Todays shop time.

[4570Man]

I still eat food off the floor if I can. The problem with the 3 second rule is I have a .75 second dog.

 

[KubotainNH]

I still eat food off the floor if I can. The problem with the 3 second rule is I have a .75 second dog.

LOL, good point. I have 2 of them and that time may be on a slow day.

 

[4570Man]

I built a snatch block for my winch and got my ripper tacked together. I'll probably end up cutting it apart and adjusting the angle, and then welding it sold and adding more bracing.

 

[Rustyiron]

Finished up a set of racks for the little truck. With the plastic bed and tonneau cover, I made it sit down on the bed floor against the frame.
They won't stay in there all the time and will be held in with turnbuckles. Prime & paint next.

 

[4570Man]

LOL, good point. I have 2 of them and that time may be on a slow day.

That time is when he's not sitting and waiting for food. In that case sometimes it never hits the ground.

 

[KubotainNH]

Ha ha, looks just like mine when someone is cutting up veggies or eating something the dogs love (like a banana) at the bar. They know better when we are eating at the table. Their stomach dictates almost everything, not unlike most of us...lol. Cute pooch BTW.

 

[dragoneggs]

Finished up a new cart on casters for my dust separator/vac system that will be partnered with my HF sandblast cabinet also under construction/modification. Wanted to stack the system to save floor space which is at a premium. Also need it to be mobile to hook up to other tools as well. Already tried out the effectiveness of the little dust deputy and it works as good as advertised!

 

[4570Man]

I got my ripper finished. I cut some "high precision" braces and welded those in. My buddy's saying for work like that is "good thing we're welders not machinist". We're actually better at machining than welding, but sometimes there's no point in doing better work. Then I hard faced the cutting edge. That was an interesting experience since 7018s and and a few 6018s is the only other rods I've used. I had a 50 pound box of hard facing rods laying around otherwise I'd have just used a 7018 rod. Against what some people say, based on my experience 7018 is considerably harder than mild steel.

 

[4570Man]

Yesterday I built a kindling splitter. It doesn't work as well as I'd hoped. The blade is too blunt. I'm going to take a grinder and grind it back some. A 3/8 thick blade instead of the 1/2 I used would have been better. After I built it I realized I had some retired wood chipper blade laying around. That would have been the best choice.

 

[General Lee]

Yesterday I built a kindling splitter. It doesn't work as well as I'd hoped. The blade is too blunt. I'm going to take a grinder and grind it back some. A 3/8 thick blade instead of the 1/2 I used would have been better. After I built it I realized I had some retired wood chipper blade laying around. That would have been the best choice.View attachment 498012View attachment 498013

Now that is something I need to make :thumbsup: