And "the wilful waste of space that would make a perfectly serviceable rifle range", if I could just remember who said it!Quote:
Originally Posted by mklotz
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And "the wilful waste of space that would make a perfectly serviceable rifle range", if I could just remember who said it!Quote:
Originally Posted by mklotz
Col. Jeff CooperQuote:
Originally Posted by NeiljohnUK
"Golf is a good walk spoiled." - Mark Twain
I recently moved to NC, My house is right next to a golf course that is no longer in operation ( ceased operation about three years ago). Since walking the dog on it I have found several hundred golf balls, twice over thirty five in about 1 1/2 hrs!
There must have been some real duffers playing on this course.
I have been using them for file handles.
I will run out of files before golf balls though.
I guess I will have to break out my golf ball launcher, a Carcano rifle I converted to shoot .308 blanks, sort of recycling shoot them then try to find them.
If you bought your house 4 years ago you would have had to pay twice as much (if in NC it is like here). And you get free balls through your windows.... to....... boot (at the fence).Quote:
Originally Posted by meyer77
I used to hate mowing some parks, as idiots would T off under a "no golf, no dog, no camping" sign. Balls Wizzing past as we mowed or whipper-snipped the lawns & often hitting the little Kubota B1750 tractor. They would get going after persueing the blighters but they had a 100 metre head start and the car park only a few metres away.
We lucked out with this house, we had been looking at houses about 50 miles east of here. They all look good on the internet, but when you get there in person there is a huge different perspective.
We had a contract on our house in WV, so we needed to find a house pretty soon.
I had seen this one on Zillow about 1 1/2 year before we bought it, but it was listed for $275.000 which was more than we wanted to spend.
Just for the heck of it I decided to check on it again, the owners had reduced it to 240,000 then to 225,000 ( At which price I would have bought it.)
Too weeks before I looked at it again he had reduced it to 205,000! Done Deal.
I am not a golfer (both husband and wife previous owners are ), so it not being in operation dosen't bother me.
I am right on the 9th. hole and have a 1000 yard 180 degree view. The only thing I miss here is I can't shoot off the deck, like I could in WV. I had 35 acres and the nearest neighbor I could see was 7 miles away.
Are you in Australia? I see it says Queensland below your avatar.
Yep, in the South east of Qld about 100 miles (160k) north of Brisbane. WV, I guess is Clampett country. That was a funny show....in its day.Quote:
Originally Posted by meyer77
Those golf balls are also good on massage stags or the penis looking ones instead of wooden balls. For the drill press ones, I had seen that in Ausie woodsmith ( A rehash of Woodsmith") a few years back but decided the standard ones were ok on my two drill presses (one for steel & one for wood). I had buckets of them and my kids would drive them down the paddock which became round missiles when hit by the tractor mower. I sold the remainder on gumtree for $10AU for a 20 litre bucketfull. Culling can be good for the soul.
Cheers
Hey now. not all of WV is Clampett country.( I think they were from a little farther south west).Quote:
Originally Posted by ranald
WV is home to the presidential bunker (White Sulphur Springs) and the very exclusive GreenBrier resort.
Come on now if the tooth brush was invented any where but WV it would be called the teeth brush.
Is not the rest just coal mines?Quote:
Originally Posted by meyer77
They have quiet a few coal mines, why do you think clinton lost WV.Quote:
Originally Posted by tonyfoale
West Virginia Agriculture
Family farming ties are strong in West Virginia – 95 percent of farms in the state are family-owned, the highest number in the U.S. Around 23,000 farms averaging 157 acres in size call West Virginia home. The Mountain State is also the third most-forested state with 12 million acres of forestland.
West Virginia’s top agricultural commodity is broiler production, which makes up more than 30 percent of its agricultural receipts. Beef cattle and calves account for over 20 percent. Other important livestock products include dairy, turkeys and chicken eggs. As for crops, hay is No. 1 in the state. Additional crops include apples, corn for grain, soybeans and tobacco. Many farmers also produce sheep and lambs, hogs, peaches, honey, farm-raised fish and wool.
Though winding up in Missouri from Kalifornia, WV came 2nd on list hinging where an affordable buildings with power was king.Quote:
Originally Posted by meyer77
Some of us know WV is better than just special; but Tony isn't too far off. There's coal under all that farming, and anything that rejects ccc...Clinton's is pivotal. We voters get it right occasionally. Like Al Gore loosing Tennessee.
His home state, lol.
I once went out with an old broiler: but I was a young rooster back then.Quote:
Originally Posted by meyer77
Re the Clampets- it certainly seemed beautiful raw countryside in the show & one of the many places (like GC, yellowstone etc)) I would like to visit over there.
My eldest loves NY but I'm not croc dundee or croc dunny either.
hope they are replanting 3 for one.
cheers
A former colleague lives next to a very popular golf course, even with the high fine net fences he receives 2-3 golf balls most days on his property, he sell's most of them on a charity tool stall, the most expensive newest one's make quite a profit from golfers. He's been building a 'spud' gun for shooting them back, as some seem to target his greenhouses, as the trebuchet he built wasn't accurate enough...
My current home is at the 9th hole of a non operating golf course. When I take the dog for a walk I always find some golf balls, one morning I found 35!
Right now I have almost one and a half 5 gallon pails full.
I have used them for file handles, the belt tension release on my south bend lathe (the cast iron one was broken off when I got it), the core for a para cord monkey fist.
I even made up a pneumatic launcher to shoot them back on the course, so I could retrieve them:lol:
There must have some real duffers, I have found balls 20 or more yards in the woods and in the front yard of my house! (the back faces the course)
"A golf course is the wilful and deliberate misuse of a perfectly good rifle range." From Jeff Cooper’s CommentariesQuote:
Originally Posted by mklotz
They're absolutely fantastic file handles, too. Starting at the beginning of the thread, so this is probably not really news to anyone reading though the thread... ;)
Bill
There are advantages to being easily entertained. Saves a lot of money, among other things. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
Bill
I guessed it would be Col. Cooper. Thanks for confirming it. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by mklotz
Bill
I had been thinking about that for a handle on the old 618 Craftsman/Atlas lathe countershaft. My property borders a golf course and we always have a bucket of them we pick-up, not to mention those that we don't see before mowing. I think a golfball cannon is in my future.
I have used them for that purpose for several years now.
Same here! I find them 200 feet or further onto my property. I was out chainsawing-up a huge limb we lost from our weeping willow tree near the course, and almost got hit by one. It landed literally 3 feet from my foot. Same here on the buckets of them. A couple of times a year we give them back to the course for the driving range.
Have made several “handles” using old golfballs. They are available in a small variety of colors so no painting is required and can help with quick tool selection. I have also made them into the finials? to secure lamp shades. Since my condo is on a golf course this works - sure a little tacky but I also use an old hickory shafted iron as a towel bar. Bolts through a board capped off by a ball, function as a coat rack. Yes, you can get carried away…
I have made my launcher with a empty Helium tank and a modified lawn sprinkler valve, The PVC pipe at Loew's or HD is too large for a golf ball, But I found a place in CA. that has the right sized pipe. The only draw back was the shipping was more than the pipe!Attachment 49616Attachment 49617
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Photo's of the coat rack?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nick79
