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Posted: 2/16/2021 10:02:29 AM EDT
Quote History Originally Posted By Hill_monkey: Pretty much a big nothing burger here too. Roads were fine on my way from PA > WV > OH. ] Looks like another storm system coming through early thursday. |
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Posted: 2/16/2021 10:48:04 AM EDT
Things could get interesting this afternoon/evening as the temperature drops into the teens.
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Posted: 2/16/2021 11:10:17 AM EDT
Quote History Originally Posted By Rdot: Things could get interesting this afternoon/evening as the temperature drops into the teens. Yay! |
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Posted: 2/16/2021 6:45:41 PM EDT
Quote History Originally Posted By camarojsmith: Big nothing burger up here in Mercer county. Some ice but the roads are not bad. 80 is clear. I can still see my grass in some places. Grass? We have around 8 inches of snow under this ice. |
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Posted: 2/16/2021 9:59:58 PM EDT
Quote History Originally Posted By OverScoped: Grass? We have around 8 inches of snow under this ice. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By OverScoped: Originally Posted By camarojsmith: Big nothing burger up here in Mercer county. Some ice but the roads are not bad. 80 is clear. I can still see my grass in some places. Grass? We have around 8 inches of snow under this ice. Grass. Maybe some drifting, but I can see about half my yard. The rest with snow might have an inch or 2. |
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Posted: 2/16/2021 11:45:24 PM EDT
Quote History Originally Posted By camarojsmith: Grass. Maybe some drifting, but I can see about half my yard. The rest with snow might have an inch or 2. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By camarojsmith: Originally Posted By OverScoped: Originally Posted By camarojsmith: Big nothing burger up here in Mercer county. Some ice but the roads are not bad. 80 is clear. I can still see my grass in some places. Grass? We have around 8 inches of snow under this ice. Grass. Maybe some drifting, but I can see about half my yard. The rest with snow might have an inch or 2. |
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Posted: 2/17/2021 10:21:38 AM EDT
Quote History Originally Posted By OverScoped: lucky you. there are drifts in my yard that are over my knees. Washington county. you're a short man |
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Posted: 2/17/2021 8:35:27 PM EDT
Im probably pushing 8-9 here. Not too bad. It made a pain to trek through thougj stacking slabs
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Posted: 2/17/2021 8:55:13 PM EDT
Quote History Originally Posted By Jbdpayne: Im probably pushing 8-9 here. Not too bad. It made a pain to trek through thougj stacking slabs |
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Posted: 2/18/2021 12:40:28 AM EDT
Quote History Originally Posted By OverScoped: if you are talking about slabs of wood, I use my snowblower to make paths. Yepp, been milling in my off time. I did some cherry over days off out near cheat lake. Needless to say i didnt have the paths made lol. I nanaged though; made for a good workout and some nice wood |
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Posted: 2/18/2021 2:08:30 AM EDT
Quote History Originally Posted By Jbdpayne: Yepp, been milling in my off time. I did some cherry over days off out near cheat lake. Needless to say i didnt have the paths made lol. I nanaged though; made for a good workout and some nice wood Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jbdpayne: Originally Posted By OverScoped: if you are talking about slabs of wood, I use my snowblower to make paths. Yepp, been milling in my off time. I did some cherry over days off out near cheat lake. Needless to say i didnt have the paths made lol. I nanaged though; made for a good workout and some nice wood What do you do with the lumber? |
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Posted: 2/18/2021 12:47:15 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 2/18/2021 12:47:37 PM EDT by Jbdpayne]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By OverScoped: What do you do with the lumber? Ive sold some green slabs that i wont use. Others i ripped the bark off and started drying for my own use. Using some red oak now for a dining room table. Took it up as a side hobby for when things slowed down for wireline. Plan is to get a kiln set up this spring, and possibly start selling more in the future. Currently only milling up to 36" wide now, hopefully will have a double ended milling bar soon that should put me up to 72".Still trucking fir oil and gas? |
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Posted: 2/18/2021 7:47:10 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 2/18/2021 9:32:12 PM EDT by OverScoped]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jbdpayne: Ive sold some green slabs that i wont use. Others i ripped the bark off and started drying for my own use. Using some red oak now for a dining room table. Took it up as a side hobby for when things slowed down for wireline. Plan is to get a kiln set up this spring, and possibly start selling more in the future. Currently only milling up to 36" wide now, hopefully will have a double ended milling bar soon that should put me up to 72".Still trucking fir oil and gas? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jbdpayne: Originally Posted By OverScoped: What do you do with the lumber? Ive sold some green slabs that i wont use. Others i ripped the bark off and started drying for my own use. Using some red oak now for a dining room table. Took it up as a side hobby for when things slowed down for wireline. Plan is to get a kiln set up this spring, and possibly start selling more in the future. Currently only milling up to 36" wide now, hopefully will have a double ended milling bar soon that should put me up to 72".Still trucking fir oil and gas? Every once in a while... money isn't there like it was. I haul to all kinds of industrial locations also. Lumpy likes to make shit with lumber. @bulump Maybe he'll be interested |
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Posted: 2/18/2021 9:31:44 PM EDT
penndot announced plans to put a toll on the I79 bridge over Rt50 in Bridgeville.
8 other bridges across the state will suffer the same fate. you know this isnt going to stop with these 9. |
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Posted: 2/18/2021 9:44:27 PM EDT
Quote History Originally Posted By OverScoped: penndot announced plans to put a toll on the I79 bridge over Rt50 in Bridgeville. 8 other bridges across the state will suffer the same fate. you know this isnt going to stop with these 9. Fuck penndot. Fuck PA. Tax tax tax toll toll toll. What a shithole. |
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Posted: 2/18/2021 9:52:10 PM EDT
They said in the article they claim it's due to declining fuel tax revenue then casually mention PennDots 8 billion dollar deficit they need to make up.
 Fortunately there are lots of routes that can be taken to avoid 79.
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Posted: 2/18/2021 9:55:41 PM EDT
Quote History Originally Posted By Rdot: They said in the article they claim it's due to declining fuel tax revenue then casually mention PennDots 8 billion dollar deficit they need to make up. Fortunately there are lots of routes that can be taken to avoid 79.Toll won't end when the repairs are done either. Look at the Johnstown Flood tax. |
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Posted: 2/18/2021 10:14:08 PM EDT
Hopefully it gets killed in the public comment phase and they hire a financial advisor instead to help them properly manage our money.
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Posted: 2/18/2021 10:16:24 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 2/18/2021 10:17:28 PM EDT by OverScoped]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rdot: They said in the article they claim it's due to declining fuel tax revenue then casually mention PennDots 8 billion dollar deficit they need to make up. Fortunately there are lots of routes that can be taken to avoid 79.toll is supposed to be around a dollar per car... commercial vehicles usually pay 3+ times the car rate. 87000 vehicles use that bridge daily. 12% trucks |
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Posted: 2/18/2021 10:47:42 PM EDT
Quote History Originally Posted By OverScoped: well I can go around in my rig, but its like 20 minutes longer and I use that bridge sometimes 6 times a day. Also taking the back way also takes me around the scales and the fuzz sits on the southpoint ramp and pulls over trucks going around the scales. so its really not that advantageous for commercial driver to go around. toll is supposed to be around a dollar per car... commercial vehicles usually pay 3+ times the car rate. 87000 vehicles use that bridge daily. 12% trucks Could you get off at Houston and run up over the hill to 980 or is that restricted? |
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Posted: 2/18/2021 11:38:28 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 2/18/2021 11:40:13 PM EDT by OverScoped]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rdot: Could you get off at Houston and run up over the hill to 980 or is that restricted? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rdot: Originally Posted By OverScoped: well I can go around in my rig, but its like 20 minutes longer and I use that bridge sometimes 6 times a day. Also taking the back way also takes me around the scales and the fuzz sits on the southpoint ramp and pulls over trucks going around the scales. so its really not that advantageous for commercial driver to go around. toll is supposed to be around a dollar per car... commercial vehicles usually pay 3+ times the car rate. 87000 vehicles use that bridge daily. 12% trucks Could you get off at Houston and run up over the hill to 980 or is that restricted? |
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Posted: 2/19/2021 7:43:50 AM EDT
Quote History Originally Posted By OverScoped: Chartiers run road or something like that. local trucks use that alot. then what? take 980 to 50 and over to Bridgeville and the possible traffic nightmare around that interchange? thats a 30 minute ride in a commercial vehicle. I'll pay the toll instead. time is way more expensive than an extra $20 bucks a day. also its at least 15 miles longer. 2-4 mpg, do that math. Yeah, N. Main -> Chartiers Run -> 980. You can take 980 all the way up to the McDonald/Midway interchange on 22/30. Not sure where you are running to and from so it may not benefit you at all. I've found that it's about equal in time versus 79 -> 376 -> 22/30. |
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Posted: 2/19/2021 9:25:43 AM EDT
Daughter went back to "school" (daycare) this week for the first time since covid started. Went to bed fine but woke up three hours later with Croup.
So got to spend a few hours in Children's ER last night. My daughter is a boss though, and had to wear sunglasses through the whole experience so the doctors knew she was the *cool girl." |
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Posted: 2/19/2021 10:02:48 AM EDT
[Last Edit: 2/19/2021 6:03:02 PM EDT by OverScoped]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rdot: Yeah, N. Main -> Chartiers Run -> 980. You can take 980 all the way up to the McDonald/Midway interchange on 22/30. Not sure where you are running to and from so it may not benefit you at all. I've found that it's about equal in time versus 79 -> 376 -> 22/30. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rdot: Originally Posted By OverScoped: Chartiers run road or something like that. local trucks use that alot. then what? take 980 to 50 and over to Bridgeville and the possible traffic nightmare around that interchange? thats a 30 minute ride in a commercial vehicle. I'll pay the toll instead. time is way more expensive than an extra $20 bucks a day. also its at least 15 miles longer. 2-4 mpg, do that math. Yeah, N. Main -> Chartiers Run -> 980. You can take 980 all the way up to the McDonald/Midway interchange on 22/30. Not sure where you are running to and from so it may not benefit you at all. I've found that it's about equal in time versus 79 -> 376 -> 22/30. I just realized now that if you get on at bridgeville you still have to go across that bridge |
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Posted: 2/19/2021 5:25:31 PM EDT
Quote History Originally Posted By OverScoped: Every once in a while... money isn't there like it was. I haul to all kinds of industrial locations also. Lumpy likes to make shit with lumber. @bulump Maybe he'll be interested Agreed. I took 2 pay cuts last year as well all while increasing workload and adding new equipment and software. Stage prices have been pretty low too, so the money def isnt what it use to be. Been looking for an out myself still lol. Need to get something to keep me home more with the wife and kids |
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Posted: 3/11/2021 11:10:12 AM EDT
Any of you ever taken any carbine or pistol classes locally?
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Posted: 3/15/2021 10:50:51 PM EDT
Any of you play airsoft?
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Posted: 3/16/2021 4:07:39 AM EDT
Originally Posted By Rdot: Any of you ever taken any carbine or pistol classes locally? Originally Posted By Rdot: Any of you play airsoft? No we're old bums. |
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Posted: 3/16/2021 7:18:38 AM EDT
Quote History Originally Posted By Rdot: Any of you play airsoft? I can only afford to shoot these and make pew pew sounds nowadays. 
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Posted: 3/16/2021 6:22:41 PM EDT
Quote History Originally Posted By laxman09: I can only afford to shoot these and make pew pew sounds nowadays. https://cbsnews2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2019/08/30/839af479-2750-444e-9c04-714cb0cc90e7/thumbnail/1200x630/e9dd735178913001125484b52902aedb/gettyimages-184974640.jpg $0.0024 cpr. Just saying 
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Posted: 3/16/2021 7:29:08 PM EDT
Shit, my son's airsoft guns are nice; no doubt.
The look in my son's eyes firing an AR for the first time last weekend. We shot 40 rounds and he was all like: Dad, bring more bullets next time 
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Posted: 3/16/2021 8:54:04 PM EDT
Quote History Originally Posted By JK_Pyre: Shit, my son's airsoft guns are nice; no doubt. The look in my son's eyes firing an AR for the first time last weekend. We shot 40 rounds and he was all like: Dad, bring more bullets next time I do look forward to those experiences with my boys! |
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Posted: 3/17/2021 7:25:57 AM EDT
Quote History Originally Posted By Rdot:
Any of you play airsoft? That plan seems to have died. |
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Posted: 3/17/2021 8:30:46 AM EDT
Quote History Originally Posted By Hill_monkey: I bought a G17 (which is pretty neat) with the intention of playing/training, was planning on getting an AR also. That plan seems to have died. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hill_monkey: Originally Posted By Rdot: Any of you play airsoft? I bought a G17 (which is pretty neat) with the intention of playing/training, was planning on getting an AR also. That plan seems to have died. Just like my plan to get my HAM license
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Posted: 3/17/2021 11:47:29 AM EDT
Quote History Originally Posted By laxman09: Just like my plan to get my HAM license Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By laxman09: Originally Posted By Hill_monkey: Originally Posted By Rdot: Any of you play airsoft? I bought a G17 (which is pretty neat) with the intention of playing/training, was planning on getting an AR also. That plan seems to have died. Just like my plan to get my HAM license Exactly! |
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Posted: 3/17/2021 12:24:06 PM EDT
Quote History Originally Posted By Hill_monkey: I bought a G17 (which is pretty neat) with the intention of playing/training, was planning on getting an AR also. That plan seems to have died. This is where I am at, minus the death of the plan. I picked up a pistol and 2 AKs. I plan to (maybe) sell one of the Aks to fund an M4. Airsoft (in theory) seem to be a good way to practice weapons manipulation in a manner more fun than dry fire and less expensive then live fire. There is also the force on force aspect of it if you attend matches/event. I also see it as a way I can introduce and develop firearm safety to my boys prior to their introduction to real firearms.
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Posted: 3/18/2021 1:23:08 AM EDT
Yes I have been to a couple local course, and have worked for a few of them as a assistant instructor.
What are you looking for? |
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Posted: 3/18/2021 5:28:43 AM EDT
Quote History Originally Posted By 1-75Ranger: Yes I have been to a couple local course, and have worked for a few of them as a assistant instructor. What are you looking for? @1-75Ranger I'm open to course suggestions of any kind. I have no formal training of any kind so I was really looking to see if anyone knows of good instructors in the area. If I have to narrow it down I'd really like to find a good defensive carbine course. |
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Posted: 3/22/2021 8:53:31 AM EDT
I am going to send you a PM, I can gladly help you find what your looking for
Originally Posted By Rdot: @1-75Ranger I'm open to course suggestions of any kind. I have no formal training of any kind so I was really looking to see if anyone knows of good instructors in the area. If I have to narrow it down I'd really like to find a good defensive carbine course. |
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