What did you do WITH your Ranger today?

[DukeCanBuildit]

Had as similiar experience. When living up north I was driving to work at around 4AM over a 2-3 mile long totally empty reserve landing strip. My Jeep was going at.. let's say "within the legal limits" when a grey owl* swooped in, hit the top front of the hood and bounced to A-pilar & windshield.

That 2lbs projectile going at great speeds actually dented the hood and cracked the top corner of the windshield. Luckily it didn't hit middle of the windshield which most likely would have meant remains inside the car.

* = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_grey_owl

That looks way too familiar. In northern British Columbia, on the highway to Hyder, Alaska, there is a long stretch of highway just like this with a sign that reads: “Warning, highway may be used as an aircraft landing strip”. Strangely, I was also driving a Jeep when I came across it. Hmmmm. ?

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[Trigganometry]

Since we’re on the subject… just sayin

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

Since we’re on the subject… just sayin

Especially after several hours in the smoker!

 

[KNI]

That looks way too familiar. In northern British Columbia, on the highway to Hyder, Alaska, there is a long stretch of highway just like this with a sign that reads: “Warning, highway may be used as an aircraft landing strip”. Strangely, I was also driving a Jeep when I came across it. Hmmmm. ?

Those are built for these



There are multitude of these kind of strips around Finland with access road & plane maintenance area. You can drive a tanker and repair/reload wagon there, land & reload F/A-18 Hornet and have it back up in 30 mins.

I think some of your pilots been practicing also on these on joint trainings... although your KC-135s keep dropping the refueling lines to our forests on every single exercise..

 

[rang19ca]

Saw this in the Upper Village , yesterday. @CaliBee ?

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

Those are built for these



There are multitude of these kind of strips around Finland with access road & plane maintenance area. You can drive a tanker and repair/reload wagon there, land & reload F/A-18 Hornet and have it back up in 30 mins.

I think some of your pilots been practicing also on these on joint trainings... although your KC-135s keep dropping the refueling lines to our forests on every single exercise..

Likely not “our” pilots. The Royal Canadian Air Force only has a couple of old Stearman bi-planes and one or two Wright Flyers.

 

[ShawnYZ250F]

Took the toy up into the mountains to escape the Vegas heat!

 

[OFC Ranger]

I used it as a ground tamper.

That and I wanted to finally start getting a rough idea what the floor space on the new garage is going to look like. I've still got a small section up front to level in before I bring in the crusher run. I also need to finish off the retaining wall.

I ended up revising my order at the last minute and added an 8' tall x 10' wide framed out garage door (I still plan to do barn style doors though). I also updated my color selection to be a dark gray and light gray combination as it was no extra charge and helped make it look a lot less plain IMO.

As planned I still have 2 feet of usable space (storage shelving in this case) with all doors open and a ton of back space to work (benches, bench tooling, etc etc) with even when the truck is in the garage.

8' foot clearance gives plenty of room up top and the overall ceiling is around 11' at its peak.

Pardon the mess, a second side project is my backyard is going through a bunch of maintenance and make-overs this summer.

 

[KNI]

Likely not “our” pilots. The Royal Canadian Air Force only has a couple of old Stearman bi-planes and one or two Wright Flyers.

Nice try.

Your bi-plane force has 351 aerial vehicles, 12500 personnel of which 2500 are pilots. And you do participate to yearly arctic challenge events and usually operate from our Rovaniemi civilian/military airport in varying configurations.

To my understanding your main force is flying with somewhat old & outdated CF-18 Hornet bi-planes but are in process of moving towards more modern aircrafts. Main issue seems to be lack of pilots for them.

I believe that Finnish Defence Force has been training your Snowbirds in some form until 2014.

So yeah, I'd expect that some your pilots have been "there"..

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

Nice try.

Your bi-plane force has 351 aerial vehicles, 12500 personnel of which 2500 are pilots. And you do participate to yearly arctic challenge events and usually operate from our Rovaniemi civilian/military airport in varying configurations.

To my understanding your main force is flying with somewhat old & outdated CF-18 Hornet bi-planes but are in process of moving towards more modern aircrafts. Main issue seems to be lack of pilots for them.

I believe that Finnish Defence Force has been training your Snowbirds in some form until 2014.

So yeah, I'd expect that some your pilots have been "there"..

Busted!

We are still flying our CF-18s and trying to move to the newer hardware. I think the procurement process (politics) is bogging things down as much as a lack of trained personnel. We also have serious leadership issues at the highest levels in the DND (misconduct investigations) that are a huge distraction.

No doubt our pilots use this strip for training because this is standard procedure for the RCAF when heading out to get coffee at the Tim Hortons drive-thru.

 

[Cabose-1]

I know. I need pictures. But it was raining like crazy and no time for phone video or pics

Pulled my father out if the mud from his property, with his trailer hooked up.

Father had a 4x2 regular cab,short bed ,96 f150. With lawnmower trailer.

I have a Ranger 4x2 no lock up diff.

He was about 30 feet in from the asphalt road. I had to back up a ranger and a half into the property, on the hardest packed mud, deflated all tires, to 25psi, including his, dug a trench in front of his rear tires, turned off tracction control, spun my tires, both spun though, when one turns, the abs brakes apply to let the other side turn, awesome feature! So did both my rears turn at the same time? Idont know, just heard abs working overtime. By the 3rd small tug he finally moved, so i kept on the gas and momentum and got him out.

Lots of water in the truck and now have to shine it back up.
This grass is the only evidence of the rain. Flash flooding in the area, my old man is stubborn and wanted to work if it didn't rain. Only the grass stuck in my fender was all that was left of our adventure

Ford f@$%*&+ Ranger!

 

[JohnnyO]

Tonight I learned that if you mash the gas at on on-ramp the back tire will break loose at 35 mph when the turbo spools up and gets on the boost.

 

[Megawatt]

Hauling azz on the dry lake bed on my way to work the 12 hr night shift. There was an accident in IH-15 so I saved 10 minutes hitting the desert.

 

[D Fresh]

Took the pup to get his balls cut off.

 

[onobeka]

I've parked it next to a Ranger Raptor that I tested. Notice how wide the Raptor really is, despite I have the fender flares (slim ones, raptor has bigger ones). Those 150mm of widened track do show, even on a car this size. The Raptor has huge rake, the back is a bit higher than mine, while the nose is significantly lower than mine. I do have a 2.5" lift on the front and an add a leaf on the back. The Ranger has 285/70/17, while mine has 265/70/17.
Seems Ford is cutting costs on the new Raptors, they are not delivered anymore with BF KO2s, rather General Grabber AT3.


The suspension on the Raptor is nice, it's amazingly quiet. I find the fake V8 sound too intrusive, while not bad. Brake disks on the back make no difference to the drum brakes on my truck, at least I felt no difference. Overall, would i like a Raptor? Hell yeah!

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