What if it Snows?

Cattleman84 · Feb 25, 2021

Wasted Thyme said: ↑

Sooo...due to opti-stops, I'm heading up I-15 to I-215 to get on I-80. Heading to Laramie. On my first trip through Wyoming. Luckily the winds look good today. Not so good tomorrow morning. When I head south to Denver.
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I just checked the NOAA weather site... Winds today are very calm, late tonight though tomorrow they steadily increase to more of a normal level for WY.

If you make it to Laramie today, that will get you passed the worst places... And if you are headed to Denver that gives you the option of running 287 south to fort collins. By doing so you will avoid most of the remaining windy stretches of I-80 and I-25. 287 can get a little windy as well but nothing like 80 and 25. Good luck in battle.... Are you loaded heavy???

Blu_Ogre · Feb 25, 2021

Espressolane said: ↑

For some reason, I seem to be having a severe allergic response to California. Sneezing, lots s of sneezing.
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noticed the fruit and nut trees were blooming north of Sac. Probably just pollen.

77fib77 · Feb 25, 2021

Well I put a new battery in the truck this morning. Disconnected the bad one yesterday, rotten egg smell.

My kia soul battery $130 at Wally world. A 950 cca truck battery $85 out the door. Shrug.

Im pretty sure the bad battery was causing the hard starts in the cold.

spindrift · Feb 25, 2021

Cowboyrich said: ↑

Bad language. Read at you own discretion.
If you have ever used an electric fence or know someone who has one you should read this.

The language used is a bit salty, but 'he tells it like it is' without cursing.

If you don't laugh hysterically at this, CHECK YOUR PULSE... this is funny.... and true. This was sent by a retired dentist.

We have the standard 6 ft. fence in the backyard, and a few months ago, I heard about burglaries increasing dramatically in the entire city. To make sure this never happened to me, I got an electric fence and ran a single wire along the top of the fence.

Actually, I got the biggest cattle charger Tractor Supply had, made for 26 miles of fence. I then used an 8 ft. long ground rod, and drove it 7.5 ft. into the ground. The ground rod is the key, with the more you have in the ground, the better the fence works.

One day I'm mowing the back yard with my cheapo Wal-Mart 6 hp big wheel push mower. The hot wire is broken and laying out in the yard. I knew for a fact that I unplugged the charger. I pushed the mower around the wire and reached down to grab it, to throw it out of the way.

It seems as though I hadn't remembered to unplug it after all.

Now I'm standing there, I've got the running lawnmower in my right hand and the 1.7 giga-volt fence wire in the other hand. Keep in mind the charger is about the size of a marine battery and has a picture of an upside down cow on fire on the cover.

Time stood still.

The first thing I notice is my pecker trying to climb up the front side of my body. My ears curled downwards and I could feel the lawnmower ignition firing in the backside of my brain. Every time that Briggs & Stratton rolled over, I could feel the spark in my head. I was literally at one with the engine.

It seems as though the fence charger and the piece of #### lawnmower were fighting over who would control my electrical impulses.

Science says you cannot crap, pee, and vomit at the same time. I beg to differ. Not only did I do all three at once, but my bowels emptied 3 different times in less than half of a second. It was a Matrix kind of bowel movement, where time is creeping along and you're all leaned back and BAM BAM BAM you just crap your pants 3 times. It seemed like there were minutes in between but in reality it was so close together. It was like exhaust pulses from a big block Chevy turning 8 grand.

At this point I'm about 30 minutes (maybe 2 seconds) into holding onto the fence wire. My hand is wrapped around the wire palm down so I can't let go. I grew up on a farm so I know all about electric fences. But Dad always had those piece of #### chargers made by International or whoever that were like 9 volts and just kinda tickled.

This one I could not let go of. The 8 ft. long ground rod is now accepting signals from me through the permadamp Ark-La-Tex river bottom soil. At this point I'm thinking I'm going to have to just man up and take it, until the lawnmower runs out of gas.

'####!,' I think, as I remember I just filled the tank!

Now the lawnmower is starting to run rough. It has settled into a loping run pattern as if it had some kind of big lawnmower race cam in it. Covered in poop, pee, and with my vomit on my chest, I think 'Oh God please die... Pleeeeaze die'. But nooooo, it settles into the rough lumpy cam idle nicely and remains there, like a big bore roller cam EFI motor waiting for the go command from its owner's right foot.

So here I am in the middle of July, 104 degrees, 80% humidity, standing in my own backyard, begging God to kill me. God did not take me that day.. He left me there covered in my own fluids to writhe in the misery my own stupidity had created.

I honestly don't know how I got loose from the wire.

I woke up laying on the ground hours later. The lawnmower was beside me, out of gas. It was later on in the day and I was sunburned.

There were two large dead grass spots where I had been standing, and then another long skinny dead spot where the wire had laid while I was on the ground still holding on to it. I assume I finally had a seizure and in the resulting thrashing had somehow let go of the wire.

Upon waking from my electrically induced sleep I realized a few things:

1 - Three of the fillings in my teeth have melted.

2 - I now have cramps in the bottoms of my feet and my right butt cheek (not the left, just the right).

3 - Poop, pee, and vomit when all mixed together, do not smell as bad as you might think.

4 - My left eye will not open.

5 - My right eye will not close.

6 - The lawnmower runs like a ######## now. Seriously! I think our little session cleared out some carbon fouling or something, because it was better than new after that.

7 - My nuts are still smaller than average yet they are almost a foot long.

8 - I can turn on the TV in the game room by farting while thinking of the number 4 (still don't understand this???).

That day changed my life. I now have a newfound respect for things. I appreciate the little things more, and now I always triple check to make sure the fence is unplugged before I mow.

The good news, is that if a burglar does try to come over the fence, I can clearly visualize what my security system will do to him, and THAT gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling all over, which also reminds me to triple check before I mow.
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I know a vet who has told a similar tale.

The guy did some post graduate work at Texas A&M University where he spent a lot of time at the vet school. At the time, A&M had the reputation for having done some pretty exotic things with some very high priced animals. One prized stud horse was being “introduced “ to a high priced brood mare to continue a “royal” blood line. As he was beginning to earn his keep, he backed into an electric fence, and immediately received some negative reinforcement to say the least. His “natural” acts were done because Pavlov was right...negative reinforcement can be very effective. He required manual harvest from then on.

Dave_in_AZ · Feb 25, 2021

Cattleman84 said: ↑

I just checked the NOAA weather site... Winds today are very calm, late tonight though tomorrow they steadily increase to more of a normal level for WY.

If you make it to Laramie today, that will get you passed the worst places... And if you are headed to Denver that gives you the option of running 287 south to fort collins. By doing so you will avoid most of the remaining windy stretches of I-80 and I-25. 287 can get a little windy as well but nothing like 80 and 25. Good luck in battle.... Are you loaded heavy???
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Negative. Wind in Arizona is 4000 mph+

Dave_in_AZ · Feb 25, 2021

77fib77 said: ↑

Well I put a new battery in the truck this morning. Disconnected the bad one yesterday, rotten egg smell.

My kia soul battery $130 at Wally world. A 950 cca truck battery $85 out the door. Shrug.

Im pretty sure the bad battery was causing the hard starts in the cold.
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Just hope you never have to get one for a Camaro. $600

Jenn72 · Feb 25, 2021

Dave_in_AZ said: ↑

Just hope you never have to get one for a Camaro. $600
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That is like my mini cooper. For the battery to be replace it has to go to BMW to be reprogrammed. $1200 after all was said and done.

BMW = Bring My Wallet

SoulScream84 · Feb 25, 2021

Well, I don't think I want to run back to Seattle today.

SoulScream84 · Feb 25, 2021

Jenn72 said: ↑

That is like my mini cooper. For the battery to be replace it has to go to BMW to be reprogrammed. $1200 after all was said and done.

BMW = Bring My Wallet
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I thought BMW was Big Waste of Money. Like HD really means Hundred Dollars, because everything cost another hundred.

JolliRoger · Feb 25, 2021

SoulScream84 said: ↑

I thought BMW was Big Waste of Money. Like HD really means Hundred Dollars, because everything cost another hundred.
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Get into watercraft.. BOAT. Bring On Another Thousand. Have a friend who sports that slogan
on a towel hanging from the oven handle on his boat.

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