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  1. Its been a stone age or two since I have been on the site however I still do a few weight & balance "what if's" for folks wanting to know where to load items and pin / hitch loads. Feel free to send me the detailed dimensions (axle locations and hitch /pin locations and fuel tanks and weights) then I can calculate various "what if" load situations. Email me your data at : Inspirationmike@gmail.com Drive on.........Keep your weight in....balance
  2. Knowing too many " investor's" "bankers" and PhD finance-whiz-folks they have huge smiles from the oil stocks special dividends they seen flood into their accounts since the first of this year. Guy down the road retired from too many years at one of the big three oil companies was giddy at the +$32k special dividends he received in April alone and that's chump change compared to how much his stock has gone up in value. He says you have know idea how far I can drive my Tesla on just my oil dividends alone...... He will say that oil investers think it's about time that Americans are paying the world price for oil that is a world commodity.....he has a point as a invester.... Now PhD wiz-kid finance nephew says just ride the price wave up....up.....up until price kills demand and then the rest of the economy will........."adjust"....... "Adjust" ........whiz-kid speak for.... OUCH this is gonna hurt a LOT of folks and some folks will be giddy happy.... Some folks get a bit tangled up in politics but at the end of the day oil is still oil and it's way way more market driven than most people know or admit. Before you send things to hurt my well known tender feelings ask yourself this invester question: IF I purchase $1,234,567.00 of XYZ Oil Company stock do you want them to sell Ten Million barrels on the world market at $113.50 a barrel or do you want the company to sell the same oil in Kansas for $89.50 a barrel...... Ask yourself why do I invest???? Best to just elevate this above petty policy and politics.... Drive on......your milage might very will be related to your dividend'z......
  3. Being horse-enabled...we Are not welcome in most camps and do we seldom know how many non-horse folks are camping. We tend to boondock in HUGE areas often a hundred miles or more from a freeways or major shopping so we often stay in one location for many days or weeks at a time so our cost of fuel is spread out while Dolly momma gives the hayburner exercise..... Actually the price of hay is rising faster than diesel so she uses solar-horse-fuel (green wild grass grazing) to save on hay. Likely we will clock a total of only 2,000 miles between Death Valley and our Oregon properties...... We enjoy camping more than driving so fuel is factor but not trip killer.... Drive on.......( Dolly horse gets good grass milage)
  4. Ok from Death Valley to Steens Mtn, Oreguun horse Kamp we have ruined a $500 bill on fuel but so far we have been just walking, horse riding, or falling of bikes for 16 days without a engine started...... How much fuel cost per Kamp time do you get by with? Obviously horse operation is not a cheep skate hobby and diesel burning is getting interesting as well ...... We likely won't start gobbling diesel until July when Dolly momma has horse rides with other Kowgurls about 200 miles West. Are you kamping longer and driving less often??? Drive on.......(maybe less often)
  5. Rotor, No worries....... We have by FAR the best mouse and RAT exterminator in stock ready for FAST action...... Forget the Phoney rubber snakes when you could have a LIVE WORLD CLASS ......LAST CHANCE PEAK RATTLESNAKE!!!! This year a nice Green color seems popular but if you sort through a few dens you might also might find the ever popular two-tone sand-tan with dark Brown trim and those nice dark eyes to zero in on the target ........ Side winders are a bit more work to box up but fairly easy to track in sand...... Many folks seem unaware of the many advantages of Buzz-Tail Snakes........just toss a buzz-tail in your rollaway tool box and in very little time fewer and fewer folks will want to mess with your tools....... We have a fairly grumpy rattler that hangs out under a big flat rock next to our mailbox and he keeps the the folks from stealing our bills that come in the mail...... Let me know the color and length of the rattle snake you want and rest assured we never send a rattler out that wont rattle .........don't you hate it when you have a strike before the buzz......no fun without the buzz you know...... We have a nice crop of black widows this year but they only like flies and other insects so not any help with your mice..... Drive on.........don't run over the buzz tail snakes......they are needed for rodent and ......tool box control....
  6. Camping with Dolly horse is a bit more complex this year.....diesel is expensive but many feed stores have ZERO HAY and many hay ranches have taken the year off due to not being able to afford the costs of growing hay....... This might not end well....... We used to do a bit better than this...... Drive on..........maybe........maybe slower and shorter trips??????
  7. Bad advice here..... Get a horse........very few camps will let you in..... Lottsa folks don't want to camp near horses (they bark too much,,,,) Camping with a horse increases the work of camping so much that you will want to not kamp too long...... You never can never have too much water when you kamp with a horse .....until.....you are forking manure ankle deep in mud...... Oh ya.....when you do find a campground that will allow the nag in then you get to show how rich you used to be by dragging out your ......HORSE PAPERWORK that is bigger than Trump Taxes and likely cost more but dont worry it expires EVERY six months ($275 to $660 depending on how many states you transit)....... Get a horse,,,,,,,way more than any camping hell ....... Drive on..........is the horse still in the trailer.....
  8. Teach, Be careful when you come over to trade your rig in on the Top Notch Pete......it was 98 f here today when i went out to the mailbox and Dollymomma's pet rattler would not even come out from his den to buzz at me.......it's gonna be getting warm here some day......soon Drive on........Keep a eye out for the rattler at the mail box (nobody seems to mess with our mailbox much....)
  9. Teach, Get your bride in your rig and wander over the pass to PawRump and pull into Top Notch Trucking out on BeleVista on the way to Death Valley (Furnace Creek) and Look (with DARK glasses) at the owners Pete with only +5,800,000 miles on the clock and counting with the shinny eat-off it 650 Kat with so much chrome that they had to COMPLETELY Chrome TWO trailers to match it ...... Tell your bride that he spends more on chrome polish than her house cost but the trick to cheep trucking is just keep on top of the little things and that will go a long way to keeping the big repairs in check......like the name of his company says...... Top Notch Trucking..... Take a peek at Lottsa miles chrome......https://www.topnotchcarrier.com/ Drive on........fuss with the little things and keep the big things happy....
  10. Hey Brad, good job keeping the shinny side up and no one hurt. Ditches can be tough places for KW's to make much mileage. Back in the stone age Grumps had a 1954 needle-nose KW saphire mist blue with 300 cumminz with a 8-71 huffer cobbled on its side with a five main and a four brownie and twin screw GI Mack two speeds so with only FORTY speed it was just wiggling a few levers to keep "ole-blue" moving smartly down the roads with too many tons of logs in the bunks. It was a HOT July afternoon about 30 miles South of Bend, Oregon and the logging was shut down for the day due to low humidity so being child-slave-labor I had been "bumping - knots (chain sawing limbs off felled trees) so Grumps had picked up the last load of logs for the day and I was riding shoot gun on the tool box with the horse-hair pad seat on the passenger side. We had a large load of Doug Fir and it was very green and heavy (+85,000 logs) but we were on a paved county two lane road traveling about 45 mph rounding a fairly sweeping curve when all of a sudden a "Bug-Eye-Sprite" came around the curve right in the middle of our lane......Grumps swerved HARD RIGHT on to the shoulder that was mostly volcanic pumice (about like styrofoam packing peanuts) and I remember well watching the turn signal light on top of the fender go deep into the pumice as Grumps reached over with his right arm and put me in a head-lock hoping to keep me out of the way of the logs as they would almost certainly would pass through the cab, but I slipped from his grip just as the passenger side windshield popped out as i followed it out just as a couple of logs gave me a hard push in the butt as i slid out the hood top and my chin stopped right on top of the hot radiator cap. As usual i had not known when to keep my mouth shut, so I was choking on a mouth full of pumice and had a few scrapes but glad to get off the hot radiator cap. Grumps was scraped up a bit from some bark scrapes as a log slid by (where i had been sitting) but he was ok after the dust settled....... Just like you Brad the sports car just kept on going and we had to bum a ride into town with a fire crew truck. HDT's are great tow rigs but oh boy oh boy do they hit HARD when they do tip over........ Drive on......If you gotta go in the ditch.......DO NOT ROLL......
  11. Monday morning you might consider calling and ask for Huston.... Industrial Applied Electric Address: 163 NE. Underwood Ave., Bend, OR 97701 Phone: 541-382-6636 1-800-750-6630 Fax Number: 541-382-9485 Email: mail@iaebend.com Business Hours: 8:00 am to 5:30 8:00am to 12:00 noon Sat
  12. Trim I just logged on... Sorry to hear about your problems. We are presently at our Bend hillbilly property ... One forested acre in the middle of a building crazy city. I was born in Prineville so take what I say with a grain of salt.... BY FAR the very best Industrial /Heavy Electrical Master you will EVER meet is Huston who has owned IAE in Bend for longer than you have been alive....he is nearly blind these days but don't let that fool you.... He ALWAYS save the day and his shop is stunning he STOCKS millons on the shelf..... Call me here in Bend on my cell 520.891.3695 If you get in a bind for a place to park over the fourth you are welcome to hang out at our hillbilly acre but it can be a trip to get through all the craziness of building construction here in Bend these days... Cowgirl has a horse Kamp reserved this Wednesday for a few weeks so if you need to use our Bend place call soon and I could drive over to Prineville and pick you up and bring you over here and show you the local streets to navigate Crazy Bend... Hang in there and give me a ring...
  13. I ALWAYS thought that the highly DETAILED manual for RV'$ should include the ground handling turning radius diagram the Boeing scribbles in the back page #3,721.1t Once the tail light is about 132 ft Behind the last set of wheels you can tend to get some tail swing going and then of course there is that tail flipper horizontal thingy about 49 feet wide and then those wing things that at high altitude ain't long enough but on the ground way way too long...... Now the hard part...... remembering all those darn radius numbers on a foggy rainy night...... Drive on...... don't swing your tail into the baggage carts. ...
  14. Hey Dave, You should have delayed your trip North to the grate-nor-wet...it looks like we might have a bumper crop of sidewinder rattlerzzzz this year on the South side of Last Chance Peak Snake Ranch. Don't sweat the starter,,,,,,,it's so easy to do a work-around,,,,, Back in my Bird-boy-$ave-the-world days we would fly into a really really backwater town in old Mexico that had the best taxi service in the entire world,,,,,, On final approach over town I would unsynchronize the props and the the old wreck would howl wow ,,,wow,,,,wow noise that would wake up Paccoo and he would drive the old Valient slant six out to the runway to pick us up..... sorta..... His old slant six was ALWAYS low in gas so..... We would sit in the shade while 5 gallons of gas drained from one of my top tanks into his 5 gallon can... Once the slant six was gassed up it was starter time.... Paccoo would strike the THREE wires together while birdboy stuffed the $teel fence post through the rusted out hole in the floor and would ram the starter hard when Paccoo yell ooondleey,,,,,ooondleey .. Dave it worked every time.... Drive on......don't wack the starter too gentle..
  15. Dollytrolley

    Wheel Well

    Sounds a bit hillbilly however it works very well... Old time custom trailer builder would purchase steel round stock water trough from the ag supply then cut them in half and screw a sheet metal cover to the outside face so it could be removed if needed... It was a very durable wheel well. Drive on.....keep the wheels in the wells...
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