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Man, if we get an early spring, i might actually get poo poo done this summer i won't
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Powershift posted:Man, if we get an early spring, i might actually get poo poo done this summer Same.
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Mar 14, 2019 15:35
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What a difference a week makes. Roads bare and dry, albeit sand and pebbles in some intersections and some wet where snow was piled. gently caress it. Time to do an oil change and wake it up 
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Mar 17, 2019 00:10
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Hell yeah man, seat and I got our Acura out of the snow bank today, I drove it into town, no problems so far. I hope your porch faired winter well. Also sorry I missed you when you came to Calgary, had conflicting schedules.
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Mar 17, 2019 07:05
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Good stuff! Dare I say spring might finally be here! Did the oil, no Exxon Valdez in the garage and it fired right up. Let it warm up on the stands while I checked for leaks and bumped the tires back up. Drove it and was immediately overcome by the sound of the RE71s picking up and throwing every bit of sand/pebble they were going over. Was too bad we missed you a couple weeks back. It was a good time.. or at least I did since I didn't have to drive LOL. Enjoyed meeting everyone.
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Mar 17, 2019 16:39
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Bad day at work. Had to go to Zama City. Brought along the cat since I didnt want to leave him alone for a bunch of days. Used roughly 1000L of fuel for the trip. After a lovely sleep I got into location to load 40tons of crude. First my pump froze because I left some fresh water in it overnight (only -10) so I had to get a plant operator to find a kerosene heater, making me look like an amateur. Ok so I get thawed out and loaded. Only 4 hours behind. Then as I'm rolling up hoses with pump suction on, I get the last section rolled, close the main load valve, turn off the pump and whoosh. Get covered in crude and spray it across the ground. So I either clean it up with a shovel or they call a vac truck in from high level at $225 per hour. Finally get cleaned up as best as I can, smelling like earth's anal discharge, and now the goat trail road has thawed and I'm weighing in at 145,000lbs. So I chain up and then have a very sketchy 68km drive out to pavement at zama. Then a 9 hour trip back to laglace to unload. Started at Friday 1pm, finished Sunday 1pm. A 20 hour trip ended up being 36 hours. Now I have to go clean crude off the equipment and head back up. I guess there's 2 ways to get rich, 1 be smart and doing really profitable things 2 be an idiot like me and just keep bashing your head into the bank vault until it opens. Also holy gently caress... zama city, every structure is on a skid or on piles.
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Mar 17, 2019 18:57
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jonathan posted:Bad day at work. Had to go to Zama City. Kinda redundant. Did you drive back to high level smelling like crude or take your chances reviving some long-dead diseases from Zama's lovely historic rig camps? My first job after break-up the one year was hauling firefighting equipment up there along side a bed truck that kept breaking down. It was a pretty wild couple of days.
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Mar 17, 2019 22:29
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Nah I drove straight back, unloaded and slept at home. Place makes red earth look like Cancun.
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Mar 18, 2019 00:42
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Well its spring now. First bugs on the windshield and first flattened gophers on the road.
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Mar 18, 2019 22:45
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We had snow yesterday. Just as things were drying up.
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Apr 8, 2019 04:03
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Haha, well that sucks. I fired up my irrigation on Friday. I am assuming night pushing -8 or colder are done now. Or at least.. I hope! 
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Apr 8, 2019 05:55
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advance polls are open. voooooooooote
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Apr 10, 2019 17:59
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Well, that was a surprise. Not. Prepare for fun times with Ottawa.
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Apr 17, 2019 14:10
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Sorry y'all voted in the homophobic sack of poo poo  At least he and Ford can chum together and gently caress us with nice group photos of their lovely selves.
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Apr 17, 2019 15:45
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Well, spring was okay, a little short. Summer just blasted by. Kinda sucks to get hit by 30cm of snow on the first day of winter though.
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Apr 27, 2019 16:59
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Powershift posted:Well, spring was okay, a little short. Summer just blasted by. Any of it sticking up there? We're just slightly damp so far, not even a little slush accumulating.
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Apr 27, 2019 17:46
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NumbersMatching320 posted:Any of it sticking up there? We're just slightly damp so far, not even a little slush accumulating. Yeah, it's kinda sticking.  supposed to be -10 with the heaviest tonight.
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Apr 27, 2019 17:49
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 ok it ramped up a bit here
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Apr 28, 2019 01:35
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It got pretty nasty here, and now it froze.  The snow was tremendously wet from the standpoint of water, and was blowing hard east, coating anything facing that way. People were driving around with their entire front ends or back ends coated in snow, and no headlights on, it was fantastic.
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Apr 28, 2019 06:51
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I just got back from Australia to this poo poo. Power's been out for 13 hours, company is swamped so no chance of it being restored anytime soon. Ice loving everywhere, wind blew the bbq four metres across the deck. At least I have a gas fireplace now to keep the house warm. Could be worse.
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Apr 28, 2019 14:08
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Any AB goons need a Fiesta ST? My brother is moving to Toronto and would rather not take it with him since it would make life significantly easier.
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Apr 29, 2019 14:44
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Albino Squirrel posted:Car dealership question: I bought a car from one of the Mercedes dealerships here in Edmonton. Since they have limited stock of the GLCe (the plug-in), I have to get it special-ordered. They tell me it's gonna arrive sometime in November, but I get a reasonable deal on this. No problem, my wife's current truck is old but functional. The Mercedes GLCe, on the other hand, is goddamn fantastic. It's torquey and smooth and dead-silent when running on electricity, which it does in the city almost exclusively. Our current gas mileage is reading out at 0.25 l/100, which is... good.
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May 12, 2019 06:35
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That is some royal bullshit. Have you spoken to Mercedes corporate about it? Which dealership was it? South side or west end? Congratulations on the new wheels though! That hybrid drivetrain is something else, that's for sure. Are you sure you didn't mistype a decimal place on that fuel economy figure? Because, uh 
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May 13, 2019 14:40
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I just learned there's a budweiser museum in didsbury. http://thebudbarn.com/ The website only makes me want to go 10 times more It's literally just a barn in some dude's yard am i going to get murdered? Powershift fucked around with this message at 09:55 on May 24, 2019 |
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May 24, 2019 09:51
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Hey Jonathan, looks like you were one of the last people to see northern alberta before it all burned up. gonna be a long fuckin summer.
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May 31, 2019 19:22
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It's just nature's way of telling us to stop living in three quarters of the province.
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Jun 1, 2019 06:07
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Seat Safety Switch posted:It's just nature's way of telling us to stop living in three quarters of the province. Basically north of Edmonton and south of Calgary (prairie fires) seem to spontaniously combust. Red Deer seems to be the safest place, even with the meth heads. Let's all move in to Powershifts' place.
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Jun 2, 2019 07:14
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slidebite posted:Red Deer seems to be the safest place, even with the meth heads. Let's all move in to Powershifts' place. What about the tornadoes?
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Jun 2, 2019 23:49
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slidebite posted:Basically north of Edmonton and south of Calgary (prairie fires) seem to spontaniously combust. Red Deer seems to be the safest place, even with the meth heads. Let's all move in to Powershifts' place. The palliser triangle is gonna get renamed soon. I'm betting on "dimension of fire".
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So remember that Mercedes I bought? Thing throws a check engine light on the weekend, still there after gassing up and ensuring the cap is tight. I take it in to the dealership, and they initially report the temperature sensor is acting up. During testing after they replace it, it turns out the electric water pump (which is part of how the hybrid part of the car is cooled) isn't working well, and they need to replace that. But the hybrid version of the water pump isn't readily available in Canada, so the ETA on the part is August 23rd. I mean, it's under warranty and we have a loaner, but there's less than a thousand KM on the car. We went through 15 bucks of gas. My wife is not happy at all with the car, and I can't say I blame her. Does Alberta have lemon laws? McTinkerson posted:That is some royal bullshit. Have you spoken to Mercedes corporate about it? Which dealership was it? South side or west end?
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Jun 20, 2019 04:53
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Canada has a lemon law, kind of, it's messier than the states. You'd have to go through an arbitration process with CAMVAP and present your case to an independent arbitrator, typically you'd need to demonstrate that there is an issue with your particular vehicle that the manufacturer tried to remedy but has been unable to do so. The arbitrators decision is binding. We initiated the process after we had so many issues with the navigation in our Veloster, we went through like half a dozen head units, but surprise surprise that gave the dealer enough of a kick to actually try something different and when they replaced the antenna our problem went away so we withdrew the case.
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I don't think your pain of buying the car is going to factor into a lemon law case either. Hopefully all will be well after this? Did they give you a decent loaner at least?
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slidebite posted:I don't think your pain of buying the car is going to factor into a lemon law case either. Hopefully all will be well after this? *Alabama
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Jun 20, 2019 16:10
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PowerShift, Northern Alberta isn't burning up. It's loving snowing. I'm so over insured for fire that Canada burning would be a great financial payoff. I am not insured for snow.
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Jun 20, 2019 17:56
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What do you expect from a company built on the ashes of well engineered gas chambers. GAS chambers... Not hybrid electric chambers.
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Jun 20, 2019 17:58
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jonathan posted:What do you expect from a company built on the ashes of well engineered gas chambers. GAS chambers... Not hybrid electric chambers. Look, the CO2 emissions are fine, but that's a hard fail on the HCN tailpipe test.
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Jun 21, 2019 00:03
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Sounds like the Caroline/sundre area is in store for 30-80mm of rain Last time anything close to that happened was 2013.
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Jun 21, 2019 00:28
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Slung Blade posted:Sounds like the Caroline/sundre area is in store for 30-80mm of rain Yeah, rip. Last time they replaced half the roads with right mats to keep fracs going. This time the roads will probably be abandoned.
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Jun 21, 2019 00:49
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Slung Blade posted:Sounds like the Caroline/sundre area is in store for 30-80mm of rain Holy poo poo. We've had done pretty gnarly clouds and lots of lightening the last bit but shockingly little rain.
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Albino Squirrel posted:C class. Nice as far as cars built in third world countries* go. They say they'll try to get me into a GLC which is the same size as my car, but I'm not holding my breath. On the upside, you’re putting miles on a car that isn’t yours for a while, right? Weird that the ETA for the pump is so far off, should be like 3-4 weeks max unless there aren’t any available world wide for some reason.
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