1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

My mother left me for two hours alone at the community pool since she didn’t do a proper head count when everyone jumped in the station wagon to go home.

I was 8 at the time. Scarred for life.







j/k it only bothered me for a week.

 

That’s why you make a big block powered rotary/screw splitter!
https://youtu.be/Vj8A6gUN-iw

 

Impressive but OSHA would fail that in a heartbeat without an emergency cutoff switch to prevent accidental human body mangling.

 

Ah yes, the 'ol reacharaound!

I was impressed by how much and how widely broadcast my valve cover leaks were. It pretty much coated the entire bottom of the engine and skid. If it was heavy oil in the diff, I'd think one wipe and sniff would tell you clearly it's that. Motor oil, maybe not so much.

He was busting up some pretty big stuff after I took down an ornamental pear for him end of last year. Basically for something wide like that, You'd split one side, then flip over and hit the other. If it's still too much, you can finish with a maul.

Edit: Found a pic. Dad still puts me to work any time I visit. I'm no spring chicken, but the shaved head helps hide it. Pops is too old to be doing a lot of this shit.

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All’s well that ends well… including the split.

I mean, looking back

Yet, here it is again.

 

What could go wrong?!!

 

Saved that pic, Homie!

 

we gonna meme him?

 

https://youtu.be/67gig0f4HLo

 

I was wondering whatever happened to Fred Durst.

 

Those logs that have been kicking my ass broke a harbor freight 10 ton hydraulic splitter. I didnt hear what broke on it, but im not surprised.

 

@shifty` for some reason I expected you to look more like The Dude.

 

@shifty` is actually hot surfer Matt Mohagen.

https://youtu.be/QafDDbNkn1k

 

That looks like 1.5 shiftys to me. At least width-wise. Shifty is like 120 lbs?

 

I hereby nominate Veterans Day as log splitting day.

 

FOUND THE PROBLEM, BOSS! (I know, dry wood is a bitch to split, but it is HF so ...)

Yeah, naw. That's a weird angle so I look like Jabba the Hutt. It's surprisingly hard to take selfies with a chainsaw.

If you saw me in the wild, this is probably more what it'd look like, it's unusual to catch me without a hat on.

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And @alb1k on the topic of waves, this is probably the state you'll catch me in, especially if I'm not fishing.

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180-185 normally and a in the low 6's heightwise. Actually I'm not far off from that Matt dude, physique-wise. I just drink a lil more beer. And I don't surf anymore.

 

Damn I guess I need to find a beer with less calories, or maybe drink less……

 

I guess I was expecting someone that looked a little more, oh I don't know, Shifty??

 

Maybe lose the smile, put on a skull cap and pose holding a cordless sawzall, yeah, that would do it.

 

Yeah doesn’t look anything like his avatar, I was expecting Asian based on that, or wildling

 

Drinking less helps, it's empty calories.

I was up at 225-235 at one point in my life, not long after I left my last BOH restaurant job to work in the tech industry, where I was given all the soft drinks in the world I wanted, and you could catch me hitting MickeyD's to cash in on the $1 double cheeseburger deals, where I'd pick up several for lunch. I'd never really had money before, so there was an unfortunately fattening novelty to being able to buy and eat 3-4 double cheeseburgers each time instead of getting just one, or two on a special day. When I realized I had a double chin I had to cut back.

I'm lucky. No athletes in my immediate family, but definitely athletic genes so I don't tend to hold weight, except beer gut. Just taking the soft drinks out of my diet and I lost about 25lbs in 6 months. They say one soda is equivalent to eating 6 glazed donnuts. If I cut out beer, bourbon, and mezcal from my life, I could probably get into the 170s again.

 

That’s what I’ve been doing since Dude Ranch. I’ll be @shifty` size by Christmas, lol.

 

Maybe that's why PHM hates me so much. He's Laird. I'm Matt. Guess we'll hafta fight to the death.

 

He "hates" you, because you have usurped him on here as one of the go to guys for solid advice. He's jelly.

 

If true, that's just weird to me. I'm only here pitching in, just like everyone else. The more the merrier on that one. Strength in numbers and all.

 

Just don’t loose the muscle, who knows when we will need a lug broken free!