Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[cookies]

All the other bearings were perfect . This one just went . The oil didn’t have any metal or metallic look to it . Even put a magnet in the drained gear oil nothing .

That rear end had water in it at some point or failed axle bearings or both and someone went in and half repaired it and cleaned the axle housing. I would suspect the pinion bearing looks much the same as those carrier bearings and would check the preload before committing to a parts order.

 

[chipper1]

I took to wearing ear and eye protection while shooting back in the '70s. The first couple hundred rounds I shot with my .30-06 I didn't have ear protection but after shooting about 25 rounds one day I made getting a pair a priority. I use both in my woodworking shop while running tools and use them with most outdoor power tools (e.g., chainsaws, trimmers, edger, bed redefiner, clippers, backpack blower). A notable exception is mowers (walk behind and zero turn) and snow blowers. It is a bad habit that I need to break.

I shot my 3" .44 magnum once, one shot, without hearing protection to shoot a deer. Never again! Holy crap... that was painful.

Regarding kids. I had my sons in my woodworking shop, working on the house and yard, and shooting from an early age. My friend Doug Stowe (fine woodworker, author, and educator) promotes "Wisdom of the Hands" and he had photos of them on his blog scribing sleepers for a new floor and hanging Hardi Plank siding when they were about 6 and 8 years old. I bought them hardhats, eye protection and hearing protection. They always saw me wearing the PPE and I never had to remind them to put it on. They aren't kids any more and they still wear it when they should.

I wore it when I pulled skeet/trap at a club when I was 14-16 four days a week, but many times when I was shooting I was without. At the range shooting rifles/pistols, the fingers in the ears or cigaret butts were common. At a much earlier age I was around the ranges and skeet/trap fields(especially pulling for others when I wasn't shooting), but most of us kids wouldn't wear them, and neither would many of the adults.
Much of what I do now is to teach my kids what to do, rather than because I need them. My ears are pretty bad, but when shooting anything for an extended time or that's extremely penetrating(certain pitches/pressures effect me much more than others).
Depending on the mower type I will wear them, zero-turns I usually do, especially when working. I used to mow a couple days a week and had my ears in the back ready to go when I went back to the trailer, same with the blower. At home I rarely wear them when running the backpack blower, and now I have the little kubota tractor and I sometimes wear them when operating it.
Having drove truck for 20yrs and about half of that hauling heavy/flat beds, we always had to have out steel toes, hard hat, ears and eyes weren't a big deal most places, but some they were sticklers. When you're walking thru a plant with many large presses or even smaller faster cycling ones, many air valves releasing, its a good idea to wear all the PPE they ask if you are there for any extended time at all.
Between the shooting, pulling skeet/trap and time at the range, running a roofing company(air nailers), lawn maintenance, 20yrs driving truck, plenty of loud music/concerts/festivals, loud cars/bikes, racing cars/bikes, running a few chainsaws , it's no wonder at 52 the hearing has suffered a bit.

Hopefully you got the deer .

 

[LondonNeil]

The Scots pine I got in the first week of UK lockdown 2 years ago, and burnt this winter, had huge amounts of fat wood. Really shiny, glistening wood and large lumps of waxy resin in the cracks. The whole tree burnt like depleted uranium, v I'd swap my oak for Scots pine if it's all like that.... Although my stove probably wouldn't last so long.

 

[MustangMike]

I have loaded a lot of lever guns with only neck sizing (mostly).

It depends on the strength of your action, the thickness of your brass (30-30 is way thinner than 348 Winchester) and how hot you load.

In most cases, neck sizing will prolong the life of your brass, unless your dies really math your chamber well (very rare).

Many full-length dies will work the brass way too much resulting in frequent trimming.

 

[turnkey4099]

Fun day at the willow bush clearance. A bit of brushing then bucking that log with the MS441/24". I had to stop every three rounds to roll the prior rounds where I wouild be standing behind them to cut the next three. 20"+ rounds dropping 2=-3' feet are hard to avoid without some sort of protection. 25 16" rounds before I got near the log holding that tree off the ground. Still about 4' to that log plus about 8' more on the other side to the shattered butt. Never in all my life have I had a log like that to work up.

Noodled and loaded 10 of those rounds for 1/4 load and headed for the barn well tired out. Next three days "windy and showers" so shopping tomorrow then 2 days sitting home.

 

[GrizG]

Hopefully you got the deer .

I did... the bullet entered the front of the chest and was lodged in the back end of the hindquarter just under the skin... As I recall it was something around 4 feet of penetration!

 

[GrizG]

I have loaded a lot of lever guns wit only neck sizing (mostly).

It depends on the strength of your action, the thickness of your brass (30-30 is way thinner than 348 Winchester) and how hot you load.

In most cases, neck sizing will prolong the life of your brass, unless your dies really math your chamber well (very rare).

Many full-length dies will work the brass way too much resulting in frequent trimming.

"It depends" pretty much sums it up! I had a .30-30 Win years ago that was a disaster with neck sized only brass... With some of my full length dies I back them out a bit so they don't move the shoulder.

 

[501Maico]

I scrounged the cases from the ground while scrounging firewood and dug the lead out of firewood trees.

Almost finished with 400 rounds of 45 ACP for my son. Just have to seat the bullets and a very light crimp in the turret press. I have tons of brass ready to load and I like to set the primers and measure powder with an electronic dispenser that has a counter while watching my daily shows in the living room. It doesn't really save much time other than setups on the turret press but it sure is more comfortable and less boring.

 

[SS396driver]

That rear end had water in it at some point or failed axle bearings or both and someone went in and half repaired it and cleaned the axle housing. I would suspect the pinion bearing looks much the same as those carrier bearings and would check the preload before committing to a parts order.

Not that I can see . All the bearings other than this one were perfect not a mark on them . This one bearing went for unknown reasons . The axle bearings were original gm as were all the others and the axles have zero wear where the bearing rides I’ve had to use the repair bearings in the past that move the bearing outward to a new area of the axle . I changed out all of them anyway including the pinion .

New crush collar with preload set . Backlash is also correct @ .010k
Not my first rear end rebuild.

I froze the carrier in the chest freezer and heated the bearings in oil to 250 . They slide together with lite tap of the bearing set tool .

 

[dancan]

Why did he heat water that was already hot???

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[Captain Bruce]

What are you putting in that PT-22?? LOL

The MP5 and MP5K that I shot were ridiculously easy to shoot and make tight groups with even on full mag dumps... Ed Suter came up to me and said "That's good gun control." They were Sandy Froman's guns. (Ma Deuce, former President of the NRA). David Kopel and Don Kates were there shooting with us too. A suppressed Sterling was a goof... I don't recall the rounds we were shooting but the gun was silent even with no muffs. I suspect they were sub-sonic. You'd hear the main spring bouncing around inside the gun and that was it! UZI... interesting gun but if push came to shove I'd rather have an MP5.

I really like the Thompson for it's nostalgic look, feel, and sound. One evening the sun was coming in low over our left shoulders and you could watch the .45s fly through the air almost like tracers. A couple guys I shot with while working in Williamsburg, VA had them. Tree removal on that range started with a small muzzle loading cannon. Sten... I had a bad habit of loosing a round inside the gun. LOL I didn't shoot it enough to figure out what I was doing to cause that problem... George had his CAR M16 there and Jon later got a belt fed Browning.

I was at Numrich Arms's retail store one time (long closed) and a dealer from PA was there. He had Class III stuff with him. Grease Gun, German MP40 and a BAR. I shot them all. The sub-guns weren't much different to shoot than any other sub-gun I'd shot. The BAR was a different story... full auto '30-06 off the bi-pod was very cool and got everyone's attention at Gun Parts. After the Moonies bought the Auto Ordinance brand they apparently didn't have as much shooting going on there... They farmed some parts out to local machine shops and those jobs disappeared too.

If I think of it I'll look around for photos and scan them... no smart phones in those days!

 

[copen]

Pulled up alongside a fella drivers window to drivers window as folks will do on a country road. As we were chatting, a coyote trotted out of the ditch. I said " Hey Len, you gonna shoot that coyote?" Instead of his rifle, dude pulls out a revolver, a 357 I later learned, and extends his arm to shoot out the passenger window. Before I could mutter a warning, this poor dude fired. Inside his regular cab pickup. Coyote continued on his way. Len paused and looked at me, shook his head and put the truck in gear and drove off. He later said his ears rung for two days.

Like Ron White says, you can't fix stupid.

 

[MustangMike]

Sometimes adjusting a FL die works, sometimes not.

With the 300 Win Mag it just wants to make the whole case too thin, and the neck is short to begin with, so it just does not work.

Plus, if you let the shoulder move forward, what is the point?

For my "Hunting Loads" I usually keep a box of once fired neck sized brass. That will usually chamber and shoot the best.

 

[GrizG]

Sometimes adjusting a FL die works, sometimes not.

With the 300 Win Mag it just wants to make the whole case too thin, and the neck is short to begin with, so it just does not work.

Plus, if you let the shoulder move forward, what is the point?

For my "Hunting Loads" I usually keep a box of once fired neck sized brass. That will usually chamber and shoot the best.

Yup... it depends! Figuring out what works best can be challenging and fun. Sometimes nothing helps. A friend of mine, John Marshall, worked for Dillion Precision prior to his retirement and continues to write the Classic Firearms column for the Blue Press. A compilation of his articles was published as "101 Classic Firearms." We've had some interesting discussions about these kinds of things... and tweaking 1911s. I spent a fair amount of time coming up with good loads and processes for "my guns" that may be, and even were, failures in someone else's gun.

When I was a HS kid I backpacked into the mountains and camped with a friend. This so we would be there opening morning figuring that guys coming in from the road would push deer to us. There were some other guys up there from "the city" with Remington semi-auto .30-06s who were scary... shot at anything they saw regardless of the range. By lunch time opening day one of them had shot up 20 rounds with nothing to show for it! He begged me to sell him some ammo. I explained that I had reloads that were tailored for my 700 BDL and wasn't sure they would function through his gun... He was relentless so I sold him some for $1 a round. Factory ammo cost about 24¢ at the time and my reloads cost me less than a dime. I never did find out how he made out as we got a deer and focused on getting it down off the snow covered mountain before dark. I'd not be surprised to learn they wouldn't chamber as I partially resized that brass.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Not that I can see . All the bearings other than this one were perfect not a mark on them . This one bearing went for unknown reasons . The axle bearings were original gm as were all the others and the axles have zero wear where the bearing rides I’ve had to use the repair bearings in the past that move the bearing outward to a new area of the axle . I changed out all of them anyway including the pinion .New crush collar with preload set . Backlash is also correct @ .010k
Not my first rear end rebuild.

a skill and ability not many have.... good pix, good work!

 

[mountainguyed67]

One of two potential routes I need to make access through on my mountain property, I think I’ll be putting the log grapple to use.

 

[SS396driver]

Did some paint correction on my Chevelle had halos in the paint . I painted it 94 and at that time the bc/cc was a little soft as it wasn’t high in solids . But it polishes up real easy with hardly any abrasives just a light polish with griots and a black pad on the flex orbital polisher .

 

[SS396driver]

a skill and ability not many have.... good pix, good work!

Thanks . I do GMs but prefer doing 9 inch Fords . I put one in my Chevelle

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

One of two potential routes I need to make access through on my mountain property, I think I’ll be putting the log grapple to use.

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nice! looks like no close neighbors.....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Did some paint correction on my Chevelle had halos in the paint . I painted it 94 and at that time the bc/cc was a little soft as it wasn’t high in solids . But it polishes up real easy with hardly any abrasives just a light polish with griots and a black pad on the flex orbital polisher . View attachment 986237View attachment 986238

nice! remember them brand new on the Dealer's showroom floor! always like the '66's best! especially in Marina Blue. 67's were nice, but they changed the hood! ~ that BB power said it all....