Those are nice outfits JO. They look expensive. In all but a few states in the US you are required to wear a certain amount of orange. They call it blaze orange. Deer don’t see the color but others in the woods are less likely to shoot you.
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I only watched the first few minutes (that was plenty 
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Tom, that was actually my first thought when I received the photo 
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What type of firearm is that in the photo? In Massachusetts we were only allowed to use shotguns with a deer slug cartridge for hunting deer.
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Yesterday i got the idea to start up my old crane-truck, i wanted to lift out an old snow blower from my junk pile. I thought it would be nice to get the old snowblower running again, if we get more cold white stuff.
After pumping/priming the injection pump, and pushing the cold start enrichment knob, i jumped the cab and push the pedal to the metal, and hit the starter button…nothing… not a “click”…
Ofcourse.
Something has drained the batteries, which are already old and bad.
The day before we had 24 hours of -10°c (14°f) and the batteries are frozen, not good for them. Im known to be a little careless, and not so little forgetful, i should have checked them and charged them earlier…
After searching for a while i found a small car space heater, to “defrost” them some. When putting in the plug the heater showered the batteries in blue and green sparks, and the magic smoke leaked out, then it blowed a main fuse.
I just put them on slow charging, will check today.
Aren’t winter-life wonderful, when everythings going your way
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I’m normally not real diligent about maintaining stuff around my place either Goran but the predictions for this winter; A lot of snow and another polar vortex with sub zero F temps got my ass in gear. Snow blower all tuned up and lubed, Home made plow on the half ton truck finally workable, generators all filled with new fuel and running. All the mountains of leafs cleared out of driving lanes. Now I just have to start splitting and stacking the wood pile. I’m hoping that all the effort will prove to be unnecessary. Now if I could just get the Dodge with the big plow working maybe I could find something fun to do.
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Thanks Göran! You just made me remember I have to go back outside to switch the charger to the next battery in line.
Martin, I know nothing about guns. I’ve tried out our daughter’s moose rifle at a range once. Apart from that I don’t remember firing a single shot since military duty almost 40 years ago.
I asked her about this particular gun. She says it’s a Merkel Drilling. Apparently it has three barrels, two for shotgun pellet cartridges and one for bullets. I didn’t know they existed.
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Ha! Ha! Here I will voice my own winter complaint:
No-no not the fact that I had to advance up to the BIG persuader to get the last April/May road salts rust stuck “summer” wheel off . . .
But the fact that this LaNina year is still too damn warm with days above 10C/50F.
I can’t wear yet my winter wools. Too warm and itchy.
And these expensive, super soft rubber Blizzaks will have accelerated tread wear. But the harder rubber Yokohoma’s are not gripping as well as I now need.
I did not mark the winter wheels, front to rear taking them off last April . . . trying to decide rotation installation.
S.U.
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Happy Thanksgiving to all in the States!
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Happy thanksgiving! It maybe American, but everyone can be thankful, God bless you all.
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May you all have a great Thanksgiving 
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Happy Thanksgiving! It is national save a Turkey Day! Prevent Turkeys from freezing and starvation in the winter! 
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Happy Thanksgiving everybody
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This farmer had 6 children and on thanksgiving they all argued on which ones would get the turkey legs, so he spent many years breeding turkeys with more legs. Finally he achieved a turkey with 6 legs. Someone then asked him if they tasted any good and he said he did not know because he could not catch any of them.
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The wild ones fly. You can’t catch those easily either. They scare the crap out of you if you walk up on them accidentally and scare them out of the tree.
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To say a turkey can fly is like saying I can swim. I can but only a short while and I’m out of breath. I scared a flock once and they took off toward a stand of trees. They flew so erratically and ungainly that I was sure I was going to find a few unconscious below the trees.
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I don’t know where all the wild ones went. I once had to stop on a county road while I counted 45 of them slowly making their way from one side to the other in no particular hurry. I used to go out and look in our trees at daylight and there would be big blobs sitting up in them who launch when they notice you. Not my favorite animal anyway and they like to spread around sticky greenish crap that the dogs liked to roll in. Had to use dish soap to get it out of their fir. They can definitely fly, Marty. They just prefer not to. I’ve seen them go through the stands of small ironwood we have and never run into one. Anyway I have seen one amble through our woods in a couple of years.
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I can’t contribute much, other than that I’ve visited Turkey twice. As far as I recall I’ve never tasted turkey. Over here we seem to prefer pig’s butts for Christmas and such.
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All inclusive JO? You too 
?
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