So if you didn't do anything airgun related what did you do today?

[Sqrl Klr]

After the clouds from the rains last night cleared away, I took my two grandsons (ages 10 yrs. and 7 yrs.) for an hour long bicycle ride in and around the park.  When we were back home, and I had finished adjusting the younger one's bicycle, he asked if I would take him bicycle riding again?  When I was a child, grandfathers didn't ride bicycles - so, I never got to bicycle ride with either of my grandfathers.  For me, today is a special page in my memory book.
No pictures, but it really happened. 

Good story right there and a neat one also considering your username too. I never biked with my grandfather either and I must have biked a couple hundred thousand miles as a kid since I commonly biked through 3 towns with friends.

 

Mowed for about 5 hours on the zero turn mower.  Carpul tunnel in my right hand is acting up now.  I'm beat!

Best investment I made was around $200 for a reclining capts chair with adjustable arm rests, adjustable lumbar, and adjustable head rest. Since hogs made the yard rough I keep the tires at low pressure to help absorb the bumps so they're not harsh. I have underground sprinklers so I can't use a heavy roller to flatten the ground. Even so a few hours of bouncing around on it wears me out.

I turned a bowl on the lathe some time ago but never got around to finishing it.  I applied natural Danish oil and wax for a finish.  I had planned to do some pyrography around the rim but I just didn't get to it.  I can do it later when I come up with a design that I like.  Wood is a curly maple.

Beautiful! Great job there.


Yesterday was a much needed day of rest and recovery. Felt so good to get back in bed and sleep a few hours in the afternoon.

[Bicycleman]

Brett, Oregon has some beautiful Myrtlewood.  The burl is extra special for woodworking.  But it is another very hard wood but can be worked.
http://www.myrtlewoodgallery.com/what-is-myrtlewood

[bReTt]

Brett, Oregon has some beautiful Myrtlewood.  The burl is extra special for woodworking.  But it is another very hard wood but can be worked.
http://www.myrtlewoodgallery.com/what-is-myrtlewood

Yes, I call it Laurel.  I had the privilege to get my hands on a round that had been taken down.  It was spalted.  At the time I had no idea what I had.  I was offered to take as much as I wanted.  After I had turned some of it and I saw how amazing the wood was, I went back to get as much as I could.  It was gone!  I have kept an eye out for more ever since then but haven’t came across any available since then.

[bReTt]

I made quite a few items with that chunk of Laurel that I had.  Most of those items were given as Christmas gifts.  These are the only pieces that I have made from that round. 

These are LARGE serving spoons.  I turn the shape on the lathe, rip them in half on the bandsaw, carve the bowl out and do some shaping as needed.  These are some chunky pieces but very unique.  These have been used for a handful of years now.  I just rubbed some oil on them now to take these pictures to show you.  They don’t usually look as nice when “dry”.  Ha ha! 

See now why I went back for more?  Bummer I didn’t take more when I had the opportunity. 

[maraudinglizard]

Brett, Oregon has some beautiful Myrtlewood.  The burl is extra special for woodworking.  But it is another very hard wood but can be worked.
http://www.myrtlewoodgallery.com/what-is-myrtlewood

Yes, I call it Laurel.  I had the privilege to get my hands on a round that had been taken down.  It was spalted.  At the time I had no idea what I had.  I was offered to take as much as I wanted.  After I had turned some of it and I saw how amazing the wood was, I went back to get as much as I could.  It was gone!  I have kept an eye out for more ever since then but haven’t came across any available since then.

Never, ever turn down a "take as much as you want" deal especially when it comes to wood that is hard to find. I was gifted with a pecan and Atlantic White Cedar last year. Still looking for Sycamore, Southern Red Cedar, and Magnolia that has been cut down. One of my customers is in the land clearing biz so I have a free wood contact. On my property, I have made use of 2 invasive trees, Camphor and Chinese Tallow(aka "popcorn tree). Both are light gray color when milled and dried. The camphor and white cedar is aromatic when turned. I also turn cypress as well, it has a tight grain to it and is good for making birds.

[bReTt]

Brett, Oregon has some beautiful Myrtlewood.  The burl is extra special for woodworking.  But it is another very hard wood but can be worked.
http://www.myrtlewoodgallery.com/what-is-myrtlewood

Yes, I call it Laurel.  I had the privilege to get my hands on a round that had been taken down.  It was spalted.  At the time I had no idea what I had.  I was offered to take as much as I wanted.  After I had turned some of it and I saw how amazing the wood was, I went back to get as much as I could.  It was gone!  I have kept an eye out for more ever since then but haven’t came across any available since then.

Never, ever turn down a "take as much as you want" deal especially when it comes to wood that is hard to find. I was gifted with a pecan and Atlantic White Cedar last year. Still looking for Sycamore, Southern Red Cedar, and Magnolia that has been cut down. One of my customers is in the land clearing biz so I have a free wood contact. On my property, I have made use of 2 invasive trees, Camphor and Chinese Tallow(aka "popcorn tree). Both are light gray color when milled and dried. The camphor and white cedar is aromatic when turned. I also turn cypress as well, it has a tight grain to it and is good for making birds.

Wish I had known that you were a wood turner.  I have been burning so much blank material that I have had stored for years.  Among that I just burned the last of some spalted Sycamore that I got from my neighbors that took a big one down in their yard.  Actually, I may have a couple chunks left.....?

Working for the power co. I am around a lot of tree work.  Homeowners are always eager to get rid of their removed trees.  That is how I have come about so much wood that I have resorted to burning it.  I really do think that I could have filled my house and shop completely full with wood that I have had access to over the years.  I had to stop.  Now I’ve just about burned all of my turning wood that I cut into blanks.  I am a recovering wood hoarder.  Ha ha ha!

I should add that I have only been turning for 8 years.  That’s how much wood I have access to.

[maraudinglizard]

Brett, Oregon has some beautiful Myrtlewood.  The burl is extra special for woodworking.  But it is another very hard wood but can be worked.
http://www.myrtlewoodgallery.com/what-is-myrtlewood

Yes, I call it Laurel.  I had the privilege to get my hands on a round that had been taken down.  It was spalted.  At the time I had no idea what I had.  I was offered to take as much as I wanted.  After I had turned some of it and I saw how amazing the wood was, I went back to get as much as I could.  It was gone!  I have kept an eye out for more ever since then but haven’t came across any available since then.

Never, ever turn down a "take as much as you want" deal especially when it comes to wood that is hard to find. I was gifted with a pecan and Atlantic White Cedar last year. Still looking for Sycamore, Southern Red Cedar, and Magnolia that has been cut down. One of my customers is in the land clearing biz so I have a free wood contact. On my property, I have made use of 2 invasive trees, Camphor and Chinese Tallow(aka "popcorn tree). Both are light gray color when milled and dried. The camphor and white cedar is aromatic when turned. I also turn cypress as well, it has a tight grain to it and is good for making birds.

Wish I had known that you were a wood turner.  I have been burning so much blank material that I have had stored for years.  Among that I just burned the last of some spalted Sycamore that I got from my neighbors that took a big one down in their yard.  Actually, I may have a couple chunks left.....?

Working for the power co. I am around a lot of tree work.  Homeowners are always eager to get rid of their removed trees.  That is how I have come about so much wood that I have resorted to burning it.  I really do think that I could have filled my house and shop completely full with wood that I have had access to over the years.  I had to stop.  Now I’ve just about burned all of my turning wood that I cut into blanks.  I am a recovering wood hoarder.  Ha ha ha!

I should add that I have only been turning for 8 years.  That’s how much wood I have access to.

You never can have enough wood to turn, I to have the same problem in my line of work. After the hurricane, I could have stock piled 4 acres of hard wood. Wood hoarding is a problem for me as well. I also do fret work, bandsaw boxes, and pyrography. I use to do the art show circuit with the pyrography and have won several times in the Florida State Fair as well. I am working on getting back into all of it, it will be my retirement job in a few years. Keeping up with the latest tools and trade tricks has been a challenge for me, there is so much stuff out there to experiment with I will spend the rest of my life trying them. That is what I like about doing it, plus it keeps my hands from seizing up. Cheap physical therapy.

[Bicycleman]

Cheap physical therapy.
Hummmm?

[oldnamvet]

Just like airguns give you exercise.  Pumping up my marauder gives me a workout. 392 and springers also give me exercise.  All upper body work so walking and biking is also needed.

[Bicycleman]

Yes, Tom, exercise = Today was when my little yard got mowed.  Of course, I usually finish the edging, mowing, weeding, blowing the clippings, and washing the mower in less than two hours.  Tomorrow, I will do some that is more fun; like a country bicycle ride.  I think I will try the little mountains I have in this area.

[Sqrl Klr]

Got a piece of sawdust in my eye despite wearing good safety glasses while cutting a fallen limb with the chainsaw. Happened afterward while taking a drink so the piece must have been on my eyebrow. Hurt like all hades for 10 minutes of washing my eye out until finally got the piece out. 

[GumpIsrael]

Ordered a BlueDriver diagnostic tool for my vehicles. It will hopefully make diagnosing performance issues much easier on my vehicles.

[Mole2017]

Yesterday's project was to take down a very old and now dead dogwood. Some disease finally finished off and this year just two small branches had any life.

So, out came the electric chain saws. I didn't get very far before I realized one had lost a screw for tensioning the chain. Off to the hardware store and back in business. It was funny that over the last week or so I have seen a bunch of felling videos by some guys that are really good with a chainsaw: I spent more time studying my cuts than I did making them! But I dropped everything where I wanted it, even steering some leaning sections hard to one side of the other where most people would have just dropped them and dealt with the mess and collateral damage. The 1st notch is only part of it; you can use the hinge to control the drop too.

I even got to use some wedges because I misjudged the center of gravity (I think) of the last and biggest piece. It was about 12" in diameter where I decided to cut it off (it's more like 18" at the ground--a big crown that started spreading at about knee and waist height). A beautiful tree when it was healthy!) and as I finished the back cut it wasn't even hinting it was going one way or the other. Rather than over do it and dump it on my trailer because I was already trying to steer it 90 degrees from where gravity wanted to take it otherwise, I quick like cut some wedges and started hammering. It was fun work but tiring. One or two specks of trash in the eyes despite efforts to prevent that, but they resolved themselves easily enough.

I will say the Sun Joe is a cute little pole/hand saw that will do everything its little 8" bar can reach. But that Worx is an animal! I've done a few trees already with both saws and this one still makes the chips fly! My neighbor recently cut down a bunch of stuff in his yard with a gas saw. More than once as his saw droned and whined its way through what was actually small stuff I thought somebody needs to show him how to sharpen that blade...

[Blowpipe Sam]

Moved furniture from storage into our new Air B&B rental.  It's ready to go as soon as the Gov. allows short term rentals again.

[Sqrl Klr]

A lot of weed wacking with upgraded 105 Black Diamond line from 095 Echo line. Got a uv light installed in my home AC and the installer showed me a picture of a hog he killed by my place with 4" long cutters that was around 300lbs so I'm glad he got the sucker. Got hog ammo. More high winds knocked down more limbs so picked up and hauled off a lot of them out of the yards.

[Hoosier Daddy]

Last night after work I opened up the camper and flushed the "Pink Stuff" from all the water lines.

[A.K.A. Tommy Boy]

Last night after work I opened up the camper and flushed the "Pink Stuff" from all the water lines.

Scott....I still have to do that.   

So far, I have just been getting the yard squared away from a long winter and getting all the winter-fallen leaves up.


Best Wishes - Tom

[BackStop]

Practiced shooting about 20 shots at 50 yards with a 20-25 mph crosswind this morning.

Humbling... to say the least...

[Bicycleman]

Tom, I do wish I had fallen leaves to deal with.  I have only one small tree on my property, a Japanese Cherry.
Wait a minute - Never Mind!
(I just remembered all the trees and leaves I had to clean up when I was in Louisiana.)

[BackStop]

Put up a "No Trespassing" sign...



IN MY FRONT YARD!!!  (heavy sigh)