so waht ya doin today?

[Mitty38]

13 hrs broke down still waiting on a tow truck. Car is in the parking lot of a police k9 training facility, they are threatening impound.
Very much considering a different insurance company right not.

 

[fiver]

The carved out two popple sauerkraut mashers on a shaving horse.

I kinda got it,,, but anyone?

Emmett, give them a call and tell them you just hit a Buffalo, your head is bleeding, and your Mom is foaming at the mouth.

 

[Mitty38]

Funny you should say that, there is a buffalo conservation area, and also a buffalo meat farm, just a few miles from where I broke down.


Tow vehicle finally got there.
Well the great adventure, is over. Car is home. Time to start pricing alternators, before I go into work.

 

[popper]

Son showed vids he got from the private Jackson 'safari'. Got real good one of 399 and her cubs close up. Huge rack on an elk, another he thought was just the mountains, but I showed him the other bear. Lots of wildlife on the back roads. Some pics from a fancy (expensive) car show at the hotel. Said the plane was packed, Jackson to DFW. Had a really good anniversary trip. Lunch with Bro today, haven't seen him since Mom passed year ago.

 

[Ian]

I got the shaving horse and poplar part, but not the saurkraut masher part. Got a small fleet of draw knives and spokeshaves, the various horses still reside at Dad's place.

 

[fiver]

ahhh.
okay I got it.
they are baseball bat like mashers for pushing sauerkraut through the strainer/sieve thingy.

for some reason I was thinking he was making a sandwich.

 

[462]

JonB knows about sauerkraut mashers.

 

[Ian]

Worked poplar alway smelled like cucumbers to me, very irritating because I don't like fresh cucumbers.

'Kraut is made at my house the lazy way: whack the hearts out of the cabbages, slice into eighths wedges, break up and layer the leaves with salt in a crock (or gallon jar), put a wood disc on it with a smooth granite River rock on top for weight and let it sit 4-6 weeks in a dark, cool place.

 

[Mitty38]

Stomped hundreds of gallons of kraut, Sawed off Louisville Slugger was our stomper of choice, when I was a kid growing up. Know the many uses of cheese cloth also. Have carved a few stompers from apple tree limbs.
Now, I just buy snow floss kraut, since my wife won't eat it.

 

[Joshua]

Fun Fact: A 30-06 case (improvised brass punch) and a rock (improvised hammer) will adjust/drift the rear sight on your brand new Marlin 336!

Yeah, I’m that guy. Beating on my new rifle, in the woods, with rocks!

It left a little brass colored smear on the left side of the dovetail.

I finally got it on paper with my last four rounds. At fifty yards, with shooting sticks, sitting Indian style.
2 5/8”
Josh

 

[Rick H]

Precision Tools is a misnomer, there are no precision tools, there are precise workmen.

 

[Rick]

Precision Tools is a misnomer, there are no precision tools, there are precise workmen.

Of course there are craftsman but there most certainly are precision tools too.

 

[Rick H]

My point is they are no more precise than the person using them. Ever seen a micrometer used as a C-clamp?

 

[Joshua]

I’ve seen calipers used as scribes by sheet metal mechanics. They would check out from the tool room a pair of calibrated 6” Starrett calipers, and when they got dull from being used daily as a scribe they would “re-sharpen” the jaws. You can’t make this stuff up!
Josh

 

[Rick]

Uh no but wouldn't surprise me. So that means there are craftsmen, precision tools . . . And idiots.

 

[JonB]

I can't find the image, but I had an image where a welder was using a 1" micrometer as a sheetmetal clamp...to weld 'em together, LOL.

 

[JonB]

Yesterday's fun:
55º, sunny and quite breezy...weather dude said chance of showers...which we got at 4pm...hours after I finished this small batch.

Melting 35+ lbs of pistol range scrap and...
blending in the last couple lbs of the previous batch of range scrap ingots (from 2018), last couple lbs of battery term alloy ingots (from 2013), 2 lbs of metal rich dross from the casting pot, 1 lb of stick-on WW that were just laying around, 6 old large automotive battery terminals, and one very old looking, partial foundry ingot of a mystery alloy, maybe Babbit? or maybe 50-50 solder? (maybe 12 oz or so).

Using the New "redneck gold" ingot molds that were gifted to me.
I ended up with just enough new clean ingots to fill a coffee container and I cast a few TL 45 cal TC bullets for batch hardness testing...They cast like there's "more" than enough tin in this alloy, probably too much...Oh well.

 

[fiver]

hey what's a little 20-1 to 2% I bet it shoots fine [if your bullets don't get a third eye] LOL

went for another little walk up into a new area yesterday.
I know the main canyon, but haven't walked up into this particular area until now.
nice to see the snow water fixed the road a little more, exposing more rocks and deepening the ruts.
bonked a good size rock off the front pumpkin at one point.
I have to go with Pumpkin because of the sound it made [you know that hollow toonk sound] and the fact I wasn't trailing any fluids behind me afterward.
need to remember to take the Bronco up there instead of the truck since I can take dirt roads most all the way from the house.

I seen one bird up where I walked and it flushed at like 60yds.
no squirrels, nuthin... too quiet.
I seen a few other grouse during the day 2 were still way to small to bother with [late hatch I guess?] and the other 2 I seen as I was driving out, and I was over it by then and gave them a pass.

 

[CZ93X62]

Marie and I just got back from a drive through the mountains today. Temp was supposed to hit 110* today (our version of "Indian Summer"), so we bowed out and headed to the mountains. Might as well see what's burned, what's closed, and what's still huntable since the deer opener is 10/10. The good news--most of the areas I know best and hunt most escaped fire's fickle destruction (so far). The highway (SR 38) that had been closed for weeks while the firefolk fought the El Dorado Fire has opened, and the destruction to wildlands is EXTENSIVE. Most of the area burned in this incident and the previous month's Apple Fire had not burned at all during my lifetime (65 years old). Google "Inciweb" to see details on these and other fires in recent history. SR 38 formed the El Dorado's northern extension to a large degree, those firefighters made a hell of a save on several communities and hundreds of structures. Stone HEROES in my book. Back country is closed to entry in its entirety, still no word if the NF will be open for the Opener. Wait and see.

 

[462]

Made our bi-monthly Costco run, this morning. Going Costco shopping with my wife is mostly a matter of me waiting with the shopping cart in some out of the way place, while she wanders about finding stuff that even the employees don't know about. After 20-minutes, the cart was half full, but not one item on the shopping list had been crossed off.

Among her finds were two fresh (very fresh, no smell) wild caught Coho salmon fillets and two one-quart containers of San Francisco-made clam chowder. Half of each was tonight's dinner.