What's up today (bullchiting) thread.

Well I be danged, it worked! All quiet now!

 

Attended the BOS meeting last week as they were having a hearing on making a couple of streets in town ATV pass-thru's to connect the rail trails on either side of town. an ATV club is petitioning for it. One of those streets is my street and it would only be for ATVs and during the legal season (which changes every year depending on the mud conditions). And, of course, legal hours per F&G.

I'm rather agnostic on the matter. As long as they stay on the street it's fine. No worse than the regular traffic with the spunked up exhausts of cars and trucks, as well as the motorcycles that go thru.

I was rather unimpressed by the guy that represented the club as pretty much his prepared presentation was a map showing the corridor. If I were him, I would have had much more to present such as a little background and the approvals they have from the towns on the connecting sides. Also, would have gone over some of the other routes they had proposed to the town and the reasons those were not carried forth with. Instead, everyone had to ask questions to get any information. At the same time, it was clear that he wasn't a smooser, just a regular guy who probably wasn't comfortable facing the 20 or so people that lived along that route that weren't all on the same page.

 

The thing about this all is that I'm a fellow ATV enthusiast, have several of my own, including some with loud pipes, but nothing to the level of this neighbors new bike! And I would never spend hours on end rattling everyone's windows in the neighborhood either (these people really don't have anywhere to ride, so they are on the road, a walking trail (illegal) and back a field access driveway for the farm they live in front of (their house is a rental) back n forth over this same area, for hours on end, bouncing the engine off the rev limiter!
I grew up in the neighborhood, and know all the neighbors (except these people, since they are relatively new) and I guarantee you, we aren't the only ones annoyed...

 

Understood...if it continues on I have no problem talking with the other neighbors and raising a stink with either the sheriff, or the landlord, who probably knows nothing about it at this point...I know they've thrown riff raff types out before (and this bunch seems to be of that definition)

 

Maybe the landlord will be happy they have been aerating the lawn?

 

Ruh roh.

 

Safe to say that that rim got salt corroded

 

Just a little. I don't think I've seen a wheel rot out like that before.

 

New place in Spread Eagle. Never seen mitten housewrap before...

 

I went to the gravel pit yesterday morning to get a load of rock to put in a landscape bed. I told the lady at the scale I wanted 5,000lbs. She radio'd back to "Dale" and told me where to go. Dale showed up in the roughest looking and roughest sounding wheel loader you can imagine. It had to be one bucket shake away from death. He got a load of rock and sprinkled it on the trailer.

I went back on the scale and netted 4,880 lbs of rock. Looked like a 4 yard bucket and he was only about 1 wheelbarrow load short, and I would bet you any amount of money that POS loader didn't have scales on it. Good operaters are amazing.

 

Rough day here...tree trimmers showed up to take 5-6 wrong way leaning oak trees down next to the power lines at work...told them we wanted the wood, but they pretty much chipped the top half of the 2 trees that they got down between the rain drops...I couldn't bear to watch...they chipped at least a cord of primo limb firewood...like branches 10' long and 8" diameter!

 

Ordered some parts on ebay they other day, from Grand Rapids, so I'd think shipping should be quick, no?
Well I looked yesterday and it was in some lil burg outside Chitcago...hmm, that's in the wrong direction, but hey, whatever.
Looked today and it has now went right past me, and is near Harrisburg PA!
I really don't get how the USPS operates!? Not very well obviously!

 

Grrrr. I guess you needed to be wayyyyy more specific. That would've had me headed over there to inform them that you wanted to but the stuff down to say 4" or so.