Watcha Makin'?

[Don P]

I think our biggest trash raider is ravens, they are clever and seem to know their days of the week. It would be interesting to put a tracker on a few.

We did 4 planters recently and I think I had ~$80 in bolts and hardware.  You'll be paying full freight for hardware in a pinch.

[doc henderson]

might add glue to the build and that may solve the nails pulling out with use.

[Don P]

That was a design problem but points out why not to load nails in withdrawal on important stuff. A chicken house ceiling nailed up into green lumber that then dried comes to mind. Nails in that situation lose up to 70% of their pullout strength when the wood dries. Load in shear. That was part of the R&D, reck and destroy stuff we would do in the furniture shop. Easier to do when there is going to be a large run of something than when we are building one off's like a bin or a house but the thinking is the same. Learn and modify the next one.

[doc henderson]

or screws in the same orientation.

[21incher]

Finished the cart today and it holds everything on wheels.

[WV Sawmiller]

  Just to show the range of workmanship styles and quality from what 21' just posted I went ahead and built a crate to carry my common fasteners (Nails, screws, bolts, etc) I use for my projects. I mostly store my fasteners in 1.5-2 lb coffee cans and plastic quart size mason jars. I keep the larger fasteners in the cans and the small and less used ones in the jars. Now I have all my common fasteners in one container and can carry them all with me to where I am working or I can take out an individual can or jar if I just need the one item.

  I used scrap spruce, poplar and even a piece of buckeye in the build.

  I drilled 3 finger holes in the ends of the crate for ease of lifting and discovered from now on I will just drill 2 as I see I mostly lift with my ring and middle fingers.

[21incher]

I keep hardware and old coins in coffee cans also. Each of those containers contains tools and accessories that I 3d printed custom inserts for. Tools must be treated properly and respected for longest life. Here are a couple open.

[WV Sawmiller]

   Very nice looking set up. I'm still working outside. The little work bench under my crate was attached to an upright on my pole barn, I have a power outlet behind it and a vice clamped to the upright and that is where I do most of my smaller projects. I have a table saw behind it and a drill press and a lunchbox planer on a shelf I drag out and use as needed. A couple of magnetic bars on the back side of the upright hold assorted drill bits, chuck keys, etc.

[Crusarius]

I finally found pictures of my pkg delivery box. Everytime the delivery drivers came up the driveway they tore it up so I built this and now they all use it.

I started with a 30x42 pallet I got from work. Then I rough framed it with random 2x4's I had laying around, and a random piece of steel roofing. the sides were just some 5/8" pine I had sawn as with the rest of it its all left over stock.

the top is hinged from the bottom so instead of having to lift the lid you just roll it back. I added a drop down flag to it so as soon as the lid moves the flag drops. this took a bit of fine tuning with a few false drops. I have since added reflective orange tape to the flag so it is very visible when it drops.

The front is french cleated and lifts right off so if I have to heavy of a pkg in there.

The box actually works well for also storing the ice melt at the end of the driveway.

The red stuff underneath are the bucket forks I built for my tractor.








Even on the bad angle from the hill it still works very well. Even the delivery ppl have commented how nice it is.

[doc henderson]

is the flag so you know when you have a pkg?

[Crusarius]

yes. I have orange tape on the box and on the other side of the flag so it is hidden when the flag is up. That way the orange only shows when the lid has been opened and it can be seen from both sides. At first it wasn't an issue but as the box weathered it was hard to see the flag, especially at night.

EDIT: I did forget to add the the flag is gravity so when the lid is lifted it drops down.

[Old Greenhorn]

Cru, that is pretty dang slick! I love the design, really smart and functional and the lift off front is a real winner! Nicely done. A very artful design I think. Good on ya!

 I put a sign right smack in the middle of my garage showing where packages could be left and another sign pointing at the exact spot. Apparently only 30% of delivery people can read.

[21incher]

Here's a video about how simple  it was to make I just finished.  Only one major  mess up by measuring once  .

[Larry]

Slab flattening day. I see more "Whale Tail" tables on my plate.



Last year I bought a carbide blade $$$$'s to use only for flattening kiln dried slabs on my sawmill. The blade works perfect, with a smooth enough finish that one pass through my widebelt sander with 120 grit will clean up any left over marks. Far faster than my router bridge plus the sawdust stays outside. Two downsides, I max out at 30" width and it takes about 1/4"-3/8" more wood off the thickness than the router bridge. Since I slab at 2-1/2" the extra wood used is not a problem normally.

[tule peak timber]

A live oak day pantry from Coastal live Oak. A little over 8 feet high. This image is 90 degrees out and I can't fix it !!!

[tule peak timber]

Pickled ceiling pine and a veneer Mahogony wall. 

[21incher]

Pickled ceiling pine and a veneer Mahogony wall.

What's that white stuff at the end of the sink island . 
Doesn't look like your style.

[Larry]

I'm seeing weird things in those pantry doors.....animals from not around here amongst other unspeakable things. 

[Brad_bb]

Just doing some hewing this afternoon.  This beam is red oak, 6"x13.25"x 19'.  It's for my mom's house that's not finished yet.  I'm hewing the face and the bottom side.  It will go in the pantry above the cabinets near the ceiling.  Originally we were going to use the whole beam, but now after I hew it, sand it, and ammonia fume it to give it more of a long weathered look, we are going to cut the face off the face on the mill to be about 1.5 inches thick, then cut the bottom side the same thickness, then glue them back together as a lighter faux beam.  The top edge will be covered by a crown molding.  

I haven't hewed in awhile.  So I did about half of the face tonight, and my forearms were getting tight so I decided not to overdo it.  I was getting in the rhythm though. It's always slow starting when you haven't for awhile, but then the muscle memory kicks in and you get a lot faster.

[Brad_bb]

Got the face done, now I have to do one of the small adjacent faces.

[doc henderson]

brad what is the table with the slope and gray metal in the background.

[gspren]

brad what is the table with the slope and gray metal in the background.

Looks like metal roofing so my guess is it's a small storage thingy in progress.

[Ljohnsaw]

Chicken coop

[Brad_bb]

Nope, you're all wrong.  It's the upper half of another Catio I'm building.  I had to hurry up and build the upper half the last few weeks because the roofing guys were going to be here for several things, among them putting the metal on the roof of my first catio.  I wanted to get the roof on this one while they were here.
Here's the bottom half.


It's 4'x8' footprint.  Treated stringers on bottom and I can move it around with the forklift.  Once the two halves are together, I'll install the climbing shelves.  I'm either adding this onto my existing catio or giving to my sister for her cats.  This one is made of cedar, but I'm a little afraid the carpenter bee's might attack it.  My first one I made of Ash.  Carpenter bees don't bother hardwood.  My 5 cats love their catio and use it all the time.  I have a double hung window that has a plywood face installed in the lower part with a cat door with a wood tunnel wrapping around the building to the catio.  I'll get some pics to post soon.  FYI, If you're building a catio, the best caging/screening to use is the black coated 2"x3" mesh from the Lowes garden department.  I attach it with stainless wire fence clips that I bought on Amazon. 

[thecfarm]

Glad I have google to know what a catio is.