12 hours ago, knockonit said:

we were gonna put one in a friends yard, and he found out they have an adhoc, HOA, and they pushed back

 

“The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them.” —Mark Twain

Its quite impressive how many folks use i, and the supply of books is great, i hit garage sales occassionaly mostly for kids books, as they seem to be the big mover, lol, and many don't bring back, which is okay i guess. 

I'm an avid reader and was tired of carting books to the second hand store, so. saw one of these in an old part of phoenix, and gave it a go. And have met a few neighbors, lol, at least none have asked to borrow any tools. 

Rj in az

well nothing would be complete with out a pic of the boss giving direction.

 

 

 

then a pic of the brazilian walnut, and stash, couldnt really get a bootiful pic the leds mighta been too bright, but almost a purple hue on some of it, looking forward to coming up with a project for it.

 

happy saturday, off to a going away party friend of many decades moving away to be near his kid. see how he does with it.

rj in az

That is a nice pile of walnut 

19 minutes ago, lew said:

That is a nice pile of walnut 

Second that!

Looking awesome work space

thanks for kind words, i have not had a chance to get in shop at all this week, other than drop off some items i plan on reworking or building. 

daughter #4 who lives close and is a new mother called, early am, her water heater leaked all over, so. ole dad picked up a new 50 gal monster and put it in, like to passed out in her hot garage installing it, ugly warm and muggy here today, how i managed to get WH up on the pedestal (here in az they require them to be on a pedestal above grade, usualy 18 to 24'') it was a struggle, but wrested that dang thing up on it, whew, and of course had to soldier the tp line (thats the pop off line) thought for a minute i'd forgotten how to soldier, but managed to get'r done, others were just pipe threaded connections, 

 

ole gal was along, but she only had eyes for the new grandson, forgot ole guy was sweating away in the garage, oh well.

so, i have managed to get  a free weekend this weekend, got some dust collection hose delivered, had the 5'' to hook up system, but was waiting on some other connections want to put some on the band saws you can see in one picture and a movable one for the rolling rigid sanders, finding as i get older i'm a little more sensitive to really fine dust, even though i wear a nice respirator, along with dust collection, be glad when it cools down and i can open overhead door and turn fans on, another few weeks to a month before that, but its coming

happy hump day

rj in az

 

15 minutes ago, knockonit said:

ole gal was along, but she only had eyes for the new grandson

Sounds about right. Grandma's are pros in that area.

16 minutes ago, knockonit said:

daughter #4 who lives close and is a new mother

Congrats to the new momma and entire family...that includes you GrandpaRJ.

Grandkids are great. Should have had them first.

Hey RJ, congrats to y'all on the new grandchild!

thanks, sure is a cute fella

Y’all have way more room to work than I….

well this is what i did this am, have about half the drops done, found a way to seal the pvc and still be able to renovate, relocate without saw cutting it, found a youtube video from a fella who came up with this, being in the industry i had no idea this stuff existed, but boy howdy does it do it. reminds me of the old cast iron jointing we used to do, lead an oakum, pack the union or joint and pour lead in it. 

ugh, ugly i was the lead heater upper when a kid, hehe, pretty sure my name was ''dammit ric, hurrry up''

 

here is some pics, easy peasy with exception of moving crap to get to drops and standing on ladder for a bit.

That's a pretty neat idea!!

and the dust collection saga continues, hehe, opened the mech room door with air compressor and dust collector and what a surprise, gonna have to get a real 5'' fitting instead of a tapered one previous owner had on it, could put a screw in it, i guess to hold it till i do. 

ugh what a clean up, put on a bunny suite and dove in, ole gal said i looked like one of them guys on a zombie show checking for bugs

 

Sorry Rj...luck of the Dave. At least it's all contained in a small area

yeah, took all of half an hour to clean up, quite the surprise when i went in to check the blue bin to see if full, even then it was half full, so, oh well, fortunes of having a shop, that green demon is a monster, 

 

well today was a slow day for getting anything dusty in shop, did however re vise whole patio layout and large storage shelving unit for wood pcs. managed to find a lot of shorts the boys stashed from the move from other shop, and well did throw a gaggle of stuff away, i hate throwing out wood scraps  soon as i do, i need it, but alas, well it happened.

used shop crane and got the 8 inch jointer up on its new wheels, gonna be easier now to move things a bit, 

one more half day of organizing and i'll get serious on the door parts, and finalize plan for about 14 ft of base and almost same in upper cabts, base will hold chop saw, in some of the pictures you can see its on a mobile deal, takes up way too much room and capturing dust is horrible, so............have a plan, excecuting is something else.

happy thursday

rj

Edited October 20, 20223 yr by knockonit

well spent most of am till about 2 today picking up and loading a few trailers, i managed to pull off a deal, and still have to go back for some really nice hardwood on a couple pallets. what am i gonna do with this, oh my

couple trailer loads of staves, one trailer has 3 pallets the other had 3 plus shorts from very large wine vats that are 3x3 and about 30 inch long, all white oak, oh my. the thought of hand unloading and stacking is somewhat daunting, but what the heck else do i have to do. oh yeah, the plastic pallets were for this, and now to hit the chinese store for some tarps. oh, or may just find the local guy who has the billboard vinyl pcs when they put up new signs, they make great tarps. 

happy hump day 

rj in az

i managed to get 2.5 pallets off the first pic, whew, good exercise for me, up and down on trailer, ect, till i could push pallet over to edge, gonna try and bang it out in am, before me start of day, 

happy hump day, glad to be here

rj in az

Holy cow RJ that's a whole lotta work and a huge score. Good thing you're retired.