Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[ultrarunner]

I've got stumps with cuts for the boards and a logging trail to the water with perpendicular logs embedded in the bank as a ramp...

Some of the Cedar stumps are quite large... with an abundance of ferns nearby...

Most peaceful and serene.

Often marvel at the effort it took to log 100 years ago and admire those that still do it today.

Western WA...

 

[shooterdon]

Hunt,
Been off for a bit but wanted to commend you on your fine work on those cabinets.

 

[hunt4570]

Hunt,
Been off for a bit but wanted to commend you on your fine work on those cabinets.

Thanks Don. It was a fun and sometimes excruciating project!

Scott

 

[shooterdon]

Thanks Don. It was a fun and sometimes excruciating project!

Scott

Scott,
Hope you do not regret wood counter tops. My fiancé would have burn marks on them in a month...LOL.

BTW, I have built a few pieces of furniture and appreciate what you accomplished. It is not as easy as it looks.

 

[hunt4570]

Scott,
Hope you do not regret wood counter tops. My fiancé would have burn marks on them in a month...LOL.

BTW, I have built a few pieces of furniture and appreciate what you accomplished. It is not as easy as it looks.

I hope I do not either!! Its got an epoxy covering but we will see!!
It can be a project, especially mounting straight/square cabinets/counters in a not so straight/level old house! The original house was built in 1954, a year before I was born!! Pretty sure Derrell and cousin Bob built it!

 

[goeduck]

I would not worry about wood countertops if it was just me cooking. My wife does not cook so that is not a concern either. My bid concern would be is when family get togethers happen since everyone/anyone can be in the kitchen prepping/cooking their food and people are used to modern cooktops that can take heat. We have granite but I still use hotpads.

 

[Gregster613]

Hunt, I can sure relate to your "not square or level" house!! Mine was built in 1955 and there isn't a square or level spot to be found whenever I have to do something to it! Very frustrating whenever I need to fix or replace something. Derrell and Bob must have been here once also!!!

 

[Yogi05]

I returned my broken log tongs for a refund and used the money to buy a 2 pack of scissor jacks that were on sale.
Probably more expensive than I should have paid given I could have got a couple from an auto wrecker for much less,
but they jacks were the exact same price I got as a refund, and I had nothing else to buy there.
So in my convoluted way of accounting, they were free.

Tomorrow I will take one out to the mill and as a temporary measure put a stump under the mill with 1 jack on it.

I mentioned a ways back I was trying to see where I was losing time (for my own curiosity - I'm not racing anyone but the upcoming winter)
and I found measuring pith was the downtime.

The jack(s) should make that quite a bit easier and quicker. I was using chunks of cuttings for shims and lots of frigging around looking for
various sized pieces.

Because it's not my machine I'm not putting a lot of effort into making a permanently attached jack. If I buy/get this mill in the end, different story.
If I stumble across the right piece of metal soon, I will bolt a plate and base to the jack for stability. They are RV jacks so are made to bolt in place.

Last weekend, again out of curiosity, I timed from picking up the log, placing, cutting to finished, and piled to dry at 35 to 40 minutes each without breaking
a sweat. I'll be interested to see if I can cut another 5 to 10 minutes off that with as little as easier measuring.

Don't fret.... I'll let everyone know how it works out

 

[Skeans1]

These are jacks where stuff can move well lifting

 

[Yogi05]

i was actually going to ask you about cutting a space out of a tree and placing a jack in there.
I happened to catch a random vid of a few huge trees being cut down and they actually cut a triangular space to place a jack.
They seemed to be European (talk) so I was going to ask if that is a European thing.
Apparently not.

What is with your gas can? Whats the black part/handle? Why 2 spouts? Gas and diesel? (symbols - pump and tractor)
Is that eye-wash attached?