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1 minute ago, Strong Farmer said:
You want to fight cop who gives
you a ticket. A reason to stop you as well. Lots of tickets handed out in south over last few months. A real grey area if police force wants to apply law and give you ticket anyways. Bringing this letter up won’t get you any where I don’t think. On news allot lately and police force claims they were just following existing rules and busting drivers with out of date license stickers.
I renewed the sleds online months ago and had the stickers within a week. I don't know what the timeline would be now with the Christmas / New Year holidays though. Many people think that if they don't renew their val tags they are getting away without paying for it. Really all they are doing is delaying the payment. When you do renew you will need to pay up for the past you didn't pay for and the current year.
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These guys used to head out onto Georgian Bay from Waubaushene on April 1. They were also followed by helicopter though.
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1 minute ago, slomo said:
4.7 seconds on a bull in Medicine Hat high school rodeo once while working there. With a name like DaisyJean how bad could a bull be? Have a video somewhere. A decade later, my younger brother ends up working in the Hat as a pathologist - first job out of med school. Went to see the professional rodeo there - his first ever. He's watching when a bull rider got bucked off, kicked in the head by the bull and died in the corral. Brother always commented on how being there saved him some work... when the cowboy ended up on his "table" didn't need much examination - blunt force trauma to the head.
At age 24 though I was working steady grave yard underground and going to school full time days. No time for drunk driving nor did I have the inclination to loose my driver's license due to being impaired - enjoyed the freedom it provided.
I knew a bunch of guys that rode bulls... our joke was... how do you become a bull rider? Fill your mouth full of marbles. Each time you get on a bull spit out one of the marbles. When you've lost all of your marbles then you're a bull rider. Our best man was even more crazy. He was a rodeo clown. He figured at least he gets paid for every rodeo and his motto was "feet don't fail me now". Bull rider gets dumped and the clown runs up slaps the bull in the side of the head and then hopes he can outrun it. I went for the tame stuff. Bareback and saddle bronc were crazy too, not quite as crazy as the bull riders though.
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I live south of Pearson airport... traffic is MUCH lighter than usual. Mall and office building parking lots are essentially empty. Around the neighbourhood the driveways that are normally empty are full with people likely working from home.
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5 minutes ago, stoney said:
I have been checked in this area a couple of times and each time it was a quick drive by based on them seeing the permit as I went by.....and my exhaust was stock sounding, so carry on.
One of the better areas for me when it comes down to do trail side checks.
I think Gravenhurst area has been the worst, and one bad experience in North Bay.....
Most of the checks I have come across have been the same... slow down... if you weren't obviously speeding drive by with trail permit and val tag visible and OEM sounding exhaust... keep on going when you get a thumbs up. Have one of those missing or a noisy sled, expect to get stopped and everything checked.
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I spoke to an OPP in Midland area once. While he watched for all the usual, registration, insurance and trail permit his pet peeve was modified exhaust. He said absolutely no forgiveness for that with him.
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5 hours ago, Puggz said:
My truck is leased through my biz. and I get a new one every 2 years. With the American market hungry for used Canadian pickup trucks I'm sure there's other ways to keep with a vehicle under warranty. I've just come to terms with the fact that I prefer cost certainty around my transportation needs. Sure I'd like my vehicle to be paid for but declining reliability as it gets older and the risk of losing my daily driver are not worth the trouble.
Folks, we have to face the facts that emission regs are getting stricter. I have a '20 1500 AT4 w/3.0 duramax. This is a big truck and I get approx. 10ltr/100km hwy and 13.5ltr/km pulling my 7x16 enclosed trailer. There's a good video on uTube that goes into details on why the oil pump belt is what it is. One benefit is that it makes for a more quite engine and that's something I can attest to.
Also, coming from a manufacturing background, a modern vehicle is an amazing value for the consumer. Sure $80k now for fully loaded new truck that has incredible performance, features, and efficiency. I've purchased a handful of custom made, Stainless brackets for work that cost almost that much.
I guess what I'm saying is that if you're plan is to buy a new truck and drive it for 20 years, be prepared for the risks around that. It isn't 1995 any more and the old strategies around major purchases are likely obsolete. We must change with the times, otherwise we'll be left behind holding onto things that no longer have value.
Typically I trade in every 4 to 5 years. The longest I have ever kept one was 6 years and that was because the km's were below my 4 to 5 year typical. I always buy instead of lease and when I trade in it has a good residual value. Typically there has been a 3 year bumper to bumper warranty and a 5 year power train warranty. I want confidence that when I turn the key it's going to start and get me where I want to go.
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Just now, Blake G said:
You make the trail "red" on the ITG.
But it's not red for the people that live in that area. For them it's green.
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19 hours ago, Strong Farmer said:
No rules really can do what you want pretty much. Just ofsc might not connect different health units together until lock down is over. So have to wait and see where we can and not go pretty much.
It would be interesting if area X, area Y and area Z were in the same category so the interconnecting trails were all groomed and open. Then things change and area Y changes category. The trails in all areas are still open but they want you to not travel from one different category region to the next. How do you stop people from riding from X through the different category Y and into the category Z areas.
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I guess I'm just too cautious. I don't care if there are tracks I'm sticking to the marked trail. There's a string of lakes and portages heading north from Swift Rapids. Every now and then you see tracks bypass the portages out on the ice going around a point or through a narrow channel. I don't care. Some young puppy on a 400 lb. sled who weighs 150 lb. rips through there doing 90 and makes it doesn't mean that someone like me can on my 600 lb sled weighing much more than 150 and doing less than 90 can. I haven't come close to going swimming.
But then some thought I was insane in my younger days when I competed in steer wrestling. Sliding off the side of a horse at a full run, grabbing a running steer by the horns, digging my heels into the dirt and twisting the steer onto the ground.
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At 24 I believe I was wise enough to not do truly stupid things that would put my life at risk... especially when it was very obviously dangerous.
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2 hours ago, Sksman said:
Around Oro I believe. They have property on Simcoe and around the area.
Looks promising... apparently they have about 12 inches in Wasaga... southern Georgian Bay area could be soon...
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20 minutes ago, Sksman said:
Hey 02 sled, the new owner is loving the new to him sled.
Over 50km on it already playing in fields.
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About 4 inches in Toronto south of Pearson Airport. Spoke to a friend just northeast of Dundalk and the grass is barely covered.
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17 hours ago, Big Pussy said:
I don't see how traveling from Mitchell to Cochrane meets the lock down rules for NOT traveling from area to area. If you do this, then you are no better than the idiots in the GTA that go to each others houses and party etc. Although your intentions are good, you are breaking the rules like it or not. Locals in Cochrane could and should report you.
Does that mean that the idiots outside of the GTA that go to each others houses and party etc. are given a pass. I know more idiots outside of the GTA that are having large gatherings than I do inside the GTA. Most of them around southern Georgian Bay... "nobody but nobody is going to tell me I can't party at Christmas" is what many are saying... and not just the young puppies either
17 hours ago, Turbo Doo said:Hornepayne Snowbears, not dub...
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Anyone really think the Flex Trails will keep all the tresspassing, no trail pass, loosers away?
Nope... the entitled will always be entitled... you can't fix stupid.
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1 hour ago, stoney said:
There ya go, perfect for getting to the cottage 365 days a year.
Anyone know what sort of price range they go for ?$?$?$
or an air boat... quite popular in the Honey Harbour area for accessing island cottages
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13 hours ago, Ox said:
At >125 million passengers in / out / and through London per year, and considering that there likely isn't nearly the intra-country air travel there like there is in Canada / USA, that's a lot of people going somewhere else all the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_airports_by_passenger_traffic
London is the trans Atlantic hub. North America to London and then connect to Europe Asia
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3 hours ago, Ox said:
... and you honestly think that it is confined to the UK?
Heathrow?
so far...
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21 hours ago, revrnd said:
Horvath now saying on TV if Ford had listened to the NDP back in Nov this wouldnt have been necessary...
she's even dumber than I thought... she says he's doing everything wrong but doesn't come up with any alternatives
21 hours ago, revrnd said:I wonder what her son is doing these days? He looked like he was waiting to be accepted into McMaster a few years ago. LOL
My money says he's at home collecting the federal money...
21 hours ago, Spiderman said:Yup, they have the 28 days to say "gotcha" - then keep you there for an eternity - the spring was never ending - this will be too, the vaccine falacy is just that, we have 14+ million identified people in this province - this is never going away - ever, "new strain" - new fear mongering. Every virus has new strains, this is nothing new in the world.
The mutated virus was identified in the UK and they are locked down... they aren't leaving the country since they are banned from entering other countries... much like Americans are unwelcome in other countries.
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Just announced province wide shut down Dec 26 to Jan 23.
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30 minutes ago, Puggz said:
Oh yes we're such an entitled lot aren't we. Its all about us and our quality of lift. When someone says "barely livin" makes be laugh, I don't think they know what barely livin looks like. Most of the world doesn't know when there next meal will come let alone even understanding what recreation means.
We should all know better, our friend Dave (Sledjunk) was taken by this. Do we need to see our loved ones sick or die before we change? Reading above makes me think so.
We're all in this together. A lot of people and small businesses are going down financially and we gripe about not being able to spend the winter on our $20k toys. Get over yourself, you are part of a society, like it or not. Man up and suck it up fellas, or get the hell out.
Very well said... oh my what a horrible hardship we are living. For most of us our parents and grandparents actually know what hardship is... they lived through horrible times. In comparison the pandemic is a walk in the park. WW1 WW2 and the depression. If you think you have it bad because you may not be able to sled... ask those who lost absolutely everything. The people of London England who endured daily bombings, hiding in the subways at night. The rationing of EVERYTHING including food. You didn't have a ration coupon you didn't get food. The people who endured trench warfare standing crotch deep in feces, urine, water and mud. Families that had their entire male generation wiped out. The countries of Europe were far worse off than Canada.
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5 hours ago, Sksman said:
So to be clear we can get on a plane and fly to Jamaica, Cuba or Mexico for a party filled week but we cannot drive and snowmobile as we are putting to many people at risk?
Or we still allow air travel from hot zones and allow cases of Covid into the country regularly?
Something is wrong in this country and it begins with our Political leaders.
Not quite...people are not allowed into Canada from the US for tourism purposes. Actually the US is shut out of travel to almost every country in the world. Trudeau is however dragging his feet on banning travel from the UK which due to a new strain of the virus is in full lockdown. The government of Canada can't really stop people from exiting Canada. That is up to the destination country as to whether they will allow Canadians in.
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13 hours ago, livin' on the b103 said:
I happened upon a CBC report earlier this evening that defined what "Southern Ontario" and "Northern Ontario" were in the context of the total, long shutdown and the short slight lockdown meant. Looks like everything up to Sudbury is now Southern Ontario as far as total lockdown is concerned. I am so tired of this S$%$#T I can't even type this properly. This is not about sledding only, it is about taking away our lives as we knew it.
BARELY
Livin"
Far better than dying and not living at all.
13 hours ago, stoney said:The government shut down boating in the summer for a bit..... who knows what crazy $hit might be tried.
13 hours ago, stoney said:Boat launches were closed, I remember the barricades and police also stationed at them on weekends.
Actually they shut down marinas prior to the May 24 weekend but then they opened... just later than usual. They were allowed to provide docking to customers who needed it to get to water access residences during the general shut down. The local municipalities were left to decide if their public launches were open or closed. Some townships had theirs open others didn't. If you had a boat in the water and or access to a launch ramp you were able to boat.
12 hours ago, Strong Farmer said:Hailburton forest will be open as usual too, snow or low snow guaranteed. Lol
lots of lakes to ride if you know where you are going.
Not if all non-essential business is shut down.
13 hours ago, stoney said:People are getting tired of putting a big part of life on hold for a small minority that need the protection given the circumstances and it might get ugly.
I'm sure Sledjunk and his family as well as the families of the thousands who have died think differently... as would the entitled as soon as it hits someone they care about.
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55 minutes ago, Strong Farmer said:
We almost still green in southern Ontario now, no frost. I could dig a swimming pool by hand if I wanted too. I think all buildings that have added for last 20 years have changed climate locally. Drive into Kitchener this morning and there was almost no fog. In county can’t see anything. All those buildings radiate out heat into atmosphere and change Climate, no doubt. No cold weather in sight yet and almost January.
Shhh! Trudeau will want all those building torn down so he can save the world single handed... don't forget the deep concern for the methane gas given off by animals
Snowmobile Trail Closures and Problems
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Unfortunately it would become known to others and suddenly every landowner would want the same free permit or permits or something else of equivalent value if they weren't snowmobilers. I could be mistaken but I believe there are other legal implications particularly regarding liability and the insurance as soon as the landowner accepts payment for the trail crossing their property. I believe it opens the landowner to increased liability.