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Forestry and Logging / Re: Daily Fabrication Thread
Last post by barbender - Today at 01:59:43 AMOn occasion when I was visiting family out in Wyoming, my Grandma would need a quick carpentry repair of some sort or another. If the job took me 2 hours, 1.5 hours was spent straightening nails out of her can of old nails. I went and bought a box one time to speed the process, and was corrected for it😁
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Sawmills and Milling / Re: Whatcha Sawin' 2024 ??
Last post by Andries - Today at 12:42:28 AMLarry: speaking of bodacious clones, is your lumber grader also known as Sampson, log dog extraordinaire?
Its good to see hime on the job, keeping you (maybe not your logs) on the straight and narrow.
Its good to see hime on the job, keeping you (maybe not your logs) on the straight and narrow.
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The Outdoor Board / Re: Problem: My Pond Full of M...
Last post by Andries - Today at 12:28:59 AM@YellowHammer, WV tickled a few memory cells that date back 50 or so years.
The answer might not be 308 calibre, or a 5000 kilowatt electro-fishing boat, which cuts down the fun factor a lot.
"Rotenone" could be your best answer.
. . . it is frequently used as a tool to remove alien fish species,[9] as it has a relatively short half-life (days) and is gone from rivers in the course of days and from lakes within a few months, depending on (seasonal) stirring, organic content, availability of sunlight and temperature.[10] Rotenone has been used by government agencies to kill fish in rivers and lakes in the United States since 1952,[11] and in Canada[12]and Norway[13] since the 1980s.
- From Wikipedia.
Gotta say I'm some impressed Howard. I'll respect the banter that goes on between Tom "Old Greenhorn" and WV Sawmiller a whole bunch more.
That poking is based on some sharp humour and tack sharp memories.
The answer might not be 308 calibre, or a 5000 kilowatt electro-fishing boat, which cuts down the fun factor a lot.
"Rotenone" could be your best answer.
. . . it is frequently used as a tool to remove alien fish species,[9] as it has a relatively short half-life (days) and is gone from rivers in the course of days and from lakes within a few months, depending on (seasonal) stirring, organic content, availability of sunlight and temperature.[10] Rotenone has been used by government agencies to kill fish in rivers and lakes in the United States since 1952,[11] and in Canada[12]and Norway[13] since the 1980s.
- From Wikipedia.
Gotta say I'm some impressed Howard. I'll respect the banter that goes on between Tom "Old Greenhorn" and WV Sawmiller a whole bunch more.
That poking is based on some sharp humour and tack sharp memories.
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The Outdoor Board / Re: Problem: My Pond Full of M...
Last post by Ljohnsaw - Today at 12:22:41 AMI have a small crank magneto. I can get a fluorescent bulb to light up. I've tried but can't get my son to hold the leads to see how much kick it has. 😉
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Chainsaws / Re: Stihl 045 no spark
Last post by Ben Cut-wright - Yesterday at 11:39:43 PMRemove the kill wire, test for spark using the coil base for ground side, don't use the engine for ground. If you have spark then a bad engine ground is the problem. Believe it or not, on certain engines I've seen the muffler become the ground circuit for the spark.
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General Board / Re: Donations
Last post by Ianab - Yesterday at 11:21:41 PMSchools are usually short of cash, and want materials for various projects.
Taylor is Year 7 at school now, and they get to do some "tech" stuff. This year they wanted to build some plant propagation tables (they have a vegetable garden at school). I had mentioned to the Teacher at the start of the year that I could source some wood for them for various projects, and he sent home a wish list, just asking if i could supply any of it. I had the mill set up and spare logs, and it turned out that most of the cut list was short 2x2. Next log was a bit punky in places, so cutting the smaller shorter pieces actually worked out good. I also threw some other random shorts / miscuts through the planer and sent them in for use with their new laser engraver. Saved them ~$500 over buying the timber at the local hardware store. Cost to me was negligible , but the value to the school was great.
Taylor is Year 7 at school now, and they get to do some "tech" stuff. This year they wanted to build some plant propagation tables (they have a vegetable garden at school). I had mentioned to the Teacher at the start of the year that I could source some wood for them for various projects, and he sent home a wish list, just asking if i could supply any of it. I had the mill set up and spare logs, and it turned out that most of the cut list was short 2x2. Next log was a bit punky in places, so cutting the smaller shorter pieces actually worked out good. I also threw some other random shorts / miscuts through the planer and sent them in for use with their new laser engraver. Saved them ~$500 over buying the timber at the local hardware store. Cost to me was negligible , but the value to the school was great.
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The Outdoor Board / Re: Problem: My Pond Full of M...
Last post by YellowHammer - Yesterday at 11:11:29 PMI've never seen a crank phone except on the TV. I wonder what voltage and current they put out?
There had got to be a modern equivalent that runs off a battery, that won't kill me.
I'm not sure about the lead poisoning in the pond, but I would guess that some of the dead fish and turtles have a pretty high fraction of lead in their brain.
I see some elcheapos shockers on the EBay and Amazon, they call them high frequency shockers. They look like useless toys.
I didn't go to the pond today, I was shooting the rifle, but it occurred to me that maybe I should take up spear fishing.
I used to have a pesticide liscense, I could probably get the fish poison, but it seems such a waste for a guy like me who fishes pretty often to not be able to fish these guys out. I just need to concentrate a little, it's just boring spending the afternoon catching baby bass and foot long bream day after day, when I could be doing something else.
There had got to be a modern equivalent that runs off a battery, that won't kill me.
I'm not sure about the lead poisoning in the pond, but I would guess that some of the dead fish and turtles have a pretty high fraction of lead in their brain.
I see some elcheapos shockers on the EBay and Amazon, they call them high frequency shockers. They look like useless toys.
I didn't go to the pond today, I was shooting the rifle, but it occurred to me that maybe I should take up spear fishing.
I used to have a pesticide liscense, I could probably get the fish poison, but it seems such a waste for a guy like me who fishes pretty often to not be able to fish these guys out. I just need to concentrate a little, it's just boring spending the afternoon catching baby bass and foot long bream day after day, when I could be doing something else.
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Forestry and Logging / Re: Daily Fabrication Thread
Last post by TimW - Yesterday at 10:39:13 PMDad didn't have money to buy new nails. We reused them. My job was straightening the nails. Sad thing today, nails are a pain to straighten. Almost impossible with the cheap metal in them now.
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Forestry and Logging / Re: Daily Fabrication Thread
Last post by Old Greenhorn - Yesterday at 10:34:04 PMOh My Goodness! This brought such a hard smile to my face that tears squeezed out of my eyes. When I was a kid we had a 50 pound keg of 10d nails in our shed that my Dad declared I had free access to for whatever I wanted to do with them, whether it was to build or just practicing driving nails in a 2x4. I had watched him and his buddies drive thousands those 10d nails with 3 whacks or less. That was long before the days of these nice framing hammers with serrated faces weighing a fair amount, just plain old claw hammers that they had. Boy I drove (and bent) a LOT of nails and I thought he would be really mad when he saw the mess I made and the nails I wasted trying to get it right, but he just laughed and told me I was getting better. 
He started calling me 'Lightening' because he said I "never struck twice in the same place". He told me that as simple as it may look driving a nail takes a lot of practice, coordination, skill, and an understanding of physics (which was my first exposure to that particular word as a ten year old).
Yes, teaching youth provides a certain amount of amusement at times. Often it can be either frightening, alarming, or a wake up call for us a society.
I had a long time in Scouting and I had a young Scout here one day working on a merit badge and we were working on fire making without matches in the gravel driveway in front of my shop (flint and steel, bow and spindle, etc). When we were done he asked if he could use my phone to call his Mom for a pickup. I said "sure, there's a phone on the wall in the shop, help yourself" and I began cleaning up all the stuff we had out. He was in there a while but I just thought he was chatting with Mom. (Great kid, I knew the whole family, he is some kind of a Biometric Scientist now.) Finally he comes out and (looking at the ground) he says "could you show me how that phone works? it doesn't have buttons on it." It was a rotary dial phone, he never had seen one before. Just another teaching opportunity.
Teaching kids is something I miss a great deal because we learn so much in the process.
He started calling me 'Lightening' because he said I "never struck twice in the same place". He told me that as simple as it may look driving a nail takes a lot of practice, coordination, skill, and an understanding of physics (which was my first exposure to that particular word as a ten year old). Yes, teaching youth provides a certain amount of amusement at times. Often it can be either frightening, alarming, or a wake up call for us a society.
I had a long time in Scouting and I had a young Scout here one day working on a merit badge and we were working on fire making without matches in the gravel driveway in front of my shop (flint and steel, bow and spindle, etc). When we were done he asked if he could use my phone to call his Mom for a pickup. I said "sure, there's a phone on the wall in the shop, help yourself" and I began cleaning up all the stuff we had out. He was in there a while but I just thought he was chatting with Mom. (Great kid, I knew the whole family, he is some kind of a Biometric Scientist now.) Finally he comes out and (looking at the ground) he says "could you show me how that phone works? it doesn't have buttons on it." It was a rotary dial phone, he never had seen one before. Just another teaching opportunity.
Teaching kids is something I miss a great deal because we learn so much in the process. #10
General Board / Re: It's a Go! 2024 FF Pigroa...
Last post by pigman - Yesterday at 10:30:49 PMI will be there if I can find the place. I think the count with me is about 38, you people make it hard for an old man to keep track of the count. I think I have been there at least once, something about almost being arrested for burning up a chair at Lakeside motel.
