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[txdon]

Patrick_K, I just got my bender from Northern Tool. Mine is a table mount which I will convert to a tractor implement mount and will mount it on top of my forks. Does the top of yours look like this?:
Northern Industrial Space-Saver Parts Bender | Pipe + Bar Benders | Northern Tool + Equipment

 

[patrick_g]

Patrick_K, I just got my bender from Northern Tool. Mine is a table mount which I will convert to a tractor implement mount and will mount it on top of my forks. Does the top of yours look like this?:
Northern Industrial Space-Saver Parts Bender | Pipe + Bar Benders | Northern Tool + Equipment

Uh, Not sure if you had a typo or were asking someone else...

Patrick_G here. I have a bender from HF that looks just like the picture except the square tubing is way longer so it is taller and can be floor mounted. I have pegs on the side of the square tube for hanging the set of graduated rollers.

Look like the same machine.

Pat

 

[wroughtn_harv]

All good things must come to an end. So it is with my first big timber entryway.

Saturday we brushed on one coat of Penofin Red Label. Wood Finish Many thanks to Tina Nelson at Penofin for her help not only with deciding the right product, but locating the best vendor. One of the advantages I had with her was this thread. She was able to see exactly what I was doing and I think she liked it.

We added Bug Juice WW Environmental Bug Juice to the Penofin to give it some bite back for the carpenter bees.

Tina helped us with the color to match the powdercoated posts and gate. With one coat we were dead on. The second coat puts us off a shade in the wrong light. In the right light it's still dead on.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

We (client, my wife, and me) brushed on the stain. Maybe it's just me being selfish but after hand picking the trees, cutting them down, hauling them out, powerwashing off the bark, sawing, fitting, assembling, all of it hands on, I just couldn't see spraying on the stain.

Here are some more pictures of the details.

 

[bgoodman]

I have to apologize to Harvey for not posting these sooner, forgot I had them.

June 20 - Harvey Lacey

I'll let Harv explain the purpose behind the slab.

Also, pictures from txDon's gate
May 16 - txDon's Gate

 

[dmccarty]

Wow, what a thread and what a project.

Real nice.....

Was the mill a Logosol chainsaw mill?

Later,
Dan

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Wow, what a thread and what a project.

Real nice.....

Was the mill a Logosol chainsaw mill?

Later,
Dan

Yes.

They're great for doing one off stuff. But the chainsaw is rough on blades and the logosol components. I had to weld up stuff continually that broke due to vibration. But keep in mind, we did a ton of lumber and logs with it too.

That bud sold it because his house was done and I didn't think it was what I wanted to have for future projects.

One of my buds wants to build his own house when he retires. We've talked about different sawmills. He's put his deposit down on one of these. It'll be delivered in about eight weeks. Log Master

 

[wroughtn_harv]

This is the project Bobby got to visit.

Typically when a rock sign like this is installed they fill a hole with concrete and stab a part of the rock in it. When the concrete is set up you are ready to go.

What I did was build a footer with steel plates tied to the rebar going into the piers.

I drilled holes into the bottom of the rock and mounted plates to it. These were big holes and substantial plates. In fact the sign, all forty five hundred pounds of it, rode over to the job site from the stone yard on the plates.

The crane placed the sign on the plates in the footer and I welded it up. I carved out the backs sides of smaller stones to hide my plates. When I was done the landscapers made it all pretty.

 

[EddieWalker]

One of my buds wants to build his own house when he retires. We've talked about different sawmills. He's put his deposit down on one of these. It'll be delivered in about eight weeks. Log Master

Harvey,

Do you think your friend would be willing to cut some cedar slabs for me with his sawmill? I've heard rumors of people who have these things, but when I try to find these people, I hit a dead end. Seems they don't have it anymore, or the person telling me about them can't find them or their phone number.

I don't know what it would cost money wise, but I figure it would be cheaper then buying the machine myself when I only have a very limited need for it. I've tried the chainsaw route with limited success for what I was doing, but for this, I really need to flat sides on a very thick slab of wood.

I've been wanting to cut some cedar logs right down the middle, and then make each half about 6 inches thick for a sitting bench. This will allow me to keep the natural look of the cedar for the sides of the slabs and make what I think will be some attractive, unique sitting benches for my place. Then I'll mount the slabs of cedar to a pair of pipes and set them in concrete with a nice paver pad around them.

Thanks,
Eddie

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Eddie I believe something can be worked out with my friend. He's a Stihl dealer and my money isn't any good there. I try not to abuse the system but he's where I get my chains sharpened etc.

The other day he mentioned he wanted me to be thinking about a way we could pay for a sawmill if he supplied the machine and I did the labor. We're looking into it. In fact I'm trying to get a feel for any interest here locally for sawmilling family trees taken down etc. I'm not wanting to get into competing with the guys in east and north east Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas who clear cut timber and wholesale lumber. I'm looking at the family pecan that went down in a storm and the family would like some lumber from it for special projects.

The Logosol like Craig had that we used on his house and some of the other projects I did last year would be great for what you're wanting. But I think it's about thirty five hundred to get started, makes a couple of benches a tad expensive.