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Cadillac Jeff
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Hope ya geter figered out John.....not a good time of the year for a problem with the heat!!
Yea this ol Jeep is perty cool << I think!!
Burnt an exaust valve a couple years back---exast valves are in the block, intake in the head---thus a " F " shape, todays gas is not to good for the oltimers unless ya use a lead substitute.
& it has the 4 speed trans. in it so it has a very low granny first gear<< T-98, it is still all stock exept carb, throttle & air cleaner & wheels & suspension.
I will use this ol jeep too, as a mushroom huntin , fishin , two trackin car for Netty, the dog & me !!
Thank's fer the comment's Guy's
Jeff
Yea this ol Jeep is perty cool << I think!!
Burnt an exaust valve a couple years back---exast valves are in the block, intake in the head---thus a " F " shape, todays gas is not to good for the oltimers unless ya use a lead substitute.
& it has the 4 speed trans. in it so it has a very low granny first gear<< T-98, it is still all stock exept carb, throttle & air cleaner & wheels & suspension.
I will use this ol jeep too, as a mushroom huntin , fishin , two trackin car for Netty, the dog & me !!
Thank's fer the comment's Guy's
Jeff
Glaciers
Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Yeah and expensiveI would think that being too hot is a rarity in Alaska.
smokeywolf
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Not yet. There's always tomorrow.
Not yet. There's always tomorrow.
When tomorrow gets here let me know. I've got just what it takes to makes short work of that old snag. Just think how much better it will look cut, split and stacked in your wood stack than it does out there rotting away.
smokeywolf
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That's a deal!
smokeywolf
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Tomorrow won't be "tomorrow" until I have the Mrs. a bit more squared away health-wise.Seems I forgot to mention . . . Before hot humid weather.
I'll bring the ATV, polly cart and log splitter. You still have one boy at home right?
While we have the diabetes under control, she's still in chronic heart failure and wearing the defibrillator vest 24/7. I'm never more than a holler away from her. We have an appt. with the cardiologist in another week.
L Ross
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Robert Service and Sam McGee probably would agree.I would think that being too hot is a rarity in Alaska.
Tomme boy
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Took my Lee 12ga 1oz mold apart and made a new core pin. Lee has that stupid cross bar in the base of the slug. It makes the CG towards the back of the slug. So I played around and got it nose heavy. I also made the skirt about 2x as thick to help not getting the wad forced into the base.
Got it finished and started to cast with it. Could not ge t it to release the slug. Took it apart and polished it with some 3000 grit wet dry paper. Now it drops with just a little tap. They weight in at 409gr. Now. To get off my butt and go test them
Got it finished and started to cast with it. Could not ge t it to release the slug. Took it apart and polished it with some 3000 grit wet dry paper. Now it drops with just a little tap. They weight in at 409gr. Now. To get off my butt and go test them
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RBHarter
West Central AR
Mom had a water issue in the big freeze .
Ended up with a new pump in the well and the 4th back flow valve in 3 yr definitely getting that fixed one way or another . There's still a leak but I think clamp will keep it closed up .
She also has sold the 32' ft 5th Wheel that's been a little more than storage for 5 years . Good greif stuff accumulates around a parked trailer ....... Another half a day and it can be moved .
We have been figuring out a short range , tree thinning and drainage off and on . Today I put 2 buckets mud in a slop hole making soup . Maybe when it takes up some I can shape it into run off .
Flat ground must be a real bonus for a 100 yd range . From the future standing and bench line it's only about 10-15ft up so I can live with that I think . We cut some small trees out to get kind of a line up to a cut out kind of straight up the drive way up to the shop . I've got to cut back about 5' more on the left for 15' wide lane . The hill beyond rises about another 30' , 20+' tall trees so thick it's a wall in about 30 yd . At this point the tire rear retaining wall is still invisible from the shop . It's only a back wall of the berm to be earth filled and faced with playground sand if I can get it .
Looking it over I can leave the 50 yd berm basically as is , and add a 25 yd in the 100 yd lane .
The current 50 yd is on the left just to the right of that scrawny little pine if you squint a little bit you can almost see the 100 yd lane through the trees .
Ended up with a new pump in the well and the 4th back flow valve in 3 yr definitely getting that fixed one way or another . There's still a leak but I think clamp will keep it closed up .
She also has sold the 32' ft 5th Wheel that's been a little more than storage for 5 years . Good greif stuff accumulates around a parked trailer ....... Another half a day and it can be moved .
We have been figuring out a short range , tree thinning and drainage off and on . Today I put 2 buckets mud in a slop hole making soup . Maybe when it takes up some I can shape it into run off .
Flat ground must be a real bonus for a 100 yd range . From the future standing and bench line it's only about 10-15ft up so I can live with that I think . We cut some small trees out to get kind of a line up to a cut out kind of straight up the drive way up to the shop . I've got to cut back about 5' more on the left for 15' wide lane . The hill beyond rises about another 30' , 20+' tall trees so thick it's a wall in about 30 yd . At this point the tire rear retaining wall is still invisible from the shop . It's only a back wall of the berm to be earth filled and faced with playground sand if I can get it .
Looking it over I can leave the 50 yd berm basically as is , and add a 25 yd in the 100 yd lane .
The current 50 yd is on the left just to the right of that scrawny little pine if you squint a little bit you can almost see the 100 yd lane through the trees .
L Ross
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Yeah well iffin' it was nice and flat, either there in Arkansas or here in the Driftless Area, we'd have to build enormous berms to make sure some whining, sniveling neighbor wouldn't be calling the Sheriff on us every time we shot.
I told my buyer's broker when we were lookin' for property down here, " 80 acre minimum, and the rougher the better, I don't want anyone building too close to us."
L Ross
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Perfect. I can see a silo and a roof of a barn a half mile west of me. Those neighbors once commented to me,"If we don't hear shooting we think you're not home." That, is an exaggeration. The neighbor's wife said the big buffalo rifles echo like cannon up the valley. I wonder what she thought when we "shot the anvil."
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
Yes, we got Bella the Boxer, nine years ago, down in rice country (Searcy). Passed up a large Riceland plant, on the way. Flood fields, right in front of the breeder's place. Pretty boring real estate, down there............lack of trees.
RBHarter
West Central AR
I follow a couple of off grid pages . Hailing from the desert mountain west I appreciate the obsession with trees . I also find that they can't grasp the concept of 4,000 per acre . A poster was like that a tree every 11.36 feet and I said , yeah it's a struggle to drive a tractor with a 5' bucket through without cutting out 4-6" saplings across most of the property . Moms place is 13 acre and has about 2.5-3 clear for a meadow out front and what would be considered a fire break out west or in grass lands around the shop . The trees make it an echo box in the summer time . 8"-12" pines are 25-30' straight up but there's no place to lay them down .
A guy down the street has a burn pile that didn't with about 3 cords of 14-18" 14-16' trees in it ....... Pine isn't popular fire wood here but it makes day time feed fine , probably fine for 4×12 headers , or berm stackers too . Old habits we burned pitch pinion pine for 30 yr .
Family day today . Lunch and a show with the kids who are out of school for Wednesday or something .
A guy down the street has a burn pile that didn't with about 3 cords of 14-18" 14-16' trees in it ....... Pine isn't popular fire wood here but it makes day time feed fine , probably fine for 4×12 headers , or berm stackers too . Old habits we burned pitch pinion pine for 30 yr .
Family day today . Lunch and a show with the kids who are out of school for Wednesday or something .
CZ93X62
Official forum enigma
Well, CUSS WORDS......I had some kind of dizzyness yesterday mid-morning while walking from my truck into the restaurant where I meet friends on Tuesday for brunch. No loss of consciousness, I just couldn't stay vertical for some reason. I went down on my right side on the asphalt surface, which has no "give" whatsoever, and skinned my right palm properly and the right knee less severely (thick old Carhartt blue jeans). Either my elbow or my walking cane handle got jammed into my right ribs, and DANG that area hurts like %$#@. An elderly couple arrived a few minutes later, and I asked them to have my old partner come out and help me get vertical again. I talked the husband into NOT calling 9-1-1 until we got a handle on my actual condition. As Eric came outside, I had gotten sat up and the dizzies were gone. He helped me up, and we took inventory--all systems seemed to be "GO", so we got the leak stopped in the right palm and headed into the restaurant to chow down.
That consumed about 90 minutes, then we got going. Standing up, no dizzies--but DANG those ribs were aching. I got into the truck OK, drove home, and the ribs were REALLY talking to me. I downed a couple Extra-Strength Tylenol, and laid down for a couple hours. I got up about 3 P.M., and the Tylenol took the edge off of the pain a bit, but it still hurt to cough, sneeze, or have hiccups. Another 2-hour nap from 8 P.M. to 10 P.M., then up for about 3 hours.
More Tylenol at bedtime, and I did sleep through the night. The phone woke me up at 7:45 A.M., ^%&*ing robo-callers. I gotta keep the phone on for family. Ribs still hurt like h--l, as above. Waiting for the Tylenol to kick in. Handgunning is OUT for a few days, esp. with anything that kicks. I have a varmint hunt toward the end of the month, I hope the hand heals enough by then to allow riflery.
That consumed about 90 minutes, then we got going. Standing up, no dizzies--but DANG those ribs were aching. I got into the truck OK, drove home, and the ribs were REALLY talking to me. I downed a couple Extra-Strength Tylenol, and laid down for a couple hours. I got up about 3 P.M., and the Tylenol took the edge off of the pain a bit, but it still hurt to cough, sneeze, or have hiccups. Another 2-hour nap from 8 P.M. to 10 P.M., then up for about 3 hours.
More Tylenol at bedtime, and I did sleep through the night. The phone woke me up at 7:45 A.M., ^%&*ing robo-callers. I gotta keep the phone on for family. Ribs still hurt like h--l, as above. Waiting for the Tylenol to kick in. Handgunning is OUT for a few days, esp. with anything that kicks. I have a varmint hunt toward the end of the month, I hope the hand heals enough by then to allow riflery.