What did you do today?

[Die Judicii]

Actually, don't trouble yourself mate. I'm not playing anymore tit-for-tat online disagreements anymore.

No such thing as "disagreements" from me Mate,,,,,
Was just pointing out a maybe "generalized",, highlight of getting old.

[Blr243]

Took a run up to cleavers and grabbed 800 rounds of frontier 223. The 55 weight shoots well in my eureka

[Wapiti]

Pretty bleak drizzly day so the tractor has been getting a coolant and hydraulic oil change. Bloody hell, where to put 80 litres of hydraulic fluid. That's the biggest pain, and getting it to the recycling point at the tip in town.
But had time at the end of the day to make an unobtanium screw for a job I've been mucking about with in the lathe, it's pretty ambitious. It's a 12-32 UNEF screw made from a 10.9 squat head unbrako screw, turned to .206'. Mightn't seem a big deal, but it came out perfectly fitting the thread where it's going, without the slightest wobble.
You can't buy these things, and they are rare as, and can't be easily replaced. So I thought I'd make one.
The taper is just the lead-in to cut the thread, it'll be cut to length once it's fitted up.

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[perentie]

Nice job. I enjoy screw cutting on the lathe. Put 3 barrels into my wifes 6.5 -284 over the years and they all went well.
Was going to ask you if you were getting any rain out there .So good. Its been light but a good soaking rain here too.
I have been in the shed working out how to move my big mill. I have forgotten how I got it in there but probably use the skidsteer. Thinking of giving it away as it was well used when I bought it 30 yrs ago and getting a smaller new one.

[Wapiti]

Morning Perentie, just tipped 9mm from the gauge from Wednesday and overnight... pretty sad when considering the hysteria the forecast has been saying.
The centre of this squeeze was supposed to be right over us but there you go again. Maybe today we'll see more. At least all the tanks are full of rainwater again.

But out in the paddocks west of Stanthorpe things are not going to improve from this rain, the feed won't grow this time of year anyway, the growing season has been a huge failure.
In the creeks here, the last remaining she-oaks that rely on creek-bottom moisture have just died. Half of them were lost in the 18-19 drought, now the last living ones from hundreds of years ago are dead. The landscape is changing completely.
Although we've been trying to keep the wild deer alive, I see there are many dead ones around. On a stock run I'm constantly pulling up at the smell of death and the dogs find the bodies for me. The males have run themselves ragged in the rut and won't recover this winter. Many will die.
As usual, the rut is the worst time to kill deer, the best males get shot before they breed, the ones that survive die from running on empty in the drought of winter following it. Blokes got it tough. Oh but the hunters egos!

On moving the mill, have you considered hiring skates from industrial hire places? These little caterpillar-roller blocks sit under the heaviest workshop equipment and allow one man (on concrete floors) to nudge the biggest machine anywhere. Or to a point somewhere for a fork to grab them.
The ones we use have metal rollers, these ones from Vevor use poly but the capacity is what you look at when buying. Or hiring.
You can move any machine to any spot in your shed with these, with one man.

https://www.vevor.com.au/machinery-move ... 0877513062

[Die Judicii]

You make a good point there Wapiti in regard to the "capacity" of skates for moving stuff.
Even when you've looked at all the specs and advertising,, you can still get caught out.
I got caught out,,,,,,,, and the sorry saga still continues.

I purchased four of those rolling skates intended for moving a car around in a workshop.

Here is the specs (word for word from the sellers ad)

" Car Dolly Wheel.
car wheel dolly is ideal for many applications around the workshop and very handy for car sales showrooms. Allowing you to easily move vehicles around in tight spaces. Our brand item is made is made of thickened steel and thus durable as well as solid.
Features:
[Reliable and long lasting] Crafted from one-piece thickened steel panels, our wheel dolly boasts remarkable strength and sturdiness. The reinforced steel platform can effortlessly carry weighing up to 6600 lbs/ 3000 kg (1-piece)
[Versatile Performance] The wheel dolly allows you to effortlessly move vehicles, change tires, and perform various maintenance tasks. Designed to accommodate tire widths of up to 12" (305 mm) the car dolly compatible with a wide range of vehicles.
[Easy Maneuverability] Equipped with 3 inch/76 mm rolling bearing universal castors and locking castors, the wheel dolly ensures smooth and secure movement. You have complete control over the direction and positioning of your vehicle. The foot lets you instantly lock the dolly, providing convenience and security during maintenance work.
[Maximised Safety] The concave platform features dense diamond patterns that perfectly fit and grip vehicle tires, significantly increasing friction and minimizing the risk of falls or slips.
[User friendly Designs] Using the dolly is a breeze. Lift the car tire with a jack, position the wheel dolly underneath, and lock the wheel in place. Repeat the simple process for each tire, and within approximately 10 minutes, you'll be ready to go. No assistance from others is required."

Very cleverly written (probably by a politician) which doesn't actually lie,,, but instead implies the product is up to standard.

In practice this is what I found,,,,,,
You cannot "easily move a vehicle" and in fact I have a new workshop with an excellent concrete floor,, but I couldn't move or push the vehicle, because the castors are no better than those used on an office desk,, and the "rolling bearings" are not bearings at all, only plastic sleeves.
When making a complaint, the seller suggested I should have more people to help push the vehicle which makes a mockery of the "effortlessly move" claim.
The nyloc nuts supplied were of the poorest quality I've ever seen. Most of the inserts fell out when doing the nuts up.
The claim of 6600 lbs capacity for the set was a complete and utter farce.
The claim of "thickened steel" is a complete mis-nomer that could only have been born in the minds of a particular ethnic race. They are simply made using common checker plate which is also of a lighter gauge than what is required in practice.

The products description is grossly mis-leading to say the least.
They simply do not perform.

I gave negative feedback to the seller with full explanations including my qualifications to back what I said.
Since then the seller has asked me to supply my personal email address which is contravening ebay policy, and continually harasses me with messages via ebay. Up to two messages per day (including weekends) for the last month and a half. Which is also contravening ebay policy.
I have officially reported this to ebay three times, and they said they would rectify things,,,,,,,,,,, but they have done nothing at all.

The worst thing is that there are in the vicinity of 20-30 different sellers,, all peddling the exact same crap product.

[Wapiti]

Jesus mate, that's not good.
Can you name the brand?
The reason I ask is that people should not be afraid to buy or use these "skates", as we call them, because for a one-man band as I am most of the time. These things allow me to move one-ton plus awkward machines like the cast bases on lathes, mills and even a full 20-foot container sideways into a shed corner where, without them, there is no way to get it out.
I first use them on a site job and hired them for bugger all from Kennards Hire.
The ones I use have sort of, roller "caterpillar" tracks and a turntable with ball bearings under it, to allow the skates to swivel.
If I remember, I'll take a pic of them and post them up.

I can't imagine how they would move a vehicle though, there are special 4-castor-wheeled frames used for that, one for each wheel. They are different from what I'm mentioning by miles.

[Die Judicii]

Mate, these things are (as you could expect in this day and age) made in China. And sold by a myriad of dealers on Fleabay. Regardless of which seller, they are all the same product and have virtually word for word identical descriptions. Just look on Ebay, and search for “car dolly”. I know full well that a lot of ebay products are not of the highest quality,, but i bought these for a once off use, but they wouldn’t do the job and certainly didn’t perform to the stated specs.

If interested look 2/3rds of the way down Page 3 of the Sellers,,,for the seller "Ozlearningshop" and read my feedback to them.

[Wapiti]

A mate has the whole bottom of this 2-story home in Brissy set up to display his collector Holdens and Fords, from a HDT 05 Commodore to a XB GT, stuff like that. He moves them around on the epoxy floor with those dollies, but he bought ones that his fellow collectors use, from places like Autobarn etc. They work very well, in fact almost effortless. He mentioned that if you gave the car too much of a shove, it would glide along the floor and punch through the plaster wall.
So, buyer beware once again buying Chinese knock-off crap.

But these are the skates I'm referring to, to move machinery. These things are Australian made, and make the job into a one-man task.
You can see the rollers in the top turntable too, which allows unlimited positioning.
All you have to do us use jacks to lift one side of your machine slightly, and sit these under.
The Vevor ones use poly rollers instead of the caterpillar tracks of these ones, but they are meant for occasional use not constant abuse as these are.
Do exactly the same job, just make sure you buy the models rated for the machine weight you're moving, because the wheels are poly not hard bearing steel as mine here.

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[Wapiti]

Just look on Ebay, and search for “car dolly”. I know full well that a lot of ebay products are not of the highest quality,, but i bought these for a once off use, but they wouldn’t do the job and certainly didn’t perform to the stated specs.

If interested look 2/3rds of the way down Page 3 of the Sellers,,,for the seller "Ozlearningshop" and read my feedback to them.

Mate, I looked up Ozlearning shop for a giggle, and they have a 99% awesomeness rating. Are you just getting grumpy like I am as we get older?
Just kidding mate, if you say they are crap then they definitely are.

[Wapiti]

To help out anyone who is looking to move machinery around their shed or hanging off buying gear because they have no idea how the hell they're going to move it:

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No, you won't find these at Bunnings or AutoBarn, this is pro-industrial gear but a look at your big-city chain, hoist and sling lifting specialists will have a range of these things and will courier them.

[Wapiti]

I had some time to sandblast and "parkerise" a few parts today inbetween chores.
Simmered them for about 40 minutes, and the results were unbelievable. A dark grey/green after I dropped them into some old used engine oil after rinsing.
I can't believe how great they look.

[Flyonline]

Finally managed to get a custom cheek piece made up to fit my hw97k so that I now have a great cheek weld for use with my new(ish) GS515 thermal. This sits somewhat higher than the scope I had on it originally, so I went down a few rabbit holes trying to get it to sit lower, but the only thing that has worked long term is an Eagle Vision dovetail to weaver rail adapter, then using the QR weaver clamp that came with the scope. As a bonus, I can now take the scope off to charge the scope/store/travel and it seems to hold zero on the few times I've actually had to do it. I had to try a few different heights of the riser to get a good line of sight coupled with eye relief etc. and this has changed the trajectory somewhat of the pellet with a reasonable zero distance. Thankfully it now gives me a flatter shooting arc at the ranges I'm most likely to use (particularly at night), with only a few mm difference in height between 20-35m. However I will be aiming 6" over their heads <15m, but for the rest it's actually worked out for the better. Had hoped to sneak out to the olds over the next few nights, but it looks like it's going to be raining and a full moon so not much point when the bunnies can see me coming from 100m away, or fog down to 5m!

I've also slowly been putting together a bit of gear to head out for a few overnight packpack hunts. Unfortunately the tarp I made earlier in the year is a little too small, so I've ordered the fabric and doings to make a somewhat larger one (~2.5 x 1.5m vs 1.8 x 1.2m). The One Planet Vertex has been performing superbly as a day pack, and it's easily large enough for overnighters so all I really need now is some water filtration and some lightweight cooking/eating gear.

Guess I'll need to start looking for a lightweight stainless sambar legal rifle next also

[Wapiti]

We had to cull some deer today that just didn't make it through the rain period. Well they did, but they weren't getting up again. Learned from bitter experience that anything else it just adding to their suffering.
It's going to be a tough winter, despite our efforts.

[Wapiti]

Man, there's been some shooting on a neighbouring property this weekend!
Our road frontage part of the place overlooks the Pike Ck valley where across it to the next set of hills is up to 10km away, and the shots from the NW from big boomers echoes that far quite plainly.
Friday arvo, overnight, yesterday and this morning when I took the dogs for a stroll, dead-set 20 plus shots at a time, yesterday there was definitely semi-auto centre-fire rifle fire, some shot strings so close together I don't think there is a trigger finger that quick.
Strange because no neighbours have cat D firearms, maybe someone's been playing with the parts in the Alcors again. Or some people we hear rumours about have brought out there "work" firearms again, fed by the local gunshop.
Over distance we can tell shotguns from rifles due to the projectile crack as it moves, it's quite different.
They just must be shooting at anything that isn't stock, because there's not that many pigs around.

[perentie]

We have mates that live past us up in the rugged country of Black Snake. Its always been a bit of a no go zone but I thought the gangs had left. The other week back, my mate who is in our shooting club said there was definately full auto fire going on further up the mountain. So they are still amongst us..

[Die Judicii]

We have mates that live past us up in the rugged country of Black Snake. Its always been a bit of a no go zone but I thought the gangs had left. The other week back, my mate who is in our shooting club said there was definately full auto fire going on further up the mountain. So they are still amongst us..

Not too far back I was on a property hunting pigs late one afternoon, and probably only a few hundred meters off the boundary fence when suddenly there was several bursts of full auto fire.
Being in a valley between pretty rugged mountains, the effect was magnified, and echoed quite considerably.
I knew the bloke that owned the property next door, (a retired cop) so I went for a drive to his house in the evening out of curiosity.
When I got there, there were some other guys there as well that I didn't know.
It turned out to be his son and two of his workmates, and they were SAS (or whatever the proper name was) and had "firearms" from "work" to do a night of spotlighting on the old fellas property for pigs.

Apparently they used to borrow the arms quite often.

[Wapiti]

"One rule for me, and one rule for thee"

[bladeracer]

Drove thirteen hours to Bathurst yesterday and had a big sleep
Just did a dawn lap of Mt Panorama and now looking for somewhere I can do a blood lead test that I didn't get done before I left.

[bladeracer]

Been having fun at Bathurst.
Wild Bunch matches on Wednesday and Thursday, very cold and wet, especially Wednesday.

We had some warm-up shoots yesterday morning and I squibbed my very first shot. Can't clear it so the .357 rifle is out of action until I can fix it at home. So I had ro dash into town to find some factory .44-40 ammo to use my spare rifle. $1.60 a shot (ouch!) but I'm back in the game.

Started the main Cowboy match yesterday arvo. Did another four stages this morning followed by Cowboy Clays, of which I hit 18 birds of the 25 - outstanding for me.

Four more stages in the morning then the top sixteen will have the shoot-offs to determine the winner for the NSW 2026 state titles. I'm not expecting to make the shoot-offs. Want to hit the road as soon as I finish as it's a ten-hour drive and I'd like to be home tomorrow if possible.

My daughter has brought the kids down from Queensland. They arrived at 2130 Sunday night so I only got five hours sleep before I had to head to Bathurst. They spent the week at Phillip Island while I was away.

Big Holden car show here today. All the Cowboys are camped inside the circuit behind the pits, and the car show is in the pit lane.

[Wapiti]

Had to go up the back to the rear bore and pick up a trough tank (cup and saucer) I'd left up there 2 years ago. Need to empty the one in the Elk paddock and move it, so I'll put this one in the new spot and transfer the water.The line is going to have about 1.5km added to it and a few extra troughs. The dams will dry up entirely soon enough.No rest for the wicked.
Gave me a chance to take the old HR Holden for a drive, poor old thing has sat in the shed since it was 5 years old and if it wasn't for the trickle battery charger, it wouldn't go anywhere.
Got 4 new big bore Aussie shocks to fit to it, and the Toyota snorkel is basically a POS as are most Toyota afterthoughts, so I've got an Aussie made Safari for it that's actually a real snorkel instead of a pretend one.
Gotta test that the 15,000lb hydraulic winch still works too. Can't remember how to set the two valve levers for the functions anymore.

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What a beautiful day! Yesterday it was freezing, dark and the clouds swirled around like one of those old Iron Maiden scary posters.

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Awesome little bore. On a hill, 17m down into a fast-flowing rock cave stream that's tested at 10,000 litres an hour and superbly pure. Weird the way these underground flows weave up and down in height underground. I say that because to the left of the pic about 500m north, there's a deep rock gorge, the bottom of which is at 100m elevation below this point, and that underground water is 80 above that level, flowing towards it and you'd never ever know.

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The cattle panels are to keep the pesky the wild goats away from chewing everything, and prevent the wild deer from rubbing their antlers against the panel post or the pipework.

[Die Judicii]

Re "Awesome little bore on a hill"

Those differences in depth/altitude of the water flow is dictated by hydrostatic pressure coupled to the simple fact that water (similar to air) will always follow the path of least resistance,, thus seemingly making a mockery of aboveground levels/altitudes.
Add into the mix different layers of permeable soil, sand etc with alternating layers of impermeable rock, and clay, and the answer is staring you in the face.

[Wapiti]

I saw it all the time with the Santos gas fields. The gas sits on the top of the underground water, on the light spots. So that's where they drill the gas wells. The gas and water is separated in "separators", basically pressure tanks with screens that cause the water to fall back down and be removed and reused, and the gas comes out the top dry enough to pipe to the compressor stations.

In our area, the water flows in underground rock cracks and eventually forms caves and tunnels. These cracks aren't at any specific depth, they are where the rock cracks were. It's solid basalt until the drill head breaks through, no sand or clay here.
In fact if the diviner / driller is a 100mm off, he can drill right past a high-pressure flow and never break into it. Here, there is no big fields of water that anyone can hit, like in the "Great Artesian Basin" for example.
In fact our biggest flowing bore is in the house yard, it's measured at 40,000 lts/hr and is in a quartz cave at around 100m down. But the house is in a valley...
That's the bore where all the quartz chips from the last few feet before hitting the huge cave are full of gold.
In our area, nobody had ever hit water before, and all wells were unusable. Yes people hit water, but it was never enough to pump. That's because the diviners were farmers with bits of wire instead of blokes with actual skills that use the willow, wire find waters but also find wet gravel, iron deposits and other wasted useless deposits.
That's why we were criticised by all the neighbours, as "money wasters" who thought they knew better.
The same neighbours who suddenly scrambled to become our best mates and begged to know who we had used to score the liquid gold. As usual, we are the canaries in the coal mine.

Strangely, I don't know why, but all the main flows are south to north, with only small linking bypasses between them, if that.
The flow volume and direction is measured when we determine the best pump to use, for the demand we need.

[bigrich]

I saw it all the time with the Santos gas fields. The gas sits on the top of the underground water, on the light spots. So that's where they drill the gas wells. The gas and water is separated in "separators", basically pressure tanks with screens that cause the water to fall back down and be removed and reused, and the gas comes out the top dry enough to pipe to the compressor stations.

In our area, the water flows in underground rock cracks and eventually forms caves and tunnels. These cracks aren't at any specific depth, they are where the rock cracks were. It's solid basalt until the drill head breaks through, no sand or clay here.
In fact if the diviner / driller is a 100mm off, he can drill right past a high-pressure flow and never break into it. Here, there is no big fields of water that anyone can hit, like in the "Great Artesian Basin" for example.
In fact our biggest flowing bore is in the house yard, it's measured at 40,000 lts/hr and is in a quartz cave at around 100m down. But the house is in a valley...
That's the bore where all the quartz chips from the last few feet before hitting the huge cave are full of gold.
In our area, nobody had ever hit water before, and all wells were unusable. Yes people hit water, but it was never enough to pump. That's because the diviners were farmers with bits of wire instead of blokes with actual skills that use the willow, wire find waters but also find wet gravel, iron deposits and other wasted useless deposits.
That's why we were criticised by all the neighbours, as "money wasters" who thought they knew better.
The same neighbours who suddenly scrambled to become our best mates and begged to know who we had used to score the liquid gold. As usual, we are the canaries in the coal mine.

Strangely, I don't know why, but all the main flows are south to north, with only small linking bypasses between them, if that.
The flow volume and direction is measured when we determine the best pump to use, for the demand we need.

that's awesome you've found much needed water . when on high country properties i've occasionally found "wet patches" of ground in unlikely places , up on ridges and hills , sometimes 100's of meters above creek levels . up on mount makenzie out back of tenterfield , on a high hill on a texas property . that property up the road from you that i go on has a dam where the water level never goes down , even in drought . i don't think the owners realize that about that particular dam . i did tell them though . great to hear you've been successful in getting your bores and tanks set up and going , against the staus qou of local "wisdom" cheers

[Wapiti]

that's awesome you've found much needed water . when on high country properties i've occasionally found "wet patches" of ground in unlikely places , up on ridges and hills , sometimes 100's of meters above creek levels . up on mount makenzie out back of tenterfield , on a high hill on a texas property . that property up the road from you that i go on has a dam where the water level never goes down , even in drought . i don't think the owners realize that about that particular dam . i did tell them though . great to hear you've been successful in getting your bores and tanks set up and going , against the staus qou of local "wisdom" cheers

Geeze mate, they didn't know that? And you had to tell them?
Most people that have lived where there is reticulated water probably don't give it much thought, but those who don't know and watch where every drop of water comes from.
Also unusual is that it isn't encased deep down in the rock. It would come up by pressure from one of these though, via a crack.

There is a spring here in rock, in a gully. It was just across the property line and the previous owner (was born on the place) had it surveyed and gazetted in for us.
It is fed by one of these underground streams, where cutting of the rock in the creek bed exposed the connection. In the 1967 drought (up till then worst in white history) it was the only water in the district, in fact the locality was named due to this spring. For a job, Gordon had to walk the 3km journey to bring back a bucket so they had kitchen water.
Despite all our efforts though to clean it out of gravel and flood rubbish, in the 2019 drought, it dried up completely.
Luckily, we had drilled two bores by then, despite the naysayers saying, "it's got to rain someday"
Since then we've had a third drilled, because they completely change the usefulness of the place, and for not only stock but for all the native animals.
We could've used the money to keep existing on a pallet of XXXX a week instead, as some others do, but we decided there were other uses for money we worked for.
For $5K, we could drill a 100m hole deep into solid rock and have water, that maintains and keeps life existing.

We weren't trying to be different or show anyone up, or just ride the bad times, we just saw a problem that repeated and decided to try and do something to minimise it if the opportunity was there.
We ended up with one bore that is a record for flow and water purity in the whole district, so much there isn't a pump that can take full advantage of it.

One neighbour, a complete parasitic germ off a horse farm near Beaudesert who moved out here to, in his words, "show us all how we're going wrong" and basically bignote himself (Man I'm glad I was born with a dick of a size I can use properly), has been desperately trying to see if this particular cave runs under his place, so in the coming drought he has vowed to drill a huge bore into it and sell the water off to others not so lucky and said he couldn't care less if he dried it up.
The only bloke good enough to find it, who found it here, as said to us, I will not even try and find it for him. Not just because he is a customer of the wifes business but because apparently it took this pretender neighbour a year to pay this driller for other services he did, so he warns others to stay away from this narcissist. Karma.

Unfortunately we sometimes meet the worst germs in the human species, luckily though we also meet the nicest, most genuine people who become friends too. You just have to limit who you spend precious time with.

[bladeracer]

As expected I didn't get into the shoot-offs for the titles, but I think I managed to squeak into the top 95% of shooters
Left Bathurst at midday, arrived home at 0150, but I stopped at Lazurus/Gaznazdiak's place for a couple hours to chat.

Decided I really missed out not being able to shoot the Wild Bunch match so I just ordered a secondhand 1911 .45 and six new Colt mags, which will arrive next week. Permits are taking twelve days currently, but I'll get an email asking why my current pistols can't do the job, which will drag it out a few days.

[Wapiti]

My little box from Nioa arrived today, with the present I'd gave myself with receiving another 5 years of primary producer handgun license.
The eyes just aren't working as good with iron sights anymore, and I recently stuck a DeltaPoint Pro on a 308 rifle for S&G's and it was so easy and fast to use, I wanted it for one of the pistols too.
The pistol doesn't have a slide cut so I had to get the mounting plate from Leupold that replaces the rear tritium sight, slide in the new dovetail and tighten the screws up.
But shooting the thing accurately with both eyes open is just so easy! I'm absolutely stoked.
It took maybe, 5 shots to zero the thing, then I shot two full boxes of 124gn FMJ Winny white-box cheap crap, I thought I was missing the target after the first shot and the thing had come loose, but leaning on the fence at 10m I got 5 shots through one hole!
After the 100rds I checked the screws and no change, even slamming back and forth on that short slide with full power ammo. I am surprised.
Then I mixed up a 15rd mag of these two brands of ammo, both I use in the field, 7 of one, 8 of the other, at random in the mag. This stuff.

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This is the result, 15 shots mixed ammo above, offhand at 10m. Taking my time using the single-action break, not double, being real careful with that lovely Legion trigger.
The thing functioned perfectly, but it always has done, never has it misfired or misfed.
I'm not a range shooter, so you serious range-guys are probably laughing at me but every shot not taken here sighting in or testing loads is at live animals, so I take this very seriously. Missing or wounding something to me is absolutely not on, and this will help me enormously.
To me, this is awesome! And absolutely p*ss easy for my aging eyes with both eyes open.

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The only thing I didn't do, which I have to absolutely, is check the zero at 1m, at my feet, which is where I take a lot of shots with animal welfare issues.
I know this will be a different POI, at least I am expecting it to be, and it will be important to check beforehand.

[Die Judicii]

Blade,, hope you gave Bella a hug when you got to Micks place.