Devil's Work for Idle Hands

[mnoble485]

My firewood racks got depressed when I showed them RW's work.

As do my loaves of bread, pizza, dinners, table settings…..

Well done, RW

Mike

[rwsaunders]

You two (Jorn and Mike) are enablers.

[j44ke]

Okay, pallets were more rot than not. So I ordered some lumber. And bought a miter saw (thanks Pete!) Mayhem begins tomorrow. (Deleted lumber photo because: chairs are surprise for my wife.)

Who is building a sauna after seeing Todd Amunrud's masterpiece a while back?

[Drew]

… and which miter saw did you buy?

[Mabouya]

… and which miter saw did you buy?

Miter saw, smiter saw. Real men use a radial arm saw:

(not mine - I had to give it away when I needed more room in the garage for the Alfa - but I used to have one like it)

[j44ke]

… and which miter saw did you buy?

One of those yellow ones.

[Drew]

Miter saw, smiter saw. Real men use a radial arm saw:

(not mine - I had to give it away when I needed more room in the garage for the Alfa - but I used to have one like it)

I would love to have one of those but have nowhere to put it…

One of those yellow ones.

Nice… I have a yellow one too… most of my tools are Festool but I couldn’t swallow the cost of the Kapex and the associated stand. The DeWalt shadow line system is great… as long as you’re not standing in direct sunlight. No adjustment is nice.

[j44ke]

I would love to have one of those but have nowhere to put it…



Nice… I have a yellow one too… most of my tools are Festool but I couldn’t swallow the cost of the Kapex and the associated stand. The DeWalt shadow line system is great… as long as you’re not standing in direct sunlight. No adjustment is nice.

Festools are really nice. When our house was being built, I'd keep an informal survey of equipment. Big saws like concrete or reciprocating or metal chop saws seemed to all be Milwaukee. Framers used a lot of Dewalt, though their nailers were something else I can't remember. Finish carpenters used Bosch, Festool and Makita. Concrete guys all seemed to use Bosch for big drills and mixers and that sort of thing. The plumber/HVAC group had a surprisingly small amount of power tools, though Eddy the 6'2" linebacker plumber had these tiny Makita compact drill/drivers. The tool-attached vacuum of choice was a Festool. Most of the tools circular saw size or smaller were battery. The stone masons used a Stihl battery leaf blower to get the stone dust where they wanted it to lock in the stones.

[jmgorman]

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Here's a sauna for you, Jorn - still working on this one, will share better photos (or maybe a dedicated thread) when I've finished. I'm almost done with a shingled roof, with just the benches and front porch to go. I found the barrel for a steal on craigslist over the summer, the trailer too. Have retrofit for a wood heater and the whole rebuild has been by hand as I'm off grid here in the country. Decided to put it on the trailer because our camp site is technically in the flood plane, so this way I can move it if the river rises.

[thollandpe]

Mr. Gorman, I think that contraption would be simply marvelous on a pontoon boat.

[darkmother]

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What was that barrel used for originally?

Interesting project.

[jmgorman]

It was a sauna before, just one with an electric heater instead of the wood-fired one I installed. And, Mr. Holland, I did consider a pontoon, but my boat building experience is limited to a cardboard pool race type that I built in college. It was pretty, with beautiful lines, but it capsized instantly (short beam, no keel!) and I'm certain such a project is beyond my engineering capacities. Plus, pontoons are expensive!

[Todd Amunrud]

New wood storage for the sauna
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[rwsaunders]

It’s a wrap. A list of what I’d do over and what I’d would not do again always plays in my head after a project is complete. That helps to motivate me for the next one…especially if post holes are involved.

[randonneur]

Okay, pallets were more rot than not. So I ordered some lumber.

Just as well. Using pallet wood is super hip and sounds like a great idea, until you have to sift through a dozen pallets to find some with semi-suitable wood, and then have to spend at least an hour per pallet cutting them apart, taking out any nail remnants and then processing the wood so it's half decent. My time is not worth the effort...

[72gmc]

My time is not worth the effort...

Sometimes a somewhat silly use of time is just what I need to reset my brain after a week of work. I don't like to sit and watch sports on TV anymore, and I don't enjoy the advertising that comes with a lot of American sports, so I'll plug into some long-form audio (a European endurance sports car race, a Hardcore History episode) and dig into a pile of hand work.

[bigbill]

We have a 12X16' toughshed that came with the house. My wife's project has been to insulate and hang sheet rock to finish out the inside for her soap business. It looks good now, it will be awesome after painting it out this weekend. Fortunately, sheetrock didn't skyrocket like the few sheets of plywood we needed. In a few weeks, the first bars of soap will be cut and shipped.

[j44ke]

I primed all the wood. Took a while. So many things happen on a daily basis here - not the same things. I get up with a plan and I feel pretty happy when I can complete one of those things. Doesn't mean I don't get anything accomplished. Just means that what I accomplished occurred at some point after making the plan and before completing it. Usually has something to do with a tree, an animal or a mechanical device or some household machinery. Or the weather, which often involves all of the above. A cold snap happens and all the animals want to come in the house. Hard to decide whether I need a hammer, a gun or a flamethrower some times. Or a cat.

[rwsaunders]

I vote cat.

[Mabouya]

My rodent control is provided by cats, but since I'm single their primary benefit is companionship. That way I can talk to them instead of to myself and not appear to be totally loony.