What have you done to your 5 ton this week?

[Another Ahab]

Dumb question most likely, but what is the reasoning behind blocking the license plate number. People see mine on the highway and I always wondered why they get blurred on TV and internet.

I just do it as a matter of habit, just as a privacy thing out of courtesy. It's apparently the law in parts of Europe, but maybe that's going overboard (we might all have WAY too many laws on the books).

 

[rhurey]

I thought SS was rather open and gave real name and location when I signed up. Is the trust that I thought members of SS had, turning to secrecy? Has any member of this site had their personal information hijacked?

I understand the reasoning of blocking plates, but lament the declining level of trust on SS and the world. CYA I guess.

I tend to give real names and location also. Except reddit. Because reddit.

In general, we live in a world where information that you would gladly share with people can now be shared with more people. Many more. A conversation you'd have had with a bunch of guys around the water cooler at NAPA now can be had on a forum like SS. Except at NAPA you could see the 4 shady dudes trying to listen in while pretending to be enthralled by the different windshield washer fluids. Now you don't know, and can't tell.

It's not that people are worse today than in the past, it's that technology has lowered the barrier to obtaining information that has always been out there, but now can be easily retrieved and queried en-mass. In under 5 years we (as a nation) will be deploying cameras at every intersection that will record every vehicle passing and storing that data forever. In a way that can be queried by plate, color, vehicle type... "Where was Toby last Thursday? Oh, here, and then here, and he stopped at Kroger for milk. Huh. He normally goes to Meijer." This exists already today, but the deployment is more spotty than it will be (And some of the current camera's just aren't HD enough to read plates). I predict best part is that private companies will pay for the camera's install in exchange for getting access to the feeds to build their own databsases of where people are and then sell that data.

Now of course, I'm not that interesting of a person so no one really wants to follow me. But people should understand how easy it is becoming to access every bit of anything "public" about them.

 

[Jbulach]

Might be time to break out into a new thread? Derailed...

 

[Another Ahab]

Derailed...

You're right. It happens a lot. opcorn:

 

[gottaluvit]

My bad.

 

[Jbulach]

Ha, at least I guess this is a good loose thread to get derailed in!!!


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[tobyS]

Gone

 

[Another Ahab]

My bad.

We should grab a beer (or a sweet tea or something) and go sit together in a corner and be remorseful, because I'm one of the worst offenders.

 

[big block 88]

I longingly looked out the window at the 925 sitting there plugged in covered in ice. I have been working 7 day weeks at work to help pass the time in the winter and i have decided if my job here ever goes away i will be out of this **** state as fast as possible. I think after 30 years i have had enough with the **** weather and terrible state govt. you know you suck as governor if you ranked worste in the nation, let a lone worse than a govt that was knowingly pumping crappy water to its citizens

 

[Another Ahab]

I longingly looked out the window at the 925 sitting there plugged in covered in ice. I have been working 7 day weeks at work to help pass the time in the winter and i have decided if my job here ever goes away i will be out of this **** state as fast as possible. I think after 30 years i have had enough with the **** weather and terrible state govt. you know you suck as governor if you ranked worste in the nation, let a lone worse than a govt that was knowingly pumping crappy water to its citizens

I can imagine the weather is rough in wintertime (no trees to stop the wind), but I didn't know the State has its issues, too. But then I guess every State probably does.

 

[99nouns]

Yeah try Florida, they call cops on everything that doesn't look like Elvis Presley.

 

[big block 88]

Yeah google gov sam brownback. Its contract year at work so we shall see what the future holds. I love michigan but waaaay too many democraps.

Maybe tx or arizona. We cant even get a decent winter storm, cold and dreary but no snow. Summer is just hot and ungodly humid.

 

[simp5782]

Did some tire swapping on an old M54. Used my 931 with its air compressor mounted on its rear. And the handy excavator instead of using jacks. Had to add some eye candy. Yes that is a big pile of mulch in the background.
https://youtu.be/yVnojsnNSrs


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[Another Ahab]

Maybe tx or arizona. We cant even get a decent winter storm, cold and dreary but no snow. Summer is just hot and ungodly humid.

Check out, AZ!

I got a buddy in Tucson who moved out there for the ice hockey, believe it or not (one of the hottest new players in the NHL now grew up playing there; playing for Toronto I think).

And then we used to catch snakes together as kids, and he still does. Here's the latest pic he sent me; he found this immature Western Diamondback under a neighbor's shrub (he's always looking for something to catch).

It's five-ton country!

 

[DJones]

Simp we need some additional video of the 931 moving that monster around.

 

[simp5782]

Simp we need some additional video of the 931 moving that monster around.

Ill get on it Dave. Maybe some of her dragging thru mud.

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[DJones]

Ill get on it Dave. Maybe some of her dragging thru mud.

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Thanks!

 

[fuzzytoaster]

Got the NOS hood on finally. What a PITA! Now on to relocating the batteries if I can find a M915 style battery box.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

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Got the NOS hood on finally. What a PITA! Now on to relocating the batteries if I can find a M915 style battery box.

I feel your pain on the hood swap. It was a battle but was worth it.

 

[big block 88]

So the original hood was just beat to **** then? I have moved them around before and i know they arent light by any means i cant imagine tryin to place it and bolt ot without the skid steer or hoist.