Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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and it goes on hour by hour, all day long! I was a Lowe's today. needed some allrod to make some studs. got tons of 3/8ths and a lot of 1/4-20, but i needed 5/16ths! bar rang up dif than marked on shelf. I went back to double check. item as described on shelf sticker... just 50% higher price at register! I see a red vest in hardware aisle. ask about higher and lower price. SA clerk says would be happy to sell it to me at the higher price. I walk off. decide no sense in beating my head any more.
so agree to pay higher price, but... (pause) but... I am not leaving w/o some upper manager hearing of my woes... shopping today at their store!short version is: I got the lower price!
A little late, but excellent product and worth every penny.
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Are you hand cutting your dove tails? If so that's pretty amazing for sure!
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Nice work!
Anyone know what kind of tree this is? Got it in a load so no leaves for a hint. It loves to splinter when split and splits hard. The weight of it is nuts it's so heavy it makes oak seem light.In the top picture its the silver bark piece
Your pic seems to show multiple types of wood, but unless I miss my guess, that split piece is Black Birch, very stringy and very high BTUs.
Here ya goView attachment 741446this picture is actually from last year but same creek
serene!
warm enough that time of year for a dip?...
my studs project is for a related woodworking project. adding wheels to the HF 60" woodworkers workbench I got on sale the other day. comes with woodworking vise, too. a nice one. I like workbenches... and of course any vise, too. well, of those that bolt to workbenches. lol
https://www.harborfreight.com/60-in-4-drawer-hardwood-workbench-63395.html
I was influenced by this -24/-18 stud I had. and after the layout and drilling for tap... did one test hole. no doubt I could have got the same stud at Ace... but dint want to pay $16 or so for 16 of them. so soon, as in very fast... I learned I was not going to get the -24/-18 studs at bargain basement prices. which I wanted. so thinking it over...
( I always do my best work studying the ceiling lol) I decided I had been led astray by the -24/-18 stud as I had tapped the test hole -24. in wood! and a better engineering plan would be to have the wood be tapped at -18. more metal into more wood. hold better. but an overkill, actually... as the -24 hole held very well when wheel test bolted up. but if I wanted bargain basement pricing... I would have to make my own studs. 16 for $2.50 was ok. and I have a 15" pce 5/16th allrod left, too. I will make my own 5/16ths-18 bottoming tap from a bolt since tapped material is wood.16 handmade studs, ends ground flat and ruff edges broken and ends treated to hinder exposed end to any rusting, not that it would be seen. lol
workbench should be just fine for saw maintenance, reworks, chain sharpening etc. no dent, nicks or grease allowed! and will be able to roll around. the casters are from HF furniture dolly, also on sale. $15.99 for 9.99. $2.50 ea for a new, rubber wheeled ball bearing swivel caster workx for me.
I have a matching toolbox in wood, green felt drawers, etc... I am thinking of giving it a new home on top of bench.
and no wood putty needed!!! lol
No not quite, lol. Don’t think that water ever gets above 40*, arms and face rinse is about as deep as I go.serene!
warm enough that time of year for a dip?...
I was thinking that! lol. not many mountain streams and creeks are. but I had to ask! lol
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
No. Bought a Leigh jig from Canada a few years ago but life got in the way so am trying to figure it out now I finally have some time to use it. Probably 20 years ago I made a chest of drawers with hand cut dovetails in my lunch breaks on a building job from timber scrounged from the job site skip bin. Decided back then hand cut DT is a skill I'll never really master. I think I had to use epoxy on some of the joints
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Thanks. I know just enough to get frustrated at how clueless i am and get myselfc into but not out of trouble. Have pallet racks full of dry timber scrounged over the years and never enough time to clear them.nice work!; you... imo... are quite the cabinetmaker!
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
how can they sell those benches for that price. It would cost three times that for me to make one like it for myself. Castors is a nice addition. Do any of them lock so you can push against the bench without chasing it around the workshop? Bought an entire kitchen second hand for a few hundy about a decade ago and repurposed the cabinets and bench tops as mobile benches and shed storage. Works ok but always wanted to make a proper bench like yours but never enough time.View attachment 741500 View attachment 741501
workbench should be just fine for saw maintenance, reworks, chain sharpening etc. no dent, nicks or grease allowed! and will be able to roll around. the casters are from HF furniture dolly, also on sale. $15.99 for 9.99. $2.50 ea for a new, rubber wheeled ball bearing swivel caster workx for me.
Next project has to be a two stage cyclone dust system. It seems almost weekly there's a news item about how much of a hazard wood dust can be. I need to get serious about avoiding it.
Every year we have a community BBQ and cook over 500lbs of beef. Due to the wet weather I had to contribute some dry hardwood to keep the fire going under the sap pan we use to heat beans and corn. Scrounged wood saves the day!
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I’ll second black birch. What does it smell like?
