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  1. MTboatguy

    Question for those of you running snow plows?

    I am thinking about changing my plow to a rubber cutting edge, and wondered if anyone that runs a plow on here has tried this, I am plowing close to 2 miles of gravel road, rough gravel road, and of course with the metal cutting edge when you hit a rock, it will jar you, as well as break things...
  2. MTboatguy

    Anybody have a chrome plating shop they can recommend?

    I have a small piece of cold roll steel I need to have chrome plated and we don't have any local companies that offer this service, have any of you guys had something plated and do you have anybody you can recommend?
  3. MTboatguy

    If it is not one darn thing it is another....

    I give up, I am going shopping for my Christmas present, I am going to buy a bulldozer in the next couple of weeks, I worked all summer long to make sure my plow and truck were ready and first time out, broke a damn pivot pin, which I can order, and get in 2 weeks, or I can have made and pay...
  4. MTboatguy

    Boy I would sure like to find that guy named "Sam" because.....

    Dam, Sam it is COLD!
  5. MTboatguy

    Engine heaters...wondering..

    Well, went out to start the plow truck this morning and found out the block heater is bad, no start! it was cold last night, below 0, so I am wondering, any of you guys ever used the water circulating heaters on your diesels? I am thinking about putting one of these in the system instead of...
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    Ready or Not, here it comes.....

    Watch out Boys and Girls, the temp went from 39 degrees 30 minute ago and it is now 29.3 degrees, the heavy rain has turned into heavy snow, so as I said, ready or not here is comes, thank god, I got the tire fixed on the snow blower today!
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    Putting a tire on a rim?

    Anybody got any good ideas on putting a tire back on a rim, one of my walk behind snow blower tires went bad and was leaking, almost a brand new tire, just bought the blower last Dec, and this tire has leaks at the seam on one of the manufactures imprints, so I figure, just put a tube in it, I...
  8. MTboatguy

    Homemade Smoked Ham! Yummy.

    Well figured some here like smoked meats, I believe we have had topics about this in the past, here is a couple of pictures of what I have been up to the last week. I smoked up a couple of hams today, that started out as Pork Roasts that I bought at Costco a couple of weeks ago, made the brine...
  9. MTboatguy

    Well Hunting season is coming up or started...

    I was in C******* yesterday and ran into a pretty good deal for those guys that hunt deer with a shotgun, they have Winchester Super X Rifled hollow point shotgun slugs for $12.99 a box, these are the winpack 15 round boxes, if you get some, there is also a $6.00 per box rebate from Winchester...
  10. MTboatguy

    Okay, I am out of my comfort zone on this one....

    On my plow truck, got the plow all rebuilt, got the chains on it, fixed an air leak in the fuel system, so almost all systems go. Yesterday I had to move it for a few minutes and when I tried to move it back in place, it was extremely hard to get into gear! I thought I was going to have to...
  11. MTboatguy

    After my Dish Network Problems the last few days...

    I found this interesting, things might be a changing in the future on how we get our television: http://www.studiodaily.com/2014/10/fcc-warns-cable-industry-the-tv-biz-is-about-to-change-forever/?hq_e=el&hq_m=2972011&hq_l=5&hq_v=6a92222420
  12. MTboatguy

    Anybody know where to buy...

    My Dad gave several old fly rods when I was visiting earlier this year and one of them has a broke tip on it, does anyone know of someplace that sell parts for old fly fishing rods, I would like to be able fix or replace the rod and use it, but have never seen any place that sells just parts.
  13. MTboatguy

    No wonder it costs so much to ship stuff! Talk about Stupid!

    As I posted the other day, my Dish Receiver died the other day and I had to order a replacement, which they said would be 3 day shipping, so I took a look tonight to see where it was, talk about dumb business models. Billings, MT, United States 10/26/2014 7:41 P.M...
  14. MTboatguy

    Man do I hate Dish Network

    Woke up this morning, turned on the satellite and boom Hard Drive Failure on the DVR! This is the third time in the last year and a half, then have to wait several days for a replacement receiver to show up! I don't understand why the HD fails in these machines so often, they are the same darn...
  15. MTboatguy

    Tire chain repair link question.

    I had to repair one of the chains for my plow truck, got a couple of repair links, put them in place, squeezed them closed, but when done, they are still open a small amount, I have never worked with this repair links before, so I was wondering, is there anyway to close them completely? I was...
  16. MTboatguy

    Boat cover question...

    I just picked up a boat cover for my 14 foot fishing boat, and I would like to prop it up so it does not sag under the weight of the snow during the winter, what do you guys use to keep your covers from filling up with snow or water?
  17. MTboatguy

    Sounds like a few in the NASCAR world are not happy..

    I remember when this happened with Indy Cars a few years ago, wonder what changes we will see over the off season. http://racing.ap.org/dailyinterlake/article/goodyear-blame-kansas-tire-problems-0
  18. MTboatguy

    Tilt bracket stop rod...

    I have a 9.8 mercury tiller steer motor and I was wondering, where is a good place to get a new tilt bracket stop rod, it is the rod that goes through the transom bracket with the little flipper on it to stop it from falling out, I have been using various rods over the last couple of years, but...
  19. MTboatguy

    Can somebody explain this to me!!!!! GRRRRRR!

    I had a nice little 9.8 mercury tiller steer I have used for 3 years now, never had a problem with it, had the water pump replaced about 6 months ago, have ran around several lakes this summer, not one single problem. So I upgraded my aluminum fishing boat motor last month, and put this 9.8 up...
  20. MTboatguy

    Who wants to have wild turkey dinner!

    Cripes, I am sitting working on some things on the computer and here this clomp, clomp, clomp on the roof of the house, couldn't figure out for the life of me what was going on, go outside and there is 5 freaking turkeys running around on the roof! I didn't know they could fly so well!
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