind was just NUTS! We hit the george, ohhh crap... Start going down the grade and whattya know! The columbia river! I had a warrior in my passenger seat. You would not know it by looking at her cause I woulda thought I died or something as I thought I musta been looking at ghost!We pass a sign going down the grade, "Bridge windy"! OH crap...THEN once we make it down, start going across this crazy long bridge, across the columbia, we see what was then in store for us! I have no idea what % the grade was, probably 6%. But for MILES!!!! I did not seriously think we were gonna get up it!Started climbing this beast of a mountain, slowing down, hit the hazards and started dancing with the gauges...Pyro was at a sustained 800-1100 degrees. Boost was peaked at 25psi. Coolant temp was probably about 210 degrees. Speed about 45mph and 2-2500k rpm.Trans. temp was between 170-220. Some portions of the grade just seemed to bog the truck down more than other portions. Was losing rpm's and speed and you could hear engine slowing down. Got into the throttle a little more and the TC unlocked. Geared down, got the rpms up, speed same. EGTS fell to 800 but trans. temp climbed to 220.Let that go for a few minutes and then let out of the throttle a little and TC locked back up. Trans. temp fell, EGTS rose to 1100.Kept going back and forth until we finally peaked the grade.. Rest stop was at the top. Took it and let the truck cool down. Especially me and the wife! WHEW! Yep, windier than crap at the top. No wonder they had dozens of windmills! Quit the sight to see!Managed to make some small talk with a couple truckers to ask about the other side of the grade. Said it was more gradual and not as steep. YAY!I was gonna crap myself if I had to go down something like that!!!Finally got to ellensburg. Started cutting down south and had to hit ANOTHER COUPLE grades! :cry:Definitely nothing like the one afte the columbia river! It was more manageable, but still very uneasy.Finally got into Yakima after the last grade into town. WHAM! Whats off in the horizon? VOLCANOS! Duuude....Why, lord, why? :(Did I mention, this job is 3 YEARS!!! :ahhh:Got our RV spot pre-approved. Got the trailer backed in, no problem! Wow, theres something new for me, lol! Got the basic hookups done and jetted off to walmart! WOW!I will tell ya, this whole thing definitely comes as such a culture shock and lifestyle change! I feel like I'm in another country!Worked 34 hours in the last 3 days, though. Thats why I'm here! :spend:I think I might wanna go to another RV park if I can though. Dogs cannot even have an area to run, etc. Dirt lot for just bathroom area. Must be leashed all the time. Pretty restrictive rules... ugh.Well, just experiencing a huge learning in all this. Fridge in the kitchen is too small, for sure! I was expecting that though. But a fullsize was only available in the triple axles....I wanted to pack our fullsizer in the toyhauler or our chest freezer but that was gonna put us over on our weight goal... So we may bite the bullet and get a small 5 cu. chest freezer for meat. Wife is doing good adjusting, and probably better than me!Showers are my biggest peeve! I took out the waterflow restricter in the head, but they still got me! The fitting that comes out of the faucet is reduced greatly. Dunno how I can change this...Water heater is GREAT! I think its 12 gallons. Still have not seen the light on to heat the water...Needless to say, stressful past few days, for me. Looking forward to getting some rest!!I have come to the conclusion:1. I buy a gooseneck adapter and ask the boss to use his 96' 3500 12 valve dually 5-speed to relocate when needed, OR2. I'm gonna look into trading for a dually. You heard me... Theres a place in Puyallup that I may consider. They are pretty good at selling used trucks that are older, but LOW miles. I found a few from them a few times with trucks in the late 90's with less than 100k miles! I don't want a newer year range truck. I would buy an older one like this, but less miles! That would be my little gem! But if I gotta buy a truck AGAIN, its gonna COUNT!!!After this trip, there is NO WAY I wanna move this thing again in the conditions I did!I cannot even imagine trying to do it in the winter!I'm definitely gonna look at alternative routes that are flatter and less stressful. Even if it takes longer! It took me almost exactly 34 gallons one-way! I got a rate of 10mpg! Talk about windy and steep!I bet the injectors are clean, though!!!

...now, how much to ship to my place and how much to rent? :D

I've learned to steer clear of ANYTHING corded that drills without a clutch... It does not matter how SLOW you seem to drill. Its always that last little bit of metal before you punch through that binds up and causes big problems...It depends on the job, but at the very least, get a cordless drill and put it on the highest clutch setting. Usually number 15. That way when it comes to the last little bit of metal, it will stop and not send you spinning with the drill! Then, switch to the high speed setting and lightly push until you clear the hole...

NICE! ..looks like its hot/humid!!!

If she is one of those barefoot with nature type of people, that would be just as bad as dating a smoker! Imagine what kind of beastly feet she would have/has!

Whats this pipe you speak of?

In your second picture, it looks like you've stacked them in single rick rows. T posts on the end, good idea. Now, if you want more stability, cross-stack your wood every 8 ft.

Heck! ...ANNNND I coulda had my own wood stove in one, too!