Heck people have been cooped up...been sprucing up their places. Folks all over our area replacing furniture or home repairs...i can tell trash pick up days, when I'm out hiking by all the crap at the curb (muni trash pickup)
Idk about the lumber side but I just talked to a friend who is a electrician and he said supplies are getting hard to coke by too. Je said reason being for his side was alot of the manufacturers were shut down for little bit and even now they're not running full capacity. So idk of thats same with lumber or not. I know treated stuff around here has pretty much doubled. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
Well for some reason Saturday I decided to buy a new toy. Looking stuff over and pricing things I'm starting to see this being a expensive hobby. What get for being impulsive I guess ha. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
You should see this prices on 7/16" OSB! It just doubled in price to $21.50 a sheet. We normally see an increase before a hurricane hits but nothing like this. We have 180 bundles in stock but one good hailstorm in OKC and that'll be gone.
I swear next traffic light I miss bc some nutsack is on their phone is going end with me chasing them down and beating them senseless with said phone.
Welcome to Arkansas. The locals make bad driving an olympic sport. Just wait until you get stuck behind a drunk during the morning commute on a Wednesday.
When I was 10 years old we used to dig bunkers on the beach and have live-fire Roman candle wars against the kids from 2 doors down. Now we live in a world where grown ass adults need a hot liquid warning on a cup of coffee... what the heck happened in the past 25 years.
Nice YJ! I am a recovering YJ holic. I have finally gotten back to some semblance of sanity. It can get expensive VERY fast if you allow it. Especially when they begin to multiply in the driveway lol
Metal garbage can lid and Roman candles or bottle rockets. The spilt coffee /warning label is interesting case law, great attorney(s), and a very badly behaving company. All the same, the problem is never oneself anymore. Victim mindset.
Jeeping is like being a heroin junkie- you will wake up one day ten years later wondering how in the F did you just spend your retirement fund on chasing the dragon? It is a fun ride tho. My humble suggestion? KISS. Don't be the guy who builds it up so much that you can't drive it on the highway. Unless you want a strictly trail rider.
This.... My current build is by far the most minimalist of the 4 I built over the past few years and I like it the most. Its LOCOG, 31's, trimmed for plenty of flexing room, sway bar deletes, and a few other funsies like winch etc. But that baby can climb rocks, thrash the dunes, fly thru deep mud holes, but still run 80 mph down the highway.
Oh and if it doesn't have it... the one suggestion I'll make for bang to your buck.... lockers. IMO should be the first consideration if your serious about wheeling it.... Ok. Back to your regularly scheduled rants View attachment 112291 Sent from my SM-G960U using Bowhunting.com Forums mobile app
Makes me want to get mine going. My uncle had a '63 CJ5 when I was growing up. When he graduated HS he got a signature loan for 3 grand and bought the jeep and a YZ400. The jeep already had some kind of V8 in it (I can't remember displacement). The V8 in it was wore out, so he found a used 350 and rebuilt it, it was in good shape and they only had to go 30 over to clean it up. Put some kind of RV cam in it, and a 538 rear end. Moved the 3-on-the-tree down onto the floor next to your right leg with a short Hurst shifter. Posi in the rear and lockers in front. Sits on 31 x 10.50's. It has no top, it was just his summer convertible. I drove it a lot when I was in HS, he'd let me take it pretty much whenever I asked, which was damn near every weekend in the summer. Gas was about a buck and a quarter, it has a 10 gallon tank and gets about 10 MPG. I remember filling it up in the morning and having to do it again that afternoon. Absolute stoplight to stoplight beast with the low gearing, it was a rare occurrence to get beat off the line. I can't say what made him decide to store it away, but do know the throw out bearing was starting to jangle right about the time his business took a big hit when corporate of a local paper mill decided to outsource parts and quit buying locally. It has sat for about 25 years now. Stored inside the whole time, but still will be a lot of work to get it into dependable running condition. About 5 years ago he decided he should sell it. I couldn't let it leave the family and bought it from him, a "some day" project that I haven't touched yet.
Managers who do not give their work force the tools, communication, process and guidance to do the job, then send an angry-gram about something not getting done fast enough to appease a loud customer. Also, government.
After reading all this Jeep stuff I decided to call my mechanic and see how the Power Wagon was going.. long story short, I need some cash jobs that don't go across the books bc the wife is going to kill me. We initially agreed on $25k but that has gone up and it has turned into a complete frame off restoration. Should have just bought the Bronco, might still go get one anyway. And the other reason the wife is a little pissed.. The fudge. It really put that old cow, mother in law, down for the count, she had to spend the night. Wife called in the middle of the day asking if it was special fudge and why I had left it in plain sight. She knew why and when I told her that it was a dumb question I only dug myself into a deeper hole but rest assured I didn't put the shovel down, I went for the gusto and told her it would probably would have helped if she would eat some of that fudge too.
