What's up today (bullchiting) thread.

Congrats on the truck purchase TrinitySouth99 Now we need to see pictures what you can haul in that.

 

As we get older and older

 

Before my date with the push mower yesterday, my weight was heading in the wrong direction, 210.8. Add in two 20 minute sessions on the treadmill yesterday with only two bowls of cereal for supper and I'm heading back down, 209.2 this morning with another 20 minute session on the treadmill today before I went out and did some work.

Tonight we're cooking a London Broil on the grill, I'll have some veggies with a hot tomato salad, it would be nice if I could be below 205 by this coming Friday, we'll see. Today was the 44th day I've been dropping, gaining and shedding pounds.

 

When I'm working outside and staying away from snacks at night is when I really shed the pounds. Once I went from 227.2 to 214, I started having two better meals a week, chicken and steak on the grill, that made me forget about the wraps for a few days.

I've been eating lettuce in a wrap for most of this, I'll actually keep that up after Friday when I told the wife it would be over.

I think the most weight I lost in a day was just under two pounds.

 

I was always a ford person, but not die hard so now. I didn't care as long as I got a solid truck. I do like this ram. I've only ever had fords before, as far as trucks go. Kia and hyundai when I had to go to a car. If I were buying a brand new truck now, it'd be a ford no questions asked. And if I was, I'd pick out or order just about the most basic Truck I could get.

Mind you, I won't be working this truck to death. She's way more power than I need and I could do with less size. But it's still a sellers market, albeit much improved since the pandemic, and she was the best deal available for a truck that came inspected. I'm going to have to avoid any needless gallivanting around that the cars mileage made easy to do, and considering I think the car is running rich because of the things wrong with her, hopefully the gas bill won't be a huge adjustment. I do like the Truck so we'll see what happens, but if I get her paid off while she's still worth something I can get a more expensive truck, maybe a newer ranger or a 2015+ F-150, and only be in the same situation as now . Or, perhaps the better option would be to buy a decent but inexpensive car and keep the ram, then i have a truck when need be but a fuel efficient beater for going to town or longer trips, plus if one breaks down I have the other. Actually that might not be a bad idea.

Do you have a picture of your new ford?

 

There'll be a few of those. I don't have the truck in my possession yet, but she's paid for. The car will have to suffer me out for a few more days before she's put out of her misery. Hopefully next Saturday there'll be a fine load of brush going for a ride.

 

basic F150 XL 5.0 3.73 gears. Payload sticker says 2551 and I can put 11,400 lbs in the trailer to get to my GVWR of 18,300 lbs. even ordered it with vinyl floor.


with 2 cord of ash wood, she was 17,100 lbs gross weight and all axles still under the stickers rated weights.


the red one is the 2020 I traded in for the 2023. It was a mistake I should have never purchased. Salesman was clueless about the package I actually ordered.

the heavy duty payload package gives me a GVWR of 7850 lbs on the 2023. The 2020 had a gvrw of only 7050 lbs.

payload on the 2020 was 1813 lbs..


the wife drives a 2018 ford escape. My truck gets about 19 mpg and her car only gets like 22 mpg. It’s also an AWD titanium model though.

 

Nice truck! Yeah that mileage difference isn't even worth it. Wow.

 

The diesel ram was like 12 mpg. But jeez was it a pulling beast. 2012 was the last year of zero emissions and first year of 800 ft/lbs of torque…

 

Well, if you can find a real car (not an SUV wannabe), like a 2018 or earlier Ford Focus, those puppies get 37-40 mpg. I loved having bboth the Explorer and Focus when I was commuting 50 miles (one way) to work.

 

if my wife’s car was a true 2WD, it would be over 30MPG. The AWD is the fuel economy killer.

 

Last nights glow stick.

 

Was yours a manual? The Focus is a pretty reliable rig without the DPS6 transaxle.

 

The scales said 208 this morning, my previous low was 208.8 so I finally broke through that. Just more of the same today, I finished up the 14 face cord of pine, since the area I'm cutting in has more logs, I'll put up one more face cord for 15.

 

Only 71 here but can't open windows. Canadian wildfire smoke moved in this afternoon.

 

High of 53 here today.

 

Yeah, I think y'all would keep your smoke.


All those wet wood burners out that way.


I think we're seeing some smoke here as well.. thought it was aweful hazy for a cool day.



The sun..

 

more an “unlike” like…

 

My 2007 Focus was manual 4 cyl. I bought for $1,300 it at 198k and traded it in 1.5 years later (I don't remember the mileage). It got around 34 mpg.

I bought the 2018 new end of December 2018. It was not manual although it did have the fake shift mode. Push a button up/down to shift - but it would shift up for you to not kill the transmission. It had the mode where it would turn off the engine at stops. That worked pretty sweet during the months it wasn't ice cold or 100*. I would disengage that mode on days of extreme temps though. End of July 2021 (after working from home for over a year) I sold it for a couple hundred more than I bought it for at somewhere around 24k miles.