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For humour . As our family's first camping trip we went up to Skaha Lake at Penticton . I guess I might have been 7 or 8 at the time. At the end of the lake under the RR bridge there was a nice sandy beach. As a kid I made a sand castle only to have some big kid stomp it. So I got some nice pointy RR ballast. CPR still ran the Kettle Valley line in those days. The sand didn't stick to the rock at all, but the kid I was playing with suggested wet sand. I worked like a charm. We left the area to watch. Of course we couldn't laugh out loud.
 
slow-poke said:
What you need is a 100 year old oak tree. Works every time.
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They don't have those out west. Even in BC, they have whimpy trees with whimpy branches....

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DavidR8 said:
Yup, wimpy trees with wimpy branches.
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Well, to be fair, that is only the far west coast. But even so, that tall scrawny looking thing is useless to lift things. The branches are too high up in the air and you can't get a trailer under it unless you make a tunnel in the tree. (which I have seen).

(hiding behind couch again!)
 
Downwindtracker2 said:
Even two foot interior spruce make for a solid stop, let alone fir. Because light doesn't reach down under the canopy, the lower branches die off.
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Downwindtracker2 said:
Even two foot interior spruce make for a solid stop, let alone fir. Because light doesn't reach down under the canopy, the lower branches die off.
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This wasn't for a stop, it was to mount a chain fall on a living crane.
 
Gearhead88 said:
You can't see the passenger side but it has lots of damage , all the lights on that side are gone ,there is plastic , glass and other debris still on the ground out back , lots of it .
The fender was pushed into the tire , he tried backing up and made an attempt to leave , once the cops and fire crew arrived he assumed he was free to go at one point and tried again .




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So in Calgary you can drive a vehicle without a bumper? Don’t you have some kind of quasi-annual safety inspection?
 
Go to Enterprise with the police report, photos, and license plate info. Point out the driver claims he wasn’t the one who rented the truck. Unless the renter listed the driver on the rental agreement, the insurance is void and Enterprise might be willing to give you the drivers name.
 
Enterprise is not going to release personal information like this to the victim. That's a breach of privacy legislation.
 
ChazzC said:
So in Calgary you can drive a vehicle without a bumper? Don’t you have some kind of quasi-annual safety inspection?
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Don't know about Alberta but in Saskatchewan the only time you need a safety inspection that I am aware of is if the vehicle was a total write off or was previously plated in another province or country. When I worked as an automotive mechanic, the shop would do safety inspections on months old vehicles that came from Alberta, while the oil change guy drove around in a rust old pick up he pulled out of a slough that hadn't run in years before he got it running. The last time the pickup was plated was in Sask, so it was good to go, no safety required. The brakes were not in good shape by the way.
 
I always thought it was spelt slew, but anyways in Manitoba I always knew a slew/slough to be a stagnant pond or swap....lots of both in Manitoba, especially northern

Hard to find any kind of water out here in Alberta, slough or otherwise
 
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