Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

If they are not really round and true, scrap yard is the place to take them. I have no idea what they are worth, but I bet it less than 6 or 7 bucks each.

Sell them on Facebook or Craig's list. Price them at 10 bucks, and then take 5 bucks as a final price if needed.

The cost of driving to the recycle place is several bucks at the 54 cents per mile the IRS figures it cost to operate a car. I used to recycle my cans, but I can't even break even with the El Camino bed loaded up. Now I just put them right in the recycle bin.

Or better yet, put them at the curb and put a For Sale $20 on them, and they will go away.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. Yeah I'd curb them as well. We recycle paper, cardboard, cans and some plastic bottles but no glass at curbside pick up. For glass I have to take it to a site across the street from the transfer station. Care to guess the hours of operation? Try 7:30am - 5pm Monday thru Friday. Makes it tuff to do kind of like they don't want it either.

[GH85Carrera]

We have a recycling program run by the city. We get a green trash container the same size as the trash bin. We can put in cardboard, aluminum, glass or plastic. No sorting on our end. Somehow they sort it at the collection site.

When we moved into the house the previous owners left a trash compactor in the garage. I had to take it apart and fix it to make it work. We throw all the aluminum cans in it, and crunch it down to a rectangle. I used to take 5 of the rectangles to the recycle place and get about 30 bucks. Last time it was 15 bucks or so. Standing in line next to all the other scrappers I was very out of place. I was almost overdressed in my t-shirt and shorts.

Now I just give the cans to the city. For the cost of the drive to recycle place it is just not worth the effort to clear two bucks.

[GH85Carrera]

I am watching another episode of Time Team. They are digging at a site they hope is the first Roman fort from when Rome invaded.

Imagine you are living in 48 AD as a happy farmer, and you see 1000 Roman ships unloading all the troops and 100 elephants all coming your way. Talk about a shock and awe, and fear.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. I suppose that shock and awe has been the case in all forms of land take over.

[GH85Carrera]

I just can't imagine seeing that in a rural farming community close to the coast. I am sure they had never seen an elephant, or knew what they were. One thing for sure, they were not there to sell cookies and say hello.

Evidently most of England has such history that most every county has a local archeologist and the have some fantastic old records. They were looking at one area and they local archeologist pulled out records of the building construction from 1540s. They were finding layers from prehistoric (4,000 years old) Roman era, and 1500s in one location.

I own some coins from 310 BC era. and the later Roman era. I did not dig them up in the yard.



Mine is bronze and has more wear than the one in the article.

[Porsche-poor]

Bury them in your back yard and confuse the crap out of archeologist years from now.

[GH85Carrera]

I guess we made it over hump day and we are on the downhill slide toward the weekend.

My business partner had a long day yesterday. A client wanted a project flown in Tennessee. So he called our contract pilot friend, Larry and asked if he wanted to go an a cross country just for company and fun. He said sure. So off they went, 11.5 hours of flying round trip. Job is done.

We have the choice of flying out to the area commercial, and renting a car to get to a civil airport, and renting a 172 or 182, or driving all the way, and renting an aircraft, or just flying our airplane.

Only flying our airplane makes it a one day even and no motel stays. Larry enjoyed flying some and having a full day of conversation. He owns a fantastic Cessna 210 and a 1946 Cessna 140, two motorcycles, a pickup and car and he is single. Super nice guy.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. Sounds like fun. I'd say take me but I live on the wrong coast.

[GH85Carrera]

He was saying the return trip part kinda sucked. Flying west in the afternoon, looking at the sun, it was BUMPY and big headwind so slow groundspeed.

[GH85Carrera]

My car at the recent autocross.

[Porsche-poor]

white with just a hint of orange to come.

[GH85Carrera]

Naa, it leaves a black mark. The orange pretty much stays on the cone. Wax takes it right off. No damage done.

[Porsche-poor]

bad cone bad.

[flipper35]

When we were up at the Airventure museum a few years ago one of the students wanted to go home to the quad cities for the weekend so he rented a J3 to go from Oshkosh to home. It would have taken less time to drive, but he got some hours in.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, we used to go eat lunch at a local civil airport. One guy was practicing the short take off and landing and doing real well in his STOL aircraft.

One other guy landed in his J3 Cub and pretty much dropped it down and rolled 5 feet or so. Shorted landing than the STOL. The folks eating all laughed.

I was in one of the 172s we leased and the headwind was crazy once. We had to power up to get to the turn in for the fuel pumps. The pilot but on the parking brake, but I sat in the aircraft and held the brakes as he fueled it up to keep it steady. We were real happy to get back in the hangar.

[Porsche-poor]

flying is always fun.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

flying is always fun.

Not always. When it is 105 on the ground, the hangar is 130 and so is the airplane. When we get off the ground and up to altitude it is only down to 80 and the sun is shining right in our face.

[flipper35]

My instructor and I had short field competitions. He won the first few, then they were all mine. I did "surprise" him a few times and he thought we would be buying some new runway equipment. Trainers are great, like a Miata. Great handling and no power.

[GH85Carrera]

When we went to look at the 182 that we now own the company that owned it used it as an instructor plane, for advanced pilots. It is considered a "high performance" aircraft. and it was used to teach at that level. They had a neat rig in the back, in the cargo area. They had a ice chest with 4 bags worth of ice in it, and fans and duct work to blow ice cooled air on the front two seats. It was great for sitting on the ramp and going over the instruments and to use as the classroom and not die from heat soak.

We removed it, as it is not the type of flying we do. After the preflight, we get in an go. No practice, just get to the task, and back to the ground for the fuel pumps, and put it away. We prefer to always have full tanks in the morning and fill up after a flight.