Show us what you see!!!

[PEARCE]

 

[Ronnie]

My Son's team yesterday as they qualified for the Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships to be conducted in Hoover, Alabama early next month.

 

[zipper]

No boating pics or spectacular sunsets today, just an afternoon of maintenance on the truck. Put in new upper and lower balljoints, the lower was pretty bad.the top was ok but replaced it any wayThe tow rig will be good for an alignment after I replace the inner and outer tie rod ends tomorrow morning.

 

[Big Shasta]

No boating pics or spectacular sunsets today, just an afternoon of maintenance on the truck. Put in new upper and lower balljoints, the lower was pretty bad.View attachment 48940the top was ok but replaced it any wayView attachment 48941The tow rig will be good for an alignment after I replace the inner and outer tie rod ends tomorrow morning.

No substitute for the right tool on that job.

 

[zipper]

@Big Shasta That ball joint press has worked well for the last 25 years on jeep cherokees to my many trucks. And the right tool to operate it eluded me for almost an hour, a 13/16" socket was missing. Located a spark plug socket and used it. A big ballpeen hammer is the only tool to remove the lower ball joint. I took out my anger of the missing socket on that lower ball joint and it came out after several vocal swings. Pressed new in and put back together.

 

[Ronnie]

On our way to snowboard for the second time this season. Stopped for the first time at a place highly rated on yelp for breakfast. The place is filled to capacity with about 60 patrons inside and others eating outside in the cold morning air. Out of the blue my teenage son whispers too me, "two of these things are not like the others, not even the staff". I don't know what to say other than he is right and it doesn't matter. Well it wouldn't of the younger kids would stop staring at us.

 

[Av8tor07]

Didn't know that jet boats could do this.

 

[Bill D]

That's one way to get all the water out of the bilge.

 

[buckbuck]

Looks like a good surfing angle to me.

 

[zipper]

@Bill D Glad I did not have to go that far up to get mine out.

 

[swatski]

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Didn't know that jet boats could do this.
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Okay, what's going on here?

Honestly, my first thought was: "Oh, no...! @zipper has taken 'must lift the bow to drain your bilge' advice a little too far". But then I realized -- the color of the hull did not match his boat. Sigh of relief.

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[zipper]

@swatski Id say that is extreme. That jack is pretty awesome, glad I did not need it.

 

[Murf'n'surf]

Okay, what's going on here?

Honestly, my first thought was: "Oh, no...! @zipper has taken 'must lift the bow to drain your bilge' advice a little too far". But then I realized -- the color of the hull did not match his boat. Sigh of relief.

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That's how they display a boat at the boat show. It's a hydraulic hoist type deal.

 

[2nazt]

My local chap dealer always has one staged up this way out front.

 

[BobJohnson]

Hockey night in Chicago.

Got to see the 6 bulls trophies also on display.

 

[swatski]

That's how they display a boat at the boat show. It's a hydraulic hoist type deal.

Of course! Thank you, makes sense. I was not thinking, it looked like a parking lot to me, LOL.
Now that you said that, I recall seeing those indoor, but maybe not that extreme.

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[swatski]

Merry Xmas everyone!
Mommy's out of town, daddy and the gang went to work:






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[ripler]

First run of the season.

 

[zipper]

@ripler Its amazing what resorts can do when they have snow making equipment. Brown everywhere else except the trail you are on. We had 6" of natural snow thru Thanksgiving but melted last week. Snowing hard right now though, a lot of resorts are open up here, because of snow guns.My view of Whiteface mountain earlier in the season. Its all white now.This mornings view of the deck and swimming pool.

 

[ripler]

@zipper This resort was open Thanksgiving weekend, but it was too foggy to ski. Problem was that this and 1 other trail open and the made made snow was horrible. We actually left this resort and went to it's sister resort which is only 20 minutes away and the snow was way better there, they use a different snow gun technology. The same family runs 3 resorts within 30 minutes of each other and with our season pass we can ski all 3 of them.