One of the biggest agricultural crimes in history!

Maple syrup prices are absolutely kept artificially high. The Quebec cartel keeps prices steady by storing excess from high production years and selling it in low production years. They control 77% of the global market and 94% of Canadian market.

Nice! My property is just under an acre. The wife’s garden takes up a pretty good chunk of space too. I think that once the olde Cub Cadet shuffles off this mortal coil, I will seriously look at electric.

Those old tractors can run on damn near anything. I have a ‘49 Ford tractor and ‘52 John Deere. I never worry about them not starting.

Chemical reactions are often highly dependent on temperature. The old chemistry rule of thumb is that reaction rate doubles with every 10 degrees C increase in temperature.

I have just about an acre to mow and have considered the electric rider. How long have you had yours and can yo do a full acre on one charge or do you have 2+ sets of batteries? 

I loved my manual push mower. Go over it with a file once or twice a summer to keep it sharp and don’t let the grass get too long.

With infrastructre and other things, everybody likes to build things, nobody likes to maintain what’s already there.

They’re going to be selling a lot of new wooden shoes to Dutch workers with money burning holes in their pockets.

Better soda than milk I guess. Still sounds like quite a sticky mess.

Even if they realize that the new Blazer was a shitty cop-out, they can never publicly admit it. I would love to talk to one of the designers off the record about the Blazer and get their take.

A number of years ago, a friend and I struck up a conversation with an older fellow at a random bar. He told us that he worked at a rubber molding plant and that they occasionally did runs of sex toys. Apparently the x rated molds were only done on the night shift. I guess that’s because there are no guests at night.

It was hilarious when Brady gave away the Colorado. I bet some folks at GM were pretty upset that he rejected their mediocre midsize.

I am not part of the casting industry directly but I work at a company that supplies foundries. This is an interesting use of die casting. It is very large for that type of casting. Cast parts can be a lot less labor intensive but the drawback is that they are more difficult, if not impossible, to repair. I am a bit…

Nope. It’s only a function of size. Specifically volume, and not mass. A vehicle that is 6 cubic m takes exactly twice as many chips as a vehicle that displaces 3 cubic meters. 

Torqued to spec or cross-threaded, tight is tight.

Don’t have any of my pictures so the ones below is a stock. My wife and I went to the Faroes last summer and the roads were mostly 1 lane (on cliffs) with little pull offs about every 100 m. If you saw a car coming and had one on your right, you stop there and let the other person pass. If it is on their right, they…

Not a bad idea. Make it like a Ute so it fits with GMC being ‘trucky’.

Brilliant! Just weld springs on every surface. It’ll be the safest car ever!

What’s the odds on Farley having a job at this time next year?