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Rowdy Fitzgerald

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I've gone as long as 42 days without a day off but that was out of county fighting fires which is just plain fun. This year I'm filling up airplanes with fire retardant at the local airport. Is boring as hell when we don't have a fire to load for. Too much down time means the captain has time to scrutinize everything we do...


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Wait tom is back?! Where you been tom?!

Heard that about working too much. I am on call 24/7 and work basically every weekend so I'm never free to do much. The day I went and rode my quad I still worked. I just learned to live on almost no sleep so my time off is spent doing stuff instead of sleeping. Pretty sure it's only a matter of time till that bites me in the ass tho...
 

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Lol for sure!


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Hear that! My expo is still sitting waiting on the gears. I am going off road g today... on my quad for a few hours. Going down to the river bottoms with a buddy from work. Morg you should take your truck down here!
Wish i saw this. Your pics looked fun.

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I'm always down to go back there. You know how to ride a motorcycle? I have a few mini bikes you can rip around on too.
 

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I have but not very often.

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Well it's time to get some practice. Let's go.
 

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Anyone available sunday for a little dirt? Some DR guys are going up around chaulk bluff and surrounding areas to **** around, shoot, bbq etc. Figured id let the SASsy folks know.

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If my ranger wasn't sittin on bald 33's I would
 

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take my iroks! i dont care. if im not working maybe ill come down with the quad or something.
 

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so with the 5.38s and 2.48:1 t cse and a 3.72 first gear Im looking at a crawl ratio of about 50:1... not nerly low enough for a manual, but would be good for an auto, so should I wait for a doubler option to open up or should I look into swapping into an auto? auto is way easier to build but a lot of work to swap in, doubler well no one makes one any more but supposedly north west fab miiiiiight be coming out with a doubler for rbv this winter. thoughts? oh and doubler will get me up around 120:1 crawl ratio which will be perfect for a set f 40s.
 

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Greenhorn in the am. Text me if you want meet times

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Wait for a doubler
 

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Anyone have a good connection to a dealer? Looking for a close to new mazda cx 5 or ford escape for my girlfriend.
 

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Stay away from the escape
 

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