Groundhog Day.... is everyday for me. I need to get home and ride!

 

 

 

 

Loser machine video

I know I haven't been posting lately. I don't have much to post being in a 10th world country with a dead camera other than having a Hedgehog wander in on occasion to the hanger and watching him chow down on some cookies.

Anyway, snatched this from bolts action blog.

Big Russian metal

This country is one dusty ass place. Dirt everywhere you see even in the air. But hey here's a cool Russian MI-26 helo next to our hanger.

 

Off to the Desert I go. but Weekend pics

Well, I'm done with CRC at Ft Benning and now I'm waiting for my flight overseas. So I did the best thing that popped in my head, get ALF call Lucky from Korea and go to Birmingham to see Trouble and the Haints.




Bro's before Hoes






The night turned even Awesomer when we all went down to Downtown to a hipster bar and some american hating tiger woods lookalike hipster mouthed off to Lucky and he hauled off and socked him in the mouth.

Army training, sir!

UXO, more commonly known as unexploded ordinance. Had to sit thru this class among many others while here processing to go to Afghanistan.


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Cool rubber mount sporty

One of the artists at aliens tattoo parlor here off of jacksboro hwy in lake worth owns this. I have yet to go in and talk to him, just grabbed a pic and rolled since the shop wasn't open yet.



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Chicago

 

 

 

4200 miles for the Holidays

Well, for the past two weeks I've been here there and everywhere for 4200 miles. Tejas, Lousy anna, Mississippi, Al-Abamastan, Flo-Rida, Oklahomey, Kans ass, The show me state, Iowa, The maximum security penetentary of Illinois, where as soon as I crossed the border on I-80 in Moline on my way to Chicago I got ganked by two IL. State Troopers who wanted to play 20 questions with me outside in the snow for 30 minutes at midnight. It was my Texas plates that did it and I narrowly escaped an assrape search of the truck. I had nothing to hide, I just didn't want the hassle. Then it was off thru Kentucky to Tennessee where I stayed at the farm for a few days and back to home thru Arkansas and endedup in By God Tejas where I now have a cold I cought in Tennessee.

 

Left a present on the door at Kung Fu in Des Moines, IA.

 

Linda and I stopped to have diner of 4 tacos and a beer. I then got stuck in the parking lot with the ice and my 2WD truck. Wheels spinning.

 

Taking my sisters kids on the Metra to downtown Chicago with my wife, Mom, Dad and Step-mom.

 

At the Museum of Science and Industry.

KISS sucks

OK as a kid I loved KISS but this is awesome.

Sweet Home Alabama redux...

Fire Son!

 

Puting out some fire like a pro.

 

Spencer's girlfriend freaking out.

 

This isn't me eating it hard but me fucking up none the less.

 

Sweet home Alabama

Had to take a trip to Dothan, Alabama to sign in with my new company. So what do I do? First Call ALF and hang out with him and drink beer.

The next day I roll up to Birmingham and see what's up with Nick, Larry, Spencer and the rest of the Haints and my Boozefighter brother Trouble a.k.a. "The Beard Apprentice" as opposed to Dustyshmoe Joe who is the Beard Master. Beer was drank, Fireworks were shot, The shop was caught on fire, I ate it on a skateboard. Good times. I'll just let the pics tell the story.

 

 

 

 

Beardmaster or Joe from the Haints. You decide.

Chicago Bound for Thanksgiving.

After Work, Linda and I are jumping in the truck and rolling up to spend Thanksgiving with my Dad and Step-Mom, My Mom's driving up from Tennessee and I plan on rolling into River Grove for a Gene & Judes hotdog! I haven't had one in 15 years. I'm sure I'll be all over the city with the wife. I do need to be back home in Texas for Monday morning because I got Yanked for Jury Duty!

 

Safety wire tech I did up for you chopper jockeys out there

OK, Some of you have it down and some can do by looking at the pics of other guys safety wiring but Here I am gonna show you a simple How To... to safeting your shit so it doesn't come apart into 5,476 pieces while you're doing 78.457543782905 mph.

Anyway, the best safety wire to use is .025" steel wire. you can use .032" and it's sturdier but harder to use and whatever you safety with .025 will work just fine unless you're working on propeller aircraft or Rotorheads of helicopters.

Anyway, the tools I use are a pair of Snap-on dikes and Snap-on reversable safety wire pliers. For years I used regular safety wire pliers but they only come in right hand twist, you don't always use R/H twist so it's only 1/2 of what you need. When I got out of the Army and had to buy my own tools I think the Snap-on's are the cat's meow.


OK, here you cut a piece of wire and thread it thru the eye of the bolt head and go around as such. Usually I put 1 R/H twist in it by hand to get it ready for twisting with the pliers.



Now you take your pliers and clamp on to the wire at a little beyond the hole your twisting to. The wire will shrink as you twist but only just a red headed cunt hair. Once you are used to doing it, it becomes second nature and you instinctively know where to grab. The wire pliers have a lock on them that you use to keep hold of the wires without squeezing. I can't recall how many times I've been to traders village flea market at the tool guys shop and dudes will say, "Hey, that would be a good set of wire pliers without this wierd thing on it." Well, that's the lock dumbass. So, you clap and squeeze the wires in the jaws and set the lock. Now twist.


the standard for wire is 6 to 12 turns per inch but I like anywhere from 8 to 10. That's another instinctive thing learned over time and experience.


Then you take whichever wire you decide makes the best "taught" fit and thread it thru the hole of the other bolt. Always remember to saefty where if one bolt loosens the other will tighten.

Bring the other wire around and give it a Left Hand twist or two by hand and get the pliers back on the wire. Remember, if you have a reversable set to go into Left mode.


Once you have your twist set up cut the wire with your dikes or with your safety wire pliers about anywhere from 1/2 inch to an inch. It's all a matter of taste and you can usually tell who safeties by where and how they form their pigtail.


The pigtail is just bent over wire to keep itself from unravelling. Another safety feature of safetys.

Here is my ruler to give you an idea of pitch of twist on a three bolt safety, just at 8 turns per inch. Anytime you're safeting more than two bolts the rule still applys, to safety if one bolt wants to loosen the others will tighten.

A few months ago rollin on the chop

 

 

 

More photos from work

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Good bye dead squirell

I had to shave my beard off. It was driving me bananas. Here's the last pic of me at work before I shaved it a few days ago.


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