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Would an anchor in a stained glass window work?
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KA-BAR Chat thread - Come on in the house
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Total junk. Bring it down when you come kayaking, and I'll dispose of it.
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Hi Guys! Just wanted to let you guys know, I have a GAW going on in the Becker forum, http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...-sheath-and-some-Beef?p=15058189#post15058189
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By "actual anchor," I meant actual anchor.
Tdhurl and zuluninja are kicking some big anchor butt.I mean, you can try a depiction or a photo, but it won't have the same effect as finding a really big anchor and then sticking a Ka-Bar in front of it.
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By "actual anchor," I meant actual anchor.
I mean, you can try a depiction or a photo, but it won't have the same effect as finding a really big anchor and then sticking a Ka-Bar in front of it.
I can tie a rope to a cinder block for you.
It's what most folks around here use.I'm gonna try to do all the stuff I should have done last weekend. Or play GTA. It's gonna be hot outside.
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I'm gonna try to do all the stuff I should have done last weekend. Or play GTA. It's gonna be hot outside.
What counts as hot up there?
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Hey Dunk. I think tomorrow's forecast is for 103F all the way up here in Bell County, about 50 miles north of CS.
My Saturday schedule consists of "light work" - constructing a couple of windows, loading up and hauling a couple of front-end loader loads of rocks and busted bricks don to a wash spot in the pasture, stack some more 8x8x16 concrete blocks into shapes resembling raised garden beds, and bolt a dozen or so 2x8s to my knife/tomahawk throwing backstop. Hopefully I'll get that done before noon when it gets too hot to work in the sun. The afternoon will be less strenuous - a little laser etching on some Norse Hawk heads, sand (and maybe stain) the handles for aforementioned hawks.
Sunday, after church, I'll probably put the first coat of paint on the backstop.
It's gonna be too dang hot to replace pasture fences, work on tearing down 3 old barns, cutting down hackberries in the pasture or filling the new raised beds with dirt, mulch and sand. All of which are on my "Perpetual To-Do List"
My Saturday schedule consists of "light work" - constructing a couple of windows, loading up and hauling a couple of front-end loader loads of rocks and busted bricks don to a wash spot in the pasture, stack some more 8x8x16 concrete blocks into shapes resembling raised garden beds, and bolt a dozen or so 2x8s to my knife/tomahawk throwing backstop. Hopefully I'll get that done before noon when it gets too hot to work in the sun. The afternoon will be less strenuous - a little laser etching on some Norse Hawk heads, sand (and maybe stain) the handles for aforementioned hawks.
Sunday, after church, I'll probably put the first coat of paint on the backstop.
It's gonna be too dang hot to replace pasture fences, work on tearing down 3 old barns, cutting down hackberries in the pasture or filling the new raised beds with dirt, mulch and sand. All of which are on my "Perpetual To-Do List"
Forecast is for ~95 all weekend and with all the rain and everything it's probably going to be a bit humid too. That ain't gulf coast weather but I don't care who you are, over 90 is hot and if I don't have a good reason to be out there I won't be.
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Yep. 90+ and humidity is best solved through the miracle of air conditioning.
Stay cool my friend.
Not horrible humidity mind you, but southern Colorado is typically arid and lately we've had a lot of moisture. It's actually most noticeable in the early morning around dawn before it warms up. It'll be like 65 degrees but so muggy I'll sweat through my uniform, but I am wearing body armor.
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I've never worn body armor, but when there's enough moisture in the air, you can't wear little enough. I'm betting Kevlar doesn't breathe well.
No, it doesn't. We have combination load-bearing/ballistic vests. You eventually get used to the weight, even checking ID's for three solid hours with no breaks, but yeah. Sweaty. I keep febreeze in my locker just for the vest.
This morning it was so humid we dang near had fog and it was 65 or 70 outside. Clouds were maybe 100 feet off the ground and haze hanging in the air. Puddles don't evaporate for days sometimes.
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Good thing there is something like Febreeze. I bet that thing won't go in a washing machine. You'd be like a Jr. High boys' locker room. Funky from a distance.
Febreeze is awesome stuff just in general but is wonderful for body armor. If I took the whole thing apart I might be able to wash the carrier but that's probably an hour's worth of work if I'm even able to get the kevlar out and put the whole thing back together again properly. And Kevlar is a fabric so I'd still have to spray the panels.
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Is it true that Kevlar won't stop a knife? I've heard the fabric can't handle the point of a knife while the width of a bullet keeps it from penetrating - even if you still get the full energy transfer.
I get the distinct pleasure of having to play with a propane torch and wet, freaking concrete tomorrow....
My wife is about 60% arthritic and I have to install a rail on the back steps for her to go in and out of the back door. The problem:
when I got the house last year, whomever the idiot was who installed the previous wrought iron railing, nail-gunned the two flanges into the concrete steps with 6" spikes. Not bad enough, the newel posts they installed were snapped off at the base, right where the post enters the flange...which is permanently nailed to the steps...and they aren't coming off the steps.
...So on Friday last week, off to Home Depot I go to get new newel posts. Have plenty in stock, only one model/type... "cool"...so I buy two posts, get a nice redwood handrail and the handrail-to-post mounting hardware kit. Total cost...less that $25 - "Cool."
I get that all home and guess what? The aluminum posts don't fit the wrought iron flanges. They are a 3/8" larger square than the flange and are actually, the same dimensions as the OUTSIDE of the flange -
!!! No, there's no such thing as a "reducer" either....because I checked....So....I'm brainstorming [and brooding] for a few days and come up with the idea that I can pour concrete over the flange and sink the new newel posts in the crete....level and cure and I should be fine.
Except that I also thought that "there's really nothing for the concrete to grab onto" and when anyone goes to lean on the rail, it could very well "pry" off the flange. I'm not starting this project until I've reasoned it all out.....
So I brood a few more days over this matter and came up with the idea and began to implement it: Tuesday I went and got two 6" pieces of 1/2" threaded rod [the solid type], then drilled horizontal holes into the flanges to fit the sections of threaded rod straight through. It started to rain.....and thunder......and rain some more......grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...............
Tomorrow I get to set the threaded rods into the holes and torch them so I can bend them into a |_________| shape...and using dollar store buckets as forms, pour the crete over the flanges with funky |___| rods and set the posts and wait for it to cure.
I should probably take pics as I go along.....
Correct. From what I've seen, ballistic vests won't stop knives because the force is concentrated on such a tiny point and stab vest won't stop bullets.
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And I'd bet wearing both would be like trying to wear old-style "knights of the Round Table" style plate armor.
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