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Just a versatile aircraft. They are also used as ‘Hurricane Hunters’ to fly into the eye of a hurricane and measure barometric pressure. I read that NOAA has two on order to replace what they use now.

It had to be this

Driving south yesterday I spot this huge military cargo plane. But with the sun right behind it I can’t see too many details other than it is a turboprop. It has the profile of a C 130. Then it banked right to make a landing approach to the Green Bay airport and I was shocked to see it had 6...

What Lil Foot said plus I would make it a slight press fit on the shaft. Also would make sure that shaft isn’t bent.

I use my grapple. I curl it all the way back and it will hold approximately twice what my bucket will hold. The negative is I have to load it by hand.

Wow! Just wow!

I am guessing that the auto body people might like this trend. Matching color versus the metallics must be easier. Am I wrong?

Flintnapper pretty much sums it up. How was the hp measured? PTO, crankshaft, at the drawbar? What kind of dynamometer was used for measuring? Were the numbers calculated for temperature and atmospheric pressure? How many hours on the engine?

Which brings up the question of how to find out where they are built?

Pretty much the same here for my 455. It’s when you use it for a while and let it cool down a bit and try and restart it is when it gets temperamental. I’ve learned to let it idle for a minute before working the throttle is the trick. If you use the choke it will flood.

Chainsaws are the most temperamental things this side of …umm…well…I better not go there! Sounds like you’re looking in the right place for the fix. Good luck skeets!

Here is a quick way to make an internal threading bar and it is nice and rigid also.

Stumbled on an ad for a 3d metal printer and got really excited. Said to myself if this thing is under 10k I’m in. Took some searching but it was 260k. Cold water on that one.

Did you go with the Atom3d software? Their licensing programs have a couple of options. Which one did you go with?

First time was five years ago and went to SD with an AR 15 with 75gr green tip. Ammo was scarce at the time and I didn’t know what I was doing. It was fun and I got hooked but that combo was only a 200 yard set up. Then I got serious and bought a used Rem 700 and accurized the action and...