What did you do today?

[Mark J]

12 hours ago, Chestnut said:

Milling a white oak log and saw the dreaded steel staining.

How do you handle this situation?

[Chestnut]

1 hour ago, Mark J said:

How do you handle this situation?

I just powered through. I hit a small nail that was mostly rusted the next pass. There was still more metal so i went exploring with a drill bit and chisel. Got all the metal out this slab will just have a defect hole.

The metal. Chain had minimal to no damage. 4 swipes with the file and it was good as new.

[RJS]

On 5/26/2022 at 3:41 PM, JohnG said:

Had a fox kill 12 of our 15 chickens. Found a loose section and dug under it. While my wife was looking for remains, I saw the fox heading back up to the pen, probably hoping for the last three. 

We had a eagle grab one of our chickens yesterday evening.  I wasn't happy about it but it was pretty impressive to see the big bird fly off with a 5 lb bird in it's talons.

[Woodworking_Hobby]

Had the afternoon off and thought I would stop by the local hardwood dealer to see if they had anything good on sale. Picked up a random board or two…

[Coop]

I cut several Domino mortises today to glue up a 5’ long panel. No need to do a dry fit on something this simple? Luckily it involved only 4 of the 8 boards required. On the glue up, I noticed that the mortise on the last two boards were lower on the edge than the previous ones. With glue applied and in clamps, I just let it go. I found that the tightening knob on the height adjustment was not real tight and it varied. Something I will check in the future after I rip cut the boards apart. 

[wtnhighlander]

I made a fixture that I have needed for some time.

A taller, longer fence "saddle", with in- and out-feed support bars. Next up will be an L-fence attachment and a tenoning carriage.

[Coop]

Now that’s a neat deal! Does the infeed support not tilt down with a load? I need some sort of infeed support when cutting a wide panel on my sled. 

[wtnhighlander]

50 minutes ago, Coop said:

Does the infeed support not tilt down with a load? 

I may have to add a locking screw to avoid that sort of thing, but the supports only extend about 8" beyond the table. I don't expect to be resting anything on the support alone, just use it for extra stability.

[Chet]

Ross, another attachment that comes in handy every once in awhile is a tall, say 10 or 12 inch fence to attach to your fixture.

[wtnhighlander]

@Chet, that is on my list, but I am weighing the benefit against limited storage space. Can you provide some use cases for a tall fixed fence vs. a tall sliding carriage (tenon jig style) fence?

[Mark J]

@wtnhighlander,  there's this solution: 

 

And I could swear @gee-dub posted a similar idea.

 

[Robby W]

Bought a place to build my new shop. House is in Yadkinville, NC. Inspection in Wednesday, probably close in a few weeks. Out of house is gorgeous, inside will need an entire gut and rebuild. Once place to put the shop and even has a handicapped rp for my wife. Special feature: the previous owner ran a beauty salon from the house, so we get to figure.out what to do with that space.

Now the dreaming and planning start. I think I am going to be limited to 600 sq. ft. by the city, but since there is another large shed on the property, I think I can get by with that. Party time!

[Mark J]

Congrats!  Finding a good house quickly is hard to do in this market.

[gee-dub]

On 5/29/2022 at 6:36 AM, Mark J said:

And I could swear @gee-dub posted a similar idea.

Yep.  Couldn't find the thread but here's some pics.

 

If the weight is too great a roller stand can be brought into play.  Take care not to get your feet tangled up in it though.

[Mark J]

If you were using that to support a rip cut, intead of a sled, I imagine there would be a limit to how close the support could be to the fence.  

[gee-dub]

On 5/29/2022 at 8:36 AM, Mark J said:

If you were using that to support a rip cut, intead of a sled, I imagine there would be a limit to how close the support could be to the fence.  

Correct.  Since my version straddles the fence tube it is right in the way.  Mine primarily dodges the miter slots to allow the sled to move freely.

[wtnhighlander]

@Mark J, @gee-dub, I have seen these designs before, but my Rigid contractor saw has a round fence rail. Not an insurmountable problem to develop a solution to clamp on, but my bar arrangement seemed like a quick and simple alternative.

[Chet]

On 5/29/2022 at 6:30 AM, wtnhighlander said:

Can you provide some use cases for a tall fixed fence

What comes to mind most is cutting the bevel on the panels for raised panel doors.  I also saw a guy using a tall fence to cut tongues and grooves with his dado stack in was looked like maybe 5/4 stock 8 or 9 inches wide.

[Ronn W]

Due to my grandkids' crazy schedules they had an early family birthday party for me yesterday.  I see the grands about twice a week but don't often get to sit and talk with my daughter.  Was a wonderful few hours.  I got 3 t-shirts with wood working themes printed on them.   That should take card of my clothes shopping for this year.

[gee-dub]

Did a little more finish work, put up some sound deadening foam blocks that have been waiting in the wings for too long, rigged a little swing-arm door holder to allow me to hold the southern door ajar when I want to vent fumes.

For those that wonder what this is all about, I live where occasional winds will whip this door open so violently that something will break.  I have anchors to hold doors in the open positions and of course they latch closed.  What I didn't have was a good way to hold the door open just a bit.

[BonPacific]

Emily and I went for a nice morning hike with the dogs. After that I got my new grinder opened up and worked on truing the wheels. Only got them down to about 5 thousandths side-to-side wobble, but I checked the shaft itself os good so I think it's just the nature of the included wheels. They'll be fine at the front which is all that really matters anyways.

[legenddc]

I intended on getting in the shop some yesterday but we ended up at the pool for 4 hours. Somehow only one kid went to bed early. I was wiped out!

[drzaius]

I went out on the deck for a few minutes before going to work to admire the trees, which are almost at full blossom. The white one give the tastiest tart little crab apples and I expect we'll get a few hundred pounds of them in late summer. They're not for eating fresh cause they'll just about turn your head inside out, but they make great jelly and blend well with other less intense apples.

[drzaius]

That white tree is alive with pollinators. I can hear the hum a soon as I open the door. At any given moment there have to be thousands of mostly wasps in there. I normally try to keep my distance from wasps a bit, but they are much to busy eating to care whether I'm watching.

[Chestnut]

Bunch of pictures here, was really busy over the holiday weekend finishing the miling and then doing a bunch of yard work. Coop asked for some pics of the setup. I have an MS661 mounted in a 30" granberg mill. Capacity is around 27.5", and I need a 36" bar to get that capacity. The sharpener i use can be seen in this picture. It works really well for me. It sharpens and adjusts the depth guides all in 1 pass. I can sharpen the 114 link chain in about 3 min.

I use a board to register the mill against. I use the board for every pass. This gives me both in feed support, outfeed support, and allows me to have the mill locked to 1 setting and I never have to change it.

Some more pictures showing how it's mounted.

Capacity can sometimes be an issue even with smaller logs. Here I just clipped the corner off.

The monster white oak log was far to wide for the 27.5" of capacity i have. I had to roll the log 90 degrees and took a slab from the side to narrow it up. This was pretty sketchy to get into this position but once I had the 2x4s attached it was very stable.

The burl about midway was the widest point of the log. I had to shave a bit off the bark of the burl to get the slabs to fit perfectly within the mill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All 4 logs created a lot of sawdust. I took about 11 wheeel barrow trips totaling around 2 cubic yards of saw dust.

It makes excellent ground cover. I spread it around my shed where I store trailers, and have the slabs stacked. Right after 1" of rain I can walk or drive (ATV) through the area with out making a muddy mess.

All the milling did a number on the chain. Cutters are significantly smaller than they were when I started. I also was not very good at sharpening evenly.

I used a 2 wheel hand cart to move the slabs. It made maneuvering these 200lb monsters easy. Well easier.

Got all my slabs restacked. I moved about 12 inside the attic of my shed and another 12-15 will be heading to the shop for projects.