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Tailgate as a sawhorse?


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Seems we give them that technology after we nuked their country a couple times as a good faith effort to get them back on track. Then they started beating us at our own game.
I never want to see nuclear weapons used again but those 2 bombs convinced Japan to surrender. If we'd had to invade them an fight there, many more Japanese would have died and the destruction would have been more wide spread, not to mention all the Americans who would have died. They were stripping the armaments off planes and having their kids fly them into ships and putting their kids in torpedoes to pilot them into ships, they would not have quit without a ferocious fight.
 


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I'm not denying your facts... it is true. But they didn't steal a lot of those intellectual properties... we gave much of it to them... as a way to grow and prosper with it not including war.
 

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What do poop bombs do?
 

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I never want to see nuclear weapons used again but those 2 bombs convinced Japan to surrender. If we'd had to invade them an fight there, many more Japanese would have died and the destruction would have been more wide spread, not to mention all the Americans who would have died. They were stripping the armaments off planes and having their kids fly them into ships and putting their kids in torpedoes to pilot them into ships, they would not have quit without a ferocious fight.
Plus the Russians would have invaded northern Japan. Korea would have been 100% communist and then Japan would be the current North and South Korea issue. Also Russia would have had access to more warm water ports leading to an actual eariler WW3/Red dawn scenario were the Communist governments would have built more vessels allowing them to potentially invade the main land.
 

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I'm not denying your facts... it is true. But they didn't steal a lot of those intellectual properties... we gave much of it to them... as a way to grow and prosper with it not including war.
Actually a lot of it was flat out rejected by US industry because it wasn't how they do things.


I find tailgates kind of confining, I like having more room to work.

 

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Got A New Weber... the wife had bought me a propane grill years ago. It was just plain worn out. I went back to charcoal... I just like it better.

Even used my tailgate as a workbench to put it together. My tractor and fancy smancy work bench is in the shop.
New Weber.jpg
 

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I've had the tail gate off my Ranger for a couple of weeks as I have been hauling dirt and gravel (easier to load/unload without the tailgate). Today I wire brushed and sanded the contact points then greased them for when I put it back on.

Just a note for you guys with bed covers. The only rust on my 94 was under the bed cover. Water gets trapped in there and does it's dirty work.
 

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Is that a 2x6?
IIRC it was a bunch of 2x2’s for a wifey craft project.

I have a bunch of boards to cut for a new project, I am debating on if it is worth dropping the rotary hoe off and putting the platform on the tractor or just do it in the back of a truck.
 

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