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RE: What do you do?
Don't sit around campfires, hate the smoke and stink.
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fj12ryder
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01/10/21 03:47pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Anyone rent out their camper?
This is such a weird topic to bicker over.
I kind of finding it fascinating that folks buy something expensive for personal use then start trying to think of ways to make money on that item when they are not using it..
Sort of like buying a new car to use to commute to work and back home and then try to find someone willing to pay you to use it while you are at work or when you get home for the evening just to get a couple of Dollars back on the purchase :h
Mean while they add miles to it, wear out tires, use up oil life and fuel and add extra risk of vehicle being stolen or damaged in the process of trying to retrieve a couple of bucks of "profit" :E ..
Would I rent out my stuff? NOPE, I like knowing where my stuff is and the condition of my stuff is all the time..
I have learned well over time to not loan or lend my stuff if I want it to return to me in same condition as I lent it.
For instance, my Brother and myself have the same Diesel tractor, with the same frontloader and backhoe, we spent the same money on them new..
My Brother "lent" his tractor out, now has a cracked transmission case, leaked transmission fluid that others failed to check on damaging the hydrostat.. He now has a tractor with several thousand more hrs with a broken transmission that is going to cost almost as much as a new tractor.. Basically a huge paperweight and he collected very little money on those loan outs.. Not enough to afford repairing the tractor..
Mine on the other hand only has 260hrs and runs and look like new and will last way past when I am dead..
Which one of us has gotten "ahead"?People spends tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of dollars on buying a condo, and then rent it out when they aren't using it. Nobody seems to think this is weird, in fact thousands of people take advantage of all these condos for rent: skiers, and beach front areas immediately spring to mind.
So maybe some of these people have found that way to "buy something expensive for personal use" and "make money on that item when they are not using it..".
Full disclosure: as I have said before, we don't even loan out our toyhauler to relatives.
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fj12ryder
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01/08/21 09:28pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Collecting 5th wheel Tow Data, just for fun, 2000 mile trip
Easy, the 7.3L badge is slightly shorter and has a black background and the 6.0L has a silver background. They are actually quite different when looking at them. Also, the mirror backs are different, and most FX4 trucks are 6.0L trucks. There are ways to tell if you know these trucks (I had a 2003 F-350). :BAnd you can see these minor differences at 100-150 feet apart, and closing speeds of 120-140 mph in a quick glance? As the Brits would say: Pull the other one. :)
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fj12ryder
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01/08/21 09:20pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Collecting 5th wheel Tow Data, just for fun, 2000 mile trip
Are these trucks in passing ,going the other way , how do you tell the difference from an early 6.0 to 7.3. I have learned that the only way to tell some of the earlier 7.3 Suoerduties to the later 7.3 is the badge on the front fender, the early ones were in the front of the fender the later were lower rear part of the fender, as were the 6.0 Also got to be be quick in passing to be able to tell the early 99 Superduty 7.3 from the V10, nearly the same badge on the front of the front fender. Just curiousThese were exactly my thoughts when I first commented on paying attention to other vehicles instead of what was going on in the immediate area. How does one garner all this information with just a "quick glance"? Simply differentiating between a 3/4 ton and a 1 ton isn't easily apparent unless it's a dually. And some 1/2 tons and 3/4 tons are very similar, which makes telling them apart take more than just a glance.
I simply don't care anything about the stuff noted, my concern is that all the attention that is given to collecting this information is attention that is not being given to actually what should have one's attention.
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fj12ryder
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01/08/21 11:08am |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Tesla Semi truck unveil & test ride set for Oct 26th !
Guess we'll just have to wait and see. This thread is 4 years of posts predicting the demise of Tesla. So far their business plan seems to be working and they seem to be holding their own against the competition. Check back in another 4 years and see how its going.
CheersWell, it's also 4 years of predicting the rise of the semi and cybertruck. Last time I checked they're both MIA. But lots and lots of speculation. :)
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fj12ryder
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01/08/21 08:07am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Something I've not seen before.
FWIW, this is an excellent example why I hate Facebook. After spending some time trying to find the post about the trailer mishap, I've given up. Seems to be impossible to find a particular post, even if you posted on it. Anyone know how, I'd be grateful for a heads-up on how to go about it.
If you go into your own profile, there is a little 3-dots thing on the side. Click into that and you will find your activity log. There you should be able to see everything you have commented on, posted and/or searched. The only reason you wouldn't be able to see that you commented on that person's post would be if that post has been removed for some reason. I know I have gone back to re-read posts I have commented on in the past only to find they have been removed. But if the post is still up, you should be able to find it that way.That's what I tried, and I figured my posts would show up, but it doesn't bring up very many. I don't know how they work their algorithms, but I don't post very much, but still only showed a couple posts from some time back. It just doesn't seem to be very easily searched.
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fj12ryder
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01/08/21 08:02am |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Something I've not seen before.
Nothing to put in, I don't remember the guy's name, when the post was up, or even where it was supposed to have happened.
I post hardly at all, so I figured I just go back and see where I posted. Nope, no record that I can find where I can track down recent posts of mine.
And people want to use FB instead of a regular forum. Thanks, but no thanks.
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fj12ryder
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01/07/21 09:05pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Something I've not seen before.
FWIW, this is an excellent example why I hate Facebook. After spending some time trying to find the post about the trailer mishap, I've given up. Seems to be impossible to find a particular post, even if you posted on it. Anyone know how, I'd be grateful for a heads-up on how to go about it.
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fj12ryder
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01/07/21 03:35pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Something I've not seen before.
If I can find the post again, I'll ask about further details. But if it was driver error, he may be reluctant to admit to that. I'll get back with more info if I get some.
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fj12ryder
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01/07/21 08:14am |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: WINDOWS 10 MICROSOFT OFFICE
He doesn't want to uninstall Outlook, he only wants Thunderbird to be the default email client.Actually yes he does.
"QUESTION: Can I just remove the Outlook program section of the Office 2016 install with no other problems?"
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fj12ryder
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01/06/21 09:27pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: 4' LED Shop Lights In Costco?
They had some on sale a while back for $20, 4' LED and the lumens were pretty high, I don't remember the actual value. But I thought it was a good deal, but when I finally got to the store, a week or so later, the sale was apparently off and they were $30 instead. Too rich for my blood.
They were pretty nice though, motion detector, or variable time delay to shut off. And they were easily linked together. Looked good to me, just didn't make it in time.
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fj12ryder
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01/06/21 09:22pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Something I've not seen before.
Yeah, me too. It looks like the pin is the same size as the hole and was just welded around the circumference of the pin. Pretty shoddy engineering.
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fj12ryder
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01/06/21 05:28pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Something I've not seen before.
Yeah, the guy said the king pin broke off the trailer. The black piece with the hole in it is where the king pin should go. He said it was the second trip and the trailer was only 2 months old.
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fj12ryder
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01/06/21 04:49pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Anyone rent out their camper?
Shoot, I won't even loan out our toyhauler to family. LOL
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fj12ryder
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01/06/21 04:44pm |
General RVing Issues
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Something I've not seen before.
A guy was on Facebook looking for a bed to replace his damaged one. Seems his trailer came loose and crunched his bed. I was concerned because I could see the hitch was a B&W Companion.
Take a look.
https://i.imgur.com/BrGx30n.jpg height=400
https://i.imgur.com/08Z99hq.jpg height=400
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fj12ryder
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01/06/21 04:41pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Side Out Trays
Just as an aside, I can't see the flat floor 5th wheels catching on. Seems to me that climbing six or seven steps every time you walk in has no advantage over three or four steps climbing in. Yes, I have to go up three steps to the bedroom/bathroom, but I'm in and out of the trailer more often than I go up the other three stairs. Could happen, but IMO there simply aren't enough pros to outweigh the cons.
It's always been one of the things I've disliked about motorhomes is the climb up every time you enter.
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fj12ryder
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01/05/21 04:46pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Side Out Trays
I had a slideout tray in a fifth wheel, and didn't care for it. It seemed to take up usable space and returned no really useful advantage. JMO of course. But I wouldn't have another one.
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fj12ryder
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01/05/21 07:20am |
Tech Issues
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RE: Streets of Dreams
Never heard of it. Which service is hosting it?
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fj12ryder
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12/31/20 02:41pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Employment VS Unemployment
Well, the main purpose of most low-paying jobs is to earn enough money to keep body and soul together. When the government tempts you away from the low-paying job you're currently employed on, with more money than you can make where you are, what do you do?
Businesses get incentives from government to do certain things, farmers get paid to not grow crops, people get paid not to work. Nobody said it had to make sense: "We're from the government, we're here to help you".
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fj12ryder
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12/29/20 08:35am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Amazon to close down Kindle lending library January 2021
It's an agreement with the "publishing" company, and Overdrive. The companies have a limit on the number of digital copies that can be distributed by the library.
Actually it's not an agreement, it's a stipulation by the company. The libraries either go along with it or do without the title.
And unless you have an old style Kindle or other limited connection reader, the book will be deleted from your reader automatically at the end of the loan period.
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fj12ryder
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12/29/20 08:26am |
Technology Corner
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