What did you do to your Ranger today? (Part Deux!)

[Curious Hound]

Couldn’t have been the low pressure side that took a shit, you know, the one that could have been replaced with a $.30 piece of hose from the Home Depot.

The low pressure hose has no incentive to blow out.

 

[Bird76Mojo]

Installed new plugs and wires on the 2001 4.0 on Sunday.. ☠

Also installed a Hurst 7236 shift lever in the 87 V8 truck on Sunday. Much better positioning and shorter throw as well. The Hurst 6900 wasn't what my set up needed.. Too close to the dash.

 

[Roert42]

The low pressure hose has no incentive to blow out.

To easy to replace in the gas station parking lot.

 

[Rick W]

Battle with the town continues, jury is still out, but they poured the sidewalk and replaced the concrete part of the driveway. Today was a victory.

I used the red 97 ranger on Saturday to get an assortment of Guatemalans and Mexicans and some drain pipe to pull back about 5ft of the brick driveway and fix the drainage the city ruined.

Today I used the red ranger for everything. I left it and Big Red out of the pen while the driveway is dug, formed, poured and cures. For some reason I just used the little red ranger. Big Red stood guard, both now on the sidewalk across the street.

The white line on the road to the right of Big Red is where my grass used to end.

I don’t know how that big “W” got in the middle...

The adventure continues...

 

[Rick W]

Oh, one other thing. Do you guys remember the original Star Trek series episode “mirror mirror?” It’s where Kirk and the bridge crew beam up to the enterprise in a storm, and they materialize in a brutal alternative universe enterprise (Uhura is so hot in that episode) and the bridge crew from the evil universe materializes on the good enterprise universe.

I need you guys to do me a favor at exactly 3 PM Eastern standard time tomorrow. If you all tense up and wish really hard and try really hard and use the force (yeah I know that’s a different space thing) and you all focus, maybe we can send my mayor and city Council and the engineers back to the evil universe they came from, and we can get some pussycats back here.

Exactly at 3 PM EST!!!!

Thanks in advance...

 

[Rick W]

Heads up, Harbor Fright is running specials on all the off road vehicle toys...

 

[Snoranger]

Battle with the town continues, jury is still out, but they poured the sidewalk and replaced the concrete part of the driveway. Today was a victory.

I used the red 97 ranger on Saturday to get an assortment of Guatemalans and Mexicans and some drain pipe to pull back about 5ft of the brick driveway and fix the drainage the city ruined.

Today I used the red ranger for everything. I left it and Big Red out of the pen while the driveway is dug, formed, poured and cures. For some reason I just used the little red ranger. Big Red stood guard, both now on the sidewalk across the street.

The white line on the road to the right of Big Red is where my grass used to end.

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I don’t know how that big “W” got in the middle...

The adventure continues...

It looks like a M from the street...

 

[Rick W]

Well, it looks like a W from the party side, a side you’ll never see, huh?

& with the roll of it, can’t see it from the street anyway.

Main reason I did it was to piss off the city council and project managers and lawyers

 

[Dirt Squirt]

Spocks beard lives!

 

[Rick W]

I’d say pappy & baby, 96 F250HD w/97 “baby”

 

[Dirtman]

Battle with the town continues, jury is still out, but they poured the sidewalk and replaced the concrete part of the driveway. Today was a victory.

I used the red 97 ranger on Saturday to get an assortment of Guatemalans and Mexicans and some drain pipe to pull back about 5ft of the brick driveway and fix the drainage the city ruined.

Today I used the red ranger for everything. I left it and Big Red out of the pen while the driveway is dug, formed, poured and cures. For some reason I just used the little red ranger. Big Red stood guard, both now on the sidewalk across the street.

The white line on the road to the right of Big Red is where my grass used to end.

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I don’t know how that big “W” got in the middle...

The adventure continues...

The county has been considering expanding the shoulder on my road and putting in huge new telephone poles that are twice as big as the ones there now. It would eat up nearly 30 feet of everyone's property. Every year the surveryers come out and put down a bunch of little flags and marks up and down the road. Been trying to do it for over 10 years now but they've never made it past the survey stage. The folks down the road at the winery said they had hired lawyers to fight it claiming random nonsense like that tree stump by the road was a tree George Washington chopped down or nonsense like that to get the historical weirdos involved. Then they say oh god there was an endangered turtle in the ditch and get the environmentalist weirdos involved. Weirdos can actually be really useful for these situations. Go find some weirdos!

 

[Snoranger]

Go find some weirdos!

He did... he’s here isn’t he?

 

[Dirtman]

He did... he’s here isn’t he?

Eh, we're weird but lack passion or coordination. We could probably wrangle up 4 or 5 of us to go to his house and harass the city workers if he provided beer and fresh meat. I'd be willing to let a bunch of roosters loose in his town hall, but that's more because I really need to get rid of a bunch of roosters in a convenient way and not so much because I wanna "help".

 

[Rick W]

All the governments figured out about 15 or 20 years ago, that when you want to widen the road, do the utilities and the intersections first. It’s real easy to pave over the ground. Before that they used to pave 20 miles of highway, and then have it go bad and the weather for a year while they build the overpass. My point is, if they are updating the utilities, the freight train is already left the station. And they don’t think over a year or two, they will keep pushing for 20 3040 years.

If you want to send me some details, I think most of the guys here have already figured out that I am a professional and very well accomplished pain in the ass. The trick is not to fight them in town Hall, the trick is to get it in the media in an election year, and to get your neighbors riled up. Look at everything they do, and twist it against them. They’re usually incredibly arrogant, so it’s usually pretty easy to set them up if you think for two seconds, and then embarrass them in the press.

Let me give you an example. I don’t know if you Saw my post yesterday or the day before where I put the W in the new driveway, and the city was pouring the concrete. So three guys in suits came by, I don’t know who they were I wasn’t here at the time. But I’ll bet you I’m gonna get some kind of official letter or notice of violation or something for the W.

The front half of the driveway is in the right of way, but from the W towards my house Is my personal property. So if and when they complain about the W, instead of responding about the W and instead of going to the city, I’m going to the same news reporter I’ve used for a few years and I’m going to complain about the city officials trespassing on my property without permission.

Now take that to the umpteenth level. And, yuck yuck, this is an election year here!

How it helps, hope He forgives me (But these suckers are so ripe, you can’t resist)

 

[1990RangerinSK]

He did... he’s here isn’t he?

I resent that!