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Too bad CTC doesn't sell windows eh ! LOL I'll have to talk to Steve and see what he can do about that....

As long as you're not the one bringing the buns Joe! Wild night up here as well..went from about +6 and a total melt down to a flash freeze and wind gusts that must have been topping 80K as I can't remember the last time the house windows rattled so hard and even the roof/house was creaking from gust loads keeping us up most the night. Currently gustin 54K out of the s/w and -10C Canadar eh !

Naaa.. that's what the $750 Golden Retriever is for !

'tis why I have GPS in the plane Joe... I'm not gonna try that "game" again. I prefer the ...enter the airport indentifier and have it tell me where to go!

Yes it was Darren and Brunswick/Mercury bought them out and it just took awhile (toooo long awhile) before they got smart enough to toast the line! The Force Outboard brand was born in the early 1980's when US Marine, the parent company of Bayliner Boats, purchased the old Chrysler Outboard factory and tooling located in Hartford, Wisconsin. Bayliner was the first nationwide company to introduce packaged outboard rigs in which the outboard motor, the boat and a trailer were sold as a single item. Arriving at dealerships fully assembled, these packages were great timesavers for dealers that previously had to custom rig bare hulls with specific engines and accessories chosen by the boats' buyers. Although Force Outboards lacked the technological sophistication of the major outboard brands, their price advantage was significant. Thousands of families discovered their love for boating through these inexpensive Bayliner entry-level outboard boats. In the mid-1980's US Marine was acquired by industry giant Brunswick Corporation (Mercury, Mercruiser, Sea Ray, etc.). The Force Outboard brand quickly benefited from the resources of its big brother Mercury, and all production was soon moved to Mercury's plants. Force Outboards became available on boat brands other Bayliner at dealerships nationwide. The changing marketplace, diminished price advantages and pending government regulations resulted in the decision to discontinue the Force brand in 1999. Parts and service have become more and more difficult for Force owners to find since then.

Looked like a fun and rewarding outing Monty!

It's been talked about here before Rick... you wuz just too busy out chasin them wimmins ! Now about them free tickets.....

Okay...bid on what you want. I'm done for a few days!

Thanks Roy... I'm sure Cory meant no harm and was just razing me about my tackle buying habits, but this is the second time this auction has been linked from here this week, by people knowing that I was bidding on it, and doing so did manage to bring one browser out of the wood work to bid on their first item in over 5 years. I know what I'm willing to pay for this collection and it will wait 'til the last minute. If I get them.. I get them and if I don't.. well I don't need them.............................. and besides there's a never ending supply from somewhere at all times!

Ya know... sooner or later every one of these "idot" threads melts down and folks end up with pie in their face !

Nope... scrap the link please!

There's fish in the West Arm? Since when? Maybe we, or at least I, need to start following doubleheader around.

Next time you're in this situation... tie a piece of line to the side of your boat/dock/coffee table and the other to your handy dandy fish weight scale and pull slowly watching the scale 'till it breaks...and see if they're in the ball park to what it's supposed to be.

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No problems Stan... it's gonna be when the flash freeze comes that it's gonna get interesting. Thank God I shovelled the wings off the three airplanes out in the tie downs yesterday... when I saw it was starting to look like good iglo building snow. Estimate I took about 5000 lbs of snow off each airplane and I think today they would have collapsed with the added moisture content.

Yep... as Maureen points out it just rained up here and rained HARD it did. Gonna be some collapsed roofs in the area for sure with over three feet of snow compacted into 18" and soaking wet.

What a messy melt down once again. Just moved the two feet of snow that came crashing down off most of the roofs around here and slop 'ing the slush out of the laneway. Remember that bent storage trailer of mine...well it is now a garbage compactor ! And here... now it's a fishing post...

Hopefully it's just a clogged pipe from house to tank... thanks to "things" that aren't supposed to be flushed down septic systems. Should be a theaded plug clean out port just inside the wall on the main pipe to the tank...if it was plumbed to code. That's the next step if you find that the tank is not backed up, once you find the thing that is.

He was just re-confirming his pre-scouting trip..... to be sure you'd be on fish when you arrive Steve! Nice couple of days for sure gone fishin !

If you want straight fishing... go check out angling f an a tics. Might take a week between each post...but it will be fishing! Either that or when the next beer bash is. It's winter...ice season isn't in full swing and these NF posts fill the "off season" EVERY year to keep us entertained. If people can't find joy in another members happiness...then try valium.

Hope it pulls your boat to your favourite fishing hole Cliff ! Hows that Krawler ?

Why I suggested a crow bar point and pushing. Remember your pipes are plastic in most cases!! Most tanks have clean outs on BOTH ends guys.....so you can clean out on both sides of the chamber baffle. Older and most easy access location tanks are cement...and so are the covers..with rebar poured into them for handles.

Foxes get to be pretty large and I've had a rabbid one on my arm, to know it first hand, while reaching back to throw a hay bail at 15 yrs old. Had a second set and type of Rabbies shots in '94 thanks to another huge fox that attacked our 12 week old Lab in the back yard of our old house just up the road. I watch foxes on almost a daily basis in our yard and use to have a mother that would walk in one man door of my hangar and out the other, with food in it's mouth...to save the trip around the structure........and the temptation to use the M1 is there at all times! We have coyotes in the yard too...and they don't walk like that.

If I had to be on just one and some mystical power wouldn't let me leave it's borders... I could fish Fushimi 'till I died. But since that ain't gonna happen....I'll drop onto as many as I can muster in the years to come.