What are you doing today? Thread

[El Camexican]

Just finished burying my shop cat. 26lbs of pure evil. Spent his nights hunting in the farm fields behind my house. My dogs found him last night five feet from the only tree back there. Coyotes are out of control around here. Gonna miss him. Planted an apple tree over his grave.

That sucks man, sorry to hear it.

[ironchop]

Sorry to hear about your cat. He looked awesome.

Coyotes are bad around here. Legal to shoot in Kentucky too I believe. I worked with a guy who said he hunts coyotes at night with a full night vision scope setup on a AR15 .

I live in a rural area so we have bears and big cats, and feral dogs crossed with coyotes here as well and people losing pets to coyotes is now very common even in towns and larger cities.



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[fieldy]

Maybe the pythons and boa constrictors will eliminate all the coyotes.

[plastikosmd]

Ugh

Sorry to hear
Time to thin the pack of coyotes

[GeoCubed]

Just finished burying my shop cat. 26lbs of pure evil. Spent his nights hunting in the farm fields behind my house. My dogs found him last night five feet from the only tree back there. Coyotes are out of control around here. Gonna miss him. Planted an apple tree over his grave.

Sorry about your pure evil cat. Nice one planting the apple tree!
Definitely time for some coyote hunting.

[knappyfeet]

Sorry about your kitty.....looks like a cool cat!

Cats make good shop buddies.....they don't bug and they are just there.

[Shep1970]

Couldn’t Amagine loosing our cat. Very sorry to hear.
About 8 last night our cat was at the door waiting to get in/ son let her in then went to brush his teeth/ well he exits the bathroom and just happened to look down and there was a little fist size bunny staring back at him. Luckily it was ok/ we trapped it in a cook pot to bring back outside. Friggan cat!!!! But ya gotta love em......


Shep

[Jaywood1207]

Couldn’t Amagine loosing our cat. Very sorry to hear.
About 8 last night our cat was at the door waiting to get in/ son let her in then went to brush his teeth/ well he exits the bathroom and just happened to look down and there was a little fist size bunny staring back at him. Luckily it was ok/ we trapped it in a cook pot to bring back outside. Friggan cat!!!! But ya gotta love em......


Shep

The bunny was probably more terrified being put in a cook pot than being caught by your cat.

[El Camexican]

Using my porting tools to repair a pre-1956 Buffalo Ironworker for a supplier.

She’s a beast to say the least!

[plastikosmd]

Cool machine
I thought of getting a mechanical but went with hydraulic. What was the issue with it?

[El Camexican]

Cool machine
I thought of getting a mechanical but went with hydraulic. What was the issue with it?

Unless you were thinking of changing career paths and getting into high-volume metal production, you made the right choice by going with the hydraulic. They are so much simpler and way, way, way safer if you have people in the shop that can get at them without proper training.

The issue with this one is that some one during the past 60 some years decided to start greasing the mechanisms rather than using the proper heavy duty mineral oil. This caused the mechanism that releases the punch following a head to lock up and continue cycling with the machine and not stopping

It was purchased by my buddy/supplier about 10 years ago from P/H Crane After he did some work for them. It had been sitting outside for an unknown period of time prior to that.

They had tried to contact Buffalo for a service manual five or six years ago and an issue came up that I’m not going to discuss until I hear both sides of the story, but I really doubt that it is true having spoken with the owner and his wife numerous times this past few weeks. They really do seem like nice people.

I don’t know all the proper terms, but basically there is a counter balanced pawl that is supposed to allow the ironworker to cycle without activating the punch mechanism and the pins that move it into the engaged position seized up with dry grease and scaled surfaces and held it in the active position.

I polished the pins as well as the internal doors and everything looks like it will work fine now.

[Shep1970]

“Attempting” to cast a kicker- just wish I was brave enough to cast steel (someday). I don’t feel confident that the splines will stay though- but “maybe” if someone had a broach for their lathe......(not pouring until 4 ish)


Shep

[plastikosmd]

Recovering from a cold post vacation but rallied ( Advil, Diet Coke and espresso) to go get rest of sawmill, the base that sealed in concrete. New jack did great

[El Camexican]

“Attempting” to cast a kicker- just wish I was brave enough to cast steel (someday). I don’t feel confident that the splines will stay though- but “maybe” if someone had a broach for their lathe......(not pouring until 4 ish)


Shep

Super cool! I'd love to see what you could do with a forge.

[plastikosmd]

Set up a 6” diameter chunk of UHMW-PE to make some bushings but this cold/flu is kicking my butt, so back to bed. Waste of a good afternoon!