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Post by silverdragon on Oct 9, 2015 6:47:43 GMT
Thats good fog Camouflage you have over the back end.... fortunately, I had a crew available to help wash it. Why is it that turning a Fire hose on a truck just seams more fun that a garden hose on a car?.... "Go wash the trucks" at any place I work is not a "Chore", its almost fun... |
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Post by OziRiS on Oct 9, 2015 22:41:08 GMT
fortunately, I had a crew available to help wash it. Why is it that turning a Fire hose on a truck just seams more fun that a garden hose on a car?.... "Go wash the trucks" at any place I work is not a "Chore", its almost fun... Do that for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week for a year and you'll be cured. I did that and I ain't never handwashin' no stinkin' truck ever again! |
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Post by alabastersandman on Feb 8, 2016 8:45:13 GMT
A couple of weeks ago, Boy was home sick from school. Not wanting him to miss out on learning something, I decided to do a little home schooling. They were doing coordinate systems in math class at the time and I thought I'd take that out of the classroom context and into a real world context. I pulled out a military map of a large exercise area and the surrounding cities and started teaching him to find things from coordinates and to read out coordinates for specific things he found on the map. He had a lot of fun with that, so we agreed that when he got better, we'd take a trip to the area on the map and I'd let him navigate while I drove. We did that today. We picked out a starting point and a destination on the map before we left home and he planned the route. We timed our departure, so we'd get to our destination shortly before sunset, put Girlfriend and Bobby (the dog) in the car, went to the store to pick up some driving snacks and drinks and off we went. When we got to our designated starting point, we pulled out the map. I showed him how to use a compass to point it North and explained to him what kind of landmarks he should be looking for to make sure we were headed in the right direction (roads, intersections, power stations, churches and so on) and that unless he told me otherwise, I'd just stay on whatever road we were on. He had complete control over the route. "Just tell me when to turn and if you lose your bearings, tell me to pull over, so you can figure it out again," was the message from me and off we went again. Half an hour later, we pulled up to our destination. No wrong turns at all and we only pulled over once in a small town, so he could make sure we were on the right track. First try ever at navigating by map and he completely nailed every aspect of it. Finding both our starting point and destination on the map. Planning out a sensible route before leaving home. Facing the map North with the compass and getting his bearings, so he could start us off right. Telling me in good time when to turn and what landmarks to look for. Turning the map the right way whenever I made a turn. I even quizzed him every now and then on which general direction we were headed and he exhibited perfect understanding of North, South, East and West. Go ahead and color me proud!  As I mentioned, we timed our arrival to shortly before sunset. Why? Because this was on the West Coast and from where we ended up sitting to watch that sunset, there was nothing but open ocean between us and England. Both Boy and Girlfriend have of course seen a sunset before, but they've always seen it from the city, or possibly from a field or forest inland. There's just something special about watching it set over the open ocean, knowing that for the next 400 miles in the direction you're looking, there's nothing but water. It's just you, the sea and the sun and I got to share that with my two favorite people (and favorite animal) in the entire world, sitting on a blanket on a tall sand dune and just enjoying every second of it  Why am I telling you this story in this thread? Because, apart from this being the newest addition to my top 10 list of the best days ever in my life, this picture I took of the setting sun over the North Sea, shot from between two sand dunes, is now on my top 10 list of the best pictures I've ever taken:  Great story, every person should be taught how to use a map and compass, they will need it some day when the power grid goes down and they can't steal enough solar panels to charge their GPS (a little sarcasm there in reference to most people's failure to prepare for such an emergency). |
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Post by OziRiS on Feb 8, 2016 12:14:38 GMT
Great story, every person should be taught how to use a map and compass, they will need it some day when the power grid goes down and they can't steal enough solar panels to charge their GPS (a little sarcasm there in reference to most people's failure to prepare for such an emergency). Thanks That was 4 months ago and it's still the best memory I have from the last year or two. That was just a great day. |
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Post by the light works on Apr 3, 2016 0:58:07 GMT
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Post by OziRiS on Apr 17, 2016 22:57:52 GMT
That second one is from your backyard? |
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Post by the light works on Apr 17, 2016 23:20:56 GMT
That second one is from your backyard? a bit past the footbridge. |
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Post by OziRiS on Apr 18, 2016 0:26:12 GMT
That second one is from your backyard? a bit past the footbridge. Nice |
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Post by the light works on Apr 18, 2016 4:33:36 GMT
a bit past the footbridge. Nice I like it. |
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Post by the light works on Apr 20, 2016 3:15:01 GMT
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Post by silverdragon on Apr 20, 2016 6:41:28 GMT
How do you get water INSIDE a sealed light bulb?... |
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Post by silverdragon on Apr 20, 2016 10:39:59 GMT
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Post by the light works on Apr 20, 2016 13:22:04 GMT
How do you get water INSIDE a sealed light bulb?... I suspect one or both electrodes rusted, breaching the seal, and if it was raining when it happened, it probably vacuumed the water in. |
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Post by ironhold on Jun 28, 2016 22:38:35 GMT
Took these two this morning using my camera's phone. Attachment DeletedAttachment DeletedIt's just the moon back-lighting a gap in the clouds, but the effect was to make it seem like a Quiet Riot-style face mask was looking down over the city. |
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Post by the light works on Jul 12, 2016 3:32:57 GMT
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Post by silverdragon on Jul 12, 2016 6:50:47 GMT
It wasnt me......
(The truck that is.)
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Post by the light works on Jul 12, 2016 14:13:16 GMT
It wasnt me...... (The truck that is.) I would hope not. a 3½ hour extrication is no picnic. |
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Post by silverdragon on Jul 13, 2016 9:55:31 GMT
How about 7 days to get something "out"?...
Watch on you-noob and read the comments.....
small section of description...
The "specialist" low loader at the end of the film, thats the usual thing I get asked to do.
It wasnt me, just one of the type of people I work for.
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Post by GTCGreg on Jul 13, 2016 12:13:32 GMT
How about 7 days to get something "out"?... Watch on you-noob and read the comments..... small section of description... The "specialist" low loader at the end of the film, thats the usual thing I get asked to do. It wasnt me, just one of the type of people I work for. But that was to extract the vehicle from the bridge, not the driver from the vehicle. |
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Post by the light works on Jul 13, 2016 14:10:27 GMT
How about 7 days to get something "out"?... Watch on you-noob and read the comments..... small section of description... The "specialist" low loader at the end of the film, thats the usual thing I get asked to do. It wasnt me, just one of the type of people I work for. But that was to extract the vehicle from the bridge, not the driver from the vehicle. apparently they also spent part of yesterday finishing the extraction of the mangled truck. which is pretty typical. once they stabilize the situation, they pause to decide the best way to get the job done. in this case, part of the removal process was probably figuring out a way to transfer the chips from the old truck to a new truck; and then the trailer was probably structurally compromised, so it would have had to go onto a lowbed. in the case of the truckload of empty (new) beer bottles that hit my parents' tree, they brought in a big waste box, and folded up the wreckage of the trailer and stuffed it in. the bogey got loaded onto the wreckage of the truck and hauled off with it. but I bet that youn00b clip comment section is loaded with armchair quarterbacks who could have pulled the trailer out with their F-150. |
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