Took the Mack out to fuel up and drive around.. hit something and blew the right inner rear.. Destroyed the tire with a huge bang. Looked at all the tires, all old and rough so as one had blown, I replaced all four. $1,967 with change. When the tires off they all had damage to the insides - I bought these tires supposedly new take offs. Lying *******s had sold me old damaged tires, for $1150.. You pays for what you gets.. I won't accept cheap tires again, that's for sure. So, I have a couple of thousand dollars less than I was hoping for, so the move is going to be really slow - some this month, some next month, and so on, until it all gets shifted.

 

How many do you need? (Sets of wheeled vehicles)

I would consider offing one or two to eliminate unnecessary burdens

That is seriously unfortunate, and I feel for you

I know a man locally who is a GM at an RV dealership who can wholesale things if required, as another friend he would look at that for us. I will not just send a number and say "Because Dutch asked"
You need to meet the man - he lives across from me and down one

You should talk to him anyway - he's a good guy, and an excellent connection to have

RV's in this area are also a depressed market. I'm sure more than something helpful will come out of it.

More than that I should not say, and I cannot promise what may come of it. We shall talk when you get here


~Dutch

 

Dutch, Thanks for the informative tutorial on Ducks... I honestly never thought about it. Do you have to avoid alot of "crap" on the ground? Do you raise them to eat? I think you may have really interested me in this...

-The Great

 

What they SPLAT is water soluable, and goes right into the soil. Usually - they do that in the water

A duck is not a thing you want to raise to eat like a chicken - they are decorative, wonderful pets, and produce enough eggs that there is no need to cull them.

Ducks also have a fat layer making them the second or third choice ( I would imagine) for a meal over a chicken.

In the same category as a squab, or quail - why would you do that? Chicken provides more meat.


~I suppose you could raise a GOOSE just for that purpose - but if you are as stupid as I am - you will become attached to the silly thing...

If at the far end you want a carcass to pluck - flightless Turkeys are better. They are ugly danged things (seriously)

I have no idea at this moment where you might find one of them except at a turkey farm
~And yet, they may have chicks for sale



~Dutch

(sincerely)

 

So, the house we so happily looked forward to living in is a piece of junk. The relation that looked it over for us, and told how great it was has been chastised, and we are stuck with a house we cannot possibly live in. This makes for problems anyway, but to top the lot, the Mack blew it's compressor at the exit where an RV park was situated, so we now are stuck until money arrives to fix the compressor, on an RV park, immobile, brakes locked on, suspension flat. I have no idea how much a compressor is. I have no money to pay for one, either.

I have decided that being a decent honest person is not really worth it. I do not lie to people, I do not deceive people, con them or cheat them. However this does not stop people doing this to me. I am too honest, and far too trusting. I will change to be a complete a*** hole, which will let me get away with all the a** holes get away with, with me.

The only problem with this idea of course, is that I cannot change, I am what I am, and this makes it easy, it would seem, for people to cheat me.

 

Theo - the thing I love the most about you and Sissy is that you ARE so straight up - even though your background is a hard road. I too would go completely insane if i tried to become nasty, it just could not work. So my best advice to you there is simply to "TIGHTEN FENCE" as we say...

Rotten nasty people are everywhere, especially if they smell money.

I cannot fathom how a compressor (and I have seen a lot of them on diesel 5-tons) could cost over two hundred for the part. It should be comperable to an A/C compressor, if not cheaper and can be installed with common hand tools. Do we have any TENNESSEE Chapter members in the area who might be willing to dive in and help out I wonder?

I'm still not clear on what your closest town is.

The VETERANS NETWORK may also have someone nearby who is reliable... We hae a new thread we have started in the event you did not see it, but the mission statement is still the same.

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...et-at-fte.html

~Dutch

 

After having looked at the cabin in Eidson, (north of Rogersville on TN 70) and determined that it was not livable for us, we pulled out south, aiming for Baileyton, TN, exit 36, I81. We fuelled at the Petro and the compressor died. I pulled into the RV park, 300 yrs down the road, and the suspension was flat - by the time we were situated the brakes locked. So we are stuck in Baileyton Tennessee, 20 something miles from the disasterous house, sitting waiting for lawyers to help and getting the realtor to value the house to sell it again - we will lose money on it.. but the finance company will have to work with us on that one.

When we do finally sell it, and the Washington house we just moved out of, we should be able to buy a decent place round here - less nasty weather than the western part of the state. I rather like the idea of finding somewhere with over thirty acres, and a large pond with fish in it.. There are a few round here like that, just got to get the problems sorted and find one for sale.

The secondary problem with the cabin we bought is that the 26 acres is not just wooded, but straight up a mountain. Completely unusable land. I will not be trusting others to check things out for me again.

Oh well, if it don't kill you, it makes you stronger .. or so they say.

 

I strongly suggest Houston TX - that is where I plan to go for reasons we can discuss later.

I am sick to death of tennessee (note small and disrespectful "T") and will get out of here as soon as I can

I DO NOT LIKE THIS PLACE

 

I used to work in Houston.. I won't be moving there any time soon. I got so fed up with the place, I considered going AWOL just to leave it. Didn't do it though..

 

In a place like Houston - I can have citrus trees again. Pick my own oranges, and make juice...

What the locals fight about I couldn't care a rats behind about so long as they do not bring it to MY PLACE!

And I intend from the beginning to be well outside of the nearest town. Close enough to shop - but not one inch further

"CITY PEOPLE" make me wonder if Americans have become nothing but victims...


We should hold to the old ways, and produce as much as we can for ourselves. A garden for example, and chickens or other fowl that regularly lay eggs. Sheep, if you don't have the range land for cattle.

*Funny, in places where sheep are common - BEEF is expensive. Over here, LAMB is the most expensive meal you can think of - where over seas they are positively SICK of what is called "MUTTON"
All it seems to need is clover for them to munch on - and that is one of the number one weeds people in the states complain about the most!

~I will say this - whatever property you decide on should at least in part support you.


What use is a place that cannot be useful?

Think of it that way and re-examine it...
*I think your growing season in East TN would have been shorter


~Dutch

 

I have no clue where I will end up. Got a few houses to sell first though. One in TN, one in WA and one in IN. Crazy,, all I want is one good house.

 

After this - I recommend that you do the eyeball part of it personally....

10-4?

I do not imagine you ever being satisfied by anyone elses opinion (at least on that) again.

*The positive side of it is - you will not have to worry about xenophobic hillbillies on all sides of you. I have seen and heard about hillbillies, and I think they are the very most dangerous people in the entire USA

~Indeed, Krips, Bloods, and DRUG RUNNERS take a back seat to what a seriously angry Hillbilly is willing to do and is fully capable of

And you never can tell what might **** them off eternally... They don't give up, and remember stuff forever

Whatever slight they object to becomes a FAMILY matter, that is handed down

The best way I can think of to describe a 'Billy is like an old case of dynamite that has begun to sweat through the wrappers

 

I don't doubt that I will find something somewhere. I need to live in states that don't charge income tax - I get little enough money without a state walking off with any. This limits me to only a few states, and two of those that do not charge income tax have other considerations that make them unsuitable. My priorities are my money and my rights. Those states that have attacked either are not for me.

 

Theo, I am saddened and disheartened to hear how you got a sore deal. I hope God has a better plan for you and will surely find a better place than the run down shack. Again sorry

-The Great

 

Anything has to be better than Tn - where they seem to think the government itself is supposed to replace your Mommy and Daddy.

I like TEXAS for that reason among others.

No income tax, and people are expected to know what is good for them

BE an adult, and you are treated like one there!