Recent content by Old_Paint

Ted Williams, yeah, I remember that name now. They had a pump shotgun that had interchangeable parts with the Mossberg as well, so Mossberg might be right on point. I have the Mossberg brand. Very light shotgun for a pump that will hold one in the tube and 5 in the mag. Recoil really isn't...

Thanks to you and your family for your sacrifice. I didn’t have to serve, but would have, and in fact was in the process of joining the Navy in 1976 when my great aunt got wind of it and took me to Tuscaloosa to change my mind. I got a degree in Electrical Engineering instead of a military...

I have a cheapo Harbor Freight QH. I modded it because it was a PITA to get connected to anything I had. I also learned that most QH’s are designed for cross category use, trying to be universal. Not every implement will be QH compatible (regardless of the label stuck on it). I have modified my...

Your dad must have been in the navy with my stepdad. He said exactly the same thing to me when he gave me a single shot 12 gauge for Christmas. I was hoping for a Remington 780, but expecting nothing so I wasn’t completely disappointed. A couple years later, he “let” me buy a Remington 514 from...

Now I'm worried. I remember every one of those things.

Model 514? I have one.

A little reference to 3 Dog Night?

Too many people don’t know how to laugh at themselves. A world without humor is a sad world indeed. Me? I’m an equal opportunity abuser. The older I get the less I care if some Karen gets their panties in a wad. My wife sometimes looks at me and says “You can’t say everything you think out...

I was more pointing at the fact he can more easily change the angle of the blade and lower it some without giving up too much ground clearance. But yes, I get geometry. I’m a retired engineer. I made my living using geometry. Changing the top link length does some inconvenient things to the...

He’s got a top link tilt cylinder. Angle of the dangle solved. I’ve resisted the mod for the very same reasons as you but the number of times I had to swap the BB and tow bar this spring was beyond ridiculous.

We have lots of different birds. It’s so diverse we may have an issue with the latest DEI rules. It is a very long and quite humorous story how we wound up at 24 birds (barring the unfortunate high mortality rate of chicks raised without a mother hen), which mostly revolves around “Happy...

One more question if you please. What is the purpose of the expanded metal grate? Is that for hauling small tools, etc?

Yeah, now I remember seeing this as well as the one posted by @Lil Foot. I have plenty heavy steel to reinforce, up to 6x6 thick wall. The back of the Land Pride is a little thin to depend on for any significant loading, but I think I can fit something up. I just don’t want to mod the blade past...

I’d like to see the trailer hitch on your box blade. I want to add one to mine so I don’t have to drop the box blade every time I need to move a trailer. I have a Land Pride BB1248 (but could really use the BB1260 or BB1272 behind the LX). I want to build something I can easily swap to a new...

Well I certainly wouldn’t dare call her that.