Random Cool Tricks

Manicures - Ranch style



Now if I could just find a way to hold cats down for a nail clipping....

 

Tranqs like are used for thunderfearing dogs? (Or a 2x4 ---)

 

This one I have to try. I can see it working on manual windows, and some power windows. Would likely break the track on a Dodge, and probably a Ford.

 

I used to do stuff like this. Lifting myself up in office chairs on the shop crane and "flying" through the shop. Riding a wheel chair behind the electric car pusher, falling over and getting dragged by one foot. That was all fun, but now it hurts.

Never grow up!

 

I bet I can get the facilities guys at work to try it. I have the mop bucket and umbrella, and they have back pack leaf blowers.

 

Lots of field expedient repairs will keep your car rolling well enough to get you home.

On Okinawa I was driving a 1974 Mitsubishi FTO ( Fresco Turismo Omologato). Probably the ugliest car I've ever owned. I was coming out of a forest on a trail that wasn't too bad. Just lots of large shallow puddles and a few holes. I didn't know that on the way in I had been going up a big flat rock (possibly a concrete slab) in one puddle as I went through it. Coming out this quite solid object caught my front suspension cross-member and buckled the frame where it attached. It was so badly bent back that the steering was binding.

Within five minutes I had chained the cross-member to the biggest tree I could drive the car against, left plenty of slack in the chain and backed up briskly. That buckled the other side of the frame about the same amount and allowed me to steer... as long as I wasn't trying to use the brakes at the same time. I made it home, welded some steel plates onto the frame and after an alignment all was well again.
This looks just like my car, same color and everything. Only difference is that mine had flames painted on the hood and front fenders and had wider Toyota wheels (which required machining the hubs) with studded snow tires all the way around.

A friend of mine had crashed his Mazda Cosmo and taken out forty feet of guard rail in Japan. He removed the mangled wheel and jammed the cars jack into the lower control arm to hold the front end up on the damaged corner. He was miles away from the crash site when the Japanese Police finally followed the scratch marks on the road and stopped him. It was a very expensive piece of guard rail.

If he'd used this tree trick he may not have left such an easy trail to follow. I'm thinking it's about time for a new tree trunk on this one. Getting a little chassis contact with the road there.

 

This is ingenious!!

 

I wonder how many miles they get before those wheels are red hot,, back to molten metal.. there aint no bearings on them wheels

 

Man,Thats tight ! and metric wth?

 

Ya the rest of the world in METRIC , BUT USA !

Buy 3 10mm sockets and wrenches , You find out why
Sloth

 

You canucks put anything on the moon lately?

 

“When hanging something with two hooks, use painters tape to get exact markings, and a level on the wall. Hammer in your nails, and peel away the tape!”

 

A little painters tape holds the bolt in the ratcheting wrench and at the correct angle.
The screwdriver is necessary to get the bolt started. It just holds the ratchet so it can get another bite.