Watcha Makin'?

[tule peak timber]

The walnut saddle stumps are headed for a new home with the Granddaughter. I made them years ago for another Granddaughter and now they are going home with the youngest. Saddle up pardner...... 

[doc henderson]

Tule, I bet it is fun at your house.

I made a raised bed for my SIL that has been in and out of the hospital.  the new try is the finish, I tried the UV protected Australian timber oil.  Looked at the tung oil and Lowes only had a pint for 13 something.  the ATO was 55 a gallon.  when on with a pad applicator with an extension.  pretty fast.  we will see how it holds up.  ERC, 40 inches to the top.  she has trouble getting up off a floor or ground.  This ADA version will set in front of the concrete porch at her house.  Porch is about 2 foot tall, and the top of the bed can be accessed from the yard when planting and from the porch for harvest and watering.

[SwampDonkey]

What's the significance of a saddle stump? Never heard of one. Course I'm not a horse rancher either, so I'm missing a lot of context. 

[tule peak timber]

So, years ago we tried to get one of our granddaughters, who lived with us, interested in the cowboy/ranch lifestyle. We sent her to summer and winter cowboy camps and set up her room with all sorts of antique tack gear, buffalo skins, horse print pillows etc. The majority of these antiques I found shopping in stores in obscure parts of Montana. The walnut stump saddles are carved walnut stumps with old US Infantry saddles attached to the tops. Kind of cool to roll out of the bunks in the tack room and saddle up for breakfast in the mess hall downstairs. She and her grandmother spent hours playing cribbage whilst sitting in their saddles.

Now that that granddaughter has grown up and moved on, a new granddaughter through marriage has expressed an interest in horses so we are now putting her through the cowboy camps and the furniture, tack and cowboy "stuff" now moves on to her house and her future of roaming the range yelling giddy up! Hopefully she'll share this interest with her friends.

[SwampDonkey]

Interesting. I grew up around horses. But they weren't saddle horses, they were work horses for yarding wood. I never had a lot to do with them, my uncle had a pair of twins and he never worked them all that hard, more like pets. Dad had a horse in the 70's to yard with. I remember going to a farm and looking at some horses where he got it from. Another thing I remember, he and a neighbour were going to cut wood and yard with that horse. The neighbour's wife looks out the window and saw dad and neighbour pulling the sled, and the horse walking behind eating the hay off the sled. She said she never seen that before.   Dad soon got a skidder, could hop off at the end of the day and didn't have to feed it or harness it or shovel behind it. 

[aigheadish]

I started building our raised beds as well. I've got 2 10'x 2ish' panels, using extra steel barn siding, done, now need to connect them.  They look to be a huge improvement over what we had last year. Yours, doc, are prettier than mine will be.

[aigheadish]

Well, she sure ain't square, or a looker, but she was free and I think she'll hold dirt. We may just go with one more, slightly longer than this one.

[aigheadish]

On a much prettier note but not without some mistakes, I've finished my v2 putter! The golf season starts next Thursday, so I'll see how it goes. Hitting a ball, gently, across the shop floor feels nice, hopefully it feels nice on the green. 

Legally, I've probably messed up, as I think the shaft angle is a bit too shallow. I think it can't be any more than 80 degrees and it's probably between 75 and 80. I'm not a pro and I already play with cheater Ping Irons with wedge shaped grooves instead of square shaped grooves, I didn't know that was a thing when I bought
them. It also has not improved my golf game much.

The brass is fun to work with, it sands away beautifully.