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TDCTDI
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 Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2018 9:39 am Post subject: Re: VW Fun Challenge |
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I'm at a point in life where I've seen enough to not care. |
You know what? This kinda makes me sad for you. 
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
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HippyTom
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Location: Florida, West Pasco
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| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2018 12:04 pm Post subject: Re: VW Fun Challenge |
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I'm not saying I don't like it, just that I seriously doubt I can see anything I haven't seen before at the age of 50. They aren't that unique.  But I'll be darned if someone is gonna pee on my Bug. 
Now, back to the challenge!!! YVWW A Burned out structure!!! |
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vwwestyman
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Bug-nut
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 7:59 pm Post subject: Re: VW Fun Challenge |
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| TDCTDI wrote: |
NEXT UP: Your VW with a fire gutted structure.
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I know this doesn't count for the challenge, and I took it last week anyway. So this just serves as a bump and because I thought it was neat pic.
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Damn that is a cool pic! 👍🏻 Er, wait, no, I mean, that is one hot pic!  Seriously though, that is very neat. Well done!
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vwwestyman
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 8:24 pm Post subject: Re: VW Fun Challenge |
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Thanks! I was able to help out with the field burning at a local church/foster teen camp. Around my part of Kansas, it is very common to see fields being burned for a few weeks this time of year. Burning gets rid of the old dead grass as well as some weeds and invasive species of trees. That clears the way for the fresh grass and adds nutrients back into the soil in the ash. The blackened surface also warms faster, which helps the new grass grow. In a couple weeks, the burned fields are a beautiful neon green with the fresh grass!
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vwwestyman
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2018 5:11 am Post subject: Re: VW Fun Challenge |
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Yes, very cool pic!
I like the shovel in the back seat too, it shows you were in action |
Thanks!
It is actually a bow rake. To get the fires going, you find a nice little patch of dry grass and start the fire in it. (All you really need is a regular old match.)
Then you wait a few moments for it to start up. Grab some more dead grass in the rake, and get that going. Then you can take your flaming "hell rake" (as I called it in my mind) and just start dragging it along the edge of where you want to burn to drag the fire along and start the line.
That area we were burning when I took the pic, was probably a half-mile long. So we did several "leap frogs" of fire lines, starting one (with two of us working each direction from the initial patch) then driving down a ways to start the next. The fire lines eventually joined each other, and worked their way up and over the hill.
There are fancy rakes sold just for starting these fires, but the bow rake works just fine.
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HippyTom
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:15 am Post subject: Re: VW Fun Challenge |
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In dry Florida winters, we're not even allowed to burn microwave popcorn.
We had a ton of wild fires near us last year. They do controlled burns to limit the potential fires from lightning strikes. Wildfires are bad news!!! |
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panicman
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2018 10:51 pm Post subject: Re: VW Fun Challenge |
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That is a great picture. Well done.
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green71volks
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| Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 3:41 pm Post subject: Re: VW Fun Challenge |
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Mobile home that burnt a few nights back
Next challenge YVWNT next to an Amtrak station |
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hitest
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 9:24 am Post subject: Re: VW Fun Challenge |
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I love the look of "ta da!" on your passenger's face as she gleams victoriously in front of the scene of such horrific family tragedy...
I know that wasn't intentional. 
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 9:27 am Post subject: Re: VW Fun Challenge |
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There’s even a Vanagon Westy in the parking lot.
NEXT UP: Your VW next to someone else taking a picture of your VW
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GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
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cbeck
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 3:06 pm Post subject: Re: VW Fun Challenge |
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Doh. Missed it by that much. Not to mention I just left spring fling with hundreds of people taking pics of my ride [spring fling pics in my gallery]
Any who, kirkwood,Mo amtrack. Back story, my wife Sydni is named after her grandfather Sidney Kinyon who was mayor of Kirkwood for 24 years. Carry on.
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captincanuck
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 7:18 pm Post subject: Re: VW Fun Challenge |
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Man, your ride is looking great after your little hit-n-run incident, great job!
NEXT UP: Your VW next to someone else taking a picture of your VW
Bonus points if you also post the picture that they took.
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GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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HippyTom
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 9:47 am Post subject: Re: VW Fun Challenge |
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Ok, sitting in Lowes Home Improvement parking lot getting ready to leave when this lady walked right in front of me to take a pic.
Next Challenge: Your VW next to a mural painted on a building.
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Cali_Army_Guy
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 2:42 pm Post subject: Re: VW Fun Challenge |
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All these were taken today in downtown Stockton. There’s a ton a murals downtown here, but these were the ones I could get my car in front of.
Next challenge: Your VW in a traffic jam. Extra credit if it has your “I hate traffic” face in the photo.
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HippyTom
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 9:14 am Post subject: Re: VW Fun Challenge |
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My 63 Pearl White Sunroof Bug in a VW traffic jam.
Next Challenge: Your VW with a toy VW that closely resembles your car. Bonus points for a close up of the toy car with your real car in the background. |
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YDBD
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 8:47 pm Post subject: Re: VW Fun Challenge |
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Well the toy is on top...thought I had a better shot of the rest of the toys with the buggy in the display case...
I've got this one the YDB display case is on the top shelf on the right:
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HippyTom
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 6:30 am Post subject: Re: VW Fun Challenge |
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I love your dune buggy!!! Awesome!!!
You get to choose the next challenge. |
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