August 7, 20178 yr Popular Post Good Monday Morning! 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! New members Please drop by and give the following new members a grand welcome: @Fastback and @Roger N Patricia Nichols. Leaderboard Drop by your Leaderboard and see who the current movers and shakers are based on content and topic popularity. What's It Our August "What's It" is live, take a look and submit your educated guess at best for this months item. Featured gallery@DerBengel has created a wonderful gallery this past week, showing of small box joinery and her painting finesse along with picture frame making. Featured image of the week With an age of 4847 years, Methuselah the ancient Great Basin bristlecone pine tree has the honor of being Earth’s oldest non-clonal organism. The tree is located in the White Mountains of Inyo County, Eastern California, but its exact physical location is kept confidential to protect it from people. In 1964, a researcher with the consent of U.S. Forest Service, chopped down a tree which was around 4900 years old (named Prometheus). At present, we can still visit the grove of the ancient bristlecone pine tree forest but can we identify which tree is Methuselah? Source: http://www.wondersify.com/oldest-trees-world/
August 7, 20178 yr A good morning from the flyover zone of Indiana. In the shop are two projects. The first is a small repair job for my neighbor. She has a very arts and crafty pie safe that was built by her great grandfather that needs some TLC. After that, I'm going to start building a bookshelf chair for my great nephew. I talked my niece (his mom) into a different looking chair than the one I posted in the forums. We'll see how this one turns out.
August 7, 20178 yr Good Morning! I've got a couple hollow forms in process drying, hope to start another but won't get much shop time until Wednesday. Hard to believe but we're into the second week of August already, it's starting to feel like fall and the Brrrrr months come next. I'll start turning ornaments in the next week or two. Ornaments and spin tops are popular this time of year. I have a couple flat work projects coming up. Have to make a base for a barrister book case and a small chest of drawers. Steve
August 7, 20178 yr For the past week there have been two quarts of vinegar and steel wool cooking in the shop. Tests yesterday confirm the concoction is purt-near ready. Varied width walnut pieces of a gun case will be ebonized and sandwiched between 1/8" thick maple strips. These pieces will frame a field of mesquite. Since the ebonizing doesn't penetrate very deep, the entire batch of the pieces have to be dressed to final thicknesses and nearly finish sanded before ebonizing and glue up. Forced OCD, let me tell you.
August 7, 20178 yr Heading to the eye doctor's office. Won't be able to see a thing the rest of the day
August 7, 20178 yr Repaired my step=father's dryer and two truck door remotes, replaced his security light globe, batteries in TV/Cable remote and inspected his porch roof Friday besides the grand-daughter shuttle service. Finally finished the last 1+ acre of mowing Saturday...yesterday was church, errands and some piddly tasks in the garage. Kids start back to school Wednesday; Change oil/filter/service my truck; a short trip tentatively planned for end of week through next weekend. Yard needs mowed and weed-eaterized; Tomorrow, I'm planning to take my step-father to this EVENT.
August 7, 20178 yr 2 hours ago, John Morris said: Featured image of the week can we include clonal or would that be stretching it .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_trees Clonal trees As with all long-lived plant and fungal species, no individual part of a clonal colony is alive (in the sense of active metabolism) for more than a very small fraction of the life of the entire clone. Some clonal colonies may be fully connected via their root systems, while most are not actually interconnected, but are genetically identical clones which populated an area through vegetative reproduction. Ages for clonal colonies, often based on current growth rates, are estimates.[citation needed] Name Age (years) Species Location Country Notes Pando 80,000[42]–1,000,000[43] Quaking aspenPopulus tremuloides Fishlake National Forest, Utah United States Covers 107 acres (0.43 km2) and has around 47,000 stems (average age 130 years), which continually die and are renewed by its roots. Is also the heaviest known organism, weighing 6,000 tonnes. Jurupa Oak[44] 13,000[45] Palmer oakQuercus palmeri Jurupa Mountains, California United States Quercus palmeri Engelm. = Quercus dunnii Kellogg.[45] Old Tjikko 9,550 Norway sprucePicea abies Fulufjället National Park, Dalarna Sweden The tree's stems live no more than 600 years, but its root system's age[46][47] was established using carbon dating and genetic matching.[48] Elsewhere in the Fulu mountains, 20 spruces have been found older than 8,000 years.[49] Old Rasmus 9,500 Norway sprucePicea abies Sonfjället, Härjedalen Sweden [50] ? 3,000[51]–10,000[52] Huon PineLagarostrobos franklinii Mount Read, Tasmania Australia Several genetically identical males that have reproduced vegetatively. Although single trees in this stand may be around 3 to 4 thousand years old, the stand itself as a single organism has existed for 10,000 years.[5]
August 7, 20178 yr 1 hour ago, Stick486 said: got breakfast on the table.. done w/ that mission... now to start thinking about lunch...
August 7, 20178 yr Popular Post Another week twiddling my thumbs waiting for the drywall guys to do the shop. I just called and asked for an update as to "when", was told she would call back. I'm getting ready to call other places....but based on my experiences earlier this year I'm loosing hope on getting it done. Still, it's looking like a good week weatherwise. Might do some yard work in prep for fall.
August 7, 20178 yr 44 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said: Tomorrow, I'm planning to take my step-father to this EVENT. I think I see a trip to Lafayette in my future.
August 7, 20178 yr 1 hour ago, Grandpadave52 said: Tomorrow, I'm planning to take my step-father to this EVENT. So.... you're taking the hour-long training flight? John
August 7, 20178 yr No shop time for a while! LOML is off work last week and this week, and we have been taking day trips to various research centers, libraries and cemeteries, looking for information on her ancestors. I have already traced her family back to Plymouth colony and beyond, but this is a search for documents to confirm her ..... dare I say it..... Loyalist connections! One of her great-great-great grandfathers was one of the 80,000 British Loyalists who left America in the late 1700's to settle in what was then Upper Canada. Hopefully, this doesn't mean that I will be tarred and feathered, and banned from this forum! John
August 7, 20178 yr Nothing. Heat index in Florida was 110F. There is heat, then there is moisture laden swamp air that you need a snorkel to breathe. Pool time was the only to do list item completed for me.
August 7, 20178 yr Popular Post Spent the weekend working on the other half of the shop remodel - moved the lumber stack, removed cabinets from the wall, removed the old workbench against the wall, moved tools to make room, removed existing dry wall so I can install insulation and new wiring. Right now, I am looking at bare studs. Last night about 9:45 there was a knock at the door, of course I answer the door with a gun in my hand. It was my neighbor from across the street telling me there is a fire next to my property by the road going into the high school. I ran out there to see what we had (no shoes on) and see that it is burning along the fence line towards my trailer and company pickup. The neighbor across the road from me said he had called 911. Ran over the hose, but forgot I had taken the extra length off, ran into the house, put on some slipper, ran through the shop to grab a 5 lb fire extinguisher and knocked the fire down at the back of my flatbed trailer. Fire department rolled up at that point (the station is maybe 1 1/2 blocks away) and they hit it with water. Once they knocked it down, they hit it with foam and soaked the whole area. I went into the back yard and set up a sprinkler along the fence to hit that area if any embers made it that way. Luckily, the wind was blowing the other direction. Before the FD left, they got out their IR device and did not find any hot spots. The neighbor who called it in, told me he heard a kid yell "Holy #@*$! and then took off on a skate board as he saw the fire start up. With the shadows, he was not able to get a good look at the kid, but the cops were looking for a kid on a skate board. One of the fire fighters told me the cops did stop a person and was talking to them. Luckily, it was seen early and everyone responded well so all that was burnt was some grass and weeds. The fire was not actually on my property, but on the road into the deserted flag lot behind me.
August 7, 20178 yr 18 minutes ago, Chips N Dust said: Luckily, it was seen early and everyone responded well so Glad it wasn't any worse!
August 7, 20178 yr Buy that neighbor a beer. Buy a case for the firemen. Still, you're getting off cheap. As said, coulda been a lot worse. Hope the catch the little b#!=@/+s.
August 7, 20178 yr 35 minutes ago, Gene Howe said: Buy that neighbor a beer. Buy a case for the firemen. Still, you're getting off cheap. As said, coulda been a lot worse. Hope the catch the little b#!=@/+s. ditto...
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