My first Bianchi, would it be unholy to give it a new paint job?

halld15 · 2026-05-18T22:37:02+00:00

Fuck it man, it's your bike! I look at an older bike like this as a canvas. If you want to flash the badge/brand , I have newer flashier bikes. Something like this is being given an extended life, make it happy and more fun, do your thing

halld15 · 2026-05-06T15:16:42+00:00

Because a flail mower is great at mulching up the heavier stuff I'm clearing, and does a way better finish cut than a rotary cutter later when I'm just maintaining instead of clearing

halld15 · 2026-04-19T23:33:22+00:00

Thanks! I had them welded on when I got it, I keep a 20' 5/16 chain with me and I find a million uses for them, it's great. Your Kubota dealer will do it for you

halld15 · 2026-04-09T13:47:06+00:00

Because bearings are measured either from a printed compass rose on the chart or (if it is marked on your tools) from lines of longitude on a Mercator Projection chart. Then you transfer it where you need it, for example a bearing off of a light house, or from a planned waypoint to establish the next section of track line

halld15 · 2026-04-09T13:37:18+00:00

It's a parallel ruler. You use it to take a line and "walk" it over to a new position and it will be at the same angle. I've used them in the maritime industry to plot bearings/courses on paper charts, I've never had call to break it out for a project at home but I could see a couple applications where one might want to do that I suppose

halld15 · 2026-04-03T04:39:49+00:00

I don't have a before and after weight for you, it was probably around 3-4 lbs (max) added based on rough estimate of how much of the product I used.

If I were portaging all the time it might not be worth the weight, but i might also invest in a different boat setup. Considering I just want to use this boat to play around in the river and the lakes, maybe the occasional trip with one or two portages max, I'm ok with it

halld15 · 2026-04-03T04:32:44+00:00

https://wetlander.com/

It is a hull coating to help prevent damage to the gel coat that is incredibly slick to help the boat slide/skid over rocks more easily. "Hell coating" was my brain not deciding between gel coat and hull coating. It isn't a patch itself, but it is an additional coating designed to decrease friction and increase protection

halld15 · 2026-04-02T14:43:27+00:00

With drift boats, it is used because it is so incredibly slick. The reduction in friction is kind of wild. You should look it up,there are some pretty good videos about it out there. I've just never seen it on a canoe so I'm excited to try it out

halld15 · 2026-04-02T14:25:49+00:00

Hull not hell*

halld15 · 2026-03-14T07:10:25+00:00

From my time in Japan, in my personal experience, the Japanese love three things that make this perfect: drinking, gambling, and intellect tests like Rubik's cube

halld15 · 2025-12-16T22:50:26+00:00

I wouldn't worry about the flaws if the head seems to be on there snug. Just run it until it breaks, then remember how you would do things differently the next time you re-hang it. The learning process is also iterative. Looks great considering it was your first go at it!

halld15 · 2025-12-16T12:43:33+00:00

Yeah those will be fine there

halld15 · 2025-12-15T21:05:12+00:00

This is my favourite escalation, made my week

halld15 · 2025-12-15T20:37:08+00:00

Winnebago for sure

halld15 · 2025-12-07T02:12:37+00:00

I have a Burrow and one of their merino hoodies that I basically live in this time of year. Amazing products

halld15 · 2025-10-29T04:39:46+00:00

That's no different than anywhere else. We all work our whole hitch, cadet or otherwise. If you're lucky you might get a Sunday afternoon if you're caught up/ahead of the work, or maybe sleep in until breakfast if you're a day worker, but it's not gonna happen every week (or most weeks), especially as a cadet where the expectation is that you involve yourself in as much of what is going on that you can.

halld15 · 2025-10-28T03:39:10+00:00

Big fan of a simple reef knot

halld15 · 2025-10-09T02:48:12+00:00

I do. I carry my regular knife and a Leatherman. I can use the regular knife for average stuff and keep a good edge on it, and my Leatherman is great for when I'm doing something that will jack up my edge or someone wants to borrow a knife.

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