OhioFisherman

LOL Lew! Might find a nice pole at the mall Rich?

Trees make it easier but just hanging the feeder from a hook or treated 4x4 post in the ground will also work. Like mentioned it takes a little time for them to find the food stop, once they do they will become used to it. LOL I have 4 feeders in my back yard along a row of pine trees, all hold between 2 and 3 liters of bird seed, they can empty them in a day. Pretty normal for me to go thru 50 pounds of bird food a month. TSC sells it cheap in 40 and 50 pound bags. Make sure you have them high enough of the ground 4 feet or more, they can become cat feeders. Nice thing about trees nearby like pine the birds can go on them the cats have some trouble getting to them. TG gave me a hint last year also plant some sun flowers, different for me though country with over 4 acres of land plenty of room to do stuff like that where it`s out of the way. I let about 1 1/2 acres of my back yard return to a more natural state starting about 8 years or so ago. Just saw no need to cut over 4 acres of grass and I like to see the animals. I cut a path 20-30 feet around the edge but the center is animal zone. Didn`t plant anything, but stuff started growing on it`s own. Blackberries, wild strawberries, bushes of some kind and starting to get some small trees in it now. All kinds of small animal paths entering the field a safe place for them as I don`t hunt, just enjoy watching them. Rabbits, Pheasants, Deer bed in the field at night, just flat land that was a farmers field. LOL maybe I am reducing urban sprawl?

Terry, don`t quote me on this but diesel is a denser fuel, I think they can get more gasoline out of a barrel of oil that diesel fuel. Home heating oil is closer to diesel fuel than gasoline, one of the reasons a lot of owners-operators here used to live in the country where they used home heating oil to heat their homes. Some found it`s way into the fuel tanks of the truck to lose the 40+cents a gallon highway use tax. None in home heating oil. They do check, diesel has a dye in it, home heating oil doesn`t, they don`t check often though. They also like to see receipts to match amounts of fuel purchased to amount of miles driven. Anything way out of line can raise a red flag. Truck scale stations along the highways do more than just weigh the trucks to ensure legal limits are observed. They are a convenient place for enforcement officers to examine loads, check logs, inspect the safety of the vehicle.

Just watching some of the experts talking about the quoted wages for the auto company employees on TV yesterday, there is a certain amount of agreement they are misleading. The retirement pay and medical costs of all the retired Auto workers are included in those figures. There was a bit of a discussion of the pension cost now hitting them, because congress here didn`t require them to properly fund their pension plans. Also the fact that we don`t have them same type of medical coverage as Canada. The minimum wage in Brazil is around 250 bucks a month. The auto workers there make between 500-900 dollars a month and get around 900 hours training from the company, so some education is needed. Could you live on 500-900 a month? You know where the profits wind up. Just gets to the question if you will be happy seeing your jobs out sourced by your politicians until your wages reach the level of some of the 3rd world nations? Their governments seemed to have failed them. Congress here is fond of passing legislation and not properly funding said measures, eg. social security, medicare, other pet projects move to the front of the line over time. Never owned a foreign car and never a lemon, only 2 new cars, pretty good with a wrench at one time so my cars were what I expected and fairly priced for what I got out of them. Politicians spin things, the root cause in their opinion is the housing crisis and loans made to people that couldn`t afford them, you have to consider, if you lose your job and can`t find another, can you keep your home? Like 2 million jobs will be lost here this year alone, and figures aren`t entirely accurate, actual number is higher, and the replacement jobs found by many pay much less, with less benefits, a downward spiral.

Wild I am in the States, estimates here for illegal aliens are between 12 and 20 million, no one knows for sure. Talk about secure borders? A lot of them are employed by employers that don`t pay social security or taxes, pay them cash at the end of the day or week. They can`t complain or it`s no work. A lot of not so funny things go on here.

Like 22,000 jobs cuts announced yesterday alone, and more expected. 6.7 percent unemployment rate is not an accurate figure, just includes people out looking for work, not people that have given up or those under employed. Actual figures estimated to be near 13 percent and increasing, not a time to lose a couple million Auto related jobs when jobs losses are predicted to be over a million next year without Auto jobs losses. Exporting jobs isn`t quite the deal it was sold to be? This is starting to affect every thing here, they are fishing for a way to stop it and need to catch a bright idea. Washington though, they are the ones that let it slip through there fingers.

CCMT ya you seem to have it right, demand is way down and expected to drop more, prices could get to 1-1.25 a gallon here as predicted by the experts. OPEC is supposed to meet to lower supply, but if there is no demand prices still won`t rise much. Prices should remain lower as long as the recession is continuing, maybe a rise for the summer driving season. Still not a time to buy a gas guzzler if you don`t need one, rising oil prices might be a marker the recession is ending, but I don`t look for that soon.

Just some tough times ahead, numbers for next year are also gloomy, unusual for retail to be losing jobs in November, a time when they are usually doing some hiring for the Holiday shopping. No one yet seems to have a good plan to fix the problem, just rumors of job creation when the next Prez shows up for work. You have to think the tourism industry will be affected to a degree. A time to consider spending choices.

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I don`t ice fish but have use minnows for bait a lot. Depending on what you are fishing for, eg. panfish a light wire aberdeen hook is fine. I usually hooked my minnows under the dorsal fin also when still fishing, thru the lips for casting or trolling, some times just run it thru the mouth and out the gill plate. A lot of different qualities by brand in hooks, some have no strength compared to others of the same style and size, they bend too easily if you happen to catch a species you weren`t fishing for. Thicker wire does more damage to the bait, they don`t last as long or swim as naturally.

LOL Great Norm! The problem is a little deeper than that though. Some bad moves by all parties involved, including our government. Maybe the auto companies spent this election cycles campaign contributions to charter jets to fly to Washington? That would really tick off the powers there. My personal favorite is when they put taxes on the people to build stadiums for billionaires to sit in and watch their millionaire players.

http://www.propertyroom.com/ No I haven`t tried it, caught it on the news this morning. Items supposedly sold as is.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-1...r-attacks_x.htm Big powerful animal, I don`t want to to close unless I am absolutely sure it is dead.

Dang Ponto, I lip them!

That is the problem with a lot of the big box stores, they only stock what they want to sell you, what generates the most profits for them. The mom and pop smaller stores may actually have what you want or need.

....You stink! wink.gif LOL Glen, say it ain`t so! Got to remember us yanks are in a warmer climate and the heat can bake the brain!

Dang like a lot of them? Bigger than the ones I have see down here I think.

No problems for me with older models, D1300 D1600, haven`t bought any newer ones in a lot of years,

Any one know what the yellow things are around the inside of the boat? Thanksgiving weekend was the latest in the year for me to fish, toys got put away after that, no trips up north after the last week of September. Fish eat all year, certain times of the year make catching food tougher on them, bigger fish the metabolism usually slows faster than bait fish except maybe for trout and salmon. If food is available in quantities and easy to catch they will continue to eat., they will eat anything they catch if it makes a mistake. Buddies have had real nice days on the water in December here for bass when the water temp was under 40F, using lures.

Huge fish in great condition, I don`t need people breaking out micrometers for me to give them a "hats off" a "hats off" for the live release with as little extra stress to the fish is enough for me. Props dude! That is what the sport should be about!

Great! Never seen one in the wild.

Tend to agree, poaching, taking under size fish, to many fish, take the boat and gear. Same with the drug thing, better the people doing it fund enforcement than the law biding taxpayers. Cars seized in the area all the time here, major east-west highway and north-south highway nearby. When you see some of the police reports in the papers of how they got caught? better they didn`t have a car!

A lot of trouble to dig up some worms.

Thanks friends! Dinner at three.

Get well soon Rick! You have helped a lot of us!