"Family Fleet"

springhill · Post by **springhill** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 7:55 pm

Oh by the way what's the idea of listing the "family fleet" at the foot of postings? Curious?
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OOOps no customer bashing now

Dennis,
I never noticed untill you brought it up!!!!

John
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03 Hummer H2 ( so i can get the friendly middle finger wave from "greeny weanies"
06 Hummer H3 ( keeps the wife happy)
92 miata "supercharged" (35 miles to the gallon)
84 pontiac fiero " Indy edition" ( car from high school)
72 chevy 3/4 ton 4x4 ( everyone needs a real truck)
71 chevy short wide "lowered" ( so I can hang with the local cholos)
72 blazer 4x4 ( so i can go anywhere i want)
71 & 72 chevy short narrow ( will be restored someday)
94 Monster Ducati 900 ( so i can beat almost anyone in the 1/4 mile)
73 Pinz 6x6 with "boogered" tranny ( to haul hay to the methane cows)
72 pinz 4x4 ( so I can feed the poor welfare methane cows)
71 pinz 4x4 ( so my brother can feed the other methane cows)
75 Unimog 406 with snow plow ( So i can be bigger than most )
97 3/4 ton 4x4 chevy w/duramax ( so I can haul methane cows)
31 model A pickup ( so i can go to the local bar and not get stopped for speeding++++I have an excuse for weaving!!)
3 horses ( to keep the farting cows company)

Oh--forgot the mountain bike( for when the world runs out of gas)

springhill · Post by **springhill** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:21 pm

What's Up???? No humor tonight?
Forgive me -- I've been snowed in all day.

cheers
john

todds112 · Post by **todds112** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:11 am

One of my girlfriends had a Fiero GT in High School. 85 or 86 model. I think I only went out with her because of the car.

PinzEOD · Post by **PinzEOD** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 8:49 am

Holy Moly John!!! Where do you work? I want to get a job there and build up my stable too.

Or might you need a hard working stableboy at that ranch?

lindenengineering · Post by **lindenengineering** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 8:58 am

Hello John
Sorry mate no humour last night. We were burning the midnight oil fixing yet another Pinzgauer in a rush. Lack of cooling did it in!
Someone forgot the cooling capsule maintenance. This gets boring after a while!

Fillete Minion tonight and yes another bottle of fine Cab for me. Ho Hum!
I like grass fed cattle (to eat that is) do you raise those types?

Struth mate all that in the family fleet and I noticed you still have the Pinz with the "box shot" Didn't CWRI get that fixed for you yet???.
I still have mainshafts at $250 exchange if you want one.

Your insurance company must love you, no wonder these businesses can afford to open their doors from their "glass chocolate boxes".
I trust all that snow hasn't past you by, we were, I thought of you as I looked at the weather map yesterday,; Sorry that's my humour for the day.
Dennis
OH PS
Forgot to put in my "FLEET"
Oh now you have given me a complex,- Just remembered, I personally don't own a car. D

Profpinz · Post by **Profpinz** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:03 am

One of my girlfriends had a Fiero GT in High School. 85 or 86 model. I think I only went out with her because of the car.

Strangely enough the guy at the back of us used to have a Pontiac Fiero!
American cars are a rare sight in Australia (apart from Jeeps) but he had a red Fiero

In regards to Jeeps a mate of mine has just brought a new Grand Cherokee.
It was built in Graz (Austria) and the motor is assembled by Mercedes so at least it has something going for it

..... I assume US GC Jeeps are locally assembled ?

springhill · Post by **springhill** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 11:25 am

Todds112,
The fiero was a fun car--not very fast (4-banger), but got good mileage.
Mine is a pace car edition with 63,000 miles. I kept it thinking it might be a collector some day--ha ha ha
PinzEOD,
If you are really interested-- I need a "containment specialist"---------
aka-- fence builder-----
All that damn snow we had in Jan and Feb tore the h___ out of the fences.
Dennis,
I love grass fed beef, but it cost more to produce and most consumers don't like the yellow fat. Corn fed beef has white fat.
The 712 should be ready next week. The rear seal failed and all oil was lost. I had just topped off all fluids too!!. The gear cluster was melted together. Word of advice. If you are using a pinz in deep snow for extended periods of time---stop and check for leaks OFTEN---like every 30 minutes. Patrick thinks that the cardigan was out of balance and ruined the seal==high rpm snow pushing.

note--the ranch owns the pinz's,unimog, and new pickup
Also, insurance is cheap on the old chevys--which are my prefered means of transportation.

john

lindenengineering · Post by **lindenengineering** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 3:17 pm

John
To hell with the cost, I miss that grass fed meat.

I have a cousin back in Gloucester (UK that is) that farms a meat and dairy herd that are all Gloucester breed. This is an ancient stock and the family has farmed the same fields since the reign of Queen Elizabeth (the first that is) The farm uses no artficial fertilzer nor chemicals on the land, never has!

The Ministry of Agriculture now uses his land to examine fauna and flora seen on the land that has disapeared elsewhere. The cheese from this breed, Single and Double Gloucester is naturally low in fat and probably is synonimous with the animals's stature, tall,long and gangly. The breed obviously fell out of favour with the fatstock crowd due to its slow growth rate. But it is regarded nowadays as a "designer" food (Heard that somewhere haven't we???) so he has no problem with the price and the London Lot that drive into the country to buy from the farm directly.
He also raises Tamworth pigs in traditional breeder/range pens another ancient pig breed that has alomost disapeared in the UK.
Agian a lower fat yielding animal with more meat that grease!
Cheers
Dennis
ps Nice to know your get your box back soon.

Erik712m · Post by **Erik712m** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 4:40 pm

Lots of Grass cows here in Kansas,I prefer buffalo less fat all around, and there not pumped full of growth hormones

springhill · Post by **springhill** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 5:56 pm

Contrary to popular media belief, american beef is not pumped full of hormones. Some feedlots use growth implants to improve feed efficiency, but there is little to no residual. I read somewhere that a natural grown vegetable has more growth hormone present when you eat it than beef that has been implanted. By the way, it is implanted under the skin along the top of the ear. I know very few producers around here that use implants. I tried a buffalo burger once and it wasn't too bad. The great Ted Turner has a buffalo ranch about 60 miles west of us. It is the most overgrazed piece of property in the area---too bad because it is a beautiful place.

john

http://www.cahi-icsa.ca/pdf/Beef-Hormones-Factsheet.pdf
From Canada so its not American Propoganda!!

mjnims · Post by **mjnims** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:31 pm

On one of the other military vehicle boards they list their military vehicles and I kind of liked it so I added mine to the sig line. My domestic line consists of a '98 durango, '03 astro, '01 f-350 crew cab, '94 isuzu NPR, seven different trailers and a deck boat.

John BTW missed you at the Treffen. We had a really good time. Some of the pics are available for viewing at www.photosbylex.com As soon as he gets us the CD/DVDs we will get some up on the SWPA site. Maybe next year or at the RMP Treffen in the fall.

Erik712m · Post by **Erik712m** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:56 pm

Thanks for the info. Ted has a ranch in medicine lodge not to far from my hunting property its funny open rang oil roads to all the plots then ten foot tall fence around about 5,000 acres His ranch hands have really let the cedeers get out of control

lindenengineering · Post by **lindenengineering** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 9:41 pm

Just wanted to chime in on this cattle/Ag/ & International business again.

I think you will find the basis behind this hormones hype is politics and protectionism. In the case of agriculture we can see that politicians do their utmost to protect the livelyhood of their constituents.
If you don't believe that is so take a look at the Common Agricultural Policy in the Euro community during the 80's when Maggie Thatcher was UK P.M.

Also on this side of the pond is the Chicken Tax of the 1960's and still going strong. Those not familiar with this delightful piece of protectionism should look it up. In short it bars countries like the Euro Zone members from importing fully built up commercial vehicles into the US. That was in retaliation for those countries that refused to buy American bred poultry. Hence the Chicken Tax. What you have today (fourty years on) is this ridiculous situation where MB can import the Sprinter Mini Bus fully built up, but the more popular van has to be knocked down and then reassembled on this side of the pond. Lunacy!
We the customer have to pay for those shenanigans.

The other wonderful one is Bananas seriously. There has been an on-going battle ever since Clinton and the WTO over imports of bananas into Europe. The problem is that the US is not a net grower or direct exporter of this crop. (Ecuador and Dominian Republic are supported by Dole.)
Again its one country twisting the rules to suit their situation. Of course there are hoards of such examples it just goes to show we live in a complicated world.
Cheers Dennis

Erik712m · Post by **Erik712m** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:29 pm

I had know idea that it was based on chickens in 1963. But being born in 1977 its a little out of my generation. You would of thought it would of come up in history class in college. I have read several things about bush and tiland but most seem to think it was a bad idea.

lindenengineering · Post by **lindenengineering** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:44 pm

Eric in short.
Its all about the money!
I love it. I am a sicko!
Have a good weekend
Dennis