• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

I'm glad I still carry dykes in my fanny pack!

Norman Foley

Norman Foley

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My buddy John and I went boondocking today, trails optional. I managed to get tangled up in some fence wire and get it wrapped around both sprocket and rotor side of the rear wheel. A few snips and tugs and all was well. It would have been a real trial to get it out, without my trusty dykes. The woods in this area are full of old fence lines, from when they were pasture and not woods. It's been a few years since my last tangle with wire in the woods and I always get tempted to leave the dykes out of my tool kit, but they will stay. We found some excellent riding to add to the list, so a good day.
 
Believe it or not we are no longer allowed to refer to the diagonal cutters as dykes anymore its not politically correct. the correct US Gov and Gov contractor name is Side Cutters.

What happens if some obscure group claims themselves as Side Cutters? Side Cutters:people who lean to the left...when flatulating.

PS I always have my Leatherman tool for both plier and dykes duty.....hey wait a minute the lead singer of Judas Priest is a Leatherman..........
 
Wire is no joke. I personally witnessed a single strand of concertina wire bring an M1A1 Abrams to a halt after it wrapped about 50 yards of it up in the drive sprocket. Couldn't be cut out with dykes on that one. Torch and a lot of cussing. I was pulling guard and was wondering where our wire was getting pulled before I saw the spark show. (Desert Storm in Southern Iraq)
 
We have freedom of speech here ... freedom of about everything ... A little scary (but great) to be honest with you ...

Lost my wire cutters but I plan on getting another set to cut ziptie ends if nothing else ...
 
Hmm...ok...

A thread about dykes, fags, bums, fannies and leathermen...

I'm glad this place is high class and mature
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I'm so naive.... I thought this thread would be full of "wire" stories, not double entendres! Pretty funny though and high class for sure!
 
The beauty of this place is that we joke with absolutly no malice or other bad intent. And yea I forgot about the Aussie meaning of fanny, very cute.
 
Great thread. the title alone would be a real attention grabber in the UK. I had to do a double take
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and I'm not sure I need to know what boondocking is
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pablo said:
and I'm not sure I need to know what boondocking is:thinking:
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"Boondocks" is term meaning out in the middle of nowhere or the back country far from civilization. To go boondocking simply means to go out into the boondocks. "Boonies" is the short term. "We were way out in the boonies", etc.
 
Dirtdame said:
"Boondocks" is term meaning out in the middle of nowhere or the back country far from civilization. To go boondocking simply means to go out into the boondocks. "Boonies" is the short term. "We were way out in the boonies", etc.
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Thanks dirt dame
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I'm glad you cleared that up.I was a little concerned
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Great post Norman.
 
Norman Foley said:
I'm so naive.... I thought this thread would be full of "wire" stories, not double entendres! Pretty funny though and high class for sure!
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I participated in an enduro this past weekend and I had to bushwack around an impossible section, I ended up picking up an 8' piece of barb wire. The barb stuck in a knob then wrapped around both sides of the hub until I came to an abrupt stop. I took me about 20 minutes to unwrap it. During that 20 minutes I thought about this thread, how much I wish I had some dykes and WTF was barb wire doing in the middle of nowhere. When I got to the next check, the check worker said "you can go as fast as you want and you wont burn the next check", hahaha.....real funny.
 
dyke's take up too much room, are too heavy and usually pretty ugly and mostly used by beginners.

if i have to carry one (a dyke, never multiples), i'll delegate that chore to another. and it's only for emergency use.

fanny pack? not in this camp. for obvious reasons.
 
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