8kg Pollock and it's little mate. Caught down the hill from my house.
Liked On: 15-07-2024, 09:02 PM
Sand is easy to work and just vent to let the air out and prevent pressure, worse was breaking up the WW2 aero engine parts to fit the crucible. We’d heat it with oxy/acetylene and smash it with a...
Liked On: 15-07-2024, 08:22 PM
When it goes "thunk" and the deer drops like a stone on the spot and you have no care for SD or ES.
Liked On: 15-07-2024, 08:03 PM
Here's my seating depth test from the weekend 254891
Liked On: 15-07-2024, 08:03 PM
I did my trade as a molder greensand moulder Then things changed to hardsand but I've been out of that game for many years now. Shrinkage rates is more a pattern maker and I'm sure there is...
Liked On: 15-07-2024, 07:49 PM
Toyota and Nissan both do 4wd vans. I have a 2wd van that I have slept in at road ends. Have a double self inflating mattress we use for camping, just chuck it in the back, sorted. Tail gate lifts up...
Liked On: 15-07-2024, 07:32 PM
There was a very comprehensive article in the Shed mag a while back. I've done a little of it, but nothing complicated - and nothing critical on shrinkage as it was all needing to be machined after....
Liked On: 15-07-2024, 07:29 PM
We used to do it at college, only in Aluminium and no double happys, had a coal gas/oxygen furnace, made out of a small fire bricked lined drum. Black sand, wet enough to bind, in two boxes, like a...
Liked On: 15-07-2024, 07:29 PM
What Makros said. Just tightening the scope rings and bases onto the picatinny rail on my .22lr shifted my POI 0.3mil right last week.
Liked On: 15-07-2024, 06:44 PM
We got caught with one of those dodgy chinese ones (8x4 Tradesman) that Bunnings was importing some years back, luckily they stood beind them and reimbursed the cost. It did sound like the design...
Liked On: 15-07-2024, 05:39 PM
There are vehicles often getting broken into in that area. The track was always really rough from what I've been told, motorcycle, quad or extremely well setup 4x4 only. You can get dropped off and...
Liked On: 15-07-2024, 05:36 PM
One life hack I discovered recently is that if you’re sleeping in a car passenger seat, stacking up the foot well so that it’s level with the seat makes a huge difference. Granted it’s still not...
Liked On: 15-07-2024, 05:30 PM
I'm 6,3, sleep in my the hilux sr5 double cab from time to time. Drop the tail gate, and tie a tarp off the back t bar of the roof rack. Drop the window down. Takes a bit of finessing but it's proven...
Liked On: 15-07-2024, 05:29 PM
I set up a sleeping platform in the cab of my old dual cab Hilux. It can be done, but if you're taller than 180cm I wouldn't bother. With the rear seat removed, I built a foldable contraption that...
Liked On: 15-07-2024, 05:29 PM
Farmlands Leeston has 13 of original Bahco knifes
Liked On: 15-07-2024, 04:46 PM