Should have, could have finished. But it was already three in the PM by the time I had steel and plywood ready to go out to the wash, I was tired and cranky, the sun was in my eyes, this glove is too big, I tripped on a rock, and the umpire is blind. Totally not my fault. Seriously the thought of dragging the drill, generator and power cord out into the sand and drilling holes in thick steel over my head in the hot sun made me contemplate different things – like not doing that. I’ll get it over with early in the morning when it’s cool.
But I did get the horizontal supports cut and drilled for the paper target stand…
…and I did cut chain so that I could hang the last three steel targets.
Never looked so good! (Yeah, I think I’m gonna shorten up those three bottom chains.)
Hey look! Flowers in the desert.
That target stand looks top-notch!
I suppose you could save yourself the trouble of cutting chain if you can swap out the targets on the top row with the ones on the bottom.
Dammit, I wish I had a stand like that. One thing I can suggest though – if you have any old tires, cut straps from them and use the rubber straps instead of the chain. They’ll take more hits, and a bigger plus is that it looks more desert-hermity-get off my property…which is a bonus in my eyes. I guess it depends on whether or not you do much rifle work, pistol rounds the chain’ll work fine forever.
That’s an interesting idea, C6. The chains do take rifle damage over time. Hadn’t considered tire strips.
Is there a preferred method for cutting presumably-steel-belted tires into useful target hanging straps? I have, ahem, accidentally severed too many chains.
I haven’t tried it yet, but I’m thinking recip saw with a thin metal-cutting blade. One of the things that has drawn me to them in the past couple of years is how versatile they are with a small assortment of blades.
joel, you got it right. reciprocating with the metal blade is best way.