danbouck

Nice Job, I didn't think any operators had huts out yet. I was touring around with the oldest on the atv and stopped at old cut and there were quite a few people out.

I had a rental 2010 and it was small, stiff and had no power

Santa Claus:An Engineers Perspective I. There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per house hold, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each. II. Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second --- 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour. III. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them--- Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch). IV. 600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance --- this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accellerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to centrifugal forces of 17,500 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo. Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now.

#93 and #87

done buddy

Blizzaks are the best ones that I have had out of about 8 different kinds.

Thanks for the great morning read!

Oh I will, Apr is too far away right now though! We had our work Christmas party last night and my toast went like this "We've taken care of everything The words you hear, the songs you sing The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes. It's one for all and all for one We work together, common sons Never need to wonder how or why" Nobody had any idea what I was going on about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeVTkUUCwfo

lots of things bother me

Imagine a nice elevator in the main lodge! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPjbi3UDoYE

Since I'm about 500 feet away we may have to do a Grand canoe trip

I live a couple steps away, there's plenty of smallmouth in the river just find some overhanging trees or rocks. Seen some pike and plenty of carp too.

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Great trucks.

Forget what it's called but they go down into the bottom and act as an anchor

Nice Fish

Brought mine home yesterday, earliest ever

yep lowest I have ever seen it.

I was thinking about that but only had a couple hours to do it

As a few of you know my wife and kids went to Scotland for the last two weeks. I had a ton of things planned but instead I worked A LOT A little while ago a got me an old polaris 250 ATV and decided to get it ready for the ice fishing season. I started out with some new tires on the rear. These will be studded for the ice. Then I started building the rear box. It holds EVERYTHING, even has some padding for the passenger Got her painted up and adding weather stripping, stainless hinges and latches So today I decide that I GOTTA get out fishing, I loaded up the ATV just in case I wanted to cruise down the beach. Weather Network said North wind at 10 km/h... perfect! Got down there and it's a west wind at 50km/h Good thing I bought the ATV because I opened the boathouse door and... Boat is beached in the boathouse :wallbash: :wallbash: Now I need to wait for an east wind and get it the hell outta there. Well I ended up cruising around on the atv and found the limit for the tires Ended up coming home early and will be picking the family up at the airport tomorrow.

awesome!

They are 25" Mudgears. Reviews say they are great in the snow and sand and good in the mud, not the best but good and last forever. Seeing as how I need it for sand and snow it seemed like a good choice. Plus they look awesome!

I'll see how my popo goes with these on

Yep, Everything that I've sold on there has been stolen and the stuff I bought was stolen too

fluid changes for sure, new plugs and wires, air filter, all the regular tune up items. I wouldn't bother with a cold air intake or exhaust. You just may want the money for unexpected repairs for now. Just make sure it's running great and keep it stock for a while. If it treats you well then start adding those.