judway
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Last week, while we were dry camping at Shanty Pond in the Ocala National Forest a big homeless tomcat was friendly with us every evening. He decided to sleep on our motorhome engine (a CAT) to keep out of the cold. When I started the engine Wednesday to leave, there was a big loud bang. When the engine started the noise woke him up, he decided to get out of there fast and dived headfirst into the rotating fan. There was lots of blood and a cat burial. I thought that I had lost a belt and called Gary for information. He gave me the phone numbers for both Freightliner and Cat. I stopped at the Freightliner place in Ocala to get the fan and belts checked. The belts were OK, but one blade was cracked and a small piece out of another, but no vibration and basically OK. Freightliner did not charge me anything for the inspection.
So, Tom if you decide to dry camp in the forest the cat won?t bother you. You might however have a problem with the ?Rainbows?. No they aren?t a part of Jesse Jackson?s bunch. There were about 200 of them camping in an area south of us and raided our area for anything they could carry off. They had our friends the camp hosts all upset. They had the rangers and the sheriff out the night before we got there to solve some problems. Except for the drums going late into the night, it was pretty peaceful during our stay.
So, Tom if you decide to dry camp in the forest the cat won?t bother you. You might however have a problem with the ?Rainbows?. No they aren?t a part of Jesse Jackson?s bunch. There were about 200 of them camping in an area south of us and raided our area for anything they could carry off. They had our friends the camp hosts all upset. They had the rangers and the sheriff out the night before we got there to solve some problems. Except for the drums going late into the night, it was pretty peaceful during our stay.