The Original Old Farts Club

[RosterMan]

Damn it, I wanted to start trimi today....still not ready. Will wait until tomorrow. That just Fk'ed my day up. What to do now.....

Charge the boat battery
Have a good day, Im off to the races

 

[Hippie420]

Alla this talk about our Dads. I wrote a magazine article about mine:

Arcane Things My Daddy Taught Me

© Walt C. Snedeker
​

Daddies are magical. And here is one of the little measurements of life: If you still refer to him as your Daddy in your adultery, then he gets the prize.

Now, don't get me wrong; if he's "Pop", "Father", "Dad", or the like, there's no problem, there's nothing wrong. It's just that the magic isn't there anymore. Remember: It used to be "Daddy", right?

In order for a Daddy to be magical, he must have a few special characteristics. He must know the answer to every question you could ever think of. And he must be able to show you and tell you and make things for you that nobody else in the world knows anything about.

Like spool tanks. One snowy day, when there was no way to go outdoors, Daddy built a spool tank for me. I was just a tweeny kid, bored silly. It, and its cousins fascinated me for hours.

A spool tank requires a spool from Mom's sewing kit (in our house, the spool had to be empty), a thumbtack, kitchen match, and a slice of an old candle with the wick bored out.

Oh, and a rubber band. You pushed the rubber band through the hole in the spool, slid a busted piece of kitchen match through the end loop of the rubber band, and used the thumbtack like a doorstop to make it so the kitchen match wouldn't spin.

Then, on the other end of the spool, you worked the rubber band through the disk of candle. As soon as you slipped the cannon (some people might call it the ink tube from a ballpoint pen) through the end loop sticking through the candle disk, you were ready to wind 'er up!

About twenty or thirty turns later, you placed the spool tank on the floor, and it would slowly trundle across the room, scaring the bejeebers out of the cat. Every now and then the cannon would tilt, simulating firing. Magical.

None of the other kids in the neighborhood had a spool tank until I showed them how to make one.

Daddy didn't stop there by any means. I would be walking along in the woods with him, idly watching him with his pocketknife and a small piece of wild cherry branch, and he suddenly would hand me a slip-whistle made from that branch.

Here's how he did it: It seems that wild cherry bark can be removed intact from its branch. So he'd loosen it, but before he removed it, he'd cut a "window" that resembled the shape of a steamboat whistle in the bark.

Then he'd take the tube of bark off, put it in his shirt pocket, and cut away some wood. When he slipped the tube back on and handed it to me, my magical Daddy would have produced a multi-toned whistle from nowhere!

He made pinwheel boomerangs from the yardsticks that hardware stores used to give away. Daddy would cut the yardstick at exactly the 18-inch line, and drill a small hole in the middle of the two remaining pieces. Then, holding the pieces tightly together, he'd use his grinder as a power-sander, and bevel one edge of each.

A small 5” long screw-and-nut combination through the holes, and the X-shaped boomerang would be ready for me to fling. It would come back and you could grab it out of the air by the screw “handle”. Magical.

Daddy taught me how to make whip-darts, slingshots, and ceiling walkers (talk about scaring the cat -- ceiling walkers made him disintegrate).

And he taught me how to catch a squirrel with just a boy's penknife. And how to "tickle" trout. (It was a monumental day when I caught a trout with my bare fingers while a guy with a jillion dollars worth of gear stood there watching -- and troutless!)

Needless to say, these and a bunch more things like them were passed on to my boys.

And, yes... although they are grown and gone, they still call me "Daddy".

My Old Man taught me three things; how to tie a legal hangman's knot, that a leather belt could cut flesh, and to NEVER talk back.

 

[pute]

Charge the boat battery
Have a good day, Im off to the races

I would like to take it and get it tested but the damn thing is heavy. Not like a car battery. This thing is huge.

 

[Hippie420]

If I were to ever buy another boat motor, I think I'd give one of these a try. No worry about gumming up a carb during winter storage. A camp tank would last days, and a 20# would last all season or more.
Search: 10 results found for "propane" (onlineoutboards.com)

 

[user 60570]

Damn it, I wanted to start trimi today....still not ready. Will wait until tomorrow. That just Fk'ed my day up. What to do now.....

wanna cruise Colfax?

 

[pute]

Naw, I wasted to much $$ last night down there.....besides she has covid.

 

[Africanna]

to be one with my plants

Good man

 

[Africanna]

Alla this talk about our Dads. I wrote a magazine article about mine:

Arcane Things My Daddy Taught Me

© Walt C. Snedeker
​

Daddies are magical. And here is one of the little measurements of life: If you still refer to him as your Daddy in your adultery, then he gets the prize.

Now, don't get me wrong; if he's "Pop", "Father", "Dad", or the like, there's no problem, there's nothing wrong. It's just that the magic isn't there anymore. Remember: It used to be "Daddy", right?

In order for a Daddy to be magical, he must have a few special characteristics. He must know the answer to every question you could ever think of. And he must be able to show you and tell you and make things for you that nobody else in the world knows anything about.

Like spool tanks. One snowy day, when there was no way to go outdoors, Daddy built a spool tank for me. I was just a tweeny kid, bored silly. It, and its cousins fascinated me for hours.

A spool tank requires a spool from Mom's sewing kit (in our house, the spool had to be empty), a thumbtack, kitchen match, and a slice of an old candle with the wick bored out.

Oh, and a rubber band. You pushed the rubber band through the hole in the spool, slid a busted piece of kitchen match through the end loop of the rubber band, and used the thumbtack like a doorstop to make it so the kitchen match wouldn't spin.

Then, on the other end of the spool, you worked the rubber band through the disk of candle. As soon as you slipped the cannon (some people might call it the ink tube from a ballpoint pen) through the end loop sticking through the candle disk, you were ready to wind 'er up!

About twenty or thirty turns later, you placed the spool tank on the floor, and it would slowly trundle across the room, scaring the bejeebers out of the cat. Every now and then the cannon would tilt, simulating firing. Magical.

None of the other kids in the neighborhood had a spool tank until I showed them how to make one.

Daddy didn't stop there by any means. I would be walking along in the woods with him, idly watching him with his pocketknife and a small piece of wild cherry branch, and he suddenly would hand me a slip-whistle made from that branch.

Here's how he did it: It seems that wild cherry bark can be removed intact from its branch. So he'd loosen it, but before he removed it, he'd cut a "window" that resembled the shape of a steamboat whistle in the bark.

Then he'd take the tube of bark off, put it in his shirt pocket, and cut away some wood. When he slipped the tube back on and handed it to me, my magical Daddy would have produced a multi-toned whistle from nowhere!

He made pinwheel boomerangs from the yardsticks that hardware stores used to give away. Daddy would cut the yardstick at exactly the 18-inch line, and drill a small hole in the middle of the two remaining pieces. Then, holding the pieces tightly together, he'd use his grinder as a power-sander, and bevel one edge of each.

A small 5” long screw-and-nut combination through the holes, and the X-shaped boomerang would be ready for me to fling. It would come back and you could grab it out of the air by the screw “handle”. Magical.

Daddy taught me how to make whip-darts, slingshots, and ceiling walkers (talk about scaring the cat -- ceiling walkers made him disintegrate).

And he taught me how to catch a squirrel with just a boy's penknife. And how to "tickle" trout. (It was a monumental day when I caught a trout with my bare fingers while a guy with a jillion dollars worth of gear stood there watching -- and troutless!)

Needless to say, these and a bunch more things like them were passed on to my boys.

And, yes... although they are grown and gone, they still call me "Daddy".

Excellent

 

[Africanna]

Two and half year jail sentence. Had it all and it was'nt good enough

 

[Hippie420]

Naw, I wasted to much $$ last night down there.....besides she has covid.

TB & VD, too!

 

[Hippie420]

I would like to take it and get it tested but the damn thing is heavy. Not like a car battery. This thing is huge.

 

[WeedHopper]

 

[user 60606]

I resemble that meme' ^^^ ....... jokers to the left and clowns to the right every day.

 

[pute]

^^every time I hear that song.....this is what I see in my mind.

 

[RosterMan]

I would like to take it and get it tested but the damn thing is heavy. Not like a car battery. This thing is huge.

Most likely a big rig battery to run the rig (interior lights and radio ) when in the sleeper. I had two of them in my Winnebago and they were a bioch to carry or move.
Is it in the belly of your boat? Trailer the whole boat down to auto barn or alike and have them test it.

 

[pute]

Took the boat battery in to have it tested. Damn thing weighs about 60lbs. Checked out ok. I am glad because this is it's replacement. Still getting the engine worked on and I don't feel like forking over another $425 today.

SLI31AGMDP

SLI31AGMDP X2Power Premium AGM 1150CCA BCI Group 31T Heavy Duty Battery

Total Price: $425.99

SLI31AGMDP

 

[RosterMan]

Took the boat battery in to have it tested. Damn thing weighs about 60lbs. Checked out ok. I am glad because this is it's replacement. Still getting the engine worked on and I don't feel like forking over another $425 today.

SLI31AGMDP

SLI31AGMDP X2Power Premium AGM 1150CCA BCI Group 31T Heavy Duty Battery

Total Price: $425.99

SLI31AGMDP

That is a nice battery take care of it and it will do right by you.
Read up on charging an AGM deep cycle they are a bit different and I believe require a special charger . Did he give you the charger with it?

 

[RosterMan]

Took the boat battery in to have it tested. Damn thing weighs about 60lbs. Checked out ok. I am glad because this is it's replacement. Still getting the engine worked on and I don't feel like forking over another $425 today.

SLI31AGMDP

SLI31AGMDP X2Power Premium AGM 1150CCA BCI Group 31T Heavy Duty Battery

Total Price: $425.99

SLI31AGMDP

80lbs lol
here is spec sheet
X2Power Premium AGM 1150CCA BCI Group 31T Heavy Duty Battery - SLI31AGMDP at Batteries Plus
If you got a good charger with it and the battery almost 1/3 of the cost of boat

 

[pute]

Yes a charger came with the boat. 80lbs.....no wonder.....my back is gonna kill me tomorrow. I put it in the back of my truck and took in in. The guy said it was as good as new. How long do you think it will run on a full chg Hydra?

 

[RosterMan]

Yes a charger came with the boat. 80lbs.....no wonder.....my back is gonna kill me tomorrow. I put it in the back of my truck and took in in. The guy said it was as good as new.

When you can send me charger info I bet it is a good one $150 or more