I know what you mean

 

Well Boat ramp was fun tonight...

High points...

1) about a 28 foot cigar boat and a guy that didn't know how to unwind the winch... so next best.. 20 minutes of the other guy trying to drive the boat onto the trailer... Had to take off before they got it on....

2) 96 12 valve dully.. pulling a deep vee twin diesel 30 footer out of the water.. pulled and tires started spinning.. slowed down and pulled harder.. BAM!!! trans lets loose and trans fluid everywhere and running in the ocean.. Coast guard is there and he gets with the coast guard.. next thing Sheriffs are there with the "dude you better listen and cooperate with them.. you don't want to foot the haz-mat bill if he decide to call them" And " were just the couty sheriff's they are the US government they rank higher.. listen or your in a whole heap of trouble!!! and go to federal prison"..

Guy calmed down and got a tow truck to pull him and his boat up the ramp..

Gerry

 

Dang it John, you can't be talkin bout me like that.

Well, here is how it went down...

First thing I did to get attention was to set up some old crab pod buoy's out in the field. I got 5 sections of 100ft 3/8" air hose and ran it out there. I have an air chuck that has the lock on it, so that you can set it and forget it while it airs your tires up. Well, I set it and forget it on this crab buoy that is inflatable, problem is, I had 5 of them (buoys) out there. I constructed a manifold of sorts, so I could air them all up at the same time. Well, I get them to filling, and then go and call some of my friends that live within a few miles. I am like, yall go outside, and wait. They are all like, okay. So, that is the watch this part. Well, I retreat into my dads shop, cause I stood outside and watched once when I was a lil younger, and the rocks, let me tell you, hurt like haites.

SO it takes about 5 mins and these things go off nearly at the same time, We are talking sonic boom proportions here. My ears are ringing so bad, that I don't hear the phone ring, I see it light up, but not ring. So I didn't answer. 5 mins and all my friends are tearing down my dad's drvieway and to the shop. They get there, and by this time I can hear a lil. They are like are you okay, I am like yeah, just a lil heairng loss, but other than that I am good, they were like, we could see a smoke plume from our house, and we thought you blew yourself up. I start laughing, and tell them, that it was not a smoke plume, ut a dust plume. Then I point out into the field where I set them off. mind you this field was freshly harowed about three days before, so the dirt was soft and my dad has had no rain in like 2 months there. Where each buoy was at, the dirt was blew away and smoother out.

Okay, here is the bad part, seems that one of our local county mounties was rolling around on my dad's side of the county, (they are never out there). He drives up my dads drive way, then notices all the cars, at the shop, so here he comes. He starts the questioning. I tell him what I did, and he is like BS. That was to loud to be compressed air, and starts looking over the shop for chemicals. My dad is a farmer, so yeah he found some, but all were pesticides (non-flammable) Luck would have it, I had one buoy left, I am llike, I will show you. He says okay. I set it up, and tell him, you might want to step inside here (door), cause some things out there are better suited as projectiles during this type of redneck fun. He obliges. about five mins go by, and he sticks his head out, and then almost knocks me down coming back in, he said is that thing gonna blow, I said yeah, he siad holy, cut the air off. I am like why, and I look out, and this is the biggest I ever seen one of those things get. It was huge. Stack two trucks and about that wide as well, and that is what it looked like. I tell him, look, you're inside a metal sided shop, if you want we can go tot hte other side, which will shield us by another set of walls. about that time, BOOOOOMMMMM!!!! Then the torrent of rocks hits the side of the shop.

Good things compressed air is not illegal. he gets a call on his radio, Joe did you hear it, there it went again. I can't hold it any longer, he tells me, don't get hurt, and maybe wew can keep this to a 4th of july only thing.... I laugh and say yes sir occifer in the most drunken red neck voice I can manage.

 

I saw the fireworks at coors field in denver last night , after watching the game ( and hiding from the rain) And i think 6 flags set off some fireworks. After that we checked out the mile of bars and clubs right beside the field, but we were mostly interested in the bars occupants...

 

sparkler bombs have been a tradition at my house for the last 3 years. Nothing like a 25 foot flame to make the neighbors wonder.

 

Now *that* sounds like fun

Ever hear of earplugs?
I'm sorry let me try that again: EVER HEAR OF EARPLUGS??!?

 

YEAH, I WILL USE...oh sorry, all better now, i will have to use ear plugs next time.

 

www.tannerite.com the most fun i have had in years. and yes someone will call the cops on you when you tag them.

 

You people with fireworks are dangerous. All I did was sell the stuff. My Phi Theta Kapa chapter was incharge of a Mr. W fireworks stand. I couldn't believe the amount of money spent on fire works. I sold $156 worth of stuff to one person, and most of the sales were $20-60 and that is for people who had either been there earlier or went to one of the other two stands around us.

 

Thinking of rigging up a little wooden "pocket" on the skeet thrower for the squirrels. On the dock. That way I can sit on the deck and launch them out into the pond amongst the geese.

The hairy varmints chewed through the main wire for my electric brakes on my skid steer trailer. Wondered why it wouldn't stop worth a crap. So now it's officially ON. All squirrels must go. Neighbors don't like the shotgun going off, so have to resort to more challenging methods.

 

ooo, oooo, this sounds like fun.... You have to video this... I think a metal setup would be better though, I dunno how the wood will hold up to the skeet slinger's force...

Lure the squirrels out there with nuts, corn, whatver. You need to rig up some sort of remote so that you don't have to be near it to activate the lever. Maybe an old remote control car or truck motor with its wireless control????

This will be too funny. PLeeeeeaaaassseeee video it. haha

 

Of course it will be on video! I'm gonna experiment to find which type of pocket works best. I'm gonna run a piece of decoy line from the launcher all the way up to the deck to trigger it. Some corn in there for bait... I'll have to get it mounted on an upward angle to get maximum trajectory out of the squirrels.

 

I for one am glad it's over. The noise sucks and the sulfur fumes make my asthma flare up. I like hearing the 1812 overture with live cannons though.

Edwin