1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

Butt dyno was right

 

I found a crime scene this morning. Those turtles never had a chance. I wonder what found them.

 

Probably a raccoon but possibly a skunk or fox.

 

It’s got turn downs right after the muffler. I might swap the resonator for something quieter like a vibrant but who knows. The drone isn’t terrible but I think my problem is the beadlocks and stock gears LOL

 

Cracks in coil pack bodies are a red herring. In the boots, maybe. In the body, never.
The symptoms sound more like battery/bad cable/bad terminal connection to me.

Social media is a scourge. The only thing worse is people who trust AI results Google offers you, which is wrong 1/3 of the time for me, if not more.

 

Wholeheartedly agree
TGIF !

 

I need to paint the outside of my house and I'm wondering if you guys have suggestions on what to rent. The side of my house is at least 25' tall and it's on a steep hill. I wouldn't trust a ladder. Not trying to break my neck.

I can't find any scaffolding to rent that's tall enough. I was wondering if a boom lift is the safest way to do this. Only problem is getting the lift up and down my hill. It's grass covered.

 

That looks like a disaster waiting to happen. What about scaffolding?

 

Pay the extra for a 4x4 boom lift. Those towable lifts sway and bounce like a mf. You cant ever get them placed where you want them either.

Couple of 10' extensions on the airless paint gun would work too, but you'd still have to get up there for prep/masking.

 

Still trying to figure out how to run the fuel pump somewhere in the fuse box to drain the tank. Put voltage to all wires individually where the fuel pump relay goes and got nothing.

 

I figured you’d get a chuckle from that. ChatGPT does a great job at enhancing blurry pics…

 

Why would it be a disaster? I mentioned scaffolding in my post.

 

You can't find scaffolding for rent that's stackable? My dad has stuff like this stackable and we used to stack 4-5 of them to pick my grandpa's avocado trees.

 

What sort of safeguard does that lift provide that you won’t extend the arm too far and have it fall over? Seems kind of sketchy to me. Especially if the wind suddenly picks up.

 

Do something extra sketchy.

 

Build your own scaffolding out of bamboo

 

I completely forgot about my bamboo collection I keep on hand for things like this.

 

just plant some in a wet corner of your property and you’ll have plenty in no time

 

And never get rid of it.

Fuck I hate people who plant running bamboo. I've seen it completely overtake parks, rivers, etc. All because some stupid asshole wanted a bamboo "screen" or thought it looked cool, or wanted free cane for fishing poles or wind chimes, or whatever.

My buddy John lost his backyard to a neighbor who did exactly that. Started with a couple $15 clumps of bamboo from Home Despot, he wanted it next to their pool for a more resort/retreat appeal.

They have a creek through their collective backyards. It took no time to find its way down there, and at this point, 16 years after buying his house, they have lost 80% of their backyard (He put a concrete footer in the ground to stop it from taking the rest), the bamboo has jumped the creek and kepts going, and if you look from Google Maps satellite view in the winter, the bamboo covers about 1/8 square mile radius from that pool, growing away from the house. It's gone so far now that it'd be impossible to kill. If you leave so much as a tiny piece of root/rhizome, it'll regrow.

Pro tip: Don't plant bamboo. If you do, make sure it's a "clumping" variety, not a "running" variety. It should be illegal to sell in the US.

 

Locutus!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvNn_vJy0BM​

 

I thought it was a cicaita

 

It is, but every time I see one I think of Locutus of Borg. I dunno why.

 

Preach! I've complained about these people for years. My wife is tired of hearing about it. It's so invasive!

 

I think you mean sustainable...

 

Out here people make pretty cool privacy walls out of ocotillo stocks/clippings

 

wait, so you COULD make bamboo scaffolding? Effin’ winning!