COVID-19 | Effects on Skoolies - No Politics please.

[Oscar1]

Just jumpin through the hoops like a trained seal

[EastCoastCB]

Had to go to tractor supply in an emergency today. They give out free masks, which is cool. No one uses them, which is uncool.
Spent the whole afternoon tracking down a v-belt to get my mower home.

[Biscuitsjam]

There aren't closer truck scales than 2 hours away? Most truck stops, most recycling centers, and a few random gas stations or other businesses have them.

[Oscar1]

Originally Posted by Biscuitsjam

There aren't closer truck scales than 2 hours away? Most truck stops, most recycling centers, and a few random gas stations or other businesses have them.

Nope, Scales are in Vancouver or at the truck stop in Hope. I will head away from city congestion every chance I get. I asked at the local scrap dealer and they said no plus the Cat scale has three separate pads so I got front and rear axle weights as well.

[ol trunt]

Ocar1 ,you're sort of stuck. After adding a spare wheel, generator and refrigerator to my motorcycle tent trailer I went to a certified scale to double check the tongue and axle weights I'd calculated using a bathroom scale. When the combined weight came back at almost 200# over the 500# GVW limit on the trailer I was shocked. A few pounds I could see but not 200. I went to a second certified scale and their combined weight put the trailer 25# below the GVW. Curious now I went to the third local certified scale where their weights nearly mirrored the weights I measured with the bathroom scale. So now I'm sure my trailer is safe--I guess anyway. Fortunately I don't have to submit the weight slips to the motor vehicle dept. because they probably would have wanted the weight in kilograms.
Jack
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[JackE]

Originally Posted by ol trunt

Ocar1 ,you're sort of stuck. After adding a spare wheel, generator and refrigerator to my motorcycle tent trailer I went to a certified scale to double check the tongue and axle weights I'd calculated using a bathroom scale. When the combined weight came back at almost 200# over the 500# GVW limit on the trailer I was shocked. A few pounds I could see but not 200. I went to a second certified scale and their combined weight put the trailer 25# below the GVW. Curious now I went to the third local certified scale where their weights nearly mirrored the weights I measured with the bathroom scale. So now I'm sure my trailer is safe--I guess anyway. Fortunately I don't have to submit the weight slips to the motor vehicle dept. because they probably would have wanted the weight in kilograms.
Jack
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Nice Jack! Are all your vehicles older than you and just as cool as you are?

[ol trunt]

Ha! Made me laugh. Thanks JackE but cool cars come easy for me---it's the being cool that has always escaped me.
Jack

[Oscar1]

Nope Jack you got cool all figured out!
That's a very sweet looking set up you got there.

[JackE]

Originally Posted by ol trunt

Ha! Made me laugh. Thanks JackE but cool cars come easy for me---it's the being cool that has always escaped me.
Jack

When you drive Vintage equipment like you do that you restored, you are cool by default! Not many have the skill set to make that happen.

[Oscar1]

Race to the DMV part two!
So last night after work I break speed records to get to the DMV office before closing, the agent I'm dealing with had agreed on Friday to wait for me on Mondayif I was coming with the newly requested scales ticket. After an hour long blast up the highway I arrive to discover he has gone home at lunch time with a headache. The nice young lady offers to try and assist me but no way am I explaining all this again so I leave all disappointed again. Today at end of shift I call to see if he's in and it's a miracle, he's alive and kicking so off I go for death race part two. He is now processing my commercial vehicle import in to Canada, transfer of ownership, registration from commercial bus to Motorhome and issuing insurance and license plates. Wow what a process! As I write this I am at home on the couch with a short one on the rocks celebrating this little victory.

[joeblack5]

Congrats. Nice to have paperwork behind you.

[ol trunt]

Sounds like a major victory to me! Having shuffled more paper on your account than in the last week I'll bet the poor beleaguered DMV clerk is still laying on his couch clutching his TALL one wondering "why me?"
Jack

[brinn_iseri]

Hi! I’m a student in Phoenix and i’m looking for a place where i can store my bus for about 8 months while i work on it. I can pay around $150 a month and would need access to power. If anyone can help out it would be greatly appreciated.

[Doktari]

The thread is drifting off topic again. I’m on Orcas Island and see groups of people all over the place: 10 teenagers playing basketball; 8 people at a picnic table; crowding in the stone tower on Mt Constitution; chatting in the parking lot. So much for social distancing. I’m feeling grumpy and want to socialize too.

[EastCoastCB]

FL still is manipulating the data so much its not much worth reporting. Folks here haven't given up on distancing, though- they never really started it!

[cadillackid]

Originally Posted by Doktari

The thread is drifting off topic again. I’m on Orcas Island and see groups of people all over the place: 10 teenagers playing basketball; 8 people at a picnic table; crowding in the stone tower on Mt Constitution; chatting in the parking lot. So much for social distancing. I’m feeling grumpy and want to socialize too.

then socialize! lots of people socialize safely with other known people who are playing it safe on a reasonable level..



you can live in a box and miss out on lots of life and stil get the virus. or you can play it reasonable.. knowing which people are also playing it reasonable and which are not. (washing hands, wearing masks, not going to big crowds, etc).. ive hung out with people all summer on a very small level.. one or a few at a time. and not just anyone.. yeah I could still get sick. but someone could also sneezew on my amazon box too..


im not even worried about numbers anymore.. whether they are fake or real makes no big difference anymore.. each and every one of us knows what we have to do to be in a reasonably safe position. no place is perfect and some places we know are terrible.



there are many treatments and vaccines in development, science is learning every day.. we can all continue to enlighten ourselves by reading science and reports and real studies , and living accordingly

[Texan]

I have a theory that with all of the online schooling going on that school districts will be downsizing their bus fleets. Are any of the newer buses worth buying if the market gets flooded with used school buses?

My whole family had the covid and got off of quarantine about 3 weeks ago. We're all immune now, but still have to wear the mask in most places. I'm done with this hysteria. I've worked 55 hours/week since March all over Texas and surrounding states and my kid brought it home to us. He got it from the neighbor he was working with. We succeeded in not spreading it to anybody and now we can visit our elderly parents without worrying about getting them sick for a while. It was nice to actually hug my Mom. I missed her. We can now do fun things again. Yesterday, we went to a gun show and then celebrated my MIL's 89th birthday.

[EastCoastCB]

You're immune for a couple 2-3 months. You can get it again, the antibodies go away pretty quickly.

[Texan]

Yep, but I should be good until Thanksgiving, and the immunity could last longer because of T cells. But the CDC isn't sure just yet.

[EastCoastCB]

Originally Posted by Texan

Yep, but I should be good until Thanksgiving, and the immunity could last longer because of T cells. But the CDC isn't sure just yet.

Yep!
Congrats on beating it, and glad to know your family are ok!