tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4229172837911249933.post3538427244172043906..comments2024-01-23T13:10:25.332-05:00Comments on Nails and Sawdust: Setting frost posts for Ben's tool shedMike Silviushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10406468736304441962noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4229172837911249933.post-52071773424013076122017-04-29T23:24:18.141-04:002017-04-29T23:24:18.141-04:00Its a Mark 2 anniversary edition (1999 mfg) and wa...Its a Mark 2 anniversary edition (1999 mfg) and was unfired when I bought it a couple weeks ago. Used to belong to a Ruger employee who bought two of them new and stored them till his heirs sold off the collection to pay their taxes. I had been looking for a Mark 2 skinny short barrel for a while but they don't come up all that often. Mark 3s are the ones you find usually but hey have some plastic components in them I did not care for. Mike Silviushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10406468736304441962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4229172837911249933.post-70627551669340538472017-04-29T23:01:11.419-04:002017-04-29T23:01:11.419-04:00Love those old Rugers. I've got the same model...Love those old Rugers. I've got the same model, but so do a few million others, I'd guess.Sixbearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15572224383041421400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4229172837911249933.post-32021429406815712192017-04-27T16:18:16.740-04:002017-04-27T16:18:16.740-04:00Hey Kev, frost post are regional for areas where t...Hey Kev, frost post are regional for areas where the ground freezes hard down three feet or so. The taper keeps them from being pushed out by the freezing soil. Its just pre-cast concrete so you don't have to mess with mixing concrete on site. The shed will be twelve by sixteen feet. Hoping to get the deck for it framed up this coming weekend.Mike Silviushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10406468736304441962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4229172837911249933.post-6804543483093399822017-04-27T14:12:58.032-04:002017-04-27T14:12:58.032-04:00I'd not heard frost posts before either. Just ...I'd not heard frost posts before either. Just like a pile then really. How big is the shed going to be? Kev Alvitihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04992625860900617194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4229172837911249933.post-84345901462484909292017-04-25T07:57:49.234-04:002017-04-25T07:57:49.234-04:00Frost Posts are bigger at the base and tapered to ...Frost Posts are bigger at the base and tapered to the top so when the ground freezes the frost won't squeeze them out of the ground. Keeps things from shifting too much in winter. Not an issue down your ways in Georgia where the ground don't freeze like it does here, so its not an item you are likely to see sold down there. <br />22s are back on the shelves up here. Have not seen so much at Wallyworld, but Cabelas in town has quite the selection and at somewhat more reasonable prices than a couple years ago. Boxes of 325 rounds of Federal are selling for 19$. CCI standard 22LR 9 $ for the 100 count box. Not as good as before the shortage, but things are settling down and the shelves are stocked and not clearing out as soon as they are stocked. Though there are still a couple mooks in the local classified trying to sell what they hoarded over the last few years and are asking 75$ for the same 325 count box. Mike Silviushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10406468736304441962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4229172837911249933.post-33889087627997829302017-04-25T07:14:32.362-04:002017-04-25T07:14:32.362-04:00I never heard of a frost post, but you certainly p...I never heard of a frost post, but you certainly paid attention to detail in setting them.<br /><br />Nothing wrong with ending a hard days work with a little shooting. Is .22LR readily available up there now? Still hard to find here unless you order it on line.Harry Flashmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05071021900005041592noreply@blogger.com