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[fishstick]

Good morning y'all
Still as cold as a well diggers a$$ here

 

[aShardOfHistory]

Another dusty day today, found some local 1957/59 sacks that I may keep, better condition.

And the spiders... Oh god the spiders..

 

[pepperj]

Another dusty day today, found some local 1957/59 sacks that I may keep, better condition.

And the spiders... Oh god the spiders..

Morning
So what is the project that you are doing? ( Highlighted to get you'z attention to the query)

1958 the year that I was born
Better keep them sacs-getting to be vintage, me boy, vintage I say.

Dusty-hope you wear a mask-hack-chocking-but not joking here.
You might be young but it's no fun when you get older and the pipes are clogged from decades of dirt breathing.

You still have another 50 yrs at least of digging in the dirt, not breathing the dirt.

 

[releventchair]

Mornin all.
We lose a crotal bell , we don't stop!




[YINGLE BELLS Yogi Yorgeson

My wife says to me, “Lets not drive the old Coupe; Hitch up once again the one horse open sleigh.” The horse was awful mad, If he could talk he’d say “You’ll be sorry you hitched me to a one horse open sleigh.” Yingle Bells, Yingle bells, yingling all the way It yust ain’t like it used to be in the one horse open sleigh. Yingle bells, Yingle bells, yingling all the way I should have worn long underwear in that one horse open sleigh. Dashing through the snow with the cold win in our face I can’t hold the horse, he thinks he’s in a race. He kicks snow on us, it hits us on the chest I bet that we’re the coldest Swedes in the whole darn Middle West. Yingle Bells, Yingle bells, yingling all the way- My wife sure hates sleigh bells since she rode that one horse sleigh. Yingle Bells, Yingle Bells, yingling all the way- We’re too old for riding in a one horse open sleigh. The night is awful dark, can’t see beyond my nose I can’t blink my eyes. My eyeballs must be froze. I can’t hear my wife yell, I can’t see her face I guess I must have lost her when we turned at Yohnson’s place. Yingle Bells, Yingle Bells, Yingling all the way I nearly caught pneumonia in that one horse open sleigh Yingle Bells, Yingle Bells, Yingling all the way – I wouldn’t make brass monkey ride in a one horse open sleigh!. ]

 

[aShardOfHistory]

Morning
So what is the project that you are doing? ( Highlighted to get you'z attention to the query)

1958 the year that I was born
Better keep them sacs-getting to be vintage, me boy, vintage I say.

Dusty-hope you wear a mask-hack-chocking-but not joking here.
You might be young but it's no fun when you get older and the pipes are clogged from decades of dirt breathing.

You still have another 50 yrs at least of digging in the dirt, not breathing the dirt.

Just general tidy up and insulating a barn with a few improvements

 

[oldmxrat]

Good mornin' all

 

[Evan in CA]

Good morning everyone

 

[oldmxrat]

Had a roadrunner circling around the house looking in all the windows yesterday. He was camera shy though, as soon as I picked up my phone he did what they do.

 

[robertk]

Had a roadrunner circling around the house looking in all the windows yesterday. He was camera shy though, as soon as I picked up my phone he did what they do.

Most animals do seem to have an uncanny knack for knowing when there's a camera pointing at them, and run away as fast as possible. Even the domesticated ones.

 

[JVA5th]

Good morning everyone

 

[Gulf Coast Pirate]

Late good morning, folks! I've got the day off for MLK...

 

[ToddsPoint]

Yeah, I won't be posting pictures from here until you all are out of the freeze, I would feel like a schmuck.

No!! Don’t feel that way. We’re froze out up here and counting on you guys in fair weather to give us a fix! Keep swinging and keep those finds coming.

 

[pepperj]

It's a bright sunny day.
Tad windy=windchill
Comfort food 😋
Raspberry pancakes
Made with our own raspberries, strawberries, eggs, maple syrup, and eaten with a finds fork.
Slathered topping peanut butter and hot butter.
All organic

 

[aShardOfHistory]

Today had been cold and my heel hurts like hell but I'll live, managed to get out for an hour and I'm pretty pleased.

Managed to find a second crotal bell on the same field I found my first, it looks completely undamaged so I'm super happy.

Also got another one of those large bullet casings also snapped again? but I think this one may still have some detail on the head stamp.

Possibly a bullet but seems fairly big? I wonder if they had armour piercing/explosive rounds during WW2? I'm down the road from a WW2 airfield so it's horribly related to the activity there.

And earlier I saved some sacks, mainly the large ones. All were damaged a little but hovered up nicely. The small ones were beyond saving tho

 

[pepperj]

Well dug on the Crotal bell.
Probably a 50 cal. Casing with Headstamp of 42 or similar number for the WWII

 

[pepperj]

This a true statement men and their toys.
Turn it up.

 

[aShardOfHistory]

Well dug on the Crotal bell.
Probably a 50 cal. Casing with Headstamp of 42 or similar number for the WWII

Yeah I was thinking it's a 50cal but couldn't identify the other one, will check this one

 

[aShardOfHistory]

@pepperj are the heads dangerous? As in should I put it in some padding or ?

What I'm assuming is the bullet from one of them, it has this weird bit stuffed into it.

It's not lead and feels like some sort of fibers or whatever, hard to describe its like softish hard..


Head stamp reads something like

R A
42

 

[JVA5th]

@pepperj are the heads dangerous? As in should I put it in some padding or ?

What I'm assuming is the bullet from one of them, it has this weird bit stuffed into it.

It's not lead and feels like some sort of fibers or whatever, hard to describe its like softish hard..

You're sure it's not lead. Most bullets are lead or have a jacket of copper and such. Probably won't do you any harm as long as you follow the same protocols with lead. Bullet heads don't do anything. It's the black powder and such in the casing that can be problematic and even then meh you'd have to be doing something stupid for issues most times

 

[aShardOfHistory]

You're sure it's not lead. Most bullets are lead or have a jacket of copper and such. Probably won't do you any harm as long as you follow the same protocols with lead. Bullet heads don't do anything. It's the black powder and such in the casing that can be problematic and even then meh you'd have to be doing something stupid for issues most times

The end stuffing bit is most certainly not lead, my dad confirmed that too when I asked him to look at it without mentioning anything about what I thought

Just tested scratching it with a sim ejector and it breaks apart like wood fibers ...