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raratt

raratt

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I made a "hopefully" puppy proof cage around my sprinkler riser and cut back the wires to where they weren't chewed on and reconnected them. Put the aquarium pump and airstone in a bucket in the grow room, north wind is drying everything out. Got out the meat slicer and cut up a leftover roast for French Dip sandwiches for dinner.
 
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WeedFreak78

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tangerinegreen555 said:
At least not without sheet metal welded to the wheelwells, door bottoms and sides.

I've seen some pretty creative repairs lately at the inspection place where I hang out occasionally. The local Floyd's barber shop. Lol.
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Back around 2000 I had a late 70s ford plow truck that the body was held together mostly with sheet metal screws and pop rivets. The bed was long gone, replaced with a rickety and rotten wood flatbed. There were holes in the roof, there were no floorboards, only a 2x12 board under the floor mat running from the frame to the transmission to put your feet on and every time you stepped on the clutch the cab twisted because it wasn't attached to the frame. My friends called it the horror movie truck because it looked so scary. As long as it didn't smoke and could stop it always got a sticker on it until the frame broke. I miss that truck.

Today a 2" hole in your rocker gets a reject as "structural damage" . :finger:. With my last car I had to argue with the guy that I had a full frame and that hole was in no way structural. Just another way to screw poor people.
 
tangerinegreen555

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WeedFreak78 said:
Back around 2000 I had a late 70s ford plow truck that the body was held together mostly with sheet metal screws and pop rivets. The bed was long gone, replaced with a rickety and rotten wood flatbed. There were holes in the roof, there were no floorboards, only a 2x12 board under the floor mat running from the frame to the transmission to put your feet on and every time you stepped on the clutch the cab twisted because it wasn't attached to the frame. My friends called it the horror movie truck because it looked so scary. As long as it didn't smoke and could stop it always got a sticker on it until the frame broke. I miss that truck.

Today a 2" hole in your rocker gets a reject as "structural damage" . :finger:. With my last car I had to argue with the guy that I had a full frame and that hole was in no way structural. Just another way to screw poor people.
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My buddy who's 75 runs the inspection garage.

He cut a guy a break and passed some frame rot. Guy got drunk and plowed into a parked car.

State cops went nuts looking for anything to pin on the guy and my buddy got his license suspended for 6 months.

You just can't help some people.
 
Blue Wizard

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tangerinegreen555 said:
My buddy who's 75 runs the inspection garage.

He cut a guy a break and passed some frame rot. Guy got drunk and plowed into a parked car.

State cops went nuts looking for anything to pin on the guy and my buddy got his license suspended for 6 months.

You just can't help some people.
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Somebody keeps passing this old guys 60 something ford. The frame is so bent it looks like he's sliding down the street at an angle. Some other dude has a late 90's chevy 1500 truck that looks like a wrecking ball landed in the middle of it and it somehow passed inspection. It looks like he couldn't drive over a speed bump without dragging the middle of his frame and he's allowed to drive around like that.

It keeps me hopeful that my Ford Tempo will pass inspection. The speedometer is the only gauge that needs to work right? They won't mind if the horn honks when you turn on your hi-beams?
 
tangerinegreen555

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Blue Wizard said:
Somebody keeps passing this old guys 60 something ford. The frame is so bent it looks like he's sliding down the street at an angle. Some other dude has a late 90's chevy 1500 truck that looks like a wrecking ball landed in the middle of it and it somehow passed inspection. It looks like he couldn't drive over a speed bump without dragging the middle of his frame and he's allowed to drive around like that.

It keeps me hopeful that my Ford Tempo will pass inspection. The speedometer is the only gauge that needs to work right? They won't mind if the horn honks when you turn on your hi-beams?
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Around here that's a high end trade in!
 
ChronicWonders.

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raratt said:

Roxy trying to pull down the peach tree. I made sure the loop was taken out of the rope after I saw this. My son tied that.
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The fall at the end was my favorite.
curious2garden said:
Be ready soon ;D so many pups need us and the best cure for loss is adoption.
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I rescued a mini staffordshire about a year and a half ago. Unfortunately I did it without thinking and soon realized I didn’t have the room for both. Thankfully my ladie’s family took the pup and I can still see him.

We were in the process of moving/looking for a house with more room and that took us a year. During which I had to put down my shepherd unexpectedly from sarcoma. Literally one day fine and the next she collapsed in my arms.

It will have been a year in May and with our winters here I didn’t want to have to deal with potty training in the snow. I would like to get 2 dogs to keep each other company and just because...I love animals. I’d have a mini zoo if the lady wasn’t allergic to cats/rabbits and wasn’t afraid of fluttering things.
 
raratt

raratt

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ChronicWonders. said:
The fall at the end was my favorite.

I rescued a mini staffordshire about a year and a half ago. Unfortunately I did it without thinking and soon realized I didn’t have the room for both. Thankfully my ladie’s family took the pup and I can still see him.

We were in the process of moving/looking for a house with more room and that took us a year. During which I had to put down my shepherd unexpectedly from sarcoma. Literally one day fine and the next she collapsed in my arms.

It will have been a year in May and with our winters here I didn’t want to have to deal with potty training in the snow. I would like to get 2 dogs to keep each other company and just because...I love animals. I’d have a mini zoo if the lady wasn’t allergic to cats/rabbits and wasn’t afraid of fluttering things.
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We had 3 dogs and cats at one time. We lost our last pup in Jan. and it had been 37 years since we were without an animal in the house. My wife finally realized she was ready for a new one when we went somewhere and when we came home no one was at the door to greet us.
 
too larry

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757growin said:
I got a cabin for you near mile marker 100 if you do. Best wishes for your lady.
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Hope to take you up on that one day.

SMD {spastic muscular dystrophy} runs in the wife's family. In the more advanced stages, you drag your feet when you walk. Her mom had it in her early 20's and her brother in his 30's. Both went from cane, to walker to wheelchair. She was 35 when we got together, and figured she was in the clear. And for years that looked to be the case. But. . .

She'll be 66 in a couple of months and the last 2-3 years started to have leg stiffness and pain. She can still climb stairs, but can't skip a step. She actually walks 5 miles a day. Mostly in the house and on the driveway since the hurricane. {our hiking path got wrecked}
 
too larry

too larry

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I did some planting in trays. Tractor had a dead battery, and didn't want to jump. No fence around the garden anyway. Most likely I'll dig another subterranean greenhouse and cover with a shower door. {I know there is one more frost, even though it was in the 80's today}

Then FSU basketball bridging my shower/get to work time, and my viewing tech took a dump. I got to watch, but between work and my Dish Anywhere putting the game in nowhere's ville, I was an hour late celebrating.

I have the rare Friday, Saturday off, so. . . . . . .
 
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