What Are You Doing Today? Post A Pic (if you can)

[Mk42gunner]

Went to my cousin's and inspected her old Warm Morning LP stove. I told her it was old when we were still in high school, but it did work, and I showed her how to do it.

I also told her I would come back when it started cooling off this fall and light it for her if needed.

Then we moved a pickup load of stuff from her lake house to her home.

The best part was supper. We went to Clint's Bar and Grill in Calhoun, MO. They had the best Tenderloin sandwich I have ever had, bar none. The Suzie Q's weren't bad either; a bit thin, but cooked right.

Robert

[Petander]

I woke up early and coated some Mihec 375 H&H boolits with Hi Tek. I enjoy early, quiet mornings, wife still sleeps, I just feed the cat. No distractions for reloading etc.



I then had an appointment with a cardiologist. Ultrasonic heart examination. He said my heart has not gotten any worse in 2 1/2 years so that's the best news. I had an attack eight years ago,got a stent. Have a heart failure,continuous afib etc. Lots of meds.

Anyway,after I heard I will probably survive for now, I jumped on my ZX-12R and headed to "my" gun shop via some nice twisty roads. They have good coffee.



Gun shop had coffee... they also had this clean 90's S&W 617-1, with a target trigger and hammer. I used to have one of these and being in good mood... I reserved the nice little revolver. Weak soul!



Got back home and the weather was still good so I went to shoot a 40 years old Sako 375 H&H . My new cast load is surprisingly accurate even without GC:s. 275 grains Mihec @ Moderate 2350 fps, no "ouch & ouch".



I then picked up a package from Temu, new arrows.They seem to shoot straight with my old 45 # Browning so I started zeroing them @ 28 meters for saturday's shooting test. Almost there. I have to limit my daily shooting and shoot light poundage, I have destroyed my shoulders with too much shooting & too heavy poundage bows... left shoulder is the bad one... but I want to pass the test. You can hunt roe deer and whitetail only after passing the shooting test. 45# is the minimum required.

I have a nice 70# Matthews and a few trad recurves... no-go for now. But the Browning will do!



All in all a very good day!

[.429&H110]

This morning a van pulled up a blond with a ponytail hopped out, grabbed my Chihuahua clipped his nails shaved his belly and feet washed and rinsed him, cleaned his ears blow dryed the loose fur off. 8# Chico has no teeth but he wanted to bite her.
Doggie still smells of lavender.
With tip $50 and muchas gracias
If I try to clip that dog's nails, he goes doberman...
Now to teach Chico not to roll in lizard poop while mommy is watching.

[John Wayne]

I woke up early and coated some Mihec 375 H&H boolits with Hi Tek. I enjoy early, quiet mornings, wife still sleeps, I just feed the cat. No distractions for reloading etc.



I then had an appointment with a cardiologist. Ultrasonic heart examination. He said my heart has not gotten any worse in 2 1/2 years so that's the best news. I had an attack eight years ago,got a stent. Have a heart failure,continuous afib etc. Lots of meds.

Anyway,after I heard I will probably survive for now, I jumped on my ZX-12R and headed to "my" gun shop via some nice twisty roads. They have good coffee.



Gun shop had coffee... they also had this clean 90's S&W 617-1, with a target trigger and hammer. I used to have one of these and being in good mood... I reserved the nice little revolver. Weak soul!



Got back home and the weather was still good so I went to shoot a 40 years old Sako 375 H&H . My new cast load is surprisingly accurate even without GC:s. 275 grains Mihec @ Moderate 2350 fps, no "ouch & ouch".



I then picked up a package from Temu, new arrows.They seem to shoot straight with my old 45 # Browning so I started zeroing them @ 28 meters for saturday's shooting test. Almost there. I have to limit my daily shooting and shoot light poundage, I have destroyed my shoulders with too much shooting & too heavy poundage bows... left shoulder is the bad one... but I want to pass the test. You can hunt roe deer and whitetail only after passing the shooting test. 45# is the minimum required.

I have a nice 70# Matthews and a few trad recurves... no-go for now. But the Browning will do!



All in all a very good day!

Nice to see the countryside in Finland!
This is my 87' Honda Hurricane 1000 I bought new and still own, 28,000 miles. During WWII my dad and his buddies would take the scrapped British motorcycles and fix them. He wanted to go for a ride so I asked him to tap my right hip to go faster. At 100 mph he tapped and we rode at 125 on some empty 8 lane interstate a good ways. He was one heck of a man, pilot, and air commando and best man at my wedding. A gift from God he was!
Honda Hurricane 1987.jpg

[steve urquell]

Great pics Perander, thanks for posting them. You will love the mod 617. I have an old mod17.

My wife and I went yard saling today.Scored a Glock sight pusher for $5. When I got home I found a bag with the sight screwdriver and another tool as well as a pair of steel tritium night sights in it. Also a bag full of earplugs for $1.50.



He also had a 6gal boat gastank for $5. It will replace the annoying 1/2 gal tank on my Swisher gas brushhog.

[dverna]

Swamped with firewood orders. Delivered 6 face cords today. Four to deliver tomorrow snd more during the week.

Nice to get the orders but I want sone range tine with the new Howa in .300 BO.

Had an MRI yesterday. My knee is not in good shape. Hope it is not too serious.

[armoredman]

I had a little time, so I hit the range for all of 30 minutes for load development.
Scarlett's Little Lethal Lipsticks, work just fine.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

I melted some candle wax to make some fake fatwood (fire starters for wood stove) and I almost burnt my garage down

[beemer]

Pertander, sounds like you had a good day. Used to ride myself, had two R/90's. I owned one of them for 32 years. Sold them a couple years ago because I couldn't handle them anymore, still miss it. Nice 617-1, I have a 617 no dash, don't shoot it enough.

My day consisted of putting a new carb on my Husqvarna chain saw. Got it running right after a bit of tinkering. Had a big load of oak logs delivered the other day and I needed to get to cutting.

[steve urquell]

It was overcast at 5:30 so I started finish mowing my top 2 acres with my Cub XT3. Found armadillo dig divots, grr!



My bottom 3 acres was 3ft tall grass and I didn't want to wade it and get ticks and chiggers hunting dillos so I got out the Yanmar and rotary cutter after finishing the top. It got dark on me as I finished it but I had my 1/4 mile long road frontage left. Started cutting it in the dark with the lights on.



I was really flying with the cruise set and approaching a holler when the steering wheel came off in my hands. Surprised the heck out of me but I got it stopped and stuck it back on the splines. Drove it to the garage, lok-tited the nut and torqued it down. Finished up a bit ago. I'll hunt dillos tomorrow night.

[Mk42gunner]

Its always exciting when your steering quits. Luckily both times it happened to me were at low speed, once a tie rod end broke on my buddy's truck at about ten mph. I was slowing down on an off ramp so when the left front tire turned to the right I only ended up on the shoulder.

The other time was when the whole steering box disintegrated on my first Kubota L175 while mowing. Evidently it had lived a significant portion of its life outside before I got it, and rainwater had defeated the seals. Freezing water breaks cast iron.

As I was thinking about just how to get it back to the barn to work on it, I said to myself-- "Self, it is a tractor, steer it with the brakes."

Other than that, I have been working on the new cabin.

Robert

[steve urquell]

Its always exciting when your steering quits. Luckily both times it happened to me were at low speed, once a tie rod end broke on my buddy's truck at about ten mph. I was slowing down on an off ramp so when the left front tire turned to the right I only ended up on the shoulder.

The other time was when the whole steering box disintegrated on my first Kubota L175 while mowing. Evidently it had lived a significant portion of its life outside before I got it, and rainwater had defeated the seals. Freezing water breaks cast iron.

As I was thinking about just how to get it back to the barn to work on it, I said to myself-- "Self, it is a tractor, steer it with the brakes."

Other than that, I have been working on the new cabin.

Robert

When I was a 16 year old kid I had a 72 Cutlass. I was driving a 60mph road and it started feeling like it was wandering. I pulled off towards a parking lot and the car lurched over to the right side in the front. I got out and the wheel was completely off the wheelstuds. Brake rotor was sitting inside the bottom of the wheel and the wheel was still straight up. I jacked it up, stole 1 lugnut off the other 3 wheels and bolted it back on. Lucky kid I was on that day.

Today I am changing the oil in my compressor. It is a new/used to me CAS commercial 20gal, 230v compressor I bought from a guy who used it on his foam spray rig. These things are $1000-1500 new and put out a ton of air for their size. 11cfm at 120psi. I gave him $200 for it and put $40 into it to get it working right. Hopefully it will outlast me and be the last compressor I ever buy.

I bought full synthetic non-detergent compressor oil for it.

[popper]

Nothing worthwhile or exciting. Range got 3" rain yesterday and rainy today.

[redhawk0]

No pics...but I took the "quick setup" pool down for the winter. All dried out and put away in the basement. The grand-kids love it. I retire in 59 days...so I hope to play more with them next year in the pool.

Starting Nov 1st, I hope to get the new MP mold out and start making some more for the 38. Got some new Powder Coat colors that I haven't used yet either...so...should be an enjoyable season of casting once Deer Season is over in November.

redhawk

[Shawlerbrook]

A little light yard work and then celebrated my father’s 92 nd birthday.

[steve urquell]

Nothing worthwhile or exciting. Range got 3" rain yesterday and rainy today.

I solved 2 problems with my range and target stands awhile back.

1. Having to build target backers
2. Paper targets getting soggy

I put a plastic trash bag over cardboard for my target backer and then use pink duct tape for the bullseyes and white duct tape to patch the holes. Sharpie makes a black dot in the center of the bullseye. My targets are now waterproof and last much longer. Cardboard boxes are free from Amazon orders but I only need to replace the backers every 4 months or so.

I can shoot in the rain now and my targets don't get soggy since they sit outside all the time on the range.

[farmbif]

I dug into the front axle of my little 40 something year old yanmar 4wd tractor after waiting for new seals to be delivered. got the right side torn down and pulled out the axle shaft to find it covered in rust. checked the differential oil plug only to find it not there. I took this in trade when I was moving here from florida, about a dozen years ago, from an old friend who told me he could never get it started even though it only has 270 hours on it. ive been chipping away at it over the years. reason for no stating it needed a new injector pump. that was replaced about 10 years ago. gave it a new fuel tank too. I never needed the tractor and it just sat in a barn. last year I put new tires and tubes on it. cleaned out the trans/hydraulic fluid and filter and fixed leaking hydraulic return tube. then rebuilt the hydraulic controls. I wanted to get it in good running shape to pull tress from friends property down the road that was logged about a month ago. owner told me I could have everything the loggers left behind which would probably be enough, oaks, hickory, beech and maples to fill two or 3 log trucks. this little tractor might be perfect for pulling all the big branches and crooked trees from thoughout the property.
anyway back to the front axle. I really didn't feel like pulling the entire diff apart so sprayed some brake cleaner in there and it all drained out clean so I made a new drain plug and even put a copper washer on it and resealed the one side put it all back together and then filled the whole thing back up full of gear oil. full day of wrench bending. tomorrow I'll drive it around a bunch and drain and refill the gear lube and while I'm at it ive got another tractor that needs a transmission fluid change before winter starts setting in.

[steve urquell]

I dug into the front axle of my little 40 something year old yanmar 4wd tractor after waiting for new seals to be delivered. got the right side torn down and pulled out the axle shaft to find it covered in rust. checked the differential oil plug only to find it not there. I took this in trade when I was moving here from florida, about a dozen years ago, from an old friend who told me he could never get it started even though it only has 270 hours on it. ive been chipping away at it over the years. reason for no stating it needed a new injector pump. that was replaced about 10 years ago. gave it a new fuel tank too. I never needed the tractor and it just sat in a barn. last year I put new tires and tubes on it. cleaned out the trans/hydraulic fluid and filter and fixed leaking hydraulic return tube. then rebuilt the hydraulic controls. I wanted to get it in good running shape to pull tress from friends property down the road that was logged about a month ago. owner told me I could have everything the loggers left behind which would probably be enough, oaks, hickory, beech and maples to fill two or 3 log trucks. this little tractor might be perfect for pulling all the big branches and crooked trees from thoughout the property.
anyway back to the front axle. I really didn't feel like pulling the entire diff apart so sprayed some brake cleaner in there and it all drained out clean so I made a new drain plug and even put a copper washer on it and resealed the one side put it all back together and then filled the whole thing back up full of gear oil. full day of wrench bending. tomorrow I'll drive it around a bunch and drain and refill the gear lube and while I'm at it ive got another tractor that needs a transmission fluid change before winter starts setting in.

I hope the axle works for you. Ive seen them wreck everything inside when the rust falls off.

[steve urquell]

I used my Cub 3240GT to clean out my road drainage after the county graded and filled it in as usual.
When I fabbed my loader I set my loader bucket up to go several inches sub-level. I was able to angle down and dig the edge of the road down 12" deep. I used the dirt to fill in holes in my field which will make it less bumpy with brushhogging next time




Also added the last decals to my Yanmar hood, the "Sc2400" ones. Ebay custom decals are reasonably cheap.

[armoredman]

Now for cleanup. Was good day.