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Oh, now I get it. Bullet-in-board... bulletin board. huh huh huh :cool:

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aahhh, zoomed in - now I see it, hit the bullet with yer dado blade - yikes!

bulletin board - good one :lol:

I can only imagine how many of those would turn up from any lumber harvested from our farm :eek:

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Thanks Tim, I was just thinking.....huh?......now I get it....I guess I'm a bit slow tonight.....:lol::lol:

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It was actually with a 1 1/4" diameter router bit in a router table and I never heard/felt a thing. The lead is so soft that it cut right into like like nothing.

Farm wood and even urban wood, like street trees or back yard trees can be full of all kinds of stuff. Nails, screws, staples, etc are very common.
This walnut came from a local supplier up in northern Ohio Amish country. They do at least some of their own milling/drying, but I have no idea how much.
I know they do a lot of barn dismantling and are very careful with cutting out metal bits and debugging too. We have used several truckloads of that over the years.

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Yeah, those guys deal with crap-in-wood all the time. We have to mill some chestnut for a guy coming up soon. Metal detectors are great but you still have to get the metal out of the wood. And this stuff has been stored outside uncovered, which messes the readings up.

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It's probably older growth (which has a tighter grain), and I wish I could get ahold of some chestnut like that at a reasonable price. But by the time some got found, shipping to California would kill any kind of deal. :(

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All chestnut is older growth. It's not my milling equipment, but I want to let it dry a good while first

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This was my absolute favorite bike until I built the Jones.
It has gone over 5k miles with my 6' 2" 225lb body on it. It commuted rain or shine most days for over 2 years. I bought it used, already a few years old, simply because of it's unique looks. I didn't have the rack and every bit of it was black except the rotors, which were stock. All of the silver parts were upgrades in performance and the big 203mm rotors make a huge difference.
The pic is out in front of the recently demolished and rebuilt Veteran's Memorial here in Columbus.
I really only was looking for something "better" because it is slightly too small for my height, but that's the problem of used and unique. They are just not around. I have never seen another one in person.
The newer versions of this are much more like a mountain bike. Technically, this is too, it uses all mtb parts, but it was not made for trails. The actual intended purpose is as a city bike/commuter. It has done many 50 mile days and I even rode it on an organized road tour of 100 miles in one day. Kind of an art project at this point, but it's a keeper.

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Nice bike. I've gotten back into bikes lately. I built an early version of what came to be known as the mountain bike from a late-40s balloon tire bike in the late-70s. Schwinn came out with their version and I got one of those. I'm getting both of those in shape for riding. The Schwinn just needed some servicing and the custom-built was 100% original as built. I was torn whether to leave it be or restore. I decided on no restoration but put it into riding condition... cables, tubes, & tires. I want to build more like that from some frames I have, but use more updated components like disc brakes.

When MTBs came about I bought a Raleigh. That was pretty good but possibly the first city bike. Things weren't ironed out in the MTB world yet and Raleigh being the traditional bike company it was, that bike was a "Mountain Tour" model. The bikes for thrashing came about and I got a Mountain Klein (#54). To this day that is my "new" MTB... 37 years old! :lol: I'd like to get a new bike but maybe not. I'm fine with what I have. I would like to change the gearing on my Mt Klein, though.

I built that "Klunker" over 40 years ago. The tires had been rotten for a long time. I got new tires and tubes, went to replace and was amazed at the condition of the tubes. Seeing that, and the Made In USA, I decided to keep running the old tubes and keep the Chinese crap for spares. Those will probably be dry rotted in the boxes when it comes time to need one

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I tried riding my bicycle once after we moved out here in the bush, but the washboard road beat me up so bad I haven't been on a bike in almost 18 years. Of course that was just a cheap Murray that I got to ride when we moved to town and I went back to college in the 1990s.

I did bring back my old classic coaster Schwinn from my mom's house before we sold it. It's just sitting out in the storage room with flat tires from the 1960s.

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Get ahold of something with a tire around 2" wide (48mm) and you will be amazed at the difference. Not only does the bigger sidewall help, they run at lower pressure, which helps even more.
I even go a step further and run mine tubeless. That's even better yet because most of what would give you a flat gets sealed.

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Speaking of bikes and tire size...
This is my 41 year old son riding his fat tire bike in Michigan's U.P. I think he's a bit nuts.

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I never rode a bike with those new huge size tires. But back when I created that klunker (bike with gold rims) I was tickled at how I could ride in the snow. Up to that point it was 10 spd road bikes for adults. The adult size bike with 26 x 2.25s was like riding a bike as a kid all over again

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Thanks, but a bike isn't anywhere on my "list" except I couldn't quite get rid of my old Schwinn. I can't think of where or why I would actually ride a bike. I try to hike a couple miles every day and ride my horse when it's not so cold.

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I see people riding bikes with those monster tires, and I just think about how the moment of inertia is going to make it hard to speed up, and get up hills. Slowing down is easy, especially if one has disc brakes.

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Only 4 more months of this crap . Hard to make out but its snowing again ,taken a few moments ago

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Post card photolike right there. So far we've only seen flurries here thank goodness. I don't even own a snow shovel. ;)

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I love how every year when a person in the four season climate talks about their cold weather and snow, someone from southern California takes the opportunity to boast about their mild climate. Yet... in the summer when wildfires are burning throughout their region you don't see people from the four season climate post pictures of their lush green bountiful environment (no irrigation required) with comments like, "That sure sucks. We never get those". In fact, we sympathize with them. Sorry if I'm being harsh. Just a bit annoyed by this... every winter. I like snow and I like warm weather. But I certainly don't like wildfires that destroy homes and everything in their path. My house has survived every snow storm since 1857, seven years after California became a state of the USA. And I have personally lived in it through two back to back, one day between, 36" then 30" storms amounting to 5'5" of snow. And I loved it :cool: .

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I wouldn't trade ,where else can ya go from 100° in August to 10 below in February. But the in between is great . September October and most of fall is my favorite

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Was just in Orange County - the place was empty :)

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It’s winter here at home.

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Wow u must be the only one left in ny

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Believe it or not, it's really not that bad. The tread pattern makes a huge difference though. The funny thing is that you can be riding along on a paved path and steer off into the grass and it doesn't even slow down. There's a bit more resistance all the time, but the terrain doesn't affect it much.
I ride slicks on the road in the summer and heavy tread in the snow.
Mine is a Surly which is a steel frame, so it's not exactly light, but it is a lot of fun.

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wish I would have known you were in town, my kids love playing in the tide pools at crystal cove!

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I experience the same thing with 2.25s. That is what got me hooked back in '78 when I discovered the world of adult ATBs. Ride like a kid! I can't ride on dry sand like I could with those huge tires. That's the advantage I see, beach riding. Weight and rolling resistance, that's what gears are for

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That's one cool bike! I have an '06 Raleigh 24 speed with disc brakes. It's a hybrid- mountain bike frame with upright handlebars. I don't ride it much around here, after a couple of close calls and getting hit once, but fortunately without injuries. Plus, I had people yelling at me, "Get a job!" while riding around. :cuss: I also had some close calls with guys in raised up trucks trying to see how close they could get to me. Nothing like a mirror fanning my hair. There is a section of road where I only used the sidewalk because of them. I figured that my luck was pretty much used up at that point, and parked it.

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My son trying out his mini drum set my brother put together and gave him

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My new mailbox post.

The neighbors are going to love me

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Great pics! Crystal Cove is nice. Someday I’d like to stay at one of those beach cottages there. My in-laws live in Irvine and we get there a couple of times a year. I’ll definitely let you know know ahead of the next visit. I’ll bring the cheese :)

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I wouldn't move . Where I live property taxes are low I'm in the Catskill mountain park . Income tax is a non issue also as I am permanently partially disabled. Disability pension

I would like a winter place in say Florida. Just a condo or townhouse I could use for the winter and do Airbnb for the rest of the year

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That is freaky. Been on that highway on a motorcycle in 2017 or should I say that parking lot.

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Laser leveling around the corner, they’ve got four of these rigs cruising...

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Probably won't last long unless you have it fastened down. I will be in someones living room or man cave..... Just sayin'

LockDoc

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That thing is disturbing me and I'm 3,000 miles away! :lol:

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I second that! In Kalifornia they steal anything and everything, because there are no consequences... all because daddy was never in their life or around to take them to a ballgame.

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I'm going to make a burro out of an old coal-fired smoker, which is made of sheet metal. If I put it in the front yard, it will have a couple of sacks of concrete (cured) inside to keep someone from taking it. Cast in place, of course.

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Oh, I hear ya. In the last 4 years I have ridden nearly 15k miles on the roads and greenway trails of central Ohio. I have been yelled at by hundreds of impatient people. I've been hit twice, crashed avoiding two others. Most of that came from commuting through Downtown.
I really don't understand why people don't get it? I do have a job, a truck, and a license to drive it. I'm riding this because I want to.

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That's why I became a mountain bike rider and gave up on road bikes. My area is great for riding the road, though. Or better than most anyway. Ever since I have lived here there have been large to small groups as well as individuals riding it. The road branches off of Main St in my town 6 miles away. We've always had a great bike shop with a very enthusiastic seller. Clubs gather and head here from there to ride the roads beyond that only get better. Larry, the owner, also organizes non-club rides as well. I have a loop to ride from my house that includes 1/3 dirt road along a creek. It's one thing I have liked about living here. On weekends I used to put a water cooler out at the road with a sign marked "Cyclists" and Larry would the riders. But it got to where no one would stop for it so I stopped. It seems there was more trust in the world back then

My picture offering. A friend's rat GMC. He's like a kid all over again when it comes to this truck

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Nice, we average a foot/season here in West TN.

Almost forgot what that White stuff looked like,
praying it wasn't a lost plane load of Coke. :lol:

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hmmm "random photos". well....I was looking thru pictures and found quite a few of those.;)