Above 1200 Sq/FT Cleaning Up My Shop

[drivesitfar]

ANDY: i bet you NEED another vise like I do, but $45 for a working mill or machinist's vise should be a no brainer if you have time to drive to pick it up. or in your neck of the woods (world) i bet you could maybe asked to have it delivered and the good old boy might consider that.

so did you end up building your friend another Truck lathe or did you just send him home with the parts cause you know what they say.



hope you enjoy your SATURDAY and I'm going to go mix and pour more cement. BTW the youtube video i have in my link reminds me of you when talking about a guy that just gets up everyday and tries to do something to the best of his abilities and you also try to make some of us old (and young) guys smile.

cheers

 

[jimreed2160]

Seriously, guys. Do you really have to OPEN the bags of concrete? It sounds messy.

The city maintains the drainage ditch on the right of way in my front yard. They just stack the stuff and the high water table takes care of the rest.

 

[sawduststeve]

I can feel my grip slipping, slipping...

Walk towards the vice, Andy, walk towards the vice, everything will be ok.

Regards
Steve.

 

[oldironfarmer]

No Andy, don't do it!!

It makes me shudder to think of letting loose of money...

ANDY: i bet you NEED another vise like I do, but $45 for a working mill or machinist's vise should be a no brainer if you have time to drive to pick it up. or in your neck of the woods (world) i bet you could maybe asked to have it delivered and the good old boy might consider that.

Yes, if it hadn't been sold I would have driven the 40 minutes to pick it up. I really could use a mill vise with a swivel.

so did you end up building your friend another Truck lathe or did you just send him home with the parts cause you know what they say.



Ha ha ha, I can't build a truck lathe in half a day. I posted pictures of the structural we cut out. I also cut all the tubular sections and am ready to start machining. I might take a picture.

hope you enjoy your SATURDAY and I'm going to go mix and pour more cement. BTW the youtube video i have in my link reminds me of you when talking about a guy that just gets up everyday and tries to do something to the best of his abilities and you also try to make some of us old (and young) guys smile.

cheers

I'll check out the video, thanks!

Seriously, guys. Do you really have to OPEN the bags of concrete? It sounds messy.

The city maintains the drainage ditch on the right of way in my front yard. They just stack the stuff and the high water table takes care of the rest.

I've seen that done, the paper does look a little unsightly until it weathers away. I like it, low labor, no formwork.

Walk towards the vice, Andy, walk towards the vice, everything will be ok.

Regards
Steve.

I can't, I just can't. It's just to scary. What if I spend money?

 

[oldironfarmer]

My accountant and Zumba teacher is coming over tomorrow to do some chair repair. So I would up spending my shop time today cleaning up the wood shop. There is a work bench there.

The dust collection system is pretty much finished. Now we're making the attachment for each tool. We just made a box under the table saw stand. It has a door to clean out large pieces which may fall through the saw table. Then a hose connection on the side. The size of the box was determined by the size of the cleanout so there's room to get your hand in and see a bit as well. The back of the saw is open right now, but it seems to pull most of the chips inside. My goal is to cut down on fine dust in the air.

A bit of a Christmas Tree to feed vacuum to the table saw (bottom), jointer (left) and bandsaw (right).

The bandsaw is going to be a challenge to get a hood around it and still allow access to change the blade and adjust the guides.

Thanks for looking in!

 

[oldironfarmer]

A little update on the bull, for those who are interested.

Although he was walking better, his toes were still pointed upward, like he had lost his tendon. She said he will not be able to stand with his toes down. Picture form a few days ago:

This is the position he bears weight on that leg when hobbling.

My vet told me he would not recover. Tuesday I took him to a vet who has a squeeze chute which will lay on it's side. It was pretty impressive. They laid him over, opened the bottom of the chute, tied each leg off and he could not kick. The vet inspected his foot and leg and said there is no hope. The sooner you get him off antibiotics the sooner you can butcher him.

I'm not ready to butcher a $4,500 bull. And I wouldn't anyway, I would take him out in the pasture and shoot him. I don't want the meat after all the infection and I don't want to sell him either so someone else would eat it. He wouldn't bring much more than the fuel to get him to the sale barn anyway.

I decided to take him off antibiotics and wait a couple of months to see which way he goes.

Then I got a big surprise Wednesday morning. The bull is standing with his hind feet aligned like he should, and although he is not putting much weight on it, he does it with his toes mostly down.

He has not stood like that for a couple of months.

I'm pretty excited about the prospect that he may actually heal up and be able to breed cows again. I visited with my vet today and she recommended an alternative antibiotic I might want to try. She is very interested in his outcome.

 

[shortykorte]

Great news.
If he's $4500, how much will each of his calves be worth?


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[oldironfarmer]

Great news.
If he's $4500, how much will each of his calves be worth?

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Well, he's not registered. I don't want to work hard enough to keep registrations up and try to sell breeding stock. He has good solid genetics from a registered breeder who failed to determine who the momma was for this bull, so his full bloodline is unknown. He will produce calves with a good conformance that will grow out nicely. The meat is as good as you can get. I started with good cows and have always put very good bulls on them and now have a herd that consistently produces nice calves. You don't get that so much with cheap bulls. At the peak I had 105 cows in five pastures with five bulls. And I would consistently have 110 or more calves per year with no twins. Good cows breed back quickly so with nine month gestation period some would calve in January and again in December.

To answer your question, his calves may bring 10% to 20% more than run of the mill calves will bring. That may equate to $50 per head. Since I have 18 cows that could bring in an extra $900 per year. If he breeds for four years he has returned $3,600 over what I expect a $2,000 bull to return.

So not much money, but the heifers he produces will enhance my herd and the meat I eat and sell to others will continue to be superior quality. There's not a lot of fast money in farming.

Thanks for the question.

 

[shortykorte]

Thank you Andy. Fast money or free time. My uncle who took over the family farm ended up getting out of livestock because it was full time, 12 month a year job. Now with just crops, they can take vacations.
Interesting about the quality of meat. So one bred or bloodline will produce better beef?


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[drivesitfar]

Andy: interesting stuff about the money involved in raising cattle and all the work and land involved.

while your VET had the bull's feet ******* could he see maybe why it was infected? piece of steel, snake bite or a cut?

good to hear that maybe it's healing itself cause you didn't want to take the advice to put him down.

i'm having a 150 pound vise delivered almost to my door cause i told the owner that i didn't have time to drive an hour each way through traffic. not that i NEED another one, but i know of a few guys that do so it will be good trading stock if i don't keep it cause it's not Vintage like some i own that probably will pass on to my kids or get buried with me.

have a great SATURDAY and WOODSHOP is looking pretty CLEAN!!

 

[oldironfarmer]

Thank you Andy. Fast money or free time. My uncle who took over the family farm ended up getting out of livestock because it was full time, 12 month a year job. Now with just crops, they can take vacations.
Interesting about the quality of meat. So one bred or bloodline will produce better beef?

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Fortunately I have my son in law who not only likes good steak, he grew up on large ranches in Osage County (think Pioneer Woman) and knows a lot more about cattle than I do. Any time I need to get away (like working two years in Houston) he fills in and our agreement is he treats them like his so whatever he does I don't complain. That includes buying and selling (you'll remember I let him pick the bulls).

On meat quality, that is subject to lots of speculation. Each breed has it's qualities but the specific bloodline and how they are fattened are the greatest variables. I personally think that Hereford produce the best meat all around however feedlots have settled on black hides as performing best as far as weight gained per pound of feed and days fed so black cattle bring a color premium at the cattle auction. Perceived quality of the animal (conformance to the ideal shape) is the largest factor causing cattle buyers to pay more for the better animals (no rust, no smoke, and good paint in used cars, for instance.) The Certified Angus Beef program is advertising and they have done well with it. My bulls have always been Angus bulls, and after several generations most of my cattle are Angus, just not registered. I benefit from the Angus hype, I just don't believe it. When we fatten for friends and family, and ourselves, we start with cattle that are too young to make a profit and feed them too well to be economical. But the meat is sure a lot better than that Omaha Steaks stuff. My rental management company sent me some of that a few years ago (don't buy tools for a mechanic or buy steaks for a rancher) and it was ok. But just ok. I have a freezer full of great.

Which is why you should go to steak houses in ranching areas. They have to sell to ranchers so they will have good steaks. Click's in Pawnee Oklahoma is a prime example.

Andy: interesting stuff about the money involved in raising cattle and all the work and land involved.

Tip of the iceberg, of course. Around here it takes about 5 acres to support a cow (and her calf). So $10,000 in land, $1,000 in a cow which lasts ten calves, $150 in a bull (1/20 of $3,000) so you can sell a $500 calf having spent at least $200 in feed and hay. Borrow the $11,350 (assuming you have tractors, fences, barns and other equipment) and pay no interest and you can make $300 per year. But you'd better save back $100 to buy a new cow in ten years, and $30 to buy a new bull in five years so you can clear a whopping $170 for just a little labor and risk of death (or bad legs).

That $170 is about 1-1/2% of your investment. You can't make any better money than that, can you? The real money in ranching for me is in land appreciation. Plus I like having the land, messing with the cows, and eating good meat that I know the full history of (when we have to give antibiotics to a calf he goes to town so other good folks can eat him, not me or my friends).

while your VET had the bull's feet ******* could he see maybe why it was infected? piece of steel, snake bite or a cut?

No other indication than the spot on the side that is leaking puss full time. No broken bones. It is somewhat mysterious, did I mention risks in ranching? To say nothing of the risk if he plows you down and puts you in ICU.

good to hear that maybe it's healing itself cause you didn't want to take the advice to put him down.

The best economical decision may be to kill him, but I'm willing to spend more money on a long shot. Plus I like him (a bad trait for a rancher).

i'm having a 150 pound vise delivered almost to my door cause i told the owner that i didn't have time to drive an hour each way through traffic. not that i NEED another one, but i know of a few guys that do so it will be good trading stock if i don't keep it cause it's not Vintage like some i own that probably will pass on to my kids or get buried with me.

Old vises seem like a vice like old tractors. But the tractors are probably worse because they take up more space, have tires that go bad, radiators, carburetors, gas tanks, etc. so there is risk in storing them. I've got a lot of $500 tractors so the prices are similar. But you can't drive a vise in a parade You can't drive 30 tractors either

have a great SATURDAY and WOODSHOP is looking pretty CLEAN!!

Hope you have a great Saturday!! I got rid of lots of clutter in the wood shop so maybe I can keep the clutter down.

Thanks for the comments, guys!

Sorry if I get too detailed in responses, but that's me. I guess you guys know if you poke the bear what you'll get by now.

 

[dchance]

Andy like the long responses how else does one learn things.

Glad to hear that the bull is acting out of the ordinary and hope that he improves.

Good progress on the welding and body work.

Dwight

 

[1/2 Cup]

Andy, the two words or less version.

Done well..

 

[Farmall450]

Seriously, guys. Do you really have to OPEN the bags of concrete? It sounds messy.

The city maintains the drainage ditch on the right of way in my front yard. They just stack the stuff and the high water table takes care of the rest.

That actually looks pretty good. Maybe not the strongest but yeah.

 

[Rex_A_Lott]

Interesting hearing your comments about the cattle farming. I had some limited experience doing farm work as a teenager, but it was mostly peaches, no animals involved.
I used to know several people who had cows, but the pastures and the peach orchards I remember are all industry and sub-divisions now. Our little small country town way of life is gone. Glad that you can still enjoy yours.
About 20 years ago I worked 2nd shift, and about the only people I ran into outside of work were retirees. One of the older farmers I drank coffee with told me then, " You wont see any more new people taking up farming".
I asked him why he said that and he replied " Well if a man can buy land, buy equipment, buy cows or buy trees, Hell, he can set down, he's got enough money he dont need to work".
Thanks for the Coke.

 

[tym]

Old vises seem like a vice like old tractors. But the tractors are probably worse because they take up more space, have tires that go bad, radiators, carburetors, gas tanks, etc. so there is risk in storing them.

I don't even want to think about how much money has gone into the rusty Camaro in my avatar.

 

[shortykorte]

I asked and find it interesting. I'll have to bring the grill one Saturday so we can fire up some prime and have a Coke.


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[drivesitfar]

Andy: i stopped by and you were out and your bride said something about a vise or maybe a truck purchase? i grabbed a cold coke cause i wanted to see your wood molds in person and the Truck Lathe too. sorry i couldn't stay long cause i had to move a couple thousand bricks i'm picking up today and tomorrow for a project.

thanks for the summary about farming and the meat business and i'm sure you could have elaborated more if you didn't have to guy buy something.

guess what? tomorrow's SATURDAY.

cheers

here's the little brick pile i'm moving to my place.

 

[oldironfarmer]

Andy like the long responses how else does one learn things.

Glad to hear that the bull is acting out of the ordinary and hope that he improves.

Good progress on the welding and body work.

Dwight

Thanks for the kind words! I get a lot of flak trying to answer questions accurately where the asker want a short answer which is anything but accurate (I never have stopped beating my wife).

My progress seems slow but I am learning.

Andy, the two words or less version.

Done well..

That actually looks pretty good. Maybe not the strongest but yeah.

Not knowing how many bags wide it is at the base, even if it is one bag wide it is probably very suitable for the height of the wall. It's labor saving only, there's a lot of concrete there.

Interesting hearing your comments about the cattle farming. I had some limited experience doing farm work as a teenager, but it was mostly peaches, no animals involved.
I used to know several people who had cows, but the pastures and the peach orchards I remember are all industry and sub-divisions now. Our little small country town way of life is gone. Glad that you can still enjoy yours.
About 20 years ago I worked 2nd shift, and about the only people I ran into outside of work were retirees. One of the older farmers I drank coffee with told me then, " You wont see any more new people taking up farming".
I asked him why he said that and he replied " Well if a man can buy land, buy equipment, buy cows or buy trees, Hell, he can set down, he's got enough money he dont need to work".
Thanks for the Coke.

I feel very blessed to be close enough to get medical help within in 45 minutes and still be able to drive a tractor five miles down the paved road past my house and not meet a car or be passed. Not every time, but often. If there's two cars in front of us my wife says "we've got to move, this traffic, ugggh!"

Of course sitting down to die (aka taking it easy) at an early age is not really my idea of successful living. If you're fortunate enough to be able to buy a few acres and watch cows graze on it I like that. My idea of heaven:

When I die and am in heaven, I'll be in a giant field on a Farmall H with a 7 ft cutter bar mowing clean prairie grass in third gear. Listening to it run like a sewing machine, under my umbrella with 90 degree day and low humidity, watching the grass wiggle then stay standing, mowing straight ahead and no turns or breakdowns day after day after day. I can enjoy than for millennia.

I don't even want to think about how much money has gone into the rusty Camaro in my avatar.

I figure better putting it into a four wheel bandit than a one arm bandit (sorry Bob)

I asked and find it interesting. I'll have to bring the grill one Saturday so we can fire up some prime and have a Coke.

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Glad you asked. Come on over. It won't be prime beef (it's not USDA graded, just old home grown stuff). I keep the machine stocked and would be glad to see you.

Andy: i stopped by and you were out and your bride said something about a vise or maybe a truck purchase? i grabbed a cold coke cause i wanted to see your wood molds in person and the Truck Lathe too. sorry i couldn't stay long cause i had to move a couple thousand bricks i'm picking up today and tomorrow for a project.

thanks for the summary about farming and the meat business and i'm sure you could have elaborated more if you didn't have to guy buy something.

guess what? tomorrow's SATURDAY.

cheers

here's the little brick pile i'm moving to my place.

Dang man!! Hang around a little longer and see my new purchase. If I'd known you were coming I'd have baked some aluminum.

Glad you looked around, I presume the Coke was good and cold.

Looks like a bit of work you got yourself into there! Is that tamper part of the deal?

My son claims to be a vegetarian. He especially likes grass. He has cattle process it for him so he can digest it.

Thanks for the visits, guys!

I had a great day with my Zumba teacher, err, CPA. She brought three chairs. Two antique ones with bad cane seats we fully disassembled and she carried them home in a bucket. Got them apart with no breakage. forgot to take pictures

The other chair was a 60's maple dining chair with a broken spindle. We agreed to just replace the lower part of that spindle. Getting ready for first time lathe training I got her in a face shield. She wanted a selfie but got photobombed.

Found a 6/4 maple board in the mezzanine and turned a stub to match the spindle. Doweled it to the old spindle.

It will be a challenge to match the stain, but that's her part.

 

[jimreed2160]

Beef
Just finished slicing on a rump roast. Yum. Red meat good!

3 lb rump roast, oiled with olive oil and rubbed down with special rub
425 degrees for 21 minutes (7 per pound) and turned oven off so roast could sit for 75 minutes (25 minutes per pound)

As for your bull, I think his foot might be healing but his HEARING is just fine.

 

[sean Buick 76]

Vice/vise envy!!!!

 

[1/2 Cup]

Andy, that's not a bad repair on the spindle, well done.

 

[bolensboneyard]

Andy good to see the bride in the shop. I know you will keep her safe.

 

[drivesitfar]

BB: i think that is Andy behind his Zumba teacher and CPA that he is helping fix a few chairs. i agree that Andy seems to get a lot done and take very good care of his bride though.

ANDY: yep Coke was cold. THANKS and sorry i couldn't wait around. so did you buy that vise/truck or tractor or did your Zumba teacher talk you into spending some quality time in the shop instead?

GOOD EYE on the tamper and I already own one. it's the owner's landscaping company's tamper. another tough thing about grabbing building materials in the city is that I rarely have a good place to park. i actually blocked off the street for a while until a nice lady policeman stopped by to have me move to the other side of the street and backing up a half loaded trailer with a honda on a hill that maybe was a 20 degree grade was not something my Honda liked.

enjoy your Saturday!!

cheers

 

[oldironfarmer]

Beef
Just finished slicing on a rump roast. Yum. Red meat good!

3 lb rump roast, oiled with olive oil and rubbed down with special rub
425 degrees for 21 minutes (7 per pound) and turned oven off so roast could sit for 75 minutes (25 minutes per pound)

As for your bull, I think his foot might be healing but his HEARING is just fine.

Thanks for the recipe tip!

I was kind of wondering if the bull understood any of what was happening and decided he'd better put his foot down before things got out of hand.

Vice/vise envy!!!!

Is there a meaning for vise in proper English?

Andy, that's not a bad repair on the spindle, well done.

Thank you sir. It only has a 1/2" dowel inside, but being away from the seat I'm hoping it will suffice. In retrospect I should have made the transition at the first groove above, but I'm a novice. We've got a little extra material to sand down so we'll see if it blends in shape wise. I doubt the color will ever really blend in.

Andy good to see the bride in the shop. I know you will keep her safe.

That's actually the Zumba teacher. She was very attentive and also very savvy about safety. She was glad I had a face shield when we started to work the lathe. I just wear my glasses.

BB: i think that is Andy behind his Zumba teacher and CPA that he is helping fix a few chairs. i agree that Andy seems to get a lot done and take very good care of his bride though.

ANDY: yep Coke was cold. THANKS and sorry i couldn't wait around. so did you buy that vise/truck or tractor or did your Zumba teacher talk you into spending some quality time in the shop instead?

GOOD EYE on the tamper and I already own one. it's the owner's landscaping company's tamper. another tough thing about grabbing building materials in the city is that I rarely have a good place to park. i actually blocked off the street for a while until a nice lady policeman stopped by to have me move to the other side of the street and backing up a half loaded trailer with a honda on a hill that maybe was a 20 degree grade was not something my Honda liked.

enjoy your Saturday!!

cheers

Sharon and the CPA are friends and there was no animosity about another woman being out in the shop. We all had a nice lunch. We spent from 10:30 to 6:30 on her chairs except for a 45 minute lunch break. A pretty full day for me as I'm just done feeding and fixing breakfast by 10:00.

I love Hondas and have had many, probably put over 100,000 miles on eight of them, plus a few for my wife. But I've never had a trailer hitch on one. I'm sure yours is an SUV and designed to tow however it is all about the weight of the tractor and trailer when backing a load up a hill. Glad you didn't play "jackknife the rig".

Thanks for the visits, guys. I'd better reload the Coke machine.

 

[bolensboneyard]

Thanks for the recipe tip!

I was kind of wondering if the bull understood any of what was happening and decided he'd better put his foot down before things got out of hand.



Is there a meaning for vise in proper English?



Thank you sir. It only has a 1/2" dowel inside, but being away from the seat I'm hoping it will suffice. In retrospect I should have made the transition at the first groove above, but I'm a novice. We've got a little extra material to sand down so we'll see if it blends in shape wise. I doubt the color will ever really blend in.



That's actually the Zumba teacher. She was very attentive and also very savvy about safety. She was glad I had a face shield when we started to work the lathe. I just wear my glasses.



Sharon and the CPA are friends and there was no animosity about another woman being out in the shop. We all had a nice lunch. We spent from 10:30 to 6:30 on her chairs except for a 45 minute lunch break. A pretty full day for me as I'm just done feeding and fixing breakfast by 10:00.

I love Hondas and have had many, probably put over 100,000 miles on eight of them, plus a few for my wife. But I've never had a trailer hitch on one. I'm sure yours is an SUV and designed to tow however it is all about the weight of the tractor and trailer when backing a load up a hill. Glad you didn't play "jackknife the rig".

Thanks for the visits, guys. I'd better reload the Coke machine.

All this working with numbers I'll have to learn to read all over again.

 

[oldironfarmer]

All this working with numbers I'll have to learn to read all over again.

My work here is done...

 

[oldironfarmer]

Yesterday we had a 25F morning. I got to thinking about antifreeze and realized the 52 Willys might be at risk. I bought it in May and had not checked it. Sure enough, fresh water. It wasn't running when I bought it however he agreed to get it running. Apparently he had drained it and just put in fresh water. I haven't messed much with it this summer so I got it started and pulled it into the shop.

As part of the new dust collection system, my helper is building some equipment collection boxes. It's not very economical, but we're both having fun. He built a sheet metal box for the 6x48 belt sander. Instead of buying a 4" nozzle, I had him learn to extrude a connection by hammering it into a 4" hole while sandwiched between two 2x12 with 4" holes. However I had him turn only 1/2", I figured it would split if we tried to go farther. So today I made a ring and **** welded it.

One thing I don't like about my iPhone camera is my inability to hold the focus on the part of the picture I want focused. Sorry about the blur. The left jaw and bottom of the ring is nicely focused...

My TIG welding is improved after the guidance from my friend. This is on 18 gauge, notice neither end is burned through.

Don't notice that I failed to cut a consistent 1/2" width. It gets welded to the nozzle anyway.

Hammered it and ground it down almost flush, I'm feeling good.

Then fit it on the turned flange, tacked, and welded it out. No burn throughs, no tungsten sticks, and some decent weld

Don't concentrate on the ugly tack in the middle of the picture. I'm not.

Thanks for stopping in!

Have a Coke, it will take your mind off weld quality.

 

[drivesitfar]

Andy: i can't imagine how many vehicles and small engines you need to remember WINTERIZE. good catch on the Willies.

i've been putting NON ETHANOL GAS in my small engines and they seem to run still without burning off the gas in the tanks each winter. with an AMSOIL stabilizer the non ethanol gas is still good after 3 years too which is awesome for me cause i hated dumping out stale gas.

good to hear you are getting your woodshop set up for dust and sawdust collection cause you only get one pair of lungs.

one tip on cutting stuff in your vises if you want them to work better (easier) is to lay a rag (oily or clean doesn't matter) on the slides under your project so all that crud doesn't work it's way back into the insides of your vise. i know you've got more than a few vises and probably never needed to clean them or re grease them, but any of yours cleaned and greased and you can turn the handle and open and close it with one finger. JUST SAYING!!

i wish i would have been able to borrow the transporter from the starship ENTERPRISE this weekend when moving the approx. 2,000 1930's bricks i moved from 30 miles away. that said i GOT R DONE and they are all sitting on the side of my new sidewalk i just widened and they are waiting for a project TBD when i figure out what i want to do with them.

hope you enjoyed your SUNDAY cause all these SATURDAYS is getting a bit tough on my body.

cheers

 

[bolensboneyard]

Andy I was thinking the same thing when I got up and saw it was 37 out there. I believe I topped off the pickup A with water this summer. Better check just to be sure. Supposed to be high of 80 by Friday. Go figure!

 

[Justind97]

Andy: Iphone tip.

To keep focus on something, on the screen, touch on the screen the part you want focus kept. That will automatically adjust the light and keep the focus on that particular thing on the screen.

Keep up the awesome work! I'm jealous of how much time you can dedicate to all your projects.

 

[oldironfarmer]

Andy: i can't imagine how many vehicles and small engines you need to remember WINTERIZE. good catch on the Willies.

I keep antifreeze mix around and never ever add water to a radiator because it has bit me too many times. So I really don't winterize much of anything except stock tanks.

i've been putting NON ETHANOL GAS in my small engines and they seem to run still without burning off the gas in the tanks each winter. with an AMSOIL stabilizer the non ethanol gas is still good after 3 years too which is awesome for me cause i hated dumping out stale gas.

I use only ethanol gas and have very good experience with it. In a few items, like my lawn mower and tiny engines I use Stabil with great results. I had a line trimmer which would always require carburetor disassembly to start in the spring. Never with Stabil. But my gallon of Stabil is ten years old, I'm thinking I need to find something to put in it. If I do ever get stale gas it goes into a tractor or old truck. Dilution is wonderful with gasoline.

good to hear you are getting your woodshop set up for dust and sawdust collection cause you only get one pair of lungs.

It's the fine dust, 1 to 5 microns that I think is the most dangerous, the stuff that hangs in the air for an hour. My dust filter is a 1 micron plastic pleated filter with a rattler to knock the fines down into a bag, and I use a cheap cyclone separator so I rarely have to dump the bag. Most of the stuff winds up in a trash can below the cyclone.

one tip on cutting stuff in your vises if you want them to work better (easier) is to lay a rag (oily or clean doesn't matter) on the slides under your project so all that crud doesn't work it's way back into the insides of your vise. i know you've got more than a few vises and probably never needed to clean them or re grease them, but any of yours cleaned and greased and you can turn the handle and open and close it with one finger. JUST SAYING!!

Interesting idea. I may try that although I don't use rags much, paper towels in my shop. I occasionally clean the slides, and rarely grease the screw, but I do. If I can't throw the handle and get a turn and a half the vise needs cleaning. Flipping the handle is the quick way for me to adjust a vise.

I'm listening, I've never worshiped vises before and need to learn the acceptable rituals. I don't want to be labeled a heretic!

i wish i would have been able to borrow the transporter from the starship ENTERPRISE this weekend when moving the approx. 2,000 1930's bricks i moved from 30 miles away. that said i GOT R DONE and they are all sitting on the side of my new sidewalk i just widened and they are waiting for a project TBD when i figure out what i want to do with them.

Looks like you did well on the brick. Are you saying you don't have a project for them? You sound like me...

hope you enjoyed your SUNDAY cause all these SATURDAYS is getting a bit tough on my body.

cheers

Thanks for the visit!

Andy I was thinking the same thing when I got up and saw it was 37 out there. I believe I topped off the pickup A with water this summer. Better check just to be sure. Supposed to be high of 80 by Friday. Go figure!

25 was pushing it. There must have been some residual in the block when he filled it. I was a little concerned it would leak when the air warmed up but no leak. I didn't think it hardly froze where you live. Glad you stopped by.

Andy: Iphone tip.

To keep focus on something, on the screen, touch on the screen the part you want focus kept. That will automatically adjust the light and keep the focus on that particular thing on the screen.

Keep up the awesome work! I'm jealous of how much time you can dedicate to all your projects.

Thanks for the advice. I knew you could get a focus on a face that way but had not gotten it to work up close, I'll try more diligently. I assume you have to see a box around the object of interest when the camera has selected it. I had thought the camera was looking for face shapes for that feature (I assume smart phones are very smart, and I'm not).

I only work on Saturdays and Sunday afternoon. Maybe you have the wrong type calendar and don't have enough Saturdays?

Thanks for the comments!

 

[drivesitfar]

Andy: i don't WORSHIP VISES anymore than you worship those tractors you like to pick up and let sit outside. i just like letting people know how to better use a vise if I notice they could improve it's use. when i was growing up around loggers they used huge cheater bars and sledgehammers on their big vises in their shops to GET R DONE cause maybe they didn't have the correct tool. a vise wasn't made to be an ALL IN ONE tool, but most of us grew up with that information passed on to us.

use yours as you please and if you need any advice or help just ask and i'll help you if i can. i wouldn't pretend to know how to take apart an engine and put it back together so it ran for 100,000 miles more, but i could sure try if i had one and the time. especially these days when you can take pictures when you are taking things apart so you can see how it was supposed to go or at worst case Google or Youtube for your answers if a member here can't help you.

what's on your schedule today? is the bull still improving since you started calling him HAMBURGER?

have a great SATURDAY!!

 

[oldironfarmer]

Andy: i don't WORSHIP VISES anymore than you worship those tractors you like to pick up and let sit outside. i just like letting people know how to better use a vise if I notice they could improve it's use. when i was growing up around loggers they used huge cheater bars and sledgehammers on their big vises in their shops to GET R DONE cause maybe they didn't have the correct tool. a vise wasn't made to be an ALL IN ONE tool, but most of us grew up with that information passed on to us.

use yours as you please and if you need any advice or help just ask and i'll help you if i can. i wouldn't pretend to know how to take apart an engine and put it back together so it ran for 100,000 miles more, but i could sure try if i had one and the time. especially these days when you can take pictures when you are taking things apart so you can see how it was supposed to go or at worst case Google or Youtube for your answers if a member here can't help you.

what's on your schedule today? is the bull still improving since you started calling him HAMBURGER?

have a great SATURDAY!!

Don't be sensitive!!

Definition four from Merriam Webster:

Worship: extravagant respect or admiration for or devotion to an object of esteem

I rest my case, and I'm guilty of worshiping old iron things like tractors and now vises. You can do a sanity check by asking the next receptionist you see how much they like antique vises. And what they think about someone who would spend hundreds of dollars on vises they did not intend to use.

I had never seen the giant vises like the loggers had, and I want one. Or two. Or a small collection. Or a large collection...

I got around late today, got the cows fed, and the bull is standing on his foot, but not putting weight on it. He's rested a week now, so I'm starting him on LA-200 this week. We'll see whether the change of antibiotics has an effect on his disability.

 

[drivesitfar]

ANDY: you can ask a HOT ROD BUILDER (my cousin is a good example) about the vise or vises he uses or has in his big shop and he shakes his head and says I DON'T know cause it's a VISE.

for a little color for your thread today here's the biggest vise i own currently it's a Reed 4c probably left the factory in the late 1940's or early 1950's. it has 6 inch wide jaws and pipe jaws and weighs about 180 pounds. its sitting on a 700 pound steel bench next to my main user that REED 2c that weighs about 85 pounds and it has 4.5 inch wide jaws.

I'm not organized yet, but i also have a few vises in this 550 pound Lyon cabinet.

have a great day and let's go find some receptionists to talk about vises and tractors with since it's Saturday.

 

[Justind97]

Thanks for the advice. I knew you could get a focus on a face that way but had not gotten it to work up close, I'll try more diligently. I assume you have to see a box around the object of interest when the camera has selected it. I had thought the camera was looking for face shapes for that feature (I assume smart phones are very smart, and I'm not).

I only work on Saturdays and Sunday afternoon. Maybe you have the wrong type calendar and don't have enough Saturdays?

Thanks for the comments!

No need for the box. Point the camera, touch where you want it to focus and it will do its thing

 

[Guster]

Gone for a few days and this thread has now developed a vice for vises!

Impressed by the progress on the Studebaker. Only 8 Friday's to Christmas... how many Saturdays is that?

 

[oldironfarmer]

ANDY: you can ask a HOT ROD BUILDER (my cousin is a good example) about the vise or vises he uses or has in his big shop and he shakes his head and says I DON'T know cause it's a VISE.

for a little color for your thread today here's the biggest vise i own currently it's a Reed 4c probably left the factory in the late 1940's or early 1950's. it has 6 inch wide jaws and pipe jaws and weighs about 180 pounds. its sitting on a 700 pound steel bench next to my main user that REED 2c that weighs about 85 pounds and it has 4.5 inch wide jaws.

I'm not organized yet, but i also have a few vises in this 550 pound Lyon cabinet.

have a great day and let's go find some receptionists to talk about vises and tractors with since it's Saturday.

Impressive vise collection! I'll refrain from adoration and praise language.

"I'm not organized yet" Understatement of the current century!! Got to go on my signature.

I'm up for receptionist trolling if you are!

No need for the box. Point the camera, touch where you want it to focus and it will do its thing

I tried, I even got a box, trying for the ball peen. The box stayed centered over the ball however the jaw is still in better focus.

Gone for a few days and this thread has now developed a vice for vises!

Impressed by the progress on the Studebaker. Only 8 Friday's to Christmas... how many Saturdays is that?

I'm pressed to come up with more vices, feel like I'm being squeezed.

Thanks for the good words! It seems so slow, but I'm trying to hit it every day.

8 Fridays until Christmas? I'm guessing that's only 48 Saturdays, the year is gone, the teens of the 21st century are 80% gone (just '18 and '19 left), I paid off my last mortgage this year, and I'm getting old. How does all this happen so quickly?

 

[oldironfarmer]

So how does a girl convince a guy to love her in 8 seconds.

How Does She Do It?

 

[Farmall450]

So how does a girl convince a guy to love her in 8 seconds.

How Does She Do It?

Atta girl Hershey.