We Need a Suicide Hotline for Deer

[timwinters]

Anything that thins the herd that eats my wife's flowers is fine with me. Forest rats.

Some women actually do the research and select plants that deer don't consider a delicacy.

Works quite well.

Sorry you consider those beautiful animals to be 'rats'.

This thread is close enough to 50...

 

[poadeleted21]

Good grief... now the deer have an anti-defamation lobby...

-Rich

Have for a while.. PETA I believe is what they're calling themselves.

 

[RJM62]

Some women actually do the research and select plants that deer don't consider a delicacy.

Works quite well.

Sorry you consider those beautiful animals to be 'rats'.

This thread is close enough to 50...

Mint works well. It also grows (and grows, and grows) where nothing else will. And it smells nice. And makes good tea.

-Rich

 

[Norman]

Have for a while.. PETA I believe is what they're calling themselves.

PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals.

 

[denverpilot]

Anything that thins the herd that eats my wife's flowers is fine with me. Forest rats.

Planting flowers == Feeding the rats.

 

[RJM62]

Repair's all done.

Cost for the fender: $100.00. Labor was DIY.

-Rich

 

[ron22]

Repair's all done.

Cost for the fender: $100.00. Labor was DIY.

-Rich

Yes but what about the poor deer

Tim, Just to let you know this thread is getting close to 50

 

[RJM62]

Yes but what about the poor deer

The deer survived at least long enough to get up and run into the woods, so I suspect he evaded justice this time around. Otherwise he would be venison by now.

-Rich

 

[Ghery]

Some women actually do the research and select plants that deer don't consider a delicacy.

Works quite well.

Sorry you consider those beautiful animals to be 'rats'.

This thread is close enough to 50...

I'll tell my wife. She just has a BS in Horticulture, so I'm sure she'll get a chuckle out of that.

When they eat all our plants, they are rats.

Mint works well. It also grows (and grows, and grows) where nothing else will. And it smells nice. And makes good tea.

-Rich

True, but we need space for the Rhodies, etc.

Planting flowers == Feeding the rats.

All too true. And they love our whole neighborhood for that very reason.

 

[RJM62]

And new headlights, just for good measure. They make a big difference in terms of, well, seeing stuff.

-Rich

 

[Ted]

I hit a deer about 3 months ago. Did $7000 damage to my truck.

Shoulda bought a Ford.

 

[pilot_dude]

I think that's Springtime. Right now they just have the munchies.

And God gave us two heads, but only sufficient blood supply to operate one at a time.

Incorrect. Rut is in the late fall in the United States but varies by region.

 

[N747JB]

I had a big doe run out in front of my the other night, close enough that I slammed on the brakes, anti-lock brakes are a good thing.

 

[Seanaldinho]

I had a big doe run out in front of my the other night, close enough that I slammed on the brakes, anti-lock brakes are a good thing.

ABS combined with Sylvania headlights have saved my hiney twice already this fall.

 

[Ted]

I had a big doe run out in front of my the other night, close enough that I slammed on the brakes, anti-lock brakes are a good thing.

Pfft. I've never found ABS to help me, and have had multiple instances where a poor system made it harder to avoid a crash (but I still did). I'm actually considering deleting it from my current car.

 

[Henning]

Pfft. I've never found ABS to help me, and have had multiple instances where a poor system made it harder to avoid a crash (but I still did). I'm actually considering deleting it from my current car.

You may want to read your insurance policy before you do... You'll at least need to declare it to the insurance company when you buy the policy, otherwise you'll be buying under fraudulent conditions. ABS has a premium break.

 

[denverpilot]

And new headlights, just for good measure. They make a big difference in terms of, well, seeing stuff.

Now you're just getting fancy.

 

[docmirror]

Pfft. I've never found ABS to help me, and have had multiple instances where a poor system made it harder to avoid a crash (but I still did). I'm actually considering deleting it from my current car.

All new cars and light trucks in US sold after 2012 must have 'stability control' systems. Usually, this means ABS.

ABS has been shown to be massively effective with normal, non-race driver, non-mechanically inclined gen-pop. These are the housewives that see anything and slam on the brakes then turn the wheel expecting the car to skid sideways with the wheels locked. Even in the case of an expert, ABS benefits stopping and control in nearly all cases.

I consider myself an above average driver, with a small racing pedigree. I love ABS on the Porsche. The one on the Mini is not nearly as good, but the SO drives that.

I've never hit a deer. I came close to hitting an elk one night in S CO. We were coming down hwy 50 west, at about 11PM, and something just clicked and I put on the brakes without seeing anything. About a dozen elk were running across the highway. Would have ruined my whole night.

 

[docmirror]

Interesting deer facts:

A) No deer were on the Manhattan project.

B] There are no deer on faculty at Princeton or MIT.

C) A deer has never been admitted to Mensa.

D) If you ask a deer to 'pull my finger'; it won't.

 

[Ted]

All new cars and light trucks in US sold after 2012 must have 'stability control' systems. Usually, this means ABS.

ABS has been shown to be massively effective with normal, non-race driver, non-mechanically inclined gen-pop. These are the housewives that see anything and slam on the brakes then turn the wheel expecting the car to skid sideways with the wheels locked. Even in the case of an expert, ABS benefits stopping and control in nearly all cases.

I consider myself an above average driver, with a small racing pedigree. I love ABS on the Porsche. The one on the Mini is not nearly as good, but the SO drives that.

I've never hit a deer. I came close to hitting an elk one night in S CO. We were coming down hwy 50 west, at about 11PM, and something just clicked and I put on the brakes without seeing anything. About a dozen elk were running across the highway. Would have ruined my whole night.

There is a huge variety in ABS systems out there without a doubt, and I'm sure there are good ones out there.

My first car was an '82 Jaguar XJ-S V12 (significantly modified). Its traction control was the guy behind the wheel, and I was generally considered to be a pretty above average driver. I'm not as good as I was then, but still good enough that I can work well without ABS, and have found it to get in my way more than help.

I do agree for 90% or more of the population, ABS, even in bad form, is a good thing. My mom managed to spin her Volvo (with ABS) on ice and end up in a guard rail on a straight road. She needed as much help as she could get.

Me, not so much.

 

[docmirror]

Remove either of the rear wheels, and locate the trigger wheel sensor on the hub. It will go to a small barrel connector with a waterproof clasp around it. Remove the clasp, disconnect the wires, and reseal the two ends. Start the car, but don't move it. The ABS light should come on, then go off within 3 seconds. As you begin to move, the ABS light will come back on and be defeated. You can re-attach for state inspections and it will cure itself. If not, a quick removal of the batt terminal will suffice.

Some cars built after 2005 have a different sensor, and the ABS will be defeated without moving the car, as the POST for the ABS checks for continuity of the sensor circuit differently. In these case, the ABS may need to be resent by a factory diag module, or one of the CAN bus tools you can get on ebay that will check and reset ODB-II/CAN bus codes

 

[Ted]

My car right now is a '93 model. Removing the ABS is very simple in a lot of ways if I want to, but since it isn't causing me any problems at the moment and there are other things that need attention on the car, I'm going to focus on those.

 

[denverpilot]

D) If you ask a deer to 'pull my finger'; it won't.

False.

http://youtu.be/uosCf5NJXFI

Well okay, the title (apparently written for shock value) says it did.

I'm sure some dumb-ass has actually had a finger bitten off by a deer. Somewhere.

 

[denverpilot]

Interesting that an ABS thread came up today. Friends went to Mt Thorodin to troubleshoot a balky radio receiver. They threw a tire chain on the way up the access road in the snow and it ripped the ABS sensor cable clean out of one of the wheels of the Jeep Grand Cherokee, disabling the entire system.

They asked a couple of us to remain near our radios as they worked their way down the Forest Service road (two way radio sites in the mountains have the same cellular phone problems as aircraft due to altitude and usually being located far from population centers) so if they went in the ditch and needed rescue, we could make phone calls, or just head up ourselves to go yank them out.

About halfway down the passenger in the Jeep said, "He's remembered how to drive a Jeep without ABS in snow. We're doing fine."

I quipped, "We were all sitting here at our radios thinking we should remind you that people used to get to that site in the 80's with drum brakes and no ABS but we were laughing too hard."

Hope his repair isn't too bloody expensive.

Volunteering to maintain radio gear for clubs just beats the living crap out of your vehicle. Been there, done that.

Sometimes it beats on you. One winter later in the season I went with two other guys who volunteered to take a snowmobile up from the paved/plowed road or however far we could get up it, and I'd hang at the bottom as base camp support after bringing the 60 lb power amplifier and test gear from my place. This trip was to Squaw Mtn.

I smile and wave after coordinating a simplex freq to get status on, and I'm sitting there in the warm truck (see, I'm no dummy) when I get a call from the snowmobile passenger... "Hey Nate, have you heard Mike check in at the top yet?"

"Ummm no... Why?"

"I fell off the back of the snowmobile at the upper parking lot and he didn't notice. Luckily I fell into deep snow."

"Glad you're ok. How hard did you land on the backpack with all the gear in it?"

"Not too bad, I'll have a bruise or two."

"Cool. You better not have broken that power amp. Haha."

Radio tower access roads are entertaining here even in summer and good weather. They're just equipment pounding crap in winter.

I get a little green with envy when my buddy in Indianapolis says he's going to work on his repeater and drives 1/2 mile to the tower base, unlocks the gate, and goes in. Heh. Bastard!

But then again, his antenna at 800' on a 1000' tower doesn't reach out and touch 1/4 of the State either. God I love VHF and up sites at 5000'+ height over average terrain! Line of sight puts the theoretical coverage to roughly Limon, CO from most if the high sites west of Denver.

 

[docmirror]

False.

http://youtu.be/uosCf5NJXFI

Well okay, the title (apparently written for shock value) says it did.

I'm sure some dumb-ass has actually had a finger bitten off by a deer. Somewhere.

Yahbut - they're English, and therefore ruddy mental buggers.

 

[docmirror]

Hope his repair isn't too bloody expensive.

Nope, happens all the time. The sensor wire connects to a barrel connector, and then goes to a duplex up in the spare well, or maybe behind the rear seat.