Sunny Saturday, I’m cleaning up leaves around the homestead, this is also an excellent material for composting…
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I’ve had some trouble with my woodstove this year, smoking in a lot, swept the chimney two times, and checked everything.
As you all know wifes don’t like the smell of smoke, so there has been argumenting.
Yesterday i thought i got the solution: i could blame @JohanM 
Well, today i took the pipe between stove and chimney outside, and flushed it with water, got out a carcass of a jackdaw, from the hardest to reach point-problem solved
When i carried the heavy pipe outdoors, i managed to leave a trail of soot through the house, which i also walked in a couple of times, to spread it around some more.
When wife hold me responsible, and told me where i could find the vacuum cleaner, i just told her: it was @JohanM 's fault!
She just gave me that special “wife-look”, i don’t know if it worked?
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Wow, rough school ! 
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Not really, it wasn’t for self defense. This was South Dakota State University, which is mainly an agricultural college. Lots of farm and ranch kids. Most of us also had a gun rack in the back window of our pickup trucks with a shotgun for pheasants and a rifle for coyotes and rabbits. It was a different time.
GC
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There might be some flaws in this concept, as it turns out wives and girlfriends are pretty clever creatures. They don’t think like we do (for good and for bad) 
Was it normal to leave the guns in the car while being in class or on lectures all day or did you guys put it somewhere else in school?
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Same here in Alabama
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I got chewed out for walking down the main drag with my cap and ball rifle, in Hancock. I was going to the gunshop to have the man explain what gear I needed. I was told I needed a gun case for it.
Meanwhile, in Calumet, you can pull up to ACE in your Razor, shotgun out in the rack, and go get shells. Nobody cares. They are more interested in where you are hunting birds at, so they can go there too.
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Hey Johan or any others I can answer the guns as tools in daily Life Once-Was here in rural USA.
They were considered working tools.
Just still today with screw drivers or even hammers. Pressure pot cookers. Tools.
What changed?? “Popular” entertainment media first made them as killing maiming enablers. As story telling shock horror devices. Then the made fearful ninny/nannies “Aught-to-be-a-law” types we will always have; made them to be worse than just mere enablers; but seductive seducers. Sucking good people into evil thoughts and deeds.
Before 911; box cutter tools were just a specialized limited use tool. THEN they became dangerous weapons.
The T-brothers turned common pressure cooking pots from food tools into perceived killing maiming bombs after the Boston Marathon.
Closed body moving/delivery vans and box trucks now perceived as killing/maiming weapons to be feared now too. Bomb carry; or mow down people killers.
Same. Same. We culturally used to see red nosed Clowns as children’s entertainers. Gee . . . thanks a lot Stephan King. You fear maker cultural corrupter. Innocence stealing thief. At least the old horror writers like E.A. Poe, and Mary Shelley used obscure devises and situations.
J.O.; Johan here is my Wife’s vehicle door pocket tool.
three kinds of lights possible with magnets in the face for external stand off fixing; two glass breaker carbide beaks; two molded-in plastic encapsulated guided razor seat belt cutters.
Here are my door pocket tools:
The small hatchet has a folding wood saw blade and a belt clip safety sheath.
The multi-cell flashlight is a safety lighting tool because it does not have a crestulated face rim. In-home & in-shop I use behind doors 24" lengths of 1 1/4" steel water pipes.
In a vehicle these would be consider bludgeoning weapons.
In all cases it is the person, their willingness, and capability that is what makes a thing weapon. And the intent of use that separates out self-defense versus mayhem and murder.
Steve Unruh
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My wife from ultra liberal, gun restrictive Massachusetts, grew up in a rural town. Back then she said kids in high school had gun racks in their trucks while parked at school - no problems. Even left the doors unlocked. Now you can’t even make a finger representation of a pistol in school without getting into deep trouble. Liberals have focused on the tool and have made it evil. I’m sorry, it’s not the tool that is evil, it’s the thoughts and actions of the person holding it which determines that. Back 50 years ago, people were more trustworthy and respectful. The culture has taken a left hand turn into depravity. One only has to look at what passes for entertainment on tv to see that.
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As I understand it, here you are not ”allowed” to have a pipe, axe handle, baseball bat and so on close to your door or in your car because if you defend yourself in your home or in your car, having those things there is seen by lawyers and such as an intent to hurt someone but if you only defend yourself with what happens to be close by it is seen as ok.
I don’t really know if this is completly true or just people talk but I know some that instead has for instance a two-foot length of hydraulic hose by their door.
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Inversion conditions in West-central Idaho for a few days, too.
You might think we had snow, and we did two weeks ago. Maybe you noticed the roofs, but the ground gives it away.
Fog and ice fog condensing on almost everything but the dirt. I’m really grateful for an extra two weeks of fall. We’ll probably never be fully ready for winter, but we’re a lot closer than we were before Thanksgiving. The bushes are beautiful, and I can still use a wheel barrow instead of a sled 
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We aren’t allowed to either in cities. The exception is if you are going to play ball somewhere so you needed a ball glove too. 
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Regarding rules and regulations you just have to filter them best you can. Common sense, no show and tell and you have done nothing wrong.
On another note regarding…
If anyone wants to play it safe, this old English gentleman gave good advice
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I think I’ve mentioned this before but when I was a kid (1950’s ) it was common for boys to take their 22’s to school and stick them in their lockers so they could hunt after school if they wanted to. Small rural town. No one ever objected. I was 7 when I got my first bolt action 22 and a bolt action 4.10 Have you got a link for that hatchet saw SteveU?
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Camillus Camtrax hatchet-saw. $51.-81. USD. I think even USA made.
Just an ok hatchet. Pretty good saw that locks out. (could be back side knife ground)
Neatest feature is it has a very good secure slip over belt hook hanger on the sheath. And then with just hand sweeping downwards you can thumb un-pop the snap strap and the hatchet drops out from the bottom. Quick-quick with practice.
Light. Easy to in-field carry.
S.U.
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We just kept them in the truck, and tried to remember to lock it.
GC
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Usually it is better to laugh than cry. And never good to panic.
Comedy that mocks means you are still Free.
Because Despots; and strident Believers Groups have no rational balance of humor remaining. Insisting; then demanding that you and all must comply and accept their belief systems justifies their seizures of Power and dominance of Culture.
Steve Unruh
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Busy Santa in Sweden 
Also a Volvo power hint 
(last half of the video)
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Yesterday I went to Ontonagon to retrieve a 371 Detroit.
This morning I awaken to this dire warning 
I don’t understand why they use scare words for snow accumulations of 12" or less.
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I agree. 6 inches. a shoulder shrugger. A foot. Kind of annoying. We had 20 inches last week and that was no picnic but mostly because the ground underneath wasn’t frozen. It Melted down into a few inches over 3 warm days and now it’s coming back. Same forecast as yours. I used to kind of enjoy winter. That’s way in the rear view mirror now,
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