heheheh, now thats what I call horsepower!
Years ago when I was doing tuning at Kenny's sports the boss said he
needed me to make a set of my custom 'Novak 2000' pipes for a kwacker
440 twin. I'm thinking, 'ok, boss needs some speed for his pos sled'.
Nope, boss's brother needed it for Paul Bunyan days up 'dere in da
north' for his custom saw! Hell, I thought two cylinders would be more
than enough to win. But apparently not so as he lost to a guy with
kwacker triple 750!
No replacement for displacement :)
Ted Novak
TRA#5512
IEAS#75
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:37:09 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@weinerboy.org wrote:
I cut what ever I can get. Oak is my favorite, but I can't get enough
of it. Hickory is probably the best firewood, but is very scarce
here, and bugs seem to eat it like candy. Elm is OK to burn, but it
is tough and stringy to split, and it seems to shrink more when it
dries. I like Ash, and I got a lot of it this year. It is not very
dense, but it is much better than Maple, and it splits easily. I'd
like to get two more pickup truck loads, but that looks doubtful.
Alan
IMHO, splitting Elm, especially freshly cut Elm, is like trying to
split an extremely wet, stringy sponge...
<g>
My stove has trouble with Oak. In order to burn it cleanly, I have to
give it lots of air, and run it at a fairly high temperature. With a
pure Oak fire running at full tilt, I'd have the first floor up to 80
degrees in no time[1]. I have pretty good luck with mixing maybe a
couple of pieces of Maple to one big chunk of Oak.
tah
[1] Although, it's weird when you heat with wood, and become
accustomed to those higher temps in January. 68 degrees feels frigid!
<g>
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:21:49 -0600, "John Stein"
<big whack>
LOL! Yeah, my "old man car" gets darn near 40mpg on the highway, and
can carry way more rocket junk than my Geo Tracker. Not a speck of
rust on 'er, and she runs like a top! Not too bad for a '95.
The Tracker, however, is a must for getting to launches in
exceptionally muddy corn fields. Just getting out after the launch is
almost as much fun as the launch *itself*!
<g>
But, then I have to wash all the mud out of the wheel wells when I get
home...
tah
Been there, too. We have a '93 Escort with 178,000 miles, new A/C system,
1.9 liter engine with the four-speed overdrive transmission. We
consistently get 42 mpg highway (in the winter) and 36 mpg running the A/C.
A bit noisier than usual since my son removed all the trunk sound absorbent
material....just because his friends told him they couldn't hear his
stereo...and after all, he paid good money for those speakers. Kids. With
the
back seat down we can load all my rockets, gliders, motors and launch stuff
and still have room for the 12 volt car battery (spare for the club launch
stuff) and a cooler to keep Cokes, water and sandwiches cold. After a long
day it's a pain to unload all that stuff.
John
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:45:25 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@weinerboy.org wrote:
I could say some things about insurance, risk, fairness, etc... But
I'll just address one small part of this OT discussion. (And I'd
rather discuss wood burning, and firewood management...or even
rockets!)
First, when disaster strikes, people should look first to their own
preparedness and resources, then to family and friends, and even
church. What ever happened to separation of church and state? (Ya
it's a stretch in this context.) I don't like the state usurping the
churches role of helping people in need. (Not that today's churches
could even meet that need.)
However, there are some situations where I think the state should
compensate victims and/or help pay to rebuild infrastructure. One
case would be an unprecedented natural disaster, like Mount St. Helens
erupting... Another could be negligence of the government. For
example the Fed. gov. is tasked with providing a common defense, and
yet an act of war brought down the Trade Towers. The US could only
muster four armed fighters, which were not effective. I would have
thought that the US should have had at least 16 armed fighters ready
to defend coastal areas of the US against attack.
I believe the government did a good job warning people living in
category 3 protected zone about an impending category 5 hurricane. I
think the government (mostly local) was negligent in not providing
adequate transportation after ordering an evacuation. Furthermore,
when the state orders a forced evacuation, they should bear some, if
not most, of the costs of interim survival. In that case, the state
should also bear some of the burden of loss or damage because the home
owner is not allowed to be there to protect property and minimize
further damage. If the state subsequently, changes policies that
decrease property values, The victims of that policy change should be
compensated.
I'm not defending any of the actions of FEMA. However, some arguments
can be made for government assistance to disasters.
Welcome to The Great Society and the 3rd generation that thinks the
government owes them somethimg, all the while not realizing, WE ARE the
govt. but many of these people don't pay taxes to start with. The mentality
has been delevoped from 35+ years of "cradle to the grave" "vote for us"
I'll take care of all your needs nanny state politics. A totally absurd
perception of life and what's due them.
Why should my rates go up because someone else is too stupid to build or
live above the flood plain?
I hate what happened to all of the people along the coast, my heart goes out
to them all, but it's their choice to live there. It's their risk to take
and be blest by, or suffer the results of, their own choices. Same as I do
every day.
We have helped them and will continue to do so, but these people need to
learn from their mistakes and they also need to stand on their own 2 feet.
Randy
www.vernarockets.com
Point!
Give that man a chicken!
We have the headwaters of the Cuyahoga River running through town, and
many people live directly next to the river in "summer cottages" that
have been converted to homes. A couple of years ago, we had some
massive spring rains which caused the river to flood like it hasn't in
many years. The "big city TV stations" caught wind of this, and of
course were "on the scene" with the residents. When asked by one
stupidly over-emotional reporter, "Gosh! What a mess! What *are* you
going to do?!", the resident flatly replied, "Well, we knew this would
happen because we live right next to the river, and we've got sump
pumps and gas powered pumps, and we made it a point not to store
anything important in the basement. We'll get by on our own just
fine."
And ya know what? They did. Without FEMA, without screaming about
how "aid wasn't moving fast enough for THEM", without bitching about
how they weren't getting enough money.
<g>
I kid you not...
My kind of people...
Me? I live in a house that's right next to the highest point in town.
Now, lets talk about high winds...
<vbg>
tah
Hmmm. The midwest is prone to floods and tornadoes, the northeast has
blizzards, the east coast and south have hurricanes. That pretty much
eliminates everything east of the Rockies. On this side we have
earthquakes, wildfires, mudslides, even volcanoes.
So that leaves what? About 10% of the country, maybe, that would be
eligible for disaster relief? Why not just come right out and say you
favor eliminating all disaster relief?
Î
Is this "fund" like the social security "fund", where the money goes to the
Treasury to be spent by congresscritters 'buying' votes with special projects
for their district? Or is this a real fund?
So, what constitudes a "disaster"? Is this where people who don't build on a
flood plain pay for rebuilding homes of those who do?
If I have an ice dam will the insuance pay for the repairs to fix my roof /
attic so that doesn't occur anymore?
What about if my roof is 12 years old and not in very good shape, and a strong
wind comes through and causes a little dammage (but not huge), will the
insurance pay the full price of it's replacement?
The latter reason is why your insurance and mine - especially mine - are high.
Both are claims made by the townhouse association where I live (what a
mistake).
Glen
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