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#41
TSBB General Talk / Re: OT: Yards and yard work
Last post by noelH - Nov 16, 2024, 04:38 PMYard work never ends on the 40. Today a bit of deforestation to enhance global warming though a few grams less of carbon dioxide utilized by the trees knocked down. Also, added exhaust from the ancient ICE chainsaw.
Ended the session by flooding the motor. Two ways of "easily" starting a flooded 2 cycle chainsaw. 1. Close the choke fool (how I flooded the motor) and hold down the throttle to max while pulling and pulling the cord. 2. Just quit and eventually open up the case to access and pull the spark plug and pull, pull... Someone noted you can also just remove the air filter and open up the butterfly valve and I have forgotten the next step...
I just quit and went into the house for a hot cup of tea. Now here and ignoring the problem. That is even easier or lazy?
Ended the session by flooding the motor. Two ways of "easily" starting a flooded 2 cycle chainsaw. 1. Close the choke fool (how I flooded the motor) and hold down the throttle to max while pulling and pulling the cord. 2. Just quit and eventually open up the case to access and pull the spark plug and pull, pull... Someone noted you can also just remove the air filter and open up the butterfly valve and I have forgotten the next step...
I just quit and went into the house for a hot cup of tea. Now here and ignoring the problem. That is even easier or lazy?
#42
TSBB General Talk / Re: outdoor winter storage
Last post by Brian N. - Nov 16, 2024, 04:33 PMI hate to say it, but a foot of snow, wet or dry, is a lot of weight on your winter cover. Can you free up enough of the tarp to crawl in?
#43
TSBB General Talk / outdoor winter storage
Last post by GlenG - Nov 16, 2024, 04:10 PMMaybe you northern climate guys can advise me. I use the mast as a top ridge pole to support the tarps, like a tent, for winter storage here in Minnesota. Boat is a Santana 21. Supports at bow and stern about 23 ft apart. I normally add a temporary support at the mast step to add support midship. This year I forgot this mid-support. The boat is buttoned up tight with 2 layers of tarps laced full length along the trailer rails. I really don't want to undo all that to get back inside to add the support. Would a possible 1 - 2 ft snow fall be too much weight over the 23 ft span? It's a decent slope angle from ridge to gunwhale rails, but we can get some heavy wet snowfalls sometimes. Thoughts or suggestions???
#44
TSBB General Talk / Re: Outboard mounting advice s...
Last post by GlenG - Nov 16, 2024, 03:58 PMI'd go with the new mount, with greater range, and the thicker mount. Handling and weight distribution won't be affected by an inch or two. I know we have to keep the prop in the water, but with a high transom it is awkward to pull the rope or adjust the choke with only the top half of the motor sticking up over the transom. A little more gap would help.
#45
TSBB General Talk / Re: OT: Yards and yard work
Last post by Norm L. - Nov 16, 2024, 02:47 PMSmall money likes rural. Big money likes urban as there are customers to justify investment.
Big money also likes minerals. Or cheap land that produces money. Pasture, particularly on Federal land. Timber.
Little can get by without water supply. There is a lot of land but finite amounts of water. I remember way back the oil rich but dry countries were working up plans to calve ice bergs and tow them "home" for fresh water. Desalination may be expensive but there is a lot of saltwater. Except the Great Salt Lake.
Then there are the builders and their buyers of coastal and flood plain homes. Their problem is too much water. And being permitted to build along beaches or rivers that had past histories of flooding or storm surge.
I have a friend Naval Architect who retired and built a home on a shoreline. He is analytical. (I've mentioned him here before on his work with AC boats and the winning Stars & Stripes.)
He studied weather histories, on hurricanes that hit the area, then had a scary and expensive amount of soil brought in so his home was raised. He has his own well and generator system (he's put so many into boats it's a given). The home was built to high hurricane standards. The only downside is if he is still there after a storm but there are no stores or hospitals for months.
Water giveth and water taketh away.
Big money also likes minerals. Or cheap land that produces money. Pasture, particularly on Federal land. Timber.
Little can get by without water supply. There is a lot of land but finite amounts of water. I remember way back the oil rich but dry countries were working up plans to calve ice bergs and tow them "home" for fresh water. Desalination may be expensive but there is a lot of saltwater. Except the Great Salt Lake.
Then there are the builders and their buyers of coastal and flood plain homes. Their problem is too much water. And being permitted to build along beaches or rivers that had past histories of flooding or storm surge.
I have a friend Naval Architect who retired and built a home on a shoreline. He is analytical. (I've mentioned him here before on his work with AC boats and the winning Stars & Stripes.)
He studied weather histories, on hurricanes that hit the area, then had a scary and expensive amount of soil brought in so his home was raised. He has his own well and generator system (he's put so many into boats it's a given). The home was built to high hurricane standards. The only downside is if he is still there after a storm but there are no stores or hospitals for months.
Water giveth and water taketh away.
#46
TSBB General Talk / CAVU
Last post by Riley Smith - Nov 15, 2024, 06:01 PMWell maybe not unlimited but pretty much great. In case you didn't know, CAVU is weather-speak for "clear air, visibility unlimited". The only fly in the ointment in THIS locale is the humidity, but it's also down. Not totally dry, but much better. And so, with a girl's trip in the making, that leaves little 'ole me unsupervised tomorrow 
Time to check the tide!
Time to check the tide!
#47
TSBB General Talk / Re: Auto insurance in regions ...
Last post by Norm L. - Nov 15, 2024, 01:29 PMI think the auto insurance covered water damage. It didn't differ by cause.
I believe many of you have seen or heard about tow vehicle following a boat down the ramp into the water.
I once had a claim when I drove the car into a puddle during a heavy rain, The dip depth was hidden and the car started floating. Happily, it was only some water seeping into the front footwells causing only replacement of the car seat electric motors.
I believe many of you have seen or heard about tow vehicle following a boat down the ramp into the water.
I once had a claim when I drove the car into a puddle during a heavy rain, The dip depth was hidden and the car started floating. Happily, it was only some water seeping into the front footwells causing only replacement of the car seat electric motors.
#48
TSBB General Talk / Re: OT: Yards and yard work
Last post by noelH - Nov 15, 2024, 12:57 PMWaiting for Elon to build a XAI facility in the town across the Bay. Guessing it would create "good" paying jobs. Green washing, granola city. The town that has an undersized waste water treatment system. End result has been too often raw sewage and storm water run off into L.Superior.
The probably under utilized giant coal, tire, and wood chip power plant that has been on the lake front since 1916 could be a source of electricity. Also sending coal dust and in the past by products of the burnt coal into the Lake. Today they spray the piles of coal, wood chips, and/or shredded tires with something that smells like vinegar to control the dust or maybe spontaneous combustion. Most of the current power production is probably heading south along the high powered transmission line running from the plant. Guessing plenty of reserve generating capacity based on the variation of exhaust coming from the stacks. We joke it must be real hot in Chicago when all the stacks are exhausting whatever.
I'm a NIMBY. A XAI plant would be out of sight and out of mind until the whiff of power plant exhaust hits us. Right now unless the town does a sewage dump you only notice a light dome in the distance from their excessive use of night lighting. My Bortle 2 night sky is now Bortle 3. Mostly due to that town. Population is shrinking, but it is getting brighter at night.
The probably under utilized giant coal, tire, and wood chip power plant that has been on the lake front since 1916 could be a source of electricity. Also sending coal dust and in the past by products of the burnt coal into the Lake. Today they spray the piles of coal, wood chips, and/or shredded tires with something that smells like vinegar to control the dust or maybe spontaneous combustion. Most of the current power production is probably heading south along the high powered transmission line running from the plant. Guessing plenty of reserve generating capacity based on the variation of exhaust coming from the stacks. We joke it must be real hot in Chicago when all the stacks are exhausting whatever.
I'm a NIMBY. A XAI plant would be out of sight and out of mind until the whiff of power plant exhaust hits us. Right now unless the town does a sewage dump you only notice a light dome in the distance from their excessive use of night lighting. My Bortle 2 night sky is now Bortle 3. Mostly due to that town. Population is shrinking, but it is getting brighter at night.
#49
TSBB General Talk / Re: OT: Yards and yard work
Last post by noelH - Nov 15, 2024, 12:44 PMOne issue up here is apparently "better" paying jobs. It is assumed that means manufacturing and resource extraction. In the past it was. Historically the towns in this area were manufacturing and resource extraction based. Population was denser than today. But then things changed. Most the timber was cut. Mills started closing down. All the commercially profitable brownstone quarries closed. Over fishing and invasive significantly reduced commercial fishing. DuPont closed down. Populations dropped. Boom times were over. Slow evolution to tourist based economy.
Doubt if they can attract any "better" paying jobs envisioned by some. Decades ago Sony considered a CD manufacturing facility. They ended up selecting an area in the Pacific NW. Doubt if it is still around. A high tech company looked at establishing a manufacturing facility up here. One issue was lack of local workforce that could fill the companies need. I think they selected a site somewhere in S.D. Doubt if that company is around. They did R&D and manufacturing components for Blackberry,Nokia, Motorola.... Imagine the economic impact in an area with such a small population when a major company closes down.
It seems like every other major Federal agency has a significant presence here. USCG, USDA, BIA, USGS, .... Then add the State and Local government employees. "Better" for some are manufacturing, resource extraction. Not what some consider the "low" paying service sector jobs. They note the housekeeping, food, yard service tourist based workers that tend to be seasonal and lower paying v. the small manufacturing, skilled trades. Have a feeling nothing unique to most other rural areas of America. It is just the way rural economies are.
Plus side of our tourist based economy has been. Never really any boom times, but never really any big bust times. During the recession. Little impact on the number of tourist. During the Pandemic it was a mini-boom time. Maybe why at least in the City of Bayfield the population significantly grew, median household incomes exploded along the median price of a house. Spill over to the rural areas close to town.
Doubt if they can attract any "better" paying jobs envisioned by some. Decades ago Sony considered a CD manufacturing facility. They ended up selecting an area in the Pacific NW. Doubt if it is still around. A high tech company looked at establishing a manufacturing facility up here. One issue was lack of local workforce that could fill the companies need. I think they selected a site somewhere in S.D. Doubt if that company is around. They did R&D and manufacturing components for Blackberry,Nokia, Motorola.... Imagine the economic impact in an area with such a small population when a major company closes down.
It seems like every other major Federal agency has a significant presence here. USCG, USDA, BIA, USGS, .... Then add the State and Local government employees. "Better" for some are manufacturing, resource extraction. Not what some consider the "low" paying service sector jobs. They note the housekeeping, food, yard service tourist based workers that tend to be seasonal and lower paying v. the small manufacturing, skilled trades. Have a feeling nothing unique to most other rural areas of America. It is just the way rural economies are.
Plus side of our tourist based economy has been. Never really any boom times, but never really any big bust times. During the recession. Little impact on the number of tourist. During the Pandemic it was a mini-boom time. Maybe why at least in the City of Bayfield the population significantly grew, median household incomes exploded along the median price of a house. Spill over to the rural areas close to town.
#50
TSBB General Talk / Re: OT: Yards and yard work
Last post by Noemi - Ensenada 20 - Nov 15, 2024, 12:42 PM5.7% now, and how fast are we growing? And how much of the total land is even livable?
That doesn't change the fact that we don't, overall, add wild lands and environments. We take them away.
Margaret Atwood's "Oryx and Crake" novel starts from the same premise. Definitely frightening.
That doesn't change the fact that we don't, overall, add wild lands and environments. We take them away.
Margaret Atwood's "Oryx and Crake" novel starts from the same premise. Definitely frightening.