Popular Post Smallpatch 9,070 Posted July 2, 2018 Popular Post Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 My turn to brag.. This was not on my list I always take to these garage sale thingies but I know how hard it is to build 4 of these legs and match each other plus the table they go on so 30 asking price was not okay but great but, and after I complained there was no top included I got him down to 25. A slab of granite or marble will make this table after refinishing be worth 26 or more.. Its not a true antique for it has metal brackets in the corners to bolt the legs to but hey it is real carving on everything and almost sure it is mahogany wood..Some one has put a paint and glaze on it to lighten it up but hey, no problem removing that and starting all over with a good finish... Just glad the legs would still come off for we were driving the car so it would have had to stay there for someone else to mess with....the back seats will let down but might not fit all together. Different subject, seeing the microwave in the background I just wanted to say after running all the short mesquite logs through the microwave, there is no saw dust coming out of the logs anymore...Most of the time I set the timer on 7 minutes or less... Years ago I turned the inside of some wood black by too many minutes so if you have not done this before, stay close by cause you might have to put out the fire.... And if the microwave is not in the shop, you got a problem....... I was lazy the days I was microwaving the bugs for if the log was too long I just took them to the burn pile. It would have been quicker and easier to cut the logs in half with the chain saw but hey, like I said I was lazy.... HARO50, Dadio, Grandpadave52 and 6 others 7 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HARO50 10,951 Posted July 2, 2018 Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 5 minutes ago, Smallpatch said: A slab of granite or marble will make this table after refinishing be worth 26 or more.. $26.50 at least! Nice table. John Grandpadave52 and Cal 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Grandpadave52 20,648 Posted July 2, 2018 Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 2 hours ago, Smallpatch said: and after I complained there was no top included I got him down to 25. Was that before or after you put on the mask? Great purchase at a very good price. HARO50 and Cal 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smallpatch 9,070 Posted July 2, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 He was just a guy that had a load of junk. Lots of folks from area towns as this has been going on for many years. Not near as big as Canton which is about 55 miles SE of Dallas. Lots of livestock, birds, fowl and anything else you can think of. I guess he had pulled some of the metal inserts out of the holes for the bolts to attach the legs and knew he had screwed up and I kinda encouraged the fact. You got to be real careful with your words and let them run their possessions down on their own...Just agree with them as they do it...I did ask him why he even brought something like that to try and sell knowing the shape it was in.. Then he mentioned something about needing money real bad.....Thats not the words to use when trying to sell something.... Cal and HARO50 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HandyDan 92,829 Posted July 2, 2018 Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 Yes a nice find. Dan Cal 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cal 8,396 Posted July 3, 2018 Report Share Posted July 3, 2018 16 hours ago, Smallpatch said: Its not a true antique for it has metal brackets in the corners to bolt the legs to but hey it is real carving on everything and almost sure it is mahogany wood..Some one has put a paint and glaze on it to lighten it up but hey, no problem removing that and starting all over with a good finish... This is good news Jess? Last I heard you had lost some of your mojo to get out to the shop, maybe this will help you get it back? HARO50 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smallpatch 9,070 Posted July 9, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2018 (edited) Cal thanks for bringing that up!!!! Don't know how this will play out with the legs and table... Hopefully I will carry through with my thoughts at the sale for I could visualize great things I could do with those legs. I have had this picture for some time now and have been wanting to build this desk, maybe a little wider but with legs like that.....but for a guy who don't have a cnc that can do 3D just getting two legs to match is a chore. Oh I could cop out and refinish the table and put a slab of something on top but the desk would accomplish more of my want.....I have been thinking with the legs probably three weeks would be removed off the time spent making the desk. I have no measurements on the desk so each step would be the same as a tea pot I think this was the reason I laid the legs on top of the table saw so I would continue on those thoughts....More than likely after all the yard season is gone for the yard was partly the reason the motor home has not been on a trip for quite a while now.. Oh it stays plugged in all the time and I can hear it trying to crank up by its self. But hey, I'm smart so I leave the keys in the house... Edited July 9, 2018 by Smallpatch HARO50, Cal and Grandpadave52 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cal 8,396 Posted July 10, 2018 Report Share Posted July 10, 2018 Now that is a desk I would love to see the build along with. Go for it Jess! The yard & flowers look beautiful, but not sure about the pile of rubble in the center? Is that a domed doghouse, the entrance to your cold war fallout shelter or what? Grandpadave52, HARO50, Gene Howe and 1 other 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HARO50 10,951 Posted July 10, 2018 Report Share Posted July 10, 2018 2 minutes ago, Cal said: Is that a domed doghouse, the entrance to your cold war fallout shelter or what? Sweat lodge? John Cal, Gerald, Grandpadave52 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Smallpatch 9,070 Posted July 12, 2018 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted July 12, 2018 I think I will name this the Patriot Woodworker obs tickle course.. I hope I didn't do the wrong thing in hanging these legs up out of the way...They are there to remind me of something. Cal that was the start of the river from the wrong angle. As I was stacking up concrete to become rocks I was going after as much sound as I could get out of a short waterfall..So instead of putting the catch pond out away from the falls, I built a cave type pond inside so it would act as a echo chamber and it saved space.The other picture was a top side view. And this is the end. I use a swimming pool pump and sand filter and it is located inside the tallest falls behind this pond. My original thought was to install an over head sun screen over all of this like Lowes uses in their garden center for the Texas sun and have passion vines growing all over the supports... And yes the pump house is all concrete including the heavy door so it could be a tornado shelter.. 99% of the rocks is concrete. There are a few real rocks but they are the ones just laying around somewhere. Grandpadave52, p_toad, Gerald and 2 others 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Grandpadave52 20,648 Posted July 12, 2018 Report Share Posted July 12, 2018 1 hour ago, Smallpatch said: They are there to remind me of something. Would it be that screwdriver you left stuck just above them? Cal 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gerald 12,229 Posted July 12, 2018 Report Share Posted July 12, 2018 Guess I will have to make sure the wife does not see this. Must have taken a while to build all that. Looks cosey . Grandpadave52 and Cal 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smallpatch 9,070 Posted July 12, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2018 Dave you caught me....I don't do things like every day normal people....I'm actually out of arrows and since I don't know how to use this little phone that my wife plugged in and laid on my desk about 15 years ago I can't just pick up the phone and order more arrows so I did the next best thing... I reinvented my bow to shoot screw drivers.... Being an Ex-Mac Tool person I happen to have lots of wood handle screw drivers laying around doing nothing.... And since I am still working on the mechanism to set the sights I find my screw drivers all over the place. The one you asked about didn't cause much problems like the one real close by for it went right through the helicopters gas tank. Sure glad it has been 25 years since I have flown those toys for there was not one drop of high octange fuel to explode. So if you don't mind why don't you go back and start mowing the yard again instead of making your wife doing it on the pretense of having a hang nail or something. I just learned something the last couple of weeks.... We have chiggers...... Always had chiggers!! But someone suggested try coating your legs with Johnson's baby oil and see what happens.. And to keep mosquitoes away, rub Johnson's on your face and arms and upper body... and for best results do that before you put your shirt on, I'm talking to you Dave!!! HARO50, Gerald, Grandpadave52 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smallpatch 9,070 Posted July 12, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2018 Gerald, our land slopes bad toward the lake...I built lots of terraces with rebar and concrete. Had to order much dirt to fill them up when I started all this the next week after buying this vacant land. No plans ever but I did for see this type of stuff all the way to the waters edge.......A knee replacement and the doctor saying you won't ever be where you can get down on your knees and work again ever....so the crawling around welding rebar up and tying stucco wire to it for the forms for the concrete just about came to a halt...... This week I finally attached the base boards in the bathroom from the remodel back in 2010 and that doctor was right, for I still can not crawl around the floor like a person should do in those situations... Gerald, Cal and HARO50 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smallpatch 9,070 Posted July 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 For any pool or pond you need a way to filter the water or else it will get rancid in a short time.. While I was putting forms up I made a list of things I have to do to make things work good, like how will I drain the pond and how will I filter the water. It will have to have a filler pipe and a float to shut the water off and to keep the water at the same height all the time. Don't need an automatic chemical set up just the ole hand full is good enough here.. I couldn't find anything store bought so I formed up a square box of concrete connected to the outside with one side of the pond about a foot wide and three inches lower so the water could flow in and out at the bottom of the tank through pvc to a swimming pool pump with a hair strainer attached before the water goes in to the pump..I built the one on the left in 2000 .. The filtering material is what Lowes has over their garden area and it last about 9 years for it has been changed twice and was just now getting small holes in a place or two... The frame is rusting bad so the reason for a new frame. The one I just now built will have more area to trap more junk. I am trying a better filtering material I bought about 30 years ago at an auction. Its nylon like the Lowes stuff but a tighter weave. This is upholstery material for outdoor furniture.. My advise, don't even think of building a fancy fish pond with those colorful fish with out including a filtering system even if your neighbors are a long ways off, they will be knocking on your door about the odors...We learned that lesson at the go-cart, mini golf attraction.... I do back wash once a day and clean this catch all trap every other day which consist of more or less just turning it upside down then hosing it down from the outside in .. Maybe someone still having a day job might not want to fool with ponds and waterfalls and things but being retired one does need something to....And people do like the sound of waterfalls.. HARO50, p_toad and Cal 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeteM 1,568 Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 Some ideas that might help with ponds: first aerate them (bubbler): the oxygen kills or retards a whole buncha bacteria and slime. Second: pennies and dimes: have to use the silver dimes! The copper and silver ions also kill/disable a lot of bacterias (the different ions go after different bugs). Scatter a few of each, and they last for years, ionizing the water. Worth every penny and every dime! Cal, HARO50 and p_toad 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smallpatch 9,070 Posted July 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 Hey Pete thanks for the info....I did bury a couple of pvc lines coming up in the middle of the pond, one is a bubbler and got the other capped off thinking I might add some air to the mixture sometime or other...? HARO50 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post PeteM 1,568 Posted July 19, 2018 Popular Post Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 2 hours ago, Smallpatch said: Hey Pete thanks for the info....I did bury a couple of pvc lines coming up in the middle of the pond, one is a bubbler and got the other capped off thinking I might add some air to the mixture sometime or other...? Or use a small water pump and make a fountain that sprays the water up. While it's Up There it absorbs oxy from the air, and you get oxygenated pond water. You'll find such sprays pretty common in commercial ponds. Waterfalls or other agitation do the same thing. Or get a really nasty shark and have it slam the water back and forth to froth it. Grandpadave52, Gene Howe, Cal and 2 others 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HARO50 10,951 Posted July 23, 2018 Report Share Posted July 23, 2018 On 7/19/2018 at 12:55 PM, PeteM said: Or get a really nasty shark and have it slam the water back and forth to froth it. Just throw the cat in. Same result! John Grandpadave52 and Cal 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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