View Poll Results: Do you prefer us lobbing Potatoes or Grenades to take care of spammers?
Lob potatoes to just stun them
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Lob grenades and remove them from the TMS pool permanently
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Mustangs Coast to Coast
3/22/14, 11:55 AM
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3/22/14, 12:01 PM
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3/22/14, 12:14 PM
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3/22/14, 12:32 PM
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Valet did that
Well not the 13
The truck is a truck
Besides the running boards are high enough that if anyone hits the truck with their door it's just gonna F up their ****
Well not the 13
The truck is a truck
Besides the running boards are high enough that if anyone hits the truck with their door it's just gonna F up their ****
3/22/14, 01:38 PM
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3/22/14, 02:27 PM
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Most people react with shock when you tell them how much one of these Cubs are at the dealer, and usually say that Home Depot sells them much cheaper (1/3 the price) and will buy one there and think they are saving money. Yes, they do. But they're not the same mower, even if it has the same size cut and the same HP.
The ones HD sells are made for them and everything about them is smaller, lighter, and cheaper.
Every single piece of the ones at the dealer is bigger, stronger and more heavy duty. I know people that have bought mowers at the big box stores (Cub, John Deere, etc) and they literally fall apart in 5 years on a big yard, engines, differential/trans, deck rusting out, etc. The one I had that burned was almost 20 years old and as rock solid as new.
The box store ones have thin frames, the deck is a single stamped piece of 14 gauge metal with no grease fittings, tiny aluminum belt driven diff/trans that isn't serviceable, and the engines are light duty regardless of the HP rating, even the Kohler in them is a lightweight version called the Courage. A brand new one is about $700. Very few grease fittings, etc.
The ones from the Cub dealer like I'm looking at have a massive C section welded frame, Kohler Command Pro engine (they're about $1400 new) with automotive style filter, oil pump, etc, the deck is fabricated instead of stamped, of welded 11 gauge steel, 1 inch shaft drive with a huge cast iron diff/tranny that holds 6 quarts of fluid with a spin on automotive type oil filter (diff looks like a 9in Ford of lawn mowers, lol) grease fittings all over the place (every wheel, steering sector, front axle, all pulleys on the deck have one, even the anti scalping wheels on the deck have them), 4 automotive type ball joints on the front end, cast iron front axle, etc.
Just to give you an idea of the difference in the way they are built and the materials used, the big box store Cub with the same size cut weighs 490lbs. The one from the Cub dealer weighs over 800lbs.
The ones HD sells are made for them and everything about them is smaller, lighter, and cheaper.
Every single piece of the ones at the dealer is bigger, stronger and more heavy duty. I know people that have bought mowers at the big box stores (Cub, John Deere, etc) and they literally fall apart in 5 years on a big yard, engines, differential/trans, deck rusting out, etc. The one I had that burned was almost 20 years old and as rock solid as new.
The box store ones have thin frames, the deck is a single stamped piece of 14 gauge metal with no grease fittings, tiny aluminum belt driven diff/trans that isn't serviceable, and the engines are light duty regardless of the HP rating, even the Kohler in them is a lightweight version called the Courage. A brand new one is about $700. Very few grease fittings, etc.
The ones from the Cub dealer like I'm looking at have a massive C section welded frame, Kohler Command Pro engine (they're about $1400 new) with automotive style filter, oil pump, etc, the deck is fabricated instead of stamped, of welded 11 gauge steel, 1 inch shaft drive with a huge cast iron diff/tranny that holds 6 quarts of fluid with a spin on automotive type oil filter (diff looks like a 9in Ford of lawn mowers, lol) grease fittings all over the place (every wheel, steering sector, front axle, all pulleys on the deck have one, even the anti scalping wheels on the deck have them), 4 automotive type ball joints on the front end, cast iron front axle, etc.
Just to give you an idea of the difference in the way they are built and the materials used, the big box store Cub with the same size cut weighs 490lbs. The one from the Cub dealer weighs over 800lbs.
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3/22/14, 04:29 PM
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I echo buying from a dealership and not the big box stores. I have a Toro lawn mower that I bought in 1986 from an authorized Toro dealer. The only thing I have done to it was sharpen the blades, change the oil and spark plug. It consistently starts on the 1st pull. I bought my Toro 824 snowthrower from a neighbor 14 years ago when he moved to Southern California. He bought it 10 year before from the same dealer. Other than routine mainernance, all I had to have repaired were the shear pins (don't run over the Sunday paper with yours.... _).
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3/22/14, 05:20 PM
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3/22/14, 05:27 PM
You have limited mileage insurance on the Shelby? What do dat cost? I should probably get that on the Boss as I only drive it ~3000 miles/year
3/22/14, 06:43 PM
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3/22/14, 06:46 PM
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I've got all 5 Mustangs on it with comp coverage, agreed value, but you can't drive the cars to work. Only leisure drives and to car shows etc.
3/22/14, 06:49 PM
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3/22/14, 06:56 PM
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3/22/14, 07:17 PM
3/22/14, 07:46 PM
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3/22/14, 08:13 PM
Agreed, but rotors are a big component of "brakes," but I suspected that is what you were inferring . . . . wish the BBS RKs would take a Brembo caliper, but I will have to due with the rotating mass savings . . .
3/22/14, 08:23 PM
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