haha

Our bud Cedric says:

According to his own blog ...

That his Shoebox Compressor is doing a great job. 3rd fill (top off) now.

Why don't y'all buy one ... fill your tank ... and do some airgun shooting?

We'd love to hear about your experiences afield.

Gary

BTW ... it's been a gloomy, rainy mess round here. Raining pretty hard right now. Gloomy and sprinkling all day. Yuck. Some sun would be great!

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Tried to post this last night. Internet went out. This am ... heard a big ole metailc BONG!!!! and the electric went out. Transformer tripped, I guess. Hey - it's like the stone age around here! haha. By the time we reported it, and co-ordinated with the neighbors ... the power was back on. Go figure.

Anyway ... is anybody doing anything remotely related to airguns these days?

Hey ... the net was down a bunch of the day. We worked hard clearing bamboo from our grove of it, and from the neighbor's side of the fence. That house just sold. These will be the 7th neighbors to own that house since I moved here. Hey ... is it ... ME????

Well, the 6th owners were just pigs. They'd be thrown out of a swamp. Never did a thing in upkeep. And, where all they had to do was mow their stupid yard ... to keep any bamboo shoots from growing ... instead ... they let a jungle grow.

So; as a "welcome" gift ... Kelly and I went over, while nobody is moved in yet, and cut out the jungle along the fence. It will give me the access also to replace the nearly 30 year old stockade fence that's due for replacement. The yard trailer is about 7 feet tall. And, that's STOMPED DOWN seven feet tall of trimmings. With side stakes of bamboo stalks that I'll tie together and cover with a tarp. Gingerly tip toe to the land fill!

Anyway ... I did all that ... finally got the net working ... flopped down here for a chat with my buds .....

Hey ... are all you guys cutting bamboo too??!!

Gary

I always wanted some large diameter bamboo. Dory

Plant you some Dory, it doesn't take it long to get large, or to sprout up 50 yards from you planted it. The stuff is as bad as kudzu.

Did you know that as form of torture the Japanese would plant bamboo and stake an indivdual out over top of. In just a few short days it would penetrate the back of the poor soul they were torturing. Bamboo shoots have extremely hard and sharp points when they come out of the ground, they don't grow around objects, they grow through it!

HI Joe,

I don't know how it does it either. I have some stalks that grew thru the blacktop driveway. It will crack the blacktop, penetrate it, toss back a plug of blacktop, and the shoot will be growing out of the rubble it produced. Now - the shoot is soft, actually. You can just bend it over with your toe. Snap it off like a young corn stalk ... yet it tossed back blacktop. The stuff is a curse. I thought of planting Kudzu to grow all over it and kill it! hahah.

Gary

Gary,

No shooting this weekend, I'm adding to my my real estate portfolio again.

I did go for a jog barefoot on crushed glass to relax though.

Lon



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I want some that is large diameter not just tall. My parents have some but it doesn't spread to fast because it's under trees.Dory

There are different species. The ones you want have some form of the word "giant" in their species name. Although, I know that it's age related as well. My shoots get larger each year. The big ones are up to about 3" across. I know that some are a foot across. But I don't know it that's related to some stand of bamboo that's been there for hundreds of years ... or if it's all species related.

Whatever; keep it away from your home or yard. It's good for wet lands or errosion control. Mine will pop out of the ground, and grow about 30 feet tall in one season. Wish it were money,.

;?)

Gary

If they get 3", that's a good size. Most of the giant species won't stand zone 5.

Maybe you could sell them off every fall, for the people that decorate with that kind of stuff or use as screens. oriental style.
Let them do the cutting. Dory

Yeah ... everybody wants some ... AFTER you cut it, trim off the tough branches, and season it. ;?} Like one of my favorite manuscripts for living ... the Golden Book ... "The Little Red Hen". With that and the Bible, you are pretty well set to handle life's challanges.

Not sure about the "cut your own" plan though. "Y'all come on in with your loppers, chain saws, and machettes" ... ... hahahah .... Sure ... bring the kids ... what could go wrong?

Was in Lowes last evening. Talking to an employee about grass seed. The cur-sehd bamboo came up. He was also horrified to think that any of it was disgarded. I do build trellesi and such for flowers, tomatoe plants, etc. But, I haven't yet gotten into the bamboo bird cage, back scratcher market. But - the "five pack" bundle idea might do well. All I need is a barn to store it.. Drying rooms. A wrapping and shipping department. Inventory control with a return department for the stalks that crack during shipping. Have to do an environmental impact study and get properly lisenced on six levels. Shouldn't need more that a dozen people to handle the whole thing.

I know, I know ... sounds like a "road trip" to you ... hahaha.

Well, here on the gardening channel ... this has been a real viral thread!



Gary



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5th fill/top off now as i've done some chrony work in the garage. Its super nice having this thing or any other type compressor. The freedom of not having to travel to get my tank "SEMI FILLED" is worth the cost of this thing already..lol

Hi Ced,

I'll bet the shoebox does OK for you. You know how to do the maintenance it will require, and you're also not trying to fill 1000cf a week like at least one guy I've read about!

LOL...yeah, i don't really see that machine being tough enough to fill tanks back to back around the clock. Good research for us but silly on his part. And thats fine but, i wont run mine like that. You simply don't spend 700 bucks (shipping, hoses, gauges, filters, Shop compressor..etc..etc) on a product to break it.

What i do also is run it for 1 hour then let is cool down while the fan is still blowing on it for like 15-20 minutes, then run it again repeating the same process. And i lube the rods with a dab of lithium grease every 1 time i use it.

You sound like a manufacturer's dream Faz! ;?) Reading the instructions. Taking precautions. Forming a duty cycle. Lubricating parts.

Man ... makes me all ... misty ...

What are you talking about Gary? Very few people ever stress test your creations close to what they get in testing!

hahah. Guess that's true.

I do get mail on them though. Usually, about three to five years after I ship them "overnight", I get a mail asking ... "Now ... what PSI do I fill this to?" ....

LOL. You 2 are too much.

Why in the heck would anyone buy your gun and not shoot it often enough to remember fill pressure. Guess the saying of, "MORE MONEY THAN BRAINS" rains true.

Ced,

I think a fair number of Gary's customers just want the collectible airgun. They want to know that it can shoot through a tree or that it can shoot half-MOA but they don't really want to go and do it! Weird. But, every now and then a collector decides to go shooting...

Story:

Had a customer tell me, by phone:

Once a year, he takes out guns from his collection. He posts a white paper plate on a fence post 100 yards away. Fires exactly one shot. Cleans the gun, puts it away again.

I'm not sure what you call that particular sport.

Sure glad I made certain every tiny detail was correct, and shipped them overnight.

Gary