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  1. I guess I'm not communicating my point clearly. The actual data point being debated is pointless, as I do not feel the source is trustworthy.
    4 points
  2. Where there's a will there's a way... when you have a dire need. Link below, but in summary a 10 lane bridge (I-35W St. Anthony Falls Bridge) crossing the Mississippi River up in Minnesota was constructed in less than a year due to the collapse of the old bridge. Bridge construction started 10/30/07 Bridge opened 9/18/08 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Saint_Anthony_Falls_Bridge#:~:text=Minneapolis%2C Minnesota%2C U.S.&text=The I-35W Saint Anthony,collapsed on August 1%2C 2007.
    3 points
  3. Squirrel gravy and biscuits ain't half bad actually.
    3 points
  4. We’ve been there since.....oh let’s see.....January 20th.
    3 points
  5. Time to move some more guns that I never shoot. Bought this several years ago and it has never been out of the safe. It is a 3rd Gen SAA in shiny nickel. Has nice wood and a 7.5" barrel. It comes with the original box. It has been shot, not by me, but very little. There are a few very minor handling marks but overall this is in fantastic shape. These are going for 2K+ on Gunbroker but I would rather sell it local. $1800
    2 points
  6. Time to move some more guns that I never shoot. Bought this several years ago and it has never been out of the safe. It is a 3rd Gen SAA with beautiful blueing and color case hardening. Has nice stag grips and a 7.5" barrel. It has been shot, not by me, but very little. There are a few very minor handling marks but overall this is in fantastic shape. These are going for 2K on Gunbroker but I would rather sell it local. $1700
    2 points
  7. I have reached Old Fart status for sure. I bought me a Red Ryder Adult version bb bun. 250 FPS low velocity is what I wanted to keep the squirrels off of the bird feeders without killing them. Body shots only you see. The birds love me though!! As soon as I clear out the squirrels, they come right back and start eating. Squirrels on the ground are ok, but when they run the birds off and gorge on the feeders they get busted in the butt!
    2 points
  8. Ya are seein it right ken... The joint is bolted. This bridge is fairly " new " by big bridge standards. Fabricated by Bethlehem Steel Corp in the late sixties and early seventies. They may also have erected it as well, as they did that sort of work too. This bridge is what is known as a " tied arch " design, and the fractured member is like a bowstring that keeps the arch from straightening out and falling. The connection ya see appears ta be the main one at the end of the arch. There is a complete fracture to the right of the connection. Im guessin its 12 inches to 24 inches away from the joint. Im guessin a fatigue fracture brought on by cyclic loading that started at a notch or inclusion somewhere in the plate. This is, indeed, bad because the fractured member holds the arch above it in tension. If its broken, the loads are migrating thru the bridge floor beams and the deck slab, and that aint good. Thats why they are wringing their hands and keepin traffic off the bridge. Concrete aint good in tension, and the floor beam system aint supposed ta carry this load. If the deck breaks or a floor beam turns loose, they know the arch and bridge is headed for the drink. My guess is that they dont want ta take any chances with an errant tow bumping a pier anywhere until they get this bottom chord ( ... the beam with the fracture .. ) stabilized some way. Watch for em to weld xtra coverplates or rig some big iron some way to carry these loads in the next while. I spent some time designin and doin some of this when i had to work for a livin... Believe me, the TDOT and the ARKDOT is scared ta death right now... structural engineerin leroy
    2 points
  9. I have to admit, it's been a long time since I gnawed on a tree rat.
    2 points
  10. I believe most of us have felt that way for a very long time.
    2 points
  11. One of my flaws... I'll eat a tree rat. If they're just being tree rats, I'm happy to have them around. If they're tearing things up, it's skillet time.
    2 points
  12. I think it took them about 6 years originally. Today, with requisite environmental studies and all the other regulatory hassles, it would be a miracle if they could beat their old time, even with modern advances in technology and engineering ...
    2 points
  13. Are crooks stealing your gas? Here’s a very inexpensive and readily available fix for that.
    2 points
  14. Yeah, that timeline was off to me as well. 3-5 years seems more accurate to me.
    2 points
  15. No one could build a bridge across the Mississippi in a year I assure you. I expect there will be a manufacturing flaw discovered in that one particular beam, and it will be replaced quickly.
    2 points
  16. Been several months since we installed our driveway alarm. Turns out we really like it. Took a while to get accustomed to the chime, but it has turned out to be a real asset. Our dog has even learned to go look out when it goes off. The chime is loud enough to wake us up at night. It goes off every time someone comes into the drive. I located the magnetic sensor in the middle of the driveway and the wireless transmitter in a tree beside the drive. Painted the transmitter box grey to match the tree trunks. There are trees and a fence keeps people on the drive until they get past it. After an uninvited guest, that was ransacking unlocked vehicles in driveways around here, just 2 nights before Christmas this year, we got the alarm. It just went off and the Mail Man just brought a package, and put it in our package box up close to our house. Our drive is 325' long. The magnetic sensor is about 35' up the drive. By the way I think we caught a Porch Pirate, a couple months ago, as he entered just after the Fed X dropped a package of medicine on our front porch then exited the drive. I went out and he was startled, then he stammered around and asked who lived here, which was a ruse, IMO. We have never had that to happen in 35 years that we lived here. There are advantages and disadvantages, but we are well satisfied with our alarm. Cost me 245.00 from Amazon.
    1 point
  17. I don’t know. To me that looks like the the edge of the plate that is riveted. It’s not a real clear photo.
    1 point
  18. The corn and beans are popping up nicely.
    1 point
  19. Me too. I think they know better
    1 point
  20. That additional $30k could max a 401(k) at $19.5k, an HSA at $3.6k ($7.2k for family), and have money leftover. Wonder how many who get the opportunity to take it would be thinking like that.
    1 point
  21. Squirrel dumplings was always my favorite.
    1 point
  22. I wonder what most of those people were already making. $30,000 is a lot of money for me but I bet it isn't for a lot of Microsoft and Google workers. I've been working from home since last March and I'm really dreading going back but if they offered me $30,000 I'd gladly take it.
    1 point
  23. My step daughter is! We can’t wait!
    1 point
  24. Most of my Nashville employees want to keep working from home. Offering them $30K to come back to the office would probably change some of their minds though. Not sure why a company would want to do that though. Our office has been closed for over a year now with no productivity declines. We are going to stay a work from home company. We are actually in the process of finding new, much smaller office space. It will just be used for occasional meetings and company get togethers. It will not be used day to day. We do not have a lot of office space and this is going to save me $250,000 per year in rent. When we started looking for new space in Brentwood we realized that there is a lot of unoccupied commercial space out there right now.
    1 point
  25. Not really comparing apples to apples. The Mississippi river is much wider at Memphis then it is in Minneapolis. The Memphis bridge is about 6.5 times the length of the Saint Anthony Falls bridge.
    1 point
  26. At least most of those go to true Americans that paid for it during their working years. You dems always go straight to those 3 items the first two that are vital to millions of elderly Americans very survival and the last that defends a freak’n NATION in the most perilous times in years with the entire world against us. Yet you and your leaders are all good with billions of foreign aid to countries that hate us Russia and china included, giving illegals free everything, disarming law abiding citizens and even the right to self defense in a most violent time in our country, yet support ANTIFA the BLM and so much more. The list is very long. Sick twisted Bull S—- that what it is. Pisses me off. I’m sure another dem moderator will delete this because it’s the freak’n truth and that don’t sit well with them.
    1 point
  27. Wouldn't even come close. When you really look at where our money is going you realize how screwed we are. They are never going to cut SS, Medicare or Defense and that's where most of it goes.
    1 point
  28. 40+ SQUIRREL RECIPES FOR SMALL GAME HUNTERS https://practicalselfreliance.com/squirrel-recipes/
    1 point
  29. With all the BS calls to 911 these days and "swatting" I'm shocked the 911 operator didn't just say UH OK THEN and hang up lol.
    1 point
  30. Free bump for a superb billet upper/lower assembly.
    1 point
  31. Working with a fellow at the moment right now who used to be part of the Mexican Marines. Shared many stories of the rendition flights he helped transfer 'packages' for the CIA. ITS NOT WATERBOARDING IF YOU USE DIESEL! The very same people are insisting the entire global population inject themselves with a novel concoction they say is a vaccine, or else 3 out of 10,000 of them MIGHT die. I'm truly astounded at people. It makes me side with the de-populationists. Too many uselsss breathers.
    1 point
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  33. I don't think that hog ever heard the advise of don't play dead if a black bear is mauling you. Fight back!
    1 point
  34. Looking for a 9mm. Nothing too big, close in size to a glock 19 (for example a 17 is WAY too big for my hands). That being said, would actually like a gen 4 19. A taurus G3 would be cool too (i know what a lot of you think about taurus, but they do make some really good guns). Or anything similar in size to them.
    1 point
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  36. And that cool factor is why I forked out $225 dollars OTD. Seems like an old Egyptian Enfield.
    1 point
  37. Can't we just reroute the Mississippi around the other side of Memphis and call it good.
    1 point
  38. Thanks for the comments guys. I think I will sit on most of this stuff for a while. I've got plenty of ammo on hand and having components will give more flexibility to future needs as I may choose to change bullet weights, powder charges or something for a particular caliber. Never really know what tomorrow may bring?
    1 point
  39. Do It! Then you can say..."I'm shooting up my kid's inheritance!" LOL!
    1 point
  40. RIO GRANDE, 1950 John Wayne and his son Patrick
    1 point
  41. I wish I hadn't said it in posts before, but I believe the bridges over the Mississippi are one of the biggest vulnerabilities.
    1 point
  42. Ouch! It seems Ayn Rand’ “Atlas Shrugged” is coming to fruition.
    1 point
  43. Grayfox I don't know how old you are, but I am in similar circumstances. I have several loaded rounds, but I got to thinking that at some point my mind or body may not be up to loading good safe rounds. So I think I am going to fill up every piece of brass I have while I am able. I should run out of primers by the time I get most of the brass filled. The kids and grandkids all shoot, so it won't go to waste. But I am onery enough to stay around and shoot all of it.
    1 point
  44. They won’t be back online until the weekend at the earliest. So, it’s worth getting gas sooner rather than later. There are a lot of resources being marshaled because of the critically - but this stuff takes time. We’re dealing with sophisticated attackers these days. We’ve seen them recon networks from the inside for months. We’ve seen backups infected and deleted. With SCADA access, it’s possible to cause actual physical damage. This is the real deal - and likely the tip of a larger iceberg. It’s the kind of stuff that leads to kinetic responses.
    1 point
  45. No change. Buy when cheap and stack it deep. That gets you through the lean times.
    1 point
  46. When we first moved down here to Nashville they had a great Cicada invasion. There were Asians scooping them up to take home and cook.
    1 point
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