- It is amazing how much fun a small boy can have with a garden hose and an adjustable nozzle.
- 12 to 15 100+ pound trunk sections of a maple tree, lifted up on to the bed of the truck, then lifted again to stack in the truck, then lifted again to stack at Little Bear and Girlie Bear’s grandmother’s house, makes for a pretty significant drain on my “you aren’t as young as you think you are” reserves.
- Quote of the day – “Are you really strong or just incredibly stubborn?”
- Boo got a nature lesson today when he got to observe a colony of large, black ants move all of the eggs in their nest after I uncovered it by moving the piece of wood on top of it.
- He kept looking for the queen, or as he put it “The big fat one that lays the eggs”
- We put together our camping menu for this weekend.
- I hope the kids like peanut butter and jelly, because that will be at least one meal a day.
- If I were a real man, I’d be cooking a pork shoulder for barbecue either over the fire or in a dutch oven. Since I’m not, we’ll be taking along a crockpot.
- I know, “camping”. Actually, this is more “refugee camping”. Think “Claude W. Griswold” rather than “Daniel Boone”.
- BTW, I’m proud to say that a lot of the menu planning revolved around what we needed to rotate out of the pantry. For instance, my children are going to be introduced to SPAM and eggs this weekend.
- Apparently, spray-in bed liners for pickups are made only with the finest Swiss polymers and are applied by nubile young women who have been trained by Shaolin monks in the gentle, but violent, art of spraying rubber onto a truck bed.
- $550? Are you bloody kidding me?
Thoughts on the Day
Posted by daddybear71 on June 16, 2014
https://daddybearsden.com/2014/06/16/thoughts-on-the-day-241/
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DaddyBear
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Bryn, Isle of Anglesey.
/ June 17, 2014I don’t know what sort of finish you are after, but I lined a 18″ deep !0’x8′ trailer by first painting the inside with two thick layers of underbody sealant, then 3/4″ marine ply over the base with 1/2″ marine ply for the sides. Even at UK prices, I could repeat that today for under US$200.00.
The only cost I whimpered at was the price of marine grade varnish – cement floor grade paint would have been cheaper, but She Who Must Be Obeyed wanted “pretty”……
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daddybear71
/ June 17, 2014I’ve considered doing something like that. My other options are a DIY paint on bedliner or just a plastic shell.
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Old NFO
/ June 17, 2014LOL, looking forward to the AAR on the camping trip 🙂
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Geodkyt
/ June 17, 2014Buddy had a professionally done spray-in liner. He paid for the “heavy” coat. They screwed up and gave him a doubled heavy coat.
A few months later, a failing chain dropped a 318 V8 engine block about a meter into his bed. No friggin’ damage.
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B
/ June 17, 2014While, to a certain extent, you get what you pay for, you can do a decent job DIY with some of the bedliner kits. 2 coats gives you a lot of impact protection. The Herculiner kit will do a decent job in about 2 hours prep and 1 hour coating time. Add an extra hour for a second coat.
Do a double coat and you won’t be sorry. Total cost about about $150.00
****Note**** Have GOOD ventilation or wear a charcoal solvent mask (or both) the fumes are HAPPY STUFF. Fail to wear the mask or provide good ventilation and you might see those “Nublie young women”
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Frank the Wanderer
/ June 18, 2014It is amazing how much fun a small boy can have with a garden hose and an adjustable nozzle
Same with cheap flashlights in a campout.I always take several for the short people, handed out after dark.
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