so waht ya doin today?

[Bret4207]

Got 3 hours of wood cutting in, 1 hour of that was spent trying to get stuff started! Me and Mr Chainsaw need to spend more quality time together judging by how sore that little bit of work made me. Gonna have to dig the chains out and put them on the old 800 Ford tractor. In weather below 15F or so the snow gives more traction than it does at 20-35F, but there are limits to what rubber will do on frozen ground. Steel solves a lot of traction issues.

 

[Brad]

Casting up a bunch of Accurate 38-155K. They seem to get shot a bunch around here.

 

[Ian]

Been at the lathe for a couple of hours trying to solve yet another reloading problem.

 

[JWFilips]

Did something today I have not done in 24 years!
I went out flintlock deer hunting ( it is PA's Antique Season!) Very Cold, Crystal clear sunny day! Morning temps were 8 degs, so we waited until noon to hit the woods ( (21 Degs). I went with my brother-in-law.
Took me the better part of 3 days to pull warm clothing together that fits me and find my accouterments that were all stored away....but I succeeded in getting everything together and getting out there.
We hunted in a mountainy type terrain with Stands of Laurels that was unfamiliar to me but he hunts every year.
We didn't see anything or kick anything out ( just too bright of a day and the fresh snow was noisy from the cold.
He had to quit by 3 pm ....I think if we could have stayed in the woods until 4:30 pm They would have started to move around because we are scheduled for an Ice storm tomorrow morning. all in all it was exciting and I got some needed exercise!
Hope to go out one or two times before the season ends!

 

[Ian]

.45 ACP powder-thru expander spud for cast bullets.

 

[fiver]

yeah i scrolled down... LOL
there's two different ones but i need to know a couple of specifics [not listed there] before i buy the heavier duty unit.
[which the TCS 80 miles away didn't have in stock]
i'm gonna check the local stores before i buy one, quite often they will order me stuff and give me a discount, or at the minimum look up the specifics and give me part numbers.

like the part i just ordered for my 36" pipe wrench, they gave me the part number and the phone number/web site to a place that had it for about 25% cheaper than they could get it.

 

[Ian]

You broke or wore out a 36" pipe wrench? Daaaayum.

I have a grubbing hoe that someone wore about a third the blade off. That takes one hell of a man.

 

[Mitty38]

My little Bruno looks a lot like Rocco.

Looks just about as ornery too!

 

[fiver]

considering that i don't abuse my stuff [IE use a pipe wrench as a hammer] yeah... siiigh.
i had a 48, but it wandered off on a retro fit job where i was pulling down some old 5" threaded stuff.
only tool i ever had stolen off a job, and i'm fairly positive it stayed within the company.
[we had to use the company truck to unscrew one chunk of pipe that was on a vertical run]
but i've had to rebuild a couple of 18's and a 24"er, those got the jaws worn down from use and had to be replaced.

 

[Joshua]

When I was a pipe fitter at the Papermill. I had a supervisor who was a millwright by trade. They got called in on a Saturday night for an emergency job. Supervisor grabbed my 24 inch Harbor freight pipe wrench off the side of my tool box, they put a come-along on it, and snapped it in two. The company was nice enough to buy me a brand new 24” aluminum Ridgid. I came out shiny on that one.

Normally the company wouldn’t buy us pipe wrenches under 24”, but they stocked replacement jaws in the tool room that they gave to us when ours wore out.

 

[Winelover]

Normally the company wouldn’t buy us pipe wrenches under 24”, but they stocked replacement jaws in the tool room that they gave to us when ours wore out.

GM kept the jaws and springs in stock in the tool crib. Tools would be replaced, free of charge, if you turned in the broken one one.

I was the first apprentice to bring one into the plant. The weight reduction is substantial and greatly appreciated. Especially, when working overhead. Everyone wanted to borrow it. I loaned my 24 " aluminum Rigid to a coworker. Never again. Apparently, used a persuader on it. Returned it with a crack in the area where the jaws ride. Had a excellent welder tig weld it. Still have it after 40+ years. Now it has character.

The tool I replaced the most was the #430 Channellock's ............jaws wore down regularly.

 

[Bret4207]

I have a few of the old adjustable wrenches for square headed nuts, some with the S shaped handle, some with wooden scales on a straight handle. They look completely outdated and useless, but I constantly find places they will fit that nothing else will. Often they end up being used parallel to the nut/bolt rather than in the normal right angle. The jaws on all run 3/4-1" wide. I also have an ancient 3 foot pipe wrench my FIL gave me. I have put a 6 foot cheater on it more than a few times! If I ran across a 4 or 5 footer I'd grab it! FIL also gave me a Crescent adjustable wrench thats about 2 foot long and opens to about 3" or so. Another tool I'd pick up if I could find a larger version of. I remember when I thought I'd never need anything bigger than my Craftsman 3/8" drive socket set. Now I have 1/4", 3/8". 1/2", 3/4" and a few 1" drive sockets, at least a dozen sets and I'm keeping an eye out for a 1" drive impact for cheap! Oh, and METRIC! I still have the little 10 piece metric socket set my dad bought when I got my little Honda 55 trail bike. I think it's a "Globemaster" brand. I must have 7 or 8 metric sets, plus wrenches, and it doesn't look like I have near enough as I can never find the 10mm items!!!

Ice here this AM. Yuck.

 

[dale2242]

Prepping for the hip replacement tomorrow.

 

[popper]

adjustable wrenches for square headed nuts - i got one of those, don't know it's specific use, has a funny square at the end of the handle for opening some cap head type bolt? I always figured for use on nat. gas stuff. Biggest tool I've seen was the drag line in operation in the coal field and some spanner wrenches hung from the side wall of a friend's garage. IIR at least 4ft opening.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Prepping for the hip replacement tomorrow.

GOOD LUCK!!

 

[462]

After a nerve-racking nine days of not finding the stuff my wife wanted to find, it was all found. Other than finding the stuff, the only other benefit of the time and energy spent in trying to find the stuff was getting rid of some unnecessary and space-filling stuff that was in the shed so we can put more unnecessary and space-filling stuff in it.

I'm glad my downsizing project has had a smooth run and is closing in on completion. I do wish, though, that Brad would post some stuff of his getting-rid-of-Paul's-stuff project that I could use. Hmmm . . . maybe a
.44 Special/.44 Magnum die set?

 

[Bret4207]

Best wishes for a swift and easy recovery Dale!

Nice lazy Sunday. Ended up thawing a water pipe and faucet in the barn that drizzles water for the ducks and geese which froze night before last, same day I was bragging I'd caught the other faucet just as it froze! Got 'er did anyway. Then I decided to find out why some of my barn lights didn't work. Ended up replacing 3 fixtures, (horses are rough on light fixtures), patching some wiring and finally fixing one fixture that hasn't worked in, literally, 27 years! It didn't work when I got here in '95 and I never remembered to look at it till today. Someone didn't attach the neutral wire to the bulb base. Better late than never...

 

[Brad]

No die sets other than Lee Loader set for 44 mag.

I still have 310 tools to list. I have never used one and have no interest so I am not entirely sure what is there or reasonable prices.

Wife and I filled a 65 gal trash bin today with “stuff”. Lots of stuff we just don’t need so out it goes.

 

[JWFilips]

Moving a bit slow today. Back , hips and legs are a bit sore from my jaunt in the woods yesterday! 3 Hours on hilly rocky ground was the culprit.
But I'm ready to go again!
Talking about wrenches....when my son was in High School he and his pals took a keen interest in Anthracite Coal mining of our region. when ever they could they would try to find a few of the old existing Coal Breakers and sneak inside to look around...they even entered some mines ( crazy kids) and explored them! They used to bring me back some of the huge old wrenches they found..and I mean huge! Adjustables , open ends and some I never could figure out! A few they found in an old Steam Locomotive shop!. I have them stored away in the back of my old shed! Some day I have to dig them out and photograph them... maybe you guys could use them! The are all pretty heavy so shipping would be the only cost.
The smaller ones I have in my workshop because the fit normal sized things!

 

[L Ross]

Prepping for the hip replacement tomorrow.

Best wishes on the surgery Dale.