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13/14 & 14/15 ???

Well, Volunteer didn't seem to git it....

Not sure where she lives now, but back-in-the-day Mary Hill lived in a trailer park.

It's that ^%$#! north wind! Go away and come back in November!

Well, as long as this ^%$$! north wind continues ......

Social distancing does not mean that you can only sit your fatt assets on the couch and binge watch Gomer Pyle. It means that you aint swappin' spit with the next person. Working outside? Heck - dooing aboot anything outside for that matter.... A few people werking in/under/on/outside of a new house is a problem? A dump truck that is from your area (dump trucks don't tend to git too far from home eh?) making a delivery to your area. It's not two or three guys digging a grave by hand for Petey's sakes! You want sumpthin' to actually worry aboot - how aboot that Gordons Food truck that came from Mississauga this morning? THAT may be sumpthing worth concerning yourself with, but not like you're gunna eat without it... Some folks just lose the spirit of the act, and git too concerned with the exactness. "Stay at home and in your house" makes a whole lot more sense to someone living in a 5 story appartment building in the city, than it does to some joker who has 5 acres of woodland up aggin a lake. Crickie - if he wants to fish or hunt for mushrooms - who gives a Schidt? Is he in your face? If so - then I guess that means that YOU aint in YOUR house eh? Is he in ANYONES face? You better jump all over Rev for cutt'n wood then! Also note - that that construction crew has likely been working together daily since before this whole thing started. At which point should they stay away from each other? Staying especially distant from someone not in your daily circle and especially not local is more the point. Let's see.... Most of the week I have been in the shop all day, but today I dropped forktruck tanks off at the LP place, and continued up and snuck over the Michigan line to make a delivery and a pick-up. Came back and picked up my tanks. Back to the shop and unloaded, picked up the Mrs. and headed accrost the Indiana line to pick up a skid. Stopped at Dairy Queen, and came home by way of my G-ma's who we need to check on aboot every day. You guys that are all held up on the couch aint gunna be safe until the rest of us git it, and you aint gunna eat for long if the rest of the world doesn't keep moving - so for Petey's sakes - let us get on with it and quit worryin' aboot what the rest of the world is dooin'.

I guess that would be enough for me to "move on" then, or simply stick to full off-trail and be done with it. I buy tags for the most part to simply be supportive. I'm likely not THAT supportive.

The front of the truck appears to be quite a ways from the retaining wall, but you are thinking that there is a break (void) in the wall - where the trail or walkway or whatnot goes? Maybe the retaining wall is what is holding the whole works up? Can't see "wall" from this view. Here is a clearer pic:

Well, that could have started it for sure.... I can't imagine that that other outrigger is 6' in the ground, but ... maybe it's all worshed out and no-one knew?

The pic above does elude to that possibility, but this pic shows it better: There is a 3' retaining wall along the edge, and the truck seems to be plenty far back from that to have had the riggers out - which sorta makes one wander if the rear riggers on that side actually broke? Doo the front riggers not extend any further than that - yuh wonder? The front one on the other side couldn't be very far out either. Unless they have somehow already retracted them before the pic was taken - in effort to stabilize the unit that may have been teetering on the brink of .. ???

Well, if the outriggers on the other side were out much at all, the tires on the other side would be WAY off the ground. They aint.

https://barrie.ctvnews.ca/worker-injured-in-industrial-incident-in-port-carling-1.4905625 Looks like he had the wrong outriggers out?

"Taking off" I guess it's all in perspective, but that sounds more like I'm runnin' clean-up and see a nice swamp yonder with no tracks on it.

.. and here I am - on the wrong bloody side of the St. Mary's ...

This was in my e-mail jist now. https://mailchi.mp/ofsc/a-little-something-to-pass-the-time?e=1b4bd13deb

Same goes for transfer case shifters....

Well I recommend that for any reverse gearcase. Maybe the Doo holds up better, but ... It's been 20 yrs since I was in my '96 Grand Touring case, but it seems like Doo had a cpl 1/2" pins that dropped into holes, and not have to line up two sets of splines?

Oh yeah ... this is the 4 stroke Kitty? Yeah, my chum told me that the M11's had that trouble, and that the later ones were s'posed to be more better. Something aboot guys having to back them all the way back to the truck as they couldn't git it into fwd anymore? Then one day when we were riding together, I heard the problem myself: He also has 2st Doo's and is very familiar with RER, but the mechanical gearcase is different, and most don't give it the care that it needs. I'm not talking PM, I mean care as in baby-ing it into the shifted gear. When you shift a mechanical reverse snowmachine, you need to burp the gas a wee bit to let the gear splines line up and drop where it's to be. This is no different than how snowmachines were before RER, just that reverse is WAY more popular now than back then. Remember - burp the throttle a bit. Maybe even a cpl times before you give'r, to let that gear slide in where it's to go. .

A while back I must have not put enough 271 on the lower gear [bolt] on my older Doo, and as it came loose, eventually the head bottomed out agginst the outter case half, and then broached the most beautiful hex through the case that y'ever did see...

I seen something aboot that earlier, but I don't know who that is. I don't recognize the name from Snowest. Was he a competition hill-climber? I take it that he was in BC at the time? Pic that I seen from Idaho a week ago didn't show much signs of snow anywhere around.

I would hope that it is walkie talkie type technology, and NOT be relying on cell service! A fair amount of sledding is done outside the confines of the cities. Is there such thing as poltalk.com?

I didn't read up on it. How does it work? FRS or some such?

Just guessing at what this "Friends" thing is, but I would think that pretty handy - mostly for those groups that don't ever look back and don't mind getting spread out from here to Tuesday. This was eye opening to me how some groups would ride the other day after we ended up taking the trail back out of Halfway, and we didn't hit speeds above 45 klicks for the most part as real long mountain sleds don't navigate the trails like the shorty's doo, so we got passed many times, and from the time that the guy running Point would pass, 'till the guy running Clean-Up finally came along - they may have been 5 miles apart! This happened more than once. I / we have NEVER ridden like that! If you don't see the guy behind you in a straight-away, you need to slow down or even stop until either you see him - or you decide he's not there, and you go back and fetch him. I guess with this gizmo - you know he's back there, that he is moving, and OK? I still don't like it, but .... .

I guess I don't recall for sure which of the trade journals it was, but it seemed that they were singin' quite the praises for the new Pol's. I'm guessin' that it was the RMK or SKS, or whatnot if I spent much time reading it (and it seemed to be over several models) but none-the-less, from that issue, and possibly some other mags as well, it seems that there is a glimmer of light in the tunnel for Polaris for the first time in quite a while.