Sure is quiet in here....do I need to start a fight?

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Yep....all the males in my family, grandfather, great uncles, uncles and father all were fishermen born and bred....not a one of them could swim a stroke.......great uncle swore he had negative buoyancy.....said he could just walk around on the bottom until he ran out of air.... Only reason any of them had those old WWII gummint surplus cork life jackets aboard was the Coast Guard made 'em carry then on the vessel....stiff fine for violations....none were good at giving money away...

Some one from Away once asked the Ol' Man why he never learned to swim.....he looked at the fella and said "The idea is to acquire a proper boat and then stay in it" and he was serious.....


Regulations and requirements became much stricter a few years after that episode, new laws and such came in so that there was a DOT approved safety vest for every person on board, life rafts became mandatory many years later.. Yep a good seaworthy boat and enough sense to stay inside/aboard was the earliest form of lifesaving I grew up with. First real world memory for me concerning boats was heading down the channel in Jeddore harbour with the ole single lunger in the 30' Tancook breaking the silence, at one point along the way the reverberating echo off the shoreline made it sound like the engine was a twin. No underwater exhaust on those old rigs, straight out the side, hear one coming 2 miles away even on a windy day.
 
Jimmy....welcome to my world.....this is the year that my cab is going away.....cab corners and drivers side rocker have disappeared since the first of Dec. It's just melting away as I drive it......it's an 06.....
So sad...it was a nice looking truck.

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Not unusual to see 5 - 6 year old Ford trucks here with the quarter panels all full of holes around and above the rear wheel wells. Salt is a biotch on steel and if there is a place it can get caught up and lay there year round that spot will soon be there no more.
 
I think we will blow it off
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Hey Jimmy !!!
You up here in Canada ?
 
What's the best chain to run on my 268 Kavarna to cut up tires ?? it's still windy and my pile is gettin low .
I've been looking for some bowlin balls (Awesome heat and burn time btw) but it looks like that source has dried up :(

Are they snow n ice tires, heard ice chains are bestes.
 
Heard you wereboxing stuff up today as it was too nasty to do much else.

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Yep...I'll see what I can do about that....found a local hardware store just became a FedEx shipping location...they can scan...Woot!!
 
When ya wake up, snow relocation.


Shhhhh......I was trying to stay asleep until it all goes away!!! Relocated at the shop yesterday and Glen, my neighbor down the street, relocates for me at home now...the bride keeps the path shoveled to the door so I'm good....Probably run the tractor in and out of the woods this afternoon....but that's not so much relocation but flattening/packing.....have to wait until the snow gets off the trees though.....still have 5-6 problem trees I'd like to process before the snow gives up....
 

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