The Gustavus Thread

[JPete]

Gus, glad to hear you are enjoying the sow and cub. Please post some pictures when you get a chance.
Here is NJ's take on bear:
NJDEP Division of Fish & Wildlife - Know the Bear Facts-Black Bears in NJ

[Filthy]

what exactly is a "whack" of tires?

[gustavus]

what exactly is a "whack" of tires?

Term most usually used to describe an abundance of something.

[Mechanic688]

Term most usually used to describe an abundance of something.

Thought that was a herd, or a covey, or a cluster.

[Filthy]

Thought that was a herd, or a covey, or a cluster.

No, that's a gaggle, a clowder or a boatload

[gustavus]

Earlier on I mentioned these large ammonia tanks that no longer meet the pressure requirments, decided to bring one home to make a vault for my veggie oil. With a 1/2" shell 3/8" caps i should keep the bears outa my grease.

With 1/2" shell 3/8" end caps this tank is heavy, my guestimate is they weigh 6500 maybe 7,000 lbs.

[Bear]

my guestimate is they weigh 6500 maybe 7,000 lbs.

If she carries that off, don't try to stop her ; )

[freonjoe]

That will hold a lot of oil! Hope you get some pictures of the bears trying to get into that.

[gustavus]

That will hold a lot of oil! Hope you get some pictures of the bears trying to get into that.

Best shot I could get.

[JPete]

Best shot I could get.

In the fall you will see lots of acorns in it too. I guess you can say I know my sh1t!

[gustavus]

Thanks to the Internet I saved $2000.00 on that HP Z3200PS printer which has arrived in Winnipeg for pick up Monday , went into town for a sack pf beer noticed the coffee shop was still open and wandered over for a brew. Got my first print job, a place to sell my prints from plus a scrap truck.. Not a bad way to finnish up the day.

[Dunemaul]

Yeah i would say if they all work together to pull it away. Put a automatic feeder on your scrap cars rigged to a gps every time they drag it closer to Jacks more grease comes out LOL.

[freonjoe]

Gus, check your links, it goes to the gold refining forum.

[Scrapcrazy]

Anyone with a 12 page thread named specifically after them really says a lot. I'm just a FNG but would like to say welcome back and can't wait to read more of your posts. Its quite obvious many look up to you. I mean who wouldn't look up to a guy who uses old ammonia tanks to store old cooking grease. You must fry alot of Turkey on Thanksgiving.

[Dunemaul]

Anyone else realize Gus has been MIA for a bit. I think the bears might have gotten mad at him.

[arnofarrell]

Anyone else realize Gus has been MIA for a bit. I think the bears might have gotten mad at him.

I did notice that. I have been reading this post off and on for the last few days ( since I am still exploring the site.). Gus you are a great man from what I have read. Also he might be gone because he said his internet was going out at the end of July. Maybe the stupid internet company decided to cut it off early. I hope he is ok.

[BarrenRealms007]

Gus is fine I have talked to him. He is probably wrapped up in playing with his new toy's,like a kid in a candy store.

[gustavus]

Gus is fine I have talked to him. He is probably wrapped up in playing with his new toy's,like a kid in a candy store.

Right you are Barren, I'm busy taking pictures for a post card series which I'm putting together for next year.

Also been busy cementing out my platinum group metals from my leach, now that most of the black powder is out I've been washing out the excess zinc. I'm planing to have a few ounces made into potassium choroplatinite for which I have hired a chemist. The potassium chloroplatinite is for making contact platinum prints.

Purchased a pair of HP Workstations, which will each get 32 gigs of ECC Ram, Ultra SCUSI hard drives then to finish them off a mediocre 1 gig video card.

Now that we have the boring stuff out of the way, here's a shot of the bear.

[BarrenRealms007]

Hey she is cute. Have you got her trained to cook for you yet?

[gustavus]

Hey she is cute. Have you got her trained to cook for you yet?

She's a free spirit, likes to wander and refuses to be house broke.

Besides Pat came back home, at least she called before coming back, the only surprise she got was all the empty beer cans laying all over the yard and house. Anyhow its good to have her back. I ran out of dishes and clean socks, I was down to eating chili beans out of the can.

When I worked for a living driving truck or welding out in the field with my old Lincoln SA-200, I would lay a can of Stagg chili beans onto the exhaust manifold a half hour before lunch time to have a hot lunch. You get weired looks from your co workers when your miles from civilization and they smell steak cooking.and their eating tuna sandwiches..

We had a practical joker on one job, guy was like 6'5" weighed in at 250 or better his nic was Tiny.. Just after morning start up the truck I was following to the pit started spewing something out of the stack into the air, tunned out Tiny had stuffed a full bag of pop corn down the stack,the night before then when the exhaust got hot enough all this corn started popping and spewing out.

We had one year old Kenworth's with 550 cats pulling B trains with clam dumps, which can be tricky. When your off loading to have to keep your speed constant and not look into your mirrors. You always off load the trailer at the end of the train first keeping weight from the first trailer onto your drivers.

Heading back with a load, the guy in front of me didn't have enough speed up when he tripped the gate, everything happened in slow motion as i watched events unfold. The rear trailer now high centered on the heavily spread windrow started to tip. and tip more until it finally went over onto its side, then the seconded trailer went over a bit faster then the tractor went over much faster. Kinda like crack the whip, driver came out unhurt with only a broken windshield and a mirror on the passenger side.

Same job on another day, the gravel we were hauling came from a large pile in the pit which had a haul road leading to the top. Wished I had my camera for this one, the pile had been whittled away to nothing with only the haul road left. This new driver scooted up the haul road only to find it lead into nothing, the front wheels hanging into free air, truck resting on the fuel tanks, the trailer saved his butt.