Recent content by historicalarms

Need a lot of room and a good hoist for that baby

One (new) 100#er just sold at local auction, last bid i seen day before it ended was at $100

"discovering that i could lift it" led to me haveing to use a front end loader to even move a battery now with my back the way it is....keep on using your forks!!!!

Ohh wow I could spend hours running that ol'girl...a little hint tho, that porpoising is caused by the dozer hand...the cat just follows the waves the dozer makes. A good dozer hand was always the highest paid man on the crew, often more than the foremans. Not many machine companies used...

Im going to suggest your power hammer head is hitting solid at the end of every stroke , or the weight of it is causing the belt to slip just a smidge at the end of each stroke causing friction heating at every rotation and if it is running fast enough the heat isn't dissipating from the...

Not only the 60mph breeze removing the film....those straps vibrate at a very high RPM that would facilitate removal, especially if not twisted in use.

run it thru a heat exchanger of some kind inside the box ( moonshiners type coil is all that would be needed) and exhaust into the open air afterwards.

further to Whydontu's excellent post, another source of heat that is usually mounted right close to those box's is your Webasto/Pro heat or what ever model you have, easily keep your box's at 170 overnight. There is another continuous source that would be available every minute your truck...

I often marvel at the intelligence & "git-er-done" of the pioneers of society

That is interestingly ironic....keeping the flag up but having his bridge fall !! Im not much up on "war of independence" trivia but I can usually hold my own on civil war history. One thing that gets me when I fire my big gun with only 1/4 the powder charge of a "in service field piece"...

Well I must say you had my attention (as usual) at the first photo, That big powder mug would shake your teeth when you pulled the friction fuse string i'm betting. Don that photo you have of my big gun firing was charged with about 1/4 the powder that the small cup would hold. As...

My first thought viewing the photo "Chicken can build his cannon now close to home" my second thought ....yup, look at the calendar

And thats another "start the car" deal especialy if it included power feed, thats close to a $500 bill by itself.

When my old man retired from cultivating black dirt, I built him a custom muzzle loader as well and when he passed it was handed back to me so ive got the "muzzle loader" covered as well....but i havent got that .375 double gun that has been a life long dream....yet....

That old tree has one drawback...Anybody have suggestions for getting rid of Maple bugs...by the millions the last 3 yrs.