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What have you all on your Patriot Woodworker agenda this week coming up, and what have you all done in your shops over the weekend! We'd love to know, we want pictures, and we hope you all had a safe and sane weekend in your shops, and a safe one ahead too.

 

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Image of the week

Photographic print, black & white, timber straddler bearing sign ‘Wallis Bros Ltd Timber Merchants Annandale’ outside the Harkness & Hillier factory, Milton Kent, photographer, Five Dock, New South Wales

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mornin'''....

helping a buddy reproduce these...

 

Sweet! Frames only? Or you guys going to make more glass too?

Morning John & everyone...Eye candy is really cool this week. I enjoy any type of old vehicles or equipment. The chain drive on this one is quite impressive. I wonder how many broken arms occurred cranking this old beast to start? You either had to have really long arms or transporter loaded with lumber for a platform to reach the crank.

 

Weekend accomplishments were minimal; spent some time de-rusting some tools and some pick-up/put away, picked up some sticks & debris in the lawn, changed the oil & filter, serviced my wife's Jeep; hit a flea market after church yesterday & picked up a few more hand-saw handles....and oh yeah, bought a "2016 demonstrator, low miles, F-150 4x4...a little cosmetic damage, but fully functional and a 1/3 of list price...depicted below. Grandsons seem to love it

 

Edited April 3, 20179 yr by Grandpadave52

Didja get the V6, Dave? From the looks of the tires, it's gotta be 4WD, too. And, I like topless!

Spent the weekend with our boys and families. Took the two grand kids out metal detecting. Sam hit the jackpot. Found $.03 and a chainsaw blade. Ella stumbled on a cache of raw turquoise. Enough to fill a quart jar. 6 hours well spent and grampa got his exercise.

My nieces wedding shower was Saturday so the guys gathered together and made a day of it too.  I delivered some log slices with numbers routed into them as requested.  She is going to use them for table numbers for seating purposes.  They are Cedar log slices that I dried over the winter.  They were fresh cut and wet.  I let them dry until the moisture wasn't visible and took wipe on poly and slathered it on both sides.  I stood them on edge and they dried over the Winter and not a one cracked.  Lucky me.

 

 

 

Worked in the forklift industry and am familiar with straddle carriers used in the steel mills but never gave it a thought the lumber industry used them too.  Of course they were newer than that one but they were still old.  These were rebuilt over and over as the quit manufacturing them in the 70s I believe.  They were chain drive too.  You can see the chain guards on the rear wheels. 

 

 

 

 

 

Its a brand new week and I'm plugging away at the school shelving unit project.  Last week, I was able to build 8 units so I', 1/3 of the way there.  Hopefully, by the end of the week I can have 12 of these fully completed and ready to deliver.  I need mother nature to give me one warm, dry day to spray them though.  I'll attach the backs after they are sprayed. 

 

I had to stand them on end in my garage to save space.

 

 

When I was a kid they were called Ross Carriers.

http://cabincreekcds.com/Ross_Carrier.htm

Herb

30 minutes ago, HandyDan said:

Worked in the forklift industry and am familiar with straddle carriers used in the steel mills but never gave it a thought the lumber industry used them too.  Of course they were newer than that one but they were still old.  These were rebuilt over and over as the quit manufacturing them in the 70s I believe.  They were chain drive too.  You can see the chain guards on the rear wheels. 

 

 

 

 

 

They were/are used quite a bit in the sawmills. Forklifts are used to transport veneer around. A lot of times, they were referred to as jitneys (maybe that was just my area) 

Good weekend . Sold my riding mower to clear some shop space for the steel target storage. Got 6.5 inches rain last night but no damage I have seen. Tonight I will do a lathe demo at the woodworking club. Maybe a little range time with the new LCP 2 .380 later this week and a buddy wants to go up in the delta to a lumber and turning blank dealer we heard about.

13 minutes ago, Ron Dudelston said:

Its a brand new week and I'm plugging away at the schoil shelving unit project.  Last week, I was able to build 8 units so I', 1/3 of the way there.  Hopefully, by the end of the week I can have 12 of these fully completed and ready to deliver.  I need mother nature to give me one warm, dry day to spray them though.  I'll attach the backs after they are sprayed. 

 

I had to stand them on end in my garage to save space.

 

 

Looks like a garage full . Maybe we need to send you back to "school " for spelling or get a better spell check. You haven't been eating all of Stick's doughnuts have you .

2 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

broken arms occurred cranking this old beast to start

  I wondered that, too! I used to have a military surplus high pressure compressor- Wisconsin engine. Nursed a sore wrist many times!

 

I might as well go back to bed- you guys put me to shame!

Kelly, when I was a kid on the farm in IL, anything with a motor, besides a tractor, was a jitney. Jitneys were handy. 

finalizing our tax returns.

 

hey....it's on paper, and that's made from wood, thru a long and complicated process.

 

so that's today's woodworking plan.

Nothing woodworking related, but we were busy. Saturday my wife and I had breakfast and then headed out to the City of Orange where they have a bunch of antique stores. We picked up a couple of small things for the house, and then headed to IKEA so Tami could get a few things for the kitchen. After that we drove to Los Angeles International Airport to pick up our daughter Elizabeth as was flying home from Israel. Her flight was delayed for about 90 minutes so we found a Starbucks and crashed for awhile until her flight came in. Yesterday we got into the truck to head to church but the battery had died, so we took my wife's car. After lunch I checked out the battery and alternator on the truck and the alternator was good so I headed to Sam's Club and got a new battery. So we had a busy weekend just putzing around. This week my wife is off for Spring Break this week so we will see what happens.

Day 48 - At least I am a little more mobile. It is surprising how "careful" I am with my foot. After 6 weeks of staying off of it and not letting anything come close to hit it, I am still careful even with the boot on it.

 

Saturday night, the wife and I tried a new restaurant in town (I broke my own rule - never go to a new restaurant within the 1st 6 months of its opening, they have been open since the beginning of December). It was pretty good. They mess up my order, fixed it without any hassle and next thing I know, the manager is at the table with a free appetizer gift card for their mistake. I really like HOW they handled it. We will be going back - service and food was really good. 

Yesterday, we went out to breakfast at our favorite diner then grocery shopping (did ride the scooter for the shopping).

Not sure what the week will bring - sunny and warm through Wednesday.

This morning was a visit to the Customer from Hades (CFH).  The call center asked the A-Team (me) if I'd do it (an hour away) because she had called to complain for 10 minutes how the prior guy had texted her instead of calling.  Hovered while I was there, complained about everything, and spent time yelling at the call center, then phoning me after I left and yelling at me for 10 minutes.   Dad is a lawyer and "we have not heard the last of this yet."

 

 

Words of Wisdom:  Belligerent customers don't get better service, they get reluctant service, and "as much as necessary but as little as possible."   I'll go way out of my way for someone nice, but not this.  It's been a few years since I've had one like this.

3 hours ago, DAB said:

finalizing our tax returns.

 

hey....it's on paper, and that's made from wood, thru a long and complicated process.

 

so that's today's woodworking plan.

 

So thankful my wife is a retired EA and CPA.   She spends 40-80 hours a year on our taxes.   Between 2016's  selling a house, self-employment, medical expenses, and moving IRA & investments to a new broker, it's a nightmare.

Ha! I just noticed that hand crank on the straddler you guys are talking about.

Ya, how the heck do ya crank that sucker? 

I bet he parked it nose in at a loading dock. Someone could crank it in the morning at waist level. Hey, as good a guess as any!