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I tend to agree with SVK here. Obamamania 1 and 2 caused huge price increased, but other than .22LR, you could still get ammo (it was just more expensive).

You need to reload man!

Cast lead projos, molds are inexpensive, and you can steal all your neisghbor's wheel weights to smelt down for boolits! (joking of course).

Actually, a lot of newer weights are zinc, but the big semi weights are still mostly lead.

I just got some 180gr .357 molds in to make some hunting loads for whitetail in the Henry.
I have over 400 pounds of Mono Type, and my buddy tried to sell over 1000 pounds that was stored in his moms garage. He gave every one we know 100 pounds or more. Finally he found a guy that offered half of current scrap, and he picked it up. Current at the time. He hit the market well. Lead was high at the time.
 
Thank you for your comments, gents. I was thinking along the lines of a powered device. The new growth on Dad's lemon tree is several metres high and the branches are bendy and very numerous. Trying to use a long lopper on them last year was a PITA. I thought a powered saw might be better than a manual saw.
I've had no problems with my Stihl HT 131. It has the 4-mix engine. I prefer Husqvarna saws, but zee Germans did alright with this one.
 
Just saw a six pointer chasing doe’s in my yard . Earlier today getting wood at my friends horse farm where I left about 6 cord of oak in log length . Filled up the trailer then took a look see at my blind for rifle season and got the 88 stuck . While waiting for my friend to come with his FEL this buck walks by not 10 feet from me . If I had had my Dodge I would have had a bow . Clear perfect shot . The blue at the bottom is the roof of the truck so no zoom View attachment 938616View attachment 938617View attachment 938619View attachment 938620
Well I was wrong he’s an 8 pointer . Guess I need to set up on my property I usually wait for rifle season to hunt my property D262DCB1-6528-4D82-8C3C-FB058321A92D.jpegD2BD7B4C-25D7-4250-A968-F6B82E1A34FE.jpeg
 
Just saw a six pointer chasing doe’s in my yard . Earlier today getting wood at my friends horse farm where I left about 6 cord of oak in log length . Filled up the trailer then took a look see at my blind for rifle season and got the 88 stuck . While waiting for my friend to come with his FEL this buck walks by not 10 feet from me . If I had had my Dodge I would have had a bow . Clear perfect shot . The blue at the bottom is the roof of the truck so no zoom View attachment 938616View attachment 938617View attachment 938619View attachment 938620
At least you didn't have to clean it :lol: .
Well I was wrong he’s an 8 pointer . Guess I need to set up on my property I usually wait for rifle season to hunt my property View attachment 938853View attachment 938854
Is that the same buck?
Regardless, looks like a nice one.
 
At least you didn't have to clean it :lol: .

Is that the same buck?
Regardless, looks like a nice one.
No . This one is at my house the other was in about 40 miles from here . Not often do I see two big bucks in two days . And of course I’m not hunting at the time
 
I had the misfortune to use a pole saw on the weekend at the father in law's. His is electric and heavy as all get out. The kind where a regular electric chainsaw clamps on a telescoping pole. It does a great job but I wouldn't want to use it often.

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I'll second the silky too. I'd also get it with a pruner head.
The Japanese blades are awesome!, I have a few and few coronas in various styles and a fiscars(cheap with a lifetime warranty.
As @Philbert said you will run into times where it's a foot or two short whether it's powered or manual, and what he said about getting one pinched will happen too, just happened to me :rare2:. I was rigging out a branch that I could barely reach just last week, I nipped the bottom and when I cut from the top it swung towards me(the branch was rigged and it steered to to me ever so slightly) and pinched the bar with the saw fully extended. Most times it wouldn't be a big deal to just lower branch until it broke free, unfortunately there was a tree under it that the client had just let me know not to damage because the guy that gave it to her just died the previous week:sucks:(for various reasons). So my boy was running the rope and he was able to lower it enough so I could get my saw free, but unfortunately he couldn't pull it back up so I could finish the cut. I had to climb down off the shed roof, go down the hill(big sand dune that was very steep, pull the branch back up, then climb the hill and get back up on the shed and finish the cut :dizzy:.
Glad it was just one "little" branch:laughing:.
I still use the power saw more than the manuals, but they all have their place, on a fruit tree I think it would be best to have a pruner head.
 
Another dealer close to me has the buy one get one deal going, and they advertise the will custom cut to any brand saw. My dealer only sold stuff they stocked. I tried to get a 125 link .404 chain for one of my Homelites. it turned out the same chain fit an 880, nope, wasn't on the shelf. But I have bought enough 36" chains for my 660 to last the rest of my life. As long as they were so cheap, I never sharpened one. So, I have a bunch for each of my stihls, used and never sharpened.
That's awesome you found another one, hope they don't change that up anytime soon.
 
I've had no problems with my Stihl HT 131. It has the 4-mix engine. I prefer Husqvarna saws, but zee Germans did alright with this one.
I have the HT104 iirc, it's the smaller version of yours. I think just the engine and weight is smaller, same length, I've been very pleased with it. It starts on the second pull most times when cold and the 1st pull when warm/hot if you either put it to the start position or five it full throttle.
I don't think the husky pole saws handle any better, they all suck for handling, but all orange would be nicer :rock: .
 
No . This one is at my house the other was in about 40 miles from here . Not often do I see two big bucks in two days . And of course I’m not hunting at the time
I mean the 8 point, it looks like two different deer.
Don't you ex cops carry :innocent:.
 
I’ll be ready tomorrow View attachment 938861
Is that like a deer "mash", that will get the deer as ready as being in rut :cheers::drinking::lol:.
Funny story; I invited a guy from Chicago out to do some salmon fishing, he asked what "deer carrots" were, he was also wondering about the "deer apples" :laugh:.
Also funny, he hooked into a huge nasty half rotten salmon and landed it, got his picture with it, and was done :p. He was happy as could be, so I didn't tell him it was nasty :baba:, I'm sure all his friends in Chicago thought it was cool too :).
Two different deer . This one is much bigger and a bigger spread.
That's what I thought, both look nice and wide shouldered, the one looks a good bit older though.
 
G'day all,

Took a ranger + trailer load down to my brother in Melbourne yesterday, this was it pre-loaded.

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I stayed at my parents' Melbourne house and last weeks storms had delivered a small bounty in the park immediately behind the house. No pre-pics this time but a few branches fell off the top and found various ways of getting caught or otherwise tangled up in the tree. I pulled one down with the ranger and a couple of others I put a couple of partial cuts then gave a good pull with a rope by hand to get them down. This was at the end. We left the smallest stuff for the council to take care of.

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Ended up with maybe half a cube of unidentified eucalypt

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I split it all, stacked some of it then Dad said he'd stack the rest as I had a four hour drive to get home tonight.

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This little spot is between the back of the garage and the back fence, just out of shot on the left. The little enclosure was the rabbit hutch which housed several bunnies over time some 30 years ago.
Bunny under a hot tin roof?
 
So during the summer I was driving by this persons house in town and I noticed this ash tree he had taken down except for the trunk which they left behind. So I stopped and asked the home owner if they wanted the rest taken down and stumped. Well I got permission and did my thing. I did stump it flush with the ground when done.
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So during the summer I was driving by this persons house in town and I noticed this ash tree he had taken down except for the trunk which they left behind. So I stopped and asked the home owner if they wanted the rest taken down and stumped. Well I got permission and did my thing. I did stump it flush with the ground when done.
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Good scrounge!

I love ash, burns so good and puts out some btus.

I'm gonna miss all of it once it's gone. Still have some dead standing ones that need taken care of.
 

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