Kevin Stenberg
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We are headed to Bismark ND to watch a special Bull Riding display. The WIFE is an avid Bull Riding groupie.
so waht ya doin today?
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fiver
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Kevin, I'd be taking a few varmint rifles.
they got this place called the national grass lands, and the teddy Roosevelt everything else.
if Ian is doing them like I would be, it would be a generator and a hand held hammer drill on the 4 wheeler.
if the wind stays down I think I'm gonna go fishing this afternoon, need to get some salt for the water softener, and maybe pick up some more plants for the garden since it looks like I lost everything but the cabbage, and Berry plants in the freeze last week.
I thought about covering them with some plastic but I figure I can weed out what won't grow well a little at a time and then what I can start sooner each year.
hopefully in time i'll figure out what I can plant in early/mid May and it will live through a little snow and cold and what I can't plant until July.
they got this place called the national grass lands, and the teddy Roosevelt everything else.
if Ian is doing them like I would be, it would be a generator and a hand held hammer drill on the 4 wheeler.
if the wind stays down I think I'm gonna go fishing this afternoon, need to get some salt for the water softener, and maybe pick up some more plants for the garden since it looks like I lost everything but the cabbage, and Berry plants in the freeze last week.
I thought about covering them with some plastic but I figure I can weed out what won't grow well a little at a time and then what I can start sooner each year.
hopefully in time i'll figure out what I can plant in early/mid May and it will live through a little snow and cold and what I can't plant until July.
fiver
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gardening isn't my thing really, I'm just replacing lawn with big wood/Brick things I can mow around easier.
I figure if I do it right I can remove about 18-20' X 80' of grass out there, make it look decent and keep the weeds out for 10 years before I have to replace stuff.
I figure if I do it right I can remove about 18-20' X 80' of grass out there, make it look decent and keep the weeds out for 10 years before I have to replace stuff.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I think I'd need a lot more hammer drill than I own to drill a 2" hole 6" deep in bed rock. One of those SDS type hammer drills maybe?
Ian
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I'm talking T-posts, about 22" deep x 1-5/8" diameter x 24". I use a horrible freight SDS MAX (NOTthe regular sds) hammer drill and a little bitty 3.5 horse B&S 2KW genset with handle/tires, about like dragging a push mower. Little pancake compressor and a long wand blower gets the dust out of the hole if it really needs it, usually not I just hammer the post down into the powder to the depth I want and move to the next one. Key is a cruciform-tip carbide masonry bit, 24" drilling length, about $200. Two-insert tips are no good for hard rock, but the cruciform point of good quality will easily drill granite, it's a single-jack on steroids. Takes me under two minutes to sink 22" in hard crystalline limestone. For the T-posts I'm concreting in place, I have a 2" x 24" bit and that loads up the drill pretty good, it gets hot and I keep an ice chest and trash bag handy for long runs, but it does fine.
For corner and line posts I use a 28-lb rock bar with a pyramid point and a tuna can. Au Jus ladle for clearing deeper than 3'. If not solid rock and not wet clay, an Eager Beaver drilling tool that has the boring head on a bar and a flex-drive coming up from the 4-wheeled powertrain cart works really well for holes up to 9" and six feet deep, if you don't have a tractor. It's like one of those two-man machines but with a lot more power and it won't twist your arms off or beat you to death because the torque arm takes all the load, all you have to do is push down to make it dig and pull up to clear the hole. I have a 743 Bobcat but rented the auger machine for some parts (or at least to get TO the rock more quickly!) because it's faster and will go anywhere you can drag it, including 40 degree, scree-covered slopes where the Bobcat won't go.
For corner and line posts I use a 28-lb rock bar with a pyramid point and a tuna can. Au Jus ladle for clearing deeper than 3'. If not solid rock and not wet clay, an Eager Beaver drilling tool that has the boring head on a bar and a flex-drive coming up from the 4-wheeled powertrain cart works really well for holes up to 9" and six feet deep, if you don't have a tractor. It's like one of those two-man machines but with a lot more power and it won't twist your arms off or beat you to death because the torque arm takes all the load, all you have to do is push down to make it dig and pull up to clear the hole. I have a 743 Bobcat but rented the auger machine for some parts (or at least to get TO the rock more quickly!) because it's faster and will go anywhere you can drag it, including 40 degree, scree-covered slopes where the Bobcat won't go.
Nope. Overnight RP is not available for unknown reasons and I got the duty. At least it is just one, was possibly going to be two in a row. Staff RP is doing 10 am to 10 pm. She also has to be back at 8 am Sunday.
Seems that being manager doesn't matter at times.
Seems that being manager doesn't matter at times.
Fly fished the river below Norfolk a few years back. Was pretty good until the state truck dumped a bunch of catfish in next to where I was. Friend goes there every year (castle rock area) and got his limit of trout this time. The public rifle range there is pretty good too. Assume Gary is making a shooting bench?
