CHOP EX MACHINA

Beardmaster or Joe from the Haints. You decide.

2009-12-05T01:09:00.001+09:00

Chicago Bound for Thanksgiving.

2009-11-24T17:06:00.001+09:00

After Work, Linda and I are jumping in the truck and rolling up to spend Thanksgiving with my Dad and Step-Mom, My Mom's driving up from Tennessee and I plan on rolling into River Grove for a Gene & Judes hotdog! I haven't had one in 15 years. I'm sure I'll be all over the city with the wife. I do need to be back home in Texas for Monday morning because I got Yanked for Jury Duty!

Safety wire tech I did up for you chopper jockeys out there

2009-11-17T07:54:00.007+09:00

OK, Some of you have it down and some can do by looking at the pics of other guys safety wiring but Here I am gonna show you a simple How To... to safeting your shit so it doesn't come apart into 5,476 pieces while you're doing 78.457543782905 mph.

Anyway, the best safety wire to use is .025" steel wire. you can use .032" and it's sturdier but harder to use and whatever you safety with .025 will work just fine unless you're working on propeller aircraft or Rotorheads of helicopters.

Anyway, the tools I use are a pair of Snap-on dikes and Snap-on reversable safety wire pliers. For years I used regular safety wire pliers but they only come in right hand twist, you don't always use R/H twist so it's only 1/2 of what you need. When I got out of the Army and had to buy my own tools I think the Snap-on's are the cat's meow.

OK, here you cut a piece of wire and thread it thru the eye of the bolt head and go around as such. Usually I put 1 R/H twist in it by hand to get it ready for twisting with the pliers.

Now you take your pliers and clamp on to the wire at a little beyond the hole your twisting to. The wire will shrink as you twist but only just a red headed cunt hair. Once you are used to doing it, it becomes second nature and you instinctively know where to grab. The wire pliers have a lock on them that you use to keep hold of the wires without squeezing. I can't recall how many times I've been to traders village flea market at the tool guys shop and dudes will say, "Hey, that would be a good set of wire pliers without this wierd thing on it." Well, that's the lock dumbass. So, you clap and squeeze the wires in the jaws and set the lock. Now twist.

the standard for wire is 6 to 12 turns per inch but I like anywhere from 8 to 10. That's another instinctive thing learned over time and experience.

Then you take whichever wire you decide makes the best "taught" fit and thread it thru the hole of the other bolt. Always remember to saefty where if one bolt loosens the other will tighten.

Bring the other wire around and give it a Left Hand twist or two by hand and get the pliers back on the wire. Remember, if you have a reversable set to go into Left mode.

Once you have your twist set up cut the wire with your dikes or with your safety wire pliers about anywhere from 1/2 inch to an inch. It's all a matter of taste and you can usually tell who safeties by where and how they form their pigtail.

The pigtail is just bent over wire to keep itself from unravelling. Another safety feature of safetys.

Here is my ruler to give you an idea of pitch of twist on a three bolt safety, just at 8 turns per inch. Anytime you're safeting more than two bolts the rule still applys, to safety if one bolt wants to loosen the others will tighten.

A few months ago rollin on the chop

2009-11-11T17:56:00.001+09:00

More photos from work

2009-11-11T08:32:00.001+09:00

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Good bye dead squirell

2009-11-11T08:31:00.001+09:00

I had to shave my beard off. It was driving me bananas. Here's the last pic of me at work before I shaved it a few days ago.

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Finally up and running back home.

2009-10-31T08:12:00.001+09:00

It took a while but the geezer glide made it home and I'm at least on two wheels. Conflicted about bringing the chop home from korea, if I'm gonna rotate in and out of afghanistan I'll need something to ride over there on my time off visiting my brothers over there. I'll just get a new project for here to terrorize tejas with.

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Time to grow the beard of death

2009-10-28T02:09:00.000+09:00

Around the January timeframe or so I'll be on my way to ashcrapistan for high times and adventure. Might as well get a jump on growing the dead

squirrel on my face. Linda isn't digging it.

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For I am death. The destroyer of worlds.

2009-10-26T07:07:00.001+09:00

Now they've gone and done it good. I guess that these here foot covers are officially sanctioned by the factory to wear riding your dark custom.
How gay

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Half ass online with my iPhone

2009-09-28T08:06:00.000+09:00

I know it's not jackassery but here's pictures of my new casa de wrenchbender.

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Choppahead Vol. 3

2009-09-06T15:56:00.000+09:00

We're from Oklahoma Jackass!

2009-09-05T02:26:00.001+09:00

For Wirecutter

2009-09-04T01:50:00.001+09:00

Who'd a thunk it?

2009-09-04T01:39:00.000+09:00

Я твой слуга, я твой работник, техническая доброта нот

2009-09-01T03:28:00.005+09:00

More going away pics

2009-09-01T03:17:00.001+09:00

Peabody, Kookie, Hobbit, Dewdroppp, peanut, Matt and Skid from American Steel MC dropped by later on that night after they had Church. I'm gonna miss them too.

Nedd some more warpaint on Prospect Joe.

The look of befuddlement is only the beginning of the night.

Leaving Korea Party 2

2009-09-01T03:05:00.000+09:00

Trying not to choke up like a bitch.

Present from the prospects. I think I'll try and make a clock out of it later.

Prospect Mike and I.

My Leaving Korea Party

2009-09-01T03:01:00.001+09:00

Yes, I'm Leaving Korea, not for good you never know, but for now I'm heading back to Texas to live at home for a while. Got the transfer going from here to NAS Fort Worth to work for the Army Reserve on the Fixed wing contract.

My brothers from the Rough Riders MC showed up to tell me to Fuck Off.

Prospect Dave showing me his new modeling look. Zoolander has Magnum, Prospect Dave has Critter (in honor of the Haints in Ala-fuckin-bama). Sportin' his new Korea H.O.G. T-shirt that we prettied up for him.

To stab or not to stab, that is the question.

Bitch-slapping, combatives and pain to follow later once they get drunk...

Gary's coming out of the closet... wait Hospital party

2009-08-17T04:12:00.000+09:00

Bob you can't convince your wife you're not full of shit

Me entertaining the womerns with my chart toppin' voice.

This is what happens when you can't last.

Leaving for home in the morning after staying up all night and eating Banana pudding for breakfast.

I got a late start because the party was in full swing when I was at work. By the time I got off and headed home to let the mutts out and change out of my sweaty clothes it was already 10 pm. All in all it was a great party; heads were shaved, jokes is told, meat is cooked and eaten and everyone drank a staggering ammount of alcohol save for me.

Genitals

2009-08-17T03:55:00.000+09:00

Army style FLH

2009-07-28T03:36:00.000+09:00

So it's Friday night and I get off work and head down to the club house. After a while of sitting outside and shooting the breeze with my brothers this Korean dude comes rolling by on this wacky Road King dressed in this manner and sees us and locks on his brakes pulls a u'y in the road and says hi. We come out and talk at him for a good 15 minutes and off he goes.

A brother at war

2009-07-22T06:01:00.000+09:00

Soju!

2009-07-22T05:56:00.000+09:00

Mix with some juice and bam! Inastant drunken Jackassery; Douches' talk shit, teeth is knocked out, handcuffs is put on, fingerprints is taken, cout dates is missed and cycle repeats. All thanks to Party Liqour made from rice.

Stolen pic but true.

2009-07-22T05:42:00.000+09:00

Dismount

2009-07-08T04:07:00.000+09:00

I give him a 4.5 for style.