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Good Monday Patriot Woodworkers! What did you get done over the weekend, and what have you planned for the week ahead! Inquiring minds want to know. Please tell us what's happening in your shops, your life, and any events going on with you. Thank you for being here folks!

 

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Digging back a bit I re-discovered one of my favorite galleries, @Mike Mathieu intarsia gallery. Where is Mike! If anyone knows his whereabouts, tell him to come on back home to us, we'd love to see what he's been up to!

 

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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Three-Legged Stool by Tage Frid

No great accomplishments...spent some time cleaning, picking up tools from previous projects, a few household maintenance tasks, completed the tiller "re-power" project, changed the oil/filter & serviced my daughters van and got my "weed-burner" out to attack the fence rows since the weather conditions finally cooperated; well except the mosquito attack but a good dousing of Backwoods Off seemed to counteract. My "weed-burner" is less technical that @Smallpatch's but effective none-the-less. It's flame-less. I also spend some time sanding and gathering material for the lid of the "keepsake box" my oldest grand-daughter & I started for her 4H project.

 

Week ahead, as you can see, the grass needs mowed yet again although it has only been five days since last cut. Maybe some more time on the box project too. Plus several trips to/from the H.S. as Fall Sports began their first  allowed organized practices today. Oldest grand-daughter is in her 3rd year as one of the football team student trainers and youngest is a freshman on the JV volleyball team.

 

Modified golf bag cart I bought at a yard sale for $3; the sprayer I bought at another yard sale along with two others for a total of $1.50. This one needed cleaned, flushed and new seals in

the spray wand plus a new nozzle. I only use this set-up 2x/year for fence rows and some spot spraying. 

 

Bought the tiller frame a while back off CL for $20. My original intent was to use the tine set on my MTD tiller (also a CL purchase a few years back) since they are now worn out but it lost an exhaust valve this summer. I already had the H-F, 6.5 HP OHV engine purchased some-time back to re-power on old troy Built Horse tiller given to me, but decided that project was going to be a money pit. Yes, this engine is Made in China (LIFAN) but does have a U.S.A. facility in Arkansas. With coupons, it cost me $80 plus tax. A similar Briggs & Stratton was over $180 and a comparable Honda is over $350. This engine is a Honda clone. The engine starts on the 1st or 2nd pull, idles quiet and smooth. I'm quite impressed. I've worked on small engines since I was 12 y/o and can tell you I'd rather have this one than a Tecumseh. Used tillers like this bring $125-$175 around here and don't have new engines.

 

 

 

Monday...about says it all

 

Rust Hunting over the weekend....Dazed and confused in the shop....

Got the shop cleaned up a bit. Really hot over the weekend and this week - may not get much time in there, but we will see.

The length of a day on Venus is 2802 hours. About the same as our Mondays.

Cleaning the carpet in anticipation of the descending hordes.

Since this day is so long, I think I'll rip some lumber and take a nap. 

Maybe have lunch, then a nap. Could nap before lunch, too. What the heck.

 

Dave your weed burner is way more efficient than mine but with the weeds so close to the water I am afraid Round Up might slip in to the water and make monsters out of those little minnows and eat all the bass.  The weed burner is an experiment and I can already tell it ain't gonna roll over those rocks worth a flip. Now I am in the process of moving some of them big uns, rocks.

   

Somebody might try to convince you those motors are close to Honda quality but hey I ran 15 Honda G-200's with the 2 to 1 reduction for all the years we owned that go-cart track and I would say 99% of all the tracks in the US were Honda's also...Not nearly a co-ince-o-dense......

It was enough trying to keep all those young people from trying to kill each other on the track, thank goodness the motors I never worried about and I was the mechanic.... 

Good Monday Morning!

Good Monday Patriot Woodworkers! What did you get done over the weekend, and what have you planned for the week ahead!

 

What's highlighted in red does me in everytime!  Can't seem to point to anything and call it "done"!

I was WOT on Friday installing baseboard in one bedroom when the daughter called and said she was coming in for the weekend.  BTW - my car has a vibration, can you take a look at it for me please?  I was planning to do a car show on Saturday, but you know what takes priority on a request like that...

Saturday AM I test drove her car and dropped it off for wheel balancing.  It was just a slight vibration when the speed got up to 70 or so.  Back at the house, daughter said she was going to visit friends during the day so I took off for the car show.  It was close by, almost across the street.  A cloudy day, in the orchard a slight breeze blowing; it was a great day.  Took home a "Top 75" for my troubles.  Auto shop couldn't find her tool for the wheel locks - so that job didn't get done.

Sunday I did actually get something done - I hung up a couple new window blinds in the bedroom & visited with daughter.

 

Monday has started out ok.  Finished up the baseboard and got it caulked up and nail holes filled this AM.  Will spend the rest of the day outside doing lawn work. We have had pretty good rains this summer so far - have to cut the grass about every 5 days or earlier.  For the week ahead, I want to paint the baseboard and call the one bedroom "almost finished"!  Second bedroom is about ready for flooring but I will wait and use that room as workspace while I do the bathroom.   I will spend the rest of the week gutting the upstairs bathroom.

Cal

Got to work on the pew boxes. Now have orders for 45 boxes and 17 plaques. Got the bottoms on five boxes glued up. Also cut parts out for about 24 . 

This is the sign up display at church. 

Edited July 31, 20178 yr by Gerald

Whats happening in my life ? Actually, I was just thinking that it would be nice to be able to delete all my content on this website, and be on my way out the door. 

1 hour ago, Smallpatch said:

Dave your weed burner is way more efficient than mine but with the weeds so close to the water I am afraid Round Up might slip in to the water and make monsters out of those little minnows and eat all the bass.  The weed burner is an experiment and I can already tell it ain't gonna roll over those rocks worth a flip. Now I am in the process of moving some of them big uns, rocks.

   

Somebody might try to convince you those motors are close to Honda quality but hey I ran 15 Honda G-200's with the 2 to 1 reduction for all the years we owned that go-cart track and I would say 99% of all the tracks in the US were Honda's also...Not nearly a co-ince-o-dense......

It was enough trying to keep all those young people from trying to kill each other on the track, thank goodness the motors I never worried about and I was the mechanic.... 

Yep it is more efficient than yours, but for the reasons you specifically note, not as ecologically friendly. However, since 3/4 of the fence rows border soybean fields this year, what I'm spraying is no worse than what they poured on those fields and the forth side runs along the blacktop road. I use glyphosate (generic Round-up, much cheaper) mixed with 2-4D-Amine and some Poison Ivy, Oak, Sumac killer. This usually puts things at bay in a week or so, then I follow-up with the heavy duty weedeater.

 

As for the tiller engine, I typically put 20-25 hours/year on one so it should last for a long time. Probably longer than me. We have a top notch 1/3 mile clay, oval track in our county that hosts a couple major events plus the Indiana State Dirt Track (cart) championship each year and local races 2x/mo from May-October. They currently have four classes specifically for these clones (196cc). There are dozens of cart shops and on-line businesses that now offer full race ready, balanced & blueprinted engines as well as about every type of performance part imaginable. So, if I want to super-tune it, I can pretty economically...that would let me till at a full sprint, versus a casual walk!

2 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

Maybe have lunch, then a nap. Could nap before lunch

So a working lunch one might say?

Ok, who ticked off Charlie L?

 

Tried to buy a maple plank or two, from a friend of mine.....Monday being Monday..he wasn't home.    Stopped at Lowes on the way home, bought four 1 x 2 x 8'  pine "boards" that I can make into webframes....$3 each?!?    Honey-do stuff did cost a bit more, though.

 

As for shoptime today.....Monday?     Will have to see just how bored I get....maybe stay focused ( yeah,,,,Riiiight) on one task?   

 

Sooo, CharlieL, what's the beef?

47 minutes ago, CharlieL said:

Whats happening in my life ? Actually, I was just thinking that it would be nice to be able to delete all my content on this website, and be on my way out the door. 

Whats up. Could not be so bad as to leave all these friends

1 hour ago, CharlieL said:

Whats happening in my life ? Actually, I was just thinking that it would be nice to be able to delete all my content on this website, and be on my way out the door. 

Hope it wasn't anything I said.

 

I see Charlie went back and edited some of his posts on the MiterSet. 

This weekend was filled with activities from our 50th class reunion.  You read it right......50!  I also did a show on Saturday in our hometown.  The show was a quasi flop since I pulled in half the revenue that I did last year but everyone was down in revenue.  At any rate, it was a great weekend and I got to see a few folks that I haven't seen in many years.  The show did generate three extra jobs so I guess it wasn't a total flop.  This week will be spent building a custom flag case and I need to start a library chair. 

 

By the way, I married UP!

 

 

Well.....I WAS just going to rehab a couple squares...then maybe a couple chisels....then....aw, the heck with it....spent 3 hours working in a "closed" shop.....Wasn't any cussing, not much fussing.....wonder what I did right ( or wrong)?

 

Class reunion this year would have been #46......

Edited July 31, 20178 yr by steven newman