What did you do today?

[EB-80/8inPA 1,653]

On 2/19/2022 at 3:33 PM, Ed Kennell said:

Sorry to rain on your refund party Jimmy, but that dollar your getting back is worth about half of what it was when you paid it a year ago.  

This is one of those topics that could go sideways real fast.  Which is to say; yes, and it’s only getting going in earnest, and that’s why I’m stockpiling Wheel Horses as an inflation hedge!  My wife doesn’t believe that, oddly enough.

[ebinmaine 67,592]

12 minutes ago, SylvanLakeWH said:

So… in Maine you need two guys for that little saw? 

 

Oh no no. 

 

That's a one-handah fer one person. 

You ask @JCM or @Oldskool. 

 

[SylvanLakeWH 25,598]

Just now, ebinmaine said:

Oh no no. 

 

That's a one-handah fer one person. 

You ask @JCM or @Oldskool. 

 

Good to hear… 

 

We Michigan boys would consider that more of a toe nail clipper… maybe a delicate bonsai tree pruning shear… 

[ebinmaine 67,592]

1 minute ago, SylvanLakeWH said:

Good to hear… 

 

We Michigan boys would consider that more of a toe nail clipper… maybe a delicate bonsai tree pruning shear… 

[ebinmaine 67,592]

This'd be a two-handah fer us but I see the folks from down undah got em on wheels...

 

 

 

 

 

[EB-80/8inPA 1,653]

9 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

This'd be a two-handah fer us

Seeing things like this gives me hope, lol. Hope for what, IDK.

Edited February 21, 2022 by EB-80/8inPA

[EB-80/8inPA 1,653]

I think I might have posted this before, but all this saw talk reminded me of how awesome those guys were back in the goodle days:

And man, could they eat!

Edited February 21, 2022 by EB-80/8inPA

[Ifixoldjunk 778]

@EB-80/8inPA Yup! Found it in the trash. People throw out some interesting things.

[Oldskool 6,644]

12 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

Oh no no. 

 

That's a one-handah fer one person. 

You ask @JCM or @Oldskool. 

 

Ya that's just a kindling saw 😂

[ebinmaine 67,592]

6 minutes ago, Oldskool said:

Ya that's just a kindling saw 😂

[Oldskool 6,644]

11 hours ago, EB-80/8inPA said:

I think I might have posted this before, but all this saw talk reminded me of how awesome those guys were back in the goodle days:

And man, could they eat!

That's my neck of the woods.

I believe I'm related to this Alfred Ames.

My great grandmother was an Ames.

 

 

I have canoed the Machias River. To this day there is still logs that are stuck in the bottom of the river and protrude the surface call "saw bobs"

My grandfather was a logger for most his life and floated logs in that river.

 

The train tracks mentioned have now been decommissioned and are now the Sunrise Trail. It's for recreational use. ATV/UTV, foot,bicycle,horse,, and snowmobile traffic.

 

The ship "Lucy Evelyn" mentioned was built right here in Harrington. Along with SEVERAL others.  I believe it was built for the Frye family.

 

As a boy my father and local kids had a rope swing for swimming attached to the mast of an old ship that was beached at the ship yard. 

The mast has fallen and the shipyard gone due to a fire decades ago.

[EB-80/8inPA 1,653]

42 minutes ago, Oldskool said:

I believe it was built for the Frye family.

Would that be the Frye family for which Fryeburg was named, do you know?  Glad you enjoyed the film.

[ebinmaine 67,592]

57 minutes ago, Oldskool said:

my neck of the woods

Absolutely love hearing stories like this...

Thanks for posting.

 

 

10 minutes ago, EB-80/8inPA said:

Would that be the Frye family for which Fryeburg was named, do you know? .

 

 

I was wondering the same thing

[Oldskool 6,644]

32 minutes ago, EB-80/8inPA said:

Would that be the Frye family for which Fryeburg was named, do you know?  Glad you enjoyed the film.

I am not sure on that, but that's a definite possibility. 

 

I did enjoy. It's kinda cool to have been everywhere that was filmed.

[ebinmaine 67,592]

I watched a few minutes of that video. Great stuff. I'll watch more for sure.

 

You folks do some poking around on the internet about that Lombard log hauler.

That was one of The originators of the tractor as we know it today. 

There's a place up here in Bradley Maine. Just outside of Orono. Maine Forestry Museum or some such.

Sort of a living history museum.

From what I understand they have a couple of those Lombard machines.

We're planning on taking a trip up to that at some point...

 

[Mickwhitt 4,641]

Yiday I started an insurance claim for my front living room window. Weve had storms Durley, Eunice and Franklin in one week with 90mph winds and rain.

The window is uPVC and was bowing inward 2 inches with the wind pressure. Its now permanently curved inward and moves in even a light breeze. All the sealant and trims have been dislodged by the constant movement. 

Got a really polite text message to say sorry we can't process your claim as your policy expired last year! OH NO IT DIDNT! stated the financial whizz that is my wife, who promptly produced statements and bank details to prove she had paid on time. 

We will have to look into it and get back to you.

Whats to look into? We paid, you have some kind of glitch. 

Fingers crossed it will get sorted but it looks like a few more named storms are on their way till the jet stream stops playing silly buggers.

 

[Stormin 9,981]

Yes, Mick. It has been a bit wild of late. A tad wet as well.

[Mickwhitt 4,641]

Yes we have a few flooded areas down here but nothing compared to some.

Our window is still moving back and forth in what is really just a stiff breeze. 

Assessor coming out on Wednesday next week to see what they can do.

I'd rather rip it out and start again,  get it right this time and make the most of the view we have.

Could put steel supports in or alter the size of the window. Plenty of options. Could put a single pane in if we could afford it lol. 

 

 

[Ifixoldjunk 778]

the old homelite is cleaning up nicely, I bought a new 20’ Oregon bar and chain, and I now have a NOS aluminum air cover heading to me from EBay. Really glad I found this saw poking out of the trash.

[Ifixoldjunk 778]

ignore the 1% battery, just added to the suspense of the bidding war.

[ohiofarmer 3,276]

    We had a good two days. My wife's first cousin' s son and I are like minded buddies who work well together. He helped me change a submersible well pump this summer, and it was my turn to return the favor. His pump was working, but there was black sulphur goo that had built up and reached his pump.Black goo from the faucets like you see in the movies  Maybe you guys could benefit from our experience.

    My good friend and mentor in things mechanical once described how he saw a plumber clean out a well casing that had filled in by renting a commercial air compressor the size used to power a jack hammer. Put the hose down the well casing and she can shoot a column of water the height of a house. I had previously tried this on a smaller scale using a stationary air compressor of fair size on a four inch well casing, and by fashioning a tee fitting at the head of the well, managed to empty the casing of fine red sand that filled it in over the years.I took the better part of two days, but as luck would have it, I was digging septic lines at the farm in a drought year and needed that water to soak the trench to help out the backhoe..The sand was at the fourteen feet mark and I knew the actual depth of the well because of how proud the family was of having the first drilled well in the neighborhood. We cleaned it down to eighty feet . Amazing .... The standard air hose bubbled away and the little bubbles eventually joined into a big one and a column of water shot ten feet high. After that, the thing settled down to pulsed slugs of water about fifteen seconds apart and maybe two gallons per pulse.I put that water to good use by filling a new 2000 gallon septic tank. You gotta get them at least half full to keep them from floating out of the ground when it rains...

 So today, For a hundred dollars, we rented a diesel powered unit and gave her the onions.The six inch well casing needed a lot more air volume than my previous experience with the four inch casing  I happened to be at a Menards when i got the call about the distressed well [yesterday], so for another seventy , I picked up the necessary 6x6x4 inch tee and a couple of adapters. It worked very well, but the well had to recover each time we blew it out, so it became a game of gradually stripping out the old black oxidized sulphur .It worked well because we shunted all that water to a side ditch drain and the work site stayed in decent condition. wE managed to make the well four feet deeper with all the sludge removed until gravel was seen from the bottom

   When you think about all the running around for a compressor and what a plumber or a well driller might charge for such a service if they had taken all that time to repeatedly blow that well, we saved at least a thousand IMHO.

  That makes it a good day and that is the kind of stuff people can share just by talking about the work they do. So my deceased mentor telling me the story about blowing out a well and me trying it on my own and passing it on to a younger man certainly has my mentor smiling from Heaven tonight.

  on edit, I will mention that the tee fitting needs a vertical pipe out the top of the tee of maybe four feet or more. That way,, you insert the air supply from the top of that pipe and the water exits out the side to be directed away from the well. Sorry there were no pictures as we barely got the pump set back in before an ice storm hit.

Edited February 25, 2022 by ohiofarmer

[Gregor 4,846]

I have been working on a few wood projects lately. I will post pics and details at another time, but while working on these projects it became obvious I needed a better way to store and sort the large variety of wood screws I have accumulated. The trouble with this is, wood screws come in a variety of boxes of all shapes and sizes. Hard to organize something like that, so the first thing I did was to order me some plastic boxes. LOTS of plastic boxes.Then I made me some trays. LOTS of trays, that could be mounted to the inside of my cabinets doors. LOTS of cabinet doors.

These trays come in Cherry

 

or Walnut, or Walnut with Oak inlay

or Oak with Walnut inlay.

or maple and Cherry if you just have scraps to use up. Many times the size of the tray was determined by the piece of wood I had.

Then I embedded small magnets into the trays, and used double sided tape to stick a fender washer to the bottom of each plastic box.

The magnets hold each box in it's place.

In some cases there are several boxes of the same screw. The first box of each size also has a magnet taped to the inside of the lid. This magnet holds the appropriate driver bit for that screw, When you open the box you are automatically presented with the driver, and a few screws

The trays fold up flat against the doors. The boxes are held in place by their magnet. I can take a box out, bring it back 2 days later, and it's space is still open, so they always stay in order. They are sorted by length, regardless of the type of screw. Seems I usually know what length screw I need, and I can choose the type when I look at what's available.

[ebinmaine 67,592]

19 minutes ago, Gregor said:

Then I made me some trays

VERY impressive!!

 

 

I like how you sort to "length only" per your own habits. 

 

We've been in a constant state of organization/reorganization here lately. 

Whenever we move something we consider... Where was the first place I thought that should be/looked for it??

And it usually ends up there.  

Might make no sense to others but it's working well here so far.  

 

[lynnmor 7,307]

Those magnets will magnetize the hardware to some extent.  I used a considerable quantity of drywall nails that were magnetic and they collected the iron oxide from the hot air heating system and made dark spots at each one.  Yes, heat exchangers produce more iron dust than you may think.  I made a demagnetizer and ran it over all the walls to eliminate the problem.   I would suggest that you get a small and cheap demagnetizer and have it nearby. 

[Ed Kennell 38,209]

3 hours ago, Gregor said:

I have been working on a few wood projects lately.

 

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