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You’re right, Obama. I’ll load my AR and start teaching some chemistry. But, rest assured, I’ll never match your kill count.
You’re right, Obama. I’ll load my AR and start teaching some chemistry. But, rest assured, I’ll never match your kill count.
My friend, it’s so stupid it’s looped back around into extremely wise. If you perceive a wildlife threat then the two most effective tactics are:
Put a rock or tree between you and the threat, then keep it between you.
Angrily yell at it while waving your arms to appear large (an air horn or a warning shot is a very effective punctuation)
I’ve angrily told off dozens of bears.
THIS IS MY BOOMSTICK! SHOP SMART. SHOP S-MART! YOU ONLY GET ONE SHOT. HIS PAWS ARE SWEATY. DARMOK AND JALAD ON THE OCEAN!
Canyon Village isn’t wilderness. Yellowstone isn’t wilderness. No one makes stupid threats in the wilderness.
Content wasn’t important, only this. I understand.
If I ever tell you who to vote for, don’t listen to me. -B. Sanders
He’d be disappointed that, despite all his educational efforts, you still fucking refuse to think for yourself.
OK. Then, I ask with humility and respect, “Why?”.
My objection to the Tundra is that I could buy a diesel for nearly the same money that’d give me double the fuel economy and double the miles. And, it’s not going to be much more reliable than a domestic tuned and maintained by myself.
If I had to have the best gas 1/2 ton on the market then I think it’s a Tundra. But, I’m not looking for the best tool. It seems a 1/2 ton is a mistake. I want best value under the assumption labor is free.
What am I missing?
My first year was about 1500lb payload. I went easy on it. But, there’s no such thing when pulling at the limits of the transmission & drive line. This is why I thought of a 1/2 ton, 2.5t sitting at around half the max capacity. But, because I’ll be towing full time for awhile, the accepted perspective seems to be to overkill even a bit more.
It could be the northern Rockies. It could be Iowa (flat). Most of the miles will be interstate and highway. I’ll be pulling the 2.5t trailer almost exclusively for 10-12k miles. Then, I’ll have many short haul loads in the 1-4t range for maybe 2k miles. Then, it’ll spend maybe a third of its remaining life with that same 2.5t, the other two thirds with less than 0.5t payload.
Based on what we’ve both said, it seems like you’d favor a 3/4.
I’m not worried so much about pull power acceleration as efficiency at 70-80mph.
OP here: I’ve an ME Auto degree. I never thought of increased tire wear. It makes perfect sense. Great explanation. Thank you.
The fact that you’re entirely happy with your F150 but will replace it with a 250 is very helpful. Much respect for moving living cargo. I think I’d want 5-10k miles before I’d trust myself to do that.
You did give me the advice I was looking for, sorta. You had me thinking, “How could downsizing be wrong”
Yesterday, every opportunity, three times, I asked someone else that was towing (random drivers stopped) what they thought. They all agree with you: Downsizing is not good.
Also, the diesel owner wishes he’d bought a gas. The gas owners wish they’d bought a diesel.
Hey city slicker. Know a good mechanic?
The '19 3/4 ton is worth $38k. It was a great truck for my wife and I to build experience. Only now, with some experience, do we know it can be done for half the price. But, with only a little experience, we’re not quite sure what our best choice is and why.
Can’t do an electric bicycle out here for lots of reasons, first and foremost range and speed. But, we’re thinking along those lines. We’re aiming at a 650 motorcycle in the next six months.
It would be wise to remember that corporations have rights often in excess of humans (such as free speech) but lack practical human mitigation of profit motive. Your oppressor is not your savior. Don’t be conned.
non-committal
Help you with your career, just a little
You’re supposed to hold me down
But, you’re holding me back
Drop him for who?
They’ll not nominate a Justice Democrat as that won’t make corporate donors money. I don’t see how anyone or anything could recover the resultant shitshow except the Justice Democrat platform.
Kamala seemingly the only one with some name recognition, is the same vague bullshit with some identity politics, which would be inadequate.
Who else is there?
In the US a “wilderness” is a large area completely devoid of documented human infrastructure.
Yellowstone’s publicly accessible areas have very well-developed infrastructure. The vast majority of the park is meant to be explored by vehicle on paved roads and by walking paved trails. But, even the dirt trails are so “well maintained” that they’re like a wide dirt sidewalk with an occasional root or rock. There’s non-public areas inside Yellowstone that are almost devoid of infrastructure and maintenance, almost wilderness.