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Post by meskie on Feb 5, 2023 22:16:23 GMT -6
Haven’t heard anything about it. Might hear something on the news Monday morning. RCMP friends weren’t working this weekend either so they didn’t mention anything either.
Candle lake is about 2 hours north of me. Lots of nice trails up there and with the weekend being really nice there would have been lots of traffic on them.
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Post by garyfunk on Feb 6, 2023 6:28:36 GMT -6
Happens more than you think. Personally knew three people. Mind you that's over a span of 30 years. Please be safe and teach your kids to be careful.
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Post by cptusa on Feb 6, 2023 6:37:44 GMT -6
Local car dealer wrecked out a ranger last weekend with 6 people in it, ended up killing his wife.
Ranger rides getting really popular down here. Don't think they were on a ride but the law is probably going to be cracking down on them now. They're fully legal but there's usually a cooler in every rig.
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Post by Oatking on Feb 6, 2023 7:32:28 GMT -6
Its too bad when a few bad apples ruin it for the rest of us. In southern Mb I seem to hear quite a few sleds or utvs crashing into trees resulting in deaths. Its like they have never seen a tree before which is not too far fetched on our baron flat red river valley!!
I guess the same thing might happen in Iowa cptusa, with legalized utvs on the roads becoming a thing of the past. The fatal bus crash in Saskatchewan ,made it a whole lot more expensive and difficult to obtain a class 1 license. that would be too bad.
I was hoping the Province of Manitoba would some day make UTV's legal but it looks like with all the accidents involving these machines it may never happen. I actually made my Westernstar ranger completely street legal with signal lights, horn , and mirrors.
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Post by Oatking on Feb 6, 2023 7:54:41 GMT -6
Company that makes $555K flying motorbikes inspired by ‘Star Wars’ to go public By Ariel Zilber February 2, 2023 12:13pm Updated Wow , imagine the problems with this product!!!  |
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Post by Oatking on Feb 6, 2023 9:01:47 GMT -6
 Check out this custom made table hockey game! I bought this game from a company called SOHO. He is a great guy and has made many games for NHL players. I like the attention to detail especially the goal nets. I am a bit of a table hockey collector, ha ha, I have over 200 games ranging from the late 30s to ones like this custom made one! It is a fun hobby and keeps me young at heart! |
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Post by cptusa on Feb 6, 2023 10:25:18 GMT -6
Its too bad when a few bad apples ruin it for the rest of us. In southern Mb I seem to hear quite a few sleds or utvs crashing into trees resulting in deaths. Its like they have never seen a tree before which is not too far fetched on our baron flat red river valley!! I guess the same thing might happen in Iowa cptusa, with legalized utvs on the roads becoming a thing of the past. The fatal bus crash in Saskatchewan ,made it a whole lot more expensive and difficult to obtain a class 1 license. that would be too bad. I was hoping the Province of Manitoba would some day make UTV's legal but it looks like with all the accidents involving these machines it may never happen. I actually made my Westernstar ranger completely street legal with signal lights, horn , and mirrors. I think it was last year or two years ago they legalized them in the state. Have to have liability on them, buy a license, max speed is 30 mph, working lights and signals. I'm farm exempt so none of that matters to me. |
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Post by gleanerl on Feb 9, 2023 10:35:50 GMT -6
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Post by Oatking on Feb 10, 2023 7:09:02 GMT -6
Hey gleaner l , that is some model train set! The first picture Looks so real I thought it was an actual CN ad! What does the wife think? My wife just shakes her head in despair when she sees my hobbies! ha ha ha!
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Post by northernfarmer on Feb 10, 2023 7:55:16 GMT -6
Gleaner, that is quite some setup your a part of. What you need now is a paper model of a highway tractor pulling a grain trailer that is stalled out across a railway crossing and the trailer has some grain contained in it. A good video camera for the footage and the train going at high speed as it slices the trailer in half. Or better yet, a to scale model of "Silly Socks" and his buddies loitering around on the tracks as the train comes, that would make for some interesting video. What better way for your train club to have some good innocent fun !
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Post by kevlar on Feb 10, 2023 8:46:14 GMT -6
That’s amazing! I thought that first picture was of a real train as well. I had a train set when I was a kid, played with it for hours and hours, still have it tucked away in the basement. Should get it out and let the kids use it.
Went for a ride on my fat bike yesterday, only second time out on it this winter, never rode last winter as it was always so cold. Yesterday was my birthday, but today I feel older.
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Post by gleanerl on Feb 10, 2023 10:55:04 GMT -6
We have a long way to go to finish, years. Although you don't ever really finish. Wife thinks it's great. Hours and hours are spent at it away from her in the winter. We are currently working on some amazing landscape. Our skills are improving with time. I'll post more pic when we get those parts done. Sometimes I think a prairie setting would be a lot less work, fewer trees.
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Post by northernfarmer on Feb 10, 2023 11:30:25 GMT -6
The "Prairie Setting", oh yes I laughed at that comment as I think of parts of southern Alberta down towards Medicine Hat and into Saskatchewan, relative to where I am where trees had to be cleared to farm. For that prairie landscape all you would need are some sticks to represent power poles strung with wire, some small sticks and more wire to build some barbed wire fence, some lint balls to represent tumble weed and most of that stuck into the fence, an old looking miniature windmill, a small plastic dog, quite a few buckets of dirt spread around and last but not least, a large fan set off to the side to give you that wind so the dust blows. Your wife will know if you've been playing trains when you come home as your face will be covered in dirt.
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Post by meskie on Feb 10, 2023 11:37:17 GMT -6
That would be the southern prairie vision… up in the northern parts we have trees and hills.
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Post by northernfarmer on Feb 10, 2023 11:49:11 GMT -6
That would be the southern prairie vision… up in the northern parts we have trees and hills. That's right, I have or at least had various uncles in the south western part of Sask and one of them mentioned when they drove up here years ago as to how it was like a different world he had never experienced when they drove north of Edmonton up to here. At that time it would have been a much narrower cut through the trees and a two lane road and he was expecting to pop out past that "notch" in the trees ahead of him but never did, it went on and on and he felt trapped, claustrophobic in a sense as he couldn't see anywhere sideways. He would have been so used to seeing his dog running away as the sun set and as the sun rose up the next morning still see the trail of dust from his dog as it was many miles away. |
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