Anybody want anything from Ontario?

[historicalarms]

Those would make excellent machine base's...thinking rifling machine here

 

[Chicken lights]

74’ of steel
I forget who asked but it is cold rolled to shape. No heat. The lead hand I asked said they used to cold roll form 1/2” steel years ago, but that part of the operation has been moved since then

 

[Chicken lights]

10’ wide CAT axlehousing. Had to be tarped.

That’s some of the turns Texas has got me on for a route

If y’all curious still

 

[YYCHM]

Keep it coming

 

[francist]

Hahaha, I thought it was the bucket!

 

[Crankit]

Did they tell you what Cat machine it was for?

 

[Chicken lights]

Did they tell you what Cat machine it was for?

They didn’t, I’m kinda curious about that, too

 

[Chicken lights]

Holy chit if you like guns, knives, history, leather work and lots of other cool things, the Texas Ranger museum in Waco is for you.

 

[YYCHM]

Man, you sure seem to spend a lot of time in Texas? What did you haul down there this time?

 

[Chicken lights]

Starting to feel like a second home. More rail car steel

 

[francist]

Very cool. I’ve been wondering if you ever get time to ‘be a tourist’ when you’re on the road for work. You get to lots of places.

-frank

 

[Chicken lights]

So the cannon and “come and take it” is a banner that was actually fought under. The Mexican army attacked a Texas town to try and take back a cannon. The Texans rallied under that banner and fought back.

The tooling on that saddle is incredible.

Little newer firearm, a .308 AR purchased by the Rangers

A drum fed shotgun

And a tear gas billy club. I don’t know what that is.

Man so much to see.

 

[Chicken lights]

Very cool. I’ve been wondering if you ever get time to ‘be a tourist’ when you’re on the road for work. You get to lots of places.

-frank

I can’t deliver until Monday morning so I’m a tourist today. When I was down here last trip the Mammoth National Park was open, but not the dig site. They opened that last week sooooo......

That’s a real dig site of a Columbian mammoth.

 

[francist]

Not so much anymore but earlier on I used to get to go on a work conference or two. Once I was in Boston for a few days during a real cold spell. Got to go outdoor ice skating in the oldest national park in the US, Boston Common. I still regard that as one of the neatest things I’ve able to do. I guess I don’t get out much....

-frank

 

[Chicken lights]

I don’t know if the picture does that justice. Look at the tag that thing is chambered in .45/410!!

 

[YYCHM]

Did you blank the tags out in the image?

 

[Chicken lights]

Did you blank the tags out in the image?

Yes, but not the caliber

 

[YYCHM]

Yes, but not the caliber

?

 

[Chicken lights]

?

What do you want to know?

 

[YYCHM]

What do you want to know?

Not important. Just curious as to why you blanked the tags out is all.