Recent content by AndersonAcres

Tires. They may look fine. They sit around for long periods slowly degrading. Especially so if they're stored with sun shining on them. A good jack capable of jacking the trailer up is essential. My bet is you'll lose at least one tire. If you have to leave the boat to get another tire (you lose...

We put a smallish Breville espresso machine in the old tv spot.

There is big flooding in Alabama, Georgia, etc. But, what spin to say folks are in shelters because they don't have health care!!! The reason they're in shelters is that's the way the U.S. handles natural disasters that drive folks from their homes -- we put them in shelters temporarily...

Yes, probably a wise move. Perhaps the auto manufacturers will go to a 'build on order' plan, where they only build cars they have customer orders for.

Selling my 97 250 DA late in the spring of 08, I found NADA to be quite high compared to the market. Same when we sold our 19' bowrider two years earlier. Interesting that it seems to be reversed now.

Yes, but the iTunes 'license' that you got most likely didn't cover using the tune on a video at a public site. Interesting idea about them paying you for songs your video sells. Write them with a proposal ...... NOT.

Ours was always up, 'cept when getting in the engine compartment.

Seems fair to me. You're using something owned by another, and posting it on a public site. Only natural that they want to get compensated -- especially considering that if they don't enforce it with you, they set a precedent that can be used against them in court. It also sounds like the remedy...

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/08/21/goulston.boat.off.trailer.wfsb

Am I wrong to mistrust aluminum heads? Reminds me of my old VW.

I found this in my email and thought it was interesting -- from Saturday, I believe: In New Hampshire, President Obama ”was reassuring the crowd that the provision (in the proposed legislation) for mandatory “end-of-life counseling” has “gotten spun into this idea of ‘death panels.’ I am not...

A few reasons I'm not in favor of the government taking over healthcare: 1. the example of Quebec Canada -- Natasha Richardson dies of head injuries after a skiing accident. If there'd been an air ambulance availabe after her accident, she may still be alive. After the accident Quebec...

Skolbe, thanks for correcting my mis-information about separate shifters.

Zekester, not all SDs have outdrives. If the listing doesn't tell you which the boat has, looking on the dash is a give-away. Outdrive boats have one combo shifter-throttle. V-drive boats have two sets on the dash.

Of course, and everyone probably knows this already, using only liquid soap in the shower keeps the sump box nicer than it would be if bar soap is used. Shaving the entire body at home before boating is another way to keep the sump cleaner.