We Get Caught Up On Winners And Fix Our Hauling Setup

Ten minutes of audio disappears, so we do what any responsible garage crew would do: laugh, splice it together, and immediately start making a list of who we owe giveaway prizes to. We’ve got an August 15 event coming up at Mayobi, and before we roll into the next stretch of the year, we’re getting caught up the only way we know how by drawing monthly winners live and calling ourselves out for being bad at shipping stuff on time. If you’ve been waiting on gear, this one’s worth your time.

From there, the conversation swings into the stuff that keeps off-road life running behind the scenes: supporters who help us stay motivated, what our Buzzsprout stats say about where we rank, and the kind of hauling stories that make you ask, “Should that vehicle really have a receiver hitch?” Yes, we’re talking about a Prius doing truck things, plus the ongoing quest to haul smarter without turning everything into a white-knuckle drive.

The main tech rabbit hole is towing and trailer setup. We break down a new 34-foot PJ gooseneck with air ride suspension, an air ride hitch, and electric over hydraulic disc brakes, then get into brake controller tuning, loading angles, and why ramps can turn a calm day into a fast problem. We also recap Milwaukee Madness, share what Milwaukee reps hinted is coming next (including a battery-powered fridge/freezer), and flag a “you won” scam message so you don’t get caught clicking the wrong link.

If you like real shop talk, off-road problem solving, and gear talk with zero polish, hit subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review. What’s the sketchiest thing you’ve ever hauled or towed?

Transcript

Back After Lost Ten Minutes

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Trying to guess about where two minutes were.

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Okay, we're back. I don't know where we fell off, but we're just gonna mash them together with a little bit.

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Chris is drunk.

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No, I'm not.

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Okay, just tell yourself what you want.

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Chris is sitting really loose in his chair. And he's kind of funny.

August 15 Event And Prize Fix

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So we are having an event on August 15th at Mayobi. I'm Doc Holiday, so giving away cool stuff there. We're gonna wheel August 15th. Maybe you're gonna hear this before you hear it again because we're not sure where 10 minutes was. Next, we have been giving away stuff because we suck at it. If you want anything in 2025 or 2026 and have not received your shit, contact Heat Treated Garage on Facebook in Messenger with your name, your shirt size, and your address, and we will try not to fucking forget again, but we might. Just being honest. Uh tag Andrea Mangold Willie, and then it might get remembered. It might help. Andrea has tasked us though with giving her one list of what is left. So we're gonna try to do that for her. Then we're catching up for 2026. Quarter two, Alexier, you won. Go through all three.

SPEAKER_01 1:32

No, no, no.

SPEAKER_03 1:33

Go through your whole list. All this year. Quarterly, number one. Quarterly number one this year, Jesse Camp. Haven't heard from you, dude. He might have. I don't remember.

SPEAKER_01 1:43

He doesn't fuck with cherries. Okay.

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Number two, Alex Zier. Q3, Colton Lloyd. And that's where we ended. Now we're gonna get ready to do monthly. So far, monthly winners this year. Uh Ian Boyce got January. Kyle Ming got February. Cody Tranl was in March. If we owe you stuff, let us know. Now we're going to do April, May, June, July, and August.

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And if they're smart.

SPEAKER_03 2:08

That's too many.

SPEAKER_02 2:08

If they're smart.

SPEAKER_01 2:09

One at a time.

SPEAKER_02 2:11

I know if I was those guys, I'd be contacting and going, I didn't get my shit.

SPEAKER_03 2:16

Um, I can tell you that none of them have. Uh in 2025, some of those people have.

SPEAKER_01 2:22

Yeah, 2025.

SPEAKER_03 2:23

I think there's two in 2025 that haven't. Three. Three. I think there's three in 2025 that have not received their stuff.

SPEAKER_01 2:29

I know there's two bearded customs lawyers supporter. Uh uh, Ricky's the only one that has like said, hey, claimed it.

SPEAKER_03 2:40

Yeah, we have the hats, but we haven't given them away because I was gone that day, so it's not recorded anywhere.

SPEAKER_01 2:47

He he showed up and got an over-the-hand or around the bat, round the side, over the pants, handy from Geyer. And a hat. And the hat.

SPEAKER_03 2:55

Score. So yeah, if you if if uh art if we owe you a hat from art, because he gave us the responsibility for that, bad decision. But if we owe you a hat, I think there's two sitting over here that we are we need to give away. We give away prizes like we build off-road rings.

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The last minute.

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Last

Drawing Monthly Winners Live

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minute. All right, so April. Let's roll it for April. Rolling. That guy's a lucky SOB.

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He is.

SPEAKER_01 3:32

Alright.

SPEAKER_03 3:33

But he can't win the rest of the year, at least. He can't, he's out now. He's out. Who is it? Forrest? You win. Forrest wanling. Let me type this in here. I won't remove it until you tell me to. Remove him. Removed.

SPEAKER_01 3:51

Are we ready for the next one?

SPEAKER_03 3:52

We're ready for May. This is actually giving everybody a way better chance. It is. When we screw up. Because. Oh not really. We're giving people. Yeah. It's about the same chance. They love us. Because we take them out anyway if they win. So May? May.

SPEAKER_01 4:08

Roll it. Hey, Chad.

SPEAKER_03 4:10

Should we check it? It's in the recorder. That's funny. I look at this guy. Look at him. Look at this guy. He was a winner September of last year. If you know who you are, you know who you are. We can probably find your t-shirt size. Have you grown? Or are you the same? Adam Bartram, you are our May winner. I thought maybe you're gonna be like, I am Trent. Oh, but Trent didn't win. Trent didn't win.

SPEAKER_01 4:38

Adam did. But Adam's the translator for Trent.

SPEAKER_03 4:40

He is. So Toronto. Removed. He is booted. Just for this, just for this drawing, not forever. June.

SPEAKER_01 4:52

I like giving stuff away. You know that?

SPEAKER_03 4:54

We're not very good at it. Oh, that guy's a dick. Oh!

SPEAKER_01 4:58

Wait!

SPEAKER_03 4:58

Oh, he didn't get it! Brian. He's another Mobile. Another lucky well, the other guy would have been too.

SPEAKER_01 5:04

Yeah.

unknown 5:05

Alright.

SPEAKER_02 5:05

Seems like Mobile wins all the time.

SPEAKER_01 5:08

Well, the other guy that almost won, you know, he would have too, but he's got he's got that yellow disease, so.

SPEAKER_03 5:15

Got him? I'm trying to spell. I'm not good at it.

SPEAKER_01 5:18

M-U-L-V.

SPEAKER_03 5:20

Got it. Okay. Alright, we are July. July. How many more have we got left? July, August, and July and August. Okay, two more. July.

SPEAKER_05 5:31

July. Here we go. No. Coming up short.

SPEAKER_01 5:41

Oh, he did it.

SPEAKER_03 5:43

That's fun to watch when it's like, oh.

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It just creeps in the clicks to the next one.

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Oops. Mr. Richard Downs, you are our July winner.

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The most recent user of HTG 10 at Complete Off-Road. But full transparency, he did not get HTG 10, he got HTG5 because Complete Off-Road don't make enough on Atlas transfer cases.

SPEAKER_03 6:07

That's too expensive.

SPEAKER_01 6:10

Atlas just don't give us enough. If more people would call me and buy Atlas transfer cases, I could get a bigger discount.

SPEAKER_03 6:16

They are. All right. Boot him. He's out. Last and not least, last one. With at least drawing names. Hold on, hold on. At least we're drawing names for caught up. Hold on a minute.

SPEAKER_02 6:30

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 6:31

Would you like to shuffle one more time for the final winner?

SPEAKER_02 6:36

This feels like a big one. I feel like we should do four this time. Four shuffles.

SPEAKER_01 6:42

Okay. One, two, three, four. And a single spin. One spin. Here we go. Kind of makes me dizzy.

SPEAKER_04 6:58

That's a Ted Cup.

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That dude's got a great name. He does. He has the best name in the world. Christian, you are our winner for August. Bernin. Bernini. Bernini. Bernini? Bernini. Sorry, we're butchering the shit out of that.

SPEAKER_01 7:17

But he's got a good first name, so that's all that matters. Alright. We're caught up.

SPEAKER_03 7:24

We got like six more months before we have to do drawings. Only caught up with drawing. We still need to. I think Annie, uh, I told her if she taught us how to make stuff, we would help. She knows better. One RL. Probably.

SPEAKER_01 7:37

Okay. Removing him out. I believe. Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to copy everybody else that's left. Control C.

SPEAKER_03 7:50

And if I go over here. Oh, you're going to make yourself easier list of who's left?

SPEAKER_01 7:55

Well, I'm going to. But we're going to have to check so people could add or fall off. I'm going to try. If they don't delete themselves.

SPEAKER_03 8:01

Oh, if you could add her. We're going to have to run the list and do any text time anyway. Doctor. In case they're an adder.

SPEAKER_01 8:07

Wait. I got a little oh, nope, that ain't it. Where did I save it? Where did I?

SPEAKER_05 8:20

There they are.

SPEAKER_01 8:21

There's all their info. We'll add. Rename. Loser. I mean, not one yet. There they are. Saved.

SPEAKER_04 8:46

Is it like four more drawings for the year and then it resets anyway?

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August, September, October, November, December.

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And Q5.

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And Q4. So there's six more winners coming.

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So as long as nobody else joins, like your odds are getting better and better as we're right.

SPEAKER_01 9:01

Because we got rid of some people. I mean, we got them out of here. So we'll put this on the desktop where I can find it. Eight. Whoa. I have the cap sock on.

SPEAKER_04 9:15

Quit yelling.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

Quit yelling at me.

School Season And Recorder Mystery

SPEAKER_03 9:23

Was this last week, right? So you gotta start cross-country training this week?

SPEAKER_02 9:28

Uh we've got one more week before the before the official start of the cross-country season starts a week from tomorrow.

SPEAKER_01 9:36

So am I done with my computer?

SPEAKER_02 9:39

I will sure? So starting next Monday, I'm gonna be real busy until the first weekend in February.

SPEAKER_03 9:48

Nice. That'll be fun. Like so busy you can't join us? He's never that busy. He always comes on Sundays.

SPEAKER_01 9:56

I'm just checking. He said real busy. I want to make sure I would feel left out if he's not there. If I can't look across into those eyes, I don't know what I do. Baby blues. So do you want to read this?

SPEAKER_03 10:11

That no, show you. So oh wait, yeah, we probably should do that.

SPEAKER_04 10:14

We haven't done that in the uh are are we still the recording? It's close to 10 minutes.

SPEAKER_01 10:18

It's counting 10. We're past it. We're at 10.05, so we're good.

SPEAKER_02 10:23

I wonder what the fuck this thing's problem is. Like it's at 10 minutes every time. It's not like it's like a random, like just kicks off.

SPEAKER_03 10:28

It's probably a setting that someone's doing. I don't know. There was like if you hit the buttons in the right order, like it's a 10-minute setting.

SPEAKER_01 10:36

Well, there was some gal here this week that had squeaky brakes that I fixed, and she was quick to point out, I told you the court it needed rotors.

SPEAKER_03 10:46

We told her he didn't need brake pads because we pulled the brake pads out, there was nothing wrong on it. I threw it away. Another set of good brake pads, anyways.

SPEAKER_01 10:54

She's like told me, she told me, you know, she's like this big uh social media guru broadcasting school board stuff. And she said, Well, we'll take a look at your recorder because uh the exact words were you damn near blew out my speakers. I said, Well, it's a jeep, you pay for that.

SPEAKER_03 11:17

Yeah, it's I mean that's what you pay extra for sometimes it gets really loud, and we don't know why.

SPEAKER_01 11:22

Right. Anyways, she never looked at the recorder, so it's her fault. Her fault.

SPEAKER_03 11:26

Anyways, um I don't know why it was hate messages can come to HCG, we'll forward them to her.

SPEAKER_01 11:33

Yeah, well, or maybe you just need that little extra to your speakers and it vibrates all the dust off. I don't know. Anyways,

Supporters Spotlight And Quick Thanks

SPEAKER_01 11:44

we did uh realize that we haven't really been talking about our supporters, they're not sponsors, they're not athletic, they're not sparners.

SPEAKER_00 11:55

Yeah, got it.

SPEAKER_01 11:56

They are not jockstraps, you're right. Uh, but they do keep us motivated and help us out. Uh, so just out of fun, we were we were screwing around with the old uh AI, see if we could get it to take over or something, and it it didn't. We're here, you still got to listen to us. We could be AI, you don't know. I doubt it. Hey, I can't replicate this craziness. Uh, but we did throw our four supporters. Can we call them? No, I'm not going there. That's a Patreon. Anyways, uh, first and foremost, the whole reason we are here and you are stuck listening to us. It's because we show up every Sunday. Social Blood Replied Media, who and again, I'm gonna read these word for word from the AI, the chat. Yes, Jep. Yes, helping businesses look professional online even when the people behind them are anything but the social media arrangement management to content creation and marketing. So your butterfly helps your business get noticed. That's true, because she makes us look good, and that's a lot. That takes a lot, that's challenging. Crawler off-road, your source for the parts, accessories, and equipment you need to build it, wheel it, break it, and build it again. Not exactly technically, they're wrong, they're wrong. Chatby Chi, you suck. They get you out of there when you break it, need a little tea or need to move a tree in our case a couple weeks ago. Guy, are your hands still sticky from that tree? Because mine almost are.

SPEAKER_02 13:39

I I wore bitch mittens.

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Oh, you were smart.

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Anyways, I saw that pine tree. I'm like, I've touched a pine tree before, I know what's coming. Whether I put my bitch mittens on.

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SPEAKER_03 14:19

Murder scooter.

SPEAKER_01 14:21

He's got the I don't know. Did he get back to me? I said I babysit it for two weeks.

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He said, Yeah, it needs oil change too.

SPEAKER_01 14:26

He's I can do that. He's off seeing his boy band, so for two weeks, and our newest supporter, just because they've really been the kind of the supporter in the background. Um, we've all benefited from complete off-road in Dubuque or Dubucky, Iowa, as others say. Dubucky. Uh, your full service automotive and off-road shop from routine repairs and maintenance to custom fabrication, suspension, upgrades, axle swaps, and complete vehicle builds. Complete off-road can help turn your pile of parts into something that actually moves. We make your dreams come true. That last part, Court, you want to read that?

SPEAKER_03 15:06

Uh please support the companies that support heat treated garage. Tell them we sent you. It probably won't get you a discount, but it might get you a confused look and an awkward conversation. Now let's get back to the show.

SPEAKER_01 15:17

Especially at complete off-road, because I'll make it awkward.

Buzzsprout Rank And Prius Hauling

SPEAKER_01 15:21

So, anyways, something else we asked Chat GPT earlier that was kind of mind-blowing. We're above average, guys. I loaded our Buzz Sprout data and told asked Jat ChatGPT how do we fair look rank?

SPEAKER_03 15:40

Yeah, in the in the podcast world. In the podcast world, buzz sprout podcast world.

SPEAKER_01 15:45

Well, buzz sprout data into the whole podcast world. We are in the top 25 to 30 percent by our downloads. So we're doing something right. Oh no. Did he haul? Oh, wait, he hauled an air conditioner with his truck.

SPEAKER_06 16:05

Damn, son.

SPEAKER_01 16:07

He won't let me cut it apart and make it a real truck, but we uh that's my weld hold it up.

SPEAKER_02 16:13

We were uh like, mmm. I I had concerns because you know those those cargo carriers are not what you'd call stable in there. And when I was ratcheting the ratchet straps, I swear I could feel this thing turning into a taco. So he he needs and but we rolled 70 miles an hour down highway 20 with it, and it was still there when we got home.

SPEAKER_03 16:36

That's a win.

SPEAKER_02 16:36

That is a win. So I was talking to him about some uh And he didn't say he lost it between Manchester and Cedar Falls either. So that's good. I'm assuming it made that trip as well.

SPEAKER_04 16:49

For those of you without a vivid imagination, uh Chaffee has a Prius with a cargo carrier on it that he uses like a truck.

SPEAKER_01 16:55

Uh he showed up here one night and said, Hey, can you put this two-inch receiver into this piece of sheet metal? I said, Sure can, and make it stronger. How much does that outside outdoor AC unit weigh? That's a big AC. It's better than mine.

SPEAKER_02 17:09

It might it took both of us to get it up. I mean, they're more awkward than anything. Yeah, right. I'd say uh if it weighed a hundred pounds, I'd be surprised. Okay, it definitely wasn't overcapacity of the thing, but but and then the hitch that he's got makes it stick out for a lot of weird looks driving on the rotor think that.

SPEAKER_03 17:28

Of course you do.

SPEAKER_02 17:29

Tell him of course you do.

SPEAKER_01 17:31

Tell him if he really wants a challenge. I got a trailer sitting here, we'll hook on and see if the Prius can.

SPEAKER_03 17:37

What would be even more funny with that situation? That picture for people, like run hoses from it into the car.

SPEAKER_00 17:43

Like, that's your ace. That would be awesome. That would be totally fun with people. I'm gonna I'm gonna tell him that.

SPEAKER_03 17:50

Tell him to add hoses and drive. We need to find we need to find strange things for Chappie to haul on his Prius that make it look like it's like we should put a V8 block on the on it and then like run some stuff into the looks like put a sticky supercharger right on the hood, right?

SPEAKER_04 18:06

A generator with a generator plug.

SPEAKER_02 18:09

Okay, yes, that's what it is.

New 34-Foot PJ Trailer Breakdown

SPEAKER_01 18:16

I did a thing. Uh well, JB3 and I together pulled the trigger and finally found the right trailer. So most of you guys know, because I think I pushed put a picture in the Patreon chat, but uh we did find the Patreons now. Right. We did find Court. We don't have to borrow a trailer anymore. That's pretty nice. We found a trailer, 34 foot PJ, 2017. I thought it had been modified by previous owners. I called a shout out to PJ trailers, right? Right off the bat, because I shouldn't say called. I emailed them and said, Hey, I bought this trailer, here's the VIN number. I'd I'd just like to know the how was it originally built? And they sent back this screenshot of their database of how the trailer's built, which weird is like the same bad database kind of format that I used 20 years ago when I built both trailers. So apparently they the trailer industry hasn't grown much, anyways.

SPEAKER_02 19:23

Uh I mean trailer technology hasn't changed much either.

SPEAKER_01 19:26

So true that. She's and then this gal says, Hey, what's your address? We'll send you a new vintage. Because my Vintage was faded, and you can't like you try to take the flashlight and get it at the right angle, and you kind of make like every third digit. I'm like, Cool. Uh did find out that this trailer has not been modified. It was built this way with air ride, suspension, and the elect the electric hydraulic over uh or electric over hydraulic uh disc brakes, which I think still need a little tuning. Hauling 8,000 pounds today. I could feel them grabbing, but not like not the confidence inspiring like Rich's trailer does. So um Rich's crashed with almost the wrong trailer. Rich's will almost your head off the sink. It will. Um, and I don't know if that's just the way what I have. I have a very generic brake controller, so maybe I need to get a different brake controller. I gotta do some, I gotta do some investigators. It might not be set up for disc brakes, maybe they just drums. I don't know. Exactly, Gary. Um the shocker hitch. Not that one.

SPEAKER_02 20:48

This you guys all know what we just did. This one is pleasant, and if you're not doing it, maybe this isn't the podcast for you.

SPEAKER_01 20:56

Yes, but I there is only one person at this table that can say this shocker is pleasant than I hope he's never experienced the other one because I haven't. But I don't think it's physically possible for him to.

SPEAKER_04 21:08

I mean, well, you never know in this day and age. Yeah, I mean, I could at least say it's a lot better than Rich's trailer.

SPEAKER_01 21:14

Yes, uh, empty. It's guy you've ridden in the old bumper hitch, 34-footer. This one is gooseneck with that so a shocker is like basically an extension of the stock hitch that has an airbag in it.

SPEAKER_02 21:31

It's two in the goo, one in the poo.

SPEAKER_01 21:35

That is what oh, other shocker.

SPEAKER_02 21:38

Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 21:38

I I if Julie likes that, fine, but let's not talk about it here. You know her well enough. Right. You're dreaming. Anyways, uh, this air ride hitch allows this trailer to not beat the hell out of you when you're driving empty.

SPEAKER_02 21:56

That would have been super nice away from Indiana.

SPEAKER_01 21:59

Yes. Well, we were loaded on the way to Indiana and it would have been nice. It would have been really nice anywhere, anywhere, anytime. To or from Indiana. I do believe loaded.

SPEAKER_02 22:08

That is that is an expensive fucking option, too.

SPEAKER_01 22:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:12

I mean, it's because I went, I'm like, fuck is that thing? I went and looked it up, and I think used ones were like $1,500.

SPEAKER_01 22:18

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 22:19

And we got a hell of a deal on it. Super nice guy. Or no, it was like when you sent that, then I saw one on Marketplace. The guy was selling it used, just that piece for $1,500.

SPEAKER_01 22:30

It's like $25,000, three grand new. This is probably a $25,000 trailer new. And I bought it for a lot. Dad and I bought it for a lot less than that. Um, I hauled his skill loader up to El Cater today. If you guys know what highway 13 going to El Cater is like, it was pleasant.

SPEAKER_02 22:48

To strawberries, not bad. North of the strawberries rust sucks a cock.

SPEAKER_01 22:54

Um, Andy rode with me, and she was not complaining of getting black eyes. Let's just leave it at that.

SPEAKER_03 23:01

So, my truck with just nothing up to it with airbags on it now causes that issue on certain roads. Right.

SPEAKER_01 23:08

Uh airbag issue update for those that listened last week or prior, and we talked about the uh leaky airbags on the truck.

SPEAKER_02 23:18

Sorry, I guess it was 900.

SPEAKER_01 23:21

That's still half price. Um comes with everything. Those that don't like the uh certain off-road company out of Tennessee. Well, you know what? You can pound Sam because I called them up and said, Hey, I got these airbags, they're leaking. They said, Oh, no problem. We'll send you the updated ones that have the boun the adjust the internal bump stop bump stop in them so you don't have that problem again. Free of charge.

SPEAKER_03 23:49

Perfect.

SPEAKER_01 23:50

So by time when I get all said done this.

SPEAKER_03 23:53

We're gonna have air on the trailer, air on the truck, and air on the hitch.

SPEAKER_01 23:57

Yes, and we will be uh rolling nice, and maybe by next summer we might have air conditioned accommodations on the trailer.

SPEAKER_03 24:07

How was driving the skiller off of the trailer?

Skid Loader Loading Scare Story

SPEAKER_03 24:11

Onto the trailer, like when you backed up on it, like looking at the picture, I'm like backing up on might not be too sketchy, but driving it back off would be scary, I think. Because how long are the ramps? Six feet? Six and a half, and it's like how tall is the trailer off the ground? Four feet? 33 inches.

SPEAKER_01 24:28

Okay, roughly. I haven't measured it, but that's a steep incline for a skid loader. The stated documentation on PJ trailer is that that trailer, when built, was 33 inches off the ground. That's a steep incline. Huh. Yeah, buddy. Backing it on.

SPEAKER_02 24:45

Did you let the air out of the bags before you?

SPEAKER_01 24:47

I did drop the bags, so we probably were a little It was less bad. Four or five inches lower than that. Less bad. You're right. Um backing it on wasn't terrible, other than I'm still getting used to it. Dad's got a JCB, so it's got the one big arm on the right side. So you look out the left and it's like, oh, I can see everything. I'm fine. Oh, wait, what's the right side like? Hold on. Hit move the levers, get the arm up out of the way. Okay, I'm okay. Get centered on the trailer. Backing on wasn't terrible. I would not have wanted to drive it on. I'd have been over backwards. Yeah, I was saying because driving it down from the shed, I was popping wheelies every time I gave I hit the levers for it. Okay, so you never take them into service bucket.

SPEAKER_03 25:39

Well, I wonder if it was like that all the time, or just no, the weight makes it better.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

Hey, I should have, but it's like, okay, it's going in for service. These guys don't need to deal with a bucket. Take the bucket off. Or any attachment. Unloaded it, put the bucket back on it, and then I could have, but then I would have had to strap down a bucket when I got up there.

SPEAKER_02 25:58

That's true.

SPEAKER_01 25:59

Didn't want to do that. Anyways, driving off, uh, one of the ramps didn't like where it was. Oh, and so all of a sudden I was uh what's 20 something. 20 hawking it down the fucking ramp with the right side wheels because the right front decided the ramp decided it wanted to kick out, and the right front was no longer on the ramp. We were skidding down. I just kept going forward, we're getting off of here.

SPEAKER_03 26:29

That's then with a bucket, you had to like catch yourself if like shit is.

SPEAKER_01 26:32

Well, it wasn't it wasn't like crazy tipping. Yeah, it just all of a sudden I was like, I'll is that an ollie or what is that with a skateboard? I don't know. So we're down, we're off. I parked it by the red barrel where they said to park it. And when they said red barrel, I thought fuel barrel, no, they're talking about this dented up 55-gallon drum in the middle of their parking lot. But they are they are the local JCB dealer that comes highly recommended, so that's where we went. It's there. Hopefully, they can figure out why this really nice, pretty clean machine gets pissed off hydraulic-wise and says it's overheating.

SPEAKER_02 27:13

I don't know why. And maybe make it less touchy.

SPEAKER_01 27:18

Uh, maybe. I don't.

SPEAKER_03 27:19

That's probably that's probably just operator because you know. Are you taking the same trailer to load it again? Well, of course. Okay, so you can't. That's the only trailer I got that can hold it.

SPEAKER_01 27:28

Um, we'll see how much time I have between now and when it's fixed. But uh, new trailer is going to get a four to five foot um, they call them a duck tail, a beaver tail, whatever you want to call them. A ramp. A ramp, fixed ramp, maybe, maybe adjustable ramp. I don't know yet. But it is getting something. A number one reason is so when Court and I load rigs on it, we don't have to use ramps. Just drive up, we're gonna crawl right up on that baby.

SPEAKER_02 28:00

I think even at 33 inches, you could just climb right up on there.

SPEAKER_01 28:03

No, I think we'd high side.

SPEAKER_02 28:05

You would you would belly it. Think so?

SPEAKER_01 28:07

Yep. If you had enough speed, made that. But beyond just being able to crawl rigs up on it, if say we have aspirations, we've talked about going to cruising the coast or something further away where we don't want to run the hot rods all the way, having that beaver tail on there would let that pitch over angle be less so we don't bottom out the hot rods when we're putting them on the trailer.

SPEAKER_02 28:33

Is there gonna be a lot hanging off the backside where you drag it going down, coming out of the gas stations?

SPEAKER_03 28:39

Everything my my trailer drags over everything. It's designed that way. I already got ideas for just put drag rails on the room. They'll be rolling so sparks can come off of it. Like put some titanium underneath it. Oh, not titanium. Well, then what is it?

SPEAKER_02 28:50

Uh what the fuck do they use for the when they drop it? Weird metal in it.

SPEAKER_01 28:54

Uh magnesium.

SPEAKER_02 28:55

Yeah. You gotta make sure you don't get it too hot or you can't put it out.

SPEAKER_01 28:59

Yes. But they throw really pretty white sparks. Stock Harley Davidson floor words, they'll do the same thing.

SPEAKER_02 29:07

Then they've done that. One of my buddies that used to uh run the late models on dirt, the transmission for his car was made out of magnesium, and we had to do some cutting on it one time and then touch up with the grinder. He goes, Now whatever you cut slow, grind slow, don't get it fucking hot, or we're gonna have a fire out in the parking lot. He goes, because the only way to get it out is just to let it extinguish, let it consume itself.

SPEAKER_01 29:37

Back when I was a younger pirate and went to bike rallies, there was an old boy that would also anytime he could buy a lawn boy lawnmower at a garage sale, he would. And then he would promptly disassemble said lawnmower, take a sledgehammer to the lawnmower, and make little chunks of lawnmower deck. Because lawn boys were made out of magnesium to make them lighter. And then when he was at bike rallies, he didn't want to have to worry about finding his camp spot. So before he went wandering the rally grounds, he would throw a couple chunks of lawn boy mower deck in his fire by his tent. It was the brightest fire in the place. He knew how to get back to his campground.

SPEAKER_02 30:25

I suppose when you're in those places, they all start to look the same. And after you have a few uh waters, yes, a few waters.

SPEAKER_01 30:33

After you've seen one pair, you've seen them all. They're all about the same. Some are just perkier than others. Anyways.

Lift Install Updates And Paint Talk

SPEAKER_01 30:45

Chad, what did you do this week?

SPEAKER_04 30:47

Uh, we finished the lift on Jamal.

SPEAKER_01 30:50

Did we start that before the last podcast?

SPEAKER_04 30:52

We started it at Sunday.

SPEAKER_01 30:53

You're right.

SPEAKER_04 30:54

Yep. So we we got everything wrapped up, got all the extra little parts we needed. We're waiting on some keys for the Tarsha bars because I need just a little bit more.

SPEAKER_01 31:02

It is currently running a Makata Valley suspension.

SPEAKER_03 31:06

It's fast, it's going downhill all the time. Yeah. I'm a little sick though.

SPEAKER_01 31:12

There's very few people that listen to this that would get what I meant by a Makokata Valley suspension. A lot.

SPEAKER_04 31:19

Actually, a ride down. Doggy style.

SPEAKER_01 31:22

No. It's a little doggy style. It's doggy style, but Makogan Valley suspension was always the running joke when I was in high school that all my friends from West Delaware would say that because the Coconut Valley kids weren't smart enough to how to tune the motor to get horsepower out, so they had to jack the back end to get the weight transfer so the tires, the rear tires are lighter to make so it could do a burnout. True story. Friend of ours, we tell you that. Anyways.

SPEAKER_04 31:54

Say the suspension in the back, especially sounds a little bit more, it sounds more violent, but it feels good. Sounds violent. Just get every bump sounds like a it sounds like you got something kind of banging a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 32:07

I'm actually looking at that. There might be something banging.

SPEAKER_04 32:11

I don't think it's something hitting. It's just very solid sounding. Like too stiff, maybe?

SPEAKER_01 32:18

Maybe. Because we didn't extend any bump stops. But you shouldn't need to. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 32:24

So I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 32:26

I guess I my question was you guys tightened all the bolts on the ground, right? Uh well, he did forget one and had to come back. But they all got tightened on the ground.

SPEAKER_04 32:36

For for the for the spring bolts, they were all done with weight on it.

SPEAKER_01 32:39

Yes. That is correct. He just chose to like take the suggestive during the first trip.

SPEAKER_04 32:49

Suggestive. We got distracted and forgot to come back for that one.

SPEAKER_02 32:54

There was a lot going on. That happens to the best of us.

SPEAKER_01 32:58

It's Ethan's fault. He was here.

SPEAKER_02 33:01

Fucking kids.

SPEAKER_01 33:01

He was here. Yeah, one job. We told him one job. Remember to do that. Overall, rave reviews on the online from what I've seen, other than a few. Oh, choke the jokers. You don't think we checked the junk airs for fender?

SPEAKER_04 33:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:18

Uh, what do you call those extensions?

SPEAKER_04 33:20

Say there was one guy that just asked why. Why not?

SPEAKER_01 33:25

Uh, because I don't want it to look at it.

SPEAKER_04 33:26

If you gotta if you gotta ask, I think he was just saying why why did I lift it?

SPEAKER_02 33:31

Yeah. If you got if you gotta ask why, you wouldn't understand the answer.

SPEAKER_01 33:36

Well, then then somebody starts playing with my emotions on the our fellas chat. I mean, really.

SPEAKER_04 33:46

He wanted to know what it looked like as a truck, so I I I AID as a truck.

SPEAKER_01 33:50

Well, you played right into my I mean, I you I threw the bait out there, you bit. I mean, you bit hard. I chummed the water, and you came in like a great white, but no balls, no balls.

SPEAKER_04 34:04

Not with that one for sure.

SPEAKER_01 34:06

Not the blue one, the red one we could.

SPEAKER_04 34:09

I think I've arrived on my paint scheme though, so I need to figure that out.

SPEAKER_01 34:12

Is it the one I like?

SPEAKER_04 34:14

I don't know which one did you like?

SPEAKER_01 34:15

The one that I sent back the bumpers without the bumpers on, the new bumpers.

SPEAKER_04 34:21

Did you see the latest one that I did?

SPEAKER_01 34:23

I don't know if I did. I know was it Geyer or somebody did some yes? That's the one I like. Yes, that is the scheme. Which one?

SPEAKER_02 34:34

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:35

Yes, I like we are in agreement.

SPEAKER_04 34:37

Painted like a mid uh mid to early 80s F100. Yes. Where the paint goes up and over the wheelball arches. I like it.

SPEAKER_01 34:45

Ford Ford did get color schemes right. They couldn't get the motors real great, but they got the Ford, the color schemes good.

SPEAKER_03 34:54

Not even gonna go there. Not even go there. All I can say is my truck and trailer have had more Chevies hauled around on it than any other brand.

SPEAKER_01 35:05

That was yesterday when we Caleb.

SPEAKER_03 35:07

Caleb's I'm like, say what you want. I've hauled more Chevy's on that thing than any other brand. 100% you have. I will agree with you. It's at Chevy's, it's at Jeeps, that's because we just leave the Fords on the road.

SPEAKER_04 35:22

Some that he's broke, some that he hasn't broke yet. Things a lot of people have broke.

SPEAKER_02 35:25

Some that he broke. What do they call that part, Chad? Is it a fender extension?

SPEAKER_04 35:30

I've already got a guy sending me one.

SPEAKER_01 35:31

Oh, you have some? I found one already.

SPEAKER_04 35:33

Two? Both sides? Yeah, both sides.

SPEAKER_01 35:35

Nice.

SPEAKER_04 35:40

Modify them anyway. Yeah. Like I said, I just I just need my hands on some, so I can either attempt to 3D print or I'd say, can you 3D scan it and then print it? Maybe. I don't know. Oh, that'd be sweet. Chad make money. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 35:55

Anyways.

SPEAKER_03 35:56

Anything else going on besides the van?

SPEAKER_01 35:59

Doss van is way cooler? Not really.

SPEAKER_04 36:02

DOS Van is gonna be a toe rig soon, too. It seems like I was over here a lot this week.

SPEAKER_01 36:07

I know you had fun. You just enjoyed it. You felt like court, right? Yeah, hanging out, Bills. And Gaia. Uh, wait a minute. You said you have one more week before you get really serious with stuff?

SPEAKER_02 36:22

You mean really busy with school stuff?

SPEAKER_01 36:25

Yes. Okay. Uh, we have a Das von that needs trailer wiring. Do you want to do it? Or do you if you don't have time, I I can do it, but you're better at it.

SPEAKER_02 36:38

Stay tonight, it doesn't take long.

SPEAKER_01 36:40

Okay. Because Das Von is hauling the trailer for Whites Warriors event. Because Court's hauling Amos, and I believe I am whole hauling uh it's Maroon now. Can't call it purple yet because I haven't wrapped we haven't wrapped it. And I'm hauling Annie's Jeep and the scout probably on my trailer. So you're taking Annie's Jeep? I thought you're taking your dad's. Uh no, I believe we're gonna put his on his trailer behind his camper. Oh, nice. That's the plan, anyways. So if it's really hot and muggy, we're just gonna go hang out with Jimbo Billy Bop.

SPEAKER_02 37:15

Perfect. Yeah, I was thinking tonight, since you got that long ass fucking trailer now, you could put the van and the square body on top of it and save storage space.

SPEAKER_01 37:25

You sound like Chad.

SPEAKER_02 37:27

Chad's idea great minds think alike, right? Chad, Chad's idea. Don't leave me hanging, dog.

SPEAKER_01 37:34

Chad's idea was could you put Abe and Icky on it and then just park it all in the Delhi shed? And I'm like, I could, but then if I need the trailer, I have to unload those. Plus, at some point throughout this coming winter, winter's coming. We need to do uh bed floors in I need to finish Icky sometime.

SPEAKER_03 37:59

Icky and Icky's like my house. I just I got where I could use it and then fuck finishing it. Then we're just keep using it as it is.

SPEAKER_01 38:06

Icky and Abe have to get their beds finished. Have we pushed off fun summers next summer?

SPEAKER_03 38:13

Uh fuck fun summer. Whenever we can get one. I'm gonna want I want heat and AC and Icky for next year because I might drive that a lot more.

SPEAKER_01 38:20

Uh Annie has been all over me about not in a good way, about uh, you know, it'd be really nice if this had AC. We'd drive it more. We drove it to uh well to the uh Norbies yesterday. Kelly drove Icky last night to get pizza.

SPEAKER_03 38:38

Kelly, you're not gonna get icky back soon. Well, she calls me and goes, Hey, I ordered pizza for supper. When are you gonna be home? I'm like, not in time to eat supper. She's like, Oh shit, how am I gonna go get the pizza? I'm like, what do you mean? Didn't Caleb one hook the trailer? He's like, she's like, no. I'm like, hmm, there's Icky. I'm like, because I had her vehicle, I had the mom bomb, truck was to hook to the trailer. I'm like, Icky's in the garage. She's like, all right, I'll take Icky. And then she's like, how do I turn the headlights on?

SPEAKER_00 39:08

Turn all the switches on. Just click all the switches. All the switches.

SPEAKER_01 39:12

Yo, that's funny though, because Kelly remembers which one she needs just to run. Because she followed me up to the car show last weekend, and I'm like, huh. Dr. Kelly's driving. There's no headlights on.

SPEAKER_03 39:28

I told her which ones to hit. I know what they are now. Sure. Yeah. I know. Okay, but I have no idea what the first one does. The second one or the third one does the headlights and taillights. Then it's the ignition and fuel pump.

SPEAKER_02 39:45

The first one from the left was we left as an open switch because it does nothing.

SPEAKER_03 39:49

At least, at least you figured out the fan so you don't overheat now. Yeah, I can drive it anywhere I want now.

SPEAKER_02 39:54

Um, we drove. That was funny that night.

SPEAKER_03 39:56

I was pissed.

SPEAKER_01 39:58

That was funny.

SPEAKER_02 39:59

He's right. It took me a minute to figure it out.

SPEAKER_01 40:01

We uh I drove so yesterday.

Milwaukee Madness Deals And New Tools

SPEAKER_01 40:04

I drove Abe to Milwaukee Madness at the Norbies. Norbs.

SPEAKER_02 40:11

Did they have any good deals?

SPEAKER_01 40:12

They did.

SPEAKER_02 40:15

I was gonna stop on Friday before I left.

SPEAKER_03 40:17

I didn't know anything about it until today. Did I roll it? I rolled in. I got a 6-0 battery. Well frizzle. Yeah, that's because Caleb would get it. Caleb bought a tool and he got a free battery, and I'm like, yeah, that's mine. Um he was supposed to give me a grinder, but didn't have the grinder. So it was either a free tool or a free 6-0 battery, and he wasn't gonna get me the fuel grinder because I bought a piece of shit grinder from somebody for way too much money. That sucks. It was from him. Yeah, I know I know who you got it from. Yeah, you gotta have he doesn't get me the fuel.

SPEAKER_01 40:48

You buy a shitty grinder from him, and then he takes over all three stalls of your garage. I'm aware. Yes. Anyways, uh I rolled in, and I'm Andrew's like, hey, are we gonna roll in? I said, Yeah, let's roll. Let's go in there. And she comes down, she's you're seriously wearing that. I'm like, Yes, I am wearing my Milwaukee t-shirt. You should have ordered the wall one, they probably would have gave you a free Milwaukee one. Uh I saved, I saved the Milwaukee rep money. We'll get to that in a minute. So walk in the door, and of course, I got the Remy is you want to meet people, you take Remy with you. Everybody's up talk. Oh, what a beautiful, you know.

SPEAKER_03 41:31

I'm definitely not taking your dog anywhere then to people suck. We're cute, I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_01 41:37

Anyways, um so and then Andrew's like, oh hey, and I'm like, who's that? Here it's the Norbies head of purchasing. He's hanging out there because it's the Norbies day, and apparently uh Manchester Norbies is the first one to get all redone with the Milwaukee stuff. I haven't gotten to see it yet.

SPEAKER_02 42:01

That's because DeWalt came in and redid their whole DeWalt.

SPEAKER_01 42:06

Actually, no. They have a month ago, they got a new, they've been doing some turnover. They got a new lawn and garden purchaser, and they got a new tool purchase purchaser. And when the tool purchasers came in, they said, Hey, DeWalt's doing a lot. We want Milwaukee the same, and got Milwaukee to come in and updated.

SPEAKER_02 42:28

That's amazing because DeWalt DeWalt did their section out there.

SPEAKER_01 42:33

But actually, the Milwaukee section is bigger now.

SPEAKER_02 42:36

No, I just mean they updated the DeWalt one already. Yeah, and and why wouldn't you?

SPEAKER_01 42:42

Milwaukee. Well, and then they said, Hey, Milwaukee and Milwaukee. I said, Oh yeah. Um, had a very good conversation with both Milwaukee reps from headquarters.

SPEAKER_02 42:54

Did you have your HTG hat on?

SPEAKER_01 42:56

I did not. I I don't wear a hat anymore. So, anyways, but talking to me, he's like, Oh, you really know about the product? I said, Oh yeah, and Andrew, and then Annie took over. Like, can I show you my red underwear? Um, damn here. Uh at one point the guy said, Hey, um, told Andrew, hey, I'll make sure to send you your commission check. Because um one of your former wrestler's mother was in there looking at for saw blades or sawzole blades, and by the time she left, she had saw blades, bits, and a roller pack out. The packet with wheels and handles. All because Annie's like, come here, let's go look at this. Annie's a sales wrestler, she loves Milwaukee, but a couple cool things I I found out about Milwaukee talking to the guy because I was asking some pointed questions. I wanted to know what's going on. It's from the good land. It is from the good land. Um, they weigh on for. Underforecasted the new hammer hammer. The hammer. The airless hammer. Airless hammer.

SPEAKER_02 44:08

Um, what do you mean the under forecast? Like how popular it'd be? Like how popular it'd be. Oh, that should have been a no fucking brainer.

SPEAKER_01 44:14

Everybody fucking dog. I didn't I didn't want to make him feel bad because he's like, Well, you know, you look at air hammers, they're like $150, $200. I'm like, dude, you and he goes, You're not looking at the good one. He's like, Well, he's like, Are this gonna be like $650? I'm like, that's like a Mac one. But I didn't tell him that. I'm like, yeah, okay. He goes, so he goes, but this store will have them coming in this fall. Awesome. I think you're gonna really sell them. Get more coming. And then I said, um what's this food thing I saw? He goes, Oh, the food warmer. He goes, it will not cook food, but it will warm up leftovers for you. And it has proprietary topperware quotes if you're not watching on video.

SPEAKER_03 45:03

We're not on video.

SPEAKER_01 45:04

I wonder. Uh but it will. And then I said, okay, that's cool. And I'm like, he goes, Oh, we he goes, we got a fridge coming. I'm gonna go, uh uh, excuse me. Roll back here, what'd you say?

SPEAKER_02 45:23

A sales rep says what?

SPEAKER_01 45:25

He says, We have a refrigerator coming. Refrigerator freezer, refrigerator freezer.

SPEAKER_02 45:33

Were you like, yeah, my buddy's got one of those in his fucking 2014 car? I was not that how's this one cooler?

SPEAKER_01 45:39

Um, I I looked at Andy and said, uh, maybe I won't buy the ARB one or the rough country one. Tell me more. He says it will run off of one battery, one 18 volt or two. On two 18-volt batteries, it will run at s for 72 hours at negative four.

SPEAKER_02 45:58

Holy shit. So that's a fucking freezer. That's not a cooler. Exactly. That's a fucking freezer.

SPEAKER_01 46:06

So I'm like, okay on two five O's? Uh, he just said two 18 volts. Okay. I'm assuming five. They base everything off five. He did, he did say that they pretty much base everything off of going five O's because that's what everybody always gets.

SPEAKER_03 46:24

That's that's they give you for free with a tool.

SPEAKER_01 46:26

Yes, and then you ramp up from there. I'm like, pack out? And he goes, yeah, I'll have pack out mods on the top. I said, what about the bottom? He goes, no. He goes, it'll have wheels on one end. He goes, it's basically a big cooler.

SPEAKER_03 46:39

Pack out bottom latching would be way too much in Milwaukee. Um Milwaukee would need to be.

SPEAKER_02 46:45

It wouldn't cost him anything more to put that in the fucking.

SPEAKER_01 46:48

He said he'd take it back. He said he would take the feedback back. And I believe this guy. He him and if he they made a pack out of the colour.

SPEAKER_03 46:54

There was a younger guy and a newer guy buy one so I could snap into all my shit.

SPEAKER_02 46:59

Well, I told him, I said because more than likely, I'm not gonna pack my cooler on the fucking bottom. It's gonna be somewhere in the right, right?

SPEAKER_01 47:07

But he said, he goes, it's more like a cooler. It will the first he goes, the one we got coming has wheels on it. It's more like the the bigger bottom pack out. The chest. The chest. Um, but he did say it like the roller they got now. Like the roller they got now, then you could put your stuff on top.

SPEAKER_03 47:25

I want a cooler, the size of the big packout that you guys have, or the bid cooler they have, and that's what I told him that snaps in, but don't have to put ice in it. That would be perfect size for a weekend dice.

SPEAKER_02 47:37

The only thing that I'm wondering about is if it's gonna be like the size of that. Those batteries are gonna the batteries and compressors are gonna take up a lot of room in there.

SPEAKER_01 47:46

He said 32 quart. It's not bad.

SPEAKER_02 47:49

Because I think the one so I think that took off about 20% then, because I think their normal pack out one that's that size is a 40 quart.

SPEAKER_01 47:58

So still, but you lose 20% for it to have a fucking freezer, but no ice, you can take your fucking frozen pizza came. Right.

SPEAKER_03 48:07

But the cool thing is, like, if we went as a group and we each like if say we had two of them as a group, we'd be set. You could have drinks in one, food in one, set for the weekend, no ice stops, no water ice packs, no water fucking things up.

SPEAKER_01 48:21

Yes, exactly. That'd be so awesome. I said, Okay, I said, you really should think about pack out top and bottom.

SPEAKER_02 48:28

I said, and then maybe some tie-down hooks on it.

SPEAKER_01 48:31

I said, here's for example called the overland edition.

SPEAKER_03 48:34

My HTG Overland edition Milwaukee cooler.

SPEAKER_02 48:38

We I don't know which one you've been drinking more. You guys keep talking over each other. I'm thinking I got ideas.

SPEAKER_01 48:44

It's weird to be on the outside of that, isn't it? I got ideas coming. So I said, and Andrew stand there, she's just like shaking her head, and I'm like, I'm like, I bought one of your $80 ammo boxes to drill holes in it and make it a battery box in my rock crawler. That was $65. And he's like, What? Well, I exaggerated a little big deal. Anyway, just Sam.

SPEAKER_02 49:09

Um, if you paid $80, it wasn't a smart purchase.

SPEAKER_01 49:13

I didn't care what I paid. I didn't know.

SPEAKER_02 49:14

I know it was the right size and it was what you exactly.

SPEAKER_01 49:18

You're right. I bought, you're right, that one was like $60 because the cooler was like $80 because I bought them at the same time. Cooler was $125.

SPEAKER_03 49:25

Guy's like the the Milwaukee salesman in the group. You can get it on sale.

SPEAKER_02 49:31

Anyway, anyway, I I digress. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01 49:34

So I said, I have I made one into a battery box just so everything matched in there. I said, I'm gonna want to lock it in, like off-roading, camping, things like that. And goes, okay, I'll take that back. I said, What else you got new coming? Um, they have a new battery charger that's supposed to be coming out that is Milwaukee packout, the size of an ammo box. It will charge three batteries at once. It will hold an additional, I think he said six.

SPEAKER_02 50:06

So it only took him like five years to catch up with DeWalt on that. Nine batteries in one packout because Logan's got one of those.

SPEAKER_01 50:14

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 50:15

And it's fucking nice. All your batteries are in one place. You can like you charge them up, they go on the bottom. Like, you know, it's got the carrying capacity, plus you just take your bot, like, oh, I got my battery box, and you click. I don't have to find another fucking battery.

SPEAKER_01 50:30

That was the other thing that I thought was really cool. Um, so then talk to him, had a cookie, proceed down the Milwaukee aisle. Well, we almost got to the Milwaukee aisle. And then he goes, That's a really good deal. Oh shit, what are we buying?

SPEAKER_02 50:49

Things my wife has never said at Norbies.

SPEAKER_01 50:53

I have a really cool wife, I'm sorry. Um I'm like, what? And she goes, Well, what's the difference between these two? I'm like, what's two? 18-inch Milwaukee chainsaw.

SPEAKER_04 51:07

For 320.

SPEAKER_01 51:08

Uh that's the 220? Uh they had one box said 239, one box said 279. What's the difference? By this time the young guy had all gone off to talking to somebody else, and so I grabbed the old the other guy, the other rep. I'm like, hey, got a question for you. What's the difference here? You got these two prices. I already checked the numbers, they were the same part number. And he's looking at it and he's like, Well, uh, about that time, uh Kevin comes rolling over with his little clicker, you know, Star Trek thing. And he clicks on it and he goes, Oh yeah. He goes, That's supposed to be 239, not 279. I said, Well, it's marked over there, the 279 too, Kevin. He goes, Well, that's not right. Two things I learned there. One, they had marked the old box, which is already assembled with the chain on it, or with the bar and everything on it. They had marked that at the sale price, and somebody had screwed up and put didn't look at part numbers and put the higher price on the new box where you have to assemble the saw. Big deal. Second thing I learned is Milwaukee has instituted a new map, possibly as of October 1st. So there they've got probably AI, because I've experienced this with a bunch of off-road companies looking at the internet. If there's somebody trying to sell Milwaukee stuff under what Milwaukee says you can sell it for, they're gonna get dinged. They're gonna either told quit selling it that or you're gonna lose your Milwaukee dealership. So they're cracking down on all that, trying to keep everybody fair, legit. I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_02 52:59

Um, at any rate, I we now Andrea now start searching the internet now for those good deals and buy them up when you can.

SPEAKER_01 53:07

Probably already shut down.

SPEAKER_02 53:10

I'll check one place. Just because I'm curious, just because I'm curious, I'm curious too.

SPEAKER_04 53:14

See if it's not because I don't believe you. Is that saw still I it looked like it was on sale?

SPEAKER_01 53:19

That was a legitimate price. No, the 239 is the re legitimate.

SPEAKER_04 53:23

But it looked like it was that sale goes until August 12th, is that right? Okay, yes, all the Milwaukee Madden stuff goes till August August 12th. So I had looked through the ad and say, well, the the one or two things I really want weren't on there, but that that saw is a really good price.

SPEAKER_01 53:36

So I I haven't even unboxed it yet, but we did bring one home because she's like, I'm like, well, it's not gas, I'm not sure, but Geyer says it's as good as the gas. For what I need, that'd be plenty.

SPEAKER_02 53:46

I yeah, is it 16 or 18? I can't remember what it was.

SPEAKER_01 53:50

Maybe 16. I don't remember. It's the bigger one.

SPEAKER_03 53:52

Real quick. Uh

Scam Link Warning And Shopping Tips

SPEAKER_03 53:54

I just got a message from Norby's farm f L E E T T that I won the Milwaukee thing, and to click this link to claim my prize.

SPEAKER_00 54:06

Damn.

SPEAKER_03 54:07

So scam.

SPEAKER_02 54:09

Did you did you sign up for anything there? Yeah, phone number.

SPEAKER_03 54:12

I did, but there's only one follower, one review. It is fake. The link that you go to is Norby's Farm F-L-E-E-T-T dot board. T T. Okay. So there is a and it looks like Norby's. They they stole Norby's picture. If you sign up for that, don't fall for the scam and click the fucking link. Please be smart about it. Read shit. Just saying. I'm I'm reporting them as uh reporting them as we speak.

SPEAKER_02 54:45

Uh you can still buy uh at least from this site, you can buy Milwaukee Forge 80s for $136 on this site.

SPEAKER_01 54:57

I and I don't know what they are at the shop stores.

SPEAKER_02 55:00

Everything's fucking cheap here. The inflator, you can buy that for 160 bucks. Uh the hacksaw.

SPEAKER_04 55:09

Is the inflator the thing that looks like a hot air gun? The tire in the tire inflator. I want the one that looks like a hairdryer.

SPEAKER_01 55:18

I showed that to Annie, and she's like, Yeah. This is what Chad really wants.

SPEAKER_04 55:22

Honestly, I think that'd work good on the dogs, pulling their hair out.

SPEAKER_01 55:24

She said, she goes, What would you? I said, Well, Chad was thinking like on the tool, on the you know, woodworking tools, and she goes, Oh, I can see it on that. So I just point out like the diagram there, and she's like, I should probably come out of the shop and really see what you have. Because she goes, I don't remember if you have. And I'm like, Yeah, you should, so you know what to get. Christmas is coming, my birthday's coming. Anyways, I have the saw. I was really tempted to unbox it today because I have that it's technically the neighbor's tree, but I was like, Oh, you must have saw it, but but we'll see how it works. Uh, next off-road trip, I do believe I'm gonna figure out a way to have it in the scout.

SPEAKER_02 56:01

This place has a 14-inch Milwaukee chain. So I can't remember if mine's a 14.

SPEAKER_01 56:08

The 16 or 18 is the bigger one.

SPEAKER_02 56:10

Okay, they got a 14-inch fuel for 300. So that one's obviously not a good deal compared to what you just got.

SPEAKER_01 56:18

So, at any rate, it was it was nice to talk to the guy, learn some stuff. Um, I didn't, I did not, I forgot, I don't didn't have any cards on me or anything, but I do know that HTG has been pitched to higher ups at Milwaukee. JB3 is working on that. We'll just let him work his magic.

SPEAKER_03 56:41

They'll probably like disown us, but they'll listen to one episode like whoa. Those guys need to use the walk.

SPEAKER_02 56:48

They're gonna, they're gonna the the only episodes they're gonna listen to are the ones where we're going canceled the whole fucking episode. Right.

SPEAKER_01 56:55

Hey, uh if they send us tools, I don't care whether you free tools or free tools, right?

SPEAKER_02 57:01

Uh you can get on from this site, you can get the uh 12 volt impact and drill combo for 220. For your price. 12 volt impact and drill? I with a 2-0 battery, a 4-0 battery, and a charger in a bag.

SPEAKER_01 57:17

12 volt drill impact and a I don't care if it's pack out or not, vacuum are on my list to have in the house.

SPEAKER_03 57:25

I want the pack-out vacuum. Kelly, if you're listening, I want the M12 impact set.

SPEAKER_01 57:31

I want a set for in the house, so I don't have to walk my lazy ass out here to get it. Anyways, we are well into it, and we've been rabbit trailing everywhere.

Home Projects And Air Tool Debates

SPEAKER_01 57:44

Court and Geiger. What have you guys done? Shoot.

SPEAKER_02 57:52

I've been breathing. That's a good thing. Very good. And uh been taking naps and working on Asher's bedroom. Oh, I did do that. Let's let's what you missed last week. Yes. Um yeah, to put new flooring in, so it was nice. It was a it was a it it it was it was an easy win. I think that's what I said in the group chat. I'm like, I'm almost there, I need a fucking win or a check mark, like I gotta get this done. And I think it was six hours. I had all the trim pulled off, the flooring laid, I had to go find a fucking air hose, uh, and then got the nail guns out. I banged all the trim back on, and so all I got left is a cup. I I don't know, you guys might have to come over someday and just like what I can do to because it's kind of a weird spot and it's just are you a peasant?

SPEAKER_01 58:56

You got an air hose out to put trim on?

SPEAKER_02 58:59

I am a peasant and I can't afford I can't afford uh cordless snail guns.

SPEAKER_01 59:04

Call your buddy Court.

SPEAKER_03 59:05

Mine is currently being used.

SPEAKER_01 59:07

By who? Mitch. Oh, well, I'm I need I have one more piece to put on.

SPEAKER_02 59:13

I had I mean, I only had to put on one, two, three, four, five pieces of three-quarters.

SPEAKER_01 59:21

I had 10 pieces put on, and I was told that it was not worth buying it, just borrow it from court.

SPEAKER_02 59:27

Um, that's usually that's kind of that's kind of where I'm at with the only reason with my with my nail guns is because I never I never I've still got the air, and almost always I'm within reach of my air compressor. Think about it, I get it, and I've got a hundred and fifty foot of hose, and my air compressor is always plugged in.

SPEAKER_01 59:48

Yeah, somebody bringing them out their hose again.

SPEAKER_02 59:50

Unless I'm at Miranda's house and then I gotta go, uh, Chad, can I borrow your little Senko? I'll bring it back tomorrow. Eight weeks later, I still have it. You can borrow the pancake when I got it forever, and I wouldn't notice. Um, but uh, because I would I would rather uh spend an hour going from my house to Chad's, hanging out, shooting the breeze, get the air compressor, come back than spend five minutes trying to carry mine around.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:25

I'm thinking about auctioning off the nail gun that shot you in the nuts. So I'm gonna buy a new Milwaukee. Oh, there you go. So auction off the nail gun that shot your nuts.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:33

Listeners, would you like a chance to win the nail gun?

SPEAKER_03 1:00:37

That's mine. That was mine. That was yours. It's in my it's still in there in the cabinet.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:42

You know, it'd be even easier. Never used it since. Guy, I have the solution. You wouldn't even have to carry a compressor. But I'll bet you a carry compressor instead. Oh, who what? I said, I have a solution that you won't even have to carry anything to have use your air nailer. But I'll bet you you would rather carry your nail your compressor than this option. Are you ready for this?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:08

Reluctantly.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:09

You could just come out here, jump in the JK, drive it into town, nose it up by the house, plug into the front bumper.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:18

I don't know. You can do the same thing with my tundra.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:20

You'd have to I'd rather do that. Don't give him the option, Court. Damn it. You'd you'd have to have an air tank on it because I don't think that little the little oh it 100% duty cycle. Right, but what's the CFM rating on it? And what I'm going to do, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. Okay, there might be a little you know the the cylinder is like a six-ounce cylinder.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:42

If you want, you can drive as soon you'll be able to drive my truck or truck and trailer in and do it too. Because they're both gonna have onboard air. The the trailer already has it. There is not a there is not a uh oh Chad, you were there. It's got its own. There is not an aluminum tank under there. There's not. No. He lied to you. He must have been talking about the compressor's all aluminum.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:04

So but so it's got its own compressor and everything.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:09

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:10

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:11

Speaking of which, I don't think it turned it off. I need to get a solar panel on it.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:16

That was I mean, when that trailer was built, it was probably one of the best ones PA trailers made at the time.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:21

It was yes, sir.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:23

The only I think the only thing that would have made it is if it had dual wheel, dual tire axles.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:30

Well, it was originally oil bath axles, and and at some point it got converted to greased axles. That's the only thing that's like kind of wish it would have left an oil bath.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:42

Could you could you convert it back?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:43

I don't know. I haven't looked into it.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:45

I mean, if it went one way, it should be able to go back the other way.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:48

Why did it go the other way? Like, what do I mean?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:50

Like it leaked, but or something happened on the road. And to wrap wrap all this up and get over to Patreon.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:59

Yeah, because my ears hurt. Um, I need to go sans earmuffs.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:03

We're we're an hour 12 in, so geez.

Gambler 500 Explained And Event Ideas

SPEAKER_01 1:03:06

Um and rice. We did find out guy we bought I bought trailer from is one of the organizers of the Minnesota Gambler 500. Oh, interesting. Um, had his wife's gambler truck sitting in the shop there. That I guess you didn't come up to the shop, did you, Chad?

SPEAKER_05 1:03:25

Nope.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:25

Um, I mean, there was guy guy would have had hives because there was like eight fucking jeeps there. Um, but was a good good guy to get to know. Uh bullshitted with him for a bit. Um, he did say if we were interested in doing a gambler, he let us know information because they have real at least Minnesota has realized that hey, we're keeping it too secretive, it's hard for new people to come in, and it's not gonna grow unless you get new people in.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:54

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:55

So with that remind me again, what exactly is a gambler race? So it's basically Gambler 500 is supposed to be you spend $500 on a vehicle and you kind of like make it unique, costume it up, whatever. Uh, for example, his wife's Gambler 500 vehicle is a uh uh Ford Ranger with PVC snorkel up the side, like US service or US forest service stickers on the door. Just you kind of like make them into a costume. Um, Court, remind me, what was that Audi that was at the car show? All right. So him and the other organizer, they team up into a car. They have an Audi R8 with their all-wheel drive. And the gamble and gambler runner? It's a gambler runner. With like they didn't buy that for 500 bucks. They were with like well, 500 bucks is like uh a guideline.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:53

You can't even guideline an R8 for 500 bucks.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:56

No, it was an R8. Well, he showed me a picture of it with like 31105 BFT all trains on it, a roof rack, not the newer one like we seen the other day. It was like the first version or whatever, but it's that same kind of similar rounded body style, but anyways, it had the fucking circles or the rings across the front, like Olympics. So, anyways. Um, I don't know my foreign cars, they're dumb.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:19

It's probably a TT.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:20

It might, it might be an Audi TT. 100% I bet it is that you could get an older one than 500 bucks.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:26

Maybe it is. I don't know. I know that most gambler cars are not 500 bucks anymore.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:32

It's hard to get anything that fucking drives they they need to make it like the gambler 1500. Right. Oh, take our gambler 5000. Like in today's money, but like anyway, just to get something. It's just to get just to get something that runs.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:49

There is, but it in the heart of it. So, what it is, they have a set course with GPS coordinates, and then along the way, you're supposed to pick up garbage, trash. It it the basis of it is. Have fun with beater vehicles on an on-end semi-off-road course and clean up trash. It was started out in Washington.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:12

So you're supposed to pick up garbage with garbage.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:16

Yes. Kind of, yeah. Shipboxes picking up shit, basically. Okay. It started out in like Tacoma, Washington, somewhere out there, and then it's just kind of grown across the country. Um, I guess there is an Iowa one, but he said that guy's like super secretive. Like he comes to their race, but he'll wear like a wig and sunglasses.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:37

That's weird.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:39

They know who he is. They're like, we know he's there, but he's like trying to. It's weird. Anyways.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:48

He's not that secret.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:50

Um, I have yet to see, hey, the gamblers this weekend, or you know, what week it is, so you could like be ready for it.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:58

Right. I haven't either.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:59

And I've sent them messages as a podcast saying, hey, we'd like to be a part of this, we'd like to build a vehicle. Nothing back.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:07

Send it to who? To the Iowa one?

SPEAKER_01 1:07:09

To the Iowa one. So I'm like, fine. Chad and I'll build a bug eye sprout to go road course racing.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:18

Let's just start our own. We could that anybody can come to, and we'll advertise the motherfucker, and that cocksucker can just suck a cock.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:26

We have talked about doing a um court's probably the only one familiar with this, but a 24 hours Appalachian style event with for Weiss Warriors and make it statewide. Set checkpoints you gotta hit. Something like that. We could blow them out of the water. Easy. Just haven't done it. Haven't got the time.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:50

I have to pee.

Wrap-Up And Patreon Tease

SPEAKER_01 1:07:52

Guyers gotta pee. We've talked enough.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:55

I'm still curious. What were you gonna make fun of me about?

SPEAKER_01 1:07:58

I guess I'll have to come to Patreon for that.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:00

It's only five dollars a month. I'll have to hear about it.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:03

Cheaper than your daily advice. You listen to the Patreon? No, you don't. No, but I I've noticed. Alright, alright. Go pee. Hey, the wet spot in your pants is growing. Get going. Alright. Last words.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:21

I got my garage back. He'll got the 2500 running. Don't believe you. Oh, I do. You got Kelly's saw back. Oh, two saws cleaned out. Really? Yeah, the 2500 back running. He took my advice. All of his cleaning supplies.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:38

Was all the cardboard in the trailer?

SPEAKER_03 1:08:42

Yes. We burnt it all today. You're welcome. Burnt it all today.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:47

I Caleb and I carried stuff down to Kaylin's room and I said, hey, the trailer's right there. I said, why don't you guys just put all the cardboard in the trailer? Nobody needs it for a week. That way your dad's not stressed out about it when he gets home.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:01

It's back at JB3's empty done.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:04

Well, but the point was to get it so because your garage was like a bottom.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:08

Oh god, it was so horrible. Anyways, it was it was worse when you seen it, because the workbench and the new side tables, you couldn't walk Halen's bedroom, all came in cardboard.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:20

Every chair.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:22

It was bad full. With that.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:25

Bye.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:26

Goodbye.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:27

Peace.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:28

Love you long time. How's it they say that in West Virginia? Bicycle.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:39

That got assembled speakers.