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This is true with current systems. But it's not gonna be that way for long. Look how fast you can charge a lot of different electronics now. I've read they want to eventually make the breakthrough into wireless charging while driving down highways and such. At that point, depending on where you lived, keeping charged up will be as simple as driving to work. The stuff they are talking about doing is pretty wild and not incredibly far fetched. A lot of it I think we will see in the next 25 years.

I don't think towing will be as big of an issue once they figure out bigger and better battery capacity. Towing with a truck now causes you to lose usually 30% to even 50% mpg. So what's the difference in a electric truck having a unloaded range of 400 miles or a towing range of 280 miles. I see this as more of a temporary hurdle these companies need to figure out rather than a flat out non compete.

So this is like a home brew cam you've created?

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/lithium-ion-pioneer-introduces-battery-174641552.html The guy who invented today's lithium batteries that run just about everything has no created a new type of battery. The guy is 94! Pretty cool he's still working on stuff like this! As the years go on there will be some neat advancements that's for sure

So what's the name of this cell cam?

I forgot about tesla having the fastest car. That thing is crazy. I want to drive one at least once! Lol. Just to feel that torque would be such a awesome adrenaline rush.

I wouldn't buy one now or next year or even the year after. But the future is bright for electric vehicles. Really the only thing lacking right now is the range on them. If they made a electric pickup truck that had a 400-600 mile range, I'd be looking into one. I'm going to sit back and watch them progress, I am thinking another 5 years and you'll see some hard to beat models being made at the rate they are advancing right now. I think I read someplace Ford was looking to make a all electric F150. That's something I'll be keeping my eye out for. In 20 years I think the car industry will look much different than it does today

Wow....just wow...

Lol. I too have shot a couple from the lawn. One time at camp I was just getting out of the shower and my old man tells me there's turkeys in the backyard. It was also snowing like crazy, in May no less. Ran outside in my boxers and crept around the camp trying to be sneaky. They spotted me and all 20 of them took off into the air. I tried a Hail Mary shot on a flying tom and when I shot I slipped in the wet snow and fell right on my back. My old man still tells everyone he knows about that day[emoji85]

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Like others have said you could have someone build you what you want for less than buying one of the premade buildings. Material quality would be better most likely too. Any decent contractor out there could bang out this size building your talking about in a matter of a day or two. You could save some money and finish the outside and inside yourself if you want. For heating and cooling I'd suggest one of the mini splits. It will cover both heat and cool and the new ones are really efficient. A mini split would work perfect for the size building your thinking about. I'm most likely going to tear down my 2 car detached garage and start all over in a couple years. I'm leaning towards a metal building as they are usually significantly cheaper when you get into the bigger sizes like 30x40 etc. So I know where your coming from on planning ahead of time. I'm not concerned about cooling, but for heat I think I'm gonna be putting in a biomass boiler in the new garage and running the water lines underground back to the house to connect into my hot water system here. If you have a boiler system in your house now, you could technically heat your new building with it if it's gonna be reasonably close enough to the house. Good luck on your planning and building! One last piece of advice....build it EXACTLY how you want it now so you have no regrets later. Even if it costs you 10% more than you planned, you'll thank yourself someday lol

I know I wouldn't use the amount of pockets they have. I usually only carry my slate call and maybe a box call. I want a vest purely for the pouch in the back to carry decoys in and the flip down seating pad. The flip down seat is the biggest reason, who doesn't like a dry rear end when walking around lol. Can't count how many times I had to quickly setup with birds coming and and plopped my butt down into a wet spot. That's what got me wanting a vest to begin with. Being able to carry other stuff is just a bonus.

I'd like a new turkey hunting vest. But Idk if I'll splurge for one or not. My bow and shotgun are ready to go. Bought avain x decoys last year so I'm set there. Just need to get the ground blind up next month and I'll be ready to go thump a thunder chicken with my boy!

Looking at accuweathers extended month long forecast, I can't decide when will be the time for frost seeding. Seems there's a lot of warm ups followed by cold days. Most nights it seems to get below freezing and warm during the day. So it's good for frost seeding, just seems it's gonna be a month long period of it. Might be better to hold off 2 more weeks.

LASIK and never have to decide again! I haven't worn glasses in almost 8 years now but I used to get frames from the eye place inside walmart. I usually wore contacts 99.9% of the time anyways so the glasses were just backup. I wouldn't take my contacts out until they fell out so my eye doc kept complaining that I was gonna ruin my eyes if I kept them in for so long and strongly suggested lasik. Idk what her problem was, my contacts felt better after being in for a month or so. And I know one year they stayed in from the day I left her office to the day I came back a year later for my yearly exam. Shoulda seen the look on her face when she asked when was the last time I took my contacts out hahaha.

Here's a interesting article I came across on FB. How true it will end up being is of course unknown. But it says our summer will be cooler with much more precipitation than last summer. That should mean a good growing season! And easy on the deer. https://www.theweathernetwork.com/us/news/articles/us-weather/2017-spring-forecast-temperature-precipitation-summer-sneak-peek/79721/

I'm in the same predicament. The only thing you gotta watch out for is a long enough warm spell that allows the seeds to germinate and start seedlings only to be hit with a few days of hard cold that may stunt the seedlings or kill them completely. Clover is pretty resilient though so it should make it through fairly well. Looking at the weather right now I'm thinking of getting a few bags spread later this week. Looks like a couple warm days with a bit of rain to help pound the seed in before birds get to it and then a few cold days next week to keep them from germinating too early. Hoping it works!

Something....soon. Haha. I'm doing my homework for now. I've concluded I need one, and the wife is warming up to idea a bit. So it shouldn't take much longer to get her on board. I'm guessing right about the time it warms up and she gets outside more and really sees all the projects we have ahead of us, she'll see the light. Plus the 2 big pines in the front yard that were cut in half by previous owner she hates and wants gone badly. But those stumps aren't coming out without being dug...by a backhoe on my tractor. Lol. I'm waiting on a email back from the guy at my bank about rates on a used tractor. If the rates are good I'll put more effort into finding what I want used. I have seen a couple contestants. But I really wanna buy the tractor with all the implements I want as a package deal. All on one loan so I can be done with it. I'm positive I could spend less on finding used implements, but me going around doing that looks like I'm spending more money to the wife. Haha. If I did it all at once she can only yell at me once! Better to ask for forgiveness one time. I actually talked to a old friend I haven't spoke to since high school who started a side business doing bush hogging and light grading work, making some driveways etc. He said he bought the tractor for some stuff he needed done and then people started asking him to do this and that and he ended up making a LLC and is going for it. Said he did pretty good last summer especially for it being a side thing. The area he's living in is far more economically depressed than mine, so I find that kinda encouraging if I did decide to do something on the side like that. I'd be pretty inclined to try and advertise for food plot creation. I've got 2 guys at work that want me to make them some if I get a tractor. I'm thinking it could be something worth advertising for. It's food for thought at least. Wife's lease on her SUV is up next month. I think I'm gonna wait until we turn that in and pick up a new car before I go buy a tractor. Plus I'm still waiting to turn in my VW TDI under the buyback. That's a $300 a month payment that I really don't wanna pay anymore, since I haven't driven the car since last summer!! For fear of it breaking down and not being able to get it bought back I parked it, but still paying on it sucks. This whole VW scandal thing is a bunch of BS and VW has made sure to screw the consumers around in the process.

Would like to do that but when I expand the leach field I'm headed that way. French drain would cross the middle of my new field. Plus I couldn't make it all the way to the ditch because I have solar panels on the far west edge of the property with electrical line buried across the yard to the house. I'm gonna have to keep the leach field to the north of these lines too.

Supporting USA made is a good thing! We all pay crazy amounts of money for stuff we are passionate about so don't feel judge for it! Everyone's got something they paid a bunch of money for and only needed one reason to justify it to themselves haha. Someday I'll get myself a badass grill. Maybe once the one I have wears out, until then I'll be slummin it with the char broil or whatever the hell I got haha

Trust me, I'm 110% prepared to put my house up for sale if she sells it before I get to it. My wife was warned of that before we even bought this place. I originally wanted more land but we were in a hurry when buying and I compromised with her on this house. At the point that I'll be ready to buy the old lady's 40, I'll be in just as good of a position to sell and buy a bigger lot elsewhere. I'm chomping at the bit to buy land now, but I told my wife I'd hold off for a couple more years until she was fully in charge at her dads shop. Good news is that the old lady isn't planning on selling right now. She offered to sell me some of it already when I was having zoning issues with the town over my solar panel array. I told her I'd like to buy the whole thing at once rather than buy 2 acres now, that way a survey gets done once and we only deal with the town once. She agreed that made more sense, this is when she gave me permission to treat the land as my own, she only wants me to keep other locals out that have been a problem in the past.

Lol. Out of all the brands the OP listed, I didn't recognize a single one! Haha. I'm not even sure what brand my grill is. My FIL got it for us like 5 years ago as a gift. Wife picked it out at Lowe's, think she said it was like $400. So whatever you can get for 400 bucks at Lowe's is what I'm workin with lol. It's held up pretty good I'd say. No issues and it sits outside all year.

Greenville...southwest of Albany about 25-30 miles.

I agree I'm a perfect candidate for a used machine. And in all honesty, that's exactly what I began looking at. Until I ran into the high interest rates on used equipment. I'm going to call my local bank this coming week and see what they can do for me. If I can get a decent rate, I'll be all over a used one. The mahindras definitely don't seem to hold their value quite as well as kubota or JD. But it's kinda expected. Just like a Honda cruiser bike doesn't hold its value like a Harley. You pay for that name a lot more often than not. The big draw to the mahindra was that their max series is priced similar/less than the kubota BX series or JD 1 series while being bigger in size and capabilities to either one. Kubota BX is too small in my opinions and so are the JD 1 series. Mahindra max gets you bigger tires and heavier duty frame, axles and all that good stuff. I've seen mahindra described as a value brand, but with a pretty good reliability rating. I can get a Max 24 with loader and BH and 3 implements for the same price as a kubota BX TLB. Add implements to the kubota package and the price starts to skyrocket. But my search for a nice used kubota or JD with some implements is not over!

Other than my neighbor who's been in business for over 60 years doing this type of work, I haven't reached out to any other contractors. He estimates close to 10k with everything that needs to be done. My problem is I can't just fix the leach field and be done. There's a bunch of natural springs behind the house that pour water directly into my narrow lot. Basically flooding out my leach field. My neighbor tells me I can fix the leach field but it's not gonna fix the over saturated soils from the water running into my property. So he's telling me I need to basically dig a trench the entire length of my property line where the water is coming from and divert it around the property into the ditch down at the road. Sketched a rough little map to give you guys an idea. Leach field is just a single straight pipe. Wicked old and not nearly close to being enough for a family of 5. Other than the long ass trench I need along the property line, neighbor suggested a few other drainage lines around the house, in between the garage and house etc. it's just a lot of digging to do which is where he came up with the high estimate. I'm sure I could find someone to do it cheaper but I'm a firm believer in "cheaper isn't always better"