the all aussie dribble thread!

[ausneil 1]

Neil could use him up at the mill :msp_ohmy:

Oh wouldn't he be a fine asset to any business, be cheaper to pay him to stay at home.

My guess,,, passion fingers, everything he touches he fu......s

 

[derwoodii]

just saw iron man 3 not bad not bad at all, the bad guys get spanked lots gets blown up it fast lot of twists

 

[MCW]

G'day all.
Does anyone know if, or where I can get chipper chain in Aus?
I am currently running Carlton 3/8 skip tooth. Cutting grey box firewood.
I'd like to try some chipper, to see how it performs for me.

What are peoples thought on chipper, versus semi chisel skip tooth? The skip tooth is faster than full tooth for me. But I have often wondered about chipper. i have "heard" that it will hold it's edge longer. But I have "heard" a lot of things that turned out to be crap.
Cutting iron bark and box. Old and dry, with a pipe up the center usually.

Chipper is good stuff but hard to get. I have nearly 100' of 3/8" .050" Carlton chipper in the shed. It certainly lasts longer than semi chisel and probably around 10% slower in the cut. If your saw has the grunt just run .404" semi instead. If you have a saw using the 9mm Husky mount I can do you a good deal on a .050" bar or I have 20" Stihl bars here in 3/8" .050".

I think he was christened Matt.

My mum said that they called me Matt instead of Matthew as everybody would have thought I played a starring role in the bible.

Matt's run tungsten too.

Wasn't super fast, about the same as semi-dull semi IIRC but kept on going, until you hit something solid and it took a tooth or three out.
Diamond wheels to sharpen aren't cheap either.

Yeah I ran some of the Pacific Tool and Chain "long tooth" tungsten and it was expensive and crap. Because they just overlaid a lump of tungsten over the tooth the depth gauges were way out (despite what they said!). The biggest issue I had was the chain got a bit loose on the 390XP on it's 3rd cut, the left hand cutters slapped the Allen bolt holding the spikes and wrecked every LH cutter ($180 worth). Then found out you can't bloody buy individual cutters :mad2:
Grabbed a 20" loop of 3/8" Stihl tungsten off Benny the other week and it is sh*tloads better. Typical Stihl quality. Used it today in some nasty stuff and it held up well. The Stihl stuff is 1/3 the price too AND you can buy individual cutters if you wreck one. Diamond wheel was $330.

 

[deye223]

in all the excitement around here I forgot to tell you blokes I met

up with dallas a couple a Thursdays ago and you would have to walk

a bloody long way to meet a nicer bloke ( present company excepted ) :big_smile:



cheers D

 

[ausneil 1]

in all the excitement around here I forgot to tell you blokes I met

up with dallas a couple a Thursdays ago and you would have to walk

a bloody long way to meet a nicer bloke ( present company excepted ) :big_smile:



cheers D

Dallas,,,, I still think how well he whipped up that work of art in Bob's alki 90 thread.
That took skill and emagination,,, miles above Matt in that regard. :help: (retaliation coming soonest)

agree on the nicer bloke bit,,, if I may waive my own flag for a bit, I recon we are good blokes as well.

 

[derwoodii]

V8 super cars has jumped the shark its gone needs a quik death or it will drag on and dead cat bounce to our sorry shame
Bathurst Tassie are only tracks that make good door knocking racing the rest are dull or like Arab land or today Texas Fwy sized boredom


Anyhoo doing some chores just cleaned up 7 saws and reloading 223 . ?? 223 how many fires before you chuck em I been using 5 as bench mark.
And case cleaning?? I'm still trying to figure why you need them fangle sonic and vibro tumbler tub what do they do that a good rag n elbow grease effort don't,, even then how do you clean inside out the case burnt waste powder.

 

[MCW]

in all the excitement around here I forgot to tell you blokes I met

up with dallas a couple a Thursdays ago and you would have to walk

a bloody long way to meet a nicer bloke ( present company excepted ) :big_smile:



cheers D

Yeah Dallas is a good guy. Was he a negroid dwarf like I thought? Just curious (he's probably reading this).

Anyhoo doing some chores just cleaned up 7 saws and reloading 223 . ?? 223 how many fires before you chuck em I been using 5 as bench mark.
And case cleaning?? I'm still trying to figure why you need them fangle sonic and vibro tumbler tub what do they do that a good rag n elbow grease effort don't,, even then how do you clean inside out the case burnt waste powder.

Case life depends a bit on how hot you load them. I get normally 10-12 reloads out of my .222 but with only 1 extra grain of AR2207 (22gn instead of 21gn with 50gn projectile) I'll drop case life to only 6 reloads before the primer pocket gets too loose. There are a few things to look for such as case length as well. I have a case trimmer too which helps case life a bit unless you start flogging out the primer pockets too much. As far as case cleaning I whipped up a tumbler a few years ago out of a microwave turntable motor but I hardly ever let my empties hit the ground so they stay pretty clean. Don't get too anal about case cleaning if they are getting just slightly discoloured, only if they are physically dirty.

 

[derwoodii]

Yeah Dallas is a good guy. Was he a negroid dwarf like I thought? Just curious (he's probably reading this).



Case life depends a bit on how hot you load them. I get normally 10-12 reloads out of my .222 but with only 1 extra grain of AR2207 (22gn instead of 21gn with 50gn projectile) I'll drop case life to only 6 reloads before the primer pocket gets too loose. There are a few things to look for such as case length as well. I have a case trimmer too which helps case life a bit unless you start flogging out the primer pockets too much. As far as case cleaning I whipped up a tumbler a few years ago out of a microwave turntable motor but I hardly ever let my empties hit the ground so they stay pretty clean. Don't get too anal about case cleaning if they are getting just slightly discoloured, only if they are physically dirty.

ta hints I think I'm in the right frame 25g of 2208H 55g pills case gets neck size & trim and i tidy out the primmer pocket. The case then gets good rag rub. I look for case shine ring wear and primmer fit. If any doubt recycle bin at club gets them. I'm getting better at this reload but last month I stuffed my process and let 2 without primmers slip past the production line,,,,, click nuthin? ops Oh yeah :msp_rolleyes:

I wondering what happens if when the radio footy game distracts me nuff and I try n double load a primmer into case already fitted.... do they go bang bang :msp_scared: glasses are on at the load desk.

 

[tdi-rick]

Forgot about the vroom vroom cars, been out cutting firewood instead.
Cut up a couple of tonnes of Yellow Box.

At least I think it's Yellow Box, I can actually split this stuff by hand unlike the bloody White Box I've cut up here in the past, and lo and behold I didn't have to swap a chain out from either the Makita or 3120, even with a small chimney up the guts.

T'was nice to finally run a 3120 in a tree, but it needs modifying, a muff mod just isn't enough :monkey:

 

[tdi-rick]

I wondering what happens if when the radio footy game distracts me nuff and I try n double load a primmer into case already fitted.... do they go bang bang :msp_scared: glasses are on at the load desk.

Hahaha, haven't reloaded for twenty years but never tried that

Used to use Hodgdon H335 in a 223 with Federal primers, PMC brass and Nosler 55gr pills.
Can't remember the load, but it was pretty bloody hot through a 1:10 twist barrel, used to go over 3300FPS.

Guess the rifle :hmm3grin2orange:

Used AR2209 in the 243, neck sized only with several pills, 70gr Nosler varmint for small stuff, and, err, whatever they were (105gr??) Nosler partition for, umm, certain species that I didn't want to lose (yes, I should've used a 270Win as a minimum for those) and I think 90gr Nosler soft points for regular stuff.

 

[bennn*e]

The new(er) Tsumura noses use a larger bearing than previous versions.
The new ones use a 4 rivet bearing vs the 5 rivet of the older version so you can distinguish it.

The other thing I like about Tsumura's in 325 and 3/8 chain is the gauge specific nose, so less wobbling around if you use 050 or 058 chain.

I'll have to go and have a look at me 16" I got they where going a clearance on them so it may be an old one

 

[tdi-rick]

I'll have to go and have a look at me 16" I got they where going a clearance on them so it may be an old one

The last two (24") bars Matt drop shipped to me from Jak Max have the four rivet bearings Ben and that was a while ago, maybe two years ?
My old 20" bar is an old Carlton branded one and it has the five rivet bearing and it's still going fine.

 

[MCW]

I wondering what happens if when the radio footy game distracts me nuff and I try n double load a primmer into case already fitted.... do they go bang bang :msp_scared: glasses are on at the load desk.

Generally you'll be OK. I've tried to seat a fresh primer on fired ones before where I missed the case sizing and depriming process. No bangys but certainly less than ideal. You have to be careful though and I always wear eye protection. I had a progressive press about 17 years ago while loading .357 Magnums and it had an auto primer feed on it. Somehow a primer got jagged and then I crunched it with the press which set about a dozen primers off up the tube and blew the sh*t out of the feed setup.
Went back to single stage presses after that.

 

[MCW]

I think I'm in the right frame 25g of 2208H 55g pills

Is that a compressed load? 22gn of AR2207 is pretty tight in my .222 but I think I ran 24gn in my uncle's .223 when I load for him and that's pretty tight from memory. He doesn't do much shooting anymore though.

 

[Rudolf73]

Talking about bars and stuff, would anybody have an old 16" laying around preferably stihl mount and hard nose?

 

[MCW]

Talking about bars and stuff, would anybody have an old 16" laying around preferably stihl mount and hard nose?

Dunno about old but I have a new Tsumura here in that size. Do you good deal long time as I was meant to be sent a sprocket nose. Had it for a few years now...

 

[bennn*e]

Tsumura nose

This one has 6...

 

[MCW]

This one has 6...

I could be wrong but I thought Rick was referring to the number of rivets used to hold the sprocket on? Probably wrong...again...

 

[tdi-rick]

This one has 6...

You're right Ben, I just went out to the shed and checked and the old ones are six rivet. Never hurts to double check what anyone says, or as an old girlfriends dad used to say "Believe nothing that you read and only half of what you see" :help:

 

[tdi-rick]

I could be wrong but I thought Rick was referring to the number of rivets used to hold the sprocket on? Probably wrong...again...

Naa, the bearing.
They've dropped the numbers holding it as they increased the bearing size.