56FordGuy

Break into a house. Get shot.    The system worked.  :usa:

Two excellent rifles. Congrats!

When I first opened this thread, I expected to see one of those hand pump hydraulic splitters.    The one in the video is essentially a treadle hammer, without the foot linkage and a permanent wedge. It's not a bad idea. 

  I think it's bogus. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the 'victim' did it to themselves looking for a payday. 

They are. I've had a few coworkers that have bought the higher end line of Harbor Freight boxes, and they're pretty solid. If I had to do it over again, I'll admit I might have done that instead of the Snap On I bought. For home use, there's no question. HF actually has a quality product for a reasonable price there. I've got an older Craftsman box in my work truck, and it's pretty wrecked. Then again, most boxes would be after the kind of life it's had.    As for Sears, I couldn't tell you the last time I was in one. I have a handful of older Craftsman tools that I'm still using, but the majority of my stuff is tool truck brands. Snap On, Mac, Matco, etc. 

  I still have trouble grasping how anyone 18+ can be on their parent's insurance, much less 25/ 26.

Our property is 4/5ths wooded. I cut firewood to heat the house, along with doing necessary maintenance and clearing downed trees. Have a Stihl 361, and an 064. Split the firewood by hand, and use the tractor or Gator for getting around and moving heavy stuff as needed. 

  The phrase "kid broke" is almost enough to turn me away from a horse by itself. If you advertise a horse as "kid broke", everything else about it is going to have to be absolutely perfect for me to bother with driving out to look at it. Too many people just have no idea what they're talking about. Just because your 8 year old sat on the horse in a round pen does not mean it's a kid safe horse- and even then, kids are different! The last horse I bought I went and looked at three different times and had my own vet check him out before I paid for him, and he wasn't "kid broke". When I saddled him up at the seller's farm the first time, the lady even asked me "Are you sure you want to try and get on him?" :lol:   About 7-8 years ago I was shopping for a used truck, and found what looked like the perfect truck at a lot up in Kentucky, about three hours from home. Called the place, "Oh yeah, it's in great shape. I'll be here for sure when you come to look at it." Took a day off work and drove up there. Nobody was there, the bed of the truck was bent and had rubbed a hole in the back of the cab and there was a 1" hole drilled in the roof that looked like it used to have a CB antenna there. Paint damage, interior damage, etc that wasn't in the pictures. Called the seller, he swore he'd never noticed any of the problems I was describing.    Buyers can be just as bad. If I had a nickel for everybody that's told me "Yep, I'll take it!" and never showed up I could go buy a nice old 45-70. :)

  TGO is my one stop source for all the gay related current events. :)    You think I'm joking. I'm not. TGO talks about gay folks more than gay folks do. 

I question everything a seller tells me, not because I think everybody is a liar but because a lot of people have no idea what they're selling. I see that the most with horse stuff. Somebody always wanted a horse, buys a bunch of stuff, and knows nothing about it other than what the person they bought it from told them.    I drove 600 miles one weekend, from Dickson to Crossville to Fayetteville to Bowling Green looking at horse trailers. Oh, they're all in great shape! Just like new! Some little old lady used it to carry her cart mule down to the park once a year! One in Crossville had  bent axle, Fayetteville had a moron turn loose with a welder in it, etc. "No rust" means "I can't see the rust unless I take the mats out." "Lights work" means the tail lights come on when you hit the turn signal. The one I love is "Has good brakes, but not hooked up." No, they are connected. They just don't work. :lol: Finally, the trailer I wound up buying had 'Four new tires'. Considering the four tires were three different brands, and the only two of them that matched had a 2001 date code (same year as the trailer) somehow I don't think they were new. They were fairly sound though, and everything else about the trailer seemed right so I bought it anyway.   If you really want a laugh, go look at some horse for sale ads. Some people are genuinely honest, but never used the horse for anything other than standing in a field looking pretty or walking down a trail with other horses. They think the animal is well trained, when it reality it's just following the leader and they have no real control over it. Put it in an arena and this 'well trained' horse is suddenly lost and confused. Then there are the folks intentionally dumping bad animals. "It's just too much horse" is all too often code for "this horse has been ruined on one type of rodeo event and is now borderline uncontrollable." I've shown up to look at sweet, gentle horses that were so drugged they could barely hold their head up. "Oh, we just gave him some Ace so he would be calm for the ride home if you bought him." Yeah. Sure you did.  :shake: I could go on, just like anyone that's ever bought and sold anything regularly could. You have to know what you're buying, and know what problems you're looking for. 

  Fair point. I've always said I would love to find an '04 Supercab F-550 4x4 and drop a 5.9 in it. 

[quote name="dave" post="1084005" timestamp="1387980640"]look close at the picture in post 25 its a 6bt cummins in a 01 superduty[/quote] It can be done, but was never factory. Fairly common swap though, as far as diesel swaps go.

  Or maybe Jesus didn't intend for faith to be as complicated as we humans have made it. Maybe it really is just that simple.    I don't see where Jesus addressed marriage, either. Knowing contextually that many Biblical figured had multiple wives and even concubines, I don't see and clear definitions. This isn't about marriage though. It's about one man who gave his opinion, and one network that didn't care for that. 

  I do my best to oblige. :)

  Yep. A lot of people don't even go that far, though.    I never even considered trying to work through the original text until I began experiencing some significant life changes and all anybody could tell me was "you're going to hell, boy". Thats when I started digging deeper because I wanted to really know for certain what the deal was. I certainly won't claim to be a Biblical scholar though.    At the end of our time, Christians believe we will stand before God and answer for our lives, solely responsible for what we've done. Somehow, I didn't think telling the Lord "Well, preacher so and so said this" was going to cut it for me. Why didn't I make an effort, why didn't I read more, study more, and make God more of a priority. So I tried. 

  It depends on how much a person wants to understand for themselves, and how willing they are to just believe whatever the preacher says because he's behind the pulpit.    Too many Christians follow the preacher, too few follow Jesus.    Just my opinion, your mileage may vary. 

  In 1 Corinthians 6, the passage I believe was referenced the word "arsenkoitai" is the one so often interpreted as homosexual. Unfortunately, there is no exact English translation. Given the context of 1 Corinthians 5 and 6, many scholars believe the passage to be referring to male prostitutes, a ritual of Pagan temple worship. That is how Paul uses it in many of his other writings, and it would seem consistent for him to use it in that manner here as well.  

[quote name="RobertNashville" post="1081859" timestamp="1387569994"]What good and what point would there be to following any religion if its foundational texts are fluid and/or just a matter of opinion? It doesn't matter if "Christians" are "right" or not...they have an absolute right to believe what they believe. Maybe the Constitution is "wrong" too and needs to be ignored when is says something that one particular person or group doesn't like![/quote] My post that you referenced was not about Phil's rights. I've said several times already what he said was fine. My post was in reference to the idea that Christians are persecuted for "speaking the truth." As for the foundational texts being fluid, the Bible is. How else do you explain all the different denominations within Christianity? Which group has the truth correct? If church A says drinking is a sin, and church B says drinking is okay, someone must be wrong. If church B members drink regularly, are they not living in a sinful lifestyle as viewed by church A's viewpoint? Are they not unrepentant of their theoretical sin? Whose truth is right? I can prove rocks are hard. I can prove lit matches and gasoline will start a fire. I can prove TGO loves gay threads. :lol: With spiritual matters, you simply can't nail down hard proof. Even the Scriptures say faith is required. As a result, you can't lay claim to having the one and only truth. You can believe anything you want, whether we agree on it or not. That's your right, and I will defend that right until the end. We can debate various belief systems, which is what I was doing, but I'm not questioning your right to believe it.

[quote name="daddyo" post="1081810" timestamp="1387562086"]A&E owns and controls the Duck Dynasty brand, not the Robertson family. Non-issue.[/quote] So the family has no say over how their images are used? Seems like they would have some degree of influence over that.

Then where is the outrage over the new TN Lottery Duck Dynasty game? Isn't gambling a sin also? Or are we just looking the other way on that one? :lol: Seriously, which Bible are we preaching from? The one that didn't say "gay" until the 1950s? Or the one where Jesus never addressed gay folks?

[quote name="RebelCowboySnB" post="1081793" timestamp="1387560120"]I have never claimed to be right. I believe something.[/quote] I never said otherwise. Heck, if you read back you'll see that I think Phil also had the right to say what he did and as a gay guy, I didn't find anything offensive about it. It's the continual references to "speaking the truth" that I was talking about. You have the right to say that as well. I'm not questioning your rights. I'm just saying the first step to saving souls, if I recall my Christian raising correctly, is reaching out to the lost. You catch more flies with honey than you do vinegar.

[quote name="mikegideon" post="1081786" timestamp="1387559583"]I finally broke down and read the original article. I couldn't find any hatred in anything he said. I'm not a bible scholar, but afik, it calls it a sin. Just more libtard crap. They hate me too. When it comes to A&E... they know the Robertsons. They were more than willing to accept the ratings and the revenues from that show. I hope they're prepared to accept the consequences of their knee jerk reaction to Phil being Phil. They put that show on the air so everybody could laugh at the funny rednecks, and wound up with something totally different. It was an accident... one that will be impossible to replace. Seems like being a liberal idiot is just one disappointment after another :)[/quote] I still think this intentional on some level. It's a stunt, and may have been intended as an attention grabbing way for them to end the show and boost the ratings/ merch sales in the process.

[quote name="TresOsos" post="1081736" timestamp="1387552051"] But they attack any Christian that disagrees with them and tells the truth.[/quote] Christians are also the only group that scream so loudly that they are right, and there is no possibility they could be wrong. While its fine to believe that, you have to understand that a lot of people disagree with it. Heck, even a number of Christians believe there will be gay people of heaven. I think the "attacked" Christians would gain more ground if they didn't dig their heels in and refuse to even consider the possibility they could be wrong.

[quote name="daddyo" post="1081690" timestamp="1387543706"]And my bet is that she is representative of a large number in the LGBT population. [/quote] There's proof of that right in this thread.

I have a love/ hate thing with Osage. I hate cutting it, the thorns and chain sharpening gets old really fast. Incredible firewood though. Burns hot, and for a long time.