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rflegal said:
So it's been a long time since I've been online - literally over 2-years. Covid and other changes have wiped the slate. The whistler purchase fell through when I was downsized at work. But I found a great job in Kansas; unfortunately I've now been diagnosed with spondylolistthesis in my L4-L5. The M36 isn't coming east, I just can't do this hobby anymore.

The M36 is a longbed cab and chasis with a continental 6 gasser, sprag transfer. I have rebuilt the 5-speed and it needs to co back in. 4 of six dog bones are new with joints for remaining two. new shoes in the box and a ton (literally) of new parts. It is sitting at my property in Farmington, NM and I need to sell the property. I just can't do the wrenching anymore with my back and the job demands in Kansas. I think I may make a website with all the details and post it there as well.

So, now I have my M36 & inventory I need to liquidate. I want it to go to the right person, but it is mid-project and needs to be progressed forward to move out. That means a couple days of work. Possibly six NDTs mounted to get it on a trailer. Not roadable because I was into the brake system replacement (unless that's finished up onsite as well). Was doing a super single and have seven good Michelin 44s, new tubes etc. Using the stock wheels (I like the look).

There are so many parts its crazy. It makes me sad to not be able to do this anymore , but I've had to come to terms with my age and physical limitations. Forgive my rambling. The goal was to ultimately make it a quad with a standard bed behind as a bugout. Would be so excellent.

Anyway I'm writing in this NM forum to find out if there anybody nearby that's interested and capable. This is not a for sale thing. This is a come get it thing for the right individual. I have tons of pictures to share with that right person and will be heading to NM next week, so would be able to check anything of concern. If you know of anybody looking, please make me aware or let them know. I really don't want to call the scrap guys.
- thanks, Bob
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How did everything end up for you? I'm new here from the Deming area, salutations to all
 
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Hey, I recently spent two days in Phoenix. Dry yes, hotter than Hades, yes. Miserable. And just back from four days in SoCal, which was both hot and humid. Even more miserable.

You know it's on the warm side when needing a koozy to hold my alcoholic beverage of choice - not because it's cold, but quite hot to the touch. They'd been in the same cab as I spent the nights trying to sleep in. Guessing those those cans were at least around 130 degrees.

For someone used to more humane temps, like highs in the 70s and lows at 40 or less, that was a bit brutal.
 
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Thankfully global warming hasn't quite reached my little corner of the world yet. But a lack of precipitation has.

I can only hope that the monsoon season does its thing since winter did not.
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Call it global warming, or climate change, whatever we want to call it. But maybe something's up.

I hope you get your water FLU farm, but it looks like we might have killed the Earth.

I don't see butterflies anymore. Or grasshoppers. Or crickets.

When I was a kid you'd look up at night at a street light and it'd be surrounded in a CLOUD of hundreds of insects; just swarming with moths and all kinds of things.

Man. I look at nighttime street lights now (my neighborhood anyway)...and ZILCH. Nothing .

I wonder if we went and killed the place. Who knows?

Do you still see as many butterflies (and stuff), as you did when you were a kid?

Hoping you say "yeah!"
 
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Another Ahab said:
Call it global warming, or climate change, whatever we want to call it. But maybe something's up.

Do you still see as many butterflies (and stuff), as you did when you were a kid?
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I think that "something" has to do with us still coming out of an ice age. And weren't we told that by year 2000 we'd be heading for another ice age?
Yeah, weather changes, always has, and always will (see, I did say yeah).

Cant really compare the butterfly etc. numbers from my childhood to here and now since I grew up in Europe, but there are definitely not as many bugs here as there was in SoCal. I suppose that could partially be because we only have a few months when the nights are above freezing.

Than again, by far the most butterflies I ever saw was driving up I-80 towards Truckee, CA. That was not a good day not to have a windshield on the Jeep.
Second most was love bugs in eastern Texas/Louisiana. And judging by the fronts of my cars we're not out of bugs here quite yet, but there sure seems to be a noticeable difference depending on speed. Much fewer bugs (and birds) get splattered if keeping it under 100 mph.
 
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The FLU farm said:
And judging by the fronts of my cars we're not out of bugs here quite yet, but there sure seems to be a noticeable difference depending on speed. Much fewer bugs (and birds) get splattered if keeping it under 100 mph.
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Good to hear. I recall always a MOUTHFULL of bugs after every ride, back when I was young-and-crazy with a motorcycle.

And here I am; lived to "lived to tell the tale"!

:naner: :beer: :naner:
 
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I remember riding on my KZ900 out "in the sticks". Had a buddy riding beside me on his KZ750. He always wore one of those beanie helmets and most of the time he wore a vest. Me, I wore a full face Bell helmet and a T-Shirt. Never wore anything special... So anyhow we were both ripping down this little two lane road and all of a sudden - my buddy was gone. I looked back and he was wobbling all over the road! I turned around and zoomed back to him. He was sitting there on the side of the road holding his chest. I thought maybe he was having a heart attack... He said no, he got hit with a bumble bee. Dead center in his bare chest. It swole up like a third nipple...

And of course I had to laugh.
 
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I remember riding on my KZ900 out "in the sticks". Had a buddy riding beside me on his KZ750. He always wore one of those beanie helmets and most of the time he wore a vest. Me, I wore a full face Bell helmet and a T-Shirt. Never wore anything special... So anyhow we were both ripping down this little two lane road and all of a sudden - my buddy was gone. I looked back and he was wobbling all over the road! I turned around and zoomed back to him. He was sitting there on the side of the road holding his chest. I thought maybe he was having a heart attack... He said no, he got hit with a bumble bee. Dead center in his bare chest. It swole up like a third nipple...

And of course I had to laugh.
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Bumblebees. Biggies. I bush-hogged through a ground nest of those suckers once. They came for me bigtime, all of them at once.

I was off that tractor SO fast. It was an old Ford, so old that there was no dead-man switch; so that tractor just chugged solo, slowly across that big field. Straight as an arrow. Mowing fine, all on its own. I caught up with it later...
 
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