3 Meter Para Bellum
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- Apr 17, 2020
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I will probably never be a good bushcrafter, but every once in awhile you find use for your hobbies in real life despite your incompetencies!
My brother was picking up leaves with our leaf sweeper that we pull with the lawn mower yesterday, but today he told me he had to stop because a large structural pin had come off and gotten lost. So we took a two pronged approach, he got out the metal detector to search for the pin, and I got to work fashioning a replacement in case he couldn't find it. I had my TOPS Fieldcraft on my hip so I headed to the back forty, grabbed a small piece of oak firewood and battoned a sliver off of it that was about a quarter inch larger than the hole. I tried my best to quickly carve it down to a nice fit that would jam on one side so it wouldn't back out in that direction. Once I got it fitted I went ahead on sawed off the excess length with a coping saw. Since it was closely fit all I did to keep it from falling off the other side was wrap and tie some cotton twine around the wood pin to increase its diameter slightly.
And it worked! Seemed to hold up just fine and the lawn got the leaves cleared. I probably felt an unwarranted amount of pride in the solution, but hey it's fun when something that you just do for fun turns out to be usefull in your day to day. Here's a couple really poor pictures I tried to take after the thing was already put away.
My brother was picking up leaves with our leaf sweeper that we pull with the lawn mower yesterday, but today he told me he had to stop because a large structural pin had come off and gotten lost. So we took a two pronged approach, he got out the metal detector to search for the pin, and I got to work fashioning a replacement in case he couldn't find it. I had my TOPS Fieldcraft on my hip so I headed to the back forty, grabbed a small piece of oak firewood and battoned a sliver off of it that was about a quarter inch larger than the hole. I tried my best to quickly carve it down to a nice fit that would jam on one side so it wouldn't back out in that direction. Once I got it fitted I went ahead on sawed off the excess length with a coping saw. Since it was closely fit all I did to keep it from falling off the other side was wrap and tie some cotton twine around the wood pin to increase its diameter slightly.
And it worked! Seemed to hold up just fine and the lawn got the leaves cleared. I probably felt an unwarranted amount of pride in the solution, but hey it's fun when something that you just do for fun turns out to be usefull in your day to day. Here's a couple really poor pictures I tried to take after the thing was already put away.
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