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airschooled
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 Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 9:12 am Post subject: Re: Putting the Bus to Work |
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How to lower a bus properly: 800 pounds of hardwood.
I stalled in a parking lot for the first time in half a decade...  I went to let the clutch out with no gas like I always do and Buddy was havin NONE of that. Then my shift points were all whacked out when I went for my classic 30mph 3-4 fuel saver....
The ride is remarkably indifferent to the extra weight of all the lumber and a passenger. Fascinating stuff, these cars.
Robbie
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OB Bus
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 9:28 am Post subject: Re: Putting the Bus to Work |
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Hardwood? You'd sure go go broke buying dimensional oak in those sizes. Sure looks like pine/fir to me.
But back on point, the cargo & weight capacity of these 50/60 year old low powered economy cars continues to impress me.
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Abscate
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:25 am Post subject: Re: Putting the Bus to Work |
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Pine is for the Fjords, not VW.
When we did our deck in mahogany, the wood was worth more than the car.....
What project are you up to, Robbie? Setting deck height?
(Lying in bed in a fentanyl haze after making sure I don't have to tell 7 ladies I'm going to die of a stupid, preventable disease...every 10 after age 50)
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airschooled
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 11:05 am Post subject: Re: Putting the Bus to Work |
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It's easier to type "hardwood" on my phone than "pine that is so damn water-logged I can't lift a 4x4 by myself." Seriously, I have dealt with rosewood and cocobolo that is less dense than this garbage. 
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 11:11 am Post subject: Re: Putting the Bus to Work |
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| It's easier to type "hardwood" on my phone than "pine that is so damn water-logged I can't lift a 4x4 by myself." Seriously, I have dealt with rosewood and cocobolo that is less dense than this garbage. |
That's not water, it's Chromated Copper Arsenic.
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airschooled
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 11:55 am Post subject: Re: Putting the Bus to Work |
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| TDCTDI wrote: |
| asiab3 wrote: |
| It's easier to type "hardwood" on my phone than "pine that is so damn water-logged I can't lift a 4x4 by myself." Seriously, I have dealt with rosewood and cocobolo that is less dense than this garbage. |
That's not water, it's Chromated Copper Arsenic. |
Not talking about the pressure-treated stuff, just the green sloppy warped shit that HD sells us for too much cash....
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SamboSamba22
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| Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 12:36 pm Post subject: Re: Putting the Bus to Work |
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| asiab3 wrote: |
| TDCTDI wrote: |
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| It's easier to type "hardwood" on my phone than "pine that is so damn water-logged I can't lift a 4x4 by myself." Seriously, I have dealt with rosewood and cocobolo that is less dense than this garbage. |
That's not water, it's Chromated Copper Arsenic. |
Not talking about the pressure-treated stuff, just the green sloppy warped shit that HD sells us for too much cash.... |
As a former supervisor of HD lumber department, I'll pretend I didn't read that comment, Robbie.
Nice quality wood is hard to come by. Shame really.
Don't dog them too much, they help fuel my VW obsession.
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richparker
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sdavidg
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| Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 3:12 pm Post subject: Re: Putting the Bus to Work |
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Bringing back a 83' Honda ATC to tinker with a few weeks back loading it was a pain with no ramps but the folded down gates helped. Need to get a hold of a trifold ramp 
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Wasted youth
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| Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 8:10 pm Post subject: Re: Putting the Bus to Work |
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Been quite awhile since I've seen an ATC!  |
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sdavidg
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| Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 9:38 pm Post subject: Re: Putting the Bus to Work |
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They are a blast to drive, and built like tanks. This model has the ability to reverse and makes life that much sweeter.  |
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cdennisg
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| Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 9:45 pm Post subject: Re: Putting the Bus to Work |
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| sdavidg wrote: |
| They are a blast to drive, and built like tanks. This model has the ability to reverse and makes life that much sweeter. |
Looks like a "Big Red".
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| Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 10:07 pm Post subject: Re: Putting the Bus to Work |
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How to lower a bus properly: 800 pounds of hardwood.
I stalled in a parking lot for the first time in half a decade... I went to let the clutch out with no gas like I always do and Buddy was havin NONE of that. Then my shift points were all whacked out when I went for my classic 30mph 3-4 fuel saver....
The ride is remarkably indifferent to the extra weight of all the lumber and a passenger. Fascinating stuff, these cars.
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I tossed about the same amount on to my pop top and tied it down last summer, other than a little more body roll, I hardly knew it was there. The 12 ft. 4x4s wouldn't have fit inside too well. Looks more like 2 or 3 hundred pounds of pine you have there..... 
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VWDog
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| Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 10:17 pm Post subject: Re: Putting the Bus to Work |
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We had a couple ATCs when I was working in the Arctic. So much fun. There was a larger workhorse Yamaha(?) that pulled our trailer and a smaller Honda. I used to see how far I could get the back inside wheel off the ground when cornering the Honda.  I somehow managed to come home unscathed, one of the professors didn't though. He flipped the machine and trailer onto himself after forgetting about a shallow drainage ditch across the road. He made it but it was a tad touch and go for a while. Good thing, because we were a 4+ hour Twin Otter ride from Inuvik. He was doofus, so it kinda served him right.
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Abscate
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2017 2:34 am Post subject: Re: Putting the Bus to Work |
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High up in the best buy ever category for me for lumber hauling
$250 1500# rated Harbor Freight trailer. Mine is 10 years old now. You load up at Lowes, it's low and easy, you don't worry about scratching it, you deliver it to job site and then unhook and can go to work,
I picked up A free boat that had no trailer once since no one else could move it.
We haul four kayaks down to the river , without top loading
I haul my packing scrap to the metal shop for money instead of paying for disposal.
My lawyer forbids me from telling you we have tested it to 2x its rating with flagstones
I do local moving jobs gratis around town..someone gives away a basketball hoop , I move it for them.
They make one now that stands up in the garage. I know you guys in CA are tight in space
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2017 7:52 pm Post subject: Re: Putting the Bus to Work |
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| (Lying in bed in a fentanyl haze after making sure I don't have to tell 7 ladies I'm going to die of a stupid, preventable disease...every 10 after age 50) |
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Xevin 
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2017 8:14 pm Post subject: Re: Putting the Bus to Work |
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| (Lying in bed in a fentanyl haze after making sure I don't have to tell 7 ladies I'm going to die of a stupid, preventable disease...every 10 after age 50) |
Everything okay? |
He's OK. Just spends to much time flying around breathing in recycled air and sleeping in countries that make EMPI products with piss poor air quality. And he's worried about American pine lumber  Just messing Abscate. You the best
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Abscate
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| Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2017 2:47 am Post subject: Re: Putting the Bus to Work |
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Everything okay? |
Borescope inspection of the rear cylinder for cylinder wall defects
All good, until I slipped in fresh dog poo, twisted my knee, and landed in it yesterday. That's worse than reading one of Robbie's posts. Well, some of them.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2017 3:49 am Post subject: Re: Putting the Bus to Work |
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Being retired, the SC likes to spend time in the garden 
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