SirCranksalot

You might want to go whole hog with this one rather than a drill just for that purpose plus a Clam adapter.. http://www.basspro.com/ION-Electric-Ice-Auger/product/1205290233/

It's pretty easy to come up with some sort of plate----plywood would do-----but, as I see it, the advantage of the Clam is that it won't wrench on your wrist and try to take it out of your hand if it stalls. I find it better to let go right away to avoid wrist injury. My Dewalt has a hand-tightened chuck that tends to loosen up with the auger running. I don't know if I can buy a key tightened chuck instead.

No, it's not a black and white case. It's not 'all' anything. I'm sure driving skills count for a lot but if you are at the bottom of a long slippery hill trying to get up then you'll be glad you had winter(not snow) tires. That's the other factor that seems to be forgotten here. The are called winter tires----their stopping dist in low temps is significantly better than regular tires.

I was just trying to caution you against buying a Garmin based on my many frustrating experiences, not just one. But you and some others were too busy jumping in unison to the wrong conclusion that you didn't think of that possibility. I guess I should be glad that you guys are just posting on a website rather than sitting on a jury at some unlucky bugger's trial.

No, the whole F'ing device is ornery as hell!

No Hulk Hogan fans??

Well, how's this: When I first got my map 78 I set a waypt a couple of streets over from where I live. I set 'activity'to "hiking' since that was what i intended to do. When I hit find it gave me an error msg saying 'no routable roads' Now, given that I was hiking I wasn't really expecting any 'routable roads' After several e-mail exchanges with Garmin I found out that I needed to set 'activity' to "direct routing', instead of "hiking. Now hudathunkit??? . Never did find out what the 'hiking' setting could possibly be for and I'm not about to ask Garmin "product support".

Gotta git me one of those!! http://americaloveshorsepower.com/v8-powered-chain-saw-cuts-through-hardwood-in-2-4-seconds/

What about Yukon Eric or Hi Lo Lo??

I wonder if they are as "user friendly" as their Hand held GPS's har dee har dee har!!!

Be aware that touch screens don't work too well with gloves on.

I was thinking of getting one of these. The reviews I read on-line were mostly positive wit the odd negative one from guys who bought them for the wrong reasons. I am hoping to be able to 'project'(stream?) my photos from my laptop unto the TV so I we can inflict slideshows on the unsuspecting who come visiting. I was planning to talk to the sales "associate" about this but maybe some of you folks know if that can be done. Also, can it project a DVD movie in the drive of my laptop unto the TV? thx

I intend to follow the recc that I get 3 clean samples before drinking. The recc is that I run the water for 5 min. At first blush that sounds like a sensible recc, but aren't we supposed to be getting a representative sample? In normal use we don't run the tap 5 min before drinking, so why do it for the test?

Wow. That was a nice, clean joke with no ref to popsicle sticks and such!! BTW---you are supposed to say NF in the title!

You serious?? You can actually buy that? where? I might give it a shot----but make sure it never goes near the bedroom!!

After?? After?? What the heck? He was supposed to do that BEFORE!!

what's the problem here?? You just wanted to eat it---you didn't have to kiss it first!!

Sorry, I meant coliform.

I tried it last winter and was disappointed. I had caught trout that day so we had t for dinner and stuck the ling in the freezer. We didn't get around to cooking it for a few weeks---I kept bringing home small lakers. When we did it tasted like a dishrag. I don't know if freezing it ruined it. Normally low fat fish keep well in the freezer for a few weeks.

You'd have to pay me good wages to sit and feed those machines!! How boring can it get????

I've now had 2 tests done about 10 days or so apart. The results look pretty good but a bit inconclusive as to the source of contam. I did the first, as you folks suggested, before the softener,using bleach to clean the tap and making sure I didn't set the cap down. The result was 0 coliform. I then tested from the kitchen tap, again using the same precautions. The result was 2 coliform. It's recommended that I get 3 consecutive good results before drinking----2 coli is considered good. I'm not sure how accurate the measurements are. If the margin of error is 2 coli, then maybe my first sample had 1 or 2. I thought coli originated in feces---human or animal. If so, I'm puzzled how it would get into the softener. Again, thx for all your help. SCL(aka Knuguy)

Try phoning him at 3 AM sometime!

? Isn't it still OFC?

Simple, but not easy. A bit like how to lose weight:"Just don't eat anything you like"

The diff between the Leafs and the Canadiens! From today's Star “(Montreal’s ownership) always showed respect for the key guys,” said Dick Duff, 78. Duff would know. He played on two Stanley Cup-winning teams in Toronto before he found his way to Montreal, where he shared a line with Béliveau in the midst of a championship-soaked run that saw Duff win four more rings. “(Montreal) always did it right. So the (players) go there and say, ‘This team respects me. And if nothing else, if we didn’t get all the cash in the world, we got respect,’” said Duff. “And here (in Toronto) they ignored that. I don’t want to be too (negative). But ... there were all kinds of guys who won (multiple) Cups in Toronto. There are all kinds of people in Toronto who don’t know who Harry Watson was, Sid Smith, Howie Meeker, Jimmy Thompson, Turk Broda — they won (multiple) Cups, for crying out loud.” Current ownership, it should be said, has done an admirable enough job trying to change that. But the course was hard to correct. Duff pointed to Ted Kennedy, recently immortalized with a bronze statue on Toronto’s new Legends Row, who died in 2009 to modest attention, even though he was a team captain during the franchise’s dynasty of the 1940s and 1950s. Kennedy was known as a classy man, a charitable person, a team leader and an all-time great. His funeral in Port Colborne wasn’t a grand thing for the multitudes. “I remember when Teeder Kennedy died -— I think (the Leafs) sent one or two guys (to the funeral),” said Bob Nevin, who played on two of Toronto’s Cup-winning teams of the 1960s. “They just sort of passed it off. And he was maybe one of the top three or four players in the history of the Maple Leafs without a doubt. I was sort of half shocked they didn’t at least get the alumni, get a bus and take 20 guys down.”