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[tractorgp]

Here's a quick and effective way to wash/peel new potatoes. It's an off-take from videos on Youtube that use a toilet bowl cleaner to do the same thing. Didn't want a toilet bowl cleaner in the kitchen drawer :laughing:


I want to know how you have a garden with no weeds.... that's the real deal... NO WEEDS .... I want a garden like that....

There's weeds around but not that many - the potato patch was real healthy and guess the heavy potato foliage blocked out the sun so weeds didn't have a chance. (I don't use any herbicide or pesticides).

 

[tractorgp]

had a lot more than that to do once ... picked up an old washing machine at the side of the road ... took it home , tied the drain hose up to the power cord , filled with water , dropped the taters in , ran for 10 minutes for each batch ...

put it out at the end of the driveway when I was done and the scrap metal guys picked it up ...

I really like that!

 

[jaotguy]

do potatoes really grow on "THE ROCK"?:laughing:

 

[tractorgp]

do potatoes really grow on "THE ROCK"?:laughing:

Got the proof

 

[jhlittle]

Not really a tool per se ... but an accessory for one (or two) - MIG gun holder on the vise stand:

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it's so dang simple... why don't i have 1? thanks for the very cool idea and this weekend's project

 

[square1]

Choker Chain Grab Hook. Push it under the fallen log/tree, hook on to the choker chain, and then pull the choker chain under. A lot easier than pushing the pin end of the choker chain under and then trying to find it to grab it with your finger tips and pull it thru.

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Made one of these during some recent down time. Yesterday was my first chance to use it. It works great, now if I just don't spend all the time it saves me trying to find it when I need it...

 

[candoarms]

I built this firewood conveyor two years ago.



Joel

 

[RitchElbe]

nice piece of work

I built this firewood conveyor two years ago.

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Joel

 

[candoarms]

I built this buzz saw about three years ago. It was constructed from scrap metal. I purchased the gearbox, drive line, bearings, and blade. I then machined the saw arbor from a 1-1/2" steel shaft. The 31" blade spins at 1300 rpm and can produce about 3 cords per hour when staffed with three good workers. I can make a little over a cord per hour when working by myself.



Joel

 

[RitchElbe]

working on a deal kinda like that myself...Pops had a working saw...I'm working towards powering it off the PTO

I built this buzz saw about three years ago. It was constructed from scrap metal. I purchased the gearbox, drive line, bearings, and blade. I then machined the saw arbor from a 1-1/2" steel shaft. The 31" blade spins at 1300 rpm and can produce about 3 cords per hour when staffed with three good workers. I can make a little over a cord per hour when working by myself.

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Joel

 

[tractorgp]

Nice job Joel. So the blade is spinning at about 1200 rpm or so?

 

[candoarms]

tractorgo,

My Kubota B2920 has the option of running either 540 or 960 rpm from the rear PTO. I run the buzz saw at 960 PTO rpm, then throttle down to about 2/3 of full engine rpm. The blade is geared up by way of the pulley mounted on the gearbox, to a 2:1 factor. The gearbox is 1:1. This provides more than enough power to the saw while saving quite a bit of fuel while cutting firewood.

Joel

 

[tractorgp]

Here's a video of my siding hammer. It's intended for vinyl siding but also good for aluminum siding. The idea is to help prevent driving nails too tightly. If the nails are driven all the way home the siding can't move and that causes buckling.

 

[RitchElbe]

Here's a video of my siding hammer. It's intended for vinyl siding but also good for aluminum siding. The idea is to help prevent driving nails too tightly. If the nails are driven all the way home the siding can't move and that causes buckling.

This is awesome, it truly is. But being in my 40's and having spent my teens roofing houses and building houses for the Pops during the summer. It bothers me that people no longer have the skill to control your hammer. When laying shingles..3 hits..Pops would ream me if I used more than three. Three hits placed the roofing nail properly without damaging the shingle. Later that helped me when applying molding and metal work. But again..that is a time long ago

 

[tractorgp]

This is awesome, it truly is. But being in my 40's and having spent my teens roofing houses and building houses for the Pops during the summer. It bothers me that people no longer have the skill to control your hammer. When laying shingles..3 hits..Pops would ream me if I used more than three. Three hits placed the roofing nail properly without damaging the shingle. Later that helped me when applying molding and metal work. But again..that is a time long ago

The hammer is for people without a lot of hammering skill

 

[RitchElbe]

The hammer is for people without a lot of hammering skill

I understand that..but you know what I mean by then and now

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

Here's a video of my siding hammer. It's intended for vinyl siding but also good for aluminum siding. The idea is to help prevent driving nails too tightly. If the nails are driven all the way home the siding can't move and that causes buckling.
Video Link: http://youtu.be/OnylS2H-fBA

Nice job! Of course it would take a Canadian to come up with an idea like that Great idea! I'm not sure the side mounted one would work well (especially with frozen siding) but love the top mounted one. I've got 20 yrs in residential construction and that's one of the best ideas yet.

I disagree with RitchElbe. I can control my hammer as well as anyone and I wouldn't think twice about using one if I did siding regularly. Big difference between shingles and siding. Shingle gets nailed tight so the single will give you some resistance to over tightening, not so with siding as the nail has to stop before it contact the siding.

Dual sided with a top mount and flat face please. Or better yet, add side mounted claws in the middle of the head and I'd take one just to have available for the odd time I still do siding

 

[tractorgp]

I understand that..but you know what I mean by then and now

Oh yeah, definitely do... now-a-days everyone looking for powered and automatic stuff all the time.

 

[tractorgp]

Nice job! Of course it would take a Canadian to come up with an idea like that Great idea! I'm not sure the side mounted one would work well (especially with frozen siding) but love the top mounted one. I've got 20 yrs in residential construction and that's one of the best ideas yet.

I disagree with RitchElbe. I can control my hammer as well as anyone and I wouldn't think twice about using one if I did siding regularly. Big difference between shingles and siding. Shingle gets nailed tight so the single will give you some resistance to over tightening, not so with siding as the nail has to stop before it contact the siding.

Dual sided with a top mount and flat face please. Or better yet, add side mounted claws in the middle of the head and I'd take one just to have available for the odd time I still do siding

That's quite a compliment re "best idea yet"! Hoping to getting around to some more technical testing of the idea this summer to have more pitching material

 

[bmaverick]

That's quite a compliment re "best idea yet"! Hoping to getting around to some more technical testing of the idea this summer to have more pitching material

Have you improved the idea for a regular hammer buy using an flat o-ring? Or even an over mold to a standard hammer head as a slight ring on the perimeter? Thus, rather than re-invent the hammer, you can offer a slip on hammer head boot exposing 90% of the head whilest allowing the perimeter take the compression of the hit. Work on the perfecting the idea fully. Then patent the crap out of it fast. The offer the idea to a tool maker as an overmold.