Hijack!

[Isaac]

32 minutes ago, wdwerker said:

You clamp it in place and it is tall enough to keep the bit nice and straight. If you center punch the location & draw a line it’s easy to align the hash marks before clamping it in place. 

I've also had success using brad point bits. I push the tip into my mark, and guide the jig around the bit. As long as you keep the bit tip pressed into the wood, the jig will just help straighten it to 90 degrees, but keep it on its mark. Then you clamp the jig and drill away with the brad bit or any regular wood bit. 

[Immortan D]

I've only used it on metal so far. And since one always has to punch the hole before drilling it was easy to center the hole using the drill bit alone.

[Coop]

I’ve had various people tell me that when you go into a strip club or other such establishments that, when you charge a lunch or something on your card, that it shows up on your cc bill as Joe’s hardware or some other kind of disguise. Why can’t Festool do that? 

[legenddc]

mmhmmm, I'm sure you've had people tell you that. Might be a good business idea. If you want to send me the money, I'll order it for you.

[Coop]

@wdwerker got me started on using plastic straws for glue cleanup on inside corners. Looks like I better start hoarding plastic straws. 

[Coop]

I was afraid it would freeze the blade and it would break but cut thru like butta 

 

[treeslayer]

50 minutes ago, K Cooper said:

I was afraid it would freeze the blade

Dry ice? and if so what perverted thing are you going to do with it?

[Coop]

To make a long story short, .... hell, let’s go for it. @RichardA once lived just a few miles from my wife’s uncle in Louisiana and after we discovered the coincidence, he mentioned that there was a meat market in the area that had great salami. So last month, knowing that I was going to camp out on Rick and Linda’s doorstep this weekend, while visiting said uncle,  I bought some and brought it home. SWA and TSA say that I can take 5.5 lbs. of dry ice on the plane and this piece weighs 8#. So I’m carrying it as carry on in a soft sided ice chest and will return with it filled with @Spanky‘s muscadines, if I don’t get caught picking them at night. 

[Pondhockey]

Would that be called "temporary ice working"?

With your skills I think you could make it more interesting.

[Chestnut]

This is how normal people get wood in their shop?

[Spanky]

Nut, are you sure, that you don’t live in the south?

[RichardA]

20 minutes ago, Chestnut said:

This is how normal people get wood in their shop?

I must be totally abnormal, I use a thing they call a "door", they are available almost everywhere in this country.

[Coop]

As some of you might have heard, I have been spending the last four days visiting friends and making new ones in Tennessee. Two days were spent at @RichardA and his wife Linda’s house. I met Rick last year in Iowa but have never had the pleasure of meeting his beautiful bride, other than on the phone. I got to spend some quality time both days getting to chat with Linda and now I feel like we’ve known each other all our lives. When I arrived at 8:00 the first morning, after the greetings and hugs, Rick introduced me to an unusual tradition of his. For first time guest, shots with a beer chaser are served.  Then to his shop for quality time between woodworkers. The next morning, not to break tradition ..... yep, you guessed it. I could get use to that! Very special friends and thank you both for putting up with me. 

Rick also introduced me to another Rick, aka. @Spanky. I had mentioned to all of them that I planned to visit Fall Creek Falls State Park and Spanky said that he lived only a few miles from the park and offered to be my guide. Thank you much Spanky as I would have been lost without you. I also gained a lot of knowledge about logs and wood in general from him. 

A really great three days.

Coop

[Chestnut]

On 9/8/2018 at 6:59 PM, Spanky said:

Nut, are you sure, that you don’t live in the south?

It's too danged hot down there. Today was 70 with a slight breeze and low humidity, i was in shorts and a t-shirt and loving it.

[Spanky]

17 minutes ago, Chestnut said:

It's too danged hot down there. 

It’s too danged cold up there.

[legenddc]

@Tom King How's it going down there with the Hurricane? I thought I saw on Facebook people from Lake Gaston were evacuating. Hope you and anyone else in the way stay safe!

[wtnhighlander]

Something tells me Tom has too many horses and dogs to even think of evacuating.

[Tom King]

Thanks for the concern!

Right now, they're just predicting a lot of rain, with the storm turning due West after it hits the coast.   We'll see.   All this week is nothing but storm prep for a number of different places.  Tomorrow, I have to get the big tractor started (just need to change the fuel filters, and fix the leaking drain plug under one of them that keeps making it lose prime) so I can tie down the big Pin Oak near our house.

We're on top of a hill, almost surrounded by water, so it gets to build up over a stretch of water, and then gets accelerated up the hill.  Anything almost lose is getting moved into buildings.

My biggest worry is 150 acres of Pine trees we had thinned a year and a half ago.  Most people go for the most tonnage per acre (reason Pine lumber is so sorry these days), which means thin early, and let them bush out.  I let these grow tall while they were still thick, until all the limbs fell off below 35 feet, to get the best, clear saw logs out of it.  Right now they're maybe 10 inches diameter, but 50 feet tall, which is pretty spindly, with small canopies.  

It hasn't been long enough for the canopies to get big yet, but they're still pretty spindly, and vulnerable to ice, and severe winds.   My worry through the first couple of Winters is ice storms, which we do have here every decade or so.  Long story short, if we get 80 mph winds, it's going to cost us a lot of lost income in the next 20 years.

That was one of the last big log stands around these parts, until Hurricane Fran hit it.  It had spirals of trees down, all in it.  We were either going to lose it to rot, and bugs, or have it clearcut, so we sold the timber.   This is after starting all over.

Chainsaws are sharp, and fueled up.   I haven't started the generator yet, but I keep a spare carb for it, and did need it after Isabel passed for a day.  It ran last Summer on non-ethanol, so it might start, but I'm not worried about it if I have to get it going.

We're down to just a couple of horses that won't run off if fences get knocked down.   We're just going to open up the barn, and let them go, and come as they please.

Dogs are another story.   Three of the 14 puppies, that it's time for them to start leaving, have left, but the other 11 would be hard to find another place to keep them in.  Several were scheduled to leave this week, and weekend, but that's been postponed because travel is terrible, and that's before any weather gets here.  We have a strong house though, and a good well that can run on the generator.

 

[RichardA]

Just stay safe Tom.  I survived Katrina, Gus and Rita in New Orleans.  They ain't fun.  We lost 41 acres of paper pines.  Couldn't sell one log.  Everyone that grew these for the paper mills, were screwed.  Be safe.

[legenddc]

Tom good to see you're prepared. Figured you would be. Seems like in the latest models you should avoid the brunt of it.

[wdwerker]

How do you tie down a Pin Oak ? I can understand worrying about a big tree near the house but the execution of tying  down a big tree intrigues me. If you go to the effort of prepping & starting the generator you are sure to not need it. The world is funny that way. Skipping over the effort dooms you to having to do it in the worst weather conditions possible. 

Hurricanes are usually just heavy rain by the time they get near us but we have had the occasional tornado. 

[Pondhockey]

On 9/12/2018 at 8:55 PM, wdwerker said:

Hurricanes are usually just heavy rain by the time they get near us but we have had the occasional tornado. 

It's only their news reports that make it as far as Idaho, but those reports make "heavy rain" sound pretty impressive.

[Tom King]

On 9/12/2018 at 10:55 PM, wdwerker said:

How do you tie down a Pin Oak ? I can understand worrying about a big tree near the house but the execution of tying  down a big tree intrigues me. If you go to the effort of prepping & starting the generator you are sure to not need it. The world is funny that way. Skipping over the effort dooms you to having to do it in the worst weather conditions possible. 

Hurricanes are usually just heavy rain by the time they get near us but we have had the occasional tornado. 

The tractor weighs 17,000 lbs.  I have a 150' length of 5/8" Stablebraid rope, which is 16,580 lb. test, and doesn't stretch.  I figured it would have a better chance with the tractor straight upwind tied up high in it.   Turns out we didn't need to do all that anyway.  They were right with the storm track, so the most we'll get is a couple of inches of rain, and high gusts are supposed to be 29 mph- nothing we don't get more of in a good cold front passing.

I ended up skipping the things I said, in that post, that I was intending to do, and we went to work, and made money instead the next days.

[Chestnut]

I don't know if any of you use the national weather service but they have a really cool colored satellite image.

If someone was paying attention it'd have been neat to download the updated image ever hour and make your own gif of the whole storm moving through. I have yet to find an archive of all the images yet.

[Chestnut]

Lets see if this works. I figured out how to make one and found the archive kinda....