Funny how all those still decent gas engines all of a sudden are JUSSSSTTT too weak to do the job any more, when a nice little engine like this comes along.

Wife: Honey, I thing the string trimmer needs new string.
US guys: I think the engine won't turn the new spool of string if I refill it honey! But I can boost the trimmer with a nice little diesel that will help you do ALL the trimming that you like to do so that the property looks better than anyone's around for a hundred miles, babycakes! Let's go out for dinner tonight!

ANY excuse to justify buying something like this that is too good to pass up! 

I also thought it might be a question about how well a tarp might protect something outside.

Sorry that whatever this is makes you feel that way Steve.

Gee...you mean I'm not the only one suffering with dial-up? Yay!!  It's a sort of mental torture to enjoy the internet sooo much, yet be stuck with 3k/s download speed. Youtube and the like are out. Web pages are becoming annoying to visit, because they are getting bigger.

We (my province) are promised to have high speed available by the end of 2009. I used to have high speed at my old house 6 years ago. It was great. The high speed offered is with a small dish and relay towers.

So close, yet so far.

Sorry for the rambling.

My power hardly ever goes out here. The very few times it does, by the time I drag my 7kw genset over to the house, and hook it up, get it running, it runs for about 5 minutes, then the power comes back on lol.
Unless, of course, I have it apart for some reason and it doesn't run, THEN the power goes out for hours!

Glad a) your generator worked well for you, and b) no one was injured.

Doesn't make much sense does it.

Here in Nova Scotia we were promised cheap natural gas if they were to pipe it from off Sable Island, and sell it to the US.
Turns out it was going to cost too much to provide it to most of us (as promised), so they didn't do it.
I use wood for heat, and even that is getting hard to find around here, as most of it is being chipped and sent overseas. I will burn old tires in my furnace before I take the wood furnace out and put in an oil furnace (or propane or electric, etc), I will not be forced to heat my home with a method I cannot afford.

See? Things are just as screwed at this end of the country, Stan. 

It seems the bad-roads thing is universal. The roads around here on the east coast of Canada are not so good either. Trans-Canada is decent, but many secondary highways aren't nice at all. Sometimes the dirt roads are nicer to drive on, especially after a fresh surface re-grading.

 I can't understand why they re-surface the Trans-Canada highway every few years when it's ok, yet leave the beat-up secondary roads to continue to fall apart, as they haven't been re-surfaced in decades. Typical government.


BTW, I noticed this morning that a enthusiastic Rotweiller/Doberman mix dog cannot run as fast as a scared fox. The neibour's dog chased a fox (that is living under a tree on my property), and the dog didn't have a chance. I thought it was kind of funny.

I'm guessing my 1911 Winchester pump action 22 will probably get me in way more trouble with a bear than if I tried the screaming school-girl routine. Maybe if I used the Winchester as a BAT I might be better off....