so waht ya doin today?

oscarflytyer

oscarflytyer

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WELL, Since you ASKED....! Moved the last BIG gun safe last night. I NEVER WANT TO MOVE AGAIN - LET ALONG A BIG GUN SAFE! Just sayin'!

Today, went back to old house (son bought it, so slowly 'vacating'). Loaded truck bed with brass/ammo/bullets, etc. And I could tell I was loaded coming home! Tonight, pics and wipe down all my guns in the two safes. AND - I have YET to address moving the probably 1500+ lbs of lead to the new house!

MOVING SUCKS, and moving reloading/casting stuff REALLY SUCKS!!! Fortunately, kid bought my old house and I am only going 30 mi N... And kids have helped. Had I had to do this solo/long distance, etc, I would have sold/dumped/left a L O T!!!
 
Ian

Ian

Notorious member
I may live somewhere else one day and might even take some of my stuff with me there, but I would have to have one hell of a compelling reason to ever even consider trying to transplant everything. My homestead is forever, even if it's just a place to store my treasures.
 
oscarflytyer

oscarflytyer

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^^^ Trust me Ian, this one, only 30 mi away, has been THE hardest move EVER! And I moved to and from Germany in the Army, and all over the states while in as well!
 
Joshua

Joshua

Taco Aficionado/Salish Sea Pirate/Part-Time Dragon
This last move four years ago was pretty hard. I did a bunch of it myself. At the end of it however I finally broke down and hired the neighbor kid, his buddy and his truck for a few days. Best 400 bucks I ever spent.
 
fiver

fiver

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day 4000 of the wife having covid.
apparently we ignore each other enough I forgot she was here 24/7 until her and the Boy [drunken monkey number-3] got into an argument about something.
I decided I needed a marshmallow malt since the temp was all the way up to about 8 or 9 this afternoon, so I met the G-Boy at the local burger place and watched him eat some type of breaded and fried chicken thingies kids like that comes in one of those kid's meals.

my old fishin Buddy from Utah called and we talked on the phone for about 2-1/2hrs. tonight.
he was wondering if he could stay on the place I have back by the lake he fishes all the time now, and I had to remind him he always had free run of the place, but nobody was using it so I sold it after the property taxes went up past the ones on my house.
 
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popper

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Warming up after the GK soccer game last nite - 40F and 50mph wind. Dang those kids can run fast! Another one today, hope for better weather as I ache pretty much today.
 
Mitty38

Mitty38

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Melted some old hard cast bullets down that I no longer want, or need.Added 2%Holland pewter. Thru in 2 pounds of fivers rifle alloy, that I had left. Giving me 25 lbs. Puting it back for my .223 plain base mould I am patiently waiting for.

Got my handles from Midway yesterday. Took 8 days to get here after they said it had arrived.

Getting ready for work. Having a coffee watching Derick on Vice Grip Garage. He is bringing an old snow mobile back to life.
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I haven't contributed here in a long time! My big news lately is that I finally have a shop with heat in it for the first time in my adult life. You'd think someone 60+ years old living on the NY/Ontario border would have done something about this decades ago, but I'm as stubborn as I am cheap. So I've been spending a lot of time in my new favorite place to be. In the past week I've repaired 5 or 6 chainsaws, got an ancient Foley-Belsaw chainsaw chain grinder back together, motorized and more or less ready to work, welded up a pedestal stand for it and got that bolted to the floor, managed to figure out a way to hang my arbor mouted wire wheel and motor off the column on said pedestal, figured out how to reverse the rotation on a 3/4hp electric motor (successfully) for the first time and got that mounted to a low speed grinder for grinding things like chisels, axes and plane irons, more or less reorganized my collection of manuals and books related to everything shop oriented, fixed my late father in laws old hand lantern (the type that used the 6v, screw terminal batteries that run $20 if you can even find one) to operate off a couple of 6v rechargeable batteries I got on sale at TSC ( I think they were for deer feeders or maybe cameras of some sort), discovered that I need to build an insulated cabinet to put my cordless battery chargers and batteries in after reading the manual for my new DeWalt 1/2" 20v cordless impact my oldest son got me for my birthday and finding out they aren't supposed to be charged at less than 45F, managed to get my no good, hunka crap, POS Coleman side by side out of the field it's sat in for 6 weeks back to the garage so I can hopefully get the no good, hunka crap, POS to a dealer that actually has the know how to repair it since we haven't had use of it since early June, and today I rehung/secured a post vice that had decided losing it's leaf spring while falling to pieces was something I'd enjoy messing with! Oh, and I got to comfort my 17 year old going through another broken heart because "Boys are JERKS!!!". (Yeah honey, I told you that moron was 100% ahole right after the first time I met him, but no girl has ever listened to her dad in the history of mankind, so we're par for the course!) But, at least I got to do it all with warm fingers and toes. Life is good!

And then today, after searching for literally years and years for a very nice, yet affordable!, example of a McCulloch 10-10 to ad to my ever growing collection of chainsaws, I managed to snag not just a nice 10-10, but a VERY nice Pro Mac 10-10, AND!, a Pro Mac 700!!!!!! For those not into chainsaws, that kind of like running onto a stash of minty H+G's or a pair of consecutively numbered Smith 357's. It just doesn't happen to people, especially people like me and most especially not when people like me actually have access to enough cash to make the deal. It's a big thing for me, I'm.....giddy I guess is the best word. Dang they're nice!
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fiver

fiver

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I got one of those mc culloch's. [14" model]
pro tip.
don't fill the oiler with gas and expect it to fire right up... it takes a lot longer than you think..... LOL.
mine has been slightly modified to not have a chain break, and thumb holder starter thingy.[ it has a on/off toggle switch]
rev it up and the chain goes around in circles.

debating if I want to put on the lighter set of long john's and a coat and go trap shooting tomorrow or not, it has been up in the 20's down in Pokie the last couple of days.
 
Mitty38

Mitty38

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Sittin' here thinking, got a good idea.
Going to start keeping my High Point, and Tarus in the same Place, together, for a while.
If they breed, I should have a baby Glock!
 
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JonB

JonB

Halcyon member
23 years ago, when I started cutting wood with a friend (mentor), Besides the two Stihl saws he had, he also had a Mini MAC and a old MAC 10-10. Back then, just starting out, he mostly only let me use the smaller Stihl (024) he had. Once he trusted my abilities, he gave me a taste of the Stihl 036 Pro...boy I loved that one, lots of power ...then he had me try the old MAC 10-10, OMG was that thing heavy and the vibrations loosened all my TEETH :eek: no thanks...He just laughed, and said, that saw cut a lot of wood by his Dad, but he never did like it either, he bought the Mini MAC and did most of the cutting with that, until he was introduced to Stihl.
 
RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
I cut a bunch of wood with Sachs Dolmar 112,114,118s then Husky 35 and 45s . 10 yr later I cut about 1 season worth over 5-6 years with a pair of 10-10s . They were very comparable to the Sachs and Husky I'd used 82-85 to cut something like 600 cords . Even in my warmest memory they're not anything like the new Husky I got for Christmas same power , 2" more bar , half the vibration , quieter and lighter .
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
dale2242 said:
Here on the west coast McCulloch and Homelite chain saws have been dinosaurs for a long time.
in the timber industry.
Stihl has been the saw of choice.
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These were about the last of the real Macs, the high point before Stihl and Husky took over. They bring back a lot of good memories for me. These days people think the Stihls and Huskys that killed off Mac, Homie and Pioneer like the 031, 041, 045, 051 etc are dinosaurs! They want fuel injected saws that they can't possibly work on. If it weighs more than 12 or 14 lbs that "too much" and they have to run wide open at at least 14K rpm, regardless of the fact they slow down to 8500 or 9K in the cut, just above where the older saws ran, but with no torpue like the old ones. Madness in my opinion. They do vibrate less, I'll give them that.
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
RBHarter said:
I cut a bunch of wood with Sachs Dolmar 112,114,118s then Husky 35 and 45s . 10 yr later I cut about 1 season worth over 5-6 years with a pair of 10-10s . They were very comparable to the Sachs and Husky I'd used 82-85 to cut something like 600 cords . Even in my warmest memory they're not anything like the new Husky I got for Christmas same power , 2" more bar , half the vibration , quieter and lighter .
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And at least 3x the $$$!!! I'm still running some Sachs, great saws.
 
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