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Thanks for the laugh John! As I pulled into Cambridge today, to pick up the GMC, I knew that I needed at least 100 liters to fill the tank. Then stood there clicking the pump at 90 bucks trying to figure out what was going on.... been a long time since gas was under 90 cents!! As to the OP's head scratching as to where the hitch is... sounds like Dodge has followed GM's farce of a "trailering package". A blue wire.. and an orange wire run thru the frame for you to hook up and a tranny cooler, nothing else. With my F150.. a trailering package included everything and a prewired dual 7 and 4 prong receptacle. Only thing that was an option was the electric brake controller, that I got installed for free. Good to hear you're getting some great mileage though G!

Just fillet it like any other fish.. EXCEPT... you MUST then cut the dark meat (blood line and muscle) off all the pieces. Then coat / batter / how ever you like your pickerel or any other fish and deep fry. Tastes like anything else if you get rid of that dark mush!

Well I learned today... that I can get 16.9 litres / 100 KM with my F150 x 5.0 coyote engine, in 4 wheel drive.... while towing a '98 GMC sierra on a tow dolly ;o)

Jen doing well.. she slept on the living room couch Wednesday and Thursday nights, outside our bedroom door. Wouldn't take our bed, but didn't want me to carry her upstairs either to her own bedroom. Last night she climbed the 18 steps to the second floor and came back down this afternoon on her own, using the railing and one forearm crutch. Here's a shot from the pre-op room, waiting to go in for her surgery on Tuesday. Her brother sure needs a hair cut... but I can't say anything as I was worse as a youngster! As for Jen, looks like she has lots of hair, but Radiation cleaned almost her entire head of hair away. Everything under the hat is bald, and she has just a perimeter of hair left.

Great outing guys... wish I could have joined you!

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That's about right.. I tow my 2150 Baron with the cruise set at 122 kph. Non issue... well 'til Tybo blows by towing his Pro V at 135 ! lol

I hear you Terry... many times I was doing the powered 4 wheel drift last night coming home from the city! Only works with traction control OFF !

And believe it or not we all just rolled in the door at 9pm, just 30 hours after surgery!... and I'd bought theatre tickets for tonight's 7:30 show at the Royal Alexander as a surprise BDay present for Leah! At 3 they said she was going home (just 24 hrs after coming out of surgery).. so I started looking for someone I knew in the city that I could pawn or give my tickets to... at 4 the Nurse came in and said "no she's not going home until tomorrow" so I stopped looking for someone thinking we could go again. At 5pm the Doctor came in and said "things look great... she can go home" and at 5:30 we were on our way out the door with no time to get someone the tickets or them downtown for 7pm! Things went well... tumours are gone and she's doing okay. A bit sore, but who wouldn't be after having three holes cut in her left side / back and her lung deflated.

Learned later tonight that they not only looked around with the video camera thru her outer incisions, they put it down her trach tube as well and explored the inside of her lungs and saw nothing of interest! Nothing else new showed on her CT from last Friday either. Tumours removed from her lung were the +side of 1.6 and 1.5 cm.

Well as, our, luck would have it... Jen was delayed to surgery by a double lung transplant this morning, but finally got in around 1:30pm and was all done before 3 which had us a tad worried they may not have been able to do everything. Doctor came out at 3... all went extremely well. On her lung deflation the two tumours moved away from her heart and stayed completely with the lung for easy removal. No sign of attachment to her heart. She's now being moved into a room here at TGH on the 10th floor @ 4:15. Just waiting to be allowed in to see her!

Toronto General has again proven itself to be the most efficient hospital in the past 5 years. ~ 4 hour pre-op completed with a never ending rotation of nurses, anesthesiologists and staff. Including a pre-surgery consult with physio and an Xray. In at 10:30.. out at 3:15 with no waiting to see anyone. Can only hope tomorrow goes just as smooth to remove her two lung tumours.

Not disputing that Brian... looks like someone hammered it into the ice, but that should only change the blade angle and make it not cut right. I'll look at mine when I get home... but that could be Thursday or next week... unknown at this time!

My jiffy 9" ripper bolts in on top.. just like that one. I'm not home so can't check any other angles. Wobble is generally the center peg being ice or dinged.. not the ripper.

Art, what is your mileage in the ecoboost F150?.. I had a cop at a ride check call me a .... ...... after sticking his head in and reading my 5.0 coyote fuel read out that was sitting at 11.8 l / 100 km when he stopped me, as his ecobust (as he called it) was going through 18+ / 100 km. Since then, now 2 years, mine has crept up to using about 13 / 100 km on average highway city. Highway only is still about 11.9.. pulling the 2150 Lund Leah keeps it below 16 l / 100 km. I can't do it.. but she always seems to.

One word of caution... the newer trucks.. at least my F150, the "bumpers" are decorative and are about 3 layers thicker than tinfoil. Only jack on the trailer hitch or the front hook spots.

Yep... farmall Jack for sure.. lift.. shovel.. lower ! Been there many times in the plow truck and once the exhaust heats that snow up you're done without one.

I never measured it.. but looks like the center of my 18" wheel + the tire.. so about 16/17 inches. And what ^^ said... take a winch with you.. at least a "come along" in case you get off the set track. Experience of growing up in the Ottawa Valley and never missing a ski lift start up helps as well !

No I don't have a plow on it... that was just my bumper windrowing it.. lol

Weight in the truck going in will help.. then you have a path to stay on coming out. These pictures are with my F150 on Goodyear All seasons...

I can't claim it Norm.. but yes I do put it all on Jen's return. Should be a 9 meal allowance per day for the 3 of us.... not just hers, but it is what it is and we continue to move forward.. and go broke.. Now calling for 15 to 20 cm tonight and another 15 tomorrow. She might be cabbing it for pre-op and we'll have to catch up to her when we arrive. I started plowing here at 11am.. just finished a few minutes ago to get rid of the wet mashed mess. Mid way through plowing it turned into a blizzard and dropped another 2", but has stopped.. hopefully for at least the day. Son's problem after tomorrow... lol

Looks like the warmth off the lake saved us here. The freezing rain, on all radar I've watched, made it as close as the concession road just one over closer to town than us. Guess I'd better get out there and plow the potato snow!

Guess you'd have to live it to understand Dave... hope you never have too!