Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Someclown]

Final scrounge and cleanup for this year was two 70ft silver maple leaning over the house

 

[GrizG]

What the hell are those marks?

They are goose tracks... the skid marks happened while landing and the prints while walking!

 

[GrizG]

Final scrounge and cleanup for this year was two 70ft silver maple leaning over the house
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If you were around here in NY you'd have a lynch mob after you! Local social media is abuzz with people telling other people not to burn anything... big forest fires happening!

 

[Lee192233]

Here's some pics of my engine. It's a World Castings small block bored to 4.250" with a 4" stroke. That's right, it's a 454" small block.
Edit...Ohio Crankshaft did all the machine work and I assembled it.

 

[Someclown]

If you were around here in NY you'd have a lynch mob after you! Local social media is abuzz with people telling other people not to burn anything... big forest fires happening!

It actually rained the night before and drizzling the day of the burn. Otherwise I would have waited.
May be Someclown but I ain't no fool

 

[Lee192233]

Finally got my reloading bench reasonably clean. I'm going to load up some .25-06 for my son to use this year.
The nice thing about reloading is being able to back the loads down a bit to reduce the recoil a little for less experienced shooters.

 

[Trailsawyer]

Finally got my reloading bench reasonably clean. I'm going to load up some .25-06 for my son to use this year. View attachment 1218771
The nice thing about reloading is being able to back the loads down a bit to reduce the recoil a little for less experienced shooters.

My loading bench hasn't been that clean in a long time!
I was also loading some 25-06 today, and I back mine down a bit because I'm old! They are also a bit more accurate in my rifle!

 

[Cowboy254]

Here is a small tree for you guys. It is a Fig tree growing in Balboa Park in San Diego. The tree is bigger than what the plaque says. I'm guessing that the exposed root base is 60 feet across.

The Moreton Bay Fig. Cowdad has a boat in a marina in Moreton Bay, I was up there just a few months ago.

 

[woodchuckcanuck]

Sounds great.
My best friend in high-school had a 79, and one of our friends had an 80 or 81, lots of great times. We put a 400 Pontiac in the 79, may have been the first vehicle I ever went over 150 in/on. My old 72 Lemans only had 4:10s, wouldn't dare rev a 400 Pontiac high enough to go that fast with those gears. My 79 Malibu with a built 400 SB(400 crank, 350 rods, and .030 over pistons, with a mild cam) had no problem hitting those speeds.
I'd like to build a later model 2wd blazer up with a 5.3 or 6.0/6.2, haven't modified any of those yet.
Can't wait to see that camaro on the road again.

My '79 in '86. Fond memories



The only thing I rebuilt on it was the rear chassis and replaced the cam.

 

[WetBehindtheEar]

Finally got my reloading bench reasonably clean. I'm going to load up some .25-06 for my son to use this year. View attachment 1218771
The nice thing about reloading is being able to back the loads down a bit to reduce the recoil a little for less experienced shooters.

Looks really nice. Where are you finding large rifle primers? I haven't seen them anywhere. That said, I haven't called Recobs in Baraboo.

 

[Lee192233]

Looks really nice. Where are you finding large rifle primers? I haven't seen them anywhere. That said, I haven't called Recobs in Baraboo.

Thank you! My FIL's best friend is a regular on the gun show circuit. I had him find me some. He found 800 Gold Medal primers for me a couple years ago.
I haven't seen any on the shelf in a long time. Hopefully things get better in the reloading world. It seems the companies are reducing the amount of components they sell to the public. I wish I would've bought a bunch more powder and primers when they were cheap!
I let you know if I come across any primers.

 

[diver64]

Thank you! My FIL's best friend is a regular on the gun show circuit. I had him find me some. He found 800 Gold Medal primers for me a couple years ago.
I haven't seen any on the shelf in a long time. Hopefully things get better in the reloading world. It seems the companies are reducing the amount of components they sell to the public. I wish I would've bought a bunch more powder and primers when they were cheap!
I let you know if I come across any primers.

https://republicammunition.com/product-category/primers/

 

[GrizG]

Thank you! My FIL's best friend is a regular on the gun show circuit. I had him find me some. He found 800 Gold Medal primers for me a couple years ago.
I haven't seen any on the shelf in a long time. Hopefully things get better in the reloading world. It seems the companies are reducing the amount of components they sell to the public. I wish I would've bought a bunch more powder and primers when they were cheap!
I let you know if I come across any primers.

RE purchasing…. Me too! When I started loading for my 30-06 in ‘73 I was buying 100 primers, a 100 bullets, and a pound of powder and getting change back from a $10 bill. The problem was coming up with the $10 as a kid.

 

[sean donato]

Thank you! My FIL's best friend is a regular on the gun show circuit. I had him find me some. He found 800 Gold Medal primers for me a couple years ago.
I haven't seen any on the shelf in a long time. Hopefully things get better in the reloading world. It seems the companies are reducing the amount of components they sell to the public. I wish I would've bought a bunch more powder and primers when they were cheap!
I let you know if I come across any primers.

For some reason or another the government was stock piling ammo, and there is some issues with "good ole" china supplying antimony and other precious metals used in bullet making. It's been a real crap shoot getting reloading components for year now, and this last 2 odd years has been real bad. I've actually hardly shot this past year, partially because of being busy, and partially because I didn't want to burn up my reserve without a good way (read I'm a cheap arse) to replenish it.
Guess I need to get over it, my logging buddy said he would be my sponsor for a local rod and gun club down the street from us, and the kids really want to start shooting more then their bb guns.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Awesome! That's a pretty rowdy cam for a 5.3. She should pull to 7-8k easy if you've got the valve springs for it.

I gotta get my Camaro done also...my wife loves the car. I have a love/hate relationship with it. After spending all day wrenching the last thing I wanna do is wrench more. Gotta pull the trans because I have a pilot bearing that's squeaking with the clutch depressed and the trans in gear. I also want to convert it to Dominator or Terminator ECU from Holley.

Here's my last time slip.
View attachment 1218750I was in the left lane with DOT road racing tires and a 2015ish Mustang GT on drag radials was in the right lane. We raced at least 4 times that night, I'd reel him in on the top end but could never beat him. I was easy on the launch because I didn't want to splatter the stock 7.5" diff all over the track. Fun times!

I'll try to dig up some pics.

I was going to use LS2 springs, but my buddy that owns the machine shop pointed out to me, via live demonstration on his bench, that they will fully compress and bind. He ordered me a set of springs (the name escapes me) that we installed in the heads. My buddy did the lower end for me with fresh ARP hardware and new bearings. ARP head bolts too

Budget build that should rip!

Bought as much “off the shelf” stuff as I could because I get the GM parts soooo cheap

 

[MechanicMatt]

Finally got my reloading bench reasonably clean. I'm going to load up some .25-06 for my son to use this year. View attachment 1218771
The nice thing about reloading is being able to back the loads down a bit to reduce the recoil a little for less experienced shooters.

Nice setup!

I should clean mine up a bit, here is #1 assistant
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[GrizG]

Nice setup!

I should clean mine up a bit, here is #1 assistant
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Good to have assistants! My sons used to help me. Years ago a friend of mine’s wife reloaded for him. She did a MUCH better job than him… he lacked the patience to do a quality job and it showed in his ammo… no powder, bad crimps… She would load when she was home alone. She could also consistently out shoot him with handguns… much to his chagrin.

 

[MustangMike]

Here he has an assistant ... and he is still sending me things to reload!!! My 2 assistants left the nest a LONG time ago!

 

[MechanicMatt]

Here he has an assistant ... and he is still sending me things to reload!!! My 2 assistants left the nest a LONG time ago!

Well, you do a better job

I can get down to an inch at 100, you magically get them below

 

[GrizzlyAdams86]

Did they drag along the diesel incase it broke?

The diesels are along for that reason, also for the stopping power (diesel wheelsets are much easier to repair/replace than drivers on a steamer if you had to slam on the brakes) and the extra dynamic braking diesels have. In the first 2 videos just the F7A's were tagging along, just like when it started in Canada then went through the US. But before the train went into Mexico the SD70ACu was added in front of the F7's. But on the return trip from Mexico the SD70 was leading 2816, I'm guessing this was because if you see locomotives used in Mexico all have the rock (or "buzzard") bars on the windows. Apparently things often get thrown at the locomotives down there...and the President of Mexico wasn't riding along anymore either (they did from the border to Mexico City) so no police/military escort on the trip back to the US border. Once back in the US the SD70 was put back behind 2816.