What's the 2nd neatest website you know of?

[Bro. Noble]

Tom's recent post as well as the post on favorite relaxing music made me wonder what your next to favorite website is.  We all know what the #1 site is.

I think my pick would be www.topozone.com.  It will give you a detailed may of anywhere in the US.  If Tillaway gave us the coordinates of the area he will be working next week,  we could almost see him on the map.  If you asked for backbone ridge in Ozark county Mo. you would get a detailed map of our farm.  If you asked for the lost dutchman mine in Arizonayou might-----never mind, it's really not a very good site.  Gotta go now.

Noble

[Texas Ranger]

rough country you live in, bub.

[Tom]

Where I like to visit varies so much from day to day that I don't think I really have a "favorite" place to be other than here.  I spend a lot of time in Research books now.  I guess it is a sign of getting older.   Reading about anything new and how to do it or identify it really turns me on.  One of my favorite reading spots is the Forest Products Laboratory Wood Handbook.  I find something new every time I read it. I have to research stuff to understand it and have to go back because I forget it.  It's kind of perpetual intertainment. :D

[woodmills1]

hey noble try microsofts terraserver.com you can zoom in on topo maps and see aeral photos if they are avaliable.

[johncinquo]

if you those try http://www.usgs.gov/pubprod/index.html , Might as well go to the source that makes up most of those.  The only thing is they are a little expensive to buy.  I have also used globexplore.com with great results.  I love trying to find the specific spot I was out hunting or walking and found something interesting.  My second favorite spot- the chainsaw forum on arborist site.  

[DanG]

Hey, this is fun!   Let's see if I can enter a link to my place.

http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?n=3388868&e=717601&z=16

[Tom]

I like to play with Terrafly sometimes and fly around my house or over cities.
http://www.terrafly.fiu.edu/

[Bibbyman]

WowZers! That's really something!  First time I've ever been able to key in my address and have it come up EXACTLY on my place!  Just pleased to note that the EPA does not list any polluters in my area.

[Jeff]

My second favorite place is E-Bay. I don't have much time to look around the web unless its research for something. I wish I had more time to play.

If you like Dark demented humor try www.joecartoon.com its pretty disgusting at times but can be hilarious. Noble you need sound!

[Andre]

I am using Opera web browser and the topozone has a problem.  After the map is loaded I get a java mouse key error that will not quit, have to use task manager to kill the browser.
The terrafly seems to never finish loading.
Switched to MS explorer and both work, it's a conspiracy I tell you.

Great web pages.

If you like reading old tech books and magazines here is a good place to spend some time.
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/

[Bro. Noble]

Don,
Yes it's rough country-----and real hilly too !

Tom,
I couldn't get terra fly off the ground,  I think my computer is afraid to fly.

Jeff,
If I had sound, I probably couldn't hear it.

DanG,

Are there fish in all those streams and lakes?

Noble

[Texas Ranger]

 You showed me yours, I'll show you mine.

http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=15&n=3400044&e=317053  

[Tom]

As long as we are showing off our homesteads, here is the Cadenhead home place.  See that red 46 in the upper left  hand corner?  Due North of it is a bend in Thomas Creek that I have identified as a Chicken Heart.  The southerly bend to the east of it is mine, a 660 foot wide strip as wide as the bend that runs south to the hard road.  My house sits just to the east of the red 46. See the red "X"?  There aren't a lot of hills. :-/

Tom's Place

See that alligator? :D

[Haytrader]

Hey Noble,

Are you sending responses from Arizona?
Have you found it yet?
 ???

[Bro. Noble]

Tom,

Go to the enlarged scale and it will probably show your house.

Noble

[Jeff]

Here is a hint. You can click on the maps where you live or the place you want to point out on topozone and it will leave a red x. You can then copy that address to show theexact point of interest.

Example: Our Cabin

[Bro. Noble]

Haytrader,

I'm getting behind with my advertures.  I hate to say too much about them.  If there is a lot of gold there I've got a partner that can 'borrow' a big Cat loader.  We may need it Friday on another caper.

Hey Perry,  If I'm buying, maybe we should wait till later to eat----just in case.

Seriously,  our family loves to visit old mines and "ghost towns" in Colorado.  Topozone maps are a real help in locating them.

Noble

[Tom]

I don't know if I'd trust a topozone map or not.  The roads aren't right around my place and the houses in the swamp don't show.  The cartographer must have ridden down the hard road and wrote addresses off of the mail boxes.  There are houses showing that were built long after I bought this place but me and my neighbors don't show.  'Course we have to pipe sunlight back here and run our clocks ahead to keep up with the city folks. :P

[Fla._Deadheader]

www.treasure-scoops.com  Go there, Buy sumpthin. We is STARVIN !!!! :D :D :D :D

 Yer right, Noble. Them Terra things are pretty good fer findin stuff.

[Jeff]

They must be. Apparently did not pay thier server fees. I got this:

This web site has been temporarily disabled.  

Please contact the webmaster of this site if you have any questions.

Thank you.

[Fla._Deadheader]

Yeah, the hosting service BITES down here. We can't even get FAST internet. Sometimes it takes forever to download images. They were "supposed" to re-set the server. Boy, I really enjoy paying for service that I don't get !!!

[Jeff]

I host websites ;D  Hows the forum's service? Thats what you would get from my servers.

[Fla._Deadheader]

My computer guru buys space on a server and hosts several websites himself. He and I have access to the server and make our own changes and store our own images. Would you allow that?? This guy is Microsoft certified and does a fine job. He might be interested??
  Funny thing, I just went to post on this form and got a page not found message?? :D :D :D

[Jeff]

that was your browser or your connection.  I can set anything up, but if he already has a server then you probably can't do it cheaper.

[Fla._Deadheader]

Let me try this again. He was buying-renting space from a company that was a hosting company. They have been bought out 3 times now, and they are currently in Kentucky. We control our own websites, but, he has the allotted space from this other company. Make any sense???  He pays the other company for server space and charges us for the hosting of our sites. He does NOT have his own server.

[Jeff]

I have 2 dedicated servers. I can create space alloted accounts on them with either ftp or frontpage access. I probably a little more expensive. I charge 30 bucks a month for most sites. Difference is from most hosts you get me. ;D

[Fla._Deadheader]

I will pass the word and see what happens.

[Jeff]

I didnt know you had a website. How come its not in your profile?

[Phil]

Noble,

2nd favorite Websites?  Hmm, let's see...

I usually like www.theonion.com, although it can get pretty tasteless sometimes.  And CBS's Late Show site is always good for a few chuckles.

I frequent www.backpacker.com , too.  For local diversions, www.kywilderness.com is really good.

Phil

[ADfields]

If you asked for the lost dutchman mine in Arizonayou might-----never mind, it's really not a very good site.  Gotta go now.

Noble just so you know the Lost Dutchman Mine is the name of a HUGE stake house in Apache Juction Arizona.   Thay named it that so people back east would look it up thinking of hitting it big and thay know by the time you get that far from home you will want a beer and an over priced bernt on the outside but moo when you put a fork to it stake, with cowboy beans. ;D   But I know you have the gold fever and will think I just want it all for myself so when you get there say hi to all my kin fokes for me, thay will be the ones you are handing your money over to, so every place you go when you pay out just say Andy says hi and give um that Forast Gump wave. :D   Also be shure to have "geten home money" as this time of year you will think it's a great place to live but TRUST ME come mid May you will change your mind!
Andy

[ADfields]

I dont have just one neatest websight, there are 1492 in my favorites now and about 5 BB's I hit every day.   I will post some of the stuff I like.

BB's
#1 Hands down hear!   Thanks Jeff!  
#2 Tow Times Talk.
http://209.164.107.203/talk.htm
#3 American Towman.
http://www.towman.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro&BypassCookie=true
#4 A Catahoula dog place.
http://catahoulaleopard.com/forum/
#5 Woodw---well you know!  
It's not 1/100th as good as hear if you ask me!

Now for websights
Blacksmithing This is a great place to kick back and wish you had done half of what this man has in his life!   He is now a school teacher and I bet a danG good one!
http://www.reil1.net/

This is my brothers sight.  got a lot of cool horse stuff on it and a lot about Arizona and my family.
http://www.clydefields.com/

If you like the Foxfire books then you will love this one!
http://waltonfeed.com/old/

A joke a day is one I look at every day.
http://www.ajokeaday.com/ChisteDelDia.asp

My place on topozone, no need to call befor you stop in. ;D  We aint all that formal round hear ;)
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=6&n=6833707&e=391443

Andy

[Fla._Deadheader]

The website is actually my son's. He has taken over the business. I have so many different interests that my website would be like going to a junkyard. Something for everyone!!!

  I called my puter guy and gave him yer website. He is going to contact you.

  I hit 3 BB's on Gold Prospecting and read the Tico Times, american version of life in Costa Rica. I plan on living there, AT LEAST 6 months of the year, when I retire, hopefully next Dec. Would have been this Dec., but, got involved in this loggin thang????

  Noble, how long ya been gold huntin?? Here's a pic. or 3. All from Alaska. Top to Bottom, 3.01, .87, .28

[Bro. Noble]

Harold,

I'm not a treasure hunter,  just love being a tourist and seeing historic and natural sites.

One funny 'toorist' incident happened several years ago.  We were taking a trip to New Orleans.  Had just left the house when i realized that I had forgotten my cap.  Rather than go back, we stopped at Gainesville which is 15 miles or so from home.  Went into a friends clothing store to buy a cap.  The lady that waited on me didn't know me and asked if I was a tourist.  I said yes.  She asked where I was from.  I said up by rockbridge.  She gave me a real strange look.

Noble

[Jeff]

WOW look at all that detail for less then 15k ;)

Good Job there DH

[Fla._Deadheader]

Yeah, I'm larnin. Used a micro or macro or mashed potato or some kinda special lens I was told that I HAD to get when I bought the camera. I also use Web Optimizer to re-size the images. If I knew HOW to use the programs in this puter, I could do stuff like ya'll do!! I got more software, courtesy of my guru, than most stores !!

[DougM]

I love this site mainly because I have been fortunate to go on the trip the past 3 years. It will remind you how great kids can be. We even go to ADfields neck of the woods in Palmer

//www.aglp.com

[sburro]

here is an interesting site
www.ducktapeguys.com
tuck tape is mans best friend :D :D :D :D

[ADfields]

DougM, it's a good neck of the woods!   The big news hear today is someone swiped a fresh hot pizza off of the seat of a runing and unlocked car down at the Cars/Safeway store parking lot, oh my whats IS this world coming to!  :  It's geting so you got to lock up everything :     :D ;D

sburro, I like the Duck Tape Guy's!   :D :D
Andy

[DougM]

ADfields,

So, how was the pizza?  :D :D :D :D :D

[Bro. Noble]

Andy,
Boy I wish I could visit your neck of the woods.  If I ever get to visit Paul H,  maybe i'll go on over there.  Just as well while I'm wishin.

Doug,
I was reading an artical in a farm magazine one time.  It listed the most important inventions in agriculture-------right up there with the McCormic reaper and the John Deere plow was bailing wire and duct tape.  I don't know how we would get along without it.

Noble

[ADfields]

MMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmPizza 8)

Noble your shure wellcom!   But, I konw how hard it is to sneek out on all them females in your life.   Cows are 24/7, thay are hard to turn off!   As a kid I rember people coming to our dairy to visit us on there vacations, we never had time enouf to take a vacation we had 300+ gals to look after!   I think that is what gave me the itch to see the world.   Now I have been in all 50 states, 7 provinces of Canada and Sonora and Baja Mexico, thats enouf for me I will stay put now.   I like to go back to Arizona for 1 week a year but thats it.

When you get to Paul's place you will be just a bit over 1/2 way here.   Thats the ugley 1/2, BC, Yukon and Alaska are right nice to look at! ;D   Paul has it the best I think down in BC, thats some great country there!
Andy

[OneWithWood]

Well to get back to the original subject:
The second neetest web site I frequesnt is
www.jag-lovers.org
 
The site is well thought out and maintained with full featured archival searches and everything you would want to know about the subject matter.

The members are a lot like the members here - a wealth of information that is shared willingly by a bunch of like-minded individuals with a large helping of good humor. :P :P :D ;D

[beenthere]

www.Tractorbynet.com
Very well set up site, and endless information mostly on compact and compact utility tractors and attachments. A wealth of information and knowledgeable members contributing. A sister (brother?) to this site for 'non-tractor' information is www.Countrybynet.com