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MustangMike
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The Hornady info is already posted, and I trust it more than the Lyman stuff (shows same powders but higher or lower maximum).

Go to the Hodgdon website for more current powder info (like CFE-223) to get higher velocities. LVR should also work well, but you may have to use the 30-30 data for 170 gr bullets as it is not listed for 32 Special.
 
sean donato

sean donato

Chainsaws are like crack... just can't get enough.
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Ahh. I had a Dodge with a 12valve for a couple years. Definitely got tired of laying under that one.
The trucks are garbage, can't kill a 5.9l. Haven't been impressed with the 6.7l. Had 2 service trucks with them and both were duds. 2007 3500 and a 19 5500. Liked the trucks, finally dodge/fiat had them figured out, but the engines were so darn gutless. Made me miss the 05 f550 6.0 powerstroke the 19 dodge replaced. Couldn't hardly pull out in traffic with the mini on the back of it. Just a pig.
I have a good buddy with a 1st Gen Dodge with a 12v

He’d get rid of his wife before he parts with that truck.

I love the videos on Facebook of all the 4bt swapped square bodies!! C30 with a 4bt and shifting gears!!!!
Had a 90 w250 cummins 5 speed for years. Honestly the only good thing about the truck was the cummins. Definatly wouldn't get rid of my wife for it..
Only ford i want is 70's f series 300 I6 4spd 4x4. keep your big block FE they got torque on the lower end and it works in a wood hauler.
Said no one ever that owned a big block. Wouldn't trade an fe for a 300 six. My 73 is ready to roll the odometer for the third time and will kick the crap out of any 300 6, all day every day.
 
sean donato

sean donato

Chainsaws are like crack... just can't get enough.
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Honestly, at 52, I've wrenched on enough vehicles. I don't mind keeping up my maintenance, but I'm done laying in the snow and mud all night so I can get up and go to work the next day.
I am curious though, what's a 4bt and what would you swap it into??
4bta cummins
4 = 4 cylinders
B= series of engine
T= turbo charged
A = after cooled/intercooled
The little sister to the 5.9L cummins.
Depending on how things go with my crew cab, after the shop is up. I have to decide if I want to fix up and cummins swap my expedition or just scrap it and get something else. The sad part is it's a factory heavy tow package. Not many newer expeditions were optioned like that. I also don't like the independent rear axles on the newer ones.
 
MustangMike
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I learned to drive on, and subsequently owned numerous FE Ford motors. I was a big fan. You could really make them run, and (all except the externally balanced ones) they were very durable and could take a lot of abuse (don't ask me how I know). (Note: 428 and 410 Mercury were externally balanced)

I learned to drive on a 64 Galaxy with a 352 and a 65 Country Squire with a 390. I subsequently owned Mustangs with 390s (2), a 428 and I installed a 427 in my 70 Boss 302 body. From the factory, 390 Mustangs were anemic due to crappy exhaust manifolds and the transverse mufflers. In addition, the Holley 735 carb was jetted too lean for performance. Adding headers, real dual exhaust and an 800 double pumper Holley really woke them up, and adding a solid lifter cam and electronic ignition, steel shim head gaskets and a TRW double roller timing chain all helped to further enhance performance.

After that, it all came down to getting traction and your ability to drive as back in the day 4 speed sticks were capable of beating auto transmissions.
 
turnkey4099
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Gotta luv those multi-use tools. :drinkingcoffee:

Multi use and most of them "temporary". LOL
Than k you!! Modern progress is amazing. Back when it was "plug USB cord in, pics appeared on your home screen and in the 'pictures' program. and one could send them anywhere. I guess that was too easy be allowed tocontinue on the new "improvements to windows"

Doesn't work. No list of cameras comes up and the pics automatically go to 'drive E' The only way I can even get to Drive E is via 'search'.

When I bought this computer I took it and my old one to a computer shop I have used since back in the early days of windows. I didn't know that the owner had retired and some kid was running it. There are other things that don't work quite right. I suspect he screwed up the install. I'm thinking of taking it to another shop and have them re-install the windows program.
 
Backyard Lumberjack
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Back at it…..

This country is doomed. My wife is buying silver like I buy ammo, praying for the country my kids will be left. Not to mention any future grandchildren….
imagine a country where the Chief... cannot be bothered to go to the Border, size it up and do what is needed to keep the rift out... yet, has no prob for day-trips to foreign countries where the same only worse happens... and delivers 4 words: you are not alone! :(

you are not alone, MM.... in your thinking! ~
 
Backyard Lumberjack
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I have a powder thrower, she insists on measuring every charge. Love this kid!!

I don’t need anything more than the single stage and her

I can sit back and watch, she does it all

Only thing I do is set the dies


30gr of 30-31 under a 150gr interlock

She is pretty deadly with the rifle too
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some call it reloading, others call it artwork! 👍
 
turnkey4099
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Well, that was....interesting. Cut/pile brush off that leaner/prop tree. One tangled up mess but near the end of my work period today I had it down to one more session to have all the brush gone. I had to buck up some of the bigger limbs to get them out of my way. I was making nice progress down on that was lay=ing flat on the ground when I lifted. No sooner Thought "that's nice" when I realized the tree was rolling over towards me. No time to move but it stopped before anything came down on me. Proceeded to finish bucking that stem, moved the rounds out of my way when I noticed there was one big limb now on the passenger side windshield corner. extending back over the racks. Obviously the truck had stopped the roll. Looked like I could just crank the wheels to the left and pull out from under. Nope, Finally had to cut the limb. Another beauty mak on the truck, minor ding just on the top left windshield corner. No big deal as the truck is a 'wood hauler' and looks it, brush rubs/scrapes on just about every panel. Assorted dents, etc. Bought it used and it showed it had a hard life.
 
Backyard Lumberjack
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They coulda had a v8 🤣
at first they all (NOS, too) used a line for gasoline and a line for the gas. (nos)

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then they (NOS) came up with the diffuser nozzle. 2 into one and it upped the atomization effect! gobs more power, depending on jets size. i have the first one ever shipped to a customer. according to NOS Mfg Superindent (Rick...) as he told to me at SEMA one year.... (for a custom engine i had put together. he and i were talking on fone and he said, well... we just came out with.... ) stock two barrel carb and i was running a 4-barrel. i made the manifold adapter. engine was on nasty side just idling... but when sprayed... turned into a demon! :blob2:

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the one i have is anodized blue.
 
singinwoodwackr
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at first they all (NOS, too) used a line for gasoline and a line for the gas. (nos)

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then they (NOS) came up with the diffuser nozzle. 2 into one and it upped the atomization effect! gobs more power, depending on jets size. i have the first one ever shipped to a customer. according to NOS Mfg Superindent (Rick...) as he told to me at SEMA one year.... (for a custom engine i had put together. he and i were talking on fone and he said, well... we just came out with.... ) stock two barrel carb and i was running a 4-barrel. i made the manifold adapter. engine was on nasty side just idling... but when sprayed... turned into a demon! :blob2:

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the one i have is anodized blue.
But, but...
https://www.popularmechanics.com/ho...owered-chainsaws-rip-through-logs-like-twigs/
 
Backyard Lumberjack
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And u managed to have some trees in the fotos you posted. Awesome job Cowboy! Will you be doing another? :dancing: :dancing:
lol. if so he is a trooper! i was a life-long jogger. caught on to it in the USMC... then time caught up with me. now i ride my bike. swing my arms. i call it jogging! lol... i did 2 13-milers... and never had the desire to any more, or go any farther!

:havingarest:
 
Backyard Lumberjack
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Backyard Lumberjack
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Yeah, and that was on the lie-o-meter, so you know it was less than that. It was hauling that load of insulation back last week. I wasn't really going slow on the expressway, so 9 would have been the high side with that load, if it would have been my bigger kubota that probably weighs the same as the insulation, I would have been above 10. That trailer I built tows like a dream :yes:. Funny thing is, I haven't used it as much for hauling as I have for storing things on it while building the barn and having the concrete poured.
that pix of you hauling... driving the big rig ckg out the lil truck.. pretty cool!

says to me, high up, and hauling a load!
 
Backyard Lumberjack
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Had a '69 Chevy 3/4 ton 4x4 with a 350 and 4.56 gears. Top end was about 83 mph. That thing got between 9 and 10 mpg, fast or slow, uphill or down it seemed. Had 2 spare tanks so it would hold 55 gallons.
what was trans final output ratio in high gear? 1:1 ?
 

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