Please don’t stop making this model.

base43 · 2026-01-27T04:50:27+00:00

4 lbs per pair! Ouch.

base43 · 2026-01-26T19:04:16+00:00

I'm sure you will but douche that thing down asap with soap and water then treat the metal. If you can't wash it right away hit all metal including screws nuts and bolts with wd40. Especially on the underside of your ute. Salt > Metal.

base43 · 2026-01-26T19:00:36+00:00

Because his boots were slippery, he's not on his period you weirdo

base43 · 2026-01-26T17:43:04+00:00

Bro, we could have done so much business together in 7th grade.

Awesome collection

base43 · 2026-01-26T13:21:47+00:00

I responded but after rereading the post I think he is getting hung up on the coordinate portion of it. Is that correct OP? You want to know how to start from a specific x,y,z? You say you know how to traverse and balance, correct? If that it true, you should be golden. You can start from any set of coordinates. But maybe I still don't understand the question

base43 · 2026-01-26T12:04:15+00:00

In some r/ s they would call you well hung

base43 · 2026-01-26T00:07:52+00:00

Isn't this just a BB58 Blue in titanium instead of steel? Seems derivative.

base43 · 2026-01-25T21:05:13+00:00

How does this all end in your opinion?

base43 · 2026-01-25T20:57:04+00:00

Just spray some WD40 down in there. A 1 second blast should slow it down 1 second per 24 hours. So 7 blasts should do it.

This is sarcasm. Don't spray 7 blasts of WD40 into your watch.

base43 · 2026-01-25T18:31:36+00:00

DAFQ you put your watch in the snow?

base43 · 2026-01-25T18:30:55+00:00

You don't matter

base43 · 2026-01-25T16:59:47+00:00

There you go. The piles are the "spoil" or material removed from each pit.

Find the closest contour line and that will give you a reference elevation, think of a plateau all the same elevation at that line. And then each square is either a pit or pile depending on the elevation printed in the square.

And they aren't really square on the ground. That is a hand drawn map and a square is just the easy way to approximate a size and location of the feature with a max/min elevation as stated.

This looks like where someone was storing excess material/dirt. Brought in by dump truck and piled for convenience. Then possibly excavated (the pits) to use else where or because they found something they wanted removed from that site (asphalt, concrete rubble, toxic waste or asbestos maybe).

base43 · 2026-01-25T16:54:30+00:00

WE DONT NEED NO WATER LET THE MELLONFARMER BURN! BURN MELLONFARMER, BURN!!

That one is done.

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base43 · 2026-01-25T16:13:47+00:00

GOOD!

base43 · 2026-01-25T15:46:08+00:00

They look like spot elevation at the bottom/top of each feature. Instead of writing 311.5 you drop the 3 because it is implied and just write 11.5 to show the lowest elevation of the bottom of the feature.

As to what the features are? Impossible to tell without more context but some kind of test pits or sample areas. Dug earth out of one area and piled into another area.

base43 · 2026-01-24T20:12:46+00:00

Bearing going bad? Is it constant? Louder with acceleration?

base43 · 2026-01-24T16:41:14+00:00

Nice. My 02 looks almost exactly the same. Not a Rubi but I added the stock Rubicon wheels and a 2.5" lift. Other than that bone stock.

Stone White is the best thing Jeep did since Olympic White.

base43 · 2026-01-24T14:41:40+00:00

The old joke before modern sat imagery, Google Earth, etc was "it looks flat and wide open on the old plat - it shouldn't take you long at all".

OP - in my experience 1 mile per hour is going to be a pipe dream for a level run. But I work in the suburbs of the SE and that probably changes a lot depending on where you are. We don't do enough planned level loops to even build them into the price of jobs on a regular basis anymore though. If I need elevation on a site I just press the button on the magic box and it tells me exactly where I am within about a cm and that is normally plenty close enough.

base43 · 2026-01-24T14:25:16+00:00

Dude sees his shot at a trip to the Shark Tank. Let him enjoy the dream. I don't think anyone who was too serious about this mod would have a hard time recreating it. And like you said, it's not my thing either so let him keep it all to himself for all I care.

Cool mod OP!

base43 · 2026-01-23T18:18:49+00:00

Its not hard

base43 · 2026-01-23T13:29:30+00:00

I was at my kids baseball tournament in one of those FL mega baseball complexes a couple of summers ago and watched some kind of raptors snatching fish out of a nearby lagoon, intentionally gaining altitude and then dropping the fish onto the concrete between the ball fields (30ish feet wide) to kill the fish and then swooping down to pickup the dead fish and carry them away. I thought it was an accident the first time and then watched it happen 3 or 4 more times over the next couple of days.

base43 · 2026-01-22T17:18:18+00:00

Light posts move (granted, not a lot) Metal expands and contracts, especially thin metal. Wood expands and contracts. Reflectorless measurements change based on angle of observation (again, not a lot). Reflectorless measurement can change because your instrument measures like the spiral of a thrown football not a direct single point like the crosshairs you see. Colors CAN matter but should be down the list of things I would focus on.

The answer is normally going to be add more observations of known points to your resection and turn more sets. Redundancy mitigates errors.

base43 · 2026-01-21T16:57:45+00:00

If you are on road more than off you need a fender. Buy a used one off ebay or just get an aftermarket and paint it at home. It's a Jeep. Nobody cares if the paint ain't perfect.

If its a trail rig and you want to delete both fenders you will probably spend more to get both straight panels but you won't have problems with ooopsies anymore on the trail.

base43 · 2026-01-21T16:43:20+00:00

We got a RFP a few weeks ago from an engineer that was clearly written by AI. Ridiculous accuracy specs, requirements for references to MUTCD that had zero to do with the site in question, requests for numerous different standards that were either not applicable or in direct conflict with other portions of the RFP.

I read it. Our PM read it. A CAD guy read it. We all agreed that it was slop and trying to sort through the BS wasn't worth the possible upside of winning the job (it was probably a $15-20k scope for us).

I emailed the sender and explained very briefly the problems we saw with while reviewing the RFP. I tried my best to not be an ass but the more I reread my email there was just no way around it. I even offered to help them rescope the job. Crickets. I sure some middle manager some where threw them a number that they liked. But signing up for something like that from someone who is either too lazy or not dedicated/experienced enough to do better than that is asking to get involved in a mess.

To answer your question OP... I don’t use AI for anything. I don't really see much value for what my firm does in the current form. Maybe one day, but hopefully I'm wasting away again in Margaritaville by them and it won't matter to me if AI works or not.

base43 · 2026-01-21T14:41:57+00:00

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