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Looks great and a nice size too. Have a great weekend.

My gramps who would be 112 if he was still around used to call our big Blue Heron that look very similar to yours Mud Cranes cause he said they were always in the mud around tide flats and ponds and lakes. I wonder if your sand cranes are really Blue Herons? nice winter pics guys and I for one...

Love the lift and is that the only modification or are there more to come? I think spring is finally here so looking forward to sunshine and some heat soon.

How much do you think that table weighs? How much weight in the base? Nice looking for sure snd a great smallish vise should come in handy. Geesh a skill saw and cutting 3/4 inch plate must have been tough. Looks like it worked though.

HD: looks like you had 5 does and a fox. They liked your handy work.

I think we’d all like to shop where you do cause your quality products and inexpensive prices are rare these days. we all need another hammer and that one’s a keeper.

Looks like one of the old craftsman vises made by rock island. maybe a 3 inch or is it a 4 inch wide jaw? 3/8 or 1/2 inch plate? Looks plenty stout either way and looks like a great way to use your old vise on you awesome bench.

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Nice to see this thread active again. Thanks for all the good pics and stories.

Even if you don’t make that lift table a welding bench it would sure help load and unload heavy items out of your truck when you don’t want to use a fork lift or your back. Nice find!!

I need to buy one of those cleaners as soon as I make a spot it put one. Looks like more good stuff going on at the big barn as per the usual. Randy: my dream girl is still with me but we lost one of our sons a couple weeks ago and sort of know your pain. Hang in there and even though I don’t...

Awesome idea!! How did it work? Do you own snd use any radial brush wheels for your grinders (hand or bench)?

I think we all struggle with GARAGE TETRIS but BB seems to not only have a pretty big space but I’m positive he picks and chooses the items he wants to keep and/or take up space for to do projects better than most of us. for me I not only share a small 2 gar garage with my bride that wants her...

Terry: your last image didn’t show ( I think you fixed it while I was typing) so just wanted to mention it while I stop in to wish you a very hood 2022. Maybe our paths will cross in person this year!! Cheers (yep fresh celery juice for you and mint green ice tea for me) Also for guys here in...

It’s been a while since I posted anything on this thread and thought you might like the temp squirrel feeder I made. I had a big Rubbermaid garbage can filled with cedar shavings and lost the top so put a piece of plywood on it to keep them dry til I need to use them in our planting beds. So...

Try living in the PNW where there are so many many projects demanding every cement truck AND the cement workers are on strike.

Nice touch with the orange paint too. Just a HINT OF COLOR. Ever wake up and scratch your chin about which bench to work on or what to do today? We’ll call me jealous cause your shop and skills are amazing.

I’ve got quite a bit of catching up to do. I did love your sister’s note on room 103. stay dry and warm!!

I remember when Bruce Jenner was in the Olympics competing in the decathalon and heard he had his sex changed. as far as the stuff you guys have been talking about I haven't paid any attention to them and wouldn't recognize them. I might be getting old, but watching waves on the Oregon Coast...

Xfax: hard to say if that's critter damage or lightning, but that tree is sure hanging on. on another thread i was reading that if you cut up a tree to use for firewood that has been hit by lightening that it will shoot off sparks when it burns. Over: cool critters you have entertaining you...

TxDon: very nice? out your front door? ALL: I actually bought this little cast iron bird feeder for my bride, but it's become Cleo's drinking water now. we turned the cast iron bird to the side a bit and now she can sit on the edge of the cement blocks and put her chin on it and drink.

RNG: most of the others ones might work OR they could be the ones you mentioned where you can get stuck on them. i actually tried out about 10 different ones cause after I wanted one of course i didn't want to buy a new one with Craigslist being one of my favorite stores. so i've never been...

Alan: you've found a nice old 1920's (or 1930's) Reed #32 combination vise. it's missing it's pipe jaws, but since it's maybe been sitting on your uncle's bench for 70+ years maybe the jaws are laying on the bench. that is one of Reed's first swivel base vises where the adjustment was on top of...

SNYMAT: OKEE DOE KEY? :) if that is Pittsburgh is it close to 3 river stadium where Bradshaw used to shine? ALL: I usually have a few brown woodpeckers (females or different type than this one), but this red headed one has been working on the new telephone poles the last couple years and i...

LS: with all you've got going on with your son's garage/shop build you still have time to make a table that looks like ART. WELL DONE SIR we haven't had a dog for a long time since our last one passed in 2008 and training cats doesn't count as a skill cause they can't be trained cause they...

Synmat: that is worthy of an award. Philly or is that NY? ALL: here's a picture of downtown Seattle when the Smith Tower at 25 stories was the tallest building and I-5 freeway was getting built in 1966. then a picture taken around 2000. i remember using I-5 freeway when I first started driving...

I'm not sure exactly where I got this picture originally or if it's REAL or a nice graffic artist's work, but I like it. sorry I didn't resize it, but i need to head outside while it's not raining. cheers

Chim: I agree an porta potty or maybe even a custom built outhouse might be the first building to build. and so you don't need to tear it down how about down by the lake so you can use it later? DD: in case you'd like to post your pictures either medium size or full size instead of thumbs I...

I was going to say LAUREL which makes great hedges up here, but it also looked like a camilla bush that has great pink flowers. it's not a rhody as was mentioned. another good hedge is small cedar trees that grow close together, but you'll need some good drainage and decent rain or watering. I...

this is a sunset from maybe last summer as i'm looking out my living room window. I might not have as much land as most of you or a tractor (yet), but at least I don't have to look right at my neighbor's house. behind those mountains is the Pacific Ocean. "red sky at nigh sailor's delight and...

this chart might help some of you realize how you spend your time in your garage/shop. as we get older it seems the red area is growing.

Bird: happy birthday and that's one thing we share in common cause you were 16 when I was born in 1956 64 years ago today. Congrats on staying active!! ALL: I might own 20+ tape 25 foot tape measures and the only one i used to be able to find was my bride's cause she always had it in the same...

Looking: i'm most likely lactose intolerant cause yep the crapper needs to be close by when i drink or eat certain things. that said there are a ton of options you can try. some milks have me running and others don't. same with yogurt and other things. some things i'm ok with are Almond milk...

Over: I'm almost 100% this is raccoons and i'll have to get a game camera to catch them even though i'm usually up at 4am. thankfully they are leaving my lawn alone this year, but they have been tearing the neighbors yards up and maybe cause I removed a ton of grubs and crane fly larve when i re...

BB: this is a 7+ year old lawn that had roots about 6 inches deep that the raccoons did this in about an hour 3-4am. thanks again for the watering tips for new sod and i'm about 100% it's raccoons because of the amount of time and we don't have skunks or pigs here. when I dug the damaged areas...

Synmat: WOW 3 different woodpeckers and great pics of them too. WELL DONE!!! ALL: since that tornado was so close to the water could it almost be called a hurricane? we love watching storms from inside a condo/room on the OREGON COAST, but I sure wouldn't like to have a tornado hit with us...

ALL: thanks for the nice comments about our yard. it used to be a parking area for the kids when we had 3 drivers and their friends until they left for school and eventually bought their own homes. the first picture was the neighbors 1 year old lawn, but I re sodded our lawn and with my bride's...

ALL: very sad about Kobe Bryant and his daughter and the other 3 that crashed this morning in his helicopter. :mad: we've had raccoons in our neighborhood for years and the last couple years i'm not sure why exactly, but thinking the raccoons are very hungry and turning up our lawns to get...

Alien: that dragon was pretty cool especially for something that had to be moved in a few days. Buckeye: great picture. ALL: anybody else remember hearing red sky at night sailors delight and red sky in morning sailors take warning? here's a couple pics I saved of a tornado on the Oregon...

ALL: thanks a lot for the best wishes and nice comments!! as far as drinking and holding a quart or drinking a gallon a day at least I've got that part figured out. i've been drinking a gallon of homemade ice tea daily for years as well as some filtered water. I make 4 gallons at a time in old...

Buckeye: thanks for letting me (us) know about more options. I like to post just from my laptop cause it seems easier, but since i do have a fairly new Iphone i could learn to use it for more than just a phone, text, emails and looking at threads. just an FYI cause I posted the D9 and the drive...

ALL: the SEATTLE DRIZZLE is again happening here, but it's a great day cause i've been married to my dream girl for now 32 years. she came with a 10 & 12 year old and then we had a little girl (31 now) and twins (boy/girl and 29) so it's been a ride. speaking of rides i may not own a tractor at...

Buckeye: i'm not familiar with Google drive, but just guessing I'd say it's kinda like the CLOUD? sounds like you have got it figured out for you and if you'd like to post full size I'd say you have the skills and you just are choosing to post thumbnails. yes? Syn: thanks for the detailed and...

BB & OVER: there seems to be an issue with my pictures cause I don't see or can't find any in your posts about all those good looks? Alien: I think the % is another option for resizing that i can use instead of #'s and thanks for mentioning it. ALL: so it looks like i can resize pics in...

ALL: while I was in grabbing a few pics for the other thread I found this one my wife gave me around this time in January last year that I thought might bring a smile to some of you. if it's not appropriate i'll delete it. it was my 63rd birthday card. I couldn't figure out how to resize this...

ALL: I've heard more than a few of you have mentioned posting photos/pictures is an issue and yes it's a challenge, but I think I've kinda got it figured out now. with the help of a few helpful members who know more than a little about this I was able to not only post pictures, but also resize...

ALL: not that i'm guessing it makes much of a difference, but i also was able to change the sizing using CANVAS in Paint 3d so here's the same picture saved using that method.sorry for cluttering up the thread, but maybe this will help others not only post pictures here, but on other threads...

XFax: BINGO you are the MAN!! yep my bad AGAIN. it seems like programs are not highlighted the same as my old eyes are used to. at one time I was a bit ahead of the curve with Computers (had 2 286's on my desks in 1993), and I used to take digital pictures with a Kodak digital that had a docking...

ALL: thanks again for all the help. Alien that is the paint program I used for years, but this dell laptop or maybe it's Microsoft 10 or an old MS office program I use shows this version of Paint. any clues to where the resize feature is? BTW I had to enlist my bride to help me make a screenshot...

xfax: I totally appreciate yours and everyones help!!! that said I think I need to go to photo editing school. I opened up PAINT to try and find the resizing option and I couldn't find it. i'll keep trying and if you have any other ideas how I take pictures off my Iphone 8+ and make them the...

great thinking about the dumpster and throwing stuff out, but really sounds like you need some racking. you can make your own lofts out of wood, but Unistrut steel works better to get stuff off the floor. then racks around the edges will give you a lot of storage. sounds like you'll need to...

ALL: this thread just keeps on running like that darn rabbit and isn't that a good thing. I picked up this old Makita 16 inch beam saw to cut some cedar 6x6's and some beams for my fence and deck projects this year. anybody have safety tips to offer when using one of these bad boys cause she's...

Geoduck: I picked up some self adjusting binoculars at Costco for about $75 maybe 30 years ago that still work great. i've also got a spotting scope that can either be held by hand or put on a stand. I doubt that looking through a telescope will do better on the short range (under 5 miles)...

Syn: the first post both pics are MEDIUM cause i couldn't have one different than the other (I tried). so i clicked on LARGE in the next post which shows up exactly the same on my computer as FULL SIZE so if that changes on your computer and full size doesn't fit in your screen i'll click on...

Syn: this is large setting which ends up being the same as full size. AND other option is THUMBNAIL

Syn: i'll do the test cause I'm willing to help you figure it out and i'm sure i'll get some benefit too. here are more edited pics that are at 1000x 550 approx. and i'll do the first one small, next medium and last large. (I can't do different sizing in same post so this is medium setting)

SYN: I set my pics at 1000 and I think the other # is in the mid 500's and it shows up full size on my laptop after the post. i'd be happy to change to medium if others have the same issues or maybe you might need to change your screen resolution? ALL: anybody else have my pics showing up...

sorry I haven't seen those videos with turbines, but I did fly out of Tulsa in 2004 and the pilot told us over the speaker that we'd be flying at 40,000 feet cause there were close to 50 tornadoes currently. It actually looked like mountain tops covered in clouds from the air and no camera...

Snobdds: interesting having the bag of Portland inside the pre mix concrete. local store in Wyoming or maybe a place that sells the bricks, block and rock? All: I buy concrete bags cause here in the city if I had a pile of sand sitting there the cats and maybe other critters would love me that...

xFax: are those sunset pictures really from 2004? pretty cool, but don't you get some every summer? got any tornado pics? ALL: these turbines are popping up now quite a bit on the eastern half of our state (Washington) and there are a few places where you come up over a hill or around a turn...

Tom: congrats and I retired about that age too. not wealthy by any stretch, but i'm still eating well and a lot less stress. here' a beach I love to watch the storms roll in usually in January and these logs were up against the railing while we were sitting in some comfy chairs. the Oregon Coast...

ALL: I'll probably start doing multy posts answering questions as I can later, but for now i'll answer a few questions you've all asked. the picture of downtown Seattle was from Alki just west of the city and my parents bought a home up on the hill about a mile away in 1963 that they still live...

Chim: while I won't deny Wilton bullets are good vises that job you are doing there probably would be best in what I call the CHINESE WONDER VISE (CWV). it's jaws can be turned 360 degrees so you could have placed that heavy piece vertically and not had it's weight on the vise. Wiltons have...

OVER: I remember you putting in your process to post large pictures to click on AA. I actually had your post #222 open with another page of TBN so I could follow your method. since I didn't know if that meant to turn it off or on and had no clue it would make the picture show up instead of text...

BT: not to derail the thread, but you might want to right click on your main screen and change your view? when we get a bit older we tend to want to use the bigger fonts and larger images features more. my 14 inch laptop screen shows those pics and all the information around them so maybe that's...

BB & ALL : I just learned how to post pics full size and if you'd like to learn how click on this thread where a few members helped me figure it out. also while you are there i'm sure all of you might have a favorite picture to post so please do...

XFax: I like the double click on the reply to thread for the shortcut, but AA button is still depressed so I had to click on it. just saying that darn button was the key to unlock the missing pictures to click on so i could full size them. thanks again for all the time you spent helping ALL...

ALL: still trying to figure out the pictures thing so here's the picture of my backyard yesterday.

ALL: thanks for all the well wishes and welcoming and looking forward to getting to know all of you. I live about 15 minutes from this spot on a 1/4 acre city lot, but hoping to move one day to something a bit bigger where I can put up or maybe buy a big shop to just make and fix stuff. if not...

ALL: a very helpful member Synmat mentioned that I maybe had the first corner AA box depressed so the image wasn't showing up and only words. when the AA wasn't depressed the image showed up in the advanced section so i could double click on image and post it full size like this. THANK YOU ALL...

Synmat: I think you discovered my issue. Thank you very much!!!!!!!!

ALL: i've found two methods of posting thumbnail pics and having a hard time trying to post full size pics. i've been taught by helpful members how to resize my pics in my Paint app on my laptop. putting the first sizing # to 1000 adjusts the other one automatically so now my pictures with one...

Exfax: from my laptop that i've saved pictures from my phone to (not via the cloud) ALL: I'll keep trying to figure this out and maybe my fumbling along will help others. or at least i'll be able to help others once i finally do figure it out. I still haven't found out how to get the pics to...

OVER: thanks again for all your help!! when I used the other icon with the 4 dots that says insert image and downloaded a pic that i'd resized and it still didn't show a picture in my reply. just showing words so i can't double click on it. MB: where's the birdie? very cool!!

Over:thanks for the help and I understand (sort of) the process on how to post Thumbnails and i'll review yours and other posts to see if I can get to the "how would you like the size of picture you're posting" tab. i do use the Go Advanced tab, but maybe i'm using the paperclip type of...

ALL: thanks for all the help!! I've been using Paint to edit my pics of my 8+ Iphone, but i'd never used the resize feature. so I resized this pic putting 1000 as the big # and I think the other # ended up being changed to 567 or something like that cause I clicked on tab to make sizing similar...

Over: a friend of mine in Idaho has about 30 wild turkeys that stay pretty much on his big farm. they are so big I had no idea they could fly much less climb trees, but you caught one in a tree for evidence. yep I see him/her too. I live in the city, but it feels like more with my little view...

ALL: we haven't thought about having another dog since Taffy (mutt golden) passed in 2008, but i'm building a new fence this year and it might be time cause the cats seem to love my wife. i'm leaning towards an australian sheppard, but i'm open to options as I see and hear how you like yours...

interesting thread!! I just picked up some plastic pallets so I can set landscaping supplies on them that might not be used for a year or two. they seem to hold a fair amount of weight too.

Synmat: thank you! :drink: OVER: this forum is set up pretty much like another forum I used for old tools, but thank you for the tips. I saw there is a thread on photos that i'll read and if I have any more questions i'll maybe send you a PM. :thumbsup: ALL:

ALL: here's another picture that might help you see Cleo sitting in the tree. I also figured out how to use the private messaging for TBN so now i just need to work on my picture posting and finding threads that I find interesting or start a few. thanks for the help!!! Synmat: thanks for the...

OVER: thanks for the detailed response and hopefully i'll figure it out, but I might need a little help as i work through it. does TBN have a private messaging service like another forum I belong to so we can maybe talk about this without cluttering up the thread. XFAX: nicely done and she's...

OVERSIZE: I used Photobucket maybe 15 years ago when they first offered their free service so i know how to post links, but when PB changed the way I loaded pics and all the other bs I stopped using them about 5 years ago and I just download like emails with the thumbs now. I've heard some of...

ALL: i'm not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but my gramps who logged the hills of the Cascades in the PNW from 1926 to 1997 taught me a couple things. one thing I remember is there is a reason some types of trees are called widow makers. they split and kick back at or fall on you so one method...

ALL: i'm hoping to maybe pick up a few things on this thread from the pros cause having this skill could be very useful in some of my DIY projects. I picked up this Tin Knocker's anvil that sits on I think and old Model T gear and maybe one day I'll shine it up. did any of you make toolboxes...

ALL: I own a few vises so wanted to mark this thread to follow it along and maybe help some of you that don't know which vises are any good. my preference would almost always be an big old vise not welded or broken from mis use that left the factory before WWII, but there are a few new ones that...