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I love my flatbed truck! Only issue I ever had was one time when I was passing a string of trailers headin' north and just as I got beside the rubber duck, mine came loose. All ended well, but there was quite a few rough seconds in there for us all... Parked in the bush and all.... Turned out that my 4wd actuator wasn't working, and I was in 2wd. Didn't even figger that out 'till the next summer.

Lots of truth there, but mine are electric / drums

You only have brakes on one axle? We put all new brake kits on all three axles on my 21K# gooseneck, and I really don't recall it coming anywhere near your costs!

Shirley you have someone in town that would check on it fer yuh?

Well, I'm not 100% sure that it was Decker's (but I think that it was) but I know that I seen an interview with one of those fellas in one of the snowmachine mags this year. My guess would likely be Snowtech, but it could have been one of the others. (I git several mags) Anyhow - I think the guy had retired (well into his 70's?) and his wife had died a few years prior?

I would venture to guess that at least 50% of the sleds heading up D trail are still Yanks. Most of the rest from The Soo. Only a few from eastern Province. Especially if you are talking about staying somewhere. Halfway Haven and Motels in Wawa will Shirley be at least 1/2 Yanks - but yes - way down from the early 2000's or even late 90's The Great Recession was the key player in loss here, not 9/11, and we didn't have to have actual passports until prolly around 2008 as well? (yes - fallout from 911, but years later) So The Crash combined with the passport thing together is what really made the change, but also - most guys will buy that $200 trail pass for a few years, but then decide to stay Stateside after that. And by 2008 most guys had given it a try, so ...

I would ass_u_me so too. Thus why they can't be moved.

Actually, by the sounds of it, NY is about all but done with this thing. They had the big burn through right away, and I saw it reported last night that they just had their first day of no related deaths at all, so ... But the numbers are so biased ... My daughter works on the Bat Flu floor frequently in Columbus, and she said that she had a guy that got buggered up in an auto accident (I think?) and was ready to leave and go to rehab, but he tested + for Wuhan, and even tho he shows no symptoms, the rehab facility won't take him until he tests - for 2 days in a row. She said that scenario isn't "normal", but it's not uncommon either. Making the "number of cases" escalate higher than what would be considered "real"

In many parts of both of our country's, you would have to import minorities to have some. Anyone other than Ponch and John are gunna stand out like a sore thumb around here.

Lions and Tigers and Bears!

Oh yeah? That's just non res?

Seems that a trail cam could be put at target spots. Shirley there are some trail cams that would give good enough resolution to be able to pull some distinguishing info from some quads sometimes? Especially if it is know that you are intending for daytime pics. ??? Also - I'm Shirley not going to say that this has never been me either. I haven't knowingly been and torn up someone's private land, but with that said - I practice Tread Lightly as best that I can. But I have taken the old trail around the S side of Wawa Lake 20 yrs ago, and I had found out that it was closed some years later. Maybe it was from ATV use? Was it doo to actual carnage? Or just not wanting the public back in there during the summer season? I wouldn't know. Maybe someone can answer that? I did access Crown Land via private land once, but I didn't realize it at the time, and I followed a logging truck in, so I Shirley ass_u_med that all was fine. My 'Burban and trailer wasn't going to be of any consequence after 120K# of truck comes back out. I wonder how many of these "vandals" have any clue of what they doo not being OK at the time? I understand that when riding down below that private property is much more common - if not quite possibly be the default. Where in Algoma and beyond, we really don't expect that anything is private automatically. And much of what is - is really only semi private. Meaning that it is held by the R/R or Hydro or possibly a logging company - as is the case in Big Bay, Mich. (Mead Paper) And quite honestly, when I know that it is common for folks to use those grounds, and if I was to see some sorta sign, I honestly would ass_u_me that to be for the sake of liability on the owners part, and not so much that they wish the public to not use - conservatively at least... ??? edit: To go along with the "semi-private" term, I was up in '03 by myself in Sept for a week. Just itting the bush roads, mostly with my truck as it rained or at least drizzled the whole time, but I did have a Scrambler along and would use it to continue beyond where a dually fits well. I would stay in the bush one night, and then head into town the next night. Rinse and repeat. I was back Paint Lake Road (I think that's the name - it's accrost from the Dubreuilville road) and an MNR or ??? officer stopped me and asked my plans, and when I told him, he said that since I didn't have a camping pass for the night, that I wouldn't be able to stay where I was, but if I went a few klicks up the road, that was "private" and that would be fine. I took this pic back in there: .

OK, I'm not seein' how closing it to skidoo's helps with muddy ATV's?

Well, for staters, pipelines don't go through rough terrain. Yeah, rough terrain hydro will have "exits" out into the bush to go around swamps, gorges, and big hills. While that is GREAT as far as I'm concerned, I doo understand that there is always issues with deadfall and such in those bush trail areas. I have no use for R/R grades, but some like them, and I'm sure they are easy to maintain, provided the groomer opperator can stay awake going in a flat a d strait line for 16 hours.

Yeah, that is BIG country in there for sure - which [I'm sure] is why the hwy doesn't run in there. Sure, they doo most with choppers, but in the case of something major - they will always need to be able to git in there with heavy equipment. Many years ago I turned in a pole that had one leg airing out, somewhere down by Wakamata I think... If the new line DOES actually stay outside the park - I would hope that the OFSC can pick it up! I would ass_u-me the park to be the reason that it's not on that hydro line now. So, is this a replacement line, or in addition to? I wouldn't think that there would need to be an additional line eh?

It says that the infringements started 12 years ago. There can't be much time left on the patent at this point.

Not sure how or why that top quote is there, and by quoting the bottom post didn't purge it, so ... ??? Anyhow, tha'd be aboot 15 meters without looking at a tape.

Yeah, that's what I decided. It's just that in the pic that the water looks so much closer than it really is. Slushy spot just on the other side right there too...

Aboot 10 hours for me.

I've been to Dub on ATV's a few times too. That isn't a bad place to stage out of - especially now that Pat is back at the Motel. * Note that I haven't stayed there since Pat has been back tho. Swung in one evening to say Hey to Luc, and that's it for a long time now. Also stopped to see AC/YA, but only his wife was there. He was out sledding. Whod'a thunk eh? I think it was the day or at least the weekend that we scored this prize, not far from Dubreuil FWIW - The boy was prolly 6'2" at that time.

Yeah. You're right... It looks more like Magpie Blue eh?

Is it just me, or is that lake water a bit "Green"?

I don't think....

I wish I had some pics of just outside of Pukaskwa National Park. There's some big rocks in there! Or even the bottom end of Long Lac, where you can get to the road. That's a big mine field! Meandering between Volkswagen Bugs basically....

LOL! There is someone on Snowest with the name "ThistleDoo", but I think that he is from Colorado? Possibly Alberta, but I know he's not in Ontario.