I knew you were joking, I do not mind running a Bridgeport at all I do it nearly everyday. My only thing is a lot of shops in the areas that we would be looking to move do not do aerospace work. And I mean no offense to those that are operators. But I am quite a bit beyond being an operator. My only point is maybe when I'm looking to semi retire I would want to do that but for right now I want to work on parts that are more complex than that.
I’ve been a Tool & Die maker for 39 years still going , the trade has changed so much , good and bad , corporate greed and profits over quality, but I do chairish the old timers I learned so much from coming up when I served my apprenticeship,
I'm sure you're already on a few lists, what's a couple more.
How about some pictures off the internet of some similar items or older items, regardless, we're gonna need pictures.
Nice haul. I see some even came with handles lol.
Not sure I told you, I have a 2.0 craftsman here that probably needs a fuel line, it's real clean(and will probably stay that way).
Here's the tree I dropped yesterday, not sure what species, maybe a Douglas fir? It had real tight growth rings unlike the white pine, 46 iirc and it wasn't real big. Picture of it standing, but you can see it real well in the video.
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I have only done maybe 10 branches, but I like it so far. Anything over 3" and 8' up in the tree starts to get laborious, but it works great as long as you use the 3-cut method.
I'll bet its a dirt bike Forum?
I like that outstanding young man's last name, when I was in school all my buddies called me Brett White
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I absolutely love the older Rugers with the skeletonized synthetic stock. I had three model 77’s like that at one point. IMO the most handsome black hunting rifles in existence.Well gentleman I'm sorry to get "off topic" on "The Scrounge", but foxseason is rite around the corner, so last week I mounted a Leupy 3-9x40 VX-2 on my All Weather Ruger M77-22 WMR!
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Myhunting partner thinks so too!
We are four for three hunts. One squirrel on each of the first two hunts and two on todays hunt!
Why a 3-9 on a 22mag? Well, I replaced all the variable low to high magnifacation optics on my hunting rifles with 1.5-5 Leupy's because I never seemed to need high power optics on my hunting rifles as I don't take shots over 300. In fact, not often over 200! Plus, I really really like Leupold's 1.5-5 fir my type of hunting. That being said. I had the scope, figured I might as well use it. Its a pretty darn accurate rifle. Im right at one MOA at 100 with it. Maybe a tad bit over.
I believe so, and I asked if you were Gunny iirc
You guys....Gunnery Sargent Sean Donato , works for me !
I think that's too cart blanc of an opinion. There are plenty of younger guys that can run a manual mill or lath. No they aren't as good as the guys that did it for 60 years, but the guys that dud it for 60 years wernt that good when they started either.
I was one of 3 "Sean's" in my grade. There were nearly always 2 of us in a class so I ended up going by my last name. Still cranked my head around every time someone said sean, lol.That would make sense.
I'm glad there isn't an "other Brett" situation very often
When my wife was pregnant with the boy, I wanted to name him Brett, thought it would be cool for my only boy to have the same name since I'm adopted. Then one day we were at the local youth fair walking thru one of the barns and I heard "Brett", so I turned to see a mother talking to her son(obviously named Brett), we kept walking, then again "Brett", I looked again and it was the same mom talking to her boy. We walked a bit further and then I heard it again, I looked at my wife and said, "he won't be named Brett".
You burn the poplar firewood in an airtight Jeff ? I have some around hunting & fishing camps , not sure of the exact species of poplar though . We often burn it with jack pine blowdowns around the campfire . I suppose well seasoned & mixed with other hardwoods it would be stove quality ?
When I was in college I accepted a job working for the US Army Corp of Engineers at a Lock and Dam. Those who understand the L/D system know they are 24hr a day, 7 day a week, 365 day a year places but still require a small labor force. When fully staffed ours had 13 employees. On the day of my interview and hiring I walked out of the office and a man from my community that knew me looked at me laughed and said ...."not another Bill". His name was Bill and so were 2 other men there. There were now 4 guys named Bill out of 13 total employeees in a 24/7/365 location. During the summer when we were locking boats there would only be 7 people on day shift and 4 of them were named Bill many times.
It is an extremely efficient system that most do not understand which is fine. Folks just drive by and wonder. They wonder why there is someone there at 2AM on a Sunday in January when there is a foot of ice and no river traffic. Folks do not realize that in a 168 hour week for 128 hours there is only one person there during non-navigational season. During navigation there are only two folks there 128 hours out of the week. The non-navigational season is generally December 15-March 15. That is not set in stone as we would stay "shifted up" with two guys to get all boats south that needed to be as long as the ice was not too thick. Many years ago I left there on a cold December afternoon at 4PM and went home. There had been several tow boats above the dam working to break ice and get it through the damm. Apparently shortly after I went home one got caught in the ice capsized and was shoved into the dam. All men escaped unhurt but probably had turds in their drawers.
Soo Locks??
Yep I can believe it Bill , enormous amount of work involved in keeping things moving forward , a lot variables that most uninformed as you say , take for granted !
