Live Stoners Live Stoner Chat - Jan-Mar '23

[Lil Dab]

Can't fit the connector or maneuver the coil part through the gap between the tube and rig? Should still be able to just go behind it and take the stress of the cable

I don’t see that happening I looped it back through but the connector is too big and the nail end is larger so I think this would be the best I could do

 

[Talonxracer]

Time to split the sheets, PARTY ON

 

[Zer0]

Good for you for picking them out. Here is a bit closer view during breeding season:
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This is from Wikipedia, credits to: Wildland at Russian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. I have hundreds of my own photos, but not digital. Kodachrome era, long gone. One of these days I want to digitize the best of them, but have not yet done it.

The large beast is a mature male, maybe ~11 years old, the little one on top is a pup a month or so old, and the smaller one up front is a female anywhere between 5 to 20 years old. She looks as though she is still pregnant. All told, I spent about a thousand hours watching these beasts.



good on ya mate, I could not keep the girls healthy to the end with MC in Autopots. But I was a noob at it (arguably still am), so no doubt I could have done better. Anyway for now I am back to coco with top irrigation.

Jack's is really good stuff if you want to try it. You might be just as well off with MC 2 part though, the reason I didn't do that is that I could not get it in Canada in small enough quantities. I would not hesitate with either one. I will likely be trying to use up my other stuff and then stick with Jack's.

I bet you could pro grow with MC and autopots now using your coco and experience. I know you could do it because got my friend growing with autopots and MC and he does just fine but he did have me telling him the do's and don'ts with MC and autopots so a little bit of cheating lol

i remember you saying the cost for mc 2 part was expensive and bulk only in cananda but lucky for you jacks is about the same thing i hear so it worked out nicely.

Give autopots another try when you have time and space

 

[Zer0]

What is the second PID controller for?

Really nice choice on the press, methinks.

e-nail that dabpress makes

 

[Zer0]

I don’t see that happening I looped it back through but the connector is too big and the nail end is larger so I think this would be the best I could do

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i had to use a wire and tie the e-nail to the banger, it kept falling off so i solved it lol

 

[Olderfart]

Ok, the story. First, where it unfolded:

This is a closer winter shot of the rock while I was still doing the work. You can see the cabin just to the upper left of the label. It was a 8x8x8 foot cube made of 2x4's and 3/4" plywood. To get to the cabin, we had to move from our base station at the lighthouse a few kms away to this rock. Mooring a boat at the rock was tricky, I ran a horizontal rope about ten feet above the high tide level across the inlet more or less at the mooring label. The ends of the rope were attached to rebar pitons cemented into cracks. It had a vertical rope hanging down in the middle with a chunk of engine block on the bottom, well below the low tide level, to keep the vertical rope tight. The vertical line was moored to by passing a loop of rope around it attached to the 14 foot inflatable boat at both ends. This would allow the boat to ride up and down with the waves and tide. To get from the mooring to the cabin, we had to climb up a near vertical rock wall about 90 feet high. To get to the shore from the boat I would climb the vertical rope overhand, and then traverse the horizontal rope to the shore. Other than the slightly inclined rock wall we climbed to get to the cabin, the mooring was surrounded by vertical rock walls.

As you can see in the photo, this little mooring slot gets violent. The near death experience was at the mooring. We had been stuck at the lighthouse during weather too rough to get to the rock. After three days or so, I figured things had calmed down enough to at least go check it out, which we did. When we got to the mooring, it was calm in there, but there were clots of foam floating around, which I had never seen before, which I was a bit leery about, so we didn't moor. I just had my assistant hang onto the vertical rope while we kept an eye on things for a bit.

We hung there for about ten minutes being gently swung around the vertical rope by spent waves that got into the slot. No biggie, but I could not figure out the foam, so we didn't moor. Then a bit bigger one came in. It moved us more than earler, pushing the boat inwards as the water moved in, and pulling it toward the outlet as it went out. Still no biggie, and it did increase the splashing along the rocks, so I figured maybe the foam came from that. The next wave was worse. As it came in, it lifted us maybe three feet, likely more, and my assistant had to hand over hand up, while the water went up, and then down as the wave went out. On the way down on this second wave, my assistant almost lost his grip. At one point, he was hanging onto the boat with his toes because he couldn't hand over hand fast enough, and the vertical rope was at a crazy angle because of how hard we were being pulled. At that point, I knew we were in deep shit. When we got to the bottom of the wave, the boat was pointed the wrong way because it got dragged in that direction as the wave descended. We managed to get the boat turned around just as the next wave started coming in. If you look again at the mooring spot on the photo, you will note the narrowing just before the wider mooring spot. We climbed a steep ramp of water under full throttle just before the wave broke where it went through the narrowing bit. When it broke a few feet behind the transom, it sent a five foot wall of white water through the mooring slot. The back of the mooring slot narrowed to a vertical crack maybe a couple feet wide. Had we been a fraction of a a second later, we would have been pounded into that crack. I doubt that anyone would have found a thing by the time we were missed by the lighthouse crew and anyone came looking.

I was asked for a story...

 

[Olderfart]

e-nail that dabpress makes

sweet. I didn't realize those things had that sophisticated a controller.

 

[Lil Dab]

i had to use a wire and tie the e-nail to the banger, it kept falling off so i solved it lol

I haven't had that issue at all mine fits my banger nice and tight.. I have not used the ones that came with it I did use the cap and do like it just grabbed the blue one tonight

 

[Olderfart]

I'm used to the cape cod canal. Interesting thing theres is the tidal difference between the buzzards bay side and the cape cod bay side is 3.5 hours so the current can be dead calm 4 times a day IIRC and it just rips thru there when it's not. Sailboats with diesels wait the tides to time it right. I think the minimum out board rating allowed is like 35 hp and at the wrong tide it's everything they could do to stay at a stand still fighting the current
Pulled a boat off the buzzard bay end. They were feet from the rocks and scared, they were gonna go down if we didn't yank them out. They had no clue what they were doing and didn't belong there luckily everyone was fine.
Amazing stripper fishing and blues there bonito and false Albies in the fall.
I've heard it claimed once a year some one surf casting from the shore in the canal will hook a tuna. Same out come everytime stripped bail snapped off. I usually run 40 lb braid surf casting there with a 6' 25 mono leader for shock and to snap off. I'll jig head and rubber eel the bottom feeling for holes or run a big Gibbs darter. Some times a yozuri crystal mag.
We head off the vineyard hedges fence to jig black sea bass. Out in the boat if were chasing strippers and blues we're often just chasing terns they're the fishermen we just follow lol

Did perhaps an overly aggressive Male or males decide you were a threat??

Up here, we watch for feeding gulls to figure out where the coho salmon might be feeding. Birds can be helpful.

I think I have also been led to deer by ravens who knew what I was up to. They do appreciate a nice gut pile.

 

[Fermented_Fruitz]

that post is a repeat .............................................jus sayin ppp

And here I though i was just hallucinating!