Someone must have hit the Snark button on their alarm glock!

Status
Not open for further replies.
ac700wildcat said:
I now know what I will binge watch next on Netflix. Might have to refresh myself with season 5 first.
Click to expand...

Yeah, it's been so long I had a hard time remembering what had happened at the end of last season. Maybe I'll just binge the whole seires.


zzyzzogeton said:
All of y'all have been buying all this new stuff, while I've been having to settle for a bunch of old, used bayonets and swords...:D:D:D

2 - Turkish M1935 Mauser bayonets
1 - German (Alex Coppell) 1917 M1898 Mauser Butcher Blade bayonet
2 - French M1892 Mannlicher Berthier bayonets
1 - Dutch Mannlicher M1895 Hembrug bayonet
1 - US M1855 Socket bayonet
1 - British M1892 Martini-Henry socket bayonet
1 - French/Begian M1835 Briquet short sword
1 - Argentinian Artillery Short Sword (with scabbard - matching serial numbers and Argentinian crest INTACT/unground):D:eek:

Did manage to find a new-to-me Becker though, an old, used Cincinnati BK2. Won't get here til next week though. :grumpy:
Click to expand...

But do you have the rifles they go on?
 
Can't sleep. Dog sitting for a friend and they have tv. I found cutlery corner.
 
TBL said:
Pfft, I still get ID'd every single time I try to buy alcohol. I can show up with all 3 of my kids in toe and they will sit there and stare at me like I brought them bottles to look at... not purchase.



:D just be sure to turn that sucker upside- down, see if you can make it launch! or put enough 'boom' into it that it vaporizes it :D
Click to expand...

Enough boom and upside down. 3 Times the amount that launched that metal can into the air shredding it should suffice haha.

But... We want the drum out the washing machine.. So depends on what's left after we remove it.

We have 2 steel safes and a small fridge in line just in case we destroy the washing machine removing the drum for a fire barrel.
 
dresnor said:
I must request video documentation of this event.

Jeremy
Click to expand...

I will see what i can do. I never remember to grab the phone out my truck. But i think if it's going to be big I'll remember.

We had one that my brother in law flew over with his drone and recorded the entire thing... The explosion took the drone out too.. That was badass.

The gopro camera was still perfect ... The drone had to be repaired.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
All of y'all have been buying all this new stuff, while I've been having to settle for a bunch of old, used bayonets and swords...:D:D:D

2 - Turkish M1935 Mauser bayonets
1 - German (Alex Coppell) 1917 M1898 Mauser Butcher Blade bayonet
2 - French M1892 Mannlicher Berthier bayonets
1 - Dutch Mannlicher M1895 Hembrug bayonet
1 - US M1855 Socket bayonet
1 - British M1892 Martini-Henry socket bayonet
1 - French/Begian M1835 Briquet short sword
1 - Argentinian Artillery Short Sword (with scabbard - matching serial numbers and Argentinian crest INTACT/unground):D:eek:

Did manage to find a new-to-me Becker though, an old, used Cincinnati BK2. Won't get here til next week though. :grumpy:
Click to expand...

Does B.Mauser know you have his knives? Not cool, bro ;).
 
bigghoss said:
But do you have the rifles they go on?
Click to expand...

Nope. Would have to win 3 lotteries to afford rifles for all the bayonets I have.

I have 150+ bayonets. Some fit the same rifle, but are different in handle material and/or manufacturer/country codes. There are not a lot of affordable (and ORIGINAL) Brown Besses, M1816 Flintlocks, Springfield Trapdoors, 1917 trench shotguns, Ross rifles, etc just floating around. And working Argentinian/Brazilian/Uruguayan/Turkish/Siamese/Japanese Mausers are kinda hard to find as well.

Pics later.... still working on getting the guest bathroom septic trench filled back in and tamped down, along with 21 yards of sand that needs to be relocated.
 
Why not dump the sand in the trench?


So I know I'm probably in the minority here, but I am going to the symphony tonight to see Tchaikovsky, Suskotovich (not 100% on the spelling), and Prokofiev. I'm wicked excited too!
 
I've always wanted to indulge in a good smoke then go to the symphony :D
 
I'm indulging in a good meal, with the superior sex, and then going to the symphony.

It's her first time ever going, so we have a box to ourselves.
 
Chameleonbear said:
Why not dump the sand in the trench?


So I know I'm probably in the minority here, but I am going to the symphony tonight to see Tchaikovsky, Suskotovich (not 100% on the spelling), and Prokofiev. I'm wicked excited too!
Click to expand...

Have fun. The only symphonies around here are the nightly "Dueling Coyote Packs". Step outside after dark and I can hear as many as a dozen distinctly separate coyote packs howling in the distance.

Sand story - Some of the sand IS going in the trench. I shovel in about 1 to 2 inches of sand along the trench and then begin pounding it with a 20# tamper. Repeat until the trench is filled.

Then any sand left will be spread out over the rest of the area and pounded flat, repeating until the whole area is appropriately filled and packed. Will probably have to have at least 2 more 10 yard dumps of sand to finish. THEN, I'll commence to putting in the paving bricks.

For the area packing, I'll be renting a powered tamper, but for the trench, I have to hand pack it as the tamper A) won't fit in the trench and B) weighs too damn much to lift down into the trench if it did fit.

I wouldn't have to be doing all this sand packing it the area was going to stay a "Small, raised patio/grassy open yard area with pocket flower beds artfully arranged" as it has been for the last 60+ years, but it is being reincarnated into a bricked patio with the small flower beds and grassy areas bricked over since they have to be hand cut (too small for lawn mowers to work well) and are weed traps.

Our soil is a high clay content. Frequently, it is called black land gumbo. Walk across the garden when it is wets and you're lucky if your feet only weigh 10# apiece and you haven't lost your boots. It contracts significantly when dried and expands like a sponge when wet. For a bricked patio to remain relatively level, you MUST dig out 8"-12" of the dirt and back fill with sand, packing it tight before bricking. My mother and I did a 1500 sq ft patio back at our old house in Taylor back in 1966. I went by the place when it was for sale last year and the brick patio is still there and nearly as level as the day we finished it. The good news for this patio is that I don't have to dig out the dirt - it has compacted by itself over the last 65 years and sunk down within the confines of the house foundation and the retaining wall.
 
That sounds like work. Work isn't fun. I say throw all of the sand in there at once and drop the BK-2 on top, that will work! I'm like 95% sure it will!
 
Chameleonbear said:
Why not dump the sand in the trench?


So I know I'm probably in the minority here, but I am going to the symphony tonight to see Tchaikovsky, Suskotovich (not 100% on the spelling), and Prokofiev. I'm wicked excited too!
Click to expand...

Ooh, envious. Tchaikovsky is my favorite composer, such great variety and love of percussion. My favorite instruments are percussion instruments.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
Nope. Would have to win 3 lotteries to afford rifles for all the bayonets I have.

I have 150+ bayonets. Some fit the same rifle, but are different in handle material and/or manufacturer/country codes. There are not a lot of affordable (and ORIGINAL) Brown Besses, M1816 Flintlocks, Springfield Trapdoors, 1917 trench shotguns, Ross rifles, etc just floating around. And working Argentinian/Brazilian/Uruguayan/Turkish/Siamese/Japanese Mausers are kinda hard to find as well.
Click to expand...

I'm hearing excuses and not seeing action. We should feed you to Tradewater.
 
KingMC said:
Ooh, envious. Tchaikovsky is my favorite composer, such great variety and love of percussion. My favorite instruments are percussion instruments.
Click to expand...

Word is C-bear is a great cook. You guys should go on a date sometime ;).

....and it's Shostakovich, C-bear. Have a great time witchyodate. Russian composers are so.....enigmatic.
 
granitestateofmind said:
Word is C-bear is a great cook. You guys should go on a date sometime ;).

....and it's Shostakovich, C-bear. Have a great time witchyodate. Russian composers are so.....enigmatic.
Click to expand...

'C-bear' appears to live a bit too far away to make a date reasonable, I'll settle for similar tastes
 
New pants for the 17.

25423055242_f0a9cd1576_b.jpg


Thinking about blacking out the whole setup.
 
On another note: ChanneLocks are very handy for opening twist-offs when your hands are too delicate for the task. Plus....opening beers with big-ass pliers? Extreme winning.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top