grouse dessert

[Richard Flanders]

The grouse have a dust pit/grit supply in the D-1 under my deck that gets a lot of use in winter. They've about run out of grit unless I stir it up some so I took a #9 sieve down to a remote airstrip where there are abundant anthills of sand and fine gravel....perfect. 15min of sieving and I had plenty for the winter to keep the kids happy. I may even give them a special grit feeder of some sort. I even washed it clean for them.

[Dean Romig]

Some people just have too much free time on their hands....



Seriously though - Nice job Richard!






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[charlie cleveland]

them kids are luckey to have such a good dad....charlie

[edgarspencer]

Richard, do you have the stacked set of screens?

[Richard Flanders]

I do. Here's my main set of US standard sieves that I sometimes use to separate fine gold from discarded waste cons during the winter. The one I used yesterday is a Tyler Standard #10 so completes this set. It makes this stack too high for the shelf so lives on the reloading table to use for separating shot and powder when...not IF... they inadvertently get mixed, as they all too often do if you reload enough. I fabricated an aluminum punch plate insert for it that is just right for #8 shot. I also have a plastic set that goes to field camps with me. My bedroom is a bit of a museum. In this first pic you can see my grandmothers alarm clock that works perfectly(and it's loud enough I can actually hear it!)I remember well from the 50's(I even have the walnut dresser here that it used to sit on in her bedroom), Grandpas folding aluminum candle lantern that has real isinglass windows, a leather cased topofil string box, Grandpas box camera, a black light and two scintillometers. The second pic is especially interesting. The jade or soapstone bookends on the left were brought back from the Philippines by my grandfather after serving in the Spanish American War. The little folding Peter Pan gramophone was his also and works like new and is very cool. I have a good pile of old records to play on it. Not sure when it was made; it has a pat. date of 1913.

[edgarspencer]

I love that compass. Have one just like it in my survey instrument collection.

[Richard Flanders]

Unfortunately, this one is a rubbish Chinese knockoff that one of my assistant geologists bought not knowing what she was getting. I gave her a real Brunton and she left camp without this one. Do you have a "foresters compass" like this in your collection? They also made them with folding survey arms and a tripod adapter. This is the smoothest operating and most precisely made hand compass I have ever seen.

[edgarspencer]

I have a similar K&E but it's mounted in rosewood, I think. My pole compass is a very early Gurley and several of the theodolites are either Berger or Keufel and Esser.
It's funny the things we collect. Most Parker guys appreciate all types of fine mechanical details. Don't get me going on clocks and Music Boxes.

Rather than fill up this thread, I started a new Album, entitled The Things We Collect.

http://parkerguns.org/forums/album.php?albumid=772

[Richard Flanders]

We better be careful or we'll run Mr. Dunkle out of server space!

[Dean Romig]

And Kathy calls ME a hoarder...

You're a pretty impressive fella Mr. Spencer - but then, you've had more years to accumulate such stuff than I have.





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