sheeesh John...do you call her deputy fife?

 

You just don't know how tempting it is! The bad thing is that she looks like Olive Oyl from the Popeye cartoons! She really is a good officer and I always try to give credit where it's due...just a little backwards at times but she's coming along pretty well.

 

Stupid double-posting gliche... see next post.

 

Lisa... the "Judge" is a revolver which will shoot either .45 caliber bullets or .410 gauge shotgun shells. Here's a link...
Taurus Judge Gun Holsters

and another...
Firearm Fun: Taurus "The Judge"

and one more...
Taurus Judge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


I can't get to a lot of the gun sites because they're all categorized as "Spyware" sites by our company's firewall.

 

I have heard of the Judge, never shot one though.

Largest handgun I have fired is a .44 mag S&W "Dirty Harry"

 

A friend of mine had the Judge at his Pawn shop and I came close to buying it, but like truck's, you can only have so many. I wish now, I would have bought it!!

 

i thought your video was hilarious Caleb.
and when i was on, the first 2 years we were only allowed to carry a S&W model 14 38 police special caliber with a 6 inch barrel.

then the new chief decided to let us carry whatever we wanted for a few years before settling on a 9 millimeter caliber.
i qualified with both the 44 mag and 45. i carried the 44 mag 3 times before i was told to put it away. so i stuck with the 45

they all now carry the glock 9 mil.

 

lmao...we had a woman that looked like olive oil flippin burgers at in a railroad caboose back in NH many years ago.

 

So I'm in pretty much the same boat as Jay.

I've only ever shot a .22 and .22s are kind of disappointing. I keep trying to get my brother to take me shooting since he's got a 12 ga, 20 ga, and a few rifles. He keeps saying he will, but it never happens.

Dad grew up having shotguns and a few rifles around since he grew up on a farm, but mom is the anti-gun democrat type so we don't have any now.

And as of now it looks like we're going to be trying to get away from some of the dirt work and move more towards mulch.

Steve (my brother *I only have 1*) dad and myself went to New York today to visit a large mulch operation.

When we were there they had 2 loaders, 2 Morbark tub grinders, and a batch plant going.

The batch mixer was a Knight feed wagon with FECON mulch coloring equipment retrofitted on it. They also had 2 continuous feed FECON coloring units there, but not running today. The guy said they sell material faster than they can make it. In the hour we were there they had 4 truckloads of chips come in. Each truck is 100 yards of material so figure in an 8 hour day they were doing 3200 yards of mulch and are still running out of mulch to sell.

We want to get into this type of business because unlike dirt work you aren't in trenches or hand shoveling or killing yourself or running through the mud.

You are working on an improved surface in the same place every day and you get to work normal hours and you get to sit in a nice climate controlled cab all day.

Yes it will have its bad days, but it's just much nicer than dirt work.

They had 2 loaders going when we got there. A CAT 980G with an 18 yard bucket and a smaller Komatsu with a large bucket. I don't know the Komatsu's capacity.

The guy said his biggest problem was procuring enough material to satisfy his demand. He told us he had to cut off a few of his buyers because he didn't have enough material. The guy was great to deal with. He let us view his whole operation and showed us around for nothing in return. He even let us see his "recipe" for his batch plant.

The only problem with this is
1: Getting permits and a site to do it
2: Equipment cost. We can use the tub grinder and equipment we already have, but a new batch plant is 80,000$ and good luck finding a used one worth having.

 

So, is everyone ready for the weekend?

What are your plans?

 

hide inside again from the rain. this swapping weather patterns with the northwest is getting old. they are calling for rain again starting tonight and going till sunday night.

 

permits and a usable site are gonna be a big problem Pete. you are gonna need a good size piece of property away from houses to make a successful mulch operation.

 

I was going camping, But like Tom, our weather is not going to cooperate!!

 

Evening everyone!

 

Good evening Chris!!!