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13709. Magoseph - 2/5/2005 5:55:03 PM Toys 13710. arkymalarky - 2/5/2005 5:55:59 PM I meant it's too bad because it would make going back to teaching part time worth the take-home money (what you'd make+what you'd draw in retirement that you receive while you teach) rather than having to weigh whether full time (especially with such a long commute) would be worth all the time it would take up. And if you really miss teaching you could still be home a lot. If I was to retire and couldn't draw retirement and teach, I would likely either go into another field entirely or just not work, but it makes a good option to stay in the profession and lighten the load without taking too much of a pay cut to make it worth it.
Our health benefits here are outrageous either way, unfortunately, but I guess it's better than nothing, so that's another plus--I'd still be eligible. Bob's is the same as mine, of course, but to quit and go on his is expensive. For people who stay in full time there's also something called a T-drop that lets you make extra money off your retirement for every year past eligibility that you teach. So if I worked full time (I don't know about part time) from age 51 until 66 I would make a lot of retirement money in that time in addition to my salary, but of course I couldn't draw it out until I retired, whereas if I dropped to part time I don't think I could T-drop but I could draw retirement.
It's time for me to start thinking about all that stuff after 24 years of teaching and Mose about to be on her own health insurance-wise in the next three or four years. I can't believe it, really. 13711. arkymalarky - 2/5/2005 5:56:21 PM Oops. 13712. Magoseph - 2/5/2005 5:56:29 PM Does it work finally? 13713. thoughtful - 2/5/2005 10:46:05 PM Don't remember if I mentioned to you guys or not about our jeep. Well, finally got digital pictures of it.
 13714. thoughtful - 2/5/2005 10:46:06 PM Don't remember if I mentioned to you guys or not about our jeep. Well, finally got digital pictures of it.
13715. wonkers2 - 2/5/2005 10:48:45 PM Cool wheels! 13716. thoughtful - 2/5/2005 10:49:10 PM oops. no idea how that happened...i only clicked once!
Any way it's a 1948 cj-2a that my dad bought new. It has about 20,000 miles on it. Body and all is original. We had it restored a couple of years ago. Restoration consisted of largely replacing any thing rubber, fixing the dents and such my brother put in it when he used to drive it through the woods, and fixing up some rust.
 13717. PelleNilsson - 2/5/2005 10:49:58 PM Is that an optional six-wheel drive you have there? 13718. thoughtful - 2/5/2005 10:51:49 PM We had it painted in the original luzone red with the cream accents. We have the bows for the old canvas top, but never had that part restored. Now we use it just for fun. Local dairy queen has a cruise night with antique cars and 50s music and such so we'll head down there on a summer night for some sweet treats and good conversation with other old car buffs.
 13719. thoughtful - 2/5/2005 10:52:43 PM pelle, say what? 13720. thoughtful - 2/5/2005 10:57:13 PM Dad bought it with the plow package which included a hand pump hydraulic lift. This jeep was used as the key work horse in the construction of the addition on our house, which my dad did by hand. Using the hydraulic lift in the back, dad, grandpa and my mother managed to place the 20' steel i-beam onto the lolly columns across the family room. I remember him wrapping chains around the huge boulder he dug out of where the septic tank was going...all digging by hand, mind you...and using the hydraulic lift, getting that rock out of the pit...it was so heavy it was actually lifting the front end of the jeep off the ground. He also rigged up a dumping platform off the back using the hydraulic lift and he used that like a dump truck to move dirt and such.
Of course, he also used the plow to get the snow out of the drive. Chilly work as the jeeps in those days had no heat.
13721. thoughtful - 2/5/2005 10:59:39 PM In fact the vehicle has lots of quaint features like its top speed is about 45 mph. It has only 1 taillight...the other side is a reflector. The windshield wiper on the left is vacuum run, but the one on the right is a hand cranked wiper...kept the passenger busy. 13722. PelleNilsson - 2/5/2005 11:01:35 PM I hadn't seen #13716 when I posted. #13714 looks like there is an extra set of wheels at the rear to be lowered if required. 13723. thoughtful - 2/5/2005 11:07:51 PM Oh...no it's just a spare. The design is only slightly modified from the jeeps used during WWII. Willy's had to come up with a new purpose once the military purchases dropped off so they were selling it as something better than a tractor. It had all kinds of attachments including plows, tillers, harrows and such which could then be removed for heading into town...something you couldn't do with a tractor. These vehicles were not only very tough, but they were very simple and easy to fix...necessary on the battlefield which made them attractive to rural folks. 13724. PelleNilsson - 2/5/2005 11:19:47 PM Does it have an hydraulic power outlet at the rear like tractors?
Can you mount a snow plow on it?
I find those simple but versatile post-war vehicles quite fascinating. 13725. judithathome - 2/5/2005 11:45:06 PM Thoughtful, is that your house in the background? 13726. arkymalarky - 2/6/2005 12:09:54 AM That is too cool. Who'd need a Gator with one of those? 13727. Max Macks - 2/6/2005 3:36:42 AM wow thats quite a nice looking Jeep
but is that snow along side of it?? 13728. thoughtful - 2/6/2005 4:50:30 AM pelle, the plow package my father bought was for a snow plow so the hydraulic lift was designed to be mounted in the front. He moved it though to the back for all the other purposes I talked about above. It was not power lift though...we flipped the lever and pumped it up by hand...flip the lever back and it would lower itself.
Neither of the houses in the pics are mine...took the photos on the side street near us as our drive was all shade.
Yes, that is snow along side. I took the pics today. When we had the jeep restored, husband thought the steering box was ok, but turns out it isn't. So monday a fellow is coming to pick it up and rebuild the gear box. We garage it in the barn over the other house, but drove it to our house today for pick up. Fortunately, it was reasonably warm and very sunny for feb. It hit 47 today. Very nice, esp after that below zero weather we were having. But still very chilly for riding with no top, no sides, no heat.
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