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In our area we had quite a few people from Chicago make their summer homes permanent during Covid. Now I have neighbors who have, how shall I say it delicately, radically different viewpoints than 90% of the people in our township.

Oh, how I want to do 4 mag dumps 100 yards from their house. :innocent:

But, alas, I am a better neighbor than that.
Amazes me how they import their ideas from the places they want to flee and somehow think it will be different. It's happening in a lot of rural America......not good.
 
Amazes me how they import their ideas from the places they want to flee and somehow think it will be different. It's happening in a lot of rural America......not good.
Yup it's super stupid to move outta the h**l hole their values (or rather lack thereof) have created, and then want to bring the same garbage into the well behaved rural areas they've infested......
They're always complaining about the redneck locals being uneducated, uncivilized, uncultured, and closed minded..... yet they are the ones fleeing their own society.....
 
Got a little bit of wood split today...I spent more time looking for my phone than I did splitting. Turns out it fell in one of the last remaining patches of snow. The oak is kinda rotten, so it's a lot splitting out the punky parts. Can you believe I actually climbed this rotten tree?:eek: Needless to say, I took the weight off of it a little bit at a time.

BTW, I was noodling the rounds with my only "quiet" saw, I was a good neighbor today.🤣
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In our area we had quite a few people from Chicago make their summer homes permanent during Covid. Now I have neighbors who have, how shall I say it delicately, radically different viewpoints than 90% of the people in our township.

Oh, how I want to do 4 mag dumps 100 yards from their house. :innocent:

But, alas, I am a better neighbor than that.
Maybe if they were only 10 rd mag dumps? Maybe they would endorse those.100 yards? how about 100 feet.. really perk them up.
 
We've had a bit more in the hills of Fayette county (maybe 15" all season). Never had more than about 2" at a time. Certainly not what I'm used to. The least I've seen in 42 years here.

Yesterday Mammoth Lakes reached 700 inches for the calendar year, eight hundred and something for the winter.
 
Yup it's super stupid to move outta the h**l hole their values (or rather lack thereof) have created, and then want to bring the same garbage into the well behaved rural areas they've infested......
They're always complaining about the redneck locals being uneducated, uncivilized, uncultured, and closed minded..... yet they are the ones fleeing their own society.....

I love reading all the covidiots complain on the local Nextdoor App. Kids on dirtbikes, snow, outdoor burning, wood stoves, the price of heating propane, it's never ending lol. I've personally been the subject of a few posts. Mostly large fires that I made out near the road. Also my triple-port 066 got honorable mention one time and not from someone immediately adjacent to me either...the complainer was some distance away. To borrow a term from their vocabulary, loud chainsaws are the song of my people. :laugh:
 
I love reading all the covidiots complain on the local Nextdoor App. Kids on dirtbikes, snow, outdoor burning, wood stoves, the price of heating propane, it's never ending lol. I've personally been the subject of a few posts. Mostly large fires that I made out near the road. Also my triple-port 066 got honorable mention one time and not from someone immediately adjacent to me either...the complainer was some distance away. To borrow a term from their vocabulary, loud chainsaws are the song of my people. :laugh:
I guess they must be jealous of your saws. :yes:
 
While we've had a very small season I can't quite imagine 800 inches for the season! 66 feet----wow!

Looks crazy. It’s northeast of here, across the Sierra. I only went there once during fall, and that was a long time ago.
 
When you replace your mailbox make the post from a section of railroad rail, sunk plenty deep into the ground.

Then the next car that hits it will not drive away.
I believe you would be liable here if someone got hurt or worse. I believe a 4x4 wood post is the biggest post allowed.
 
Amazes me how they import their ideas from the places they want to flee and somehow think it will be different. It's happening in a lot of rural America......not good.
I can't stand it. Then they get on the town boards, raise a stink at town meetings because the farm down the road smells, start throwing their money around and try to force their ideology on the rural communities. :rare2:
Maybe if they were only 10 rd mag dumps? Maybe they would endorse those.100 yards? how about 100 feet.. really perk them up.
That might work. 100 ft? That might get me in trouble. :innocent:
 
I still butcher my deer outside the house and clean my rifles outside also. I've heard a few complaints, but none from my immediate neighbors, so I just ignore them or tell them to walk someplace else.

When the young kids come around to watch me butcher, they all seem to like it and ask questions about it, it does not seem to bother them at all. When I showed one of them how I make a steak from the deer his response was "that is awesome!"
 
I love reading all the covidiots complain on the local Nextdoor App. Kids on dirtbikes, snow, outdoor burning, wood stoves, the price of heating propane, it's never ending lol. I've personally been the subject of a few posts. Mostly large fires that I made out near the road. Also my triple-port 066 got honorable mention one time and not from someone immediately adjacent to me either...the complainer was some distance away. To borrow a term from their vocabulary, loud chainsaws are the song of my people. :laugh:
OK, so I love anything that has a spark plug but I do find piped dirt bikes kind of annoying…honorable mention for piped snowmobiles. I would never complain though, because that was me at one point with piped cars and sleds.

Supposedly, the DNR was cracking down on piped snowmobiles, but doesn’t seem like if judging by the number that go by my house.
 
Ha! There's a reason it's called ash. I have to empty the ash pan every 2 weeks with ash and every 3-4 weeks with maple. Great wood otherwise.

It's a Big Jack from the now defunct Alpha American Company in MN. They refused to innovate to meet the EPA regulations they knew were coming. I think they folded in 2020. Thankfully all the parts are pretty standard so short of a cracked firebox I should be able to keep it going.
Weld it up.
 
Not really related, other than being an example of how priorities are often wrong, I read in the news about a parking attendant getting charged with attempted murder in NYC. I guess he got shot in the stomach, but managed to wrestle the gun away and return fire on the suspect...but now he's being charged...WTF? I thought it was an April fools story at first.
NYC is a Liberal run 💩hole period.
 
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