# Life goes on - Winter 2015
**URL:** http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2015/2016
**Category:** Off Topic
**Tags:** life
**Created:** [October 2, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2015/2016 "2015-10-02T22:35:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@SteveUnruh](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/SteveUnruh)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2015/2016/22 "2015-10-14T16:36:01Z")
Hey BrianHWA don’t sweat this all that much.
Below the two family agricultural on stand fuel(s) tanks been more than a few spills/overfills.
From your posts this was not much more than a gallon or so of Dino with lots of rain water.
Take a few years and then things will grow back. Gasoline seem to be worse than the diesel.
Beyond the scare tactic of, “It only take a teaspoon of diesel to contaminate 10,000 of potable water!!” the reality in actual soil the petro will coat the individual soil particles, sit in stasis and then, air, microbe, and time degrade.
Run into this in the future soak it up with set aside clothing rags. Let those air out some and then when enough rags added to no longer drip out solid waste discard into the for sure picked up garbage. You now a new age, green-responsible.
Here in Washington state all of the current land fills are clay and membrane lined to hold in status for at least 500 years. You have just “sequestered” those dirty, nasty bad dino hydrocarbons back into the ground where they came from.
IF you were hot, dry Washington east side then air dry out the rags and forces air clean burn them. This way will put the H’s and C’s into directly back into the atmosphere (where these simple elements originally came from) but now you not new-age green - just a 'gitter done Practical Responsible. Those atmos H’s and C’s will help more real Green bio-mass to grow.
Ha! Ha! Of course both of these ways are technically WA state and EPA Fed illegal. YOU Supposed to declare, register these cross contaminated hazards, Have then double container collected, serialized and chain-of-custody tracked back to a monitored hazardous waste disposal (where they burn) storage (were they bury) site.
Last cost I had on this 8 years ago was then $10.00 USD a gallon.
Ha! Lots of well paying career jobs with full benefits depending on you doing this the “legal” way.
Good example of how good intentions can make such complex, expensive systems that even responsible folk cannot afford to play their make their own jobs, with full befits and full retirements, send their own kid to a four year collage make-work games.
When the head/moral/good-intention gamers make it impossible to comply; call you the Sinner: only-able-to-be-saved-by-Them . . . . then OPT-OUT.
And Mumms the word then on.
S.U.
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### Author:  [@trikebuilder57](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/trikebuilder57)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 7:52pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2015/2016/23 "2015-10-14T19:52:59Z")
Hey Brian, remember it was once in the ground before some one pumped it out! Steve is right don’t sweat it. The first day I was in class for water treatment, and microbiology the professor said always remember ‘‘the solution to pollution is dilution’’
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### Author:  [@BrianHWA](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/BrianHWA)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2015/2016/24 "2015-10-14T20:05:19Z")
I might note that there’s a pretty big difference between “oil, under 1,000’s of feet of ground and rock” and “oil, poured on the ground 10’ feet from one of my berry bush patches.”
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### Author:  [@BrianHWA](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/BrianHWA)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2015, 3:39am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2015/2016/25 "2015-10-15T03:39:19Z")
I went to the Hadlock QFC for a few things and was entertained for about an hour watching a half-dozen employees/managers try futilely to get a “scissor lift” and then also a v6 2wd van unstuck from a patch of landscaping “lava” rocks.
Finally, after my 39th (or so) mention of “Are yous SURE you don’t want help? I have done this many times before on much worse conditions. That van is _not_ going to get that lift out of that hole.” they finally said “sure, give it a shot”. I nudged the van out of the rocks. 2 minutes of rigging the chains to my truck and 15 seconds of pulling later the lift was on the concrete sidewalk again.
“I really don’t mean to be TOO much of a dick… But ‘I told yous so’ that the van wouldn’t work and that a 4x4 truck would have it out in no time.”
They were in good spirits the whole time, so it really made my day, in a slightly sadistic manner.
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### Author:  [@wolfman\_barrup](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/wolfman_barrup)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2015/2016/26 "2015-10-17T21:26:07Z")
As much as I dislike it we had our first snow fall today on the VT / Canadian boarder. Enough of a dusting to be visible in places, and probably more in higher elevations.
WM
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### Author:  [@BrianHWA](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/BrianHWA)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2015, 4:50am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2015/2016/27 "2015-10-18T04:50:57Z")
It was 73F (22.8C) today here in NW Washington State… That was a “fairly warm July day” when I was growing up, and I’m only 30.
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### Author:  [@BrianHWA](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/BrianHWA)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2015, 5:35am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2015/2016/28 "2015-10-18T05:35:00Z")
So I just became the owner of a 93 Dakota 4x4 Extended Cab with a 318. It’s not a pretty truck, by any means, but it seems solid. It also has less than 1/2 the miles as my current 95 Chevy K1500/350: 126k vs 292k. A PPI didn’t show any surprises and the found concerns were minor/cosmetic (EG only light surface rust on the rear frame from it being used to haul a boat in and out of salt water).
I’ll google later, but is there an easy way to calibrate the speedometer for over-sized tires?
Pictures and more words come light and awakening,
Obviously, a gasifier is the end-game, but not in the current cards due to too much stuff on my plate otherwise.
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### Author:  [@TomC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/TomC)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2015/2016/29 "2015-10-18T15:55:17Z")
I’m not a Dodge man. But on my Chev I have speedometer problems and I anticipate changing gear differentials, both affecting my speedo reading. On my Chev in-between the transmit ion sending unit and the speedo, in the electrical lines is a separate computer that adjusts the speedo reading for the different gear ration of rear ends. On mine it is behind of the glove box in the dash. I believe from the factory you can only get computers for the various rear ends, and tires that come on the truck. I believe in off the road magazines, there might be some dash pot that can be added to vary the signal for various tire sizes. TomC
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### Author:  [@BrianHWA](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/BrianHWA)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2015, 12:02am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2015/2016/30 "2015-10-19T00:02:22Z")
Less than 16 hours after I took possession of the Dakota, my partner’s tweaker (meth addict) neighbor backed his van in the driver’s door and smashed the mirror. To his credit, he came right over to try to make it right.
Of course, his wife lied to the Sheriff and took the fall for it since she doesn’t have a previous record (He’s ‘well known’ among local law enforcement). She then had the “balls”/lack-of-brains to ACCUSE THE OFFICER OF LYING about standing next to the dude when he filled out the statement, which he was.
[https://goo.gl/YFKcZS](https://goo.gl/YFKcZS)
[https://goo.gl/Ptm1mT](https://goo.gl/Ptm1mT)
[https://goo.gl/6yBYH4](https://goo.gl/6yBYH4)
@Chris Still having same issues uploading pictures (stuck at 100% indefinitely) 2.71 to 2.96 MB each. Even on my partner’s true highspeed internet (55/10mbps).
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### Author:  [@JO\_Olsson](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/JO_Olsson)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2015, 8:37am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2015/2016/31 "2015-10-19T08:37:05Z")
Oh nooo! Bad luck!
It seems that whenever one gets hold of good looking - shit happens 😞
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### Author:  [@Wayne](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Wayne)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2015, 12:29pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2015/2016/32 "2015-10-19T12:29:09Z")
Good morning Brian.
I know it wouldn’t make you feel any better but two weeks after I bought my 99 dakota someone at my sons ballgame backed into the drives door. Witnesses said the lady drove off with lights off so her tag number couldn’t be read.
Thousand bucks down the drain 😢
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### Author:  [@TomC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/TomC)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2015, 8:46pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2015/2016/33 "2015-10-20T20:46:23Z")
Brian; As I said I’m not a Dodge man but maybe this Chev information will give you an idea what to look for in the Dodge speedometer;
[http://www.tbichips.com/drac/#pics](http://www.tbichips.com/drac/#pics)
TomC
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### Author:  [@Chris](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Chris)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2015/2016/34 "2015-10-21T15:57:56Z")
No flying cars or hoverboards… but we do have vehicles that run on trash!
Happy Back To the Future Day…
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hDK9QdK2ok)
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### Author:  [@BrianHWA](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/BrianHWA)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 5:42pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2015/2016/35 "2015-10-21T17:42:59Z")
The Past and the Future collide, only the Past remains.
“He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.” - George Orwell
“He who controls the past commands the future, He who commands the future, conquers the past.”
- Kane
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### Author:  [@paulstowing](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/paulstowing)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 10:12pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2015/2016/36 "2015-10-21T22:12:11Z")
 for the tractor guys I just picked this little jem up already had it in the woods .I should of taken pictures before I even took it off the truck . 
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### Author:  [@BrianHWA](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/BrianHWA)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2015, 7:44am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2015/2016/37 "2015-10-22T07:44:18Z")
Anyone know how to un-curse a truck? On the way to get a door repair quote, an oncoming dump truck threw a fist-sized rock at my windshield. Luckily, it sounds like the company’s insurance will pay for it.
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### Author:  [@wobigtd](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/wobigtd)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2015, 12:51pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2015/2016/38 "2015-10-22T12:51:57Z")
Watch out these spells always come in threes
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### Author:  [@Chris](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Chris)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2015, 10:59pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2015/2016/39 "2015-10-22T22:59:34Z")
The local movie theater had a $1 ticket promo. So I’m gonna see “The Martian.”
Most of the other folks spent at least $1 getting to the theater… Not me.
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### Author:  [@paulstowing](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/paulstowing)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2015/2016/40 "2015-10-22T23:46:58Z")
brian I think you have a black cloud following sorry but I hope it don’t come this way .the other day I was just thinking the season is winding down and I didn’t burn nothing down blow anything up hope I didn’t talk to soon.
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### Author:  [@kmrland](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/kmrland)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2015, 3:18am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-winter-2015/2016/41 "2015-10-23T03:18:02Z")
If there is a way an acicident can happen it will ,realizing that it is not all ways easy too stay farther behind trucks. They really should pay for the window though,At least it wasent a deer thrashing through the windsheild.Good luck.
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