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In 2016 we decided to sell our split level and have our pole barn house built, my wife repainted every room and we had the living room and stairs recarpeted and put the snap together flooring in the kitchen and dining room, less than $1000 total, we had the realtor appraise our house to put it...

I have had a few Z71 and none of them had any lockers, at least not switched lockers, I know my 2wd, non Z71, would lock the rear of I put it in low gear

After 21 years as a volunteer fireman, I learned to not care what people let their kids do, it’s not my problem. I’ve been to the call where the dad backed over his kid and killed him pulling him in a sled in the snow with his truck, I’ve been to the call where the kid fell off the mower riding...

Buckets and grapple are outside but inside we keep our food vending trailer hooked up to our 1 ton Duramax in the right foot center door is the daily driver 1/2 ton and left door is the John Deere and side by side, John Deere sits between the doors though

I typically use a glass out of the cupboard

Neighbor has a 16’ dump trailer that I have hauled my 2032R in and it also has 6 tire down points

What if there is no river even close to where they put the snow? Our city dumps it in the county Fairgrounds parking lot, not a river even close to that.

They do take them off road, at least I see them off road, we took a new Jeep Gladiator off road when we bought it.

I have owned and driven jeeps for 45 years, latest one is a Gladiator, out to Montana and back and down to Texas and back, no problems at all on the highways at 80mph.

I don’t know how to tell if they are abandoned, I know people still have land lines at home

Nope

Same with my tractor, 0% interest so I financed the balance after the trade in.

I get it, we paid cash for our but not everybody can. And I’m sure some don’t care, life is to short to not have fun. We started our food truck business in 2010 with cash and I was laid off but we could still pay our bills with unemployment.

Believe it or not, not everyone can pay cash for a toy

Just saying a lot of these are sold but not everyone finances them.

The dust is another reason we have the Defender Limited, hardly any dust at all. So you must not smoke or drink or gamble then? I think that is pissing away money, we have had 3 wheelers, atv’s and side by sides for 45 years. We like to have fun though. We have the 4 door Can am with heat...

What state are you in again?

My wife’s brother and his wife, both born and raised in Minnesota, now spend winters in Florida and think we are nuts for staying here in the winter, they think everyone should think like they do and when you retire you should have a place in the south, they can’t believe we like the snow and cold.

I don’t know what option B is, but I help any of my neighbors that need it, pulled their trucks out of snow banks before or help shovel the roof or help pick up a fallen tree.

Sounds like a lonely boring life.

About the same here, 1500 sqft house, big attached garage and we like the 4 seasons. I retired in 2020 and we could move but we almost enjoy winter more than summer. We do go south in the winter the past 4 years but only for a couple weeks to watch some races and eat BBQ.

Me too

Most of them you do, but the one I got is not John Deere. It was from good Works tractors in Michigan. You don’t need any bushings on it.

I wasn’t going to get one but I got sick of wrestling with the 3-point arms to put the ballast box on, not I just back up to it and raise the 3-point and it hooks up

6-1/4 acres mostly wooded some wetland in central Minnesota.

I have 6 acres so I’d never run out of room to put the snow

What is a snow dump?

About 8” overnight, it all slid off the back roof at about 6 this morning. It’s still coming down heavy.

I’ll believe it when I see it but this is what they predict for us. I’m in the 18”-24” Either way it don’t matter to me, I like the snow, I like plowing snow, and I don’t work

What is a pod kit?

About 8” overnight, more coming Sunday and Monday they say. Plowed with the side by side

What kind of ministry has a chainsaw trailer?

You guys with the stihi hard hat with face shield and ear protection does it stay on when you bend over to pick up something off the ground? I wore a hard hat for about 30 years working but didn’t have a face shield and ear protection and the helmet on the fire department the helmet had a strap.

Not worth driving a hour for diesel. I use the mudflap app on diesel anyways so I do save money on it.

I never see a Costco with diesel

Firestick? What is it?

Ok. Just curious. I’m too cheap to buy a expensive TV

How do you know when the new models come out?

They told me if they have to come clean my gutters they will clean them and give me my money back I tried a couple different brands from the big box stores and they would not handle the volume of water off of our metal roof, the leaf guards have handled the pouring rain so far.

I want (hope) it to last forever, or at least until after we sell the business.

Depending when I buy it, Mobile or Honda oil, usually stop at Northern Tool and get a bunch of oil at a time. No deep fryer’s, just 2 commercial smokers to smoke everything.

The manual says every 100 hours, the first roughly 2500 hours I did it 100-140 hours, since then it is every 90-110 hours. Hard to be exactly 100 because it is on our food truck and we might be using it when it hits 100 hours.

Not sure how they work, but the one on our Honda shows low oil as soon as I turn the key when I’m changing it to try and check the hours while the oil is draining. Over 4700 hours on ours that we bought in 2012

Probably hard to do 12’ doors with a 12’ ceiling

2 posts, you building two pole barns?

What is a EE?

What good is windshield washer’s with no wipers? Why leave the windshield wet?

I have rode forever also but we call them snowmobiles here. There were ditchbanger races yesterday about 10 miles south of me, thought about going to watch but we were busy and grandkids basketball games.

Are we the only ones that call them snowmobiles here in Minnesota?

We have a 2020 3500 Silverado that is usually hooked up to our food vending trailer and up until two weeks ago a 2021 Jeep Gladiator, traded that in for a 2021 Silverado 1500. We could probably get by with one vehicle, but then we would have to unhook the vending trailer every time when we are...

We had strays coming around when we built here in 2016 and my wife was feeding a couple of them then all of a sudden we had skunks and raccoons and possums eating the cat food also so I had her quit feeding the stray cats

What is a radiator belt?

In my opinion, a quick look at the video shows it’s from a gaming video.

So was he hauling the placebo wrong at his pick up truck?

We can get free wood chips from tree services also but I worry about bugs in the trees

I love driving our Jeep Mojave fast on dirt roads, handles them perfect.

I leave the jar on its side for a day and it stirs in about 30 seconds with a knife.

The wife and I did that once, the company I worked for payed for the bus ride and lunch so we thought, why not, it’s free for us, we didn’t realize we would be there for 5 hours, we were bored after a half hour or as soon as we were done eating lunch. Never again

the thermostat was on the wall, the controls on the actual unit under the widow did nothing

We were there for the Chili Bowl for four nights and the first three nights the heat turned off and on overnight now and then if I was awake, I would hear it turn on or if I was going to the bathroom I would hear it turn on but Saturday night we got back from the race late so we didn’t sleep the...

The motel looked good on the internet. That was it though.

An inch an hour means nothing if we don't know how long it snowed We were in Tulsa for the Chili Bowl Wednesday through Saturday and left Sunday morning, we were going to go south to Texas but they were supposed to be just as cold as Minnesota so we went back home, glad we left a 6:00 am, motel...

Boy, some of you guys are set in your ways aren’t you?

Nobody says you don’t need a cab. The original poster wants a cab so it’s up to him. I don’t get some of you guys thinking everybody needs the same thing as everyone else has.

I know most of you will argue this to death and cannot believe everyone doesn’t think pallet forks are the first things the whole world should buy.

Some are going to argue this to death and insist everyone needs pallet forks. I have a grapple also and a bolt on hook on my bucket and a chain.

I get it but in 10 years I have never needed a set. And the one neighbor has had a skid steer for 20 years and he don’t have pallet forks, he has about everything else but no pallet forks.

I plow with my side by side but if I did use a snow blower I would use a front mount blower, I hate driving over the snow before I blow it off the driveway. I disagree, two neighbors and myself both have had tractors for many years and none have us have pallet forks.

So do you think everyone should have a cab then?

I’m guessing because it’s his money his decision will be the best for him because that’s what he decided to buy? Obviously, many of us change our decision a couple years later, and buy something different whether it be bigger or smaller or have a cab or not have a cab, I live where it gets 20...

I’ve watched this old house probably from the beginning, I do agree they go way overboard but I do enjoy the show especially because we DVR it and I can fast forward through the crap I don’t want to see but if I remember right, it was eight Wells. It also was piped through the water heater to...

How many holes did they have to drill? They are doing one of them on This Old House and I can’t remember but I think they drilled eight holes 800’ deep, that can’t be cheap.

Maybe he gets 30° below zero where he lives I’m not sure if I looked where he lives or where he lives, I’ve got a side-by-side with heat and air conditioning because I can, I plow snow in Minnesota with the side-by-side with heat, I don’t have a cab on my tractor because I’m in the woods a lot...

And it is his money.

That’s kind of a specific date that a builder thinks your house will be done in about 11 months on November 24th.

42 years married and neither one of us wears a wedding ring. I did construction and she did hair for 37 years and didn’t like the ring catching on the hair the first week we were married.

A pheasant farm did that about 30 years ago around here when I was on the fire department, 300 acres and three houses later we had the fire put out.

Tell them what my buddy tells them, “why don’t you exchange phone numbers and call each other tonight”

We see eagles almost everyday but yesterday we drove by a field with over 25 Bald Eagles in the trees. There are 2, sometimes 3 that sit in a tree across the 4 lane highway from us also. And 2 hawks and a young one live in our woods.

That is a typical scrappers truck

For sell? Isn’t it for sale?

What is tso? The google machine didn’t come up with anything that I saw.

What is lbi?

It’s only money. Can make more tomorrow. It’s not for me but it ain’t my money. My buddies think I’m nuts spending $32,000 on a side by side yet they can drink and play pull tabs every weekend

And wheel chocks. I’m guessing the floor disappeared under the front of the truck.

You must not read it all, he has one ordered already.

I would speed up and move in front of them then

You would think that would be a lot of leverage on the bolts

We use them a couple times in the back of the side by side trail riding and then throw them away.

How long do the boards have to dry before you can or want to use them?

Yeah. Screenshot help. I get no ads.

On foreign cars? I’ve never seen any on any car.

I started the keto diet February 1st and am down 67 lbs since then, I weigh i myself about every other Sunday morning

They don’t work for you or for anybody?

I don’t agree with that saying. I have to be happy also, luckily, my wife knows that.

My Jeep Gladiator I can turn the screen off if I want to.

To me it sounds like the complainer needs a walk in freezer.

I agree with you but these guys like to argue and there opinion is the correct one in there opinion.

No. I’m saying sometimes they don’t slow down just because the police quit pursuing them.

I’m not arguing against myself. I’ve got friends and family in law enforcement, they have had to deal with calling off a chase and having a innocent bystander get killed 5 to 10 minutes later because the bad guy is still driving like a mad man

That’s easy to say when it’s not your relative that gets killed from a chase that they quit chasing. You must know my wife’s brothers. They also have an answer for everything and are never wrong.

How do you know it will stop? What if they kill someone? Then whose fault is it? What do you expect them to do on a chase? Let people go?

Did you really think I was serious? You didn’t see the winking emoji?

stylish and whose opinion? Some people like the look of a jeep or a bronco or a Toyota or whatever vehicle they like.

Black electrical tape will cover that. 😏

My wife used to ***** about the snow and cold weather, about 12 years ago when we had a few grandkids and a few more coming I told her I talked with the sprinkler union in Florida and they will let me transfer in and go to work immediately, pack up we will move. She said we can’t move we have...

Move south. I couldn’t live where I hate the weather, to me it’s not worth living where you hate living, Life is too short.

This was about 2 in the morning and as we were waiting for the state patrol to measure everything before we washed the highway since it was a commercial vehicle they have to do more investigating a suburban was going south in the northbound lanes, one of the state troopers took off after him but...

when I was on the Fire Dept, we got called to a semi versus pedestrian accident. We had to wash off about 200 feet of highway.

I get it but I’ve seen lots of blood from animals on the road and one time on the fire department we had a truck roll about 4 times and come to rest upside down, I had to run to the auto parts store and get a 50lb bag of floor dry for the blood on the road. I’m guessing gravity played a big part...

So some of these deer must still have a beating heart when I see 30 feet of highway covered in blood

How quick after it dies won’t it bleed?

The highway sure gets bloody while everyone runs over a dead deer though.

Been retired 3-1/2 years now, can’t ever see myself going south for the winter. Who knows though.

There was two ways into the development, they lived on the north side I worked south, normally never drive out or back in that way

Just as a poorly placed snow fence doesn’t help. We had a neighbor about 15 years ago put the snow fence along the edge of the driveway, after a big storm they had about 5’ of snow in the driveway and paid a guy with a pay loader to come and move the snow and cut the snow fence out, the posts...

It’s been that way forever in Minnesota, people think we will be stranded at home and starve to death so the stores are busy if a storm is predicted. I’ve never been stranded at home because of snow but I’m only 62 so there is still some time

Correct. I have checked with the DNR here in Minnesota and was shown the definition.

If we could use tracked side by side on snowmobile trails I would have tracks, I live right by the trails.

I’m guessing it’s because they know you. I would guess I would have to show my ID to get $10,000 from your account

Doesn’t the bank have to open it up and count it to make sure it’s not washers or something else? Seems kind of a waste to roll it if they have to open it. Luckily my bank just lets me bring in a jar and they dump it in the counter.

We have been at the same bank my wife has had a savings and checking at for 50 years now. It is a Bremer bank now, don’t have a clue how big Bremer is but all the workers are local people that we see all the time, never have a problem there, w deposit cash there once a week and once a year we...

I usually fill with Def when I’m filling the diesel at the pump but not always so that is good to know.

I have to remind my wife all the time when I ask her something, I’ll interrupt her and say it’s just a yes or no question

Why does everyone one with a dog have to say how much it weighs?

I’m in central Minnesota, many still have LP tanks they have to get filled and a bunch still burn wood. We had our shouse built in 2016 and the one thing I wish I would have did different was to put a gas water heater and gas dryer also, instead both are electric so our gas bill is just for the...

We heat about 3200 sqft, about 1600 in house and 1600 in garage and we keep both about 70°, budget plan, $93.00 payment to gas company for 12 months.

Smokers are wood fired, gas assist but the food warmers draw a decent amount.

We have it in the tongue of our food vending trailer and many times people ask where we are getting power from because they don’t hear it.

This reminds me that I have to get a price on a transfer switch and cord for the house. We have a EU6500 on a vending trailer I can use if I needed it.

I'm guessing you don't like unions. I worked union construction in Minnesota, if you did nothing but stand around you didn't have a job, nobody protected us. Part of the standing around is certain guys or certain unions do certain work on jobs

How are Union guys harder on equipment than nonunion guys? I agree with this

I know my limits but on my 2025r I had a branch come up through the opening and rip the u-hook off the hood, never realized it until I went to shut the hood and it wouldn't latch so I made this as soon as I traded tractors.

I ended up making one. $40 for expanded metal at Menards and a can of John Deere green paint and four pins, about $60 total into it, I think it looks good.

I have seen thousands, although I have a nephew that harvest the honey to make mead

No. I drive a Jeep, catches every bug in the world it seems

So everybody should sell their horses and their trailers just because you think it’s not worth the money? I’m guessing we all have hobbies that cost a lot more than anyone would spend on just a hobby, but it’s only money, can make more tomorrow.

So you have no expensive hobbies? I’ve got more money in jeeps and ATVs than just the horse trailer, not even counting the horses.

I had a buddy that is 30 years older than his wife, I told him eventually the math don’t work correct, he asked what I meant, I said that eventually 70 don’t go into 40.

I probably watch some TV daily, most of it M*A*S*H or matlock but no commercials, we dvr everything we watch

My John Deere dealer is about 5 miles north of my house.

If you think about it, do any of us need anything we have? Many people do just fine without tractor’s or trucks or side by sides, I’m guessing we don’t need them but they are what we work for. I didn’t work hard to just sit in the couch and watch the TV I don’t even really need because in the...

So does that mean every 7 minutes you have to empty it?

You typically have to transfer all the ice from these to a freezer because they usually don’t have any refrigeration to keep the ice cold built in

Kids should be at a distance when there’s any power equipment around whether it’s a skid steer, tractor backhoe, anything in my opinion. Too many people think it’s not going to happen to them but 21 years on a fire department I know it happens when you least expect it and it can happen to anyone.

He already bought a ford diesel.

In Minnesota you might as well get the one ton, the yearly license renewal is cheaper

Why would it take 2-3 years to build? Supply shortage?

72° with 66° dew point in central Mn.

Be smart, do the paperwork and money transaction at the police station

It must be because you are at a bigger name bank in my opinion. We bank at Bremer Bank, don’t know how big they are but there are a bunch in Minnesota. We own a food truck and go in regularly with a few thousand in cash and never have a question asked. Even during the supposed pandemic when...

Ok. I don’t use bug spray or Sun screen, never have. I guess I get lucky, we have rode motorcycles for 40 years and ATVs and I never really burn. I just get tan.

In our opinion, life is to short to stay inside if it is hot or cold, I get bored doing nothing, we still get outside and have fun

Sounds like you need a swimming pool

What is matting? To use it as a mat to walk on?

The first quote he said what it was for last week.

Same here, when we were in St. Louis Missouri, I didn’t even go up in the arch, but the wife did, no way I’m riding in that little thing up to the arch.

How do you thread bolts onto threaded rod? With a rod coupling?

Depends who you ask, I don’t think they are political

Same here. It is why I end up ignoring some people on a forum when all they do is ad politics to a post.

We don’t know where here is.

Show me you guys sound like grumpy old men. I don’t mind helping a neighbor out. We are good friends. We do a lot together and I know he has the money. He just didn’t have it on a Sunday.

I agree but some here say to never borrow family or friends some money

This is the second time I’ve loaned Neighbor money and both times both neighbors paid me back. We also borrowed our son $25,000 to pay some medical bills he’s paying me $1000 a month to pay back.

How would he know who did it he don’t have any cameras?

I am a trusting person, but I also do have the code for his garage and he works and I am retired so I could clean out his garage and take all his expensive tools if I had to get my money. I can read most people fairly well, years ago i used to manage a grocery store for about 20 years, I could...

Yes, their bank is a long ways away, we live in Minnesota. They moved here from Utah three years ago, and for some reason they still bank in Utah I don’t get it. And like I said in my earlier post, I get that they don’t owe me a meal but I just handed them $5600 and I know they have it to pay...

Yeah, they borrow the money on a Sunday and paid us back Friday night, he drives a lot for work and has a gas card from work but hast to use his own vehicle and he didn’t like that he was putting 800 miles a week on his 2022 truck so he bought a car to drive with a lot of miles on it to put the...

Not the same thing but it reminded me of a Sunday a couple weeks ago, the neighbor friends know the wife and I might have some cash at home, they come over a couple Sundays ago and said they went and looked at a car on marketplace and would like to buy it and wondered if the wife and I would...

if it is licensed as a rv some states don't require any special license.

many people want to. There are all kinds of horse trailer rv's around. Some people even sleep in a rv that hauls atv's

I’ve never noticed it, I’ll pay attention next time.

What does a coffee drinker smell like?

Both the wife and I have never tried coffee

can't people have there own opinion if they can watch tv or not?

do you drain the gas out of cars before you park them in the garage?

I have a pension and healthcare for life through my union, there is no corporate takeover.

I agree it’s fear mongering, the way they talked years ago as Social Security would never be available when I retired, I retired four years ago and September 1st I’ll turn 62 and start collecting Social Security so it lasted a lot longer than they made us think it was going to last or not going...

Everyone tells me gooseneck is the one to buy, then most of your buddies can’t borrow it.

Yes

Glad I’m not missing anything then, we have a twitter account for our business, what we post on facebook also goes on twitter but I have never looked at twitter.

I guess I didn’t think most people watched commercials. We don’t watch allot of TV but even we do it is something we recorded and can skip the commercials.

Sex

How do they access your cards? 4% casback on gas with Citicard. Already have $186.00 coming back next year from gas and other purchases. Almost $800.00 back in February from last year spending.

Honda is not belt driven

How? What is BK?

I sure wouldn’t, that’s why I buy the Honda instead, who would wanna listen to that noise traveling across the United States?

They can still shut your water off at the street

Why not?

What does this even mean? Banded? In Minnesota utv’s can ride on the official trails and on the shoulder of a two lane road but not a highway. How does a car in front of a loud bike hear loud pipes off the pipes come out the back of the cycle? If loud pipes save lives why do people get hit...

Must not be that way in Minnesota. My driveway is about 150’ gas meter is on my house, neighbors driveway is about 600’ gas meter is on the house. We all have our own wells so no pit for water in the yard unless they have underground sprinklers. House’s in the city limits don’t have pits either...

Is that just in your state?

don't know if you are answering me or not but I live in Minnesota, we have no pit for our natural gas or water.

Why do they go in a pit?

I’m not the new generation, I’m 61 years old, but with our 1 ton crew cab 6 1/2 foot box I can haul everything I need to haul in the box and still pull a big trailer to go for wheeling with 4 atv’s and haul three other people in the vehicle with me to ride the four wheelers. Everybody has...

I don’t care about mileage, so I rarely check it but the couple times I have I get about 15 in the gladiator, not towing with the Duramax I get 18 to 22. Not complaining because like I said, I don’t care about the mileage typically I just like comfort

Our 1 ton duramax gets better mileage than our Jeep Gladiator.

Our son is a little over 6’11” and he drives a 2 door 1 ton work truck, he had a 1 ton van but told the boss it killed his knees in that van so they bought him a truck.

I agree, I usually have 300-500 cash on me and it’s never burning a hole in my pocket. Our credit card is paid off usually weekly just because I don’t want to forget and pay interest. In fact the only reason we have the credit card is for the cash back, it’s the Citi Card from Costco and we got...

I just don’t get why some people are so against cash or even other people using cash? What does it matter if I want to keep using cash, but some people think nobody should.