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Post by bushmanbilly on Apr 1, 2016 20:40:25 GMT -5
There is a 1/2" grating over the suction. Anything smaller than that goes through the pump with no real problems. The flat rock give me problems , they make it through sometimes and block parts of the internal intake. Starving the pump. Weeds are a problem, they will over heat my motor real fast.
Up here you need the heavy gauge. Our rivers are hard on normal boats. My boat weighs about 1500 lbs. The extra protection would add about 200 more. It will float in 8" and will run on plane in less than 6". One nice thing about jets is they have brakes. Just slam the throttle into reverse and hold on. From 40mph to a dead stop in 4 boat lengths. Does not hurt anything in the drive. Just diverts the flow direction. I want to upgrade my jet with a thrust vectoring nozzle to help with the trim.
Taking my boat out of storage tomorrow. Wil post some pic's of the suction guard and skid plate.
You live on Lake George? Lucky man. I watched Bill Dance fish that lake when I was young on TV. Its on my bucket list.
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Post by stephan on Apr 2, 2016 1:40:15 GMT -5
Another custom order. 42 inch with solid steel ball feet and 49 inch snuffer table top. local customer, to be delivered  Beautiful work, James. |
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Post by jamesp on Apr 2, 2016 7:33:43 GMT -5
There is a 1/2" grating over the suction. Anything smaller than that goes through the pump with no real problems. The flat rock give me problems , they make it through sometimes and block parts of the internal intake. Starving the pump. Weeds are a problem, they will over heat my motor real fast. Up here you need the heavy gauge. Our rivers are hard on normal boats. My boat weighs about 1500 lbs. The extra protection would add about 200 more. It will float in 8" and will run on plane in less than 6". One nice thing about jets is they have brakes. Just slam the throttle into reverse and hold on. From 40mph to a dead stop in 4 boat lengths. Does not hurt anything in the drive. Just diverts the flow direction. I want to upgrade my jet with a thrust vectoring nozzle to help with the trim. Taking my boat out of storage tomorrow. Wil post some pic's of the suction guard and skid plate. You live on Lake George? Lucky man. I watched Bill Dance fish that lake when I was young on TV. Its on my bucket list. Yea, plug that pump and overheating is an issue. Cooked a jet ski that way. And had rocks clobber impellers too. With so much power your impellers must be stout. Jet ski impellers very delicate and thin bladed. 1500 pounds with 250HP, great power to weight ratio. And the need for armor in those rocky rivers makes perfect sense. Slow moving Florida rivers have acid water dissolved chert and limestone bedrock horns and blades that are razor sharp. Real boat bottom cutters. Have since gone to used thin gauge 14 foot jon boats. Used ones that I buy for $200. They get thrown away after a couple of dozen trips. Small 7 HP Go-Devil and all light weight. Slow but easy to drag up the shoals. Rock hunting and fishing best at lowest water levels. I have a camp on L George. Bought it years ago. Used to get aquatic plant stock down there. It is the north of 6 miles of residential lake front lots, and every shy critter hangs out on my quiet spot. I get calls from amateur astronomers wanting to buy it because it has one of the darkest non-glare night skies. It is also a point, so all kinds of reptiles are crossing over it. Very dynamic. Fishing off the chart. come see me |
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Post by jamesp on Apr 2, 2016 7:39:47 GMT -5
Thanks stephan. Not the fanciest, simple seems to sell. |
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Post by bushmanbilly on Apr 2, 2016 9:51:11 GMT -5
Someday I will do that. The down turn in the patch has delayed that for a couple years.
Stock impellers are aluminum. Mine lasted 12 years. I treat my boat good and try not to suck up to many rocks. I replaced it with a stainless steel one. Some places you need all that power. A few years back I was on the Waupati River. The current was so strong that as soon as backed my boat off the current jack knifed my trailer.
Nice pit, the ball mill feet are a nice touch.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 3, 2016 3:19:59 GMT -5
Someday I will do that. The down turn in the patch has delayed that for a couple years. Stock impellers are aluminum. Mine lasted 12 years. I treat my boat good and try not to suck up to many rocks. I replaced it with a stainless steel one. Some places you need all that power. A few years back I was on the Waupati River. The current was so strong that as soon as backed my boat off the current jack knifed my trailer. Nice pit, the ball mill feet are a nice touch. A boat built like that is a lifetime investment. Put the best in it. Get to know it well and feel secure going on journeys. It would take the waves on Lake George. At 11 feet deep and 6 X 14 miles the lake develops peaky waves that tend to break bass boats. Deeper V-hull a minimum on that lake. The Go Devil can travel the shallow shore where water lilies grow and the waves stop when a storm comes up. Lake George loaded with salt water fish, St John's river flows through it starting in south Florida and exiting to ocean in North Florida. Used to collect seeds and cuttings on the St John's, flowing north it carried many tropical aquatic plants up stream. Used to build 2 stroke 900 and 1200cc jet skis, tweak pump, to cover lots of miles, 65+ MPH and head south over 100 miles downstream from George. They were work vehicles about 50% of the time. Crossing George in a storm or windy day was a real work out. Rogue waves in that lake. They came out with one with a spring seat that did best on the rough water. This Sea Doo was a real wave cutter and rider friendly. Not sure aging body wants any more of that action LOL  I always liked the noisy slow Go Devils for the reason it would easily go where other boats could not. Produces well when rock hunting and fishing. |
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Post by bushmanbilly on Apr 3, 2016 23:30:26 GMT -5
Only 11 feet deep, that would make for some rough choppers. I hate them waves.
Them go devils look like one could do some very sharp cornering. Would work good for the tight curvy creeks we have in the north. Would be a crowd getting pulling into the marina with one up here. Never been on a jetski, raced a few of them before they put some real horsepower to them. I like the spring seat idea. My next add on the my boat is air ride seats. The girl can handle the waves, but it kicks the crap out me. I've had it for 17 tears and my back it telling me I need them. Just have to figure out a way to run a compressor, tank and regulator setup.
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Post by bushmanbilly on Apr 4, 2016 0:28:42 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on Apr 4, 2016 8:23:51 GMT -5
Had that ski on the ocean after a hurricane passed. About 250 feet between well organized swell peaks, 20 foot valley, glass water/no wind. Younger man.
Jumping the ridge and landing on the downhill of the swell picking up speed rapidly down hill to climb the hill for the next swell ridge.
Maybe ski was airborne 40-45% and very long high jumps with gentle nose up landings.
Probably the most insane ride or experience I ever had.
Sounds ludicrous and dangerous but the geometry was set perfect for gentle landings and smooth predictable water. Ramp down landings like the dirt bikes do. All stable.
Where 4 foot chop will get you dumped off the ski and provide a rough ride. That spring seat XP was the wicked rough water ski of them all.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 4, 2016 8:37:06 GMT -5
That boat is cat's meow. Just compact and strong, big spray protection. Built like it should be.
Aluminum just a perfect metal. Never seen many boats to own a lifetime, that one sure fits the bill.
Darn sporty too. Somebodies pride and joy, jet looks in great shape. Looks like rocks tried their way up the rock guard.
Does that rock guard have a hinge point that allows swinging it down to clean ?
Extended length of pump make for the ride of a longer boat, lots of folks don't realize how much that helps.
Can't tell if that boat is one or 12 years old.
Ox bow/crooked creeks will work you over with a Go Devil. Long tiller needs long arms or fast feet.
Always wear a safety cut-off harness on a Devil.
They have a rock guard for the Devil but in weedless rocky shallow water your jet is hard to beat.
Shear speed helps get over rock friction on hull, add power.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 21, 2016 9:18:50 GMT -5
Still getting pounded with fire pit orders. 3-42", 3-36", 1-48,1-49, 1-24, 1-30 in past 7 days. Most w/snuffer tops. Mostly west coast and NE US.
No orders last April. Not sure why.
Every week at least 3 since start of year. Internet a strange animal.
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Post by orrum on Apr 21, 2016 9:34:27 GMT -5
Keep on Jim, the public needs more FIRE!!! I SAY FIRE!!! LOL Ahhh my grandfather hated burning wood, we were close to coal country. He liked coal, burned longer, hotter, less ash to carry out and was actually cleaner. Granny like coal in the wood cookstove because the heat was more consistent and easier to control the tempersture.
Ahh but yalls president Obama outlawed coal in the electric power producing industry because nuclear plants are more green. Yea, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, not to mention Japan's lil meltdown. Yall know that they can't get rid of the spent fuel Tod's n are just piling them up in kiddie pools inside the reactor plants right?
Meanwhile back at the ranch, China, India and everybody else is burning coal like crazy with no scrubbers etc. Our coal fired generators burned a very clean mix of coal, coke and limestone with great scrubbers to keep the world clean. Nothing is pristine guys. The public education is pitiful and isn't going to improve because the news media has no interest in presenting informative content. Instead they muck rake for sensationalism and show us "reality shows". Better wake up or your grandkids are going to be living in a cave wishing for a fire period!!
As my hero Forest Gump ssid, that's all I got to say about that....
Sorry for ranting on your thread Jim.
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Post by orrum on Apr 21, 2016 9:35:28 GMT -5
That's fuel rods.
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Post by orrum on Apr 21, 2016 9:42:23 GMT -5
You know they mine uranium here in the US by pumping water down a drilled hole and pumping it back out and removing the radar ion material?  My question is where does all the contaminated water go??? Also doesn't forcing water underground cause that wster to leak out thru cracks etc and contaminate a bigger area, possibly the aquifer?? Yes that's what I call clean energy!!! Ahh I quit you can take the horse to water but you can't make him drink. We are such a superbably stupid blindly uneducated nation. My grandad couldn't read or write or do figures but he knew nuclear was a bad bad thing. |
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Post by jamesp on Apr 21, 2016 12:18:07 GMT -5
orrum, China is building a force of nuclear reactors like the world has never seen. Not so sure they play with the International rules of construction either. They scary. Govt used to pump munitions pollution into the water table back WW2(Milan TN). US Govt #1 polluter all time at one time in this country, because they can.
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Post by bushmanbilly on Apr 21, 2016 13:01:24 GMT -5
You know they mine uranium here in the US by pumping water down a drilled hole and pumping it back out and removing the radar ion material? My question is where does all the contaminated water go??? Also doesn't forcing water underground cause that wster to leak out thru cracks etc and contaminate a bigger area, possibly the aquifer?? Yes that's what I call clean energy!!! Ahh I quit you can take the horse to water but you can't make him drink. We are such a superbably stupid blindly uneducated nation. My grandad couldn't read or write or do figures but he knew nuclear was a bad bad thing. Unless the holes are cased and cemented (like they are in the oilfield) the water will migrate and contaminate the cracks and fishers. And the greentards protest fracking. Must be the colorlessness and no odor that makes it safe. |
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Post by orrum on Apr 21, 2016 14:04:37 GMT -5
Thanks Jim for the understanding!
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Post by orrum on Apr 21, 2016 14:05:56 GMT -5
Hey bushmanbilly you got it see no evil, hear no evil, taste no evil but boy r we gonna feel all this nuclear business!
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Post by bushmanbilly on Apr 23, 2016 11:58:11 GMT -5
Hey bushmanbilly you got it see no evil, hear no evil, taste no evil but boy r we gonna feel all this nuclear business! Yep can't wait to catch my first 3 eyed fish. Fossil fuels have been powering us for over a 100 years safely. With technology it gets cleaner everyday. And plants like it too!! I think the real reason your sales are going up is the craftsmanship and quality. |
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Post by jamesp on Apr 24, 2016 7:50:20 GMT -5
Hey bushmanbilly you got it see no evil, hear no evil, taste no evil but boy r we gonna feel all this nuclear business! Yep can't wait to catch my first 3 eyed fish. Fossil fuels have been powering us for over a 100 years safely. With technology it gets cleaner everyday. And plants like it too!! I think the real reason your sales are going up is the craftsmanship and quality. How about 5000 pounds of bases and snuffer tops at 12 cents per pound. Found this backwoods guy that does some old school flanging and am buying his scrap that just happens to fit perfectly as covers and bases. Would be cost prohibitive at 'new' prices. He scraps at 5 cents, I pay 12 cents. These pieces set the fire pit biz on fire Dale. Architecturally appealing pits using these parts. I buy all his scrap. And new stuff too mixed in as budget allows.  |
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