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Since we talk about everything here now. I love trucks. They're the middle linebacker of vehicles. They can do whatever you need. Any truck guys here? :lol:
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A minivan is like a Shea McClellin.
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I don't really feel the need to compensate for anything by driving a vehicle I don't have a practical use for.
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So my 3rd child is due June 9th. Naturally, I need a bigger vehicle chauffeur the kiddies around.
I refuse to purchase a van.
Any recommendations on a 3rd row SUV that has captain seats for easy accessibility? Looking to spend 30-35K on used SUV with under 50K miles.
Ready. Set. Go!
I refuse to purchase a van.
Any recommendations on a 3rd row SUV that has captain seats for easy accessibility? Looking to spend 30-35K on used SUV with under 50K miles.
Ready. Set. Go!
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Do you drive Ford, Chevy or Dodge?
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I want to buy a minivan.
2 kids and a big dog, I hate playing Jenga every time we go to the cottage.
2 kids and a big dog, I hate playing Jenga every time we go to the cottage.
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Congrats.
My 2nd is 4 months, she is such a handful I am getting the big V at the end of the month, at 0 cost to me. (Urblock, now it is trucks and health care).
3 kids: you either love kids, hate yourself, or don't know when to pull out.
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How about a Chevy Tahoe?
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Minivan until the kids are out of the carseat, then SUV.
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I hate car seats. What a pain in the ass and they take up so much space.
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Still bitter, huh?
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I want one of these 80s Libyan terrorist vans like in Back to the Future.
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What, you just sit on the floor?
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3 kids in boosters. F150 supercrew and a minivan. Cruising around town-minivan. Long trips with luggage - F150.
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This made my lol. My wife originally wanted 3 kids. Then we moved into a house and our neighbor has 3 kids. After witnessing the daily struggles that mom goes through, we are no longer having 3 kids.
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I have 4 and all 3 of those things likely apply to me.....
plus I just thought the world needed 4 more Cutler haters. I like to think we forced him into early retirement.
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The first motor truck was built in 1896 by German automotive pioneer Gottlieb Daimler. Daimler's truck had a four horsepower engine and a belt drive with two forward speeds and one reverse. It was the first pickup truck. Daimler also produced the world's first motorcycle in 1885 and the first taxi in 1897.
THE FIRST TOW TRUCK
The towing industry was born in 1916 in Chattanooga, Tennessee when Ernest Holmes, Sr helped a friend retrieve his car with three poles, a pulley, and a chain hooked to the frame of a 1913 Cadillac.
After patenting his invention, Holmes began manufacturing wreckers and towing equipment for sale to automotive garages and to anyone else who might be interested in retrieving and towing wrecked or disabled autos. His first manufacturing facility was a small shop on Market Street.
Holmes’ business grew as the auto industry expanded and eventually its products earned a worldwide reputation for their quality and performance. Ernest Holmes, Sr. died in 1943 and was succeeded by his son, Ernest Holmes, Jr., who ran the company until he retired in 1973. The company was then sold to the Dover Corporation. The founder’s grandson, Gerald Holmes, left the company and started a new one of his own, Century Wreckers. He built his manufacturing facility in nearby Ooltewah, Tennessee and quickly rivaled the original company with his hydraulically-powered wreckers.
Miller Industries eventually bought the assets of both companies, as well as other wrecker manufacturers.
Miller has retained the Century facility in Ooltewah where both Century and Holmes wreckers are presently manufactured. Miller also makes Challenger wreckers. (Extracted in part from the press release INTERNATIONAL TOWING AND RECOVERY HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM, INC.)
FORKLIFT TRUCKS
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers defines an industrial truck as a "mobile, power-propelled truck used to carry, push, pull, lift, stack or tier materials." Powered industrial trucks are also commonly known as forklifts, pallet trucks, rider trucks, fork trucks and lift trucks.
The first forklift was invented in 1906 and it hasn’t changed much since that time. Before its invention, a system of chains and wenches was used to lift heavy materials.
MACK TRUCKS
Mack Trucks, Inc. was founded in 1900 in Brooklyn, New York by Jack and Gus Mack. It was originally known as the Mack Brothers Company. The British government purchased and employed the Mack AC model to transport food and equipment to its troops during World War I, earning it the nickname “Bulldog Mack.” The bulldog remains the company’s logo to this day.
SEMI TRUCKS
The first semi-truck was invented in 1898 by Alexander Winton in Cleveland, Ohio. Winton was initially a carmaker. He needed a way to transport his vehicles to buyers around the country and the semi was born – a massive truck on 18 wheels using three axles and able to carry significant, weighty cargo. The front axle steers the semi while the rear axle and its double wheels propel it forward.
THE FIRST TOW TRUCK
The towing industry was born in 1916 in Chattanooga, Tennessee when Ernest Holmes, Sr helped a friend retrieve his car with three poles, a pulley, and a chain hooked to the frame of a 1913 Cadillac.
After patenting his invention, Holmes began manufacturing wreckers and towing equipment for sale to automotive garages and to anyone else who might be interested in retrieving and towing wrecked or disabled autos. His first manufacturing facility was a small shop on Market Street.
Holmes’ business grew as the auto industry expanded and eventually its products earned a worldwide reputation for their quality and performance. Ernest Holmes, Sr. died in 1943 and was succeeded by his son, Ernest Holmes, Jr., who ran the company until he retired in 1973. The company was then sold to the Dover Corporation. The founder’s grandson, Gerald Holmes, left the company and started a new one of his own, Century Wreckers. He built his manufacturing facility in nearby Ooltewah, Tennessee and quickly rivaled the original company with his hydraulically-powered wreckers.
Miller Industries eventually bought the assets of both companies, as well as other wrecker manufacturers.
Miller has retained the Century facility in Ooltewah where both Century and Holmes wreckers are presently manufactured. Miller also makes Challenger wreckers. (Extracted in part from the press release INTERNATIONAL TOWING AND RECOVERY HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM, INC.)
FORKLIFT TRUCKS
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers defines an industrial truck as a "mobile, power-propelled truck used to carry, push, pull, lift, stack or tier materials." Powered industrial trucks are also commonly known as forklifts, pallet trucks, rider trucks, fork trucks and lift trucks.
The first forklift was invented in 1906 and it hasn’t changed much since that time. Before its invention, a system of chains and wenches was used to lift heavy materials.
MACK TRUCKS
Mack Trucks, Inc. was founded in 1900 in Brooklyn, New York by Jack and Gus Mack. It was originally known as the Mack Brothers Company. The British government purchased and employed the Mack AC model to transport food and equipment to its troops during World War I, earning it the nickname “Bulldog Mack.” The bulldog remains the company’s logo to this day.
SEMI TRUCKS
The first semi-truck was invented in 1898 by Alexander Winton in Cleveland, Ohio. Winton was initially a carmaker. He needed a way to transport his vehicles to buyers around the country and the semi was born – a massive truck on 18 wheels using three axles and able to carry significant, weighty cargo. The front axle steers the semi while the rear axle and its double wheels propel it forward.
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Don't let this distract you from the fact that 1978's Convoy starring Kris Kristofferson ended up being Sam Peckinpah's highest grossing movie of all time, notching $45 million at the box office.
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THE CASSINI SPACE probe is going to dive through Saturn’s rings again on Wednesday, the third of a planned 22 orbits threading that planetary needle as the probe continues a ballistic death-drop inward. And like the first ring-crossing two weeks ago, this one required a bit of complicated piloting. Remote-controlling a robot spaceship from 750 million miles away ain’t like dusting crops, as Han Solo might say. (RIP.) (Spoilers.)
Cassini’s first dramatic pass through the rings of Saturn on April 26 involved some acrobatics. Step one: Get a gravity boost from the moon Titan. In fact, that’s how Cassini has been moving around the system since its arrival in 2004—rather than burn precious propellant, the craft tucks into Titan’s orbit and then slingshots back out again. This most recent boost was a delicate one, just 609 miles above Titan’s surface and not even ten miles above the moon’s wan atmosphere. Space, as we keep telling you, is hard.
“Any gravity assist that we do is never going to be perfect, because we can’t model everything perfectly,” says Sonia Hernandez, a mission design engineer for Cassini at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “Two days after the last Titan flyby we did, we performed a maneuver to put Cassini on its trajectory again. It was very tiny.”
How tiny? First, the spacecraft team put Cassini’s three reaction wheels to work. They’re spinning discs that, when their rotation slows, cause the entire spacecraft to move around the flywheel’s axis. They’re a way to change the probe’s orientation without burning fuel. That’s how the spacecraft team points the Reaction Control System thrusters—smaller than the main engine and powered by hydrazine—in the right direction.
Then Hernandez’s navigation team sent the signal to fire the RCS thrusters for just 177 seconds, at 155 millimeters per second. In other words, the burn moved the craft in a different direction by about 80 feet.
Here’s a complicated bit: Even though that first maneuver, carefully calculated weeks in advance, happened before the first ring crossing, the team did it to correct the orbit on the third crossing—the one happening Wednesday. That’s how these loop-the-loops work: Small problems turn into big ones unless you deal with them early.
And on Wednesday they’re going to do it again—to make sure dive number 13 is perfect. “We’re going so close to the atmosphere and the rings, there’s all these perturbations,” Hernandez says. So this one will be even more delicate.
Cassini’s high-gain antenna starts out pointed directly at Earth—good for receiving all these commands. Using the reaction wheels again, they’ll make two careful turns over the course of about 45 minutes. It can take upwards of an hour and a half for commands to reach Cassini, depending on where it is in orbit, so these sequences are all pre-set. By the end, the antenna will be turned about 120 degrees away from Earth.
Then, says Joan Stupik, of Cassini’s guidance and control team, they’ll fire the RCS thrusters again. This time it’s just 22 mm per second for 24 seconds. It’s precision flying to make sure the science team gets the exact data it wants—pretty pictures, sure, but also new information about the size of the particles in the rings, what they’re made of, and where that material comes from. (The geyser-y moon Enceladus is a contributor.)
Cassini’ll keep circling Saturn until September 15—NASA’s “Grand Finale”—when the little probe will dive into the planet. “On the last route that we do around Saturn, we actually encounter Titan one last time,” says Hernandez. “It’ll give us a tiny push, a goodbye kiss, and that’s going give us our final push into the atmosphere.” Cassini will collect data all the way down, of course.
[video=youtube;9LBLCgCYy0I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LBLCgCYy0I[/video]
Cassini’s first dramatic pass through the rings of Saturn on April 26 involved some acrobatics. Step one: Get a gravity boost from the moon Titan. In fact, that’s how Cassini has been moving around the system since its arrival in 2004—rather than burn precious propellant, the craft tucks into Titan’s orbit and then slingshots back out again. This most recent boost was a delicate one, just 609 miles above Titan’s surface and not even ten miles above the moon’s wan atmosphere. Space, as we keep telling you, is hard.
“Any gravity assist that we do is never going to be perfect, because we can’t model everything perfectly,” says Sonia Hernandez, a mission design engineer for Cassini at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “Two days after the last Titan flyby we did, we performed a maneuver to put Cassini on its trajectory again. It was very tiny.”
How tiny? First, the spacecraft team put Cassini’s three reaction wheels to work. They’re spinning discs that, when their rotation slows, cause the entire spacecraft to move around the flywheel’s axis. They’re a way to change the probe’s orientation without burning fuel. That’s how the spacecraft team points the Reaction Control System thrusters—smaller than the main engine and powered by hydrazine—in the right direction.
Then Hernandez’s navigation team sent the signal to fire the RCS thrusters for just 177 seconds, at 155 millimeters per second. In other words, the burn moved the craft in a different direction by about 80 feet.
Here’s a complicated bit: Even though that first maneuver, carefully calculated weeks in advance, happened before the first ring crossing, the team did it to correct the orbit on the third crossing—the one happening Wednesday. That’s how these loop-the-loops work: Small problems turn into big ones unless you deal with them early.
And on Wednesday they’re going to do it again—to make sure dive number 13 is perfect. “We’re going so close to the atmosphere and the rings, there’s all these perturbations,” Hernandez says. So this one will be even more delicate.
Cassini’s high-gain antenna starts out pointed directly at Earth—good for receiving all these commands. Using the reaction wheels again, they’ll make two careful turns over the course of about 45 minutes. It can take upwards of an hour and a half for commands to reach Cassini, depending on where it is in orbit, so these sequences are all pre-set. By the end, the antenna will be turned about 120 degrees away from Earth.
Then, says Joan Stupik, of Cassini’s guidance and control team, they’ll fire the RCS thrusters again. This time it’s just 22 mm per second for 24 seconds. It’s precision flying to make sure the science team gets the exact data it wants—pretty pictures, sure, but also new information about the size of the particles in the rings, what they’re made of, and where that material comes from. (The geyser-y moon Enceladus is a contributor.)
Cassini’ll keep circling Saturn until September 15—NASA’s “Grand Finale”—when the little probe will dive into the planet. “On the last route that we do around Saturn, we actually encounter Titan one last time,” says Hernandez. “It’ll give us a tiny push, a goodbye kiss, and that’s going give us our final push into the atmosphere.” Cassini will collect data all the way down, of course.
[video=youtube;9LBLCgCYy0I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LBLCgCYy0I[/video]
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I own a new Dodge pick-up, a 1974 Toyota Landcruiser, and a 1977 Ford Bronco.
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