I’ve made my own in the past using Humminbird Contour Elite when I couldn’t find a good paper map. Zoom in tight to get the details and keep the zoom level the same throughout the process. Screenshot, move, screenshot, move, etc. then in Photoshop stitch everything together. Works well, however it was very tedious. This map took a while. (Like a month of pecking away at it here and there in my off times) You can see the full zoomed out original image as well as a tight screenshot from my phone.

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May want to see what you can get these for.

https://www.tradeindia.com/products/wire-saw-guide-pulley-set-c4818158.html

I’ve got some on my mom’s water heater that are like 15 years old. Had to use them because I couldn’t get the valves shut off fully to solder and this was a last resort at 10pm before all the stores closed. No issues with them whatsoever.

bigcrappie wrote:

Do not believe everything you read on X.

I’ll believe the people pushing for audits before I believe the ones screaming about audits being unconstitutional.

Jimmy Jones wrote:

I think DOGE should focus on Musk’s cash cow, aka the US government contracts.

Now, back on topic.

Go ahead and look, it’s all posted on the internet for you to see. Unlike many of USAID’s transactions that had been hidden from public view until now.

**edit oops see it was posted while I was grabbing it**

Here’s the article copy paste.

FORESTVILLE TOWNSHIP, Minn. — Wolves are rarely seen in the southern part of Minnesota, but a Spring Valley man has been cited for shooting and killing a gray wolf in southern Forestville Township in Fillmore County.

According to a Jan. 11, 2025, citation issued by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Lucas Dean Heusinkveld, 21, of Spring Valley, Minnesota, shot and killed a gray wolf while out hunting coyotes.

DNR spokesman Joe Albert said the incident, in which a female wolf was shot and killed, is under investigation.

In the meantime, the DNR has taken possession of the wolf carcass.

According to the DNR, as of Feb. 10, 2022, gray wolves are once again a federally protected threatened species, and under current federal guidelines, wolves may only be taken in defense of human life.

That said, the DNR’s own handbook on hunting and trapping regulations notes, “Wolves have been mistakenly shot outside Minnesota’s primary wolf range because hunters thought they were coyotes. Wolves were once restricted to the northern part of Minnesota, but they have expanded their range and could show up in any part of the state.”

The same guidebook notes that adult gray wolves are about twice as tall and can be three times the weight of adult coyotes, but the animals have similar shapes and coloring.

Still, the hunting and trapping regulations state, “Shooting a wolf because you think it is a coyote is illegal and punishable by Minnesota game and fish laws.”

The DNR estimated in 2021 that there were roughly 2,770 wolves in Minnesota.

Coyotes are legal to hunt year-round, Albert added.

“Coyotes are considered unprotected mammals in Minnesota,” he said. “The season is continuous and there is no limit on the number that can be taken

Bearcat89 wrote:

Did the Thursday night thread go haywire ?

Not that I saw, was actually pretty chill. Seen worse threads about trucks.

I’m betting Sharron took Glenn’s money

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suzuki wrote:

I just ignore anybody denying the positive direction things are finally going including the full replacement of the previous management staff.

The same way those same people ignored the obvious negative direction our previous ’Houseplant in Chief’ had us going.

Brad Dimond wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>munchy wrote:</div>
e is waste, cut it. But not everything is a wasteful program. Spacex has some of the smallest contracts in government. Why? Because Elon looks for waste in every single part of his businesses and removes it. Why do you think it only costs millions to send a Space

Elon has more than $20B in contracts with NASA, not small potatoes.

And how many missions to space has Elon done for the government compared to everyone else? That’s the point. 1 mission costing 5 billion or 1000 missions costing 20 billion. What’s a better ROI?

Johnny wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>blank wrote:</div>
When will NASA funding be reduced and subsequent contracts with SpaceX be cut?

great question. Musk has billions in contracts with the federal government. Will any of those be trimmed? I’d bet not. Anyone want to take the other side of that wager?

We want to talk about corruption and wasteful spending, it needs to be done on both sides of the aisle so to speak. Reading up on Elon’s conflicts of interest is quite alarming and eye opening.

If there is waste, cut it. But not everything is a wasteful program. Spacex has some of the smallest contracts in that part government. Why? Because Elon looks for waste in every single part of his businesses and removes it. Why do you think it only costs millions to send a Spacex rocket to space but billions to send a NASA rocket to space?

Brad Dimond wrote:

Agreed. Trump ruling by executive decree is a losing approach. He loses nearly every time he he ends up in court, be it election challenges, executive order challenges or civil suits. Getting Congress aligned with his agenda is a troublesome approach but it is the legal and appropriate way to do business.

And before you know it you’ve spent 4 years and $100million on lawyers, investigations, slow walks, and whatever else to cut a program that was wasting $25million. That is part of the corruption that makes Washington work. Everyone is getting a piece of the pie.

It’s time to be adults, pull the bandaid off and let the pieces fall where they fall. If half of Washington is out of a job by the end of this – so be it.

Take a look at the real estate around Washington, there is a reason it has some of the highest home prices in the nation. And it’s not because the IRS and Dept of education is a good paying job.

Eelpoutguy wrote:

As long as someone is spending someone else’s money there will always be the drunkin sailor syndrome.
It just human nature.

Yes there will always be some, but If you allow a free-for-all you get a free-for-all. This is a management problem however and that can be reduced.

But allowing money to swap hands at the blink of an eye and doing it 100 times to hide a transaction is one of the biggest issues we are seeing right now.

CaptainMusky wrote:

On the bold, but it can be. We have seen what happened on social media the last many years with certain topics, people, etc all being suppressed so if certainly can be manipulated.
100% we need to identify all cases of fraud and yes, it will be all sides, but only one is currently whining about it.
If an NGO is complaining about not getting government funding then, get this, they are NOT an NGO.

Anything can be, but if it’s just mapping out transactions and posting everything to the internet it’s a very high likelihood it can’t ignore things. Yes there are bad actors that can remove stuff but this is a team of DC outsiders that shouldn’t have any DC/government influence or know what to look for/hide/slow walk in order to hide. That is what made DC work in the past, these bureaucrats knew exactly what to do when stuff hit their desk in order to hide things.

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Bearcat89 wrote:

No, I just expect our taxes to be used in a rational way that benefits the American people.

Exactly 1000000%!!!

CaptainMusky wrote:

Not surprisingly this Federal Judge’s wife is involved with USAID. Conflict of interest much?!

The entire makeup of the swamp is one big conflict of interest. That’s what makes it work so well for them.

Matt Moen wrote:

For all this that argue this can’t be done or shouldn’t be done, this is the fourth administration that has had a department like this.

Roosevelt, Reagan and even Al Gore created similar departments. Reagan’s Grace Commission is probably the closest to DOGE.

Fortunately we now have complex computer algorithms and a computer doesn’t focus on one side and ignore the other side. All info is being posted to the internet for all to see. Waste and fraud from all sides need to be stopped. And stuff has been so deeply hidden with money transfers after money transfer to different NGOs and programs that it was nearly impossible to decipher where money was going. Now with computers that can map stuff out in hours rather than days/weeks/months stuff is actually coming to light. And I love to see it.

stjoeguy wrote:

The richest man in the world, with billions of dollars of government contracts, now has the keys to the treasury in the hands of his 19 year old minions. What could possibly go wrong? I mean, we all voted for him, right?

But we did vote for this. You just weren’t paying attention. It was announced over the summer that Elon would team with Trump to head DOGE and do this. That is one of the reasons we voted the way we did. Intelligent people see the bloated mess that is the government and have been screaming for years to fix it. It just so happens there was a significant mandate that happened caused by the side that ignored their constituents and focused on DEI and pet projects, not actually helping real Americans.

You should be kicking yourself for pushing back so hard against Trump the first round. He was a soft little puppy dog then, that had no clue just how corrupt the government actually was.

Tell me, did you ever know about USAID before all this happened? Did you know all the money they dole out to non-aid recipients? Did you know Fauci received more money from USAID to fund gain of function in Wuhan that created COVID than he did from his own NIH? Yeah, that needs to stop! And I applaud Elon for stepping into the crosshairs.

B-man wrote:

History has it’s way of repeating itself

I saw he talked to KevO’C and guaranteed him a Super Bowl if they hire him.

Johnny wrote:

you love making assumptions about peoples choice of media and somehow using your own assumption as a counter to what you think the other persons argument is, even tho they didn’t say it. It’s quite laughable. Here is a link from yOuR mEdIa saying prices will ultimately go up, not down, if tariffs are put in place

You’re wrong again, I don’t watch Fox, and please show where I said prices will go down… I’ll wait

Riverrat wrote:

Its literally three posts up. Has all the expenditures, the goals, information on what expectations will be, definitions of modernization. You quoted his post. Never mind this isn’t going to work out, go see HR. Oh my bad its a quote of the link that was provided 5 posts up so its on here twice.

Ummm, yeah… that was posted by BigWerm in response to my question AFTER I asked the question, not before, otherwise I’d be asking BW about tonights lotto numbers.

Meet the “too lazy to scroll to the top of the thread” class

Johnny wrote:

Jump to conclusions much?

BWAAAHHHHHAAAAAAAHHHHHAAAAAA!!!!

Well seeing the reports of fraud and waste that has been coming out lately, and that Timmy has been ignoring it all for the past few years. It’s a fair conclusion to make.

But your paid off news media probably has ignored that, right?

Riverrat wrote:

The “parasite class” seems pretty bad, but not as bad as the “to lazy or stupid to look up the budget that is published and even has a link provided in this thread” class.

Please point out the link that was provided that shows the information I asked about. I’ll wait…

bigcrappie wrote:

Your Aluminum boat trailer just went up 25% FYI

No it didn’t. If an agreement isn’t reached the materials will get a tariff on March 12th, but the labor/tooling/parts/profit/etc. to build the trailer did not. And those are the majority of the cost of most everything built.

So probably no more than a 5% rise in cost to consumer. But if other things like taxes get eliminated and budgets actually get cut, then we will be ahead money.

But you let your media drive your fear.

If it’s designed properly it shouldn’t be an issue. However just remember the axles, suspension, coupler, jack, etc. will still be steel so rust will still be a factor. Aluminum is much more prone to fatigue and damages easier, so rough roads can do a number on them if you aren’t careful. Also inspect the welds regularly.

All of my enclosed trailers have been aluminum and my current one is rated for 10k lbs. so they can definitely hold some weight.

BigWerm wrote:

I thought the same thing Munchy, but Bob FM ain’t exactly the NYT either…

Here’s the DNR page with all the projects.

Ahhh, that makes it a little bit clearer, I guess.

I even followed the link at the end of the story and it just talked about hatcheries, nothing to do with anything else.

That was a weirdly written story. They say $150 million invested in “Get out More”, yet then say $5million in shore fishing. Is the $60million for hatchery’s included in Get out More?

If so, where is the other $85million going? If not where is the other $145milly going? Timmy’s bank account?

OG Net_Man wrote:

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That would be pretty stupid for them to get rid of it that quick.

I agree with you on this but my comment was addressing the statement of depreciation the minute you drive it off the lot. The minute you drive off the lot is basically true and I have heard many people say it. But has anyone ever encountered someone trying to sell a vehicle that quickly, let’s say in the first week after they purchased it new? I even used a emoji to try and imply some humor intended with my comment.

So, if a tree falls in the woods and there is no one there to hear it then did it make a noise?

Talk to a car salesman. I know a couple and when I talked with them once about it(5or6 years ago) it happens occasionally (every few months). People get purchase regret, realize it’s too big/small, too much money, etc. The dealership buys it for a discount (around 10-15% off) and realists it for a slight discount from MSRP. Look for 1 owner vehicles on the lot with less than 500miles, those are likely regret purchases. Some dealers now even have a return policy to target these buyers.

Charles wrote:

I don’t envy you construction guys and pooping in a jimmy johnny.

It’s Freaky Fast! And include Free Smells!

+2 down here in Rochester. Didn’t realize it was that cold up there right now.