So what did you do today?

[furb]

I sucked it up and bought a base for my vise. I got the last jaw screw out and clean all the rust from the jaw and jaw shelf. Ready to use finally.

 

[legdelimber]

Plow disc re-uses? I used a notched edge one for a (short) fan base. I had acquired some serious blowing, 2 ft diam, gable fans.
A couple ft of electrical conduit with one end hammered flat and the pivot bolt hole drilled through it. Remember to keep this rig kinda short so that it doesn't tip over while running.
grabbed an old notched edge plow disc and welded the aforementioned conduit, standing up in the center. Three pieces of some sort of 1/4" rods from a display rack were welded on for diagonal bracing between the conduit and the disc/base.
Grabbed a bellville washer and stuff for the pivot point nut & bolt.
The belleville washer lets you have a bit of a friction setup for leaving the bolt just a loose enough to let you tilt the fan head a bit as desired.
Reason I used a notched disc for the base? The full round ones will sit and vibrate on a concrete floor.
Anyone remember having to tie a couple pieces of wire or tape around those big Dayton shop fans with the round ring base, to stop the rattling and tendency to "walk".

 

[Sloughfoot]

Im slowly making progress with this square filing

Looks good. Getting a bit of a beak sets square filing apart from round.

 

[jblnut]

We're experiencing a tropical heatwave and it's +29F right now so I warshed the large chunks off the skiddy. Might be time to put the new rubbers on soon. They're getting a bit worn.


Here they are 5.5yrs and 900hrs ago.

 

[Wilhelm]

I began inventoring my new/unused Dolmar spare parts.
So far one part is NLA by now.

Usefull info, fuel tank vent 957 114 061 is universal from PS-460 up to PS-7910, exempt PS-550 & PS-6100.
I did not know that!

Tank vent 195763-4 fits: PS-32, PS-350, PS-420, PS-550, PS-6100

PS-9010 utilizes 957 114 011

 

[EFSM]

I had fun making a dodecagon post (12 sided) out of white oak. This picture was partway through the process.



Getting there slowly but surely.

At last!
The post and the boards (1 5/8 thick) all came from a 12’ high-grade white oak log we had felled a year ago. Eventually, I hope to turn them into a spiral staircase. The 12 sides are for attaching the treads to a flat surface.

 

[CrystalRiver1]

Starting the arduous job of clearing off about 150 yards of fencerow for my Pops.
Complete with various briar vines/bushes, saplings galore, and copious plantlife intertwined with the fence!!
I tell ya what my Hercules 20V brushless Reciprocating Saw is really handy dealing with all this twisted stuff!

I recently bought a Stihl 034AV & a 025, both looked better than average, yet they've already extracted their pound of flesh and I currently reside in "The Law of Diminishing Returns"!!
My fascination with the Stihl 0 series is waning...FAST!

On a more redemptive/positive note, Been doing advocacy for my 91 yr old Pops, his health is really challenged and I've had to really get more than assertive with his Primary Dr. It has paid some some immediate dividends via earlier Drs visits and more effective meds. Pops is doing better too!

Here is the last of this winter's kindling wood I gathered from Pa's place today, cherry, hawthorn, and some nameless BTU providers.

 

[Stem]

Yesterday I took a little road trip to Wenger's Equipment in Myerstown to pick up a 6ft JD scraper blade for $400

20 mins later I arrived at Outback Toys in Lititz where I spent the next hour & a half drooling. Had to force myself to not empty my life savings... but I still spent $92 on six 1/64 scale tractors & a book lol

2 hours later (thanks to York traffic) I was home.

 

[Bill G]

It is sad that farm toy shows have all but become a thing of the past.

 

[EFSM]

Yesterday I took a little road trip to Wenger's Equipment in Myerstown to pick up a 6ft JD scraper blade for $400

My paternal grandparents live 8 miles north of Wenger’s.

 

[Wilhelm]

Came home from AM work shift, got into an argument with my mom and went into my shop reducing old-school solid wood furniture into kindling/firewood.



This is hardwood, fairly straight grained, healthy.
Not the modern $#itty pressed wood chip stuff.

 

[Bill G]

I really do not know how to take that post..................

 

[Woodtroll]

Came home from AM work shift, got into an argument with my mom and went into my shop reducing old-school solid wood furniture into kindling/firewood.

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This is hardwood, fairly straight grained, healthy.
Not the modern $#itty pressed wood chip stuff.

Was it her good furniture?

 

[legdelimber]

Speaking as someone who's a bit Bi-polar, I hope all is OK Wilhelm!

That said, old but damaged furniture can make a pretty good fire. The salvage guy I've mentioned elsewhere, often had piles of it.

 

[Wilhelm]

Was it her good furniture?

She had her daughters dismantle several, decades old, German made furniture pieces and replaced them with inferior modern crap a couple months ago.
Those too got reduced to firewood & turned into ashes.
Took a while to burn it all in my shop.

Speaking as someone who's a bit Bi-polar, I hope all is OK Wilhelm!

That said, old but damaged furniture can make a pretty good fire. The salvage guy I've mentioned elsewhere, often had piles of it.

I am not in the habit of replacing functional stuff for the sole purpose of buying new.

I am cleaning up a property, hence the furniture, wooden door and window frames, used damaged lumber,...
I keep the "clean" stuff for the fire pit, everything else goes into the shop cast iron fireplace.

 

[Wilhelm]

I really do not know how to take that post..................

With lube!

 

[Wilhelm]

For Mr. Bill

Moar wood for kindling and the shop fireplace.

 

[Wilhelm]

Interference fitment with wood glue.
Not a single nail or screw.



True old-school quality, no half measures to boost production savings.

 

[Jake Dykstra]

Got some birch split today.

 

[Vintage Engine Repairs]

Put a new piston in a customers ported 461 (Wear occurred through fines passing the AF prior to port work)