Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

Some good progress today on carport. Header bolted into place. For some reason getting all the holes (4 surfaces) proved a bit challenging

Still have legs 3 & 6 to attach. The brackets I have will work nicely but need to find more appropriate gussets tomorrow. And more self drilling screws. Looks like the bag I ordered is taking a breather in Honolulu.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Did you build the frame and turn the legs?

Built the frame and top / drop leaf, also the drawer. The legs were salvaged from an old table years ago... that was getting thrown away. I do not have a lathe, something I have always wanted to get, but could never “ substantiate “ the cost. Most of the furniture I have made is either Shaker style or Modern Country. Usually do not use turned pieces.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Thanks for all the great praises of my woodworking skills ! I have always enjoyed doing it, and would have made a career out of it if I could have. I had a small shop about 35 yrs ago, and made custom furniture. I had some really nice jobs, but could not support a family with just a job every now and then. Basically never pursued it after a year or two, just made things for us. Got into construction trades thereafter, made a lot more money.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Some good progress today on carport. Header bolted into place. For some reason getting all the holes (4 surfaces) proved a bit challenging

Still have legs 3 & 6 to attach. The brackets I have will work nicely but need to find more appropriate gussets tomorrow. And more self drilling screws. Looks like the bag I ordered is taking a breather in Honolulu.

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How many more pieces do you have to go?

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I'll ask about the inversion technique today at nuerosurgeons. Condition got much worse yesterday, had a hard time walking, shooting pains down legs and some loss of urinary control. Had to bring a chair into greenhouse this morning to water plants, could not stand up. Something is definitely getting pinched in there...
Starting to make me think my next stop is a CCC. Always knew it would happen, just a matter when. And I have certainly gotten more out of the last six years than any of my docs thought I would. Have to make the best of everything.

My neck is fused with six inches of titanium so nothing going to stretch there.

That sounds all too familiar, Drew. Today my internist described our symptoms as stemming from collapsed discs, or more precisely the hole in the disc collapses and pinches the nerve that goes through it. I have a little bit of that, not nearly to the extent you may have, but he's optimistic inversion therapy will help, and a couple buddies of mine have had good results with it. So now I'm shopping Craig's List for an upsy daisy rig of my own. But I was also cautioned to have some way to pull myself back up, as apparently some folks have been trapped upside down when there wasn't anyone around to help them escape!

I sure admire your never say die attitude! But like you say, what else can you do?

 

[RedNeckGeek]

he said "you don't need those" and he gave her maybe 3 treatments and had her drink some awful tasting herb tea and she hasn't had any issues since and that was about 3 or 4 years ago.

I'm sure there are a lot of QUACKS so to speak, but this guy knew his stuff so find a good one and maybe he can relieve some of that nerve and other issues if you might want to try something a little outside the box so to speak.

OMG DIF, if that guy's still in business, I need to get up there pronto! Been taking allergy shots for almost 60 years now!!!

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Howdy Team!

Prayers for Drew, and those who are still sick or mending.

Happy Bday for Topps grand son and Ron's pup.

going down to 39F tonight. son made a fire in fireplace.

Finally caught a mouse that had eaten the cheese twice out of the old school trap. Caught him with a new school plastic trap.

Still listening to Undaunted Courage. Great book so far, they just got to the Pacific when I had to turn it off....They were all really sick with dysentery from only having mostly roots to eat on the western side of the Rockies...

 

[drivesitfar]

RNG: don't buy a cheap inversion table and you'll be fine unless you drink and hang then all bets are off. Costco sold close to 100,000 invertalign inversion tables cause they'd get 10,000 to sell each year for $220 and invertalign sold them for $450 for about 9 months a year after Costco sold out. so there should be a few in your area for $100-200 on Craigslist or offerup. don't buy the old Teeter ups because they had a very hard method of getting in and out your feet/ankles, but since they bought Invertalign (or maybe they owned both companies to begin with) they have the nice ratchet which works well for me. my 6'4 son that weighs 350 and was a football player always would hang on mine when he'd stop by cause he didn't want to buy one, but he loved hanging. i've never ever felt like I was going to fall out or get stuck and i've owned maybe 10 of these cause clients would keep leaving my house with mine and i'd just buy another one.

Dr. Men in Bellevue, Washington should still be in business and i'll text him if you are serious. no guarantee he'll fix you, but he surely fixed my 63 year old wife's alergies.

if you need help buying or adjusting your inversion table just ask and i'd be happy to help you. you should be able to tip back and forth by barely moving and getting in and out should be pretty easy too. did you see my 81 year old mom was hanging on mine and it fixed something her Dr. had no idea how to?

cheers

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 38F for the low, overcast, calm wind. Light wind today, overcast all day, and high temp was 42F. Restarted fire in insert after some ash grooming. Went outside and played with splitter, getting better with it, still had it launch several splits up to 3 feet after a loud pop . Nap this afternoon finished my useful activities.
Roy have a safe trip.
Eric, always a pain when the wood is not dry.
Buppies hope you don't get any unwanted surprises during service work.
Ron would love to Sassy on your shoulder complete with shampoo Hope you can get health issues worked out.
Bird good luck with in home exercise.
Bill glad cat is ok.
Drew really hope they can help you. You have had a big hill to climb.
Rick another cold front Tuesday
Frank good luck on porch project.
Ted, really awesome table!!
RNG hope you can coordinate all your goodies showing up. You have a lo of projects going on.
Randy happy birthday to Tanner
David had to google bromeliads, pretty flowers.
Drew what is a CCC?
PJ good timing.
Drew, had the expired registration happen to me years ago, have no idea how officer even saw tag. Same deal ticket disappeared with proof of renewal.
David, nice progress, hope you get new screws soon.
prayers for all

 

[buckeyefarmer]

 

[sodamo]

How many more pieces do you have to go?

139 not counting brackets, screws, bolts, roof tin.
What you see in my pic are 6 legs & extensions, and 3 bases

 

[Eric Salop]

The sun was about to peek over the horizon as I opened the door this morning. Within seconds it was being chased away by ominous clouds from the north and now is set to stay in hiding for the rest of the day.




LS, that's a really nice looking drop leaf table :thumbsup:

Eric, with the U.K. leaving the EU tomorrow, does that mean that everybody in U.K. will revert back to real measurement (Imperial) and get away from that metric crap?

Imperial never completely died, feet and inches are still in common use, even by people a lot younger than me. Our cars still show miles per gallon despite us filling the fuel tanks in litres. Metric dominates many areas though, such as engineering and in truth it is simpler and easier to work with. Once you have used it for a while, it's hard to imagine wanting to go back to the old system, even for someone older like me who was brought up with imperial at school. I can't imagine we will ever loose the charm of drinking beer from a pint glass, but I will always be grateful to France for showing us there are better units for most measuring tasks.

There is one area where I only reluctantly use metric lengths and that is with cartridge reloading equipment. Most of the data sources and reloading dies I use originate from America (mostly Hornady and RCBS) and quote almost exclusively Imperial units for case dimensions, headspace adjustments etc. It is sorely tempting to press the button on my verniers and read directly in inches, but I get an uncomfortable feeling that sooner or later I would forget to swap in and out of inches/mm and make a bad mistake, so I convert it all to metric. I do keep my scales set on grains for weighing powder as that doesn't conflict with anything else.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 29° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 32° with slight chance of flurries. Dog got their baths. Managed to keep Sassy in wash tub. Sure like how well the Water-Pik wand works getting dogs rinsed off. Grocery shopping today. Then back home to conserve energy.
13 deer did not show up yesterday evening. But 3 bucks came to check out feeders. I watched them for a few minutes. Then remembered to take a picture. They must not like their picture taken. Only caught 2 of them in picture.


Drew, the struggles we have to endure while aging can make it very challenging. I hope some the suggestion from others help you enjoy life better. My problems seem so small when I read what others are going through.

Drives, I did a search on Facebook Marketplace. Lots of inversion tables came up. One caught my eye. A used powered Teeter for $950. Then I did a search. $2700 new. Glad my back does not hurt.

David, lots of parts, How many screw and battery charges by the time you finish?

Kyle, LS's doggie had a birthday. Both of mine will have theirs on the same day in March.

Good Morning All.

 

[ronjhall]

The sun was about to peek over the horizon as I opened the door this morning. Within seconds it was being chased away by ominous clouds from the north and now is set to stay in hiding for the rest of the day.

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Great picture. Red Sky in morning.

 

[ronjhall]

Dad/bad joke of the day.
Someones stolen my toilet.
I have nothing to go on. :confused3::ashamed:

 

[wngsprd]

28 going to 49, and increasing clouds.

Eric, thanks for the nice sunrise pic...I'm looking forward to ours which may look similar today.

Ron, great deer pix. Nice you remembered my splitter challenges. I'm happy to report that it has started on the first pull the last 3 times I cold started it...and every time after a warm refuel. I think I've figured it out...pour a little SeaFoam in the empty tank...distribute into the carb with a few pumps of the primer button, then add gas, pump 3 times and pull. It has also helped that the temps have been in the upper 40s each time, rather than below freezing. I split until dark last night. Taking today off to roast and do taxes.

I always wondered about those Teeters. We had a neighbor back in the early 80s who was a chiropractor...was often hanging upside down in his yard when we'd walk by on the way to the beach. He offered, but I never got in the thing. I do have a set of floor exercises I do every morning to keep back pain at bay, so maybe a little bat hanging time would be good.

Buppies, I like the sounds of your plans...I'll send you a PM on the subject.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the temp was 4°F when I went to bed (was supposed to be 10 overnight), the high is gonna be 27. Wind SE 6 mph. 40% chance of flurries.

An energy conservation day for sure.

Eric, in my job I need to use both metric and Imperial as well as the U.S system. Most asphalt tanks are built in the U.S. so I need to know the conversion to U.S. from metric. I prefer Imperial, mainly because I was educated in it whenever I went to school. Yes, I am an old coot. I know that miles per gallon is old school, but I know what mpg is and the higher miles is better, than Litres/100 kms where a lower number is better. The speedometer in the Dodge is in kms, but the computer readout I switched to Imperial. My scale I keep on grams. Precious metals are weighed in grams.


Have a safe day all

 

[Buppies]

30 high of 36 and rain soon but big warm up coming soon. Have a couple of jobs to quote and have decision to make later today

Mini ex is at home need to get skid loader here then the work begins to clean up the mess power company made remove trees and work on new path around property line. Also clean up area for shooting range. Ambitious goals will see how it goes

Prayers for all

 

[Buppies]

Looking forward to receiving wngsprd

 

[farmeratheart]

Good morning All. 29 for a low temperature this morning. Headed to 45 and sunny today. The porch repair turned out surprisingly well. Not too sure what I will get into today. Maybe energy conservation? Happy Friday!

Frank