Community Happiness

[Artie]

Good people, lots of expert knowledge freely shared, no egos, my favorite online site. Place has a great sense of humor, and is managed by good people doing good. Biggest complaint I have is that Gunny seems to get more rides on the jet than I do  

(Tag, Gunny. Take it and run with it)

[kmealy]

I've been spending at least a couple hours daily in the shop.  Some more, some less.   Not much else to do.

[Gunny]

32 minutes ago, Artie said:

Biggest complaint I have is that Gunny seems to get more rides on the jet than I do

Perks of the job, if I fix it I get to ride in it.

 

 

Flight crew is very accommodating.

 

 

 

 

[John Morris]

4 hours ago, FlGatorwood said:

John, I noticed on the news a couple days ago about a fire on the west coast, but I didn't get to hear.  Is it near you?  

We've had fires all around us, all summer thus far, but we would never be in any danger, we are in a cookie cutter suburban area, asphalt streets, concrete roof shingles, and stucco walls. Not much to catch on fire.

But we are surrounded by mountains and they are dry, and that is where most of the fires are, any given day I can look around the horizon and see smoke, last couple weeks we had some real zingers, no fatalities thank God, but a whole lot of forest burnt down. Truthfully, the forest is due for a big burning, it's overgrown, mis-managed, and whenever it does catch fire we put it out, we should let it go, controlled, and let it burn, in return we'll get a healthier forest.

Thanks for asking Steven, appreciate it greatly!

[Larry Buskirk]

57 minutes ago, Artie said:

Biggest complaint I have is that Gunny seems to get more rides on the jet than I do

If you don't mind helping to row I've still got the old one stored. 

[Cal]

No complaints here.  I try to check in daily and appreciate the camaraderie.

[HandyDan]

Lovin' it daily!

[John Morris]

Thank you all for being here, this is huge for me on a personal level, that fact that you feel like coming back day after day, makes me humble, and proud at the same time, we actually created something here that people like? It's pretty awesome.  

[AndrewB]

@John Morris  Is a Shop Smith forum section in the works?  I've been seeing a lot of posts about those lately...  Otherwise forums are good here.  I've seen a lot of forums just flop on end and have a lot of drama issues on them.  This forum site so far is the only one that I have yet seen any of that.

[Gene Howe]

44 minutes ago, AndrewB said:

@John Morris  Is a Shop Smith forum section in the works?  I've been seeing a lot of posts about those lately...  Otherwise forums are good here.  I've seen a lot of forums just flop on end and have a lot of drama issues on them.  This forum site so far is the only one that I have yet seen any of that.

No drama queens here! Just good camaraderie among us afflicted with man glitter. AKA, sawdust. John runs a tight ship.

[John Morris]

54 minutes ago, AndrewB said:

@John Morris  Is a Shop Smith forum section in the works?  I've been seeing a lot of posts about those lately...  Otherwise forums are good here.  I've seen a lot of forums just flop on end and have a lot of drama issues on them.  This forum site so far is the only one that I have yet seen any of that.

Hey Andrew, yes on the Shopsmith Forum, and we been live for 10 years! We ain't goin nowhere!

[AndrewB]

Also John might want to add in another one as well for those of us that do do youtube videos.  Should be a section on that as well for anyone that would be or would want to be doing those youtube videos and or have questions about it not necessarily a free for all subject but wood related / technical related.  Since there are probably more than a handful of us on here that do youtube and I've just started so that would probably be a good addition as well.  Not a huge section would be needed for that.

[FlGatorwood]

John, some time back you made this proposal to have a Shopsmith thread and I voiced my opposition to it.  Now, I have changed my mind.  Is that allowed?  LOL  My opposition was that everything Shopsmith related would be stuck off in a little covey and not seen.  But, I now think it may be a good idea to have all the uniqueness in one area so that is someone is looking for a particular setup or operation it could be easily found there.  It could get a little dicey if everyone wanted a forum for say, Wen, Oneway, Ryobi, Milwaukee, etc.  But, this machine is so versatile in some ways that there are some unconventional setups and procedures that maybe it would be a quick and handy reference.  I have been posting a few things because it is different and a few on here do have those machines.  So, I was sharing what I have learned and experienced so others could benefit.  Even if you do develop a folder for Shopsmith, I will continue to post mainstream so all can see what can be done with this amazing machine.  In other words, it doesn't matter much to me anymore.  :-)

[HARO50]

On 8/15/2020 at 6:52 PM, Artie said:

Good people, lots of expert knowledge freely shared, no egos, my favorite online site. Place has a great sense of humor, and is managed by good people doing good.

 

On 8/21/2020 at 2:21 PM, Gene Howe said:

No drama queens here! Just good camaraderie among us afflicted with man glitter. AKA, sawdust. John runs a tight ship.

I couldn't say it any better! And the humour section REALLY brightens my day!!! Thanks for being here.

John

[John Morris]

On 8/21/2020 at 11:33 AM, AndrewB said:

Not a huge section would be needed for that.

We can do this.

As we have for our sponsors, we could do individual channels by members. 

Go to Browse tab at the top, scroll down to see our sponsors channels.

[AndrewB]

4 minutes ago, John Morris said:

We can do this.

As we have for our sponsors, we could do individual channels by members. 

Go to Browse tab at the top, scroll down to see our sponsors channels.

That could work.  But I'm not sure how many members actually do youtube so that could be rough doing all of the links for each youtube channel itself....  Could get tricky.

[John Morris]

1 hour ago, AndrewB said:

That could work.  But I'm not sure how many members actually do youtube so that could be rough doing all of the links for each youtube channel itself....  Could get tricky.

It would be a case by case. Or rotation feature. But seriously I bet it's just a handful of you guys.