Hahaha, there is no replacing him. Let me just remind you amongst other things that he managed to get a company to withdraw his lifetime warranty 
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Explain please, this sounds like a nice story.
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Since we are into the winter thread, my weekend hike involved some winter weather
3800ā of elevation climb in 2.5 miles and then climbed to the peak above to make it a nice round 4000ā elevation hike. I of course had to roll a rock off the cliff
Men are simple creatures, with @PNW_Guerrilla
Enjoyed some fresh spring water right out the side of the mountain, what a treat!
Fresh mountain spring water is delightful #gooutside
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Joep, I was waiting for Johan to chime in, but he must have taken a rest
Long story short: This co-worker of ours bought brand new trailer, with hydraulic crane and winch, for his tractor. The company selling it promised life-long warranty to all their customers.
Unfortunately this guy had a few mishaps with his trailer last couple years, utilized the warranty quite a few times and now the company doesnāt offer warranty on its products no more - to anyone. We pick on him itās his fault 
Whatās even more funny is he is always very open about his mishaps - calls himself an idiot. Last thing he told us was he flattened his chainsaw way beyond repair - running over it with the tractor
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Bos, bigger boss. He may have done even more stupid things then me.
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If this is going to be a contest no point in anyone else entering. No way to beat me. You would have to top burning up 30 years accumulation of tools and equipment, mostly irreplaceable.
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Sorry @Pelletpower I only had time for a few very short visits here the last few days, always thinking Iāll write it soon but well, now J-O beat me to it
No worries, as long as it got told. I also remember him checking the fuel level in his quad and the fuel gushed out, drenching him in fuel. Luckily he didnāt have a cigarette in the corner of his mouth then.
Or the time he was going to burn up an anthill (donāt remember the reason), pouring gasoline on it but when he lit the fuel the whole anthill blew up, spreading it wide and far and him running around scratching everywhere since he also got covered in ants
Amazing all the stuff that can and does happen to one man.
@tcholton717 Sorry Tom. That is a hard blow to the groin. 
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He is not the only one to explode an anthill with gasoline I promise you. Ask me how I know
Diesel is a safer option for ant extermination
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Is there some reason to burn anthills, what am I missing? I donāt think I ever encountered an anthill that I felt āThis needs to burnā. Not even fire ants.
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If you have ever encountered red or fire ants you would like to get rid of them. Our big wood ants can destroy a wood pile of lumber quickly too.
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Just pouring gasoline on the ant hill has worked or meānot necessary to ignite it. Although a friend did that and the next thing she knew, they were in her house.
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The fire ants here will build 6ā tall mounds and any animal that gets near it they latch on and itās terrible. Tear up chickens cats dogs they caused quite the problem around me
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I did some quick research online just now and it seems that the european red / fire ant is nowhere near as bad as the ones you guys have but they found those in southern europe now as well, hopefully they keep them at bay there. Totally understandable to take drastic measures to get rid of them.
I thought first that being the first one of all my family and relatives to have a dog (three and a half years now) that I just have been blissfully unaware and noone had happened to talk to me about it.
My only encounters to even come close to fire ants have then been the common red piss ant
The wood ants though is another story, we do have those but perhaps there is different kinds of those too.
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Have anyone ever tried 2 sticks of dynamite in an anthill?.. 
Ants everywhereā¦
About anthills, i donāt think iāve encountered an anthill Without thinking: this needs to burn, or explode, or get ran over, or atleast i need to pee on itā¦
Well, i love every animal, but antsā¦noā¦ they are to much of a fighting armyā¦
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I saw a statistic that said only 15 per cent of Swedes are dog owners. I think thatās sad. If I have to account for myself when Iām dead Iām going to say āDogs like meā Ants are not a problem here. Carpenter ants eating old wood but no fire ants I know of. Pretty happy about that.
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Only 15%, I guess people donāt know what they are missing. I know I didnāt
Not just dogs Tom. 
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Yeah.
I quote, " God made dogs to teach us to be better humans."
Is said not-true that you can judge a person by if the dog likes or mistrusts them. Not-true because dogs can develop fears and phobias too.
I DO apply though a personal judgement about people who hate dogs or especially are dog abusive. They earn special treatment from me.
Dog fearful people are just sad and lacking.
Missing all of that warmth and companionship. Missing the opportunity to grow in personal understandings and patience.
Ha! Ha! The old rockān roll song of getting out of bed to go pee and someones taking my place.
S.U.
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That is very true, this fellow is resting next to me now.
On another note I made a sawmill video for you guys today but the tube wouldnāt let me publish it and when I looked through it Iām ok with that it didnāt. A third into the movie I turned the phone sideways to make a wider view but the phone or the app or whatever thing didnāt understand that so the rest of the movie I was sawing vertically 
, I thought phones were intelligent being called smartphone and all that.
Plus I didnāt place the phone far away enough to capture the movie width I wanted either so all in all my time would have been better spent on the throne and the product would have been the same.
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No ants in your neighbourhood. Good for you 
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