Yankee_Self_Loader

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Yankee_Self_Loader ,

I have an actual answer. I bought a metal detector and naturally I set to work in the backyard to see if I could find anything cool. Well I don’t know if you think rusty nails and bottle caps are cool but I sure found a lot of those. I did find a lot of good time to practice though.

Fast forward a few months, I had branched out to local parks and such and hadn’t revisited the backyard. We were having some landscaping done which included digging up some tree stumps. For a lark I ran the detector over one of the holes a stump had come out of and I got a hit. Not just a hit but a hit that registered the same as a pre-1964 quarter. Silver.

After a little digging I pulled up a pair of vintage ww2 aerial gunnery wings! (Note: these aren’t the ones I found but they are very similar)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/04d0a700-911b-4032-9f3c-f30c45817fed.jpeg

Not sure how I had missed them or what they were doing there but best I can figure is that since the house dated to the late 1950’s some kid grabbed his dads wings from the war and managed to lose them in the backyard and was never able to find them. Sad for dad but cool for me I guess

Yankee_Self_Loader ,

I think they’re like pilot’s wings but are what the guys who operated the defensive machine guns in a b-17 or b-29 were issued

Yankee_Self_Loader ,

It’s been on my to do list but getting to the county tax records has been a schlep

Yankee_Self_Loader ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9fb56fa5-4fc6-44a1-871f-61387a1b144e.gif

Yankee_Self_Loader ,

It’s illegal to be that smol. Straight to jail

Yankee_Self_Loader ,

I realized far too late that most mainstream media is about maximizing views and not telling those stories that worth telling as you said. They start with an interesting idea for a story and if it gets popular it just drags on to get the most amount of eyeballs for as long as possible only for it to end long after it should have with an unsatisfying ending.

And don’t get me started on injecting soap opera esque character drama just to keep the lowest common denominator inerested (looking at you For All Mankind)

Yankee_Self_Loader ,

Are you saying that the country you live in has a violent crime rate of zero?

Yankee_Self_Loader ,

Sophie should be proud

Yankee_Self_Loader ,

Calling me a metalworker would be an insult to real metalworkers everywhere. That said, depending on the size of the piece of steel, it’s probably not worth your time to fill in then grind flat when local big box hardware stores sell common sizes of “welding steel” for relatively cheap and as the other poster wrote, McMaster-Carr has just about any size piece of angle you can think of.

Source: was a kid with no money scrounging in what was left of grandpa’s (tool maker) machine shop who is now an adult and now buys the parts I need rather than trying to make do

Yankee_Self_Loader ,

How do those work?

Yankee_Self_Loader ,

I mostly read ebooks but I do buy physical copies of books I want to have on the shelf in the weird hope that maybe my kids or niblings might stumble upon in the future and spark an interest. Luckily I have a really good used bookstore near me that I can buy them for fairly cheaply so I consider it a cheap long term investment that will hopefully pay dividends

Yankee_Self_Loader ,

Stop judging her and let her enjoy the one thing that makes her happy

Yankee_Self_Loader OP ,

I came across this via Nextdoor and I couldn’t not post it here

Yankee_Self_Loader ,

I usually make stir fry on Friday. Do you know what I call it?

Yankee_Self_Loader ,

Wow that’s… actually worse

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