My Place: a CAT, Mahindra, and Ducks

[Xfaxman]

Here is one from 1975, found on an image search:

 

[fiddlearound]

Always enjoyed Lyle's music. Didn't know that he was from the Panhandle. Always thought he was an Aggie.
That marriage to Julia Roberts was the strangest thing.

 

[bindian]

Here is one from 1975, found on an image search:

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That is his senior photo. I got an annual with his junior year photo, but can't find it. He was way goofier then, then his senior photol
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Always enjoyed Lyle's music. Didn't know that he was from the Panhandle. Always thought he was an Aggie.
That marriage to Julia Roberts was the strangest thing.

My Dad was raised in the Panhandle. Lyle and my Dad was an Aggie. I was raised (and Lyle was to) in Klein ISD. It is half way between Spring and Tomball Texas. All of Klein, now, is all urban sprawl. When I go down there now, if I blink, I get lost.
hugs, Brandi

 

[spitter]

Wood door are a pia to build. lots of expansion and contraction with weather changes , humidity changes , etc. Not alot of manufactures want to build them out of real wood . most are veneered composite crap. Do your reasearch on the style you want . and make shure your lumber is dry . Oh yea keep use in the loop.:drink:

 

[bindian]

Wood door are a pia to build. lots of expansion and contraction with weather changes , humidity changes , etc. Not alot of manufactures want to build them out of real wood . most are veneered composite crap. Do your reasearch on the style you want . and make shure your lumber is dry . Oh yea keep use in the loop.:drink:

I planed some Hickory short slabs yesterday evening. That is some hard wood. I forgot to put weight on them and they got a little twist in them, about 1/4 inch corner to corner over 5 feet, and the planer wouldn't take the twist out. Darnest thing I ever seen.

This Hickory is the upper curved trunk of the log I am gonna make into the door. I know now to cut the boards way thicker, then dry them under weight, then put them back on the sawmill to saw any twist out of one side, then plane the other side to start the planing process.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Wagtail]

Wood door are a pia to build. lots of expansion and contraction with weather changes , humidity changes , etc. Not alot of manufactures want to build them out of real wood . most are veneered composite crap. Do your reasearch on the style you want . and make shure your lumber is dry . Oh yea keep use in the loop.:drink:

My house was built with 'hand made', individual pane, French doors and windows. A few of the doors, over the years, experienced this weathering and wouldn't shut anymore. A contrator (naturally) suggested replacing all of the doors... I said to save the doors using bracing/banding, which he hadn't considered.

I 'designed' the metal braces and they were manufactured/cut at a local metal shop. 15 years since and all of my doors open/shut perfectly. A 'lick' of flat-black paint and they look like wrought iron.

 

[ovrszd]

Awesome doors!!!! Glad you saved them rather than replacing them!!!

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

My house was built with 'hand made', individual pane, French doors and windows. A few of the doors, over the years, experienced this weathering and wouldn't shut anymore. A contrator (naturally) suggested replacing all of the doors... I said to save the doors using bracing/banding, which he hadn't considered.

I 'designed' the metal braces and they were manufactured/cut at a local metal shop. 15 years since and all of my doors open/shut perfectly. A 'lick' of flat-black paint and they look like wrought iron.

Very nice wagtail.

 

[bindian]

My house was built with 'hand made', individual pane, French doors and windows. A few of the doors, over the years, experienced this weathering and wouldn't shut anymore. A contrator (naturally) suggested replacing all of the doors... I said to save the doors using bracing/banding, which he hadn't considered.

I 'designed' the metal braces and they were manufactured/cut at a local metal shop. 15 years since and all of my doors open/shut perfectly. A 'lick' of flat-black paint and they look like wrought iron.

Thanks Wagtail. I will have to remember that bracing. I was thinking straps like that, but incorporate the straps in as the hinges. Two full width hinges at top and bottom, and shorter hinge in the middle.
hugs, Brandi