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A guy at the gun club I go to is a surveyor for the Government. Part of his territory is the arctic. They are required to carry guns when they head to the arctic because black bears will probably run away, brown bears *might* not be hungry at the particular time they encounter you and also *might* be in a good mood, but Polar bears just plain don't like you and want you to gently caress off by any means necessary. Yeah, I know there ain't no black or brown bears in the arctic, thanks there mr/mrs wildlife biologist
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There was a case of a group of students from the UK camping in the arctic about 10 years ago and a Polar bear just walked into the camp during the night and killed one and injured others. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Svalbard_polar_bear_attack A lot of this seems to be because their hunting grounds are being depleted and will only get worse if countries start drilling.
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Elviscat posted:Yo, what'd you do to get that sweet AV I bought you removed? First off, thank you for that AV. Second, I ran into a nazi in the riot thread who decided to keep changing my av again and again, so here we are.
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Jun 15, 2020 12:23
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BigPaddy posted:
Yeah drilling operations have bear cages on their exits. Meaning if you open up a door to walk outside at least there is a cage outside so you can poo poo yourself and live.
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ranbo das posted:There's a rhyme about bears to tell you what to do if you encounter one. This is more for the mechanical success thread, but this bear is denied a reporter snack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJra0fcMsVU
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Jun 15, 2020 14:29
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Even where they have habitat polar bears are known to be extremely aggressive. That far north they hunt everything that moves because almost nothing is moving. Once heard a story that researchers that visit the Svalbard islands hear "how accurate with a rifle are you?" as the main interview question because no one wants to have to rely on someone who can't shoot.
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Jun 15, 2020 14:31
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Proper way to deal with bears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7_pVrIshxA
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Jun 15, 2020 16:03
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My mom's family was camping in glacier national park on the night of the grizzlies and a black bear pushed its way into their tent. Grandpa picked up a cast iron pan and smacked it in the nose. No maulings, bear ran off. So that's another way to deal with bears.
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xzzy posted:Even where they have habitat polar bears are known to be extremely aggressive. That far north they hunt everything that moves because almost nothing is moving. FWIW, they even made Survivorman carry a rifle when he did his episode in the high arctic. Of course, Bear Gryllzzzz would probably start sucking a polar bear's funky rear end.
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Jun 15, 2020 19:49
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LifeSunDeath posted:First off, thank you for that AV. Second, I ran into a nazi in the riot thread who decided to keep changing my av again and again, so here we are.  If you want the image at any point I have the file still.
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Jun 15, 2020 20:13
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Elviscat posted:
nothing matters anymore, it turns out. thanks though.
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xzzy posted:My mom's family was camping in glacier national park on the night of the grizzlies and a black bear pushed its way into their tent. Grandpa picked up a cast iron pan and smacked it in the nose. No maulings, bear ran off. When I was a kid we were camping in Banff and there was a dog at the campground sniffing around all the time. Fast forward to the early morning hours, family was sleeping (in a tent) and dad heard the dog. Unzipped the fly and backhanded it. It wasn't a dog. Bear hosed off and never had another occasion for the rest of the week we were there.
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A couple years ago i got charged by a black bear with cubs and yelled at it and it stopped, so that's an option sometimes. Have also had my loud mtb brakes scare a bear away on two occasions that I know of. A number of other times they've just ignored me/us and continued eating berries in the bushes. The other day I saw a bear and actually had bear spray in my frame bag. Heard rustling in the bushes above me on a road, look back, and a bear comes down on the road, then runs off the other way. That made 3 sightings in a week.
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Jun 16, 2020 01:45
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KozmoNaut posted:Proper way to deal with bears: Maybe a bit more thread appropriate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pLsM2ijRao Also some problems take care of themselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kjY9sKdHlY
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Wasabi the J posted:Maybe a bit more thread appropriate: This is the most Canadian thing I have ever seen. 
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Jun 16, 2020 03:52
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Went to change these nasty bushings just above the rotor And saw the shock wasn't mounted flush to the bracket  So off it came, too.   
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jamal posted:A couple years ago i got charged by a black bear with cubs and yelled at it and it stopped, so that's an option sometimes. Have also had my loud mtb brakes scare a bear away on two occasions that I know of. A number of other times they've just ignored me/us and continued eating berries in the bushes. The other day I saw a bear and actually had bear spray in my frame bag. Heard rustling in the bushes above me on a road, look back, and a bear comes down on the road, then runs off the other way. That made 3 sightings in a week. I saw a documentary on TV the other day about a fisherman who lives in a remote area of north Japan who is pretty much constantly surrounded by bears but he's learned how to yell at them right so they leave him alone. (Japanese but you get the idea) https://www.facebook.com/NHKhuman/videos/378629662726792 Then some people from Unesco turn up and try to tell the guy to stop interacting with nature because humans are unnatural despite him interacting with the bears in an entirely natural and non-destructive manner while the Unesco group turned up in a convoy of 8 minivans.
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ranbo das posted:There's a rhyme about bears to tell you what to do if you encounter one. When I was traveling around Svalbard it was legally required to carry a gun, I think a .30-06 was the smallest gun that was legal. I carried a .45-70 carbine because yea... Don't gently caress with the white ones. I saw a few, fortunately never had an altercation.
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RillAkBea posted:I saw a documentary on TV the other day about a fisherman who lives in a remote area of north Japan who is pretty much constantly surrounded by bears but he's learned how to yell at them right so they leave him alone. Timothy Treadwell interacted with bears in a pretty non-destructive manner. Until the bears decided to be destructive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell
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No. 6 posted:It was a prank by a guy who's a giant prick And also over a decade old. Wasabi the J posted:We killed the bears into less numbers than a single spiders nest. What about drop bears? joat mon posted:Went to change these nasty bushings just above the rotor That is the weirdest drat suspension I've ever seen. For one thing, it took me quite some time to realize the "shock" you were talking about was that hosed up thing at the top that the equally hosed up control arm pivots on. I'm going to guess: French?
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Wasabi the J posted:Maybe a bit more thread appropriate: I guess this is from before whenever Canada's version of OSHA was formed?
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wesleywillis posted:Timothy Treadwell interacted with bears in a pretty non-destructive manner. Until the bears decided to be destructive. the Herzog documentary about him is really fantastic
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snugglz posted:Herzog is really fantastic
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Darchangel posted:That is the weirdest drat suspension I've ever seen. For one thing, it took me quite some time to realize the "shock" you were talking about was that hosed up thing at the top that the equally hosed up control arm pivots on.  Most cars, including from the US, from the 30s to the 50s had them, but England held onto them a little longer than everyone else. Rolls/Bentley used them into the late 60s, as did Austin Healey. Aston Martin kept them in the rear suspension into the 70s, and MG kept them till 1980. Saab also used them into the mid 70s. Finger sander didn't do squat, but a hacksaw blade and a file worked well but slowly.    Fast forward six months and a few hundred miles:  That's not good.  Apparently the weld boogers were the only things holding the front bolts in  The rear bolts kept the shock down for an impressively long time.  Which was unfortunately not without its side effects. 
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Was gonna say those look like some doofus welded bolts into the craters. That can't be factory, right? It was supposed to be weldnuts or studs from below but they got broken off and someone fixed it wrong?
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Jesus, knee-action shocks. Holy poo poo
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I was subscribed to this channel (probably from one of the AI chat thread YT sub exchanges) but I have only just now started watching some of the videos. As someone who firmly believes automatic transmissions are black magic, this kind of stuff is awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiV3cUG2N-o
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kastein posted:Was gonna say those look like some doofus welded bolts into the craters. That can't be factory, right? It was supposed to be weldnuts or studs from below but they got broken off and someone fixed it wrong? Factory is weldnuts under the plate. The welded in bolts are 100% doofus PO/PM. PainterofCrap posted:Jesus, knee-action shocks. Holy poo poo  In the foreground is the brake drum, making the tube running foreground to background the rear axle. At center left is another lever shock, mounted to one of the frame rails, running left to right.
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Beach Bum posted:I was subscribed to this channel (probably from one of the AI chat thread YT sub exchanges) but I have only just now started watching some of the videos. As someone who firmly believes automatic transmissions are black magic, this kind of stuff is awesome. Jesus, how many 4L60s you think that guy's torn down?
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Watched a couple of those and he is the talking and driving car journalist of the transmission world.
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I watched a rebuild video of a 700r4 a while back I think on Eric the Car guys channel and it looked a lot less scary than I thought. I have one that I've had for years and I might try rebuilding it with parts that would allow it to handle 800ftlbs of torque or something like that just to learn and hopefully have a stout auto with OD for a project if I get it right.
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joat mon posted:
I should have guessed MG - I've actually worked on one, but it's been a long while. I forgot how, uh, old world those were right on up to the end. I'm also amused that the front tire is worn on the outside, but leaning to the inside.
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Beach Bum posted:I was subscribed to this channel (probably from one of the AI chat thread YT sub exchanges) but I have only just now started watching some of the videos. As someone who firmly believes automatic transmissions are black magic, this kind of stuff is awesome. This guy looked awful familiar. Turns out, he's the guy my brother goes to for transmission work. If you're near Amarillo, I definitely recommend doing business with this guy.
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I watched the teardown and then 2 rebuild videos of the th-350 and that dude definitely seems to know his poo poo. Makes me want to tear mine apart when I yank it for the final time. He definitely takes some of the scariness out of it.
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Beach Bum posted:I was subscribed to this channel (probably from one of the AI chat thread YT sub exchanges) but I have only just now started watching some of the videos. As someone who firmly believes automatic transmissions are black magic, this kind of stuff is awesome. Is this the guy that writes book times for services?
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I started that video and got completely sucked into it. I love how he just tossed and slides everything around. And that table!
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Dave Inc. posted:Is this the guy that writes book times for services? This is the guy that demolishes the book times for services. He ran out of toilet paper years ago and has been wiping his rear end with factory service manuals ever since. GnarlyCharlie4u fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Jun 18, 2020 |
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:This is the guy that demolishes the book times for services. As authors are usually granted a complimentary copy, I can see how he would never run out. Beach Bum fucked around with this message at 12:23 on Jun 18, 2020 |
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Steve French posted:Not necessarily a mechanical failure but this guy was having a bad Monday drat, what do you even do, dig it out?
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