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[Armybrat]

I've just recently been told by my kids that they think I might be ready for a smart phone, now you tell me I gotta get a Smart TV. Whoa is me.....ain't never heard of a Smart TV. I got one of them big satellite things on the roof, pretty high tech for a displaced Missouri dirt farmer but beats the heck out of an antenna. Tinfoil and holding hands for better reception.

Hey, I didn't know you were a Missouri sodbuster. Learn something new every day.

Lots of farmer cousins in my extended family, and a number of direct ancestors tilled the rich dirt in NW Missourah, Iowa, & Indiana. My brother still owns the farm that has been in the family since the 1880s - it is located between Maryville & St. Joe. Maternal great grandpa farmed it, while paternal great grandpa was a blacksmith in Stanberry. Brother, who lives here in Texas, leases it out - so all he has to do is write checks for repairs & improvements and deduct the losses on his income tax.

[SlowBurn]

Hickock is paid by Buds gunshop as their infomercial youtube channel - info is out there - I asked him about being paid by Buds gun shop in the full 30 as a paid endorser - they banned my first account there. ....

Hickock is good and popular so he attracts sponsors. He doesn't review Bud's or Federal Ammo. They get favorable pub. He reviews guns.
Not sure whats supposed to be wrong about being paid. I'm paid for what I do, so are most people. If you can get paid for doing what you love to do, that's the dream.

[yqtszhj]

Hickock is good and popular so he attracts sponsors. He doesn't review Bud's or Federal Ammo. They get favorable pub. He reviews guns.
Not sure whats supposed to be wrong about being paid. I'm paid for what I do, so are most people. If you can get paid for doing what you love to do, that's the dream.

I was thinking hickok45 with 2,800,000 subscribers and millions of views per week, can you imagine the business it drives to buds and federal every week by just getting their name put in the ear of viewers? They'd probably pay whatever he wanted. Just look at the money spent on Nascar getting bannered cars driven in front of fans.

I quit ordering from buds because they were slow but I hope grabagun never sponsors him because it would make getting what I like more difficult.

[Bawanna]

I've worked as an Electrical Engineer for about 30 years now, my one pet peeve that EVERYONE knows about me... an electrical line is not "DEAD" it is "DE-ENERGIZE"
People live ~ Electricity energizes - people DO NOT DIE when I am in charge of a machine, job site or retrofit.

Splitting hairs I know, but any voltage carrying line is Energized or de-energized not live or dead with me.

All I know is it hurts or it don't hurt. I got a low pain threshold when it comes to Energized stuff. I tell my officers I'd rather be shot that tazed.
Longs as it's a 9 or smaller, not like I have a death wish ya know?

[Bawanna]

My goodness you sound just like me only I work in telecommunications. I've been accused of being a jerk so many times but when I work a retrofit the network has no issue and the customer never knows. And anyone that wants to give an "opinion" on how it should be done but obviously doesn't understand what's really going on will likely get an ear full from me, regardless what their position is in the company. I've had to call my boss a few times and tell him if he gets a complaint about me this is why....

Sounds like my wife in our kitchen remodel. Telling how it should be done when she has no clue how it should be done.
I did remodels and new construction for many years. My strategy was to allow for motel fees for homeowners to get them off site.
I hated woman following me around with a vacuum cleaner and questioning the placement of every nail and screw.
Look, we're gonna make a really big mess here, then we're gonna do some really nice work and then we will clean up after ourselves really good.
Gonna take awhile.........now go away.

[jeepster09]

Hey, I didn't know you were a Missouri sodbuster. Learn something new every day.

Lots of farmer cousins in my extended family, and a number of direct ancestors tilled the rich dirt in NW Missourah, Iowa, & Indiana. My brother still owns the farm that has been in the family since the 1880s - it is located between Maryville & St. Joe. Maternal great grandpa farmed it, while paternal great grandpa was a blacksmith in Stanberry. Brother, who lives here in Texas, leases it out - so all he has to do is write checks for repairs & improvements and deduct the losses on his income tax.

My dad's family all grew up in the St Joe and Balko area. A couple of years ago I went there and did some research and found a newspaper from 1852 that talked about their wagon train coming there with 12 wagons from Indiana. Small world.

[Bawanna]

I have a 10ga lever shotgun and a 32 Special lever gun that supposedly came across the country in a covered wagon by my ancestors. They were in a closet for I don't know how many years at my grandmothers house before she gave them to me.
Had paint spatter on them from painting where they apparently didn't care enough to cover them up.
I carefully removed most of that but left as intact as I could otherwise. Cherished possessions.

[JohnR]

Iowa farmer roots on both my parents sides. The great grandparents moved to Wisconsin and Minnesota long before I was born but we lived in Missouri for 3 years. I have good memories of it.

[mr surveyor]

I have a 10ga lever shotgun and a 32 Special lever gun that supposedly came across the country in a covered wagon by my ancestors. They were in a closet for I don't know how many years at my grandmothers house before she gave them to me.
Had paint spatter on them from painting where they apparently didn't care enough to cover them up.
I carefully removed most of that but left as intact as I could otherwise. Cherished possessions.

clean em', and shoot em' ..... they deserve it!


jd

[ltxi]

I've worked as an Electrical Engineer for about 30 years now, my one pet peeve that EVERYONE knows about me... an electrical line is not "DEAD" it is "DE-ENERGIZE"
People live ~ Electricity energizes - people DO NOT DIE when I am in charge of a machine, job site or retrofit.

Splitting hairs I know, but any voltage carrying line is Energized or de-energized not live or dead with me.

Got my EE degree in '72. Was a tech before that. My dad was an electrician by trade. I've done electrica lwork since pre teen. Screw this PC crap...I'm happy with "dead".

If you were gonna call out the Col on sumpthin' why did not do that on "electrocute"? Which he obviously didn't do.

[Bawanna]

I didn't get electrocuted? I thought I did. Smarted real bad and made me say bad words. Shucks darn it I think it was.

[ltxi]

I didn't get electrocuted? I thought I did. Smarted real bad and made me say bad words. Shucks darn it I think it was.

You got shocked. Electrocuted = terminal aka you be dead.

[b4uqzme]

I once hit a “live” wire while sawzalling up some rotten floorboards. That was exciting. Kinda like a mini 4th of July. But with cursing.

Another time I got lazy installing a light fixture. I just turned the wall switch off instead of the breaker. The last step was screwing in the bulb which promptly lit. Wtf? Turns out the numnuts electrician wired the switch wrong and it was “energized” either way you flip the switch.

Be careful there Colonel.

[dustnchips]

Had an idiot brother in law. He wired a switch with both whites on one screw and both blacks on the other. Screwed in the fuse and had light. Turned the switch on and the lights went out, turned the switch off and the lights stayed out. He blew all the fuses he had that way and then came to me. Took me a while to figure it out because I didn't think anyone was that dumb. I was wasting time figuring up wattage and amperage.

[Bawanna]

I've sawzalled lots of wires in my day. Fireworks but no shock, must not have been touching anything hot.

What I hated most was when we had sparky's on site and I'd ask them if something was hot/energizer/electricutable and they'd wet their fingers and grab them, get zapped and say yup, that's hot......

It's like they enjoys it or something.