And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Run! While airing a motorcycle tire and yapping on the phone at the same time my little brother blew 2 fingers off his left hand when the tire over inflated. My compressor is so loud that that is unlikely to happen, plus I never know where my phone is nor do I care.
There was an old time truck garage I used to hang out and have a few toddies at in my yute. Leaning up against the wall, there was a 10.00-20 with a big old bulge on it. Day in, day out that tire leaned there, and then one night, after a bunch of toddies, one of the old timers walked by it and the dam thing blew. He had a skull cap on when he walked by, but, afterward, it was missing , and nobody could find it. 20 years later, I was giving the new owner a hand cleaning the attic out, and way up in the rafters, almost 150 feet from where that tire blew was that skull cap.
This used to be a lot more common. I had multiple blow-outs in the late 70's and early 80's. Belts would separate and blisters develop quickly, followed by blow-outs while tooling down the highway at 70 mph (we ignored the double nickle in Texas).
Occasionally someone will discuss a new safety device with modern cars, my response is that the two biggest improvements in car safety since the first model T was disc brakes and tire technology.
Made me snicker. I ended up driving truck in the oilfield in the early 80's when interest rates spiked to Mars and building stopped in my chosen industry. Ya gotta eat somehow. One day tooling down the highway, with the trailer covered in dried mud from the roads (no time to wash it off), some jackass had ridden my tail for miles without passing when a trailer tire blew. It looked like a bomb had detonated and when the dust cleared, the jackass was in the bar ditch. Good times.
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ReplyDeleteWhile airing a motorcycle tire and yapping on the phone at the same time my little brother blew 2 fingers off his left hand when the tire over inflated. My compressor is so loud that that is unlikely to happen, plus I never know where my phone is nor do I care.
(Apologies to my Italian friends)
ReplyDeleteThat is the NEW Italian version of trailer tires.
Dago thru snow.
Dago thru mud.
And when dago flat, dago wop wop wop.
Nice little poem, Handy I'm saving your comment for further use. I doubt I'll tire of it soon.
DeleteThere was an old time truck garage I used to hang out and have a few toddies at in my yute.
DeleteLeaning up against the wall, there was a 10.00-20 with a big old bulge on it.
Day in, day out that tire leaned there, and then one night, after a bunch of toddies, one of the old timers walked by it and the dam thing blew.
He had a skull cap on when he walked by, but, afterward, it was missing , and nobody could find it.
20 years later, I was giving the new owner a hand cleaning the attic out, and way up in the rafters, almost 150 feet from where that tire blew was that skull cap.
This used to be a lot more common. I had multiple blow-outs in the late 70's and early 80's. Belts would separate and blisters develop quickly, followed by blow-outs while tooling down the highway at 70 mph (we ignored the double nickle in Texas).
ReplyDeleteOccasionally someone will discuss a new safety device with modern cars, my response is that the two biggest improvements in car safety since the first model T was disc brakes and tire technology.
Made me snicker. I ended up driving truck in the oilfield in the early 80's when interest rates spiked to Mars and building stopped in my chosen industry. Ya gotta eat somehow. One day tooling down the highway, with the trailer covered in dried mud from the roads (no time to wash it off), some jackass had ridden my tail for miles without passing when a trailer tire blew. It looked like a bomb had detonated and when the dust cleared, the jackass was in the bar ditch. Good times.
DeleteHear you Don! My main investment focus was 1. Tires; 2. Batteries; 3. Oil Changes; 4. Brakes (God bless 4 wheel ABS! Saved my butt many times.)
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