so waht ya doin today?

CZ93X62

CZ93X62

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Concerning the Porsches, it was not quite "Fifty in a row", but pretty close--4 to 7 of them in gaggles, 50 of them over about 10 minutes' time. Lots of Otto's Autos. Those quad-beams are WEIRD. FWIW, temps in Palm Desert yesterday at 4 P.M. were 77* F. Brutal.

Later today, the Ruger Bisley Hunter gets released on bail from Cal-DOJ's DROS Purgatory. Once that critter is home, I will clean it up and do some slugging on the bore and pin-gauging of throats to see where the wind lays dimensionally. Rugers can be poetic from time to time. My 1999 Redhawk is near-perfect right outta the box--right at .430" in the grooves, a fat .430" (plus a few tenths) in the throats. .431" sizing for the win. It REALLY shoots. It would be divine if this new Ruger is similarly graced. Also gotta run down a set of 25/35 dies for a friend who ordered a Rising Sun Win 94 in that chambering. He needs them, and I don't--I think they are still out there.
 
Brad

Brad

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Thanks Rick. Finally getting the process figured out. Keith’s die blanks make it so much easier and faster.
 
RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
Man people are nuts here .
This lady gets in touch 3rd hand , pays me $60 to cut up 2 down trees and haul them off . Better part of 4 cords of wood , 25' of 12-18" hickory trunk .....don't know if I want to smoke a herd of cows or slab it out for furniture .
The other one is mystery meat , about 70' 24" double trunks and a 3rd about 10" by 30 ft .
This gal coming out to set up an auction for the lady with the trees stops and asks if we can help her out . She wants some table center pieces maybe 10-12' just some slabbed rounds about 2" thick . Sure . So I cut the slabs off , a dozen cuts . $30 cash .
So we hauled mom's splitter out ran it about 2 hr and put 2 cord in her truck & trailer to burn , we've got that much more still to pick up still and three 14-18" x 8'+ to saw for slab wood . Mom's got enough to run the rest of the season and a start on next year , and we got paid $90 to make it happen . That's only $20/head but it covered the new coupler on the splitter , fuel , lunch and some for tool wear . It also reminded why I gave up commercial wood hauling , good help is precious .
 
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358156 hp

At large, whereabouts unknown.
Lincoln Gun Show today! I borrowed a little space on a friends table and set up some trinket stuff. Didn't do well so far, lots of lookers, but so far most of them kept their money in their pockets. I did end up with a bunch of free jacketed .308 bullets, and one kind soul gave me a bunch of 30-06 cases for when/if I ever get the Savage from hell running. I have a two month wait for my stock, so I have plenty of time to cool down after the rifles latest escapades. I wonder if it's possible to get an exorcism on a rifle action, I need to look into this.

My best advice is to not buy an old Savage 110 to build unless you have it exorcised first. Most of the parts necessary to update the oldest ones are non-existent anymore. Most of the issues come from the stock itself, and the original design detachable box mag setup. I finally ended up ordering a new style stock for a box magazine, the new style trigger guard, and I lucked into a second generation box mag & follower. I'm seriously thinking about painting the stock red, and painting the name "Christine" on the side.
 
JonB

JonB

Halcyon member
I don't take down trees, unless it's not near anything ...and I mean anything.
But I will cut up and haul away firewood from storm downed trees for free, if the owner wants to finish the cleanup (brush).
I charge for the cleanup and hauling away the brush.
 
Ian

Ian

Notorious member
Now that the county engineer and I have finally reached an agreement and he issued an engineering plan and driveway permit, I was able to go pick up a culvert and build the service entrance today. The bad tire on the Bobcat gave up a out halfway through so I had to stop and replace it with one of my low-mile spares. Still have to pave a strip along the pavement edge to satisfy requirements, but the bulk of it is finally done and I can proceed to building gates.

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Ian

Ian

Notorious member
A small herd of whitetail use it several times a day. I maintain the only reliable water source for over a mile in any direction, and the food supply is across the road, neighbor's coastal bermuda plot. I'd have to finish the other half of the fence to keep anything in.
 
Ian

Ian

Notorious member
Its not quite that simple in Texas if you impound native wildlife. I want no part of managing a whitetail herd. One section of fence along the back of the property where there is a whitetail intefsfate highway will be 32" high so they can come and go as they please, fawn in safety, and yet I can still keep all the dogs out.

Eventually I plan to run a few head of exotics, much simpler from a game management standpoint.
 
Brad

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
The threaded pushers are all me. I love that 1144! Keith turned me onto it and I finally listened.
The dies are blanks he makes. He does the outside and drills a 3/16” pilot hole. I drill, bore, and hone to size and drill the cross holes. When I hone the bore I also use some emery and oil to polish the top surface.
 
Brad

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Ian said:
Its not quite that simple in Texas if you impound native wildlife. I want no part of managing a whitetail herd. One section of fence along the back of the property where there is a whitetail intefsfate highway will be 32" high so they can come and go as they please, fawn in safety, and yet I can still keep all the dogs out.

Eventually I plan to run a few head of exotics, much simpler from a game management standpoint.
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I have a feeling the fence is more about keeping 2 legged critters out.
 
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RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
Ian said:
The tree nuts around here get $2,000-3,000 to cut and haul off a live oak half that size. You work way too cheap.
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Yeah , I know . On the other hand we didn't have to pay for the firewood or fuel .

JonB said:
I don't take down trees, unless it's not near anything ...and I mean anything.
But I will cut up and haul away firewood from storm downed trees for free, if the owner wants to finish the cleanup (brush).
I charge for the cleanup and hauling away the brush.
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Nothing here to clean up but a little slash piled in the stump hole to burn , the hickory was the same way except we were able to split up the stump where it pulled out . I think I will be able to get used to this piece work thing .

They get $150-240 a cord for firewood here when I get ready to go get the cars I can take oak firewood out and pay for the fuel both ways and have buyers standing in line to off load it . If I can sort it out I think I can just about make a years wages on 2 loads of slab lumber it would take about 6 days to saw , stack , and bind and about 10 days of burning waste scrape to get it to pass for heat treated bug free . Works out as that would also pass for KD . S1S KDHT oak goes for $7.00/BF I could get it done for about and feel good about it for $5/BF . 128 cuft is 1 cord so stacked that a rat can run through but a cat can't follow . A board ft is 12"×12"×1" so I can get 1536 BF in the same 128 cuft at $2/BF the truck , baring weight issues , hauls a $6000 load vs it and a trailer hauling a $1600 load the catch of course is finding buyers firewood is pretty easy to unload , lumber not so much . Maybe a cabinet shop or a custom furniture maker to take a whole load what's Joe Home Owner going to do with 3072 BF of hardwood lumber ? Of course I could put some more time into it and reduce it to the unique opportunity to buy 1 of 10 one of a kind oak or hickory slab picnic table sets and still do $2-3,000 loads at 10% or less the weight .
Probably just dreaming anyway .
 
Pistolero

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
Ian -- "still have to pave a strip along the pavement edge to satisfy requirements"

I assume you will hire someone to lay some blacktop. Or will you do concrete yourself, or what?

I have a fur ushanka which is really, really warm. Rooskies may do a lot of things badly but they
can make fur hats with the best of them. World's biggest helo, in a outdoors museum/junkyard
near Moscow.

The seller said the hat was mink, don't think that is correct, but a dark brown, long, very fine fur and extremely
warm. Somebody told me that it was actually sable, and that seems to fit more than mink, from the little bit I
have seen of fur coats. Mink seems much shorter fur and much lighter brown. This is dark brown, and deep fur.
I asked a tour guide in a small rural Russian wildlife museum and she looked closely at the hat, then went to a
display and pointed. Looked like a big weasel, kinda like a fisher, but darker. I think that is what a sable is, kind of
a bigger marten.
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IntheShop - that is a really impressive spray booth setup. Wow!

Bill
 
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Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Ian said:
Now that the county engineer and I have finally reached an agreement and he issued an engineering plan and driveway permit, I was able to go pick up a culvert and build the service entrance today. The bad tire on the Bobcat gave up a out halfway through so I had to stop and replace it with one of my low-mile spares. Still have to pave a strip along the pavement edge to satisfy requirements, but the bulk of it is finally done and I can proceed to building gates.

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Ian, do you live in some sort of village or city? I thought out in the sticks Texas wouldn't have all that engineering type of nonsense.
 
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