Save The Planet? (Your only fooling yourself!).

 Yea, yea, yea..... save the planet. Are people stupid or what? You don't need to save the planet, the planet can saver itself. It's more like "Save yourself". It doesn't matter what we do to the planet, it will recover on it's own. It has for how many million or billions of years now? 

Everything living on planet Earth has it's time here the things, be it the things before the dinosaurs, dinosaurs them selves, and now humans. It's probably our time to go and for something else to replace us.

So you drive an electric car, recycle, and do your part to "save the planet", and what do you think you are really accomplishing? Of course if everyone drove an electric car, recycled, etc., etc., we might make a little difference but really not that much probably.

Do you have any idea how many volcano's are going off right now around the world? How about wild fires? Canada is having wild fires that are effecting the northeast of the USA. You can actually see and smell the smoke.

How about all the methane coming up from the oceans? Also did you know the ocean is one of the biggest contributors of putting CO2 in the air?

So they say the planet is getting warmer, we it's been a lot warmer then this in the past. Talking about volcano's...they are talking about Yellowstone getting more active which Yellowstone is a super volcano! If it has a major eruption it will put our planet in a winter that would last for 5 years which means thousands of people would die from the eruption and thousands if not millions would die from food shortages being there would be no sun to grow crops.

Then there is the ocean rising. Of course it would rise if the ice caps are melting. Seems funny though that they find cities under the oceans from hundreds or thousands of years ago which would mean the ocean has risen or has been rising for a long, long time.

Lets not forget the moon. We all know that the moon has a big effects on our tides, but did you know the moon moves further from the earth by about an inch every year? So 12 years ago the moon would have been a foot close to the earth back then. So how big of an effect does the pull of the moon have on our tides compared to 12 years ago? Not as much pull on the tides would make high tides.

Then as a last note... what are we going to do with all the dead batteries that come from electric cars? It's not just one or two batteries, it's thousands of batteries about the size of an AA battery. So what are they going to do with all of them. Maybe recycle some parts but t6here will still be waste.

Just like spent nuclear rods from nuclear plants. Last I heard they are storing them underground in old salt mines. The salt covers them and forms a shell around them that will last like 1000 years. Ok, what happens after 1000 years? Do they leak an contaminate the ground and ground water?

The whole point is here..... there is no winning. The only sure way to win is to shoot the stuff out into space where it will probably never return. If it here on earth somewhere, it don't matter if it's 1000 years or a million years, if humans are still around, someone is going to have to deal with it at some point in time...

1/16" of an inch, that's not very much.

 First if you are reading this and wondering why I don't post more often..... fact is I don't think anyone reads my posts so I don't post very often. Anyways.....  I've been pretty busy off and on this my last post. Of course I can't ell you everything because I can't remember everything!

QUIT SMOKING: Today is day 6 that the wife and I gave up smoking. I've been smoking now for 55 years in Aug., and figured it's about time to give it up. How has smoking effected in in all those years? Don't really know, still do pretty much everything I ever did. Just yesterday did a 3 mile hike up into the mountains with no problem. But I'm sure it has effected my breathing and I'll get winded if I really exert myself for an extended period of time.

TRACTOR DRIVE BELT: Today I loaded the lawn tractor onto the trailer and took it to have a new drive belt put on it. The past two times I mowed the lawn I thought it wasn't feeling right when going. So yesterday when I mowed the grass (and was hoping I'd get it finished) I reached under the tractor and felt the belt and where I did feel it, I could feel at that spot a chunk of the inside of the belt was missing.

I usually have to have the belt replaced every 5 years, of course there is no shame for it being the lawn tractor can get used hard at time. Pulling a 5' x 8' trailer loaded with stuff on it is pretty heavy to be pulling with a lawn tractor. But I use the tractor to pull that trailer, I used it to pull the wood chipper (600 lbs), I pull a big wagon loaded with wood (the wagon will hold up to 1000 lbs). I also used it to drag trees up over the bank by the creek, etc., etc. I had that tractor now for about 23 years, soon time to get a new one.

FIRST WOOD CHIPPER RUN AFTER REPAIRS: This evening I fired up the woodchipper and ran some stuff through it for the first time since I put new blades on it. If you read my other post you'll see a blade hit the anvil and broke the blade. They did send me two new blades and a new anvil. I didn't use the new anvil being just the corner of the one that was on got a little (very little) piece taken off.  After putting the new blades on I seen that the blade was making contact with the anvil and it should be 1/16" away from it.

So before running the machine today I rechecked the distance from the blade to the anvil by placing a flat washer (1/16" thick) then turning the drum until the blade passed over the washer sitting on the anvil and it would just make contact with the washer so I left it at that. After firing it up and running some branches through it, it ran like really good.

Did I tell you we seen another bear in the yard?

Also made a small Bigfoot for at the firepit shown below.

On week ends will usually sit at the firepit watching the skies for UFO's, falling stars, satellites, or the space station and drink a couple of beers, talk about the day and listen the the radio.

Guess that's it for now. Have to go roll up the Jeep windows then jump in the shower!