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Haha love that shirt. You're my new hero!!! :) :)
Hi all and fantastic firewood community! Still alive and breathing. The past 12 months have been a whirlwind, my company has grown...
I'm still working on the kitchen if you can believe it! Just finished tiling the countertop. Built a new table... sigh. Life's been busy....
Question 1 - It weighs about a billion pounds. Okay that's an exaggeration. Probably 2 hundred pounds for the frame. Not light for sure....
Oh, if you're wondering about budget, we spent the following (summarized) Timbers - free/salvage About $70 on plywood and douglas fir 2X4s,...
Ha! That was my company volunteer day, we spent the day sorting food at the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern NY, those folk are on my team!!!!!
And, INSTALLED! Putting it back together was a bit of a chore. I was joking with my wife about the lack of "manufacturer's instructions". I...
Next was pegs! I wanted to make my own pegs, so I rived a scrap of black walnut. Wood worked great (for interior joints, not for exterior use),...
The rails, my goal was to cut into them to allow for lap joinery in the framework and sink the mattress platform in a bit. That's where I used a...
Fitting up joinery and getting the rails/headboard/footboard joints together! Using a housed mortise and tenon for the rails. 3.5" tenon with a...
More pics of the pieces going through planing and headboards have been cleaned up. Got the first corner post mortises completed... [ATTACH]...
I acquired a bunch of rough sawn 6X6s and a few slabs from a friend so my mind started running. I saw a bed in that pile. And it just so happens...
I really need to finish updating this thread, have about another year's worth of updates to pile in. Funny, still about 15 things on the punch...
[ATTACH] Processed about a face cord this morning. Ont thing about having a few years in the horde, can process at a leisurely pace and just...
[ATTACH] First day running the saw, had about 30 mins on it so. Duly impressed! Felled 4 trees, aspens about 16” in diameter, and a plum tree of...
Yes the weight sold me, power to weight is fantastic!
I usually go about 12’ high, any higher and I would run out of ladder!
[ATTACH] Donezo!
Yes I built the Paul Sellers bench but double and hsed 2x6 instead of 2x4. No frills wood, got two vises on ebay for a song. Going to add...