THE Random Chat Thread - AKA "The RCT" - No shirt or shoes required - Open 24 / 7

[pepperj]

Yeah, but how many have owned a dump truck? It's all relative.

Ya what can I say, it's a lonely day for me on the chat with another if my common interests. 🤣

 

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[robertk]

That's crazy -- how tall is that ladder? That could come in really handy sometimes!

 

[pepperj]

That's crazy -- how tall is that ladder? That could come in really handy sometimes!

100 ft

 

[robertk]

100 ft

Makes my 24-foot ladder look pretty puny -- and I get the willies just being at the top of that! (I don't mind heights, just never feel "solid" on a ladder.)

 

[pepperj]

100 ft

Next year I want to put it out over the water.
Oh ya! Splish splash we'z taking a wee bath.
100 ft straight horizontal it drops less than 2 ft on the end.

 

[blossom]

Good evening xx hope you are all well and we don’t need to post bond for any of you after a couple of days being in doors!! I was excited to try out my new headphones today…. But alas, himself must of shopped at ‘Dodgy Detectors’ for them…. As they don’t work…. We paired them successfully but the only emit a mouse like squeak….. 🤔……. I won’t find no treasure wearing those I told him….. 🤔 I’m also thinking that might have been his plan!!!

Anyho … 2 stories for you today ..

Roman Road dig and

Thread 'Friday’s Finds xx'
https://www.treasurenet.com/threads/fridays-finds-xx.705693/

 

[pepperj]

Makes my 24-foot ladder look pretty puny -- and I get the willies just being at the top of that! (I don't mind heights, just never feel "solid" on a ladder.)

Surprisingly it's pretty solid at the top.
Trust me.😁

 

[releventchair]

The bad part is, I'm pretty sure that road sign says Missouri Department of Transportation. That biker must be from out of town, though. I mean... wow.

Light blue plate with black numbers?
Motorcycle plates in the U.S. with light blue background and black numbers include those from California, Colorado, Iowa, and South Carolina

 

[blossom]

This Philip and Mary Shilling popped up on a Facebook page I follow…. Can’t believe asking price …. Mine is in much better condition…..! 😎 xx

 

[oldmxrat]

We rode three wheelers too those 250R ATC are death traps broke my collarbone. My fault only had front working brakes..

One weekend out camping and riding on my buddies property in the desert we went out on a ride. We headed up a big hill and then realized we are missing one of our riders. I said let’s backtrack to camp to make sure he’s OK on the way back to camp. I turned left off the main trail about 200 yards from camp and got T-bones by my buddy. My leg got pinched between his front tire and my bike. He flew over me and hit the hard packed desert gouge his hip. His girlfriend was there with him and took him to the hospital. I stayed the night with the rest of my buddies cause I didn’t wanna go stay in the hospital that night The next morning friends helping me breakdown camp and load up. I was hopping on 1 foot to get to the passenger seat when I noticed on the ground just before I took the next hoop I said, is that an arrowhead!!! I couldn’t believe it and that’s how I found my first arrowhead.View attachment 2185600View attachment 2185601

That's a really nice point for your first! Cascade type I believe, or possibly Early Leaf.

 

[ARC]

Morning ARC, off to work I go. What good year end story do you have for us today

Arrrg... the story of end of year cleaning.... LONG day.

 

[ARC]

I'm still waiting for the 2023 version. 🤣

Same story different year :P

 

[pepperj]

Same story different year :P

But we didn't get the first story.🫣

 

[Oregon Viking]

So.... Would anyone here add anything to this article? I want the best bang for the buck not spending 7000 dollars on a detector.

I could ask smithbrown but he is mostly a cannon expert.... My apologies to ARC .......

Steve's Guide to Gold Nugget Detectors

Steve Herschbach offers reviews and opinions of gold nugget prospecting metal detectors past and present

www.detectorprospector.com

 

[Oregon Viking]

I have some testing to do, also some arrow cutting. I like the aluminum arrows the best but different fletching, carbon fiber or not... I am going to try indoor testing, shoot from the shop since we have god awful rain and wind, storms from hell!

 

[GirlWithWolf]

I have some testing to do, also some arrow cutting. I like the aluminum arrows the best but different fletching, carbon fiber or not... I am going to try indoor testing, shoot from the shop since we have god awful rain and wind, storms from hell!


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Lovely! I like Easton Autumn Orange.

 

[Oregon Viking]

Gorgeous !!!!

 

[Surf_Pirate]

Similar to this '68 Yamaha I restored last winter.

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I am still in awe by your bikes MXrat.... this was an off frame resto, paint and all? what's the chrome canister over block? Was this Yamha color? Old Bob "Hurricane" Hannah was an Idol as a kid. Think he rode Yams back in the 70s?

 

[Surf_Pirate]

I'm surprised by all the bike enthusiasts in the chat.
Here's a bit of a rare one. Still purrs like a kitten.
1955 BMW R25/3

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that thing shaft driven?

 

[Surf_Pirate]

Riding behind the operator is called "riding B$@ch" here. L.o.l..

Ya Suzuki had a water cooled 650 . Early eighties, maybe earlier.
One foggy morning on the way home from 3rd shift I nabbed a freshly road hit deer.
Took a couple bunji cords and holding it's tail on turns , but it rode home on my 500 behind me. A deer is slippery on a motorcycle seat!

Police on a motorcycle going the opposite direction on five lane road turned around.
Busy traffic and I sashayed through it at a good clip only to find him still following.
My works road was next and when I made the turn he hit his lights and siren.
Pulled into a lot and waited for him , thinking oh boy this ought to be a stack of tickets.
He said my registration was expired.
That meant he saw the color of the small sticker on my plate through all that traffic across those lanes!.

It just so happened I had just renewed my registration in person and hadn't put the new sticker on. I told him I had it and he asked when I was going to fix it.
Right now I said and fished the sticker out of my wallet.
That won't work , he said.

I'm thinking boy he's just wanting to write a ticket.
Why not? I asked.
That's the same sticker you already have!
Secretary of State had given me the same year colored sticker.
Well you get to go back and see them he said.

His bike was clinking and pinging away as it sat cooling.
I was thinking it had been well exercised to catch me but didn't want to mention that. (!)
(I felt he was content to have caught me though.)
How you like the bike? I asked.
It's alright he said.
Then we talked about bikes a bit.
He knew his way around it though. And was harp eyed.
He didn't say anything about how I was driving or how fast. And before I stopped for him I was counting on at least a couple tickets..

(Car registrations expired on birthdays. Motorcycle plates annually from previously registered day. I think.)

Love the stories guys. I feel I'm a spectator and laughing a lot or gasping on the sidelines from the mishaps