I thought i had been to/thru ARAB the other night it came to me that when i was living in Texas as a kid (20 ) I used to have to once in a small while have to go to Guntersville and load fish meal in a grain buggy i drug around the country at the time and my nostrills are still damaged from that smell and it was never less than a 100 degrees when i would have to go out to that barge and the old clam shell would dump that stinking mess all over my trailer and in the trailer and you had to shut off your a/c or it would suck that smell up in it ! OMG old man satan couldnt smell that bad !
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Yep Guntersville is 20 minutes North of here. Not known for bad smells, but they have a beautiful lake there. My Pawpaw worked with the Army COE to build the dam that made that lake. I'm more of a mountain man.
Thats funny my grandfather used to build DAMS as well a few in florida i beleave and it was on some lake where i had to go in guntersville to that barge and you just havnt lived to you smell a barge load of dead fish meal thats been in the sun a month at open sea to get to the US oh i could puke rite now ! Bloted corpses smell like cake compared to this stuff we could win wars with this stuff if we just dumped this stuff out of plains they would give up asap !
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Worse than a skunk? Up close?
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Now that's a smell that won't wash off easy
You could wear the skunk as a hat and be happy !
Oh if it got on your cloths or boots just throw them away at the state line you unrolled your tarp at the scales and drove down to the barge and NEVER opened your door or cracked a window or vent with no a/c running and you would sweat your ace off in that truck but it was better than the alternative !
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One interesting thing about Lake Guntersville:
Although it's roughly 300 miles from the nearest beach, there are several ocean-type birds that took up year-round residence there. We see flocks of seagulls, pelicans, and osprey. I suppose the ample amount of fish, and the large size of the lake (67,900 acres of water with 890 miles of shoreline) attracts them. We even have Bald Eagles nesting there.
Although it's roughly 300 miles from the nearest beach, there are several ocean-type birds that took up year-round residence there. We see flocks of seagulls, pelicans, and osprey. I suppose the ample amount of fish, and the large size of the lake (67,900 acres of water with 890 miles of shoreline) attracts them. We even have Bald Eagles nesting there.
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hmmmm ....
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you might like this book. Have read part.... it's really good.
PS- apparently we are linked by otherways than MV truck/campers... What a dam interesting koinkidink
They were probly nested/born on the barges coming in from the oceans
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That does look like an interesting read. Thanks
So we might be onto a cheaper way to get penetrating oil today my buddy told me if you mix 1 part acetone to 1 part automatic transmission fluid but you have to store it in a airtight dispencer that it was 2 times faster than kano/pb/wd/ on an 1 in bolt to penetrate down the threads and the kano around here is over 20 dollars a can and i do love it im hoping this will work !
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Air tight is key word.....watch out for expansion also as temps in shop change.....
Copy that ! Where have you been ? Thought you might have joined the french foreign legion !
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I was teaching stupidity classes at the local DIY center for the intellectually non-gifted....
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Yall still got me down for next weeks classes ?
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Nope, you're WAY to smart.....my class is "amebas" level. Id like to say learning, yet cant with a straight face and honest answer.....more like throwing information seeds on stone and not expectin much growth.....
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Honestly?? Amazed and grateful you're alive and getting better.....everyone makes mistakes/bad choices, but ........holy smokes( cigar pun intended).....you taught a whole generation of green iron junkies to take safety a bit more seriously.
LMAO i hope something good came from it to pass along ! I was out there today and i swear i thought i herd it snicker at me when i walked by !