Random Thought Thread

[bjacks12]

All of that is true. Also take into consideration the GCVWR and even your axle ratings. It gets even messier when you go commercial.

On average, about 15% of a trailer's weight is supported by the tongue, so if your truck's GVWR is 10,000, and the truck weighs 7,000....that gives you 3,000 lbs for humans, fuel, cargo, and the tongue weight from the trailer. A good weight-distributing hitch will distribute some of that tongue weight to your front axle too for more stable towing.

 

[Dngrsone]

... That is why when you look at tow packages on vehicles, especially pickup trucks, it way more than a drop hitch and wiring harness. Any good one includes larger discs and drums for better dispersion of heat. They will also include a transmission cooler which is a separate radiator that the tranny fluid runs through so you can run lower gears for getting the load moving and stopping. On top of that an integrated, or as Dngrs is adding, and aftermarket break controller to balance the trailor breaking system with the tow vehicles as well as allowing breaking to the trailor independent of the tow vehicle.

If you are smart, a couple hundred pounds of GVWR variance is no big deal. You don't want to be up against it regardless of what you are towing. Unfortunately, too many folks don't educate and prepare themselves to tow properly.

Also, high-performance rotors, adjustable suspension...

 

[Unforgiven]

I didn't even touch on tow vehicle weight, but I'll add this. Go over on tongue wieght and you are again negatively affecting your ability to stop the wieght you are hauling. Oveload the tongue and you lessen the weight on the front tires greatly reducing their friction on the road surface and limiting thier stopping ability. You see this more with people that have a utility trailor from a home depot parking lot and have loaded 15 square of shingles on it and are towing it home with a Tacoma. If the rig looks like a V at the back bumper stay away.

 

[bjacks12]

When I worked at the gas station I saw all kinds of awful truck/trailer combinations.

If you own a Tundra, you have no business towing a 5th wheel. Saw one that had his truck sagging so badly I'm amazed he could steer.

 

[PattiCakeUS]

Your taste is exquisite. Don't know too many people who even know who they are.

This is the one thing I remember most about them:

 

[PattiCakeUS]

Scissors>Paper
Paper>Rock
Rock>Scissors
Spider>Ghosts?

If I ever gets me a poltergeist, I will head to my local pet shop and buy me a tarantula. Problem solved.

Thank God tarantulas aren't running rampant in MN or I'd have to move!

As for normal-sized MN spiders:
Paper crushes spider
Rock crushes spider
Scissors... cut legs off spider
Kleenex box crushes spider
Shoe crushes spider
Perfume/air freshener spray/etc. make spider smell funny & kills spider
Vacuum sucks spider

In my house, if Patti sees spider, spider dies, period. There is no escape.

But - If I don't see it, it doesn't exist (which is why I never look up at my bedroom ceiling before going to bed at night!)

 

[EarlyMon]

Tarantulas are pretty friendly and have a tendency to kill the bad guys.

I prefer them all outside though.

 

[PattiCakeUS]

They can live a long & happy life as long as they stay outside (& off of me), but if they come in my house their life is over. Bees, flies, June bugs, those I'll capture & put outside, but spiders... nope, no mercy toward them. They just creep me out way too much!

 

[Lordvincent 90]

This guy decided he was going to take a selfie every day for 16+ years. (his plan is to keep it up until he dies)
The video is actually pretty cool

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/...fie-every-day-for-16-years?utm_source=tcpfbus

 

[Dngrsone]

Thank God tarantulas aren't running rampant in MN or I'd have to move!

As for normal-sized MN spiders:
Paper crushes spider
Rock crushes spider
Scissors... cut legs off spider
Kleenex box crushes spider
Shoe crushes spider
Perfume/air freshener spray/etc. make spider smell funny & kills spider
Vacuum sucks spider

In my house, if Patti sees spider, spider dies, period. There is no escape.

But - If I don't see it, it doesn't exist (which is why I never look up at my bedroom ceiling before going to bed at night!)

Here you go

... sorry, don't know how to do YouTube videos...

 

[Unforgiven]

Here you go

... sorry, don't know how to do YouTube videos...

Copy the full, not shortened, url for the video. Click the film icon in the post box. Paste the url and there you go.

 

[Thatdad]

So wife son and I are at a graduation lunch at a nice Italian restaurant and found this amazing dip.

Olive oil with oregano and rosemary for dipping sliced bread stick, and it's amazing

 

[Dngrsone]

Love that stuff. Don't forget the fresh black pepper...

 

[huh]

This is the one thing I remember most about them:

Chicken Lady still makes me laugh just thinking about it!! That one had to be one of my favorites!!!!

 

[no one]

Chicken Lady still makes me laugh just thinking about it!! That one had to be one of my favorites!!!!

Two of my favorites

 

[Dngrsone]

I find it curious that the Time function in Android (on my Galaxy S4 with ICS) can list the world cities in GMT order (it should be called Coordinated Universal Time, UTC), but Greenwich, UK (where GMT is derived: Greenwich Mean Time) is not listed.

Best I can do is London, UK (GMT +0)

 

[Clementine_3]

For those of you playing along at home, I have three full time Hummers. It's a start!! Four feeders for three birds. They still to need bring more friends

 

[andruoid]

Kiwi twice day
cleans the arterial way.

 

[huh]

it's been bizzaro world today..so i'm sitting in my family room and glimpse out of the corner of my eye the dog across the street hanging out with and playing with something..I thought maybe my other neighbors new german shepherd puppy got out of his house or something...so I stood up to look out the window..and it's my crazy cat Malcolm and the black lab mix dog across the street totally hanging out together!!!...I grabbed my phone to take a pic but when Malcolm saw me he started to walk home...anyway my neighbor( dogs mom) came out of her house because she saw it too...and we were both like what the what!!
so cute!!
usually Malcolm just stays outside the invisible fence border..very very close...what I thought was taunting...but I guess today he decided to properly introduce himself...and make a new friend

 

[no one]

it's been bizzaro world today..so i'm sitting in my family room and glimpse out of the corner of my eye the dog across the street hanging out with and playing with something..I thought maybe my other neighbors new german shepherd puppy got out of his house or something...so I stood up to look out the window..and it's my crazy cat Malcolm and the black lab mix dog across the street totally hanging out together!!!...I grabbed my phone to take a pic but when Malcolm saw me he started to walk home...anyway my neighbor( dogs mom) came out of her house because she saw it too...and we were both like what the what!!
so cute!!
usually Malcolm just stays outside the invisible fence border..very very close...what I thought was taunting...but I guess today he decided to properly introduce himself...and make a new friend

Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria.

 

[huh]

Hey That reminds me!!! I'm going to try this at home

 

[huh]

OH! and while I'm at it...I think I may have one or two of these around here somewhere...

 

[huh]

I will not be dragged into the Drama ... I will not be dragged into the drama.... I will not be dragged into the drama

 

[EarlyMon]

I will not be dragged into the Drama ... I will not be dragged into the drama.... I will not be dragged into the drama

 

[huh]

So... This looks interesting.. Hmmm