I've gotten spoiled the last few years. About 3 years ago I picked up a log splitter at an estate auction pretty cheap that had a massive cylinder leak. Few bucks in new seals and it runs like a top, and i've been using it the last few years to split wood. Our cabin isn't too big, but wood is our primary heat source so we go through about 6 cords a year.
This year I was busy trucking and didn't get hardly any wood split before snow set it. About 2 weeks ago I split a truck load by hand since the log splitter wouldn't start and boy let me tell you, I didn't realize how out of shape I was until I split wood by hand again. We are coming out of our 30 below snap and I figured I'd get some more wood split if I could get the log splitter running. It doesn't like to start in the cold, and today was no exception. I grabbed a head gun and put it on the pump to warm it up, and decided to see if I could build an adaptor to spin the engine over with a drill. Its got a Honda vertical shaft engine on it like a lawn mower. Anyway, pulled the cheesy plastic recoil off and lo and behold the starting pulley is held on with a 3/4" nut. Found a 3/8 drill adaptor and a 3/4" socket, chucked it in the drill and with the pump warm that thing fired ff in about a half a second with my southern engineered electric starter.
Guess it's probably idled long enough. Time to go split some wood!
[FPC News] FPC Sues New York to Strike Down Ban on Firearm Carry by Non-Residents
<p><strong>BUFFALO, N.Y. </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">(November 21, 2024) – Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced that it has filed a new federal lawsuit challenging New York’s ban on firearm carry by residents of other states. The complaint in </span><a href="https://www.firearmspolicy.org/shaffer"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shaffer v. Quattrone</span></em></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> can be viewed at </span><a href="http://firearmspolicy.org/shaffer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">firearmspolicy.org/shaffer</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
I went down a bit of a rabbit hole today at the gun bench since it was -32 out today. One of the things I did was gather up all of my 1911 mags and check them over, clean them and replace a few springs.
I've got a bunch of mostly new 7 round mags that I never use since I have quite a few 8 rounders. I like the 8 round flush fit mags and I see that Wilson and a few others have kits to change the spring and follower to make the GI style mags 8 round.
Trying to decide if its worth the trouble, or just throw all of the 7 rounders back in a box under the bench to collect dust
