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Do to recent life changes I'm looking for a new place to live.  I'm thinking that for the time being I may be best off to purchase a camper.  I have a possible site on the west side of Knoxville where I may be able to plant a camper.  The only problem is what to do with he sewage?  I hate to think about having to move the entire unit to a dumping station every week or two.  Are there services that will come out and pump my tank?  Maybe I can go to a local campground and empty when full?  Obviously it would be easiest to not move the camper.  Just trying to figure out if this is a realistic option for me right now? 

I've worked in a lot of different environments.  Currently my employer treats me very well and pays me well.  In return I go out of my way to make him happy.  Never felt the need to do that for crappy pay at a big cooperation that didn't appreciate me.

  I wouldn't worry too much about shooting around animals so long as they are safely out of the way.  Most of the time they will get used to it.  Of course I'd set my range up as far away from the animals as possible.

  $31 a month to be getting better service than Comcast and not giving them my business?  Sign me up.  Besides, the way Comcast is your bill could be $39 this month and $89 next month with no explanation

I'd like to see commentary on any kind of gun legislation either on the local or national level, or really commentary on any gun related news.

Just said a little prayer for you, best of luck!

Rob those pictures are just impressive.  You have inspired me to at the least look into building my own bow, I think that it would be very satisfying to take a deer with something that I made myself. 

Another, cruder method that I've used to break beads...   Get a 2x6 that's say 6 feet long or better and a 2x4 that's about 2 feet shorter.  Put them even with each other and put 1 3" nail at the end to kind of loosely hold them together.  Lay your wheel on the 2x6 and rest the 2x4 right on the bead.  get in your car and drive up the "ramp."  It's crude but this was the first method I used to successfully break beads and it worked.     I have also used a dirtbike with a kickstand.  Just put the edge of the kickstand against the bead and pull the bike down on it with as much force as possible.  This will only work well with bikes that have a lot of ground clearance, otherwise the motorcycle will be apt to fall down in the opposite direction.  I've also found that if the bead wont break putting a very small amount of air in the tire and putting the valve stem back in will sometimes do the trick.  That's my experience with tubed tires anyway, don't see that it would help much on a tubeless set up.

That looks like fun!

I know a guy here in East Tennessee that does custom builds out of old junkers.  It's side work for him.  I'll see if he's interested in taking on another project.  I will vouch that his work is top notch. 

I don't always do things that are stupid and illegal but when I do I make sure to film it and hand a copy over to the authorities.

ATV tires are pretty easy since they have such a big soft sidewall.  Buy yourself some tire spoons.  You can get a good set for $30 and they are well worth the money.  I started changing my own tires on my motorcycles years ago, had a shop that would do it for $15 a wheel off the bike, they doubled their prices and I bought a set of spoons for $30 and have been doing it myself every since.  I buy most of my tires online, seems that the prices fluctuate often so I check all the retailers that I normally do business with and Amazon.   As far as breaking the bead I have a couple of things I've rednecked up that work well.  The best is a scissor type car jack.  I prop the wheel up on some 2x4 scraps under the bumper of my truck, set the jack on the edge of the tire right at the rim and extend the jack, I chuck it into my cordless drill to make it faster.  Don't even try to mount tires that aren't warm, you can set them out on a sunny day, lay them on top of a warm engine and shut the hood for about 20 minutes, I've even put them in the oven at 180 degrees for 10 minutes.  Once you start to mount them up use lots of lube, I use dish soap.  I have a tradition of throwing the old tire as far away from my work area as possible because it really sucks to not be paying attention and put your old tire back on.   It will be a pain in the butt the first couple of times that you do it but once you get it figured out it's a piece of cake.

Zannies

I use the Scanner Radio app.  You can listen to about anything you want on it.  I listened to the Ferguson riots on it.  IMO it has made $100 scanners obsolete.  Living close to Highway 129 I have flipped it on when I hear sirens to listen to what tourist moron has crashed out on the Dragon many times.

I'm a bacon operator...

I can see the usefulness of Facebook, the problem is some people have no discretion about what they post for the world to see.  I have to say that it is kind of funny watching these idiots get themselves into trouble.  A friend of mine had an employee who he was friends with on Facebook, she called in sick for three days and posted pictures of herself partying it up at the beach the whole time.  Surprisingly she was shocked when she didn't have a job upon her return.

That is a good looking Blazer you have there.  I had an either '87 or '88 can't remember but it had a 350 with the TBI.  I remember that there was only one year that came in that combo.  I hate that I let it go for $1K, just needed a paint job and would have been a really nice piece. Heck of a truck.

Best of luck!

This is one of my pet peeves.  I think it's a compensation thing, usually come with an excuse like "I want to make sure I make a clean kill."  These Fudds think that shooting a 60 pound deer with a .338 Lapua makes more sense than knowing their rifle and knowing how to place their shot.  They also seem to be the same ones that throw a 30 round mag in their AR (usually with FMJs) and hunt deer.  I tried to mentor a new hunter this year who was hunting with a .300 WIN MAG, he couldn't understand why I killed so many more deer than him and I was only shooting a .270 (he shot none, surprise, huh?  I will not be taking him next year)  Of the new fad of economy rifles I've only handled the Ruger American and the Remington 770, I was actually pretty impressed with the Ruger, but the 770 felt like cheap junk to me, the action was horrible and the fit and finish of the gun just sucked.  That said the 770 is probably fine for an entry level Tennessee deer rifle, though I wouldn't hunt with one unless I had to.  It's certainly not what I would be wanting to take long range shots with.

Foster getting shot in self defense probably wouldn't help our cause at all but I sure wouldn't mind if the outcome of this resulted in him spitting some teeth out.

Didn't mean to be confusing.  The current battery is the only one that has been in the truck since I've owned it.  The other problem batteries that I was referring to were in different vehicles.  My best guess is that I have an intermittent interruption in the charging system and as a result the current battery has been sucked dry too many times and is not holding a good charge. 

I seem to have the worst luck with car batteries. I bought this truck about a year ago used and the battery has failed me several times. I have not had it checked out but it acts as if it had a very deep discharge at some point. It will be fine for weeks. All of the sudden it won't start. For example today I went into the gas station and stayed out in the truck talking on the phone for a few minutes before going inside when I came back out the truck would not start. I have bought several batteries from Batteries Plus with very poor results one was replaced within 3 months and considered defective another battery would not hold a charge and they would not admit that it was defective still another battery went bad on me 13 months after I got it and they would not replace it. I certainly do not want to do business with them. I really would not mind having to spend a little bit more money to get a good quality battery that will last a while and I will not have to worry about letting me down for a while but it seems like every brand I try is junk. I was just going for an Optima because I thought that they were the best bullet proof battery out there but after reading reviews on Amazon which has them priced quite well I am getting mixed stories. Does anybody have any certain brands of batteries that they like in particular? I'm kind of confused but I need do need to go ahead and buy a battery right now.

Good beef and medium well don't belong in the same post.

I was a good kid coming up.  Most all of my friends were good kids.  I firmly believe that you can take the most responsible, mature, well behaved kid and stick him behind the wheel of an automobile and he is going to do really stupid things for at least a year.  It's all about testing the limits of a vehicle, just curiosity.  I remember one kid I went t high school with that had been racing cars since he was big enough to sit in a go kart, he was the exception. Acting a fool in a street car meant nothing to someone who had flogged a racecar in a controlled environment.    Just for fun here's a partial list of the inappropriate things that I did, and I was one of the "good" kids. -drag racing. -jumped my truck -drove a two wheel drive truck up a big steep dirt pile, it's a miracle it didn't flip. -turned construction barrels into slalom cones. -hit the construction barrels to see how far they would go.  -donuts -burnouts -knew the top speed of every vehicle that I could get my hands on.   These activities did come with consequences.  There were crashes, thank God there were never any substantial injuries to anyone else or myself.  And yes, the stupidity went up when there were more passengers in the car.  BTW, I was forbidden to carry passengers.    Teenagers come equipped with a certain amount of stupidity.  A teen can have the ability to be a great driver, they just always have a tendency to make bad choices when they think they can get away with it.  Truth is there are just as many bad drivers on the road at any age, the public's driving skills just downright suck!

I too have noticed this.  Used to you just went and bought a bulk pack of .22, Federal 550 was my favorite flavor.  Now it seems when I find .22 it's a variety that I've never heard of and for whatever reason it is special and priced accordingly so, I just want regular old .22 again.