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#1
Precision / Re: Non-Ethanol Fuel
Last post by Riggerdood - Feb 08, 2025, 10:11 PM
Yeah, it's been a while since I've heard anything about the case. Not surprised at all if JD caved. Bad optics. (I'll skip the obvious Case vs. John Deere joke here.)  ;D
#2
TSBB General Talk / Gunkholing in the Everglades
Last post by rfrance0718 - Feb 08, 2025, 03:11 PM
My buddy who is buying the Presto 30 is taking delivery on Mar. 7 at Pine Island Fl. So a plan has been developed to spend 10 days cruising before he drags it home. We have 2 other friends who will be down there for a regatta who will then join the cruise, and I've decided to tow my Oday down and make it a flotilla. I've never sailed any further South than Ft Myers, and there is interest in exploring the Everglades. Seems like some of you might have some experience. I'm thinking that our shallow draft boats will be a good thing. Any recommendations? Warnings? Good stories? We are just beginning to make a plan.
#3
TSBB General Talk / Re: Weird?!? Trailer hitch bal...
Last post by Norm L. - Feb 08, 2025, 12:46 PM
As for the liking of back roads I loved a Saturday 100-mile ride in rural LA/AL/MS.

I got a collection of 6 county topo maps so I could lay out 50-, 60-, or 100-mile rides. They were all good except for the one where %&&(%^%$ came from behind me in a pickup truck and threw a not-empty beer can at me. They were so stupid and incompetent they missed me. 
#4
TSBB General Talk / Re: Weird?!? Trailer hitch bal...
Last post by Six Bells - Feb 08, 2025, 12:09 AM
Congratulations.  A nice follow you home gift!
#5
TSBB General Talk / Re: 7 3 on 2/3
Last post by Riley Smith - Feb 07, 2025, 07:11 PM
It's been 80 here! It's NEVER 80 in February here. After the snow, it has warmed up dramatically. It's been really nice although I've been crawling under a house working on plumbing BECAUSE of the snow. Took a break today and headed away from the coast and sent some downrange. Almost got the scope zero'd in. It's respectable now, within 4in at 100 yds. but ran out of ammo. O well. Sooner or later I might get to sail, but there's a Mardi Gras party to get ready for and water is top-o-da-list.
#6
TSBB General Talk / Re: Weird?!? Trailer hitch bal...
Last post by Doug SC - Feb 07, 2025, 04:31 PM
I prefer to drive back roads. I find I enjoy the drive more and save on gas as I rarely go over 60mph. I have been using the low traffic roads since I was a teen. However, when I what to get there on a long-distance drive, I go Intrastate. I used to like them but anymore the amount of traffic on many of them is amazing.
#7
TSBB General Talk / Re: Weird?!? Trailer hitch bal...
Last post by Frank B. - Feb 07, 2025, 03:46 PM
Quote from: Norm L. on Feb 07, 2025, 12:40 PMLove the photo and love the Trace.
Last week I found some old photos from a 3-day cancer donation camping ride on the Trace. When I have had a job on the Mississippi River in the general area of Natchez I have lengthened my drive home via a section of the Trace.
Of course, much smoother and scenic than when created.

Norm when I was much younger I never used the Trace, too slow, too boring.  Now, on our many trips/year to Nashville, we always use the trace because, well it is too slow, too boring, and mostly beautiful and easy on the nerves. ;)
#8
Precision / Re: Non-Ethanol Fuel
Last post by Quantico Frank - Feb 07, 2025, 02:51 PM
I think John Deere may have already changed course to comply with it. Tell a farmer in Nebraska, 150 miles from the nearest dealership, that he can't work on his tractor himself, and you'll get feedback.
#9
TSBB General Talk / Re: Weird?!? Trailer hitch bal...
Last post by pgandw - Feb 07, 2025, 02:16 PM
Windage is everything at higher tow speeds.  Weight is slightly linear, but wind resistance goes up with the square of the speed.  If you double your speed from 30mph to 60mph, wind resistance quadruples at 60 compared to 30.  The resistance from weight might have gone up by 10% by doubling the speed, if that.

Where this falls apart is towing over hills.  Wind resistance stays the same if speed stays the same, but weight resistance is increased going upgrade.  And no, you only make it up partially going downgrade.

Fred W
#10
Precision / Re: Non-Ethanol Fuel
Last post by Riggerdood - Feb 07, 2025, 01:29 PM
Wow, not exactly glowing reviews. That right to fix issue is actually going through the courts right now, I believe in the form of a class action lawsuit against John Deere.