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(72,300 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)NNadir
(33,544 posts)I'm not interested in firing guns that kill people though.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)is food & drink
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Doc_Technical
(3,527 posts)and the answer is no.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)But you can see what I meant with this Google Search
Aristus
(66,462 posts)Those bastards were hell to load; messy and time-consuming.
Speaking of 'grease guns', which were alluded to above, our arms room did stock these old fossils:
They used to be standard issue to tankers back in the 40's, 50's and 60's. Don't know why we still had them. They were never signed out or used the entire time I was there.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)making a real grease gun to look like those real guns...
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)... our armory was still stocking Springfield '03 rifles, which we used for infantry training for the first couple of months until they gave us some M-16s. The weapon was 70 years out of date by then.
-- Mal
csziggy
(34,137 posts)More often in the middle of the summer mowing season. So, yeah, I've fired a grease gun a LOT.
Haven't done it in fifteen years - blew out my left knee with the stiff clutch on the tractor and was not allowed to drive it anymore.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)Yeah, now it's time to hire someone while you watch and relax, uh, I mean, supervise
csziggy
(34,137 posts)It was a week later when I folded the torn part over that got really, really bad.
After I got both knees replaced (I wore through the other meniscus six years later) I wanted to start mowing again. The tractor needed work and they are supposed to make the clutch less stiff. Problem is getting parts for a 36 year old Massey Ferguson. They've had it for a year and a half and still haven't been able to get it going.
Oh well, I'm getting too old to drive a tractor anyway. But it was the best way to keep track of everything in the pastures - and no one else keeps up with it the way I used to.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)helping pack bearings and such.
I'm not tryna act like I'm a real mechanic or something - it was more of a "here, hold this, now squeeze that..." sort of thing. I wish I were more mechanically inclined. I should have paid more attention when the opportunities to learn presented themselves. No point in it now, I'll never know more than the guy who works on my cars and I doubt I can afford the tools lol. He has the tools and has proven time and again to be honest and fair and super-knowledgeable.
Kaleva
(36,342 posts)Most of the time it involved a can of grease, a paint brush and some coffee grounds. If the newbie wasn't liked, he got the business end of a grease gun inserted into his ass and he was pumped up.