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Pier 1 Imports, Inc., is a specialty retailer of imported decorative home furnishings and gifts in the North America. It conducts business as one operating segment and operates stores in the United States and Canada under the name Pier 1 Imports.
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- A recent poll by the Wall Street Journal and NBC indicates 63% of American support raising the minimum wage.
- Though the Republicans are expected to challenge anything brought to the floor of the House, there's a growing consensus in DC that some minimum wage legislation will eventually pass.
- Democrats argue that the current minimum wage level of $7.25 per hour is low by historical standards when adjusted for inflation.
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- Three Senate Democrats have broken away from Majority Leader Harry Reid's $10.10/hour line in the sand on minimum wage legislation.
- Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, and Mark Warner of Virginia have all tipped off that they think there could be some room to negotiate over the amount of an increase over the current federal minimum wage of $7.25/hour. The GOP likes the status quo, but is viewed as likely to give some ground in an election year.
- Federal minimum wage legislation could create higher costs in the retail and restaurants sectors as companies adjust to the new higher floor.
- Last week, Gap made a preemptive move to raise its own hourly wage in a development that stirred the pot a little bit.
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Tuesday, Feb 2510:41 AM
- ICSC reports retail sales fell off last week despite warmer temperatures across the U.S.
- Though traffic was on the light side, a few categories showed improvement. Sales at wholesale clubs (COST, PSMT) and furniture stores (PIR, BBBY, LZB, RH, ETH, HVT) continued to show more resiliency in 2014 to weather than broad retail.
- ICSC forecasts February comp sales will improve 3%-3.5% Y/Y.
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Tuesday, Feb 119:35 AM
- ICSC attributes the weekly dip in retail sales to weather patterns, but a few bright spots did emerge.
- Despite slow traffic patterns, categories which showed strength included wholesale clubs (WMT, COST, PSMT) and furniture stores (LZB, ETH, HVT, PIR, BBBY)
- For the full month, the research group sees monthly comparable-store sales growth of between 3.0% and 3.5%. That mark reps solid sales growth for the period compared to prior forecasts, although ICSC warns the figure could change again with the weather.
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- Despite the tough holiday season for retailers with store traffic low, Wedbush says its channel checks reveal that a few companies came out of the period looking fairly strong.
- Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY +0.9%): Investments in the company's website and omni-channel initiatives appear to have paid off.
- Big Lots (LOTS): Aggressive clearance activity sets up the company for a strong Q1 with a new merchandising strategy teed up.
- Dollar Tree (DLTR -0.1%): The retailer may have benefited from its value proposition in holiday and toy categories as consumer traded down.
- Kirkland (KIRK -1.6%): Webush says a scan of Kirkland's stores impresses with management showing an on-trend merchandise mix.
- Pier 1 Imports (PIR -0.1%): Traffic appeared very strong at stores both before and after Christmas.
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- Bob's Discount Furniture changes P-E hands, going to Bain Capital from Apax Partners.
- A deal for the furniture store chain is believed to be in the neighborhood of $350M.
- The company is in an aggressive expansion mode and in some markets competes with La-Z-Boy (LZB +0.7%), Tempur Sealy (TPX +0.4%), Bassett Furniture (BSET -0.2%), Ethan Allen (ETH -0.3%), and Pier 1 Imports (PIR -0.3%).
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- Pier 1 Imports (PIR) outpaced most of the retail sector with comparable store sales growth of 6.9% in FQ3. The 3-year stack comparison was also impressive with 21.8% growth.
- The company's website accounted for over 4% of total sales during the period.
- Gross profit fell 50 bps to 43.4% of sales due to a "slightly" increased promotional atmosphere.
- Comparable store sales growth in FQ4 is expected to be in the mid single-digit range. (PR)
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Thursday, Dec 122013, 10:04 AM
- Retail sales showed their biggest gain since June and beat expectations after backing out auto sales.
- Automobile and housing-related categories helped drive up sales during November to make up for weakness in other areas. Furniture (LZB, ETH, HVT, PIR, BBBY) and home furnishings stores (WSM, RH, KIRK) showed an impressive 9.7% Y/Y gain. The read for Home Depot (HD -0.3%) and Lowe's (LOW -0.4%) is positive as well as their key categories looked solid.
- Grocery stores (SVU, KR, DEG, IMKTA, SFM, WFM) and clothing stores were drags during the month.
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Wednesday, Nov 202013, 1:55 PM
- A survey from Wedbush on holiday shopping trends tips off that a few retail chains might have an edge on their peers.
- Pier 1 Imports (PIR -0.3%) and Gap (GPS -0.5%) are mild surprises to see ranking near the top of the investment firm's read on consumer preferences - while ongoing momentum from Michael Kors (KORS -0.7%) and Amazon (AMZN +0.1%) is no shocker.
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Friday, Sep 272013, 10:24 AM
- Pier 1 Imports Inc. (PIR) declares $0.05/share quarterly dividend, in line with previous.
- Forward yield 1.01%
- Payable Nov. 6; for shareholders of record Oct. 23; ex-div Oct. 21.
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Is This Anything?
Companies getting pasted and poor market internals is what happened back in the Internet meltdown too. This is just a little factoid not an analysis or a prediction.
In terms of analyzing this the market does not cut in half twice in one decade. I suppose it is possible but in terms of realistic probabilities; I would say no. However these little under-the-market's-hood items could, like before, lead to a sizable but probably overdue decline.
This year we have had two mid single digit dips and people freaked out. If you look at market history, get yourself a Trader's Almanac, you will see that 20-30% declines happen often enough that they should be thought of as normal. A decline of that size will happen at some point in some market cycle which will then help put a 6% decline in much better perspective than was portrayed last week.
Whenever the next bear market starts we should expect a decline of more than 20%, 20%. I have no idea if the current mortgage/liquidity issue will be the tipping point or not but the yield curve has been in varying states of inversion for a long time which is an unhealthy condition for financial stocks and financial stocks are vital to the market and lubing the chassis for the economy.
Problems in the financial sector often come home to roost. This might be happening now or it might not. There are arguments on both sides of the debate and they sound plausible but I can't get away from the fact that inverted curves lead to trouble. Combine that with money that was too cheap and too abundant for too long and you have a recipe for recession and bear market, NORMAL recession and bear market not apocalypse.
I don't know, nor do I feel the need to predict the timing of the next recession. This merely pops us as a risk with a decent probability. For now stocks are flirting with rolling over but have not really done so yet.
Do what you want with this but I have been concerned about this for a while and continue to be so now.
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- Leisa said...
The comments that nothing is wrong with the economy go like this:
1. It's a global boom. Well Japan (the second largest economy) is slowing as well as ours. What happens with China reduces its building for the Olympics...that cannot be sustained.
2. There's a liquidity boom. Central banks are raising rates, credit spreads are widening, bond investors are leery of what is being sold to them. Sounds like it all adds up to liquidity ka-boom.
3. Corporate balance sheets are healthy. They are buying back stock; not investing in their businesses. They are also incurring debt (the price of which is increasing) to do this.
4. Corporate profits are healthy--well if they are not investing in their businesses, debt will cost more and the consumer is getting a wee bit weary, where will these come from. The Am. Consumer still fuels the world's economy.
5. The new global middle class will take over. Yes, only if we teach them to reverse their cultural values of saving to spend more than you earn.
At some point in time all of these items are going to conflate like a neutron star and way very heavily on the minds of investors. - 6:07 AM
- Anonymous said...
Great perspective IMO.
This is what I have been trying to say, the combination of over valuation and liquidity issue would be painful for equities.
The sky will not fall but I do not like a 15 to 35% hair cut on my assets. I view a 25% decline give or take as painful and now that we see the fed will not put fuel on an inflation fire just when it is coming under control, I think the decline is inevitable IMO.
Which is not to say we may not rally a little higher from here first. - 6:18 AM
- Stock Market Beat said...
We might not have had 50% declines twice in a decade but we haven't been far from it. For example:
1930: down 34%
1931: down 53%
1932: down 23%
1937: down 33%
If you are really superstitious, you would note that the 2000, 2001, and 2002 poor years aligned with the poor years in the '30's and that if that alignment continues...
Good thing market participants aren't superstitious, right? (knock on wood.) - 6:42 AM
- quant_investor said...
Amazing how fast things can turn. RSO announced good earnings this morning and is up about 19%.
As of 10:15AM
- Stephen Drone said...
IMH has been on the decline for a LONG time. Their huge yield caught my eye a year or 2 ago.
I dunno if I'd have called their collapse a calamity as much as a "you could see that coming" but I also didn't realize they had been a $1.5b company. - 7:58 AM
- Bhh said...
I hear that China Olympics thing a fair amount. I guess the idea is they're building all these Potemkin condos so they'll look cool on TV?
I think it's more likely they actually have 100s of millions of people want/need stuff like indoor plumbing, electricity, etc. In other words, it's real demand for commodities, infrastructure and the like. - 7:59 AM
- Anonymous said...
A well disciplined "tactical" (relative strength) asset investor would be in one to three asset groups, rotating assets about 2-3x per yr, only having to by the computer one hr a day and mostly doing homework on the weekend. YTD that investor would be up for the past four years, this year included, over 20% per annum. Stop losses would prevent anything more than a 9% decline. All bets off, though, on a one day crash. Over the long run this is an approach that keeps it simple, uses numbers not emotions, clobbers the performance of most active or passive mgrs, and gathers enough profits to not ever feel badly about even a 10 percent drawdown. The punchline is that while I genuinely believe the data overwhelmingly supports the above assertions, I am going crazy trying to implement the strategy. One has to have an amazing discipline to shut out conflicting information which is so abundantly available.
- Stephen Drone said...
The 1930s, especially the early 30s, are awfully different that today.
BUT, obviously, one can learn from history.
Here's a graph from a Merriman post; the far right column shows the biggest monthly S&P 500 drawback for that year. - 8:23 AM
- Anonymous said...
Roger, how do we get just your ETF comments?
- Roy said...
To display just the ETF category;
http://randomroger.blogspot.com/search/label/ETF - 9:56 AM
- tom k said...
Anonymous 8:17,
I agree with your post. Momentum is indeed an exploitable, persistent anomaly and TAA rotation strategies continue to work. Even hardline random walkers like Fama and French admit the anomaly exists and can't explain why.
The hardest part of any mechanical strategy is to avoid market/economic news and resign yourself to the fact that knowing WHY markets behave the way they do isn't very important.
The exact strategy you sketched isn't for me but I wouldn't doubt it works (if you can stomach the drawdowns). - 7:23 PM

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Columbus radio host Scott Torgerson fired for controversial tweet
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Last week we told you Columbus radio host Scott Torgerson was suspended for a controversial and offensive tweet criticizing ESPN college football analyst Desmond Howard. Today, the other shoe dropped for The Torg as he was let go by 97.1 The Fan in Columbus. The station "future endeavored" Torg, appropriately enough, on their Twitter page...
Scott Torgerson is no longer employed by our company as of today. We appreciate his contributions and wish him well in his future endeavors.
— 97.1 The Fan (@971thefan) October 24, 2012
To be honest, this isn't a surprise. Once Kirk Herbstreit (still a very influential figure in Columbus, make no mistake) got involved publicly, it was always going to be difficult to see The Torg find a way back from his suspension. Not to mention there must have been some pressure from above for the ESPN Radio affiliate in Columbus to disassociate themselves with Torgerson after he jokingly wished firing or death upon Desmond Howard.
It's always tough when someone loses their job and I do believe there's a case to be made both for keeping Torgerson and letting him go. Torg made a mistake and apologized profusely for it, so some will say a suspension was enough and he learned his lesson. Others will say Torg had this coming as a sports shock jock who makes a living pushing the envelope and eventually there would come a day when he wouldn't be able to pull it back. I don't think there's a "right" answer in this case. Regardless, it's an unfortunate situation all the way around and hopefully Torgerson is able to learn from it and move on.
Given the nature of "The Common Man & The Torg" and outspokenness of Torgerson's ex co-host Mike Ricordati (who has taken on Herbstreit himself), I would expect fireworks when their show comes on the air at 3 PM ET today if you're in the Columbus area.
Make sure you listen at the start of the show today . . . 3pm. 971thefan.com
— Mike Ricordati (@CommonMan971) October 24, 2012
Screw you sandal wearing *meows*!!!!! Not only should Torg not have been fired but he should get a pair of gold pants for saying it! Go drink a steaming hot cup of SHUTTY you Whitney cry babies! Torg2012
Good riddance to the jerk. i live in Columbus and it is a shame that we have had to suffer with the inanity of him and his partner the Common Man. If only we could get rid of him too, the quality of sports talk radio in Columbus would significantly improve.
Miss the Torg already. the show was a sure fire hit; the banter was awesome took sports talk to a better place and they discussed the true feelings of fans. (97.1 made a mistake..two mistakes do not make a right). The essence of his tweet was that it was hard for him to watch college game day. I wish Scot success in the future and when he is on air again he lets all of us know where we can listen once again
There are things you can say and there are things in this social media, viral environment you'd better not say or risk your job. I think they made the right call. What he said was over the line.
Their show had the second highest ratings of any non-syndicated sports show in the country... and it was in fairly tiny market. Make no mistake, 97.1 the Fan will greatly regret their colossal mistake in unjustly firing Mr. Torgerson.
@clubtrillion @cklaiss does anyone w/ an ounce of common sense believe that Scott Torgerson wishes that Desmond Howard would die? #PCBS
Radio station should stand behind their people, if fans don't like the commentary ratings will drop and then they should take action. Herbstreit should not carry any power in Columbus, he has way too many negative comments. I don't listen to the show but I do believe in freedom of speech.
Torg will be missed. CM&T was the best sports talk show (local or syndicated) in the Columbus market over the past 10 years. They had a great 6 year run!
FWIW, it was a silly comment, but IMO, Kirk's was worst. This was an "ivory tower vs sophomoric humor" contest. Humor lost. Too bad.
It just makes no sense to fire him from a business or PR perspective in Columbus. Since the news of his suspension coming out I have seriously heard no one call for him to be fired except maybe Herbstreit (and why does The Fan or anyone in Columbus care what he thinks exactly?), yet I have heard thousands of people say they want him back. Why would you alienate your viewers that much?
And not to compare Desmond Howard to Jerry Sandusky, but Torg got fired for clearly joking that wanted Desmond Howard to die, yet today Common Man seriously stated he wanted Jerrry Sandusky murdered in prison. Now I don't have a problem with either comment, but to act like The Fan is somehow offended by what The Torg said is ridiculous, since those kind of statements are basically what they do. They make similar over the top (for laugh) comments all the time.
Bring back The Torg!!!!! LET HIM LIVE!!!!!
Craig Krenzel's been great "filling in" for Torg while he was "resting"...don't see why he wouldn't outright replace Torg on the show. I don't think Spielman only because of his ESPN commitments during college football season (though he has a twice-a-week segment on the show during football season).
For those you think Ricordati's on the chopping block (and he may be, this is just my take), he's one of the longest-tenured on-air personalities at The Fan. He's been there at least 7-8 years.
@awfulannouncing he won't be missed, just negative about everything, his show ran it's course
@awfulannouncing Its about time people learned that free speech doesnt mean you can say whatever you want when you work for somebody else
@awfulannouncing great exchange a lil while ago between @JohnKincade and gary danielson.
@Weave77 You must work in New York or Chicago. Columbus is a pretty good size market.
@Janie18 I take it you've never worked in broadcasting. Your freedom is speech goes as far as your advertisers will allow you to go. That's the reality, no matter how you feel about it.
@ChipRamsey1 @Weave77 Columbus is larger in size/population than either Cleveland or Cincinnati- and while they both have major pro sports, Columbus (which has hockey and soccer) has Ohio State football and basket ball. According to official census records, we are the 15th biggest city in the United States. How the hell does that translate to Columbus being 35th smallest market? In no sense of the word is Columbus 'tiny'!
Anyway, Torg, who I found entertaining 80% of the time (mildly annoying the rest of the time) got what was coming. Radio personalities such as Scott Torgerson live on the edge, and the price they pay is falling over the cliff.
Torg & Common Man (can we as a nation, PLEASE do away with these idiotic nicknames! Talk about cliche!) played the roll of the loud mouthed pranksters. Torg always playacted like he was dumb and clueless, which I am quite sure he is/was not...but he got burned this time. I mostly enjoyed listening to him, but I would have like him AND Mike Ricordati better if they cut back the phony outrage and 'shock' tactics about 10%- because they are both talented and funny. So long, Torg...
According to the Fall of 2012 Arbitron Radio Market Rankings, Columbus was the 35th largest market in the country. True, it's not Cheyenne, WY (which is why I used the adjective "fairly"), but it's still pretty darn small to have the second highest rated show in America. Heck, it was only the 3rd largest market in the state of Ohio!
Here's where I got my information: http://www.arbitron.com/home/mm001050.asp
@ChipRamsey1 No I haven't worked in broadcasting nor am I a public figure. Howard chose the spot light and needs to put on his big boy pants and stop whining. That goes for herbstreit as well
@njc2o @CoryBehrendt Agree. Krenzel is a great guy but his radio personality is horrible. AJ Hawk and Bobby C are better on the radio.
@Weave77 @ChipRamsey1 I assume rating is based on percentage of listening audience. So, market size removed from "ratings". If everyone in Lima OH listened to a show it would be the highest rated, even though no one lives in Lima.
And you are forgetting the qualifiers on the quote...
2nd highest rated (eliminates market size) non-syndicated (eliminates ESPN/FOX shows) sport radio (eliminates "news" and "music" radio) in the country.
@Janie18 @ChipRamsey1 Janie, you are missing the point. Torg had TOTAL freedom to say what he said; the police did not come lock him up, no charges were pressed, nothing legal happened to him. But his words were outrageous- just as he intended them to be- he worked the 'shock jock' side of the street, and this time, his mouth got him in trouble.
Torg was free to say what he said...
91.7 was free to fire him. End of story.
@ChipRamsey1 Come on, it was humor. I am offended by coulter using the word retard this was wrong in so many ways but until someone defines the limits around freedom of speech then we as Americans voice our opinions.
@Janie18 @ChipRamsey1 So, then, if someone is a public figure, it's okay for other people to wish they would die? People take that talk kind of seriously. I'm not a big fan of Gus Johnson and wish he would go away, but I've never hoped he would die. That's just wrong and irresponsible.There are limits to frree speech.
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Hope he does get a show in radio - and takes Common Man with him!
@backinaction614 @njc2o @CoryBehrendt Like "Circle K" or not expect to hear more of him. While Ricordati's show is now just titled "Common Man" he said that Krenzel will be on with him tomorrow. One of the other station producers did the show with Ricordati today.
From the sounds of things Torg's not leaving Columbus in the near future, just obviously won't have a job in radio.


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Posted Feb 24, 2014Everything about this hotel is quite nice. The rooms are well appointed, clean and comfortable. The staff was very pleasant and eager to be helpful. To ice the cake, the Brasserie Jo was the perfect place to enjoy a drink and have a nice bight to eat.
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Excellent service and restaurant.
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Nice location
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Cons: Could offer a free breakfast
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Staff was always helpful day or night that was great
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Great location! Very friendly staff.
Posted Feb 3, 2014Pros: Location, comfort, staff.
Cons: Atmosphere throughout could be a little brighter, and the menu at the bar could have some healthier options.
Location: Directly across from the Pru, with the T stop right there. Walking distance to Northeastern University, which is why we were in town.
Stayed here for one night with an Expedia unpublished rate. The front desk upgraded us, so I never saw the room we would have had, but ours was a nice sized king, though not huge, and it faced out the back, so not towards bustling side of the hotel. The hotel workers are all very friendly, and the parking is convenient, with the elevator right into the hotel. You can't beat this location. WIll definitely stay again if we can swing it. I would have given five stars for cleanliness, but the bed sheet looked a little worn and had a yellow spot just under the pillow. I was tired and just put a pillow on it and slept down a little towards the foot of the bed, but I'd rather not have had to do that! Otherwise everything was clean and comfortable. Also, the bathroom was claustrophobic and small, but clean and functional. Had a great night's sleep!!
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A great Back Bay hotel
Posted Jan 11, 2014Pros: The location is great, the room is a decent size, the bed is comfortable, the restaurant is good. We liked everything.
Cons: Can't think of anything.
Location: Prudential Center is across the street, Copley Square is a block away, Newburty Street, MFA and Fenway are close.
We chose the Colonnade because it is so close to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. We would go there again because the room was elegant and comfortable, and the staff were so friendly.
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What will I break?
I have a kubota BX2360 with a Farm King 50 snowblower . The geometry of the 3 point lift arms will lift it way off the ground very fast when running the tractor at pto speed (about 3000 rpm). This Is not so much a problem for me but I worry about my wife or other "guest" operators that want to "help" me when I'm not home. I woud like to limit the lift to 6 or 8 inches with a chain to the fixed draw bar but I am afraid of damaging the hydraulics, rear casting or whatever else. I would like opinions / horror stories before I do somthing stupid. As a side note I have checked and shortened the pto shaft about an inch so it does not bind but the shaft angle gets pretty extream when it's lifted too high.
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Re: What will I break?
Why not put a stop on the control lever. You probably already have a movable stop for the down side of the lever. Get another for up or move the down stop to the up side.
Shouldn't take much more than a bolt, nut, and washers. Maybe a rubber washer too."If you're not making any mistakes then you're not doing anything"
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Re: What will I break?
I agree with Gordon. Adding a stop on the control lever makes it easy to adjust and can be used for other attachments if needed.
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I think that the OP's tractor has quarter inch valve, not position control. I would not artificially limit the height with a chain as you can break something. Rather, provide some instruction to those who use the machine.
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Re: What will I break?
Letting an unskilled operator take control of your BX has a huge potential for harm to people, property or the equipment itself. Sorry to say, but I can't think of a good solution other than ensuring your expensive equipment is only used by operators with enough skill to operate it safely, particularly since you won't be there to supervise. That would probably be a good plan in any situation, don't you think? For example, teach anyone who will operate the tractor: a) how to feather the lift control when operating at high rpm, or b) idle down the rpm's a little before raising the 3 point.
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Re: What will I break?
A snow blower with the turning auger is a fairly dangerous tool (for people and things around it!). I would give detailed instruction on how to use it and why certain things are done or not done. Fer instance... a guy at work was out of town and he told his kid to snow blow after a storm. The kid didn't know not to toss the snow against the house, nor did he know that he was also throwing the bottom layer of ice. But he learned that it's "bad" when he noticed the entire side of the house had holes / cracks / tears in the vinyl siding! Apparently, the old push blower was only 1 stage and had no force but the new one....
On the 3pt blower being lifted too high, that can damage the PTO shaft and PTO u-joints. I'm a firm believer that nobody operates equipment that they are unfamiliar with (except me ).
Re: What will I break?
two things -- one have you played with the down speed control ?
second - if you really really want to limit the speed semi permanently with a simple bolt on part, you can. Look under the rear fender on the 3 pt control side. you will need a bolt on part where you can use the quarter inching part by holding the lever in for both up and down. IF you took that part off and make a new one with longer ears to be in the quarter inching ALL the time, you will be able to use it in slow mode up and down ALL the time. Save the old one in case you want to put it back the way it was. its just a simple bolt on.
FYI -- I bent those tabs down more with my crescent wrench so its easier to engage, but still can use full or quarter inching.
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Re: What will I break?
Thanks for the ideas and advice. I thought about limiting the travel of the lever and that will fix the speed issue but not the height. I had not thought about the quarter inching valve but I'm going to check it out as Radioman suggested.
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The Buccaneers released their first official depth chart on Tuesday and the only major news was that veteran running back LeGarrette Blount was still starting ahead of rookie Doug Martin, who was a 2012 first-round draft pick. To view the official depth chart, click this Pewter Report article.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers released their first official depth chart on Tuesday in advance of the team's 2012 preseason opener at Miami on Friday night. There were no real surprises on the depth chart, but the one training camp battle that may be the most competitive and interesting is the starting running back spot, which shows veteran LeGarrette Blount ahead of rookie Doug Martin, who is one of the team's two first-round draft picks.
Other notables include former starting safety Cody Grimm still listed as a third-teamer, Mossis Madu still running third team ahead of 2012 seventh-round pick Michael Smith, and Preston Parker running ahead of Sammie Stroughter as the Bucs' punt and kick returner.
Injured Buccaneers wide receiver Arrelious Benn (knee) and cornerback E.J. Biggers (foot) haven't lost their place on the depth chart as Benn is running second team behind Vincent Jackson and ahead of training camp star Tiquan Underwood, and Biggers is listed ahead of Myron Lewis behind Aqib Talib at left cornerback.
Here is the Buccaneers' first official depth chart:
Vincent Jackson Arrelious Benn Tiquan Underwood Wallace Wright Greg Ellingson Brandon Cox
Donald Penn Demar Dotson Bradley Sowell
Carl Nicks Mike Ingersoll Desmond Wynn
Jeremy Zuttah Ted Larsen Moe Petrus
Davin Joseph Derek Hardman Michael VanDerMeulen
Jeremy Trueblood Jamon Meredith Jamarcus Hardrick
Dallas Clark Luke Stocker Zack Pianalto Collin Franklin Drake Dunsmore Danny Noble
Mike Williams Preston Parker Sammie Stroughter Ed Gant Armahd Lewis
Josh Freeman Dan Orlovsky Brett Ratliff
LeGarrette Blount Doug Martin Mossis Madu Michael Smith De'Anthony Curtis
Erik Lorig Robert Hughes Cody Johnson
Michael Bennett E.J. Wilson Jayme Mitchell Da'Quan Bowers
Gerald McCoy Amobi Okoye Wallace Gilberry
Roy Miller Gary Gibson Frank Okam Jordan Nix
Adrian Clayborn George Johnson Daniel Te'o-Nesheim Quintin Anderson
Quincy Black Dekoda Watson Brian Smith
Mason Foster Adam Hayward Najee Goode
Lavonte David Jacob Cutrera Rennie Curran
Aqib Talib E.J. Biggers Myron Lewis Desmond Marrow
Eric Wright Anthony Gaitor Leonard Johnson Derrick Roberson Marquese Wheaton
Mark Barron Larry Asante Cody Grimm Tramain Thomas
Ronde Barber Ahmad Black Keith Tandy Sean Baker
Michael Koenen Eric Guthrie
Connor Barth Kai Forbath
Michael Koenen Connor Barth
Andrew Economos Andrew DePaola
Preston Parker Sammie Stroughter
Preston Parker Sammie Stroughter
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August 9, 2012
12:51 am
Play smart Friday. No major injuries please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 7, 2012
4:53 pm
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August 7, 2012
4:30 pm
Absolutely correct macabee. It's merely the first depth chart of a long training camp before final cut downs. Injuries, trades and Practice Squad considerations will have a big effect.
August 7, 2012
4:18 pm
Can't believe Biggers is still on the team. If they need Biggers we are in big trouble at CB.
August 7, 2012
3:52 pm
We gotta have Penn to run the ball and protect Freeman. We need Talib to make that secondary solid. They gotta get these guys taped up and on the field. Benn must be hurt worse than they are saying since he is not in practice only a few days before our first preseason game. This Team has some real talent this year but it won't make a bit of difference if we cannot get our best 53 on the field. At least it sounds like McCoy and Clayborn are going to be gamers this year. I cannot wait until Friday. This is when you get to see the future super stars and the Future Bartenders.
August 7, 2012
12:12 pm
I wouldn't read too much into this depth chart because Schiano said the NFL forced him to put it out! Meaning there is some truth here and there is some smoke. Example: Mike Ingersoll behind Carl Nicks - The Bucs cut Ingersoll after OTAs and he was picked up by the Pats who cut him 2 weeks later - then picked up by the Bucs again. No way is Ingersoll ahead of Desmond Wynn, but what better way for Schiano to get the most from one of his hand-picked guys during preseason. And why wouldn't Sciano want to motivate Doug Martin during preseason than to have him feel entitled because of his draft position. The depth chart of Sept 3rd is the one that counts!
August 7, 2012
11:17 am
I swear I saw something a while back saying Danny noble was released but he is listed last on the TE position, was he resigned? Or is this an error?
August 7, 2012
11:56 am
Danny Noble is indeed still there. Matter of fact, he worked after practice with Luke Stocker.
August 7, 2012
10:17 am
No surprises here and that's why I have concerns. The only new first teamers are Barron and David. The DL looks kind of weak. Does anybody have a projection when Penn will be in pads and how many weeks after that will he be ready to protect Josh and open up the holes for our RB?
August 7, 2012
9:52 am
I've been out of town the past few days so forgive me if this has already been discussed among the posters but I'm not too crazy about the idea of Parker as our main kick and punt returner. Maybe the Jacksonville game last year is still stinging me. It could also be that I can't think of any explosive kick returns he has ever done. I like Parker as a slot receiver, but I think Stroughter is better at returning kicks and punts. I also can't wait to see what Michael Smith can do in a live game as a returner.
August 7, 2012
9:25 am
Not too many surprises. It seems veterans were given the nod ahead of rookies (ex Madu over Smith). I was a little surprised to see Hughes ahead of Johnson on the FB depth chart, and Dunsmore as the #5 TE. Dunsmore might not make the team this year.
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