I was watching people filling sandbags in an attempt to save some of their things and themselves from a predicted hurricane land fall and it occurred to me these people had never been taught how to use a shovel correctly . These are people trying to help themselves that had never been taught how to do hard work , how to dig with a shovel or fill a sandbag but they were there trying to help themselves and their neighbors in a time of need . Would they listen to you if you tried to help them and explain how to use the shovel to their advantage , maybe - maybe not but the impressive thing is that even without knowing how or really what they are supposed to be doing they are trying !
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Very true Dave. Unfortunately having too much experience with water and sandbags myself, I hope those folks realize they gonna need more than just 1 or 2 trunk loads of bags in their cars and crossovers to do any good. But like you said, at keast they are trying to help themselves.
Bucklowery
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I have found myself sitting right where it is supposed to come on shore. I don't know why? Oh yea that what I do. What was I thinking. LOL
Looking forward to helping get the lights back on once this thing is past by
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Buck
Looking forward to helping get the lights back on once this thing is past by
Thanks
Buck
Be safe and hold on tight Buck!
Stay safe be as well prepared as you can you have been there do that before so you know better what you need to do then me . I have friends in the line department and after storms they travel to the hard hit areas and help get the power flowing again 16 hour days - 7 - days a week till the job is done .
The last time I was in one was August of 1975 interesting but not much fun . I looked out the porthole and could count 7 water spouts they called them typhoons there . I only was in three of them over the time I was around where they were . Wishing all the best out come .
Bucklowery
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My family and I are just fine guys. I live way north but I am here in Punta Gorda working. 870,000 or so customers out. There is lots of flooding and families lost everything. Please keep them in your prayers
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Buck
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Buck
The past Friday I had to do some traveling . I put on around 400 miles in my state and as I drove I noticed that the antelope , deer and cows were all bedded down at 10:30 in the morning and were still bedded down at 3:00 in the afternoon . Me being curious by nature I checked on what time the moon came up and set on Friday 7 / October 2022 . interestingly the moon rise was at 5:59 P.M. and the moon had set at 4;54 A.M . that morning . So then on Saturday I had to make a short trip of around 90 miles and found that the animals were all bedded at 9;30 A.M. in the morning but on my way home I saw a coyote trotting in a field near the interstate at 11:27 A.M. but the other animals were still for the most part still bedded down . The moon set had been at 5:56 A.M. and the moon rise was going to be at 6;33 P.M. . Just a few of the things that I noticed while traveling that I found interesting to me so thought I would share them with others . It's been a very busy month for me as well as it has for most others . I lost a good friend then two days latter one of my brothers-in-laws died but the rest of the last couple of months has been good . Life happens to all of us good and bad things will come and go we go on and do what we do in the mean time . I have made around a dozen folding knives and machined one side charging upper receiver for a 223 and made a piston drive system for it at the same time , and that tends to keep me busy and out of trouble with my wife for the most part she tolerates me well puttering around in her way .
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Straight Shooter
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Dave, let's see a picture of your folding knives please!
I actually buy an inexpensive folding knife and make a good blade for it . I started using three types of metal for the blades 52-100 bearing steel , AEB-L stainless steel and 440-c stainless steel . I made blades from all three types heat treated them learned the best way for me to get a good blade that I could get them to hold an edge but not be too brittle so that they broke . I then needed to test them under real world use conditions so I gave them to ranchers that I know to use for me . That way I could get enough testing of them done in a years time that it would take me a life time to doing it myself . I have around thirty knives out being used on a daily basis some fixed blade and some folding knives . It's a kind of a hobby thing and not something I want to turn into a job as I don't need a job I've had enough of them in this life time and am out to make something useful and keep me occupied and not just setting around . Most of the people really like the edge holding of the 52-100 steel but not that it will rust . They like the 440-C next best for edge retention and corrosion protection , both are fairly easy for me to heat treat well with what I have . The AEB-L isn't bad but I have found the other two to be better for my uses .
Straight Shooter
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I always like high carbon steel blades like the old models by Schrade before they were bought out and moved to China.
I always have myself and I still preferer the 52-100 blades for my own use but in todays world it seems that a lot of people like a stainless steel blade . In the 70's when I first got a stainless steel blade made by Kabar patterned after the buck lock back made for the U S N it was so hard that I had a lot of work putting an edge on it but it would hold an edge for a long time . It was made of 440-c stainless steel and they had a proprietary tempering and heat treating process that made it hard but tough not brittle . It wasn't cost effective at the time but it met the governments specs . They heated them to 1950 F quenched them and froze them with dry ice for 24 hours then repeated it for a total 3 times before bring it up to 350 F and then water quenched them . gotta love metal and it's micro structure .
