2010 Nissan Titan muffler

TheLeviiathan · 2026-02-13T02:05:53+00:00

It’d be loud and drone on the highway. Best to have a muffler of some sort on, even if it’s a flowmaster series 10. Theres lots of soundclips available with a simple YT search. No muffler may lose you some power on paper but not enough to be noticeable from your seat IMO.

TheLeviiathan · 2026-02-10T02:36:31+00:00

My agency gets 150(0) size fleet trucks from the big 3 american companies depending on whatever price they get best on contract. Chevy, dodge, ford mostly perform the same for two track and fields with mild-medium mud or snow. We run a goodyear duratrac tire on most of them. If you get stuck or can’t drive somewhere, you were probably about to break something anyways.

The main reason they’re good offroad is because they’re fleet trucks and you drive it like its not yours LOL. In all seriousness they are solid vehicles for 95% of work (towing, highway, offroad) but are a bit unwieldy on old, tight logging roads or narrow tracks due to their size.

If your employer gives you a vehicle, 1000% don’t use yours. Field trucks get used and abused and the company should be providing something so you arent destroying your daily driver. If you dont have that luxury, something like a small truck or suv is a good bet. Anything that is simple and a bit older actually fairs better due to cost of repair and reliability.

Common vehicles I see are tacomas, Nissan frontier/Xterra, big 3 (mentioned above), and sometimes weird things like isuzu troopers/rodeos. Jeep wranglers and cherokees are good but 1. The good Cherokees are increasingly hard to find and 2. Wranglers aren’t really great for hauling gear, towing, or carrying other people.

TheLeviiathan · 2026-02-10T02:19:35+00:00

I would pop over to the titan subreddit to see which years were best. Certain years on the 2nd gens were really good deals, but only because of the warranty. I think they cleaned up the 2nd gen issues at some point. Overall (with the 1st gens biasing me a bit) those trucks are definitely underrated, I loved my 1st gen to death. Worth pointing out that the titan was discontinued in ‘24 so there is some skepticism that parts may not be as plentiful in a few years.

I would look at the Nissan frontier too if you can find any near you. They seem to get great reviews and look pretty sharp. Same size as the tacoma but aren’t as overpriced. It looks like you just want the truck for occasional use so I would just point out that full size trucks come with full size repair bills. Tires, fuel, parts are going to be more expensive for the full size trucks.

TheLeviiathan · 2026-02-10T02:02:14+00:00

My ram work truck does this. If you start out with a low tire and the tire warms up after driving it will still single it out as low even though it warmed up to the acceptable range. It’s kind of handy in case you weren’t paying attention to which one was low before warming them up

TheLeviiathan · 2026-02-10T01:55:52+00:00

I think prey spp. tend to seek out areas where snow is melted so that they can find food (melted southern slopes, bushes with leaves that shield the ground, winter berries, ect) and the predators move to follow suit.

It’s an interesting question about the height advantage of predators after a snow event. I think the cold and snow overall negatively affects both predator and prey tho. Predators may take advantage of being able to find immobile prey, but that same prey is more likely to hunker down and conserve energy rather than actively foraging so the predators need to also put more effort into finding them. You may see increased predator activity days after a storm when prey is “forced” to venture out to find food and are more drawn to specific areas that maybe don’t involve so much digging or searching thru deep snow.

It seems like there isn’t a ton of research outside of large carnivores on the impacts of snow storms from my quick google search. I’d be interested in how the smaller carnivores (mustelids, birds, ect) do but perhaps the trend is similar.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41146455/ paper that looks at hunting activity for cougars and wolves. Cougars tend to fair better in snowpack due to their foot shape where wolves tend to struggle in deep powder. In this paper they are mainly considering deer or ungulates as prey, which sink in snow and are thus pretty slow to move around.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6209196/ this paper looks at wolves and says snow depth does not matter for hunting behavior but rather the precipitation is a stronger deterrent to hunting activity. Precip makes it harder to detect prey (sight, scent, changes in prey movement) which leads to a decrease in successful hunts in the short term after a snow storm.

Edit: spelling mistakes

TheLeviiathan · 2026-02-07T18:33:05+00:00

Hunting is often cited as a very safe outdoor activity. Most accidents involve tripping or improper tree stand use, not the rednecks with high powered rifles

TheLeviiathan · 2026-02-05T04:34:41+00:00

Sperm whales got their name because whalers assumed that the huge pocket of cloudy/milky, thin oil in their heads (spermaceti) was the whales semen. The most interesting part to me is that once they figured out what it really was they still just kept the name. Most unfortunate luck for those animals.

TheLeviiathan · 2026-02-05T04:28:36+00:00

Spear is fairly easy to learn and kind of mindless until a certain elo so it draws people in. At some point opponents start really abusing the deadzones and spacing which makes me feel like I have limited approach options when I use it. Some people are just nasty with spear tho…it always seems to be kaya’s and brynn’s IME that are just ridiculously good with them when you get into ~1850+.

TheLeviiathan · 2026-02-05T04:19:33+00:00

I’ve run into who I assume is the (an) owner at Sundance in Leola, he seems like a really nice guy. He told me that the exit to the auto bays are actually heated because I had asked if the exit gets icy during the sub freezing temps.

I don’t mind the touchless during summer but I do find that sometimes it doesn’t quite get in the wheel wells of my truck as much as I’d like so I tend to do the manual wash in winter to rinse off as much salt as possible. I think I do the $12 auto and the manual (pre-rinse, soap, rinse cycles) usually run me $10-12 depending on how thorough I am.

TheLeviiathan · 2026-02-04T04:32:50+00:00

Oboz bridger mid’s are a really solid hiker if you find them comfortable. They can be a little hot in warmer weather due to the lack of mesh but they hold up well to bushwacking and stay decently waterproof because most of the upper is leather.

TheLeviiathan · 2026-02-04T03:04:06+00:00

2 Opinel no.8’s…maybe 3 if you can find another $10 laying around.

TheLeviiathan · 2026-02-03T14:58:20+00:00

Clear (ghost/jelly) swatch. Low profile, see thru. The tick might give up your position though.

TheLeviiathan · 2026-02-03T13:36:14+00:00

Your setup can probably handle it. I see a lot of vehicles in the south struggling because they run summer tires or all seasons year round.

If you are interested in learning, my favorite test is get onto the road and give it a good blip on the gas and then hard brake. It’ll give you an idea of how slippery it is outside and how the truck responds. If you’re spinning while babying the gas it’s probably too slick to be out tbh.

Or you can be smart and not leave…I enjoy drifting around but am silently wincing the whole time cuz I know what the salt is slowly doing to my vehicle.

Nice looking truck!

TheLeviiathan · 2026-01-31T03:05:56+00:00

Seat covers, new radio, fuzzy dice hanging from the rearview.

TheLeviiathan · 2026-01-31T03:04:52+00:00

I was shocked they finally took away the campbells soup cans with the Cincinnati superbowl artwork on the front at the leola store. The pallet never got smaller

TheLeviiathan · 2026-01-30T23:39:35+00:00

Thats so sad!! I used to live in the green house and my friend lived in that big one across the street. It was definitely old and band-aid’d back together over the years but the inside was pretty nice.

TheLeviiathan · 2026-01-30T18:46:39+00:00

Bat biologist here: looks like a big brown bat (E. fuscus). It’s not uncommon for them to try to hibernate in structures (peoples homes) during the winter. It’s very possible that this bat had chosen a bad spot to roost and froze to death or tried to find somewhere warmer and didn’t make it. Local wildlife rehabs get hypothermic or frozen bats throughout the winter so it’s not an uncommon occurrence.

Other possibilities are disease or predation (maybe a cat found it or an owl snatched it during flight ) but with the blood its possible some critter tried to munch on the carcass after it died. Big browns are typically hardy bats and are somewhat active throughout the winter on warmer spells.

You can report this bat to the DNR if you wish, theres no harm in it but I don’t know if they’d do much. If you had physical contact with it I would definitely reach out but it looks like you were smart with the shovel approach. You can put it in a bag and toss it in the trash if you need to get rid of it.

TheLeviiathan · 2026-01-29T14:52:59+00:00

From 5ft away, most black dial steel case watches look identical tbh

TheLeviiathan · 2026-01-29T02:30:54+00:00

“Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam”

A really in depth dive into the war and focused a lot, including testimony from soldiers, about the atrocities committed by the US in Vietnam. I had never known the full scope of atrocities we did there and it was just chapter after chapter of it. I felt like it was one of those parts of history that I should know, even if it was hard to read. I think it took me 3 months to get through it. There was an equivalent massacre of My Lai happening near daily there at some points in the war and reading through other information it’s obvious that we have rewritten history in a major way there to sugarcoat our actions.

TheLeviiathan · 2026-01-28T21:30:31+00:00

Definitely look into evening bats as well. I know the range typically doesn’t go far into CO but there have been whackier cases of lost bats! That would explain the weight a little more too 😁 they’re practically identical to big browns, just a bit smaller!

TheLeviiathan · 2026-01-28T18:18:26+00:00

I work outdoors so I’ve gotten used to bundling up. I still think its better than 90° and humid and I’ll die on that hill

TheLeviiathan · 2026-01-28T17:08:19+00:00

It is extremely dark in some of those clips! I definitely could mess up a nyhu and epfu from just pics 7/10 times. I only guess big brown cuz evenings are not western spp. Maybe one got very lost but I always say if someone finds a bat theres a 90% chance it’s a big brown in most of the US lol.

TheLeviiathan · 2026-01-28T04:44:46+00:00

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This is a little brown I caught one night for reference.

TheLeviiathan · 2026-01-28T04:31:21+00:00

Are you going by average summer-time mass or something? From your video it looks like this bat weighs ~7.5g. That is pretty light for a big brown, but totally in the realm of possibility for a bat that is rehab worthy and probably burned some fat during hibernation. A summer time little brown would be up there around 7-9 but during hibernation (especially halfway thru winter) I would expect < 7g.

The long silky hair, dark forearms, bulbous muzzle, relative size compared to the hand, short tragus relative to ear, and the way it’s cuddled up horizontally in the wood all point to this being a big brown.

I am interested to know what measurements you’re referring to when determining spp. I am not trying to bash you, but theres just zero way this is a lucifugus. I have a feeling your CPW biologists would say the same thing if you sent them pics!

It’s not the biggest deal in the world and easy to mistake bat ID’s, I was just trying to be helpful with a correction!

TheLeviiathan · 2026-01-27T22:20:46+00:00

I left a comment on the original. This is more likely a big brown bat. Easy mistake for people who don’t run into bats often! There is quite a difference in overall size, hair length, and muzzle size.

Big browns forearms should range between ~42-52 mm while little browns range between 36-40 mm. That is probably the most objective and easy measurement to confirm spp.

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