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    CANADA VS Finland!!!

    Well hockey fans T- 3 hours till the first game starts, thats 12:00 pst.
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    Santa cameeeeee, yay santa!!!!!

    OK, so 0500 got up and finished wrapping the stocking stuffers for the wife (that coulda been a major "OOPS") crawled back to bed till 0630, could'nt sleep, coffee pot goes on, traditional bailleys with the coffee, 0700 and wifey gets up, now its time to start "UN WRAPPING":D Merry Christmas...
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    Are you ready for some WORLD Junior Hockey, heres the schedule

    TSN World Junior Hockey Championship DATE EVENT TIME ET/PT NETWORK This is when the good stuff starts Monday, December 26 Canada vs. Finland 3pm/Noon TSN and TSN.ca Sweden vs. Latvia 5:30pm/2:30pm TSN2 USA vs. Denmark 8pm/5pm TSN2 Switzerland vs. Russia 10:30pm/7:30pm TSN2...
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    Automatic VS manual hubs!

    Just throwing this out for debate if your vehicle is 4x4 do you prefer manual or automatic hubs?? I prefer manual hubs, better mileage, less wear on the front end and transfer case (front drive shaft assembly/bearings)
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    So just back from the not so frozen north, sorta?!?!

    Well, just got back from another journey up to the great white north, but this time a pineapple express blew in yesterday bring every thing from freezing rain (1/4 build up on my hood in Burns lake), to rain and about 2 feet of snow in some areas (Prince George to Willys Puddle (Thanks PJ :D)...
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    Changing oil on a diesel!!

    So today I had to do an oil change on an early 90's 7.3 diesel. "I HATE" it when I do a fresh oil change and filter and the stick still shows black. I think I want to do a flush next time, how many guys have emptied out the oil, installed fresh filter with diesel then filled the crank case with...
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    Cool Eclipse

    Well, went out a 0 6 early and the eclipse was happening, looked back to the east and you could barely make out the sun coming up somewhere over the prairies. Now back to bed!!
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    One for you math guys

    Trying to work out a quote and this has me alittle concerned! I am looking at some cable and trying to figure out the tensil strength and all I can see is- PULL LOAD "N" install 3996 operate 3197 What is "N" supposed to represent, newtons?? and how do I convert this back to pounds before...
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    Help with search issue

    Up till a couple of weeks ago I would type into the google search box -craigslist ditch witch 6510-or whatever I wanted to see in craigslist. It would show a few other sites then a few craigslist items, but what I am missing is the promt "show more craigslist items" and after I hit that it...
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    Pictures of the great northerns abandoned trestles Phoenix BC

    A couple of pics we took of the abandoned Great northern RR spur line into Phoenix BC, this was on heck of a big trestle in its day and it was horse shoe shaped. This is how it origanally looked before it was decomissioned and overgrown. And this was the origanal town site, till they...
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    "Grey Cup" -" BC, Lions Take IT"

    So this sunday is the Grey cup game for the CFL (our super bowl), who is going to be watching?? (Grey Cup was first handed out in 1909, although not CFL at that time it was still for football, and CFL was not until the 1950's)
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    "IT's" official "I HATE WINTER" thread

    Ok, so its -7c/20f out right now, and snowing and blowing GRRRRRRR:rolleyes: :facepalm: :D Its not like winter crept up and just bit me in the butt cause I knew it was a coming, "eventually", but still UGH!!! (sure like the new tin roof, nothing is sticken to that bad boy)
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    Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!!

    Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!! Ok today is not thanksgiving but monday is, we eat sunday the big "GOBBLE GOBBLE" supper and monday is the day of "OH my god I ate to much" and an assortment of cruddy TV shows. So from me to you "eat well my friends', and line up your spot on the couch early...
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    Double Winner, DING DING DING!!!!!

    Ok, so you seen the pics of our home as we installed the new tin roof, well after all the nicks and cuts and crying the bill came in at $4200 in material, "$1400 labour" Thank you to my buds that helped out, sure saved me a few bucks, mindya went through lots of rum wiskey and beer at the end...
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    only Slow to load iboats web sites????

    Sort of an update and a big old question, why is this forum the only one I am having issues with, almost like it will not give me "cookies???" I'm here , but not here?? Yesterday it became apparent that the loading of "some" web sites was very very slow! Restarted the puter after cleaning...
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    Has anyone used this before??

    Alot of the guys around here use them in their snowmobiles, has anyone tried them in their boats tank yet?? http://www.watermagnet.com/index.html
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    Hell on earth? go through my shop door, hang a left!!!

    My rant on buying old equipment!!!!! Ok, so I bought a Ditch witch 6510 for $3500 bucks ($750 transport) two years ago and I am in the midst of re and re'en the worn parts. This to include hydraulic hoses, so far $1200 bucks (12 more to go), 30 gallons of hydraulic fluid $240 bucks, pins...
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    Flushing power steering pump.

    So this summer PJ was over and pointed out which line to remove on the power steering pump (return line) 94 f350 super duty 7.3 turbo So I could flush out the old fluid, but of course just getting around to it now and I forgot:rolleyes: So, is it the top one that goes into the resevour or the...
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    Mother natures light show

    WOW!!! We do not get to see the northern lights very often but last night she put on a good show. Yes there was the green stabing points that lit up the sky, but I got to see the horizontal curtain with red, yellow, kind of a purple ish and green. MOST COOOOOOOL :)
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    electric trains

    With the price of fuel being as high as it is, why do the railroads not go to the european style, trolly AC to power their locomotives??? Bulk AC power purchasing has gotta be cheaper than diesel, even with the infrastructure build cost over time. (just a head scratcher after watching...
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