not so pros

[Stihl working Hard]

Yes, but you already had to do today. I still have that in front of me...

Rest assured Gary you’ll be ok

 

[Stihl working Hard]

Good morning guy's

Good morning Dave

 

[leadfarmer]

Mornin trouble makers

 

[Stihl working Hard]

Mornin trouble makers

Good morning Rodney speak for yourself

 

[leadfarmer]

Good morning Rodney speak for yourself

Simma down over there already....
Evening Todd

 

[moomer1848]

Good morning all,20/42* and mostly cloudy is the guess

 

[AlfA01]

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Where's the Christmas balls and lights?

I just have tomorrow then almost a week off

I think I've convinced myself I'm not doing anything for a week or so either, Todd. I like the sound of that.

Well, I've got a bunch of stuff to do around the house, and in the garden.

 

[USMC615]

Morning skeeter eaters...54 heading to 60 and raining like a mofo. Gonna rain all day and night, well into tomorrow.

 

[AlfA01]

Mornin' Mix Oil Marinaters! Another day of sketchy weather, but the guessers are saying pretty nice for the weekend.

Ole Davis Timber from West Virginia popped up again and wants a 572. Dude ducked on the last deal so I sold his saw to someone in Japan.

That chuckle head is gonna have to pay up front if wants me to get him a saw.

Ya'll have a good one.

 

[nickw]

Mornin trouble makers

I only wish I could make trouble. All I can do is talk *s-word!

 

[ray benson]

Good Morning. 41°F/ 5°C going up to 48°F/ 9°C

 

[leadfarmer]

I only wish I could make trouble. All I can do is talk *s-word!

Well you do a fine job ...

 

[Dub11]

Morning All / Evening Todd.

Sure glad we only got a sprinkle of snow, this way all the ice on the roads will be fully visible to people as they slide off the roads this morning...

I'd call in late.

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Todd your tree looks like a pot plant......

I just have tomorrow then almost a week off

gfy

Mornin' Mix Oil Marinaters! Another day of sketchy weather, but the guessers are saying pretty nice for the weekend.

Ole Davis Timber from West Virginia popped up again and wants a 572. Dude ducked on the last deal so I sold his saw to someone in Japan.

That chuckle head is gonna have to pay up front if wants me to get him a saw.

Ya'll have a good one.

I sw him again too lol.

 

[Stump Shot]

Good morning knuckle heads.

 

[usmcbuckwild]

An Engineer Calculates Santa's Trip

1) No known species of reindeer can fly. But it is estimated that there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer, which only Santa has ever seen.

2) There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. But since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total 378 million according to the Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.

3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house.

Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding, etc. This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.

4) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull ten times the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.

5) 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy, per second,.each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity.

A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.

In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.

 

[GCJenks204]

I'd call in late.

I don’t really call in anything. Pretty much come and go as needed.

Only 2 days left in the calendar year for me, trying to close a deal worth 1/3 of next year. Won’t allow me to coast next year but will be nice to get confirmation of much hard work on the last 18 months.

 

[Sty57]

An Engineer Calculates Santa's Trip

1) No known species of reindeer can fly. But it is estimated that there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer, which only Santa has ever seen.

2) There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. But since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total 378 million according to the Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.

3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house.

Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding, etc. This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.

4) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull ten times the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.

5) 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy, per second,.each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity.

A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.

In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.

It obvious that this guy does not believe in magic.

 

[p61 western]

Good morning fellas .

 

[AlfA01]

It obvious that this guy does not believe in magic.

Or pixie dust...geez.

 

[GCJenks204]

It obvious that this guy does not believe in magic.

He is an Engineer...