Building a work shop
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Ilikeabikea
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Oh no Dan, get the roundup!!!!!!!!!!
Dan
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Har, lol Ilikea. Don't want to P.O. our new interstellar overlords.
Picture didn't upload well. They have a sort of translucent skin on top and a thicker opaque protective "skin" on the sides. Looks sort of like a FX, movie eye on some almost dead creature. You can just see threw the top. Really, really funky looking.
Got nuton done today. Moved the tools "inside", cleaned up the area but pretty much no nailin', hammering or cutting. No tree guy.
Picture didn't upload well. They have a sort of translucent skin on top and a thicker opaque protective "skin" on the sides. Looks sort of like a FX, movie eye on some almost dead creature. You can just see threw the top. Really, really funky looking.
Got nuton done today. Moved the tools "inside", cleaned up the area but pretty much no nailin', hammering or cutting. No tree guy.
Dan
Staff
Bits and tree guy came this morning. The whole dang tree was black and hollow almost all the way up. Only thing keeping it up right was habit. (lol, like the guy on the bar stool we all know but never were)
Now all of a sudden I have lots of work. This is normally my slow time of year until Memorial Day. Not in any way complaining. Just kind of funny. Before I started this was spending most days sitting in the shade and making biz proposals.
Now all of a sudden I have lots of work. This is normally my slow time of year until Memorial Day. Not in any way complaining. Just kind of funny. Before I started this was spending most days sitting in the shade and making biz proposals.
Ilikeabikea
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You could finish hollowing out those logs and stretch some rawhide over the ends and make some really cool drums. People pay big bucks for handmade drums........
Maybe Silver Bear would like to have them. No wait, he'd probably find a way to make fuel tanks out of them. (No offense SB)
Tom
Dan
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Cool idea Ilikea. Typed a long drawn out thing and the internet connection dropped. (arghhh)
But was wondering how to "waller" them out. Have a bunch. Then searched and found this, http://www.lowes.com/pd_19234-72068..." Recessed Light Hole Saw&CAWELAID=1368135546
It is just a saw blade screwed to a pulley like wheel. Gonna make one. Love weird projects like that.
Thanks for the idea.
Had a dream that I made one a mail box, lol.
Maybe Silver Bear would like to have them. No wait, he'd probably find a way to make fuel tanks out of them. (No offense SB)
Tom
LOL Tom. I read your first sentence and thought "SB would just make a gas tank"
The guy is a real artist.
Hey! Make the hole saw out of coffee can! Have to call it a "Silver Bear style hole saw"
Might make a couple of clocks too. I just can't throw any thing away. Is part of why I need a shop. That and build weird things like the above......
Dan
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Cool Steve. I hadn't seen him in a while and was kinda worried then I saw a recent post from him.
Wooden gas tanks with some sort of bladder would be hysterical on a wooden bike. Sorta a Flintstones MB.
Hmm, I now own a whole lotta left over wood...
Dangit! The some day "gonnado list" just keeps growing, lol
Wooden gas tanks with some sort of bladder would be hysterical on a wooden bike. Sorta a Flintstones MB.
Hmm, I now own a whole lotta left over wood...
Dangit! The some day "gonnado list" just keeps growing, lol
NunyaBidness
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tooljunkie
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gonnado usually gets replaced with haftado,but a lotta times you need a ipickedupa to geterdone.
a birchbark gas tank,using fiberglass or epoxy,with a coating of gas tank sealant?
sounds like fun.
funny the flintstone thing came up,i was thinking the same thing.
good you got the tree taken care of,Dan.it could have been a disaster.
like the roof we did,same night a storm came through and a tree broke and punched a hole in the roof.it was a small hole,got it fixed in under an hour.
i had a 50 foot oak tree in my front yard,10 feet up from the stump was rotten.
a birchbark gas tank,using fiberglass or epoxy,with a coating of gas tank sealant?
sounds like fun.
funny the flintstone thing came up,i was thinking the same thing.
good you got the tree taken care of,Dan.it could have been a disaster.
like the roof we did,same night a storm came through and a tree broke and punched a hole in the roof.it was a small hole,got it fixed in under an hour.
i had a 50 foot oak tree in my front yard,10 feet up from the stump was rotten.
Ilikeabikea
Active Member
Dan
Staff
Har! lol, thats a good one.
Was just thinking using some of them and make port hole style windows...
With the router, gonna do a skylight. Think any way. Architectural shingles though. Would that work?
Dan
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Thats a cool thought. Would look pretty awesome too.
..and they already do, snork.
Dan
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LOL Nunya, know what you mean.
Dan
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I made a shell! lol
Hopping to side the end trusses tomorrow. Have lots of extra wood but not whats needed.
LOL! it is already filling up with stuff. (I said stuff)
I am running out of room to hide my mistakes too. I doubt any thing to obvious, but really want it to be a good and sturdy structure. (That does not cause pros to point and laugh, snicker)
This is cool. Ran out of sun-light so was sitting enjoying a cold one. Next to me was a level sitting on a improvised work bench made from milk crates and plywood. The bubble was dead on perfect. Put the level on the floor and same thing.
Was a nice end to the day.
Goat Herder
Gutter Rider
Looking good Dan. For the first time I can see just how roomy this shop is gonna be !! This is pretty big..It is a very nice size