Perfect, you've already got hippo experience. Can you have one before the bonfire? I'd like to get a selfie with it.
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Perfect, you've already got hippo experience. Can you have one before the bonfire? I'd like to get a selfie with it.
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I'm kinda thinking that I'd like to buy one of those pump jacks to put in my back yard and set it to rocking. It wouldn't have to pump anything. But my neighbors wouldn't have to know that.
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I can't find any hippos for sale on Craigslist (which is where I've bought all of the boats, tractors, and semis referenced by @Bill Jennings ), although we do have a large enough pond in back of a suitable size for a hippo to wade in. Since they're not carnivores they'd have to graze the neighboring corn/hay fields rather than eat the coyotes. Or we'd have to buy hay for them, which would get expensive.
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Couldn't find any of those for sale on CraigsList, either.
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Ted already has an MB.
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That's like asking if I plan to eat and breathe that day
I know you're big on America and freedom.
Ted already has an MB.
I'm all about giraffes, but as you know my Mercedes is a sedan, not a convertible. It does have a sunroof, though, so that would still work for feeding the giraffe while driving I suppose. Not sure how you train it to duck for crossing under bridges and such.
On the same trip where I got that picture of the hippo I mentioned a few posts above, we almost hit a giraffe. As my friend sitting next to me in the truck put it "I saw a tree, and then saw that the tree was moving. And then I realized that wasn't a tree, it was a giraffe." The driver was fiddling with something and wasn't watching the road. Fortunately he stopped before we hit the giraffe. This was at Kruger National Park.
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Why are you bringing up banana hammocks?
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Ted, you need a nice 5th wheel to tow behind.
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Ted, you need a nice 5th wheel to tow behind.
A friend of mine found this:
https://kansascity.craigslist.org/tro/6060714047.html
Which could be converted into an RV. Laurie's not big into camping, though, and really what I need is a bigger, beefier flatbed.
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Yes.
And the seller was going to convert it into a RV until he realized with that ground clearance and overhang, he couldn't drive over railroad grade crossings or pull into parking lot entrances without high-centering!
(or is Kansas really that flat?)
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Yes.
And the seller was going to convert it into a RV until he realized with that ground clearance and overhang, he couldn't drive over railroad grade crossings or pull into parking lot entrances without high-centering!
(or is Kansas really that flat?)
Good points there. It's very flat out here, but regardless it's not what I want or need. My needs require a flatbed.
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That's thinking ahead.
If you're always pulling a flatbed around, you can just winch that rattletrap up on top and have someone haul you back home each time that thing locks up and dies on you!
Easy peasy!!
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Lol, well the Okies near me seem to have it covered for decorative pump jacks, although $1K is a bit much to swallow. You can usually find some old units that are sitting in a bone yard for not much more than the cost of scrap. They just run on A/C motors usually anyway.
https://tulsa.craigslist.org/atq/5991223477.html
https://tulsa.craigslist.org/atq/5991223477.html
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I bet I could build a decorative one cheaper than that...
I wonder if my Jeep would pull that, seems like a perfect mobile workshop for those of us with airplanes that won't fit in hangars.
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That's thinking ahead.
If you're always pulling a flatbed around, you can just winch that rattletrap up on top and have someone haul you back home each time that thing locks up and dies on you!
Easy peasy!!
Really it's for pulling our tractors and the like.
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Well, you know a guy with a semi, so if you can convince your landlord to let you park it near your plane I could help you get it to the airport.
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There was a re-boot with Jim Varny.
But what I find most helpful is helping me maintain that "Jed Clamppet" look that the wimmem folk really go for.
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Let's see if we can up that a notch.
Pimped up pump jacks. With an aviation theme even!
http://weburbanist.com/2010/03/21/10-pimped-pump-jacks-give-the-nod-to-urban-oil-art/#
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As Dave notes below they're often separated. It'll be in the purchase documents for your property (and will affect valuation).
My mountain property in Virginia the mineral rights did not convey. The closing attorney noted that I could buy them, but they're held by a different party. I should have back then, because the property is on the edge of the Marcelles Shale, which makes it a possible candidate for fracking.
Should be in the deed. I can't put my hands on a copy of my property deed at the moment to give you the language.
I hear the Cincinnati Zoo has a baby hippo. But I don't think they'll let it come live with you. Probably can't get too close, either, given the Harambe incident.
Let's see if we can up that a notch.
Pimped up pump jacks. With an aviation theme even!
http://weburbanist.com/2010/03/21/10-pimped-pump-jacks-give-the-nod-to-urban-oil-art/#
Sadly, I know where most of those are.... or ones just like them.
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So, I was at that oil pump site after all 