POTD- PROJECT OF THE DAY: What Did You Make In Your Shop Today?

[FOMOGO]

I've been working on the trolley system for my garage door conversion from overhead to slider, using four pulleys from my Case Combine. Had to bore,, and cut down the hubs on the pulley's, and turn some shafting (also from the combine), and cut some snap ring grooves. Probably finish up the doors completely tomorrow. Have a stupid amount of time in these damn doors., but they are coming out nice, and operate very smoothly. Will post some more pics of the doors when I finish up. Mike

 

[BGHansen]

Bruce . There's not a better feeling than out working with firewood . One of my favorite pasttimes .

The old joke is you heat twice with wood; when you cut and when you burn. I used to do around 7 full cords in less than a week, but I was only around 30-35 at the time. I now run one, maybe two tanks of fuel through my Stihl MS291 and call it a day. The weekends in the fall/winter were precious as if it was decent weather, I'd get out to cut wood for a couple of hours. Now that I'm retired, it's always a 7-day weekend baby, nice weather on a Tuesday and I'll go out for an hour or two. I typically run around 30-35 tanks of fuel through the saw for the season. I contemplate a lot of things while cutting as it's pretty mundane; nice alone time enjoying nature.

Bruce

p.s. Plan "B" as I age is to burn less. Well, burn less wood and burn more cash in the form of propane/electricity in our geothermal. Our house has a walk-out finished basement which is where our main entertainment room is. Stupid me at the time the house was built, but the lower level of ~1500 sq. feet was "plumbed" with 4 registers and no cold air returns. I should have spec'd out the lower level like it was living space; register at pretty much every window. The end result is the lower level runs at around 60 F if the thermostat is set to 65 F. There's a fireplace in the lower level entertainment room which heats most of the 1500 sq. ft. to 70 F. However, that's at the "cost" of 4+ full cords of wood. When I'm not able to cut as much, we'll move our evening TV watching to the main floor and only burn upstairs.

 

[BGHansen]

Bruce and I are not in termite country like you

According to google they are in the southern half of MI though I've never seen one after 30+ years of cutting/splitting wood. I've cut a questionably light log before and split it to find a colony of carpenter ants. Naturally, those get tossed into the woods.

Bruce

 

[DavidR8]

Managed to move the mill onto the new stand.
Took some doing as the outriggers on my hoist are too narrow for the width of anything that requires the hoist.
Decided to try putting the outriggers on the outside of the hoist which made the bottom wide enough to get the roller base in between the legs.
Was definitely sketchy and next time I’ll make up some longer pins and some filler pieces for the middle bits.

 

[Shotgun]

Todays project as usual . The hardest thing to make in my shop is SPACE . I'm running out of space to make more space .

I could help you out by bringing my trailer to haul some of it off for you. We'll call it an intervention.

 

[woodchucker]

Managed to move the mill onto the new stand.
Took some doing as the outriggers on my hoist are too narrow for the width of anything that requires the hoist.
Decided to try putting the outriggers on the outside of the hoist which made the bottom wide enough to get the roller base in between the legs.
Was definitely sketchy and next time I’ll make up some longer pins and some filler pieces for the middle bits.

David, see if you can push the top drawer back so the lip is even with or behind the steel top bar. You will wind up with a ton of chips in the drawer if it remains out. It looks good though.

 

[mmcmdl]

I could help you out by bringing my trailer to haul some of it off for you. We'll call it an intervention.

You better watch what you ask for . I travel to SC every year , and you're on the route !

 

[Just for fun]

Bruce and I are not in termite country like you

I watched a show last night about South Africa, they roasted termites and ate them as a treat.

 

[f350ca]

Could have cut a LOT of slabs with the chain saw in the time I've spent building this arrangement. lol
Assembled the saw, bolted it to the skid and arranged the engine with centrifugal clutch. Seams to work fine, the blade definitely needs sharpened though.




Next step is a roof over it and in feed table.

Greg

 

[Firstram]

David, see if you can push the top drawer back so the lip is even with or behind the steel top bar. You will wind up with a ton of chips in the drawer if it remains out. It looks good though.

I agree, if you can't move it back at least add an eyebrow.