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

[Lt. Dan]

I built a frame for the picture my son gave me of his team on the police force that they had up on a local bill board for awhile. My son is second from the left.

Kool picture, I know you're proud of him.

[Jshooter71]

I hope they weren't your shooting fingers

It is my firing hand, but not my trigger finger. They’ll heal up alright. It happens every time I’m not wearing gloves, doing something stupid.

 BTW: that is a pretty awesome photo of your son & team! Looks good on the wall there.

[JuryRigger]

Started cutting next years' firewood. Taking the best of the abundant deadfall ash left by the little devilish green beetles....
Jesse

[Lt. Dan]

Yesterday at work, I sliced open the backside of 2 fingers on a piece of sheet metal that slipped. The nice lady showed no concern for my pain, but said she’d clean the blood off the floor “for me”. She was very polite, but pretty sure she was not happy with me, even though I did my own first aid & fixed the machine that’s been giving them problems for months.

Ouch. One think I really hate is to cut myself. One day back in late summer I had borrowed my son's zero turn to cut a friend's yard. Mine was in the shop.  Well the belt jumped off the pulleys on the mower deck. After putting the belt back on I was pulling hard on the spring trying to put the tensioner spring back on and it slipped.  The hook on the end of the very stiff very taunt spring slid down my thumb all the way to the nail digging a deep furrow as it went. I bled like a stuck hog. Just glad I had a first aid kit in my truck. Oh and I have a picture.  This was taken about 4 days later.

I'm really sorry about your two fingers.

Yeah I like gory,  you got pictures John?

[bReTt]

started sanding the cutting board surfaces flat with the belt sander.  blew the belt off and didn't have a replacement.  Went to Lowes and HD and neither had the 4x24 size that I needed.  Ill check HD by my work tomorrow afternoon when I head in.

[maraudinglizard]

started sanding the cutting board surfaces flat with the belt sander.  blew the belt off and didn't have a replacement.  Went to Lowes and HD and neither had the 4x24 size that I needed.  Ill check HD by my work tomorrow afternoon when I head in.

Harbor Freight probably has some if you have a store nearby.

https://www.harborfreight.com/search?q=4%20in.%20x%2024%20in.%20sanding%20belt

https://go.harborfreight.com/coupons/2020/12/15-off-with-no-exclusions-through-sunday-12-13/

[Sqrl Klr]

Yesterday at work, I sliced open the backside of 2 fingers on a piece of sheet metal that slipped. The nice lady showed no concern for my pain, but said she’d clean the blood off the floor “for me”. She was very polite, but pretty sure she was not happy with me, even though I did my own first aid & fixed the machine that’s been giving them problems for months.

Ouch. One think I really hate is to cut myself. One day back in late summer I had borrowed my son's zero turn to cut a friend's yard. Mine was in the shop.  Well the belt jumped off the pulleys on the mower deck. After putting the belt back on I was pulling hard on the spring trying to put the tensioner spring back on and it slipped.  The hook on the end of the very stiff very taunt spring slid down my thumb all the way to the nail digging a deep furrow as it went. I bled like a stuck hog. Just glad I had a first aid kit in my truck. Oh and I have a picture.  This was taken about 4 days later.

I'm really sorry about your two fingers.

Yeah I like gory,  you got pictures John?

That same thing happened to me when I forgot to not hold my thumb on the side of my pistol when I shot it at hogs and the slide tore into my thumb like that. Hurt so bad and bled all over the place!

Today I poisoned gophers, shoveled their mounds into my trailer and dumped the dirt into holes in my yard. Looks like the rat poison I put under my shop shelf outside worked because I've seen no new activity there. Found 3 dead moles in my traps the past 2 days. Making progress with the pests.

[Tater]

Good job Gil. Just don't become this guy.
   

[Xraycer]

Good job Gil. Just don't become this guy.

[Sqrl Klr]

Good stuff right there Jerry! Always liked that movie. If I want big holes in my yard I'll just let the hogs have free reign like this guy did below. Meanwhile I got another mole in a trap today.

[Madd Hatter]

Got my compound bow set up for hunting and did some practicing. Last time I shot it using a release I kept flinching but now for some reason I don't. I think it has something to do with all of the target practice I've been doing with my airguns. Still have to try and get the bow string peep sight setup so I can see thru it. Right now it turns 90 degrees to where it needs to be so I can see thru it. I bought it WAY back in 1990 but only used it for target shooting.

[Blowpipe Sam]

I took the arduous pack test this morning and passed it.  I walked 3 miles in 45 minutes wearing a 45 Lb. pack.  Got my red card for another year so I can go fight fire! I went to work and swapped the bucket and blade box onto the tractor.  Then I graded the camp ground road.  Tomorrow it will be the boat ramp's turn.

[Ike the GSD]

Watched a video on pouring babbitt bearings on a pre 1930 tractor. It was really cool, my dad said model T's had babbitt bearings and I wanted to see how they were made/installed and it was fascinating. Frankly given the precision of modern engines which I have rebuilt a couple of, I'm surprised they worked LOL

[JuryRigger]

Watched a video on pouring babbitt bearings on a pre 1930 tractor. It was really cool, my dad said model T's had babbitt bearings and I wanted to see how they were made/installed and it was fascinating. Frankly given the precision of modern engines which I have rebuilt a couple of, I'm surprised they worked LOL

Wes; check out scraping in bearings. A properly scraped in babbitt or bronze journal is just as good or better than even middling-grade precision ball races in several aspects for certain applications.
Plus, it's just plain cool. 
I am checking into deep well hand pumps after losing power with no warning for the third time in two months. Always have 80 gallons sitting in the water heater if need be; plus fill jugs/tubs before bad storms but for simplicity's sake a hand pump would be great...
Jesse

[bReTt]

Went to work, came home, had a snack, felt a little tired so I took a 20 minute power nap, checked tire pressures on my daughters car, heated up some coffee, popped in some earbuds and sanded a cutting board, oiled and waxed a cutting board. 

Here you go Dan.  The updated pictures of one of the boards.  I think it turned out nice.  I decided to NOT route a juice groove.  The wood is too pretty to route a trough in.  Ha ha!

[Tater]

They came out great Brett! Nicely done.

[Lt. Dan]

Thanks Brett, they're beautiful.  Labor if love indeed.

[Jshooter71]

Hoo Ha! Nice work Brett! Beautiful woodwork!

[maraudinglizard]

Nice work on the cutting board Brett. Here is a challenge for ya, take the cross cuts and make a flower in the middle of one, you will have to do some eye balling and geometry to get it to look right but worth it. I use Corel Draw and Photo Paint to create this pattern. Then mask tool to quarter the pattern. Copy, paste, and rotate the quarter until you get what you want. The extruder tool is what I use to make the rings.  InkScape software does the same and it's free. I do it this way so I don't mess up any wood and helps with the cutting of the blocks in the right direction. Quilting rulers are very handy when doing this.

https://inkscape.org/

[bReTt]

Thanks Brett, they're beautiful.  Labor if love indeed.

Hoo Ha! Nice work Brett! Beautiful woodwork!

Nice work on the cutting board Brett. Here is a challenge for ya, take the cross cuts and make a flower in the middle of one, you will have to do some eye balling and geometry to get it to look right but worth it. I use Corel Draw and Photo Paint to create this pattern. Then mask tool to quarter the pattern. Copy, paste, and rotate the quarter until you get what you want. The extruder tool is what I use to make the rings.  InkScape software does the same and it's free. I do it this way so I don't mess up any wood and helps with the cutting of the blocks in the right direction. Quilting rulers are very handy when doing this.

https://inkscape.org/

They came out great Brett! Nicely done.

Thanks everyone!  Only 6 more to finish sand, oil and wax!  Ha ha