From haybails to wadcutters. Seems like a good mix to me. In NZ we now use machinery to make bails of hay. Great big Ones and stuff we call baleage Not quite dry hay wrapped in plastic that sort of becomes silage. Now on to real hay. When I was very much younger hay was cut and dried and bailed into blocks about 20 x 20 x 36 inches. We used to pick them up off the ground by hand and throw them onto the truck. We stacked them 7 or eight bails high and then restacked them in haybarns. Character building labour in the summer sun for which we got paid $1.50 an hour.Todays youth would not do it but we just got on with it .
I began my working life at 12 years old on a horse boarding farm. $.50 per hour after school and on weekends.
Quote from: avator on January 31, 2023, 11:37:40 AMI began my working life at 12 years old on a horse boarding farm. $.50 per hour after school and on weekends.You got paid cash? I got fed. LolOrdered a remote hose to convert my Fusion 2 to HPA. Now all I need is a pump and bottle. I'd even take a hand pump. I need the cardio.
Received my Diana 54 .22 I purchased from Jmiller from this sites classifieds. Very nice, packaged well, thanks Jason. Pulled a couple patches thru it and installed the scope mount. New Sightron scope should arrive tomorrow. I was surprised how easy it is to cock, always heard they where hard. Fake news, I'm a 75 yr old smaller guy, it's easy. I hope to shoot it over the weekend.
Still waiting for a China Damper mount to clear customs. Longest China Delivery in the last 6 months, they could of dropped it off with the balloon and beat the delivery system
Got my new Crosman P1377 today from PA!Ted
Quote from: JEFFPPC on February 03, 2023, 03:09:04 PMReceived my Diana 54 .22 I purchased from Jmiller from this sites classifieds. Very nice, packaged well, thanks Jason. Pulled a couple patches thru it and installed the scope mount. New Sightron scope should arrive tomorrow. I was surprised how easy it is to cock, always heard they where hard. Fake news, I'm a 75 yr old smaller guy, it's easy. I hope to shoot it over the weekend.I have a couple 54's (and one 52) and love them all, but I haven't discovered the optimal method of cocking these big sidelever air rifles.Can you describe (or post a video on) how you cock, load, and bring the 54 into firing position?I'd consider myself of average build and strength for a 53 year old man.Thanks,-W