so waht ya doin today?

[Bret4207]

Got the roof sheathed. Good thing it was a small roof and I had wide boards as I was working alone. Need a roll of flashing, mine seems to be missing, and then I can go to shingling. I got a Bostich battery powered roofing nailer at auction for $5 or 10.00 a couple years back. The battery appears good and I got a mess of nails, so I'll give it a try. I hate shingles, but I've got a bunch left over and that's what she likes, so... I'll be shingling.

Spent about an hour remaking a mount for the kill switch on that generator I mentioned. Hooked everything up and had no spark. Figured I'd screwed up the wiring so I unhitched that and still had no spark! "Bad plug!", sez I. Stuck the plug on an old Muk-kull-lock chain-sore and had a great sparky! Rats. I'm going to have to pull the shrouding off the Briggs and see whats up with the sparky parts under it all. Well, it IS a $5.00 Coleman auction buy, so...

Got a couple more bales out to the hay burners. The belly of the tractor is starting to drag in the mud. Gonna have to move the livestock pretty quick or I'm going to bury the tractor one of these times.

I slept almost 10 hours last night, but I was exhausted by 2PM. The old bod ain't keeping up my ambitions!

 

[462]

Pavers: Got a late start, delayed by numerous interruptions, called it early quits.

 

[BBerguson]

Son came home from college for spring break and I had to pick him up at the airport. Hope to play a little golf and do some shooting with him this week...

 

[RBHarter]

I was hoping/fearing the one in our assemblage had been recut as a 6.5/257 ......the dies I bought are for an AI .......

The new saw blades should be here the end of next week .
The gongs will be here Monday .
I'll probably shop for some crimp links later , $2.50 ea seems high .

 

[Rick]

Took my new ATV over to Winelover's and toured the far corners of his 57 acres. Well most of it, some of it not even that ATV is going. John also got out his Polaris and cruising we went. Quite thankful for all the trails we've been cutting for several years, over grown is an understatement. Did I mention rocks?

 

[Brad]

Got the last of my 38 special brass deprimed and wet tumbled. Now I have 1500-2000 cases that need to be loaded.
I have been delinquent in these duties.

 

[waco]

In the process of trimming and fully prepping 230pcs of .308 brass. ugh....

 

[fiver]

there's a mouse out in the green house, and the war is on.
little bastard keeps chirping in there and I almost got him with the dandelion fork once.
I wouldn't be so mad but it went around the lettuce after digging a hole in the middle of it and ate my kohlrabi.
6 sticky traps and 4 regular snap traps are set around it's little trail system.
guess I shoulda left the mint in there.
I'm gonna transplant plant some wild ones around the edges of the house anyway, but that type wouldn't make it outside.

I heard a rumor that sportsmans had 3-4 boxes of small pistol primers today I decided not to stop there this morning like usual when I go down shooting and went looking for some berry bushes instead.
I stopped there on the way home and chatted with a buddy for a bit about a 1-5 twist AR pistol he is putting together in 300 B.O.
he was like yeah we got like 4 this morning [and they were gone in 3 minutes] but the kid just opened some 22's in the back.
since I know him [the kid] on sight I just waited for him to come out [in civilian clothes no less] and motioned him over to see what he had in the little carry basket.
he just handed me the last brick of CCI's they had and kept going, I was like umm I don't really need these, but how much are they?
35 bucks...
I guess that's better than 10-12 bucks per hundred.

 

[Wasalmonslayer]

Took a break from life today and hopped in the truck snagged a boat from the shop and took junior to catch some small eater walleye on the Columbia river they are not big but will eat quite well. Think veal in the fish world.
We caught a bunch but just kept enough for a fish taco feast.
Water was glass and it was 65 deg super nice day to decompress!

 

[Wasalmonslayer]

Dang side ways photos....
I post it straight not sure how it turns on it’s own.

 

[Ian]

Commenced another full-frontal attack on the mess in the shop and garage, it's getting there but will take three or four more long days to get everything sorted through. Built a drawer for the center hole of the remodel vanity that serves as my abrasive chop saw table and mounted the blank front to it complete with a matching pull saved from the medicine cabinet door from the same roll-off dumpster in I believe 2006. Better late than never. Next I built a 3' drawer to go under my bench grinder workbench to store extra wheels, dressers, ppe, and wrenches and got that all mounted. Those two projects only cost four hours but after lunch I was able to get a lot of little stuff organized and put away in them.

Last thing I did was un-crate the new Westinghouse genset and have a gander at everything. I'm quite impressed with it so far, lot of machine for a grand delivered to my front door. 8500 continuous watts on propane fuel with another thousand surge capacity is plenty enough to run the whole house any time of year. Now all I have to do is decide whether to build an enclosure for it in the shop next to the sub-panel or go the full monty and build a house for it by the pole with an automatic grid tie-in.

 

[Rick]

I highly recommend the auto switch. Tremendous work and time saver. Power goes out and generator starts and powers everything, power comes back on and generator shuts down and your returned to shore power.

 

[CZ93X62]

Nice mess of fish!

The 6.5 Creedmoor might be good if you didn't already have a 6.5 x 55 Swede on a modern strong action, which I do have. Nix that.

Buckshot brought over one of his used gunrags yesterday, Shooting Times, April 2021 issue. Cover story is about the "6.8 Western", which I was mildly curious about from an general knowledge perspective. On paper, it can hurl bullets a bit faster than the 270 Winchester--the 270's 150 grainer @ 2900 FPS vs. the 6.8 Western's 165 grain bullet @ 2825-2970 alleged FPS. Apparently, bullet weights of up to 180 grains are available in .277" diameter for javelin-hurling exhibitions like 1000 yard shooting. 1-8" twist barrels support these bullet lengths. Me being the heretical Luddite that I am, I already have a nice rifle that throws 165- and 180-grain bullets at respectable velocities well past any distance I plan to engage game animals, evil-doers, malefactors, or varmints. It's called a 30-06. I have done without a 270 for almost 66 years now, and have fired exactly 5 rounds of that caliber during that time. The only 27 caliber I have ever given a rip about is the 6.8 x 43 SPC, and that's for a gas gun.

Buckshot added further angst by phone a couple hours ago, exactly 25 minutes AFTER ASK Defensive closed for the week. This week's Irritation By Buckshot involves a Winchester Model 12 in 20 gauge for a very fair price. This is two weeks in a row he has pulled this kind of stuntwork.

 

[Rick]

Also the switch is a huge safety issue and your local codes may require it. Prevents any possibly of your generator returning power to the grid and curling the hair of line workers that believe the power is off while working on it.

 

[Ian]

I'll have to read the literature for details but there is a tie-in kit available for this unit that's pretty much plug-n-play. The only thing I don't care for is leaving pressurized propane hooked up all the time since I'll be using 20# cylinders for the time being and the newfangled spring-loaded safety valve collar thingies always leak. Main thing is I'm away from home 12 hours a day, five days a week and while my wife is fully capable of switching off the mains and water heater, opening a bottle valve, and pressing the start button, it's a lot of running around when the power might come back on 30 seconds later and she has no way of knowing. We very rarely have outages but are very dependent on air conditioning in the summer and can't afford any interruptions.

 

[smokeywolf]

Wouldn't a 250 gallon propane tank run that generator for nearly a week non-stop?

 

[Ian]

200 gallons (full 250) would run it for 2.5 weeks at 50% load.

 

[Bret4207]

I'll have to read the literature for details but there is a tie-in kit available for this unit that's pretty much plug-n-play. The only thing I don't care for is leaving pressurized propane hooked up all the time since I'll be using 20# cylinders for the time being and the newfangled spring-loaded safety valve collar thingies always leak. Main thing is I'm away from home 12 hours a day, five days a week and while my wife is fully capable of switching off the mains and water heater, opening a bottle valve, and pressing the start button, it's a lot of running around when the power might come back on 30 seconds later and she has no way of knowing. We very rarely have outages but are very dependent on air conditioning in the summer and can't afford any interruptions.

If you watch for a sale you can pick up 100 lbs brand new tanks for $80-90.00. No OPD to screw with things on those.

I'd go with an auto switch if you could swing it. But it's going to run a lot more than you'd think by the time you get done paying Mr Electrician.

 

[Bret4207]

Happy Easter boys!

 

[Rick]

Your local propane company will rent you a tank. When I had the generator installed there was no gas at this house and never had been. I rented a 500 gallon tank from the propane company for like $125 a year with the first year free. In the second year i bought the tank outright. Since then I've started using propane heat in the winter and am considering buying a 1,000 gallon tank.

You should check your local codes, most places require the switch to protect the grid. The switches aren't cheap and the installation is well above my paygrade. Cost me $1,200 for the complete installation including the switch, watching what was involved with the switch I was mighty happy to pay it.