Hillbilly Redneck

[cmiles97]

Who else drove a tractor with no brakes pulling hay wagons every summer and just downshifted to slow down and shut it off in gear to stop? Luckily I never saw a car at the 4 way stop from one of the farmer's hayfiled in the 6 summers I worked there during MS/HS & college. Also so redneck you never asked why they never fixed the brakes & accepted it as normal? Belive it or not I'm a NYS redneck. They exist.

-Go the wrong wind direction with the manure spreader on? You do that only once. LOL

-Take the dare to p1ss on an electric fence?

-have a 68 Chevy in 1989 for college with piston rings so bad, you added oil and pulled the plugs to clean them once a month because you couldn't afford a motor rebuild? Your friends always wondered why there were no lound bangs with all the blue smoke pouring out of it.

-used the oil from your Dad's mechanic friend's shop. The mechanic dripped the last bit out of cans into a barrel. You had no idea what grade or brand you were getting but it was free!

-parked pointed down on hills to start your car by rolling & popping the clutch because you couldn't afford a new battery?

 

[Sgt Darkness]

Yes, anymore we don’t really own our land, we’re just leasing it from the counties and cities we live in.......so they can tell us what to do with our land.
Shoot, can’t even put up a moonshine still, so a mans gotta go deep in the woods just to be able to keep the customers happy. Enuff said, happy truck’in.....

 

[Trainmaster]

Anyone remember the years when every town had a place that sold rebuilt starters, alternators and carburetors?

There was a guy in Far Rockaway named Dicky Lynch. All his rebuilt crap was painted blue and it all cost $15. His carbs were so bad, you'd change 'em in his parking lot and usually go through his entire inventory looking for one that was better than the old one.

"This one's bad too Dick, give me another."

Or the junkyards that sold batteries that were stolen from cars the night before? They'd pay $3 for them and sell them for $5. Usually when the cut wires and terminals were still attached they were good. You'd short them with a screwdriver and if they gave a good spark, they were worth the five bucks.

 

[1955moose]

Wow, things really are tougher in New York! I'm 11 years older than you, and never dealt with a guy like Dickey, or a wrecking yard for batteries. Didn't you guys have auto parts stores, or something better! I even bought from dealerships when the price was right, and parts were still available. Stuff I bought from a wreckers was only if way cheaper than anywhere else. I remember one situation, where a wreckers wanted $70.00 for an emergency brake cable used. I called a dealership that with my discount working at Montgomery Ward, was actually $55.00 new. I learned you always call around, and trust no one!

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[cmiles97]

Yes, anymore we don’t really own our land, we’re just leasing it from the counties and cities we live in.......so they can tell us what to do with our land.
Shoot, can’t even put up a moonshine still, so a mans gotta go deep in the woods just to be able to keep the customers happy. Enuff said, happy truck’in.....

You have to pay close attention to your local authorties making the laws for zoning. Many are adopting HOA rules for their jurisdiction. Old friend of mine couldn't add a room to his home because it would violate his prescribed green space ratio. Since he didn't pay attention an ordinace was passed within the city limits telling home owners how much green space compared to building and driveway footprint they must have.

Anyway here's my hero. Town turned down his request to build a large garage on his land, he puts up a 1st amendment protected statue letting them know what he thinks.

 

[Trainmaster]

Moose, I guess things were pretty tough back in the '70's. We had cars but no money. Since no one had money, we didn't know any other way. A new carb or battery was absurdly expensive for us.

Tough zoning is a part of life here on Long Island. But living now with idiots with a few dollars is far worse than living with idiots without money. Everyone wants to make his cape into a mini-mansion. Zoning helps keep those baffoons in line.

 

[Adieu]

Moose, I guess things were pretty touch back in the '70's. We had cars but no money. Since no one had money, we didn't know any other way. A new carb or battery was absurdly expensive for us.

Tough zoning is a part of life here on Long Island. But living now with idiots with a few dollars is far worse than living with idiots without money. Everyone wants to make his cape into a mini-mansion. Zoning helps keep those baffoons in line.

Regulations that define what other people can do for the sole purpose of limiting them to what their neighbors want (supposedly) is patently unAmerican

Hell, the whole idea of zoning is unAmerican

Screw that... if the social contract goes the way of the Soviet Union, we're at least owed the PERKS as well (free education, healthcare, pensions and benefits, absolute public order).

Authoritarian overregulation without the guaranteed benefits is bullsh!t. Selling your liberties to a nanny state for next to nothing, without reaping the enormous security and stability normally included, is utter madness.

 

[Yupster Dog]

Regulations that define what other people can do for the sole purpose of limiting them to what their neighbors want (supposedly) is patently unAmerican

I totally get that your neighbor is a tattle tailing little weasel but,
Didn't you agree to the terms of the HOA either at the closing of your house or in the rental agreement? Yes you did otherwise you wouldn't be there.
So I would like to know how they are unamerican when you are the one breaking the agreement?
Maybe you moved there for a reason such as, Better schools, closer to work, cheaper, still at home with parents whatever the reason you need to suck it up buttercup and remember the reason you are doing it for. Because the hatchet plan is not going to work out for you or the reason you are doing it for in the first place.

STRESS IS A KILLER

 

[Adieu]

I don't think we HAVE any places without zoning, city regs, and HOA bull in this county anymore though

 

[1955moose]

Sure you do. Buy a small island off the Atlantic, or Pacific coast. Then your in international waters, and do whatever you want. No HoA regulations out there!

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[Yupster Dog]

I don't think we HAVE any places without zoning, city regs, and HOA bull in this county anymore though

You might be right on that living in SoCal or big cities, but as far as the rest of the nation Plenty of room for us rednecks everywhere. Granted your daily commute might be a bit longer but totally worth it. And I am not talking about the 3 hour Daily commute like LA I'm talking 30 Minutes to 1 hour to get to your redneck heaven.


Bigger houses and more land for less and better taxes to. The only question is what are you waiting for?

 

[Trainmaster]

Yup, where in Virginia are you? My son's in Quantico and while he loved Lexington, he's fed up with Northern Virginia; says it's like New York. I got to find a place out of here.

 

[Yupster Dog]

Yup, where in Virginia are you? My son's in Quantico and while he loved Lexington, he's fed up with Northern Virginia; says it's like New York. I got to find a place out of here.

I am outside of Richmond. Your son is correct the I95 corridor as they call it (I95 between Richmond and D.C.) is a commuter's nightmare wouldn't wish it on anyone. The cost of living in northern Virginia is double what it is in surrounding areas. So all the government workers and aides that are low on the totem pole (nation capitol so a lot of them)must commute up to 2 hours away(one way) from D.C. just to survive. And if there is a accident (which they clear quickly) with people hurt or fatality add a couple more hours.
That being said heading south (no accidents) Quantico is where the traffic starts to let up.
Keep in mind all that is during rush hours. Not during rush hours you can breeze right thru, There is traffic but no slowdown.

So my suggestion is to head east or west of Quantico if you are looking to stay off the corridor. East takes you to the beaches and the Chesapeake bay (which I see you like as you live a beach) Colonial Beach, Northern Neck and plenty of quiet little towns or for a change of scenery head west for the mountains. Orange county, Culpeper (where Tim Smith makes his ****** moonshine) All these suggestions about a hour away from Quantico. Looking for closer I would suggest Fredericksburg (30 min) south of Quantico on I 95 but nowhere near as bad rush hour traffic.

Considering you like beaches there is also the eastern shore (that piece of land that makes Chesapeake bay) Very nice and isolated out there and you would have go around thru Maryland or down thru Virginia beach to get back to the mainland. (3 to 4 hours from Quantico)

 

[TobyU]

Regulations that define what other people can do for the sole purpose of limiting them to what their neighbors want (supposedly) is patently unAmerican

Hell, the whole idea of zoning is unAmerican

Screw that... if the social contract goes the way of the Soviet Union, we're at least owed the PERKS as well (free education, healthcare, pensions and benefits, absolute public order).

Authoritarian overregulation without the guaranteed benefits is bullsh!t. Selling your liberties to a nanny state for next to nothing, without reaping the enormous security and stability normally included, is utter madness.

This pretty much sums up my opinion on zoning laws. I heard Houston almost had no zoning laws but that was 10 years ago.

"the sole purpose of limiting to what their neighbors want" or the majority want. Just like democracy is tyranny by the majority.
The word AMERICA meant something to me. It included all the freedoms and liberties and individual and ownership rights to the hilt, but they have taken most all these away.
Who are they??? Complicated. The govt since it has been legally done, but its really some of the people.
What I have witnessed is some ONE person gets their ******* in a bunch over a neighbor doing something they down like....lets say pouring a nice cement pad to park a motorhome on next to side of house. They find out it is legal...so they go to a council member or get with other neighbors and get that mob mentality going since they only hear the one neighbors side of debate and all you have to do is get one council member to sponsor an ordinance. Then they have 2 public reading or hearings on it and then vote.
They can change a 50 year standing policy in as little as 45-60 days before most people even know about it.
There is no voting by the residents.
They can give public input...but most don't know about it until it's too late.
This is how they have zapped our rights away.
It all goes back to the snooty neighbor and the ones like them that don't think others should have control of their own property as long as they keep it on their side of the fence.
So I have a big problem with people like this or with these tendencies since I know where it leads and where the problems came from.

It is completely UN-American!
We no longer live in America...we are simply the United States...of what I am not sure.
If you think of something new to do or different or something that benefits you or makes life easier....there will usually come along an ordinance to prohibit it.
It is very sad really.
EXCEPT for the snooty, nosy, control freak neighbor type people who prefer it.

That's what HOAs and developments with CC&Rs were made for. So uptight birds of a feather could flock together. But basic city and country has gotten more restrictive and it should not have.
i love it when I see a 70s house in a nice upscale neighborhood with huge set of HAM radio beams above the roof. You know at least someone had to hate it but no rules to stop them.
They tried with even satellite tv like dish as first and the HOAs prohibited ANY antennae but due to the immense power of the commercial satellite TV companies that were growing rapidly, they got congress to pass laws to exempt them.....But the locals take more and more rights away every chance they get.

 

[TobyU]

Sure you do. Buy a small island off the Atlantic, or Pacific coast. Then your in international waters, and do whatever you want. No HoA regulations out there!

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I have been talking about my own island for decades...does that surprise anyone???

 

[1955moose]

No not really. Tiger Woods did it. At 5:00pm, you play Jimmy Buffets Margaritaville, raise your drink, fire off your cannon like Higgins used to do on Magnum Pi. Have to be a big island though, you'd want to cruise your vehicles.

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[Sgt Darkness]

Ever seat a tire bead using ether?

In case you haven't:

Have never tried ether but lighter fluid works as well. Wear safety glasses if at all possible and let the experts who have the right equipment work on split rims. Not many out there now days but they are out there.

 

[Sgt Darkness]

Ever seat a tire bead using ether?

In case you haven't:

Have never tried ether but lighter fluid works as well. Wear safety glasses if at all possible and let the experts who have the right equipment work on split rims. Not many out there now days but they are out there.

 

[Trainmaster]

How about J C Whitney's engine overhaul pellets? You put a pellet in each spark plug hole and dumped a can of the magic ring repair into the crankcase. "Recoats the pistons with new metal" !



https://www.thejunkmanadv.com/the-junk-mans-blog/mechanic-in-a-can

I miss the Whitney catalogue? Better than an Archy comic book.

 

[TobyU]

Is that like the old Bon Ami trick in the cylinder to scuff walls and seat rings.