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1976gmc20 · 02-01-2021, 06:39 PM

50 something here today. Cleaned a bunch of moldy hay out of the barn and dumped it out on some fallow ground.

Rode my horse bareback around the arena for a few minutes.

**Ol Blue K20** · 02-01-2021, 08:40 PM

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Snow is coming in faster than I can plow already plowed 2 times . Time for a homebrew coffee chocolate porter /stout never could figure out its proper category.

It looks delicious! Send some to California!!

72c20customcamper · 02-01-2021, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Ol Blue K20

It looks delicious! Send some to California!!

It is ...

**Ol Blue K20** · 02-01-2021, 08:45 PM

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It is ...

what!? None to California!? Dang it!!!!!

72c20customcamper · 02-01-2021, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Ol Blue K20

what!? None to California!? Dang it!!!!!

Sorry only 5 gallons left

Need to brew some spring beers

**Ol Blue K20** · 02-01-2021, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper

Sorry only 5 gallons left

Need to brew some spring beers

Zippi · 02-02-2021, 03:21 PM

Cleaned up my fishing poles and got new birdhouses ready for the back yard. I'm rushing Spring.

Rich84 · 02-02-2021, 04:28 PM

Nothing but SNOW. I plow my driveway with a quad and a 4 foot snow plow. I went out 4 times yesterday to try to keep up. There was about 6 more inches this morning on the ground and the snow changed to wet and heavy. I'm pretty sore today. I'm getting too old for the quad. I think it's time to either hire someone or put a plow on my truck. We got about 19" total with this storm.

**Boog** · 02-02-2021, 05:38 PM

I wouldn't make it up north ya'll.

As of today, our tv meteorologist said it has been 1,112 days since we had more than 1" accumulation in central Arkansas. And I'm ok with that.

best view · 02-02-2021, 06:19 PM

Can’t ski on that and u can’t stick beer in that to keep it cold

**special-K** · 02-02-2021, 07:39 PM

Yeah, winter is great. You can just keep beer in the bed in a box, no cooler, always cold. You don't have to make buying ice cream your last stop before rushing home. No bugs. And when it snows for days you can just hang around eating being lazy and not have to explain yourself.

lil hoodlum · 02-02-2021, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by special-K

Yeah, winter is great. You can just keep beer in the bed in a box, no cooler, always cold. You don't have to make buying ice cream your last stop before rushing home. No bugs. And when it snows for days you can just hang around eating being lazy and not have to explain yourself.

I might have to rethink about winter... All good points made Tim.

Andy4639 · 02-02-2021, 10:02 PM

Finally got back to Liberty SC and all my parts where here. I got the hub cap fixed on the Impala and I even got the rear view mirror mod finished up. The mirror has home link, temperature & compass in it. I can open the garage door with a touch of my finger. I can see the temperature and know which way I'm head all in a glance. You can barely see the wires.

1976gmc20 · 02-02-2021, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by special-K

Yeah, winter is great. You can just keep beer in the bed in a box, no cooler, always cold. You don't have to make buying ice cream your last stop before rushing home. No bugs. And when it snows for days you can just hang around eating being lazy and not have to explain yourself.

Forty or fifty years ago I read about a guy who lived in the NWT way up a tributary of the Mackenzie where there was a hot springs.

He built two or three little cabins and lived up there with his native wife. They only had to cut wood just to cook. The hot springs heated the cabins. They could go ski or dogsled and then jump in the warm pool and watch the northern lights.

I guess now there's a damn national park and a resort up there

**davischevy** · 02-02-2021, 11:27 PM

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I guess now there's a damn national park and a resort up there

In the sixties, we lived in the Frazier, Granby, CO area. I could go explore all day on my motorcycle and not see a soul.

**special-K** · 02-03-2021, 06:40 AM

I thought you were going to say never saw a 'sign'. Just take off where you wanted

**davischevy** · 02-03-2021, 12:31 PM

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I thought you were going to say never saw a 'sign'. Just take off where you wanted

That too.

Just call me Sean · 02-04-2021, 09:05 PM

Fixed my central heat. Had this house six years with no heat.

1976gmc20 · 02-04-2021, 09:52 PM

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In the sixties, we lived in the Frazier, Granby, CO area. I could go explore all day on my motorcycle and not see a soul.

First time I saw Taylor Park was in 1967. I thought it looked like pictures of Alaska.

Took me a while to actually live there.

**davischevy** · 02-04-2021, 10:00 PM

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First time I saw Taylor Park was in 1967. I thought it looked like pictures of Alaska.

Took me a while to actually live there.

Was it still a logging camp then? Was the reservoir there then? I'll bet the road wasn't paved.

1976gmc20 · 02-04-2021, 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by davischevy

Was it still a logging camp then? Was the reservoir there then? I'll bet the road wasn't paved.

The Trading Post was there (started in the 1940s by my friend's dad).

The reservoir was built in the 1930s.

The road was dirt from about Almont onward. Just one lane most places. Around the dam it was very narrow with a few pull outs for passing. It was that way until I think the spring of 1977* when the county widened it out in a few places. Then in the mid-1980s they blasted it all out real wide and paved it up to the Cottonwood turnoff, bypassing the Trading Post. Before that the road went right through their parking lot, and the gas pumps were right in front of the (old) Nugget Cafe. Many times I drove my logging truck through there.

* Hah, I sound like Ian Tyson: I was broke in Wickenburg, the spring of '77

Rich84 · 02-05-2021, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Just call me Sean

Fixed my central heat. Had this house six years with no heat.

What a difference 900 miles makes....

I plowed a path in my yard so the oil man can deliver me another 300 or so gallons of oil today. I have a 330 gallon tank and this time of year I get about 4 weeks out of it.

72c20customcamper · 02-05-2021, 10:59 AM

Rich84 same deal here just with propane it's only for my cooking and water heater . I called them and told them to skip this months fill . I still have 3/4 of a tank so it's good till end of March. Really didn't want to clear a path to it

72c20customcamper · 02-05-2021, 05:54 PM

Well finally got around to fixing my XL7 . Had a seized alternator new one put in but the registration and inspection was expired. So I've been driving it till the computer reset about 150 miles . So now it passed inspection so I can register it again . Get back into the driveway and the trans cooler rubber line blows out trans fluid everywhere. So it's going to be a nice sunny day and 28° Saturday and I'm doing this in my driveway

Just call me Sean · 02-05-2021, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Rich84

What a difference 900 miles makes....

I plowed a path in my yard so the oil man can deliver me another 300 or so gallons of oil today. I have a 330 gallon tank and this time of year I get about 4 weeks out of it.

That sounds expensive. I don't have a clue what heating oil costs.

Yeah I hadn't cared about trying to fix it. The a/c works great the other 11 and a half months.

It just needed a heat pump compatible thermostat.

02-01-2021, 06:39 PM	#626
1976gmc20 Registered User Join Date: May 2015 Location: Montana Posts: 3,696	Re: What did you do today not on your truck... 50 something here today. Cleaned a bunch of moldy hay out of the barn and dumped it out on some fallow ground. Rode my horse bareback around the arena for a few minutes. __________________ Current/past Chevy/GMC trucks: 1958 Chevy C-60; 1965 GMC C-50; 1965 Chevy C-10; 1971 Chevy K-10; 1973 Chevy K-20; 1976 GMC C-20; 1977 Chevy C-10 Suburban; 1980 Chevy K-10; 1989 Chevy K1500; 1991 GMC V1500 Suburban; 2016 Chevy K2500 HD Other vehicles: 1988 Jeep XJ; 2011 Toyota 4Runner

02-02-2021, 03:21 PM	#632
Zippi Registered User Join Date: Nov 2019 Location: Southern Indiana Posts: 588	Re: What did you do today not on your truck... Cleaned up my fishing poles and got new birdhouses ready for the back yard. I'm rushing Spring. Attached Images __________________ If you can't fix it with duct tape, it's an electrical problem. 1949 5 Window 3100 https://zippi6.wixsite.com/adtruck

02-02-2021, 04:28 PM	#633
Rich84 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Woodbury, Ct. Posts: 1,692	Re: What did you do today not on your truck... Nothing but SNOW. I plow my driveway with a quad and a 4 foot snow plow. I went out 4 times yesterday to try to keep up. There was about 6 more inches this morning on the ground and the snow changed to wet and heavy. I'm pretty sore today. I'm getting too old for the quad. I think it's time to either hire someone or put a plow on my truck. We got about 19" total with this storm.

02-02-2021, 05:38 PM	#634
Boog laying low Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Searcy, Ark. USA Posts: 13,524	Re: What did you do today not on your truck... I wouldn't make it up north ya'll. As of today, our tv meteorologist said it has been 1,112 days since we had more than 1" accumulation in central Arkansas. And I'm ok with that. __________________ Boog 69 Chevy stepside, 358/T350, 4.11 posi, 4.5/4 drop, rallys, poboy driver primer is finer 91 Chevy sportside, Tahoe, Yukon & GMC Crewcab All GM..'nuff said. I stand for the flag and kneel at the cross

02-02-2021, 06:19 PM	#635
best view Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: newbury new hampsire Posts: 2,158	Re: What did you do today not on your truck... Can’t ski on that and u can’t stick beer in that to keep it cold

02-02-2021, 07:39 PM	#636
special-K Special Order Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mt Airy, MD Posts: 85,851	Re: What did you do today not on your truck... Yeah, winter is great. You can just keep beer in the bed in a box, no cooler, always cold. You don't have to make buying ice cream your last stop before rushing home. No bugs. And when it snows for days you can just hang around eating being lazy and not have to explain yourself. __________________ "BUILDING A BETTER WAY TO SERVE THE USA"......67/72......"The New Breed" GMC '67 C1500 Wideside Super Custom SWB: 327/M22/3.42 posi.........."The '67" (project) GMC '72 K2500 Wideside Sierra Custom Camper: 350/TH350/4.10 Power-Lok..."The '72" (rolling) Tim "Don't call me a redneck. I'm a rough cut country gentleman" R.I.P. ~ East Side Low Life ~ El Jay ~ 72BLUZ ~ Fasteddie69 ~ Ron586 ~ 67ChevyRedneck ~ Grumpy Old Man ~

02-02-2021, 10:02 PM	#638
Andy4639 Old member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Liberty, & Garden City S.C. , U.S. Posts: 19,945	Re: What did you do today not on your truck... Finally got back to Liberty SC and all my parts where here. I got the hub cap fixed on the Impala and I even got the rear view mirror mod finished up. The mirror has home link, temperature & compass in it. I can open the garage door with a touch of my finger. I can see the temperature and know which way I'm head all in a glance. You can barely see the wires. Attached Images __________________ 1971 LWB Custom, 6.0LS & 4L80E, Speedhut.com GPS speedometer & gauges with A/C. 20" Boss 338's Grey wheels 4 wheel disc brakes. My Driver Seeing the USA in a 71 Upstate SC GM Truck Club 2013,14 and 2016 Hot Rod Pour Tour http://upstategmtrucks.com/ Get out and drive the truck this summer and have some fun! It sucks not being able to hear! LWB trucks rule, if you don't think so measure your SWB! After talking to tech support at Air Lift I have found out that the kit I need is 60811. Per the measurements I gave them. Ride height of truck inside spring and inside diameter of springs.

02-03-2021, 06:40 AM	#641
special-K Special Order Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mt Airy, MD Posts: 85,851	Re: What did you do today not on your truck... I thought you were going to say never saw a 'sign'. Just take off where you wanted __________________ "BUILDING A BETTER WAY TO SERVE THE USA"......67/72......"The New Breed" GMC '67 C1500 Wideside Super Custom SWB: 327/M22/3.42 posi.........."The '67" (project) GMC '72 K2500 Wideside Sierra Custom Camper: 350/TH350/4.10 Power-Lok..."The '72" (rolling) Tim "Don't call me a redneck. I'm a rough cut country gentleman" R.I.P. ~ East Side Low Life ~ El Jay ~ 72BLUZ ~ Fasteddie69 ~ Ron586 ~ 67ChevyRedneck ~ Grumpy Old Man ~

02-05-2021, 10:59 AM	#648
72c20customcamper Registered User Join Date: Jul 2018 Location: Catskill Mountains,NY Posts: 8,722	Re: What did you do today not on your truck... Rich84 same deal here just with propane it's only for my cooking and water heater . I called them and told them to skip this months fill . I still have 3/4 of a tank so it's good till end of March. Really didn't want to clear a path to it __________________ Mark 72 c20 custom camper Husky edition, 66 SS396 Chevelle 1964 Hawk, 63 Avanti,62 lark 1969 AMX , 1968 c20 stepside ,85 K20 1977 Suburban sold 68 anniversary.

02-05-2021, 05:54 PM	#649
72c20customcamper Registered User Join Date: Jul 2018 Location: Catskill Mountains,NY Posts: 8,722	Re: What did you do today not on your truck... Well finally got around to fixing my XL7 . Had a seized alternator new one put in but the registration and inspection was expired. So I've been driving it till the computer reset about 150 miles . So now it passed inspection so I can register it again . Get back into the driveway and the trans cooler rubber line blows out trans fluid everywhere. So it's going to be a nice sunny day and 28° Saturday and I'm doing this in my driveway __________________ Mark 72 c20 custom camper Husky edition, 66 SS396 Chevelle 1964 Hawk, 63 Avanti,62 lark 1969 AMX , 1968 c20 stepside ,85 K20 1977 Suburban sold 68 anniversary.



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