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Come on fellers - it's been pert'near 2 weeks since last post!

Somebody say something!

The emptiness is defening in here!

Maybe someone can just toss up a pic at least once a week?

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I've got close to 5k on the Harley this summer.....was out in the garage the other night, kinda bored and looking for something to do, picked up a cylinder for my 1035 build and decided it was 2 hot 2 even think about working on a sled engine. disassembled the race car engine and ordered some parts. Gonna put it 2gether fur the weekend and go racin I suppose.

thats all I got, probly not whatche lookin fur, but now it ain't so quiet!!! :<) :icon_naughty::right_on:

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Ox,

The John Deere sled brings back some fond memories .....

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Ox,

The John Deere sled brings back some fond memories .....

You will be pleased to hear that John Deere will be at the Toronto Powersports show this year.

Don't know what they are bringing, but big press release the other day.

Probably gators.

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Wonder if they'll autograph that picture?

:rolleyes:

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Only time I think mine left me set was once when I was taching it out down the road.

Was running 80mph and all the noise stopped instantly. :blush:

1/4 mile later I coasted up into a yard and popped the hood. Turned out to be the drive belt broke, dinged and put a small hairline crack in the hood (small enough that I forgot about it) and then wedged between the tunnel and the clutch - jamming the motor.

New belt and I was back on the snow!

Another time was when it was 20 yrs old and I had it bouncing down the mogul trails of da UP eh? Gas line in da tank broke off and once I was below 1/2 tank - it sucked air. (6 gal tank eh?)

Otherwise - I think I had pretty good luck with it.

My dad bought one new. I don't recall him having eny major issues. ???

The Deere at the show would likely be relative to a Gator type product prolly...

Pic taken in Paradise, Mich. in early '95

But the trails in/out of there were enything but.... :cry2:

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Just pulling your leg, Ox.

A friend (and his brother) bought matching Deere's in the late 1970's and loved them.

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Rocket:

I have replayed that several times and I just aint figgured out why the first person (chic?) spilled it to begin with? They weren't even into the turn yet. ???

Pic taken ??? prolly Dec '09

Stayed that way for about a yr.

(Not top of priority list obviously)

Was mostly assembled and loaded on a truck West at New Yrs this yr. Didn't even pour in coolant, or mount the grab bar untill Colorado!

Snow flap still MIA. (Was better in the deep stuff w/o it...)

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Still no good at climbing trees tho. :icon_doh:

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Rocket:

I have replayed that several times and I just aint figgured out why the first person (chic?) spilled it to begin with? They weren't even into the turn yet. ???

Ox, hard to tell why it spilled from the camera angle, kinda looked like the back tire drifted out, some thing on the track maybe or blown tire??? Guess I got a warped sense of humour, right out of the old "Benny Hill Show" with them chasing those locked bikes in circles. LOL

Anyway, Have a great Canada Day and July 4th everyone. We're on the border in Corunna and we celebrate both :woot::woot::woot:

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Yeah - The Soo is kinda like 1812 all over, 'cept a delayed reaction.

The Canucks shoot S over the river one night, and a few days later the Yanks shoot back.

:wtf:

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missing my favorite vacation areas and my friends. ski

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A modified version of Lawn Darts eh? :icon_naughty:

I like it! :mrgreen:

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that was the last weekend in march. it was beyond below avg temps, for the time of the year. LOL!

the lawn dart pics were taken at about -25 faranheight. LOL! the fish were flash freezing in less than 5 minutes. they were cryogenically preserved, till we got back to chez gaston, where they were broguht back to life, cleaned, and eaten. freshest fish we ever had. LOL!

FUN TIMES!!!! ski

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Yeah - The Soo is kinda like 1812 all over, 'cept a delayed reaction.

The Canucks shoot S over the river one night, and a few days later the Yanks shoot back.

:wtf:

1812, Oh yeah, that was the war we(Canucks) won. Somethin about beer or hockey I think. :rotflmao::rotflmao:

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You know - that's at least the 2nd time I heard of the Canucks (Limeys) winning that war. The other time that I heard it (that I know for sure of) was from a Limey that lives in Canada, so ...

I really don't know much at all about it - other than the redcoats were trying to git back what [they felt] was rattfully there's AFAIK, and that they burnt down the first Whitehouse. OK - that - and I think it ended in 14 or 15?

Other'n that - I don't [think] that I know much at all. (about that anyway) The War to end all Wars plays a very important role in todays world. The Big One is really just stage 1 of 2. The War of Northern Oppression has a wee bit of relivence, but mostly if you live in the S I guess. :poke2: But 1812 ... Not sure what (other than continued independance from The King - again - stage 2 of the Revolutionary War) what significance it holds. But apparently it holds more to the Canucks than the Yanks?

But since we are still celebrating July 4th, and that I have never sung God Save the Bleeding Queen ever in my life, and wouldn't even know it if I heard it ... I hafta think the Yanks must have eventually done OK eh?

Since we got nothin' of value going on here, I wouldn't be agginst learning the Canuck version of that war - if y'all have a differ'nt version.

Purty sure I aint seen much on it on The History Channel. But then - they don't seem to have historical shows on there at all enymore. :angry:

???

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So anxious were both governments to reach an agreement, that no mention was made of the problems that had originally caused friction between the two nations. The matter of British seamen searching American vessels was ignored, and Indian claims to land in the American west were never discussed. In terms of men, money and materials, the cost of this tragic struggle cannot be calculated with any degree of accuracy. Official reports suggest British losses were 8,600 killed, wounded or missing, while the Americans suffered a total of about 11,300 casualties. Undoubtedly, there were many more on both sides, since the records kept by many militia units were neither complete nor accurate. Deaths from disease among the regulars, militia and Indians also would add substantially to the totals.

In Upper Canada, where the hand of war had struck most heavily, a bitter distrust of the United States persisted among the inhabitants for many years. This unfortunate legacy of suspicion proved a serious handicap in development of goodwill between the two peoples.

Oddly enough, the War of 1812 brought some lasting benefits to British North America; there was a new sense of pride among the people, a pride in having defended their lands with courage and skill. There was, too a better understanding between French speaking and English speaking Canadians, for each race had fought a common foe.

Certain practical advantages resulted from the conflict. Large sums of British money spent in the British provinces on war supplies brought a degree of prosperity previously unknown. In Nova Scotia, additional funds had been gained from the sale to Britain of captured American ships and cargoes. In New Brunswick, merchants had profited by a brisk business in food and other supplies with the blockaded states of New England. In Lower Canada (Quebec), such towns as Quebec City and Montreal had become prosperous centres of trade and transportation. In Upper Canada (Ontario), the flow of British funds affected the economy of the province from one end to the other. York recovered rapidly from it's misfortunes, and Kingston thrived on the work provided by it's busy shipyards. Farmers located near military centres had no trouble in selling their produce at high prices.

It was not realized at the time but the conflict with the United States was the first step toward the ultimate union of the provinces of British North America. The war had, in effect, forced the provinces to co-operate with one another in the urgent matter of defence. As the Canadian historian, Arthur Lower, says: " It therefore does not seem too far out to say that the War of 1812 is one of the massive foundation stones of modern Canada".

The war helped set the two countries on different courses. National characteristics were evolving: American ebullience, Canadian reserve. The Americans went wild over minor triumphs, the Canadians remained phlegmatic over major ones. Brock was knighted for Detroit, but there were no gold medals struck, no ceremonial swords, banquets, or fireworks to mark Chateauguay, Chrysler's Farm, Stoney Creek or Beaver Dams. By contrast, Croghan's defence of Fort Stephenson was a signal for a paroxysm of rejoicing that made him an overnight hero in the United States.

American hero worship filled the Congress, the Senate, and the state legislatures with dozens of war veterans. Three soldiers - Harrison, Jackson and Zachary Taylor - became president. But there were no Canadian Jacksons because there was no high office to which a Canadian could aspire. Brock and de Salaberry were Canada's only heros, Laura Secord her sole heroine. And Brock was not a Canadian.

In the end we ask who won and who lost the War of 1812. The clear loser in this conflict without any doubt is the Native People of North America. In the summer of 1815, the United States signed fifteen treaties with the tribes, guaranteeing their status as of 1811. But it did not return an acre of land. The dream of the Indian state never came true.

If any one could claim victory it was Canada. The United States declared war on Great Britain and set out to make Canada states in the union. Ten American armies crossed into Canada and all were driven out.

There are even court martial charges laid against some of the American Generals after the Second Battle of La Colle. President Madison tries to put a lid on it, and intervenes, but too late. The American public quickly becomes disillusioned, and support for the war starts to fall away after the burning of Washington. The war should never have been fought. It was motivated by merchants and greed. It had little to do with patriotism, or national pride. The US gained nothing in territory that had not been surrendered to it by the Treaty of Paris.

By the end of the century, many American children have never heard of the War of 1812. By the 1960's, it is reduced to a folk song. The song is entitled "The Battle of New Orleans" it was written by Jimmy Driftwood. The song was recorded and made famous by Johnny Horton in 1959.

When America did look back at the War of 1812 they thought first of the interference with their maritime rights which had caused them to fight, then of the successful exploits of their own privateers. Since the signing of the peace treaty in Ghent conveniently coincided with the end of England's interference in American affairs, they imagined it as a second successful end of the War of Independence.

America's new freedom depended not on the Treaty of Ghent but on the Treaty of Paris in 1814 . It was not the little war against England that won America the blessing of being left alone but the much larger war in Europe against Napoleon, with Napoleon defeated and Britain supreme at sea the world was to see peace for one hundered years. And during this peace America was safe and grew strong.

Credit for this story goes to http://www.warof1812.ca/summary.html

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Thanks for the history lesson! :right_on::right_on:

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Here is one of my BIL somewhere near Dubreuilvill.

Man - that black muck around thjere can swallow large humans and small ATV'S!

We had 3 of 4 machines stuck in a "hole" just outside of town one trip, and then a few weeks later - came back - and there was nigh a sign of a hole nore much of any tracks showing that we were there and had 4wds stuck!

This pic shows solid trail right up to his rack, and then deep enough to swallow the machine whole, and then solid on the other side aggin. To add insult to injury - he ran out of gas ratt there! What a show this was for about a 1/2 hr! roflmao.gif

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Made three trips to Dubre that summer!

One chumm rolled his Magnum down the hill at the gravel pit. It seems a Pol Magnum kant climb hills like a Yammi Warrior! He bailed and was WAY ahead of the machine on the way down, but somehow - the machine cought uip to him by the bottom and shoved the handlebars into his back and bruised him real good at the kidneys. Was purple the next day as we rode out of Wawa with Willie. Over the course of the rest of the summer the bruise migrated around to form a belt completely around his abs. Moron never went to see a doc! Obviously he had internal bleeding! He's still ok - now 10 yrs later....

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