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I have volunteer FD
I’m screwed from the get-go
Takes em 20 minutes to muster, then they get all whiny about our wooden bridge.
Even though a low boy and D-7 come across it twice in the last 3 years and dump trucks with 23 T of gravel come across it 3 or 4 times a year.
Cracks me up when a new FedEx guy drives out here with a small box truck. I have a bridge across the creek on my driveway. Cross-ties on steel I-beams, sitting on concrete abutments. Will hold up practically anything. The company that delivers my diesel and propane had a couple of scaredy cat drivers who would always make me wait on deliveries until their trucks were about empty, which sometimes left me waiting for fuel. I finally called the company and threatened to find another one, if they didn't tell their drivers to grow a set. One driver finally figured out the bridge would hold him, while the other thankfully quit.
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Campfire Outfitter
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I have volunteer FD
I’m screwed from the get-go
Takes em 20 minutes to muster, then they get all whiny about our wooden bridge.
Even though a low boy and D-7 come across it twice in the last 3 years and dump trucks with 23 T of gravel come across it 3 or 4 times a year.
Cracks me up when a new FedEx guy drives out here with a small box truck. I have a bridge across the creek on my driveway. Cross-ties on steel I-beams, sitting on concrete abutments. Will hold up practically anything. The company that delivers my diesel and propane had a couple of scaredy cat drivers who would always make me wait on deliveries until their trucks were about empty, which sometimes left me waiting for fuel. I finally called the company and threatened to find another one, if they didn't tell their drivers to grow a set. One driver finally figured out the bridge would hold him, while the other thankfully quit. That didn't go well for a fire company tanker truck, he came across my bridge on my one farm empty to fill up in my pond, going back didnt work out to well for him
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Congrats! You spotted another avenue for legislating gun control - just say that insurance won't cover your losses and scare everyone into compliance. Works like a charm!
Politics is War by Other Means
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Campfire Tracker
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I don’t think smokeless is explosive like that. Black powder. That’s another matter
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Campfire Ranger
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If the fire leveled the house, I think it's safe to say that the powder and primers have combusted... gone. Unless you say something, how would the know? Yeah- fire investigater says he found evidence of powder. You think he can tell the difference between 10 lbs and 20? Well, he might count the little round lids from the melted and burned plastic containers. I still have quite a bunch in IMR metal cans.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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I don’t think smokeless is explosive like that. Black powder. That’s another matter All of it goes poof if is in something that won't allow it to build pressure. I've seen people store their powder and primers in the safe with their guns, not a good idea.
Paul
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