James Miller
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Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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A little more work on the free red oak today.Cut 1 16" round off the butt and noodled it. Made a little pile in the truck. Some dead red oak and hickory to round out the load.
Yup metal legs this one in doing with stainless . Will be next to the couch and woodstove. For thick pours I use a slow setting epxy not as much heat . West ,Mas deep pour is good as is Stone coat.Cool. Metal legs? Do you use a casting resin? This current table used the left-overs in two different drums of epoxy resin I found in my sisters shed recently. After some brief testing I realised it would have a yellow colour so I deliberately didn't seal the wood, hoping it would leach another colour so it all kinda worked. Turned out better than I hoped. But I couldn't find a good ratio of hardener to resin that would keep the curing temps/speed reasonable and certainly not in any volume, so I poured about a max of a gallon at a time, left it for about 2hrs to cure up a bit, then poured another lot. Rinse and repeat.
The PVC I used as a mold distorts at about 60°C and one of the pours peaked at about 54°C - cutting it a bit fine. The PVC is all I had available at the time.
Just yesterday a mate and I were talking about buying a drum of clear casting resin. There are some out there that would allow us to pour huge volumes in one go and they'd stay clear (unless we wanted to add colour). He said he approached a USA bidness but they wouldn't sell to NZ. I'm sure West System here in NZ would sell us something like it but I bet it's very expensive. This coffee table will have used 60L (15.8 gallons) by the time it's all over. the legs have drunk nearly 3 gallons so far. It would be a very expensive exercise if the resin wasn't free.
The wood is all the waste from doing my wood bed in my 68 c20. But it's amazing what people will pay for these tables
Well, since we couldn't do anything else, we cut Oak. Got two loads for me and one for my buddy. I built another gantry on the back of my dump trailer, 8' high. Hang a natch block on it and pull the logs on with the truck. We used the NorTrac to skid the logs to the truck/trailer.
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steved
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Yeah, it amazes me that they cleaned out the stores...why?
I've got stuff to keep me busy, but the wife and child will go stir crazy...going to get the daughter out under the truck to get he occupied on something new...
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eating so many fresh baked carbs, I guess I can start calling you "dough boy" ??? lol and just so you don't get confused the wheat flour carbs are ok! just leave the carbs on the saws alone if you happen to run low!!!! their full of gas, and we all know what happens when were all full of gas??? ….
West systems epoxy witha couple drops of acrylic metallic blue left over from the last project
. Making a candle holder with it
. Making a candle holder with it
muad
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You’re 45,000 ahead of me on the 97 F350.
I love OBS fords.
steved
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Why?
I'm not hungry yet, if it's still running around I don't have to refrigerate it!
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We are much more socialist than the US, and mainland Europe are more Socialist than us. We are also a primarily urban population, we don't get guns as 99.999% don't understand that they are an essential tool for some country dwellers. A lot of hipster, middle class Brits like to preach about how others live while being pretty ignorant. We also like to laugh at DT...he is pretty easy to point and laugh at.....only we now have Boris to laugh at too. Our redeeming feature.....we laugh at ourselves just as much or more. I apolgise though if th clip i posted offended anyone, I did get a 'sad face emoji' from somebody so I guess it did, sorry.
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Nothing like a fresh meal.
Nature will provide
tree rats, keeps the aim good and straight.... tasty also.
Yup and the break barrel .177 pellet gun is great have a couple of thousand rounds dirt cheap.
Imagine that
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