Sunday, February 25, 2007

hmmmmm... still alive after the mounds

well I am still here, I guess that is a good thing....
had a good time at the mounds in mt morris michigan on saturday til about 2:45ish when the 4 wheeler I was riding kicked out of gear for some reason while I was asending a steep hill basically at the top and well when the forward propulsion system fails on a incline usually the item being propelled goes the opposite way and unfortunantly it resulted in me rolling the quad 3 times with it coming to rest on my melon , lol. it was a hard hit and I still am missing about 10-15 minutes of memory but f-it it probably isint that good of a memory to have anyways, we are planning another trip there on March 10th..... unlike some people that have made the comment of " cant you leave well enough alone? guess you dont learn from your mistakes!" BULLSHIT! I will do what I want to do, if you want to sit at home and do nothing thats fine with me, cause I am going to go and do what I love doing... period I decided about 2 months ago that I would start being more adventurious and make new friends... well I have met a pretty cool group of about 8 guys that share the same interists and like doing the same things I do aswell and I am glad and verry appreciative that they have accepted me for what I am... it is good to keep business business and friends friends and I think thats the way it will be from now on.


here are some pics of the fun



















Sunday, February 18, 2007

the things I do for money

well one of them isint working the showers at the local truck stop but I will tell you it would have been easier to sandpaper the asshole of a alligator in a phonebooth then clean up the mess I just did earlier, picture this: a basement enterance in the side of a building that goes to a parking lot so burried in a snow drift I didnt find it til I fell [sank] in it up to my head, wow that was fun to dig out, it claimed a shovel and 2 tanks of gas in the snowblower aswell as a hour of my time, but hey $100 later I have a grin on my face...

Rob mentioned that I didnt list any failures but in all reality it was quite the eventfull storm, what all broke

the lift hose on my snoway plow [black ¾ ton chevy] $28
Angle hose on the dumptruck $76
Motor Mount on the dumptruck [not fixed yet] $20
2 headlight bulbs $32
and for the major failures I tore the 10' plow off of the dumptruck after I made the decision it was better to wreck the truck then hit a minivan full of kids on their way to go sledding [sleds on the roof] and I broke a upper mounting nosepiece on the snoway, but both times it took longer to drive home and do some welding then it took to fix it.... looking over receipts this last storm is a recoed for the most gas used at just over 120 gallons for 2 trucks but that isint too bad considering the 1 ton has a big block and did not get shut down at all for 36 hours, we just swapped drivers... well I am off to bed, tomorrow I gotta dump off the gravel in the back and start hauling firewood again.... well ya know[the things I do for money]

Friday, February 16, 2007

Teh sn0w Kicked my ass

wow, is all I can say, I spent 60+ hours of seat time over 4 days in 3 different trucks... oh well it was worth it, nothing like making more in 4 days then most people do in 2 months but here are some pics





oh and I cant forget my new JEEP!! YAY finally something nice to drive besides all of the pieces of shit I own!


Tuesday, February 13, 2007

nice

WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TUESDAY TO

12 PM EST WEDNESDAY.

A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TUESDAY TO
12 PM EST WEDNESDAY.

A MAJOR WINTER STORM IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE ENTIRE REGION
TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. LIGHT SNOW WILL MOVE INTO THE
AREA LATE TONIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING. CONDITIONS WILL
DETERIORATE QUICKLY DURING THE DAY ON TUESDAY...WITH SNOW
BECOMING HEAVY AT TIMES. BY EVENING RUSH HOUR...4 TO 8 INCHES OF
SNOW IS POSSIBLE...LIKELY MAKING THE EVENING COMMUTE VERY
DIFFICULT. ANOTHER 3 TO 6 INCHES OF SNOW IS LIKELY TUESDAY NIGHT
BEFORE TAPERING OFF WEDNESDAY. STORM TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 7 TO
14 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THERE IS A POSSIBILITY
THAT THE SNOW MAY MIX WITH OR CHANGE TO SLEET MAINLY EAST OF
INTERSTATE 71 LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND TUESDAY EVENING. IF IT
DOES...SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE REDUCED SOME.

NORTHEAST WINDS WILL GUST TO 30 MPH AT TIMES TUESDAY AFTERNOON
AND TUESDAY NIGHT CREATING CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW
WITH NEAR WHITE OUT CONDITIONS AT TIMES. THIS WILL ALSO MAKE
TRAVEL VERY DIFFICULT.

Monday, February 12, 2007

HAHAHA MY GUT WAS RIGHT!!!!

I kept telling people to watch out the second week of Feb. cause we were going to get hit with snow.... even back in Jan. and everyone looked at me like I was nuts... well IN YOUR FACE!!!

OHZ003-006>009-017>019-027>031-036>038-047-122315-
/O.CON.KCLE.WS.A.0002.070213T0800Z-070214T1500Z/
LUCAS-WOOD-OTTAWA-SANDUSKY-ERIE OH-HANCOCK-SENECA-HURON-WYANDOT-
CRAWFORD-RICHLAND-ASHLAND-WAYNE-MARION-MORROW-HOLMES-KNOX-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TOLEDO...BOWLING GREEN...PORT CLINTON...
FREMONT...SANDUSKY...FINDLAY...TIFFIN...NORWALK...
UPPER SANDUSKY...CAREY...BUCYRUS...MANSFIELD...ASHLAND...
WOOSTER...MARION...MOUNT GILEAD...MILLERSBURG...MOUNT VERNON
1001 AM EST MON FEB 12 2007

WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH

WEDNESDAY MORNING.

A WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH
WEDNESDAY MORNING.

A MAJOR WINTER STORM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE UP THE OHIO VALLEY
TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY SPREADING SIGNIFICANT WINTRY PRECIPITATION
ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA. SNOW SHOULD START EARLY TUESDAY MORNING
AND CONTINUE THROUGH MUCH OF WEDNESDAY BEFORE TAPERING TO SNOW
SHOWERS. SOME SLEET MAY MIX WITH THE SNOW LATE TUESDAY AND
TUESDAY NIGHT IN THE SOUTHERN AREAS...GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE
FROM FINDLAY TO MANSFIELD.

BY THE TIME THE SNOW TAPERS OFF WEDNESDAY MORNING...ACCUMULATION
OF MORE THAN 8 INCHES IS EXPECTED AND COULD POSSIBLY REACH A FOOT. WINDS GUSTING TO 30 MPH WILL ALSO LEAD TO BLOWING AND
DRIFTING OF THE SNOW.

A WINTER STORM WATCH MEANS THAT HEAVY SNOW IS POSSIBLE. IF YOU
ARE WITHIN THE WATCH AREA...REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING
WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OR
THE LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

Friday, February 09, 2007

Pave Paridise and put in a parking lot

Part of the land occupied by off-road vehicle park is eyed for $1.6 million cargo airport.

By STEVE MOCARSKY smocarsky@timesleader.com

WILKES-BARRE – The owner of Paragon Adventure Park near Hazleton lost another appeal on Thursday but vowed to take the issue to a higher court.

Lycoming County Senior Judge Clinton Smith granted a motion from Gladstone Partners L.P. to dismiss Kyle Knosp’s appeal of an August judgment and eviction issued by District Judge Thomas Sharkey in Hazle Township. Gladstone wants to have Knosp’s off-road vehicle park evicted from the property so it may build a $1.6 million cargo airport on part of the land.

Gladstone is eyeing a 4,800-acre parcel in Luzerne and Schuylkill counties for the facility that would be run by an authority created by the Luzerne County Board of Commissioners.

Gladstone claims that Knosp breached his 25-year lease with landowner PCA Corp., and wants Knosp evicted so the land could be used for the airport and related development.

Knosp denies breaching the contract and said he’s being bullied into giving up the lease.

Jonathan Lang, representing Gladstone, argued that the method of appeal that Knosp was trying to use should not be allowed because the issues in the appeal were already addressed by another county judge.

After Sharkey ruled against Knosp and granted Gladstone a $36,000 judgment, Knosp’s attorney, James Scallion, filed a petition for relief asking a county judge to lower the judgment. At the same time, he filed an appeal that asks a judge to review legal defects of the district court ruling.

Judge Hugh Mundy in October lowered the judgment to about $7,000, and Scallion in November filed an overall appeal of Sharkey’s ruling in county court.

Smith dismissed the November appeal last week because it wasn’t filed within 30 days of Sharkey’s decision. Scallion then had the writ reinstated, saying Mundy never ruled on the issues raised in the writ.

The writ alleged that Sharkey had no jurisdiction to hear the case because Paragon’s business offices are in Schuylkill County and Sharkey’s jurisdiction is Hazle Township. It also alleged that Sharkey is prohibited from granting judgments more than $8,000, and that Gladstone never proved it had standing in the case.

Because the petition for special relief couldn’t be filed without the writ, Lang said the writ also had to be decided before Mundy.

Smith agreed and struck down the writ, which was Knosp’s last hope for appeal in county court.

Smith also dismissed Knosp’s motion to quash Sharkey’s order granting possession of the park land to Gladstone.

Scallion said that an order issued Wednesday by Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas Judge Ann Lokuta will allow Knosp to continue operating the approximately 4,300-acre park as Knosp appeals the case to state Superior Court.

Scallion said Knosp would be amenable to relocating the park to other available land owned by PCA Corp., but PCA has offered no acceptable terms.

Jill Moran, the county prothonotary and Gladstone’s attorney of record, said she was pleased with Smith’s ruling.

Moran said she was “having a hard time deciphering” Lokuta’s order because she couldn’t find any case law referencing Lokuta’s terminology that her order would remain in effect until “a final and unappealable order” was made in the case.

Moran said she is considering asking Lokuta to reconsider her order in light of Smith’s rulings on Thursday, as well as appealing the order to a higher court.

Moran said she thinks the only issue that could be appealed to Superior Court is whether Smith was correct in dismissing the appeal to county court. “I think we would win on the merits,” she said.

Knosp said he will continue operating the park on the land for as long as the courts will allow. As of Thursday, he was still unsure if the park would be open this weekend.

this cold snap blows........NOT!!

I absolutely wont bitch about it.... firewood sales are starting back up, there is 10" of ice in maumee bay so I can go ice fishing, it is too cold for the scrappers to venture out so scrap metal has shot up about $50 a ton due to the lack of a supply

here are some pics of my $300 truck making that $300 back in 1 load






here is the next project I am going to tackle...hopefully this weekend... 120 gallon Atlas compressor and I am using a 2 cylinder Quincy air pump from a GE "Dash 9" locomotive and hopefully the 5hp motor that is on the compressor that I built for Rob... using the 5hp motor I think I will have less then $100 in this compresosr and it will be big enough to handle sandblasting snow plow blades :P


I found a 3hp motor out at Tom Andersons place that he is going to sell me for $50.... cheaper to run for sure and is more then enough to drive that single cylinder pump that is on there the big grey box on it holds the "magnetic starter" that I built... that was a fun project but hey it works


nite all I got alot of splitting to do tomorrow for this weekends orders

Saturday, February 03, 2007

still here

just buisy as usuall, mostly doing firewood and playing HALO on the reciently aquired XBox, a guy from canada emailed me this pic yesterday and it had no discription but I thought it was cool so I posted it