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[Kyle_in_Tex]

All TBN dentists: Please direct all threatening phone calls to txdon at BR-***.

Hey Jinman, don't give out my brother Junior's private # over the net! What were you thinking???

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Not to let Don get too far ahead me in the stupid tricks department yesterday morning I did one of those putting my head up my backside and then asking who turned out the lights.

In a moment of inattention I allowed my half inch DeWalt drill get it's way. It's way was to do as much damage as it could without demanding a trip to the emergency room as possible to a right hand.

We still got about eighty percent accomplished of what I wanted to get done for the day. The wrist and hand are still swollen but not as bad as they were last night.

The upside of it is my right hand doesn't look near as old or weathered as the left. The downside is it's a lot more sensitive about things.

What we had to do was finish gouging out the opening in the second log and then drill the holes for attaching the logs to each other. This involved using the drill with a one and a half inch forstener bit going in six inches, ouch, that hurt when it bound up about five inches into six.

We're only using three eighths lags eight inches long but we're using inch and a half washers for grip.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Then it was time to prepare the steel posts for the wood posts.

One of the steel posts is the hinge side.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Then it was show time for the easy side, latch.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Once that post was up the fun began.

My camera ran out of memory so we got another one as we started the hinge side.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Keep in mind it was cold, really cold for north Texas, middle thirties with a breeze, I was gimped up with a damaged wing, and there had to be adjustments.

But we got a lot done when you look at the big picture. Tomorrow we get the rest of posts up and the overhead installed.

 

[txdon]

I was gimped up with a damaged wing, and there had to be adjustments.

You really have to watch out for those 1/2" drills they can cause a lot of damage!
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I have seen a lot of cedar entrances, but not one looks that the ones you are building. None of the post are cut in together, it will definitely grab that second glance, puzzled look of the people who drive by as they try to figure out "How was that done".

 

[rtdiggr]

Cold i would be in shorts with a sweater shirt on
Great work as always.

Shane

 

[weldingisfun]

Harv, remind me again. How are you holding the posts together?
It is lookin' good.

 

[jinman]

But we got a lot done when you look at the big picture. Tomorrow we get the rest of posts up and the overhead installed.

I can't wait. I wanna see it now...

Sorry if this isn't close to what you had planned.

 

[rtdiggr]

Hey Jim i wish some of my jobs could go that quick maybe you could help me out.

Shane

 

[silverdollar6]

looks great, I don`t know much about anything but can you tell me why there is a space between the posts and the concrete?

 

[EddieWalker]

I can't wait. I wanna see it now...

Sorry if this isn't close to what you had planned.

Jim,

That looks pretty good. Can you do it with about three feet of rock under the posts? Add another rock column at either corner towards the road and connect them with three or four cedar log rails?

Harvey,

Sorry to hear about the drill getting ahold of you. Those things can really cause some damage. Especially when you have your finger squeezed on the trigger and you can't get it out!!!

I hope this isn't a pattern. First the finger, then the hand. Your arm is next in line.

Eddie

 

[BayouMan]

Hey Harvey,
Hope the hand and finger heal quickly. Thanks for all of the pictures on this entrance project.
I was curious if that gin pole of yours is a stationary height or can you adjust the height. Looks like a perfect set-up for that type of job as well as for setting poles for a pole barn.

Mike

 

[patrick_g]

Harv, I have a Milwaukee Magnum Hole Shooter which is a 3/8 inch reversible variable speed corded drill. It has much more stalled torque than my B&D 1/2 inch or any other 3/8 inch I have ever had including a large Porter Cable hammer drill. I have gotten "wrapped up" in it when stalling a large paddle bit or a hole saw.

I have rather large hands and wrists but this puppy wraps me up like a "Plastic Man" Comic book character and has given me some close calls. I refuse to loan it out to mere mortals as I don't want anyone to hurt themselves. Of course, as you know, the bad news is that once you get wrapped up in it, you find it almost impossible to let up on the trigger.

I do love forstner bits but in the larger sizes they are as dangerous as hole saws as regards jamming if you get a bit off center with your drilling which of course is exceedingly easy to do when not on a drill press but out in the "real world" in some uncomfortable unsteady position.

I should use the extra handles on drills more often but typically end up drilling where you can't have it getting in the way.

I got a Milwaukee right angle drill for getting in between studs and such in tight quarters. It is a brute but with the majority of the drill out at right angles to the axis of rotation if you stick a bit you have enough leverage to prevent injury to yourself. For that reason I prefer using it for drilling big holes, freehand. I have stuck some Silver and Deming bits of an inch or more in diameter and it has never injured me. Unfortunately I have twisted some brand new bits into interesting shapes with its torgue but with all the leverage of the right angle arrangement I have not been harmed. (yet)

I too fear for your safety since if the progression of injuries continues you'll mess up an arm and then later get on to some important parts.

Be careful dude, we need you intact and productive to help fulfill our surrogate fantasies.

Pat

 

[Bird]

I got a Milwaukee right angle drill for getting in between studs and such in tight quarters.

When my brothers were building houses in Alaska, the younger of the two bought a new half-inch Milwaukee Hole-Hawg. The other brother was using it, with a long bit to drill between studs for plumbing lines. They said when the bit hung the first time, he hung onto the drill and it took him all the way around and he took out 3 studs with his body. Sure would like to have seen that.

 

[patrick_g]

When my brothers were building houses in Alaska, the younger of the two bought a new half-inch Milwaukee Hole-Hawg. The other brother was using it, with a long bit to drill between studs for plumbing lines. They said when the bit hung the first time, he hung onto the drill and it took him all the way around and he took out 3 studs with his body. Sure would like to have seen that.

Hey Bird, Me too if no one sustained injury. I haven't been tossed around like that by a drill, yet. There is a certain skill to holding onto the right angle drill like the Milwaukee Hole Hawg very tightly but still being able (and having the presence of mind) to let up on the trigger if thigs go worng!!

Pat

 

[wroughtn_harv]

When my brothers were building houses in Alaska, the younger of the two bought a new half-inch Milwaukee Hole-Hawg. The other brother was using it, with a long bit to drill between studs for plumbing lines. They said when the bit hung the first time, he hung onto the drill and it took him all the way around and he took out 3 studs with his body. Sure would like to have seen that.

Kinda like this Bird? DEWALT Drill - Commercial

 

[wroughtn_harv]

There isn't a pattern forming unless it's I'm getting old and tired these days, make that tired and old if you will.

Back in the day I had a half inch Black and Decker drill when Black and Decker made tools. I wouldn't let anyone else use it because it was so stout and would twist the unwary into knots even time couldn't untie.

Today we realized the overhead was two hundred forty one and one half inches long. The end to end measurement across the oppening, outside of post to outside of post, was two hundred and forty one and one half inches.

So we shut it down and I went and found another log for the overhead. It's twenty six feet and should give us the overhang Jim wants. (thanks Jim, nice job)

 

[jinman]

So we shut it down and I went and found another log for the overhead. It's twenty six feet and should give us the overhang Jim wants. (thanks Jim, nice job)

I'd let you use my Photoshop log stretcher if you thought it would do any good.

I considered doing what Eddiie suggested with your gate, but I figured I'd already taken too much artistic license, and I better wait for the real thing. I love the way it's coming together and I think it's gonna look terrific. Nice!

...now don't make me go Photoshop'n you to show how you'll look if you aren't more careful.