Operation Phoenix
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You and your crew are going straight to heaven for the work y'all do. Thank you.
Federal. US Forest Service. According to the FS (our local FS folks) they need guidance from the department of justice and their office of council to decide how to interpret and enforce laws... it's a schedule of rules. They do this review every two years. The last one was late 23...before the Grants Pass decision about reasonable accomodations overruled the Boise decision that you can't crminialze homeless.
Bottom line our one LEO has been instructed by national Forest Service policy to do nothing about unhoused until more guidance is received.
We've spent at least a hundred grand last year in FS funding...252,000 lbs of trash and 43 vehicles...25 of those required asbestos tests aka RVs. This number is roughly 1/3 to 1/6th of what for profit contractors would charge.
If you extrapolated those numbers nationwide...and understand that the FS explicitly states they don't have an unhoused problem or illegal dumping problem...and even when we clean these sites they're still tons of micro trash, defaced trees, campsites, trees, roads.
I have a pet theory that every major fire in the west in the last twenty years or so was started by unhoused folks.
The costs are staggering.
And we're the worst solution to this problem...
-Mac
Every job that goes overseas just makes it worse. This country needs to take care of itself. Most of these people want decent jobs
My Dicknos arrived! I'm so excited!
UCF finally shipped my skid and allegedly it'll be here next Monday.
Let's see what $2 rock lights can do...
-Mac
UCF finally shipped my skid and allegedly it'll be here next Monday.
Let's see what $2 rock lights can do...
-Mac
Such a smart mod! I might take you up on your offer to help me do the same!
Today...only issue with my home made mid pipe was the v band clamp and rotating it 180 got me clearance. Need a tig welder. Want to make some modifications. Good enough for now.
-Mac
-Mac
What's all over the exhaust?
The dog cracks me up - mine tends to be a blur in photos a lot of the time too
It was DEI exhaust wrap that I should have painted but didn't.
-Mac
-Mac
Mostly snow wheeling. For some reason launching into thigh high snow isn't kind to exhaust wrap.
-Mac
I'd be careful who you tell about that. Trump banned that stuff.
It's been a crazy week. Ordered back to the office next week. Hinge pin on the dump trailer sheared...had to torch out the old one and replaced it with a 1" 4140 pin.
Finally got around to starting the Jeep after installing the skid plate... horrible noise...fan hitting the shroud. No big deal... unbolted the fan, notched the shroud, reinstalled everything...went to adjust the shroud and realized I'd notched the wrong way... unbolted everything, notched more...no bueno...ended up having to not h around the lower hose. Wondering if I need to seal up the 1/2" gap at top with some foil tape.
Celebratory parking on the gravel pile.
Back to shop construction...
-Mac
Finally got around to starting the Jeep after installing the skid plate... horrible noise...fan hitting the shroud. No big deal... unbolted the fan, notched the shroud, reinstalled everything...went to adjust the shroud and realized I'd notched the wrong way... unbolted everything, notched more...no bueno...ended up having to not h around the lower hose. Wondering if I need to seal up the 1/2" gap at top with some foil tape.
Celebratory parking on the gravel pile.
Back to shop construction...
-Mac
Ok...got the shop lift installed and wired up after two month deployment to...get this... Operation Phoenix in LA working on the Palisades Fire.
Used the lift to evaluate and set bump stops post body and engine lift. Went with about an inch.
My jounces were shot, had some hard Energy ones...went with them for now.
I hate pulling springs. Lift made it much easier.
Also pulled the skid pan, replaced the exhaust hanger bushing and pushed the exhaust up another 1/8" for a touch more skid plate clearance.
Couple more things I might try and get done...want to bend my shifter back, maybe rock lights, grease everything and check differential oil.
-Mac
Used the lift to evaluate and set bump stops post body and engine lift. Went with about an inch.
My jounces were shot, had some hard Energy ones...went with them for now.
I hate pulling springs. Lift made it much easier.
Also pulled the skid pan, replaced the exhaust hanger bushing and pushed the exhaust up another 1/8" for a touch more skid plate clearance.
Couple more things I might try and get done...want to bend my shifter back, maybe rock lights, grease everything and check differential oil.
-Mac
What - no pics of the lift? You are such a tease, Macster.
Thanks for your work at Pacific Palisades.
Thanks for your work at Pacific Palisades.
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