Mallardsx2
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When turkey hunting is slow we challenge mom to a flamingo contest……
It was a battle of the stubbornness's….
It was a battle of the stubbornness's….
Sh*t our kids do
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well?? are they still standing there like that?
Revisiting this one tonight. My three year old is my perpetual shadow. He’s a great kid! I thought I was ahead of the game as tonight he pulled me out to play in the yard after supper. While he was playing I started working on getting the swamp cooler ready for the warm temps. He wanted to help so we go everything swept out, sprayed down and refilled with fresh water. I left it open as I walked away to get the little water line and connectors. Came back to watch him scooping up dirt/mud into his hands and throwing it into the open side of the swamp cooler. Needless to say, he made an efficient use of his time and had a fair bit of mud accumulated into the swamp cooler by the time I came back. Can only be mad at myself for leaving it open. He was pretty proud of the place he found for his mud balls.
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You're gonna have to elaborate for me?
I never knew what they were either when I lived in the Midwest either. Don’t feel bad. Cheaper way to cool a house. Box with blower fan and a small water pump that pulls water from the reservoir and pumps it up over a type of screen. Water trickles down through the screen while the fan pulls air through it and blows the cooler/damp air through the house. Work best when there is a window open at the opposite end of the house to pull the air through the house as the fan actually pressurizes a small house pretty well. “Evaporative coolers” are another name. Basically cools through evaporation. I’ll take a picture of it tomorrow when I’m cleaning it out again.
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That's interesting. Learned something today.I never knew what they were either when I lived in the Midwest either. Don’t feel bad. Cheaper way to cool a house. Box with blower fan and a small water pump that pulls water from the reservoir and pumps it up over a type of screen. Water trickles down through the screen while the fan pulls air through it and blows the cooler/damp air through the house. Work best when there is a window open at the opposite end of the house to pull the air through the house as the fan actually pressurizes a small house pretty well. “Evaporative coolers” are another name. Basically cools through evaporation. I’ll take a picture of it tomorrow when I’m cleaning it out again.
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Two weeks ago, my son decides to head out to see if he can find a bear to kill, he calls me and says he's stuck, tells me, I can drive almost to where he is, says he can't get it out. Mind you, he has a six inch lift on his Jeep and has a 10k winch on the front and all the gear he needs. He tells me he needs help cause he can't get it out. So I jump into my truck and head to where he says he is, I get within two miles from him and that snow is about two feet deep, and my Cummins is a heavy pig, so I park it, and the pup and I start hiking. I arrive to where he told where he is, only to find out, he turned off onto a spur road that was a snowmobile trail, the center was nice and hard, but the sides, well, soft as heck, and he slide off and buries it. I was a little ticked off at him, then realized when I was his age, I'd probably done this myself too. He did try to winch himself out, but with his inexperience, while winching, he kept pulling the trees over as he was attaching the strap to high. But I showed him how to properly attach them and it took about an hour of winching and resetting winch points to get him out, it was a good learning experience for him and he learned that his first mistake was driving where he shouldn't have and being by himself.
Before you think one would be nice to rig up, they don't really work very good in high humidity climates like Illinois. Now you learned 2 things today!
The drier the climate, the better it works.
Before you think one would be nice to rig up, they don't really work very good in high humidity climates like Illinois. Now you learned 2 things today!
Yep. They weren’t even on my radar in MN and ND. I got to learn about them quickly after my MIL asked to help her set hers up for the year. Then I went and bought a little house with one.
Mallardsx2
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What kind of bears was he looking for? Polar bears? Lol
