The Gustavus Thread

[JPete]

Gus, glad to hear you are enjoying the sow and cub. Please post some pictures when you get a chance.
Here is NJ's take on bear:
NJDEP Division of Fish & Wildlife - Know the Bear Facts-Black Bears in NJ

[Filthy]

what exactly is a "whack" of tires?

[gustavus]

what exactly is a "whack" of tires?

Term most usually used to describe an abundance of something.

[Mechanic688]

Term most usually used to describe an abundance of something.

Thought that was a herd, or a covey, or a cluster.

[Filthy]

Thought that was a herd, or a covey, or a cluster.

No, that's a gaggle, a clowder or a boatload

[gustavus]

Earlier on I mentioned these large ammonia tanks that no longer meet the pressure requirments, decided to bring one home to make a vault for my veggie oil. With a 1/2" shell 3/8" caps i should keep the bears outa my grease.

With 1/2" shell 3/8" end caps this tank is heavy, my guestimate is they weigh 6500 maybe 7,000 lbs.

[freonjoe]

That will hold a lot of oil! Hope you get some pictures of the bears trying to get into that.

[gustavus]

That will hold a lot of oil! Hope you get some pictures of the bears trying to get into that.

Best shot I could get.

[Bear]

my guestimate is they weigh 6500 maybe 7,000 lbs.

If she carries that off, don't try to stop her ; )

[Dunemaul]

Yeah i would say if they all work together to pull it away. Put a automatic feeder on your scrap cars rigged to a gps every time they drag it closer to Jacks more grease comes out LOL.

[JPete]

Best shot I could get.

In the fall you will see lots of acorns in it too. I guess you can say I know my sh1t!

[gustavus]

Thanks to the Internet I saved $2000.00 on that HP Z3200PS printer which has arrived in Winnipeg for pick up Monday , went into town for a sack pf beer noticed the coffee shop was still open and wandered over for a brew. Got my first print job, a place to sell my prints from plus a scrap truck.. Not a bad way to finnish up the day.

[freonjoe]

Gus, check your links, it goes to the gold refining forum.

[Scrapcrazy]

Anyone with a 12 page thread named specifically after them really says a lot. I'm just a FNG but would like to say welcome back and can't wait to read more of your posts. Its quite obvious many look up to you. I mean who wouldn't look up to a guy who uses old ammonia tanks to store old cooking grease. You must fry alot of Turkey on Thanksgiving.

[Dunemaul]

Anyone else realize Gus has been MIA for a bit. I think the bears might have gotten mad at him.

[arnofarrell]

Anyone else realize Gus has been MIA for a bit. I think the bears might have gotten mad at him.

I did notice that. I have been reading this post off and on for the last few days ( since I am still exploring the site.). Gus you are a great man from what I have read. Also he might be gone because he said his internet was going out at the end of July. Maybe the stupid internet company decided to cut it off early. I hope he is ok.

[BarrenRealms007]

Gus is fine I have talked to him. He is probably wrapped up in playing with his new toy's,like a kid in a candy store.

[gustavus]

Gus is fine I have talked to him. He is probably wrapped up in playing with his new toy's,like a kid in a candy store.

Right you are Barren, I'm busy taking pictures for a post card series which I'm putting together for next year.

Also been busy cementing out my platinum group metals from my leach, now that most of the black powder is out I've been washing out the excess zinc. I'm planing to have a few ounces made into potassium choroplatinite for which I have hired a chemist. The potassium chloroplatinite is for making contact platinum prints.

Purchased a pair of HP Workstations, which will each get 32 gigs of ECC Ram, Ultra SCUSI hard drives then to finish them off a mediocre 1 gig video card.

Now that we have the boring stuff out of the way, here's a shot of the bear.

[BarrenRealms007]

Hey she is cute. Have you got her trained to cook for you yet?

[JPete]

Nice shot Gus! The mating season is winding down (end of August). Were there any others sniffing around?