BilletHead

The original Leatherman!

You have been out of the archery game way too long. Now the bow is tuned with a bare arsed nekkid shaft. Another thing those people from many moons ago did not shoot long shots. They were hunters. When I shot self bows and stone points I was a very good hunter. Close Is the name of the game. @Terrierman thanks.

Thanks for sharing this. A great example of the Scallorn point.

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The point in question is a Scallorn . Dates range from 1300 to 600 A.D. Ok to @fishinwrench question. The term "bird point" Is not correct. This point was used to shoot at anything. Even large game. The native Americans did not shoot high weight bows. They needed a point that would penetrate. There have been points found at buffalo (Bison) jumps where they were driven off of cliffs. They would go down and dispatch the bison with small points that would penetrate the tough hides. That or I am sure if they could get close enough to the wounded beasts shove a lanceolate shaped point to finish it off. Now we get to another term "arrowheads". Please stop classifying all points as arrowheads. Let me help you here. One thing chipped stone artifact have in common is a point. Some points that are sharpened round had a point at one time. These were utilized as a scraper and not a BLUNT point.

Birds of a feather.

#weallstartedsomewhere.

Cool! Will enjoy seeing him and be looking for you Keith. Maybe we should figure out a special OAF member handshake .

Yes and no. The cutout above the pot (transformer) is what is supposed to go boom first. it protects the transformer from overload and you farther down the service line to your house. It has a fuse that is replaceable. Goes by amps drawn. If the transformer is overloaded because you have everything on in your house at the same time or there is a fault in your service line it will blow. Squirrel or other vermin on top of the transformer goofing off and causing the high voltage to go to ground will blow it too. Yes it goes boom and there can be a flash of sparks. The transformer can go bad too with age but mostly something else can cause it. Lightning comes to mind. I have witnessed the wrong size of fuse on a cutout too causing the transformer to fault. They are only rated to a specific amount of amps depending on size of transformer. Speaking of cutouts. There as a three-phase feeder protected by a set of cutouts. One phase had blown. Serviceman had patrolled the line and could not find the cause of the outage. So on shorter poles you had an extendo hot stick you could reach from the ground and pull-down cutout door, replace fuse and take it back up and shut the cutout to restore power. Well on this rather large pole a 50 footer. I had to climb the pole and with an 8-foot hotstick I removed the fuse door and refused the cutout. then shut the door. It was a 160-amp fuse. You did not look up when shutting that door in case of a fault. Well, it blew and I felt a pain in my upper part of my shoulder. My ears began to ring loudly from that loud bang. I got to the bottom of the pole to see blood on my tee shirt. I had been hit with a blast of the fine braded wires from the fuse. A little shotgun pattern of black spots of wire and blood. We later found a hairline crack on an insulator had let the line go to ground. I had fine wires work out of that shoulder for months.

HA! No not really and your Uncle Odie would of went into more detail .

@fishinwrench, @netboy and @Jerry Rapp, We are talking about what I did for a living for many years. Let's start at a substation. Transmission lines come into a Substation. These transmission likes come in at 161 thousand volts, 69 thousand, 34 thousand or even higher voltages. At this point they go into big transformers that change voltage down into one or more feeders that feed three phase lines. At this point they are attached to reclosers that are in essence circuit breakers. They protect the feeder from faults caused by many things like storms, load and some dumb arse running in to a pole taking down the feeder. These reclosers will reset three times before locking out when a fourth fault happens. The fourth hit will fully lock it out and shut down the power. Further down each individual feeder are other OCR's which are again a recloser that can lock out a line for a fault. They are set to isolate a fault downstream on these feeders as to not go all the way back to the substation and take out the whole line or circuit. So, for further protection we have two other things. So, if we tapped off a three-phase line called a lateral making it single phase that takes power to one or hundreds or more customers there would be a single phase recloser for lots of customers or a refusable cutout to protect the line. For a few customers there would be a cutout, for many customers, the reclosure that would again protect the line by letting the fault hit three times and on the fourth lock out the line. Some faults clear themselves. Like bird, squirrel or other vermin on the pole causing a fault. Sometimes a tree limb will burn into, and the fault will clear. All of these things protect lives and property. So now we are down to the transformers we all are fed from for our homes and businesses. Businesses and things that need a set of transformers that need three phase power are fed off of two or three transformers. These will be protected with two or three refusable cutouts. For home power a single transformer with a single refusable cutout protects the incoming line and you and your property in case of a fault. Note a single transformer can be small and run just one household or several of you and your neighbors. Line work can be complex or simple depending on how far downstream from the substation you are. Outages suck bigtime. All I can say is stay patent and give the serviceman time to troubleshoot the problem. If he cannot fix it, then a crew needs to be called to do the same. In the case of a giant act of nature like tornados or ice storms it can really take days to gain power and even other electric utilities are called in to help or contractors are in the loop too. I have done some crazy things like rowing out in a boat during a flood and putting on my hooks in the boat stepping onto a pole to climb it for repairs. If a rumble of thunder would wake me up, I could not go back to sleep because I knew the phone would ring sending me to work. I sleep through that stuff now . Any questions? 🤣

Will do Oneshot!

Nice pictures man, After looking out I figured a couple inches here. Might of been more but melting underneath. Birds are happy as well as the two longbeards scratching in the snow. Got to see them fly to roost last evening out the window.

I lied have 9. Flea market, garage sales and other places finds.

Mic, do you know anyone belonging to the Ozarks flyfishers club up your way? Any one of those guys would know of someone. Brian Ellis is a certified instructor. @Gavin I think is a member of that club and might know of an instructor.

I also subscribe To Brian's videos. His tying is great and explaining materials too. I miss him posting on here like he used to.

I made a post where I did this last summer. I now own four vintage glass rods and a new glass Redington butter stick. I am up to 8 vintage automatic fly reels. It's a fun hobby and another deal to add to the fishing arsenal. What a hoot!

Yes he does, Lance the Crappiehead!

All I can say is dang!

Oh yes, I do!

Welcome to you all!

And you all thought my Pat was just another pretty face. She has been well programmed and does some amazing things. The hard drive has plenty of memory. When I am not around auto pilot is set and I have no worries. You all should get Ya one.

I knew you would like this, Daryk. We all started somewhere. I look back to where I started and how far I have come and where I still want to go. I can only see death as the bitter end at this moment.

How is the back? Caused by reeling in too many fish .