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Highboy
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And another one bites the dust. North Ave 2, trailers 0. 
I've flown a couple of helicopters.
They are a challenge and I have great respect for helicopter pilots who fly in challenging conditions, like landing on US Navy ships at sea, or Life Flight/Medical folks who fly in bad weather to unprepared sites to get critically injured people to hospitals.
Good having friends that owe ya’ for vehicle repairs. Older friend of me and Colton (my farmer friend) stopped over just as I was getting home. He has older Ford dually with big plow and cinder spreader. Took him all of 20 minutes he said. I gave him a few beers and some oil for his next oil change I’ll do on his truck. Would have took me very long time to hand shovel all this out.
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Zee09
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Zee09
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AutoMechanic
Site Donor 2024
Don’t think I’ve seen one quite that advanced lol. Man I can’t even remember how to use a lathe it’s been since 9th grade lol.
Zee09
$200 Site Donor 2023
That's a small stuff lathe
I use it still every day. I imported back then myself from Taiwan.
I sold them back in the day. Its actually very simple. Still has a Dayton motor with no service since 97
AutoMechanic
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Now you got me wanting to visit to see this cool thing lol.
Zee09
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I prefer CNC lathes with live tooling
Zee09
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My game is different.I prefer CNC lathes with live tooling
Everything I do is one off and a cnc is useless for that.
We generally don’t do big orders, 2-25 is the norm. I hope to one day get a lathe and a Bridgeport at my house though…. need to add onto the garage first though
No, not pilot, but when I was younger, I was a jet fighter enthusiast...had several books on jet fighters/aircraft...knew just about all the specs (at that time) on the F-14, F-15 (favorite), F-16, F/A-18, MIGs, Mirages, etc. (Also, saw all the movies...Top Gun, Iron Eagle, etc.) Was, at the time, thinking about going into the Air Force, but didn't. I had a chance to go to Embry-Riddle in Florida, but family didn't have much money, so ended up at UT Knoxville with an engineering (electrical) degree there. But never really lost interest in aircraft.
My dad was a chopper mechanic in the Army during and after the Vietnam War...told me all he knew about UH-1s/AH-1...he even had a chance to fly a couple while stationed there. He even told me stories about working on choppers under fire while green tracers flew by his head. Can still remember the sounds of those Hueys in Savannah, GA...we lived next to Hunter Army Air Field when he was stationed there.
I've only seen and been Jet Rangers and Hueys but never had a chance to ride in one. I think they are amazing machines and can do some amazing things with the right pilot. I find it funny how many people have a misconception of them, in that, they are like large fans and 'blow' themselves off the ground....it doesn't work that way...or the reasons why they can't go faster than they do.
(It was hard to watch Airwolf with my dad as he would criticize everything that was wrong with the show...technically...)
Zee09
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Looks like more snow again tonight guys...
Maybe for you, rain for my area tonight
that´s a ticket magnet.
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