Mike Hill

Here there has been a bit of a shift towards FB Market place for the budget conscious consumer.  They get a couple of quotes and then post up the job in the hope someone will do it for cash. Which they usually manage,fair enough,tight times for many and we as business owners aren't wasting cash these days

18 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Looks like Iran’s President died in a helicopter crash.

 

Dunno if it was an accident. 

 

It was the Covid vaccine

On 18/05/2024 at 00:03, peds said:

Venison. I've just been given a sika backstrap and a fallow backstrap. I've only ever roasted legs before. Anyone able to advise? 

Age them hanging for a while untill they are hard on the outside,wipe them dry first. Three days hanging from the racks in your fridge will do it.

Slice them crossways like a carrot into rings about 1.5 inches through. 

Heat a frying pan untill the oil begings to shimmer not smoke,put your rings into the pan cut side down,they will swell up after a bit,then flip them over.Knock the heat down to low and add a big glug of Sweet Chilli sauce and a big splash of Soya Sauce,cook the sauce untill it coats the meat as a glaze.

Trick to game meat is hot and fast or low and slow.

Hanging the meat in the fridge might produce a stronger odor than you might be used to,thats normal its not going off.

Bit of an update on the Brownings from a renown sa expert I send the pictures to.

You are correct regarding the .303 Brownings firing from an open bolt and an unfired round should not be in the chamber. It is possible that the gun was damaged in some way during a dog fight and could not fire as the round was chambered. Who knows?

What is clear is that the gun is from a wing mount, either a Hurricane or Spitfire and the plain tube is actually part of the wing into which the gun was fitted. The wings had access panels and the guns were inserted from the rear into the aluminium tubes which were part of the front of the wing structure. When the plane crashed the guns complete with mounting tubes were ripped from the wing.

What a fascinating find! The cartridge is headstamped as a B IVZ which was an incendiary round specifically for aircraft use. colloquially known as "Buckingham'.

Cheers

Rod 

You should reintroduce Bear and Wolf,that would in turn reduce the number of rough sleepers.

Drive Hiab truck up to fence

Place one 30 yarder up against its rear bumper,doors open facing  the rear

Place the other behind it with the doors open to match the first

Climber slings out bits that will fit in the giant 60 cubic meter mega skip you have created,numpties take turns at unhooking whilst they smash it all down.

I would be looking at less than 60 minutes per tree,less than 5 liters of fuel and about £5K plus vat over here in expensive Scandi Wegia

We do this kind of work frequently.

Seems steep.

I could do that job in under 8 hours with a couple of numpties ,two 30 yard skips and a 80 tonn hiab.

For £15k you could probably get those trees underslung from a Chinook and buttoned off into the English Channel

One job I was about £25k in the red from hire expenses, I told the crane hire and transport place who the customer was beforehand so they could see they were solid and that their bill would likely be over due before they would be paid.

They were fine with it. 

If I had to pay that £25k out before the saws were started the job never would have gotten done.

From a hand held drill to a 200ton crane or 500 tonn crane on a ferry I have never been asked for a deposit.

50 minutes ago, AHPP said:

 

No. We're definitely talking about detection.

I disagree

It sounds to be like you get knocked back quite a bit,hence this thread 

2 hours ago, AHPP said:

 

The nature of dishonest people is that they portray themselves as honest. Some are luckily shit at it but some will catch you out. I don't have especially sharp senses for detecting these baddies so I rely more on hard engineering solutions like the money up front.

You don't need to be good at detection, just good enough at the job to be able to drop people at your discretion. 

I charge for quotes outside of my desired work radius,this would be refunded upon billing for the job if done. No one has yet taken me up on the offer,so if works quite well for me.

For some commercial clients I state that the minimum charge for working say 30 miles away will be £500,plus the job cost on top.These firms have huge budgets and lets face it,if you want to get ahead its not done in this game working for Mrs Miggins.

If I had my doubts about wether or not someone was going to pay or cancel,I simply wouldnt waste my time communicating with them.

In my experience someone who wants something in advance for services yet to be rendered ,has an unrealistic opinion of their own abilities.

I have never taken a deposit for machine hire,honestly if a contract climber wanted money up front that would be a red flag larger than the one on the top of the Chinese Embassy.

41 minutes ago, Joe Newton said:

What size target, Mike?

No entirely sure,I think the black bit is 8cm . 10mm between each ring?

The vital zone on that deer target is 30cm across.

55 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

100m ?

If it is that’s not a shabby group for irons 

Yes 100m

First time out with that Rifle and just some random old reloads 

1 hour ago, roys said:

I’m impressed Mike

That's not me shooting BTW, there was a film of them shooting feral goats with an Oerlikon but it got taken down or disappeared. 

Tonight I tried my new old  barrel on my Krag Jørgensen from 1897. Shoots really good .

The trigger bar on an open bolt gun would have been quite a bit shorter than a closed bolt gun because it releases the bolt into battery and not simply the striker.

It's been years since I have opened one up and then it was trying to get it to fire attached to an air compressor.The seals in the actuator were buggered and we filled it with O ring grease to get it to seal.

Sometimes I really miss New Zealand.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VMljA1wm0FY&pp=ygUYT2VybGlrb24gZ3VuIG5ldyB6ZWFsYW5k

42 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Is the open bolt an RAF only thing  or were all brownings in UK usage the same. I’ve seen a couple of water cooled twin aa set ups online. 

I'd say it would have just been the aircraft guns.

Yup they are 1919s.

I can't tell for sure what's going on in the back where the spade grips/ solenoid/ air actuator should be.

A buggered shroud or barrel is a hallmark of a crash but those shrouds do look like water jackets and some were water cooled but obviously not on aircraft.

I will send the pictures to a guy who will know for sure. He is in another timezone so might be 12 hours or so

Round in the chamber without a primer strike is weird for a open bolt gun but who knows? 

17 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

The whole thing was intact initially, not the best pic for you guys to look at but the receiver/ main body is upside down in pic. Look closely and you can see the belt feed aperture on the  underside. Length, general features etc and the rivet/pin pattern etc the uxo Supv ( ex navy clearance PO diver) called it before it was even cleaned up. 

If they are aircraft guns,one will feed from the right,the other from the left.

1919s and M2s eject vertically.

You don't wear out barrels fast in a slipstream,plus they fire from an open bolt,plenty of cooling at 250 mph

I am very familiar with 1919s and M2s.Some more pictures would have been cool.

11 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

No idea 

Pretty sure it ain’t aluminium as the proximity to steel would have ended up with it acting like an anode, defo not vented, possibly a water cooling jacket but who knows 🤷‍♂️. Serial number would maybe answer a lot of questions with some research but the unfired round in the chamber makes pulling it apart a no no 

Didn’t even bother taking the concretion off-the-second one. 

That round will be phucked.

What makes you believe they are Brownings? 

It's weird that the barrel protrudes from the trunnion in the picture showing the headstamp.The bolt with the feed pawls I am not familiar with, the receiver is missing but the shrouds make it sound like it was wing mounted.

I agree that Spits and Hurricanes had Brownings in shrouds.

11 hours ago, Mike Hill said:

Lower feed roller bearing came off.

Welded it back on.

 

I know it's a pretty gapping repair since the studs fell out.

However I have planned alot of work on the chipper,alas the Norwegian Jensen dealer doesn't give a toss  about replying to emails it seems.

Lower feed roller bearing came off.

Welded it back on.

18 hours ago, Climbercliff said:

Although I sent a written/email quotation for the work, no formal contract (details) were agreed upon by the  client and myself.

Here is the rubb. He dosn't feel that you are doing an acceptable job and you dont have the details to prove otherwise.As written you have not finnished the job,he is under no obligation to pay you.

How much are you standing to loose and how much more work do you have on the books?

For what its worth,on jobs with multiple phases I stipulate progress payments,the next phase is not started untill the last phase is paid for. This is for jobs in the tens of thousands of pounds though,they are not every day fare for me.

6 hours ago, Peter-k said:

Thanks for all the reply’s. Out off all the above what has the best set of feed rollers   and grabbing strength. 
 

Jensen

I am a Jenson fan.

Good solid reliable chippers made from real steel with over sized wear parts.