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[DaveOmak]

Dave, how do they reclaim the shot? Is there an easy method for collecting shells? There's a police range around the corner from me with casings lying everywhere

They have a machine that skims the top 4" of the ground and the dirt and shot convey to a "shaker / sizer" system.... The vegetation should be burned off completely with herbicides first...

Lead Recovery

 

[downsizingnow48]

The vacuum setup is great.

 

[OldMcDonald]

I was familiar with the gadgets for picking up nuts, but had never heard of the lead machine. I bet a lot of other folks had not either.

I too like the BrassVac.

 

[jaotguy]

an old farmer used to run a shooting range on weekends at his sand and gravel pit ... ( 2 really big holes in the ground )

he had a loader and a big screen box ... at the end of the shooting day , he would scoop up the casings and dump in the box to sift them out ... then tackled the face of the sand wall of the pit ( behind the targets ) and recover the lead in a similar finer screened box ... come Monday morning, the pit was back to selling sand and gravel ... the shooting range was "free" to anyone or club that wanted to shoot ... only rule was no one near the target area until the horn blew ( and all guns put down ) ... ran it for years till he reached the end of the property and had to stop ...

then he retired ( with a lot of extra $$$ from the free brass and lead ) ... sold to a developer who built houses with a big retaining wall behind them ...

 

[jwmorris]

There is a somewhat new round called the 300 blackout, that is pretty much the same thing as the 221-300, 300 whisper and others that is all the rage with some folks. It uses cut down .223 brass as the parent case.

I had a few hours tonight and made a machine that will cut down 2880/hr, to be final trimmed after sizing.

 

[PhysAssist]

Those machines are amazing.

Mega dittoes- man that's more than just a hobbyist rig, where do you use or sell all of those?

Do you just do one size or can you switch them around with different jigs and such?

I have worked in industrial settings where the automations weren't as smoothly constructed.

I am in awe!
Thomas

 

[PhysAssist]

Nicely done, and I can think of a few more places where that would be handy.
T

 

[PhysAssist]

Very cool!

 

[Gordon Gould]

I didn't "make" this tool, but I adapted it to suit my needs.

I'm getting lazier as I get older. My knees and back won't let me work on the floor, and the same joints make lifting anything much over 50 pounds up onto the bench where I can work comfortably pretty difficult as well.

I do have a folding engine crane, but digging it out of it's hiding spot, setting it up, hoisting the project up onto the bench, taking the crane back down as it takes up so much space in my small shop, then repeating when I need to take the project back down is just more work than a lazy old far....uh..."fella" like me is willing to do most days.

So, I came up with a relatively inexpensive way to have a traveling electric hoist:

I like that. What a good way to get a relitively inexpensive trolley winch. Is that a 12 VDC or 120 VAC winch you are using ?

 

[aczlan]

I like that. What a good way to get a relitively inexpensive trolley winch. Is that a 12 VDC or 120 VAC winch you are using ?

Looks like a HF 120V hoist. They are available from 440# to 2000# for $99-$250: Search results for: 'electric hoist'

Aaron Z

 

[PHPaul]

Yup, Harbor Fright special. Just finished putting up the last of the track this morning. Now I can slide it the full length of the bay.

 

[dieselcrawler]

Not a tool... but for a tool... tired of busted losing their tread wheels on the stick welder at work. Few minutes in the wood shop with a scroll saw and lathe, and we have a new tire company... presenting... Woodyear Weld-Trak!

 

[jaotguy]

yeh ... and easy to "stud" come winter .....

 

[Mendonsy]

Not a tool... but for a tool... tired of busted losing their tread wheels on the stick welder at work. Few minutes in the wood shop with a scroll saw and lathe, and we have a new tire company... presenting... Woodyear Weld-Trak!

I bet that will split right through the center hole before long. Neat idea for a temporary fix though!

 

[skyhook]

Wrap a rubber band around that and your good to go.

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

I bet that will split right through the center hole before long. Neat idea for a temporary fix though!

Laminate some plywood to get the desired thickness and solve the splitting problem

 

[Mendonsy]

Laminate some plywood to get the desired thickness and solve the splitting problem

Yeah, that would work or ....... find a piece of pipe the right size and press it over the wooden wheel to make a steel tire. PVC pipe would probably work too, but it's kinda hard to find PVC that large.

 

[roadhunter]

Dave, how do they reclaim the shot?

I'm curious about this as well. Picking up cases is one thing but picking up pieces of #8 lead shot is completely different unless you have a lead magnet.

 

[dieselcrawler]

I bet that will split right through the center hole before long. Neat idea for a temporary fix though!

Maple... good WV hardwood.... should be ok for the use it sees. No your run-of-the-mill pine, that would split!

 

[T_e_r_r_y]

I'm curious about this as well. Picking up cases is one thing but picking up pieces of #8 lead shot is completely different unless you have a lead magnet.

The last I knew those magnets were very rare and expensive to own!

T.J.