Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MustangMike]

Wife and I were out playing ball with the dog Sat. afternoon and the wife come up to the deck and says i found this old jug handle in the yard. (We find pottery shards and stuff all the time.) I heard a noise Tues. when i drove the F150 through the yard but only for a minute. Turns out it was the bottom of my coil spring on the truck. Googled for some info and found out it's more common than I would have guessed.

That sucks! Is it covered? What year truck, hope it has been resolved!

 

[steved]

Previous owner left me tapered cast iron blocks on the front axle...I made some zero-rates for a temporary solution and pulled the blocks...

I then discovered they had stacked blocks in the rear, luckily the one the PO had fabricated was mild steel and I was able to auger a hole through it and bolt it to the springs.

I intend to do a lift next spring, all springs, to remove the blocks completely.

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[farmer steve]

Truck is 10 years old Mike. 72K miles. My checkbook will cover it

 

[steved]

Truck is 10 years old Mike. 72K miles. My checkbook will cover it

Mine is 30 years old and the odometer quit at 363k miles...I feel your pain!

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[bigfellascott]

Anyone here running one of the new Stihl 500i saws?

 

[LondonNeil]

broken springs seem far too common these days. My last car, Ford, was breaking front springs every 35k miles. I changed one myself once...never again. even with 2 pairs of spring compressors on it I was very, very scared. I don't mind dirty jobs on cars, I don't mind jobs that are physical (although tbh, I do less and less of either as tim is precious and I'm not so skint these days) However, I don't like being scared by choice. garages have presses, and can do springs safely, and quickly, I'll pay for that these days

 

[James Miller]

Anyone here running one of the new Stihl 500i saws?

Heres Steve running one.

 

[farmer steve]

Anyone here running one of the new Stihl 500i saws?

Scott, got to run one at our GTG the other week. Brand new out of the box. I think a couple of others scroungers here ran it to. Just a tad more $h!t than my 462 but lighter.
I think it would cut up the Euc and peppermint like balsa. I'm the old fart running the saw in the vid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=h-OfbhX4XqM

 

[James Miller]

Strong old saw. Might play with this one a little. MM, bg delete, and a few other things I'm picking up in the poulan thread.

 

[farmer steve]

Strong old saw. Might play with this one a little. MM, bg delete, and a few other things I'm picking up in the poulan thread.

Nice pi$$ rev at the end.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Hey Uncle Mike, you got Lunch Plans tomorrow??? Guess what I’ll be doing

 

[James Miller]

Nice pi$$ rev at the end.

This carb seems a bit off. Wanted to make sure it was still 4stroking. Might put the one on the 3400 on. It got a kit befor I shelved the saw.

 

[MechanicMatt]

BTW, I have a lead on another PRE 64 in 30-06, this one has a vintage scope. After bringing home that lever gun, my wife will kill me. You interested??

 

[steved]

Remember that discussion about porcupines?

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[MechanicMatt]

Concrete board.....

But yeah, I shoot every one of those bastards I see. I don’t care if I’m deer hunting, I shoot them all

 

[U&A]

Thats gonna be a viral vid rite there

LOL. If i made it viewable by everyone..... then maybe


Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

 

[MustangMike]

I was going to sight in my 95 tomorrow, got it back today with a new William's peep sight on it!

And I just bought an 870 I don't need … she is real happy about that (even though I got a steal!).

Send me an email about the price.

 

[chipper1]

I was going to sight in my 95 tomorrow, got it back today with a new William's peep sight on it!

And I just bought an 870 I don't need … she is real happy about that (even though I got a steal!).

Send me an email about the price.

Shot many rounds of skeet with a field grade 870, fun beating guys with thousands into their guns, and all on reloads too lol.
I "need" an 1100 receiver with either a skeet barrel or a rifled barrel with open sights.

 

[Cowboy254]

G'day scroungers,

Just got back from a weekend down at the coast. My parents have a house - formerly my grandparent's house - near the coast and bought a boat in the last couple of years to replace the old tinny. We took the boat out yesterday. After arriving the night before, I went out for a flick for some Oz salmon in the surf. I caught five salmon and a tailor. 1 salmon and tailor were keepers, the rest of the salmon were like this.



That's a size 10 foot next to a size 6 salmon.

The next day we put the boat in the estuary. The entrance was closed which meant that the fishing was hard going. We did catch 5 tailor of which 4 were keepers.



Here's Cowgirl holding the rod that didn't sit nicely in the rod holder.



Then the outboard started having problems and we could only make way at 2kn. But that was ok because we had supplies (that's my dad in the gumboots).



Cheese, bikkies, strawberries...where's the beer. Oops, forgot that. Rookie error. Anyway, we putputted back to the boat ramp at walking pace while a thunderstorm brewed. Cowgirl wasn't that worried.



We got the boat loaded and drove out just as the first raindrop hit the windscreen, then it smashed us on the way home. We had tailor and salmon in butter and garlic for dinner with chips and salad.



Yummy yummy.

 

[MustangMike]

Shot many rounds of skeet with a field grade 870, fun beating guys with thousands into their guns, and all on reloads too lol.
I "need" an 1100 receiver with either a skeet barrel or a rifled barrel with open sights.

My old one (1970) has better wood and bluing, and a 28" modified choke barrel with just a bead (no vent rib) and is standard 2 3/4".

The new one is low grade wood and metal finish, but is a 3" Mag, and has a 28" vent rib barrel with choke tubes (only came with one, don't know what is in it).

I got it at auction for $165. It was barely used (may not have been), but has some minor scratches on the wood.