so waht ya doin today?
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Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Yesterday was gorgeous, sunny and almost 30F! Naturally that meant I spent most of the day inside doing sheetrock work. I did get to spend 45 minutes on my back in the snow under a manure spreader. That was fun. But it's fixed now, I think...hope!
L Ross
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Okay, just thinking about not having to look up at the under side of a turd hearse cheers me up some what.
I have to take a buddy ice fishing tomorrow and I have not been out since the 2nd of Feb. I'm a little stressed over it. The roads are salt encrusted trails of doom for my hover craft on a trailer. The snow is deep and tiring to trudge through if we go on foot, and I just don't have any recent experience to take him to a hot bite. Maybe I'll don snow shoes and do a recon run this afternoon.
Cadillac Jeff
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I have been out in my shop for the last few day's , just changing thing's around, built at closet like in the corner to keep fishin rod's in . I built 7 new steelhead/salmon rod's for the prier this winter, so I got fussy about where I prop them in the shop so as to not get broke & dirty in off season.
Since it is finally getting a little nicer out I will go Ice fishin again probly Wen. I hope it wont take snowshoes to get to where I fish on the Ice it is like a 1/2 mile hike & maybe 2 ft. of Ice by now.
Today, we take recycling wooo hooo !! Tomorrow doc's apts.
Since it is finally getting a little nicer out I will go Ice fishin again probly Wen. I hope it wont take snowshoes to get to where I fish on the Ice it is like a 1/2 mile hike & maybe 2 ft. of Ice by now.
Today, we take recycling wooo hooo !! Tomorrow doc's apts.
Ian
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Reading that brought me as close to rolling on the floor laughing as I've ever been. As it is my belly and jaw hurts and I wet a shop rag dabbing my eyes!
Indeed, reading about Bret's trials and tribulations at his year-round country club is enough to make anyone grateful for their own situation.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
"Turd hearse"!!! That's a good one! It actually wasn't that bad. It's an old McCormick Deering that we also use for hauling wood to the basement. The boys like it because the sides are nice and low compared to the New Holland hunka crap we also use. (New Holland makes great hay equipment but their "turd hearses" are designed to fail!) It was a matter of there being 2 roller bearings that I'd never even realized were there before, full of dried grease and mud and ice I imagine, with missing zerks. Once I figured out the issue and got out the 1/8" pipe tap and added a couple new zerks it was a small job to jack it up and roll the axle over (it's steel wheeled and ground drive) while pumping like a mad man to flush out the trash. Everything moves nicely now. It hasn't had any sh......manure it in a few months so it wasn't too nasty in the first place.
462
California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Last night I gave hand lapping the 311284U a go. The base bands of the 20 initially cast bullets measured a very fat .308" to a very skinny .309" -- perhaps a .002" difference -- and nose measured .299". Applied 280-grit to the base band only for the first 50 lap revolutions, then applied it to the nose for another 50 revolutions. Ran out of time to cast the result.
Cast 20 this morning and this afternoon the base bands measure .3103" to .3106" and noses are .301". Figuring these aren't about to get smaller, I'm calling it good enough.
I still can't fathom how Ideal/Lyman (box says Ideal/Lyman, mould says Lyman) cut the mould with the base band so undersize, but the other two bands not. Or put another way, how can the base band of a cherry wear approximately .002" while the other two other bands essentially don't wear. And another thing, seems Ideal/Lyman obviously knew the cherry was worn, but used it anyway and labeled both the mould and box accordingly.
Cast 20 this morning and this afternoon the base bands measure .3103" to .3106" and noses are .301". Figuring these aren't about to get smaller, I'm calling it good enough.
I still can't fathom how Ideal/Lyman (box says Ideal/Lyman, mould says Lyman) cut the mould with the base band so undersize, but the other two bands not. Or put another way, how can the base band of a cherry wear approximately .002" while the other two other bands essentially don't wear. And another thing, seems Ideal/Lyman obviously knew the cherry was worn, but used it anyway and labeled both the mould and box accordingly.
fiver
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their little closer vice was probably closing the bottom more than the top.
I spent a little time doing some lapping today too, that 323 mold only took the lapping in the areas where it isn't going straight to frosting.
two laps and about a minutes worth of spinning barely cleaned things up where it was out of round.
I'll have to cast with it to see what I got, then go from there.
I might try another set of handles on it too, it seems that's right where the hot spot is located.
took off in the afternoon for a bit and went down to shoot that new shotgun I been working on.
it shoots about 85-90% high like I was thinking it would, and it now works slicker than snot after some judicious filing in the right places, it also feeds shells to the lifter now that it's clean and put together properly [except for having the wrong ejector which I ain't sweating too much since I fit the 1400 ejector into the 1200 frame it's working just fine, i'll see what the new spring at the back does if it ever gets here, probably don't need it now though]
I need to fit a new recoil pad to the thing, it has a thump with the same light shells I shoot in everything else, and none of them bump back like that.
the chamber polish seems to be working nice too, I threw a good sample of steel and brass head hulls of different heights through it and they all went in and out super nice.
I swung over to the rifle range and had a nice chat with a good friend over there, he was sighting in his little S&W AR rifle his wife is gonna use on a pig hunt they go on about every year.
we had a discussion about the trajectory of the 223 round since he was working on a 25 meter sight in and a 300yd. zero. which lead to components and such.
I spent a little time doing some lapping today too, that 323 mold only took the lapping in the areas where it isn't going straight to frosting.
two laps and about a minutes worth of spinning barely cleaned things up where it was out of round.
I'll have to cast with it to see what I got, then go from there.
I might try another set of handles on it too, it seems that's right where the hot spot is located.
took off in the afternoon for a bit and went down to shoot that new shotgun I been working on.
it shoots about 85-90% high like I was thinking it would, and it now works slicker than snot after some judicious filing in the right places, it also feeds shells to the lifter now that it's clean and put together properly [except for having the wrong ejector which I ain't sweating too much since I fit the 1400 ejector into the 1200 frame it's working just fine, i'll see what the new spring at the back does if it ever gets here, probably don't need it now though]
I need to fit a new recoil pad to the thing, it has a thump with the same light shells I shoot in everything else, and none of them bump back like that.
the chamber polish seems to be working nice too, I threw a good sample of steel and brass head hulls of different heights through it and they all went in and out super nice.
I swung over to the rifle range and had a nice chat with a good friend over there, he was sighting in his little S&W AR rifle his wife is gonna use on a pig hunt they go on about every year.
we had a discussion about the trajectory of the 223 round since he was working on a 25 meter sight in and a 300yd. zero. which lead to components and such.
462
California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Yeah, wouldn't doubt that their vices get out of alignment as fast as their cherries become undersize.
L Ross
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Went on that ice fishing recon and swung by and picked up a 19 year old true outdoorsman. The downside of that is trying to prove that the 67 year old can hike through the snow right along with a 19 year old stud. I feel like I've been dragged through a knot hole. Our first spot involved at least a half mile trudge through at least a foot of snow, and not catching hardly anything. I did get a large mouth bass which qualifies as what I call the "skunk fish."
Then we hiked back up though the tunnel under the rail road tracks and under the State highway, where not only can you not stand up, but you actually have to duck down under a concrete beam that is no more than 3 feet above the deck, and....it's all up hill coming back once you're off the ice.
We made a two mile move by truck and hiked out on another Mississippi back water. But that only involved maybe a 250 yard hike one way. Fishing was sssslloooooowwww. This is the thickest ice I've fished in years, but there is a bit less than 3 ft. of water under said ice. I managed to bring home 3 nice yellow perch. I did catch a beautiful pumpkinseed, and though it was certainly big enough to eat, it was too pretty to kill.
When I got home just before 7 pm there were six deer and chubiferous raccoon under the bird feeder, that fled as I pull into the driveway. Cleaned the perch, walked the guts out to the field and had a slice of rabbit pot pie for supper. Having Woodford Reserve for dessert. All is good now with 4 vitamin I and and two fingers of bourbon.
My buddy received the day's report and postponed his ice trip to next week when we should be able to use the hover craft.
Then we hiked back up though the tunnel under the rail road tracks and under the State highway, where not only can you not stand up, but you actually have to duck down under a concrete beam that is no more than 3 feet above the deck, and....it's all up hill coming back once you're off the ice.
We made a two mile move by truck and hiked out on another Mississippi back water. But that only involved maybe a 250 yard hike one way. Fishing was sssslloooooowwww. This is the thickest ice I've fished in years, but there is a bit less than 3 ft. of water under said ice. I managed to bring home 3 nice yellow perch. I did catch a beautiful pumpkinseed, and though it was certainly big enough to eat, it was too pretty to kill.
When I got home just before 7 pm there were six deer and chubiferous raccoon under the bird feeder, that fled as I pull into the driveway. Cleaned the perch, walked the guts out to the field and had a slice of rabbit pot pie for supper. Having Woodford Reserve for dessert. All is good now with 4 vitamin I and and two fingers of bourbon.
My buddy received the day's report and postponed his ice trip to next week when we should be able to use the hover craft.
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Cadillac Jeff
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Winelover----naw I don't fish on Cadillac very much , never done much good on it. Mitchell on first ice. I go to Rose lk. for nice specks& some wallies I go to a little 60 some acker lake that has some VERY big rainbows tho, fun but I don't kill them just C&R I am talkin bow's as big as steelhead!!
It was so nice today I got the BIG melter out & cooked down 120 lbs. of COWW & an old 60 tractor weight my GPaw made years ago,proply old lead pipe I guess??----was a good day!
Jeff
It was so nice today I got the BIG melter out & cooked down 120 lbs. of COWW & an old 60 tractor weight my GPaw made years ago,proply old lead pipe I guess??----was a good day!
Jeff
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
When I first started doing DOT Inspections of Commercial Trucks I was working with a guy that was infamous for being, well, "prickly" maybe or kind of a male reproductive organ. We pulled over a truck on a back road and I got to inspect the underside of a triple decker cattle trailer. He tought it was hilarious. Me, not so much. But I'd take that any day over having to shimmy under a car carrier in a highway "pickle park" where 100 people a day take a leak on the pavement!!!!!