That time of the year is coming again.......... Yes, it's old man winter I am talking about. That just means that you'll be spending more time keeping indoors trying to keep warm. Well for me, I'll spend many of those hours in my workshop building. Yes with wood........ I build with many different types of woods as a rule....... I will be building acoustic musical instruments---guitars, mandolins, banjo's, and dobros.
What do you have planned? 8) ;D :D
I'm finally getting electricity to my new shop and then will be able to start setting it up. Just in time too. It's got a furnace and is well insulated, so I plan on spending time woodturning and other woodworking. One thing I know I have to do is build a rocking horse for my granddaughter. 8) I can go out to my shop in the morning and next thing I know it'll be about 6:30pm. :)
Coon,
Got any pictures of your instruments? I'll be working on my sawmill shed and working on thinning and clearing some land while its cool.
Stew
I do have some pictures of my instruments but they're 35mm pictures in my album and I do not have a scanner (and do not know anyone locally with one)and I do not have a working digital cam right now. Gotta buy a new one when I get to the city in a couple of weeks if I have some extra cash.
Well, I'm planning on redoing my first floor bathroom. My house was built back in 1928, and I plan to put a pedestal sink in, and some nice white tile on the floor that would fit the period of the house. It was funny when the previous owner gave me her final tour of the house when she handed me the keys. She entered that bathroom, and told me about how when they moved in, it had one of those "awful pedestal sinks," and how they ripped that out right away. ::) Little did she know I was putting one back in! :D
My ambitious plans are to turn 3 underused rooms upstairs into a master bedroom and bath. Just taking measurements and figuring plans. Anyone with input or experience on jaccuzi style tubs, want one large enough for two but the offerings are varied and I have no good first hand info on best styles or brands.
We have a few projects in the works. We are finishing up a woodworking shop next to the office, and I hope to finish building some interior doors for the house. We need to put up some scaffolding in the family room so we can finish painting the windows; we have the mantle for the fireplace ready to be installed; I have two little Annie dolls cut out and ready to sew before Christmas. Hmmm, I am tired and worn out already, just thinking about it!
I dont have plans for any projects, but I am sure that there will be some projects that have plans for me.
1. Finish the Roof on the barn. (roofers are tearing off today 8) Once there done I have two walls that have to be completly rebuilt.
2. Finish my traiiler. HOPE to have that done today, except for the decking.
3. I have to get two picnic tables built for our farmer (not sure why he has to have them before thanksgiving cuz its kind of chilly to eat outside now)
4. Build an entertainment center for a customer
5. Turn Christmas ornaments for our Christmas tree
6. Prepare the ground for the new shop foundation.
7. Cut the White Oak timbers for my Timber Frame and start the mortise and tenons so that with LOTS of luck I can raise the building in the spring/summer
8. Build a Osage end grain cutting board for my Mom.
9. Whack several more coyotes 8)
10. Start a new list ;D
oops :o Forgot I still have to haul 31 White Oaks and 6 Hickory's logs home for the Timber Frame.
Its official. I have to much on my plate.
I need to build the garage I wanted to build this summer. That reminds me, I need to cut the wood for the garage. I do have some of the trees on the log deck. I should have it up by........... June?
1. I have to build an entertainment center for the wife.
2. build the head for my bandsaw
3. I hope to also start work on a little cnc wood router.
4. Play in the snow with my gator
I have to get a new heater in the shop pretty DanG quick. Then it is clean up the chainsaw collection, o.k, so I am a little quirky, refinish the boat , rebuild an atv and finish rebuilding a riding mower that is taking up too much room. That should keep me busy for a while.
I'm going to try to get up a fishing trip. :)
Living this far up nort... what else is there... shovel snow and hang out right here ;D
Quote from: Tom on November 04, 2005, 08:27:08 AM
I'm going to try to get up a fishing trip. :)
Tom can I be part of that ...please .. please.. the water up here at that time is just to dang HARD to troll :D
Same list as last winter. . . I believe in recycling ;)
-finish the gutted bathroom upstairs
-finish the firwood shed(just waiting for the roof material)
-build the temporary shop( which will eventually become a carport or other shed) so i can tear down the small shed(so small i can't even work in there) so i can layout the future 1200 sf 2 story shop+office, but need to fall the 44"dbh 175' ponderosa in the way. i'll mill these logs for the floors(cause a wood shop need wood floors not concrete right) and the siding.
-build 2 small decks (vacant rental)
-paint inside(rental)
-mill new base board +trim(rental)
-new pine floors(rental)
-remodel kitchen+bath(rental)
-build 2 exterior doors(my house+ cutomer)
-sand+finish and install 6 mantels (rental+ 5 customers)
-interior log hand rail
-new oak floors(customer)
- hutch(cutomer)
-hollow out seven 9' logs to be wrapped around existing beams(customer)
-knarly sign post(customer)
-4 bar stools(customer)
-4 slab lightpost caps(customer)
-pine floor+ v-rustic panel(dining room my house)
- french door install(dining)
-log post supports(customer)
actually this was my list for this week, i'm workin on cloning myself or something, cause it's the only way it's all gonna get done. actually I don't even have time to be on this *DanG computer, but we need coffee breaks right. plus i'm pretty *DanG lazy. maybe i need a vacation, but wait a minute that's how i ended up in the mountains in the first place.
1. Find shop under the mess.
2. Clean shop.
3. Organize shop.
4. Build sawmill.
5. See # 1. above.
:D
I'm planning a week for a trip up NORTH!! ;D
8) 8) 8) 8)
Roxie.....you're too much!!!! :D :D :D :D
Ohhhh Noooo!!
Tell us it ain't gonna happen ::) ;D ;D
Make some plans for 274 days from now too. :)
My winter plans.................
Go some place warmer!!!!
Finish building my sawmill.
Do some swimming. ;D
finish my barn,50 x 60 , move all of the woodworking equipment into it , build the wife a buffet for the dining room and ??.
Heading into Vancouver General Hospital for a Stem Cell Transfer from my Sis starting two weeks from now. Down for about a year if all goes well.
WOW! Mur
That sounds like quite a procedure. Pray that all goes well with you and your Sis.
Care to tell us a bit about it? or prefer to keep it close to the chest, which I would certainly respect your wishes?
Hope you can keep on board with us during the 'down' time.
Wish you well.
I got lotsa plans. :) But in reality I will probably be plowin' or shovelin' snow. :'(
Designing and building a support structure for a manual crane to lift and turn the saw head on my Lucas. I know, I know, I wouldn't have to do that if I'd bought a .......
Dakota
Now wait a minute Furby... Do I see a trip coming... ???
Our plans for the "Winter" - this is our dry season so we do construction projects. The grass around the trees slow down a bit so we get a breather.
1. A new bodega for the tools, etc. If the hacienda is any indication, there may not be enough space on the finca for it. The casa started small, and grew, and grew, and grew...
2. A couple of ponds need to be finished off.
3. Probably a LOT of sawing.
4. FISHING!
Been talking to Harold haven't you! ;)
Not in regards to you - are you planning on being smuggled in on his container... ?
:D :D :D :D :D :D
Would have to........... don't think I can handle the 8 weeks of isolation in a little bity cage with the rest of the animals. ::) ;D
Nope, no isolation of animals coming in. Just a clean bill of health BEFORE you leave. Surely you can get that? ;)
With my luck ??? ::)
Hey - if they will let a person in who swims with gators... I figure you are a shoe in.
Ya haven't met me! ;)
Quote from: crtreedude on November 05, 2005, 06:00:15 PM
I figure you are a shoe in.
A shoe might be all Furby could get in the country anyway... ;)
Mount new sap tank next to sugarhouse, finish putting wood into sugarhouse for next season (2006 maple season), do more TSI, add more pipeline for adding more taps, install another window in sugarhouse, make steam hood, check all tubing lines and repair, finish road across wet area, re-organize sugarhouse, repair road in to sugarhouse for visitors, cut firewood for '07 season and stack outdoors, check into running power to sugarhouse (sets alone), saw more lumber, buy more logs to saw, enjoy the weather! 8) 8) (winter is the third best season, following fall (1) and spring (2) ;D
It's possible. I've used some old handmade cant hooks of various designs Most work pretty good. :)
Wow!!!! I didn't think that I would get this kind of response. Keep them coming I like to see what all you great people are doing. Lots of interesting ideas on this post. Hmmmmm. That cloning idear isn't toooooo bad of a thought. Now just to build a cloning machine :D :o 8)
You don't dare bring up much on this forum and expect nothing from it. :D :D
I should have known better oops :D ;D 8)
It hasn't got anything to do with anything but I keep reading the location you display on the left with your Userid as "Sis!, Catch yer wagon". Must be something broke between my ears. :-\
Well Tom, I am actually not in Kelvington, Saskatchewan. I am in Nut Mountain, Saskatchewan where the mountains are all gone but the NUTS are still here. 8) 8) 8)
Plans for this winter - improving mine and my cousin's 'maple syrup' operation, this used to involve collecting sap around 3 pm friday afternoon, into a big bucket, bringing it to the fireplace in front of the lean-to our family built, then collected as much firewood as we could before it got dark, starting a fire under an old pot with all the sap in it, and try to keep the fire goin, had our tent set up inside the lean-to, with a tarp to form an awning off the front that we could drop down and cover the front of the lean to. This usually resulted in us A) getting firewood in the dark B) getting totally soaked C)waking up freezing. So, hopefully this year we can find a few more trees to tap, so far we are up to about 3 :D
More specifically, cut a bunch of wood so we aren't getting it in the dark, getting a stove built so the rain/snow isn't knockin the fire down, and maybe getting a candy thermometer so we can make it the right way.
2nd goal for the winter is to do a lot of predator hunting to help pad my pockets (maybe even use some of that $$ to help fund my other useless 'hobby')
3rd is to find a job that I can tolerate (not the clock punchin type of guy)
4th but the most important, spend as much time as I can with my little boy, Jace
jon, a maple syrup hydrometer would be much mor accurate than a thermometer.
Will
wiam, whatever I do will be an improvement to our sad excuse for maple syrup, but at least we try ;D I think I found a few more trees this year to use too. Would a gravity feed system work for getting the sap to a big storage container? What type of container should sap be stored in until processing?
Let's see.... Tomorrow I finish up harvest, then I need to rebuild my sawmill building- that should have been done in March. I need to wean calves, got some field tile that should be laid, got some custom saw jobs that need done. Need to cut some hickories for a flooring job that needs done. Got some rye to seed yet, waterways need rebuilt, and that creek needs some brush cut off it. Got another flooring job to do. Oh, you said WINTER plans- those need to all be done next week! (Not going to happen!) :D
I really should clean up what I used to call "The computer room" which has become the junk room catch all.
I'm afraid (very afraid) to start but I look forward to finding tools that I haven't seen in 7 years.
I am not married but i know a lot of you are. I thought it was called a honey to do list.. :D :D :) :)