Random Picture Thread

[gromitdj]

I’ve done that since. I could barely afford to put gas in it at the time and gas was 75 cents/gallon.

 

[nobadays]

I made sure I had a matchbook or two in my old chevy pickup glove box. With a matchbook you could file the points with the striker then set em with the lid of the matchbook.

75cents/gallon?! I remember 24.9 at the Rocket Station!

 

[beermanpete]

The cover of a matchbook works well for a rough points adjustment in the field. Do either still exist?

 

[El Whedo]

My dad is a 91 year old retired NASA aerospace engineer.

"Use the proper tool for the job", was pounded into my head.

If I'm gapping a plug, setting point gaps, or adjusting valves I use feeler gauges measured in the thousands of an inch. Don't yall carry tool boxes in yer vehicles? Yall are making me cringe.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Gin& Tonic with frozen rhubarb instead of ice cubes.
Best idea ever.

 

[gromitdj]

On my '73 Bug, a business card was the best tool for the job. I had access to all of the "real" tools that I could have needed.

 

[DBhomebrew]

My dad is a 91 year old retired NASA aerospace engineer.

"Use the proper tool for the job", was pounded into my head.

If I'm gapping a plug, setting point gaps, or adjusting valves I use feeler gauges measured in the thousands of an inch. Don't yall carry tool boxes in yer vehicles? Yall are making me cringe.

Right. Proper tool for the job. The '74 clunker going down the local two lane isn't the space shuttle in orbit.

 

[Broken Crow]

Long ago, in a town far, far away, while on a pilgrimage for antiques, books, and vintage clothes, my 78 Horizon split a vacuum hose and I discovered that I had forgetten to leave any tools in my car.. I used a piece of a plastic shopping bag and one of my shoelaces to patch it unitl I could find a shop and buy a roll of vacuum hose and cheap side cutters.
While I absolutely agree and try to live by "The Right Tool For The Job", the most important tool is the one between our ears. I love creative solutions. Maybe we could start an entire thread on that.

 

[GrogNerd]

MacGyver that ****

 

[day_trippr]

My first few cars were a 1956 F100 Panel Truck, a 1959 Thunderbird, and a 1965 GTO convertible, all used to various extents. I always carried a full tool kit and used it often, frequently on the side of a highway replacing something critical.

Radiators, starters, generators and voltage regulators, even entire short blocks and transmissions, I did it all when necessary. Worst was replacing the entire front of the F100, from bumper to firewall, due to a huge collision. Had to buy an otherwise scrapped F100 pickup truck for the parts as Ford stopped making sheet metal for it years prior.

I don't miss those years...

Cheers!

 

[Sailingeric]

So I made some brats.. they taste great but I did have a blowout on one when stuffing it. Not a big deal, it is still edible....but once grilled the results are a bit interesting.

 

[pvtpublic]

So I made some brats.. they taste great but I did have a blowout on one when stuffing it. Not a big deal, it is still edible....but once grilled the results are a bit interesting.View attachment 823195

Are you sure they're brats and not wieners?

 

[corkybstewart]

A nephew is using our barn for his 50th birthday this weekend. In France the white tent is called a barnum.
He bought kegs from a local microbrewery, The Little Belgique, that specializes in Belgian beers and is damn good. He's gone from 100 liter facilities to 160,000 liters since I met him in 2019, just before Covid.

 

[corkybstewart]

 

[grampamark]

Train derailment early this AM about 30 miles W of Billings. Trestle over the Yellowstone River collapsed and dumped 8 tanker cars, some containing molten sulfur, some containing petroleum products.

 

[day_trippr]

I know exactly where that happened - and was somewhat relieved it was far from Jellystone, being just west of Columbus. Looks like the adjacent Twin Bridges Road has gone missing as well. The river runs left to right in this image so I'm guessing the wreckage ploughed into the highway bridge. That's going to be fun to clean up and fix...

Cheers!

 

[grampamark]

The river is, literally, inches below flood stage which is making cleanup impossible. The good news, according to the pros from Dover, is that the high streamflows will dissipate the contaminants to acceptable levels rather quickly. The Billings water dep’t. has announced that the intake for the water system will be shut down, briefly, early this evening, to allow any contaminated water to move downstream. Getting equipment in to start replacing the trestle is going to take a bit longer…

 

[corkybstewart]

The unique punch pump

 

[corkybstewart]

View attachment 823299
The unique punch pump

A nephew owns an excavation service for septic systems and such so he built this for parties

 

[ncbrewer]

 

[doug293cz]

A nephew owns an excavation service for septic systems and such so he built this for parties

Is that why the "punch" is yellowish/brownish?

Brew on

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

AI’s answer to a GOAT brewer.

 

[corkybstewart]

View attachment 823501
AI’s answer to a GOAT brewer.

Over here those fermenters would be for the goat cheese that we love so much and eat at almost every meal

 

[GrogNerd]

I have a pine tree growing out of my oak tree

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Pinoak noir

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[GrogNerd]

is the shepherd the a-hoe in this, or the sheep?

 

[day_trippr]

Pretty clear the sheep has an attitude problem.
btw, a woman worker at a farm the next town west from me was killed two years ago by a sheep...

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/cultivate-care-farm-bolton-death/

 

[Rodent]

I don't think this ad reads like the marketing team envisioned

and I suspect the cat won't like being considered doggie's 'Crunchy Bone'

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[balrog]

This morning. From OR.

 

[balrog]

A more recognizable view later in the day

 

[ehall]

is that a crater? that's awesome!

 

[doug293cz]

I thought I recognized that ridge line around the lake. Crater Lake in So. Oregon. Beautiful place to visit.

Brew on

 

[balrog]

is that a crater? that's awesome!

Called Crater Lake. Really a caldera lake. Technically.

 

[day_trippr]

Some pretty cool pics right there

 

[BongoYodeler]

And now for something completely different.

 

[lumpher]

She's obsessed...or possessed...