All this talk of Dremel vs Toes sorta scares me, but then I thought of the thingy the doc uses to saw off a cast without cutting skin. What we need is a pedicure attachment for the Oscillating Multi Tool!!!
Or maybe refer back a bit to the discussion of the Harbor Freight air file... I wonder how many blades you can get for one of them?
I have a trip to the big city planned next week so I guess I'll have to stop in to HF and have a look 'round. The Mani-Pedi tools are just past the welding stuff, right?
Joe
Joe, I think you're on to something. I have a couple of Oscillating Multi Tools and a bunch of attachments. The triangle sander might work and maybe the diamond impregnated blades as well.
As far as I know the Harbor Freight Air File came with four blades. My closest Harbor Freight keeps the Mani-Pedi tools at the checkout with the other impulse buys.
The air file comes with several shaped files, held in by a set screw. The air saw (my favorite for CAD) comes with a pack of blades, IIRC you can buy refills for both. - CAD as in Cardboard Aided Design - quick fabrication modeling with corrugated cardboard and a hot melt glue gun..
Gerry, your post had me worried. I wasn't positive where the files for the air file were. I knew one was in the tool but wasn't sure where the other three were. Turns out I put them in the file drawer (the red rollup left of center).
Before you give me credit for being organized,I knew where the pneumatic body saw blades were but it makes no sense. I put them in the drawer where my socket extensions live.
Bob - my sometimes winter home is 30 miles NNE of Tampa, they say directly in the path, Haven't been there in two years, with the wind forces predicted I'm hoping it's still there when we are able to get down there again. I've got a guy that we pay to check on a regular basis, he'll report if there is damage.
Wishing the best for you and all the others in the state, please be safe!
We've had our fair share of hurricanes but never a direct hit by anything bigger than Category 3. Andrew hit well to the south of us and we sheltered a couple of friends whose home on the water in Ft. Lauderdale was in danger. In 2005 Katrina came through on its way to New Orleans and Wilma hit us after crossing the state. Wilma was the strongest storm ever to hit the Atlantic basin with an 882mbar and a 2.3 mile wide eye at one point. That year we had 29 named storms with 15 turning into hurricanes. Ran out of lettered names and resorted to Greek names:
The last storm was in late December almost a month after the Hurricane season's official end.
Damn Bob, you need to start acting your age!
I really hate trimming trees...
Fred, I am acting my age. Last year I would have cut down all three limbs that were annoying me.
I don't mind trimming trees from the ground. I really hated climbing an extension ladder to get to the palm fronds 20 feet off the ground. Something about holding a saw (chain or otherwise) and not holding on to the ladder....
Bob
Great job trimming the tree. Sorry to hear about the mishap with your foot. Thank God that you got away with just some bruises.
Wishing you the best and hope that the wrath of the hurricane will miss you.
Stay safe!
Ps
Only transplants from South Africa (aka Grizz) are allowed to wear safety flip flops and get away with it
, so you need to wear your steel toed boots from now on!
Ps ps
And a hard hat as well!
@gman007, thanks for the compliment. I am pleased the damage was limited to bruises and 90% of the throbbing pain is already gone.
I'm watching the NOAA channel closely and so far it looks like we're dodging another mortar. It's getting hard to type with my four fingers crossed all the time.
I thought those flip flops were overkill. I normally work barefoot but put shoes on this time to slow down the chainsaws.
It took a train to crack my head so I look at hard hats as decoration. I did wear a helmet for autocross events but not without some serious protesting.
Stay safe down there in the Sunshine state!
That includes storms, branch removal and ladder climbing.
Dennis, we're inside for the duration.
Actually the Florida Safety Shoe (flip flops) was invented by Shorty. At his Florida Safety Skool.
Andrew, the first flip and flop at Shorty's school involved a very large battery.
I got run down by a snowplow, died, and was resuscitated by another motorist. Went into a coma due to injuries and medical misadventure, revived, had to go through rehab to learn the walky-talky-readie-writey things again. An interesting several years of my life.
Kay, I have always felt lucky to only need a week of artificial arm training rehab. Graduation involved carrying two ice cream cones without crushing either one. Not that I didn't need a whole lot more rehab but that was the focus.
@Craptain
Thank you, I stand corrected
!
The question is then, did Bob attend the Florida Safety Skool? And if so was Bob a bad student or was Shorty a bad teacher, as evident from the current accident
?
I have a feeling
Shorty might be losing his Skool accreditation status
Shortly !
Ps
After some extensive research on this subject matter, now I have a sneaky suspicion that in fact Shorty might have plagiarized his Skool thesis from these very safety conscience folks
@gman007, the Florida Safety Skool motto is "No stitches, no problem." I met Shorty and his students at Don Garlits Museum in December 2015 and earned my diploma.
I have been enrolled at the North Florida Safety Skool for the past couple of years. Working on my Masters online. It's legit.
Scott, does that mean you don't have to wear long sleeve shirts to hide the damage?
Way back, maybe late 1990's, my wife used to get acrylic nails done. The guy she saw was a real artist. Eventually, I started having him do manicures for me. It really is relaxing. When my wife retired around 2000, she eventually stopped getting the nails done and my manicures stopped too.
For a couple of years, I was getting pedicures from a gal at my hairdresser. Very relaxing as well. Eventually, stopped doing that though.
Now, I do my mani and my wife does my pedi.
What I'm getting at,
@Bob Heine, is that you should give it a try when you can. I think you'll enjoy it.
Roger, I may cave the next time Liane gets her nails done. I sure hope she doesn't take revenge by going with me to Harbor Freight. She spends more than I do when we go together (park benches aren't cheap).
Keep us posted Bob. I hope you and the boss ride this one out unscathed.
Dennis, Liane is threatening to pitch a tent to ride this one out. We have had hurricanes arrive for three of our camping trips years ago.
Being south of the Wonder from Wappingers Falls, we are probably lucky in the predicted hurricane path. We did preparation by draining-down the pool to just-above the skimmers in the pool, and if the rain starts filling the pool, I'll do another draw-down.
A strange confluence of names/events, Bob is from somewhere southeast of Milton NY! I have visited friends who resided in Highland NY which is west of the Hudson River, on 9W, while Wappingers Falls is on 9, east of the Hudson River. Milton NY happens to be ~7 miles south of Highland, and is also on 9W. To go with the eerie music you may now be hearing, Rod Serling was from Binghamton NY to the west of the Hudson River. Goosebumps!
Bob, your 'Uncle Miltie' comment probably fell upon deaf ears/non-sighted eyes because of the babes in the woods status of those who fall in the after the baby Boomers cohort. I know you're a War Baby, but I used to watch Uncle Miltie with my family, and George Burns and Gracie Allen, and Ernie Kovacs were other comedians of the time we would gather in-front of the b & w TV to watch.
Bob, are you using jugs of chlorine or do you use a chlorine generator? When we did the pool-deck re-model, a chlorine generator from Pentair is what we had installed. It works great, and is less fuss & muss than hiking the 2-1/2 gallon jugs. I posted about this before, but am posting the facts ('just the facts ma'am') for those reading here who missed that.
I keep several 2.5 gallon jugs of chlorine to use if the power goes out. We have a couple of portable generators, including a Honda which has both 120 and 240 V. It's an older model, and it still starts right up once gassed. locally we can buy no ethanol gas, at some stations, but it's nearly twice the price of regular 10% ethanol gas. I suppose that the reason the Honda generator is still working is because it was from "before Honda's Quality Control went to-hell."
Earlier last week I did a lot of cleaning-out the foliage and had it all removed during bulk yard debris removal. I saw today that the local code enforcement was patrolling looking for people who failed to heed the warning about not setting out just before the hurricane, their yard cuttings which will accumulate in the storm drains, leading to worse flooding. We have a storm drain in-front of our home, and the city has begun an 'adopt a storm drain' program.
Philip, unlike Liane, I loved living in the Hudson Valley.
With two teachers for parents I didn't see a lot of the variety, sitcoms and late night shows but I occasionally saw Red Skelton, Abbott and Costello and Steve Allen (and later, Jack Paar). I lived to watch 77 Sunset Strip.
I don't use a chlorine generator. That floating dispenser with three 3-inch tablets is my go-to treatment. When things go a little sideways I pour two 2-1/2 gallon jugs into the pool. I try to keep four jugs on hand at all times. I also use liquid algaecide and small bags of powdered shock treatment if I miss the tablet refill on time (every two to three weeks depending on water temperature).
Our yard debris day is Monday so we have a regular weekend trimming festival throughout the year.
Hey Bob, great to see you getting prepared. Hoping the upcoming hurricane settles down before it hits the region and that you guys are okay.
Thank you
Hewey!
Hope you & Liane come thru the hurricane okay.
Thank you
Jon, I hope for the same myself.
