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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2017 18:05:33 GMT -5
Getting pics is a plus. They are certainly putting your pit to good use. They look very happy with it.  Im just about to make my own thread! jeannie and I have been partaking in the fire 🔥 bonding. She is travelling soon and i will have free time. |
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Post by jamesp on Mar 28, 2017 19:19:58 GMT -5
Those guys are about the typical age buying, 2 kids and 35 to 45 w/medium high income. All have well behaved sweet kids.
Nice demographic range for the future of this business.
Been waiting for some photos Mr. Shotgunman.
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Post by jamesp on Apr 18, 2017 5:08:39 GMT -5
Joggled edge on this large 48 inch fire pit makes a smooth transition for the cover.   |
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Post by rockjunquie on Apr 18, 2017 7:58:34 GMT -5
Precision right there. You do nice work, James.
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Post by captbob on Apr 18, 2017 8:05:21 GMT -5
How did you reshape the rim like that?
Does it make it harder to get the cover off? A set of those suction cup things that are used to carry large plates of glass would be handy to take cover off.
If left unused, can the cover rust to the bowl?
Why do you have an antique atomic bomb sitting back at the treeline behind the chair?
< inquiring minds etc >
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Post by HankRocks on Apr 18, 2017 8:34:21 GMT -5
It'a amazing what you can pick up at an Army Surplus store!!
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Post by jamesp on Apr 18, 2017 10:06:21 GMT -5
How did you reshape the rim like that? Does it make it harder to get the cover off? A set of those suction cup things that are used to carry large plates of glass would be handy to take cover off. If left unused, can the cover rust to the bowl? Why do you have an antique atomic bomb sitting back at the treeline behind the chair? < inquiring minds etc > Precision right there. You do nice work, James. That 'precision' work is simply from the factory Tela, Bob. That is called a joggled lip. It serves the purpose in welding. When a center tube fits to it an internal weld is done on the internal overlap. Then an external weld is done on the outside external overlap. Simply called a double weld. These bowls are used as the ends of pressure tanks. Tanks rated for 400 pounds per square inch of pressure. Since the bowl has about 250 square inches of surface area on the inside, the total force on the bowl is 2500 sq in X 400 pounds per square inch = exactly 1,000,000 pounds of force total. If the welds came loose you would have a 250 pound bowl launched with 1 million pounds of force. Should land 5-6 miles away. I suppose I could weld two thick bowls together and fill it with ammonium nitrate and make a very serious bomb(are guys w/dark sunglasses at my front door ?) I have been considering making an exact duplicate of the first A-bomb (called fat boy) dropped on Japan captbob. The tank you noticed has the exact same proportions as that bomb. Or making a large pig out of it. Well, close anyway:  |
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Post by rockjunquie on Apr 18, 2017 10:24:50 GMT -5
I have a photo on my fridge of my father in law working on one of those old A bombs. He was stationed at places that don't officially exist and I think most of it is still rated top secret. You should see his redacted (not redacted exactly- but false names of places) service jacket. He was tops at what he did- which I don't think I should say publicly. The man was a genius. The people he knew at Los Alamos back in the day were the who's who of the early nuclear field. We're quite proud of him. Not that I am a war monger, mind you, but I believe in peace through strength. |
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Post by jamesp on Apr 18, 2017 19:08:33 GMT -5
I have a photo on my fridge of my father in law working on one of those old A bombs. He was stationed at places that don't officially exist and I think most of it is still rated top secret. You should see his redacted (not redacted exactly- but false names of places) service jacket. He was tops at what he did- which I don't think I should say publicly. The man was a genius. The people he knew at Los Alamos back in the day were the who's who of the early nuclear field. We're quite proud of him. Not that I am a war monger, mind you, but I believe in peace through strength. |
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Post by jamesp on May 6, 2017 16:45:27 GMT -5
To be spiked to a large tree above and behind the mailbox. For those that pick up at the farm. Going to cut an arrow and weld it at the bottom with relief from the bowl. Heavy chain is to keep the crack heads from stealing it. Had a steel cabinet for packages stolen recently. Spike it to the tree. Make them work.    |
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Post by wigglinrocks on May 6, 2017 20:13:34 GMT -5
Looks good . And big enough to see .
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Post by jamesp on May 6, 2017 20:55:35 GMT -5
Well maybe they will come to my house instead of my neighbor's.
Happens quite regular.
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Post by wigglinrocks on May 6, 2017 21:31:20 GMT -5
Well maybe they will come to my house instead of my neighbor's. Happens quite regular. They are probably using GPS . Had a guy coming here one time , I started to give directions and he said he had GPS . A while later he called , said dude where are you . Found himself a dead end road looking at an old windmill . Was only a couple miles from here so no big deal but he had a 20 foot trailer to get turned around . |
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Post by jamesp on May 7, 2017 5:51:43 GMT -5
Well maybe they will come to my house instead of my neighbor's. Happens quite regular. They are probably using GPS . Had a guy coming here one time , I started to give directions and he said he had GPS . A while later he called , said dude where are you . Found himself a dead end road looking at an old windmill . Was only a couple miles from here so no big deal but he had a 20 foot trailer to get turned around . They recently moved the road and put a roundabout in about a mile from the house. GPS software is finally getting around to changing their software to reflect the change. GPS was sending them into forests and pastures lol. No one uses road maps anymore. |
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Post by toiv0 on May 7, 2017 6:24:10 GMT -5
They are probably using GPS . Had a guy coming here one time , I started to give directions and he said he had GPS . A while later he called , said dude where are you . Found himself a dead end road looking at an old windmill . Was only a couple miles from here so no big deal but he had a 20 foot trailer to get turned around . They recently moved the road and put a roundabout in about a mile from the house. GPS software is finally getting around to changing their software to reflect the change. GPS was sending them into forests and pastures lol. No one uses road maps anymore. We loaded a truck at a place I worked when GPS was just getting popular. The truck driver was obviously from another country, we drew him a map on how to get back to the main road. He decided to use his GPS instead and he actually made it down an abandoned road about 400 yards which was now a groomed snowmobile trail. It cost him 3000 dollars to get out. |
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Post by jamesp on May 7, 2017 6:44:59 GMT -5
I tell them to come in from a simple but slightly out of the way route which allows the GPS to not make any mistakes.
Even then they defy advise and use their GPS.
I advise them to call me when 5 minutes out and let me talk them in.
I am on Veal Rd, next road west is Teal Rd, next road east is Teal Rd(it loops and crosses main road again.
Teal Veal Teal LOL. I told them it is a trap. Oh no, they gotta use that dang GPS. Usually know-it-all men.
Sometime I just let them wonder for 30 minutes till they consider listening to reason @tiov0.
No one has gotten stuck on any pig trails thankfully. I would feel obligated to unstick them.
I have a tractor that could pull a car out, not a heavy truck though.
One lady came down her with a limo and chauffeur. They took the wrong road on my farm and cut the gas tank in a rough spot in the road.
They made it to the gas station a mile away and sat around with the locals and got drunk till midnight. Finally called a taxi and had the limo towed.
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Post by wigglinrocks on May 7, 2017 8:36:03 GMT -5
No one uses road maps anymore. Surprising how many people flat out don't know how to read a map . They are getting far to reliant on digital . |
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Post by jamesp on May 7, 2017 8:56:41 GMT -5
No one uses road maps anymore. Surprising how many people flat out don't know how to read a map . They are getting far to reliant on digital . I always flew by the set of my pants and never used GPS. Enjoyed the challenge of NOT having the directional assistance of GPS. However, that Google Earth imagery on the smart phone came in handy for finding and sizing up naked land rich in Rio Grande agates. No way I could see those naked patches from the car. And the shortest route thru the prickly mesquite was mandatory for skin preservation. It took me a week to clean out this ~1 mile X ~3/4 mile spot on the Rio. With lots of pig trails. The high water line mark was by far the richest in wood, agate and palm. My smart phone was a godsend for picking this place clean. COLLECT THE NAKED SPOTS !! The west facing high water shoreline circling the knob at top center of photos was the richest spot. Pet wood by the ton. I don't think many rock hunters had been way back in there. I'm not sure I was supposed to be way back in there.  View with car parked on bold road at center top left looking to east.  |
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Post by wigglinrocks on May 7, 2017 9:03:00 GMT -5
Surprising how many people flat out don't know how to read a map . They are getting far to reliant on digital . I always flew by the set of my pants and never used GPS. Enjoyed the challenge of NOT having the directional assistance of GPS. However, that Google Earth imagery on the smart phone came in handy for finding and sizing up naked land rich in Rio Grande agates. No way I could see those naked patches from the car. And the shortest route thru the prickly mesquite was mandatory for skin preservation. It took me a week to clean out this ~1 mile X 3/4 mile spot on the Rio. With lots of pig trails. The high water line mark was by far the richest in wood, agate and palm. My smart phone was a godsend for picking this place clean. COLLECT THE NAKED SPOTS !!: Yeah , that earth imagery is a handy tool , I use it all the time for checking out things in the UP . But I still keep a gazetteer in the truck . |
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Post by rockjunquie on May 7, 2017 9:08:50 GMT -5
Ugh! I just typed out this story and the flippin' connection died! Trying again, but now it will seem anticlimatic. LOL!
One late night, my brother and I were leaving a protest in DC. We were relying on GPS to get us out of the construction maze. Up on the interstate the GPS says in it's pretty British voice- turn left ahead. Well, there was an entrance so, at 60 mph, we start the turn only to slam to a halt inches from a flippin' traffic gate!!! Check underwear. Turn off GPS. Stupid thing didn't know the HOV was closed.
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