so waht ya doin today?

fiver

fiver

Well-Known Member
everyone around town is talking about the snow storm that's supposed to be coming next week...siiiighh.
at least it's holding off until October.
I guess I better get the 4 wheeler registered or I won't be doing too much deer hunting if it's followed up by another one too soon.

the G-son turned 1 today, it seems like forever ago we were at the hospital waiting for him to decide to come out, we had a small gathering here at the house since his big party was 2 weeks back when everyone from Utah could make it up.
guess I'm gonna go over tomorrow or Sunday when the BIL gets up here.
we are going to tear out the one last support post and the doubled up 2X12 off the side of Littlegirls back patio and replace them.
he is picking up some house jack's from a friend of mine's place down in Salt Lake and bringing them up.
he is also supposed to be 'surprising' me with another Silver Lab like Five was.
I don't know how Jax is gonna take another dog vying for my attention, but it will be nice to have a hunting dog again.

I guess I will make another 50 trips up and down the stairs moving stuff down to the new shelves I have been building in our old bedroom until he gets here.
 
Ian

Ian

Notorious member
Kicking back here, been a long week. If the weather holds tomorrow I'll be welding up some 6.5" casing scraps for a corner fence post. 12' long with a domed cap, 5.5' goes in the ground. I still haven't figured out quite how I'm gonna stand it up and stuff it in the hole, but it will involve a Bobcat and a lot of chain.
 
fiver

fiver

Well-Known Member
get it to the hole and use a taller cantilever pole as a single pull point.
the bottom will drop in the hole no problem.
just tie off the cantilever on the other side to keep everything tensioned when you stop it.
 
Pistolero

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
Got some really sad news. A friend that I had shot with in IPSC for many years starting in the
80s, and then we had hunted elk together in Colorado, and mulies in Wyoming a few times for
a week or more each trip was found dead in his home. Very sad, I was thinking about calling
him up to see how he was doing, hadn't talked to him in at least a year.

Darn it. The really bad part of growing old.

Bill
 
I

Intheshop

Banned
First off Pistolero,condolences.

But dying isn't,for a lot of folks,that hard to do compared to what "living" was when certain chronic pain is on the menu. I almost didn't make it one evening this past week. Absolutely ZERO pain though..... nodded my head over,with fork still in hand. It sucks for the living though.

Pistolero said:
Got some really sad news. A friend that I had shot with in IPSC for many years starting in the
80s, and then we had hunted elk together in Colorado, and mulies in Wyoming a few times for
a week or more each trip was found dead in his home. Very sad, I was thinking about calling
him up to see how he was doing, hadn't talked to him in at least a year.

Darn it. The really bad part of growing old.

Bill
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Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Put anew floor in a manure spreader and fixed a broken apron chain. Cleaned the frame real well and tarred it before putting down the wood. Got it just about right n the first try. Moved the wifes new mattress in the other day, which meant the old mattress wen to one of the kids and the box spring to another and so on. Stuff like that takes forever. Sheep are back on the home farm and happy. Been chasing electrical issues in a 12v Delco generator system on an old tractor. Finally got tired of having to jump it every 4th time I needed to use it and cleaned the old genny up. Nother really wrong with it for a 65 year old genny. Got advice off an old tractor site on trouble shooting. Still stuck at the Voltage Regulator. Those things cast an arm and a leg these days and it's a crap shoot if the new one will be good or not. Found a book on the shelf in the garage, 'The Voltage Regulator Manual", circa 1951. Not sure where I got it. Chock full of all the info I need. Made up a test ammeter out of a brand new ammeter that is 3/16" bigger around than specs said it would be (guess what nation that's from?!!) and doesn't fit anything I own. Could be wiring, but I don't think so. Could be a bad ammeter, but I can bypass that. Just gotta get time to play with it again. Could just slap a Delco alternator on it, but that mean fabbing up a new mount and buying different belt. I'm cheap. Labor is free. Fixed another ancient JI Case ammeter with busted glass. the guts were still working so I robbed a piece of glass from an old, not working fuel gauge from another brand tractor and, with a little RTV caulk for a gasket, got it back together.

Winters coming. I hate winter.
 
waco

waco

Springfield, Oregon
Just put a zero stop shim set in my SWFA SS 10x scope. Now I have a hard 100 yard zero stop and 37.5 mils adjustment up.
I might replace the carrier in my Marlin 44 later on.....
 
RicinYakima

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Finally cooling off into the 70's here, so will be making ingots from the last of my 1980's - 1990's wheel weigh hoard. About one and a half 5 gallon buckets left. Then they will get stacked between the studs of the shop for storage. I down to the last 500 pounds, but think I will have enough what with a dab of linotype and backstop scrap.
 
Rick

Rick

Moderator
Staff member
Went to the local gun show this morning, not a bad show this time. Normally 2 a year at the county fairgrounds about 10 minutes from me. Was a guy with powder, prices not bad. He had most powders including 2400 at $24 a pound, a few others seemed odd like 5744 at $32. Only primers he had were Win small pistol at $30 a brick. Same guy was there that's been at every show for at least 3 years now, he's still trying to sell his factory plain jane wood stock $1850.00 Ruger 10/22. Prices have come down overall over what they were asking 3-4 years ago. Seems most of the tables near the entry door had fairly high prices but as ya got away from the door most stuff was fairly reasonable by today's standards anyway. No new guns for me, didn't find anything I couldn't live without. Was two different tables with several Ruger #1's that ran from around $1200 to $1800. Didn't buy one, seems most were in 22-250 or 450 Win Mag. Bought a brick of Aguila standard velocity 22's for $35. Back in CA well before the shortage it cost me about $40 and that was 5% over cost at the range store. Didn't need 22's, got plenty but that is the stuff that shot really well in my 10" FA and it's the first of it I've seen since moving to Arkansas.
 
uncle jimbo

uncle jimbo

Well-Known Member
Got everything in the yard watered good over the last 4 days and today got the secondary water system winterized and ready for cold weather. The secondary water goes out of the canal Monday.
Another summer come and gone. :sigh:
 
RicinYakima

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
uncle jimbo, Fall is my time of year! Summer is just a season of hiding out for several hours every day when the temperature get above 98.6. Glad to see the heat and smoke from the fires finally gone.
 
Brad

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Drizzle and 50ish all day. Not bad but certainly not a day that screamed for you to be outdoors.
Maybe the weather knew Nebraska would lose again?
 
RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
I got everything cut out for a band aid bench today , it should hold all of loading gear books and note books . The shot gun stuff will just have to stand by .
 
fiver

fiver

Well-Known Member
got the loaded rifle stuff sorted out this morning and it's all on a shelf that makes sense now.
well 3-8' and 3-3' shelves with just a little bit of room to add in a box here and there.

now I need to build the shelves to put the handgun ammo on.
I should have enough space in the center of the room to build either a 6 or an 8' wide set of shelves and some type of bench about 16"s deep.
that should take a bunch of shot shell ammo and give me a little bench space for some presses and such I have stored away.

we got Littlegirls patio all tore apart and patched back together and painted this afternoon.
the double 2x12's were about rotted through and desperately needed replaced.
still need to run a piece of edging on it to keep the weather off the wood roof material under the metal, but it's at least not going to fall down under the snow this winter.

the BIL and new SIL brought me up another Puppy.
Jax isn't overly amused with it, but she hasn't been too bad about it.
the Chihuahua just looked at it and headed for the back door like she was leaving.
 
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