Sam1

See Refer's message above about the hassle. I considered building a new home for about 30 minutes and after researching online, that idea went right out the window. Even getting a VA loan like SW said above, it would have still been a nightmare for my situation. The only way I would honestly do it is if I had cash on hand and didn't even have to finance the mailbox. But it could be different for you if you are looking to buy your final home and never move, you may just want things a certain way and in a specific place. However, whatever you have thought of has already been done somewhere, you just have to do some looking and be a little flexible.

yep, that's why I write them a check every month and spend 50 cents on a stamp instead of paying them $5 to make it easier on them.

solar really isn't an option unless you have $30,000 burning a hole in your pocket because to unplug from the grid, you need a battery bank which will run you a minimum of 10k on top of the system itself. and that $30k number is conservative.

Yeah, we all like different things. I love a clean, tubbed out old classic set up for the strip with new technology under the body.

doesn't matter at all, things evolve. same reason we use guns now instead of bamboo spears to protect our homes.

You need to have a general idea of where you want. Williamson county, you have to have 5 acres of land for the house, or the house is required to be in a subdivision. That's just a single aspect of thousands that need to be considered. Then you have the concerns for HOA if in one, county/city taxes wherever you go to (property taxes in Davidson Co. are literally 200% of what they are in Williamson Co.) etc. Make sure you're willing to go through the headache of building, there's no possible way I would do it unless I had the expendable cash to pay for everything without getting a mortgage. I'm in between Fairview and I-40, right at 30 minutes from the garage to West End (used to work there). Was only $212ish for 2500 sq/ft on +/-1.5 acres. Fairview is an investment right now, as many people are leaving Franklin and moving out here because taxes/property costs are getting ridiculous. Heck, I bought this in 2013 at $212, had it reappraised for the divorce last October and it came back in at $270 and it's up to $285 now. If it hits $300 in the next two years I'm ejecting and moving further out in the country to get more land. That is with no renovations or upgrades at all. So, the location is extremely important... You don't want to move in somewhere that has already reached its peak value.

Interesting video, dude has never flown before but somehow ends up in a plane flying it around. Somehow or another through a series of very lucky events, he lands the plane a bit hard, but doesn't do an all out crash. https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8c2_1493420133

Just about any of them will if you mount a chain running the width of the deck or install a striping kit (of they make them for the model). All that is, is the grass being laid over, so technically, a $500 mower could stripe as well as a $10,000 dixie chopper.

I won't even use that anti-ethanol additive in small engines. Have to drive like 10-15 miles away to get non-ethanol gas every other week. Paying an extra 25 cents a gallon is well worth the wear and tear it saves.

Weekly at a minimum, however, I need to start shooting at active ranges instead of just indoors at paper.

damn that thing goes at 11mph? mine only runs at 7mph and that's hauling pretty good.

I liked the twitter post from Gnash that was subsequently deleted lol

I'd say this is fairly effective at nuking everything within a couple hundred meters of the detonation point.

The sole purpose of the parachute was to give the airplane more time to fly away.

There's a documentary about the first units that did this , those guys were insane.

Sort of like this one in the North Korean parade a few days ago that had the nose cone facing the wrong way? lol

What I'm curious on is, is Iran that broke where they couldn't afford a few mil to make a good prop? Seems like if you were going to throw something out there for the world to see, it would at least look legit.

This is pretty bad ass. Except for the fact that it's such a horrible propaganda piece, they posted a pic of it with a speedo that looks like it came out of a Cessna tapping yellow at 220 knots LOL I'm no aviation expert, but am thinking a jet should go a bit faster than that.

If the bomb was effective, they should not even be able to come up with a valid number. If they do actually come up with one, then I say back to the drawing board, we need something bigger or more potent.

Yeah, but it's "mil-spec"

Looks like our problems have already been solved, we just borrow their design. Russia builds stuff bigger to compensate for accuracy. I would say we need to work on accuracy too, but 40,000 lbs worth of explosives would do the job if you just drop it in the general area. lol

I'm usually one to instigate the use of large weapons, but think we need to keep those toys in the package. Too much political brouhaha involved with nukes. A bigger MOAB would do the job, Russia has one iirc 4 or 5 times the size of ours.

Playing whack-a-mole there will never work, Russia tried it for years, we've tried it for years, at some point it's time to get off the ride. $2.4 trillion would have bought exactly 15 million MOABs. According to Wikipedia, Afghanistan is 252,000 square miles. If the MOAB has a blast radius of +/- 1 mile, we could have literally blown up every square inch of the country almost 60 times over.

cool thanks for the info, I was thinking it was fuel-air because they designed it with such a thin skin. It's basically just a balloon filled with a low speed explosive