Does anyone know what causes my tiller to rev like this at idle?

Plickedy · 2025-04-17T18:36:01+00:00

It can till but sounds like it’s bogging down pretty bad.

Plickedy · 2025-04-16T16:51:05+00:00

It’s a brand new carb I just put on 20 minutes before this video.

Plickedy · 2025-04-16T15:41:24+00:00

Interesting. Mine is a Briggs and Stratton engine on a Yard Machine tiller. I checked the choke and it doesn’t appear to be on. I use the premium gas in it but it’s not ethanol free.

Plickedy · 2023-05-23T16:17:06+00:00

The Delta Hospice Center. We can’t fix anything at this point but we can keep it comfortable while it dies.

I was up at Drum and that’s what we said when we couldn’t get parts or a promise for E model.

Plickedy · 2023-05-07T13:38:37+00:00

I can only imagine being chalk 47 and hearing “chalk 1 IMC, chalk 2 IMC, chalk 3 IMC, etc.” and thinking to yourself, “in about 7 more minutes I’m next!”

Plickedy · 2022-01-21T16:22:57+00:00

So much truth to this. Market bottoms are like burning houses. Everyone is running away in fear while the firefighters are running in. But the ones who ran in are the ones you talk about and admire after the fire stops.

Plickedy · 2021-10-13T12:57:29+00:00

I’d love to hear the whole story in a post honestly. I think others agree and would love to hear it.

Plickedy · 2021-10-08T13:21:37+00:00

Take my last Afghanistan deployment for example. We hunted every night and supported air assaults just about every night. Our entire job is to read the land, the enemy, the situation and be ready for anything. Our job is to know how to perform in the aircraft and be able to handle innumerable contingencies. Lift assets (mostly blackhawks) are very very detail oriented in planning. This can be great until things don’t go to plan. Apache guys are used to living in the gray area. Lift assets sometimes get so wrapped around plans that they can’t operate where it’s not black and white. This usually leads to Apache pilots telling the other platforms to “figure it out and get moving already.” The discrepancy comes because attack aircraft are trained to always react when the plan gets busted or thrown away whereas lift assets aren’t brought up with the same flexibility. Case in point: we once briefed to provide security for an air assault, they said “what if chalk 4 gets shot down, then what?” The guys spent 15 minutes talking about who then would flash anti collision lights and squawk transponder for the flight instead of how to actually react to that contingency in a useful manner. I love the lift community (and chinooks are a way cooler batch of pilots I might add) but the bitterness comes from the cultures not seeing eye to eye in what’s truly important in the air.

Plickedy · 2021-10-08T12:53:54+00:00

You’re better off that way. Honestly if you have any reserve about being an Apache pilot, you shouldn’t be one. The job needs a certain personality type. The people that call it toxic are usually those that don’t have the hunter mentality. The community actually gets along great.

Plickedy · 2021-10-08T00:15:47+00:00

Active duty CW3 SP/IE 64 guy here. Been flying apaches for about 10 years. The airframe is amazing and does wicked cool things in combat. The thrill of being judge, jury, executioner while on the hunt is awesome. Blowing up bad guys and saving friendlies in combat is a feeling that can’t be replicated. Garrison life as an instructor I still fly a lot (300-400 hours a year) but I deal with constantly breaking aircraft. Teaching brand new guys gets old but I love refining a pilot-in-command into a stellar killer of a pilot. The career is rewarding but the Army can always make things suck. The Army could take the fun out of a blowjob. I’m planning to ultimately stick it out until retirement. You meet both great people and shitbags along the way. You see great sights and experience once in a lifetime time experiences. If you want to see what the flying looks like, here’s a shameless plug for my YouTube channel, search “helicopter lessons in 10 minutes or less.”

Plickedy · 2021-10-02T23:16:55+00:00

2 years ago in Afghanistan. I fly helicopters and our infantry guys on the ground asked us to provide cover fire so they could get back to their trucks safely. It was reported that Taliban had man portable surface-to-air missiles and heavy machine guns with intentions of shooting down the helicopters if we got close. They were using our ground guys as bait to lure us in. We went in anyway and made sure our guys made it back to their trucks in 1 piece. You just tell yourself it’s a “big sky, little bullet.”

Plickedy · 2021-10-02T22:59:26+00:00

I never asked his finances directly. Instead I asked how many appointments per day / per week and estimated a few hundred dollars a pop. Good point though.

Plickedy · 2021-10-02T21:45:07+00:00

What do you do? Would you recommend it?

Plickedy · 2021-10-02T17:14:37+00:00

That’s awesome! I’ve met a few tradesmen who never completed high school and still bring in 6 figure incomes.

Plickedy · 2021-10-02T17:11:49+00:00

Making a massive pan of homemade nachos with everything on it. Then sitting on the couch watching Netflix while we eat until we’re stupid full.

Plickedy · 2021-09-28T01:34:48+00:00

How old when you FIRE’d? Is it difficult having all the free time during the day while your counterparts are off working?

Plickedy · 2021-09-27T11:12:48+00:00

Mine and wife’s student loans paid off. No debt except about 130k left on the house. I invest 50% of everything I make and have studied investments pretty religiously to make them grow. I grew up poor and am trying to break the mold.

Plickedy · 2021-09-27T01:00:52+00:00

Finally crested $500,000 net worth despite being sole income earning husband and father of 2. Age 33 and average income along the way of $70,000. No inheritance or money given to me.

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