Vogel/Trapper Joe fly-in

[Jim Hartley]

Clam digging anyone?

Annual and wheels back on in a week for me...Some good minus tides the third week of April and excellent tides the first week of May for West side of Cook Inlet. What do you all think?

[Jim Hartley]

"Alaskan" cordless drill

As we all know, cordless power tools have made life much,much easier and more convenient. Dick Smith can attest to this fact during the time he was setting up the cabin for our fly-in.

As Dick tells it; after the employees of the National Wildlife Refuge had installed the new stove pipe in the "public-use" cabin they forgot to bring their cordless drill to install the damper for the stove pipe,so they just left the damper hanging above the stove...a lot of good that does when the fire roars and all the heat goes up the chimney with no means to "dampen" it. Hello!!!......??? Well, being the resourceful fellow that Dick is along with the fact that he had brought his.... "Alaskan"... cordless drill...life was good!

[Dick Smith]

Cordless Drillmotor

Here is my Ruger "Alaska Cordless" and set of "drillbits".

[Steve Long]

Alaskan cordless

Hey Dick,

They need the use of your "drill" to settle the question re. the beacon over on that other post. The debate's been going on way too long!

Jim,

I might be up for a Clam Digging run later this month or next. I'm going over to wheels soon also, but I sorta worry about using my 6.00 tires on the beach. Let's talk somemore about it as the time comes up. Steve.

[Robert Lees]

Dick:

Thank you, that picture resolved my mental mystery over the subject.

Steve, I would suggest that Norm has some rather longer and bigger diameter drills than Dick, with the appropriate larger cordless drivers, so please do not invite him to a barn-raising ceremony. Although, he is actually a pussy-cat.

Rob

[Jim Hartley]

Sounds good Steve. I will contact you soon.

[Dick Smith]

Another "Drilling" story...!

Ron, a lot of problems have been resolved used "Cordless" drills!
One of the guys up here brought his BC12D home, after breaking a tailspring, by sawing a branch off of an old set of moose horns he found along a bush strip. He had landed to answer nature's call...with a pretty heavy load in the plane. He shot several properly spaced holes in the piece of antler and bolted it to the tail of the plane as a crude skid. He got one real long, "draggy" take-off and one short, quick landing out of the setup. Got home OK. Dick

[Howard Wilson]

Cordless drills of the 22 cal. size were good for cleaning out the well points in the sandy soils of the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Cool Alaska pics, looks like calendar material to me.. Howard

[matsuthunder200]

jim my annual is after yours at marks. Mabe ill get to fly ..

[taylorcraftbc65]

Cordless drilling

The cordless I allways carry with me is a Smith & Wesson
model 19 with six cal .357 high velocity drill bits, perfect for those
white-tail drilling jobs in the woods of the Smokey Mountains
where my family comes from. Out here in the west, the drill
material is of the Mule deer variety, so a bit with a little longer reach is required. Then the best tool for the job is my Ruger Super Redhawk, with a 4 power alignment tool, and .41 cal. drills.
For work that requires a really long reach such as pronghorn,
I heartily recomend the use of a Sako Finnbear with a Simmons 3-9 power alignment tool, and a 25-06 bit pushed by 49 grains of
IMR 3031 for a drill feed of around 3,000 FPS.
Tune it next week for our show entitled, "Drilling woodchucks with a .220 Swift." Sabrina

[Dick Smith]

Checking in.

Tribe, I just got access to the internet via a satellite link...from the top of a 6000 ft. ridge in Venezuela...about 4 hours by car...south of Caracas. My wife and I are visiting our youngest son, who is doing some volunteer work at a church camp here. We took a cruise down through the Caribbean...left plenty of snow and ice up North! I owed my wife this one, as she let me take her to Oshkosh/EAA for 5 days on our 25th anniversary, back in 1991!! Just wanted to check in and see how the list is going. Will be back on in a few weeks. Take care, all of you.
Dick