Originally Posted by special-K (Post 9026879)

Keep calling it your bachelor pad and your wife may just accommodate you on that! :lol:

So you can see the river from the deck? The street name is great. You need to come up with a name for the place using that (so you can stop calling it the bachelor pad and all). There is an old country road near here called Whiskey Springs Rd. Been on it end to end but can't seem to find that spring!

Don't worry about those leaves. In time you'll either flick a butt or a spark from the BBQ will take care of that. I predict you will have that same gathering of leaves in that same spot every year.

With all your free time, go to the county's tax assessor's office to see who owns that lot. Could be held by county commissioners due to non-payment of property tax. If so, it could be had for the amount of back taxes. Could be for one reason or another it's tied up in a title dispute, and you could file a first right to refusal to be first in line once that gets settled


Are you sure that's a church pew and not a 1919 Chevy truck seat? ;)

That came out excellently. Sanding was the fun part, right? The question is "Are you happy?". Uh, well... No you're right :lol:

I made up a batch of that mini-1/4 round yesterday. I about froze my fingers out there! It was a clear blue sunny, maybe up to, mid-20s day but the table saw created a wind chill and Jack Frost wormed his way through my gloves. Had to come in by the woodstove for a thaw break!

Then I decided to do another project I thought up. I had this piece of slab wood from out of my former boss's old bank barn. The hay floor was made up of old wide live-edge slab cuts laid down loose, lapping over one another. He had me take it up and lay back down in a single layer so it can be covered with plywood. This meant cutting the ends off of some. I stuck those pieces in my truck rather than toss out.

The project is make a small coffee table type thing, something minimal to take less space. I'm calling it a coffee stool. I always used a cobbler's bench, but it had to be set away from the couch for leg room, which meant walking around it in my small house. My son scooted it across the room to set his big Playstation monitor on, which works well. That's what we watch DVDs on. This table is about the size of a stool so it can set against the couch next to where I/we sit. Just something to set your drink on. I think it will be nicer than the Ryobi box
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The rest of it is made out of that oak 2" x 4" I started cutting on for part of the countertop extension I made last week
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Beautiful wood inside that thing!
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Not exactly a table yet
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I plan to put it together today

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul (Post 9027067)

Those hinges look a million times better Mark.

Sometimes shiny isn't better. Just ask a bald guy.

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper (Post 9027072)

It amazing the wood that was used for utilitarian stuff back in the day . The oak is beautiful

Originally Posted by special-K (Post 9027268)

They look a million years old! I dunno about asking a bald guy. Plenty of voluntary chrome domes out there. Chicks must dig it :lol:

What did you do, Mark, use acid?.

Originally Posted by Boog (Post 9028292)

turn

Originally Posted by special-K (Post 9028309)

Ohhh... I thought that was a picture of a boat hull :lol:

So Mark, it looks like the barn had a hay trolley. I guess that's not still lurking up there, is it? I had one like this, but I ended up selling it at Carlisle

Originally Posted by special-K (Post 9028291)

I need to start getting out to make some money. But yesterday I also put that little coffee stool together. My sanders are buried, so belt sanding the top and oiling the thing up will come latter. The only thing I bought were the finish screws

Originally Posted by 67ChevyRedneck (Post 9029498)

^You have the best stories :lol:

Originally Posted by 57taskforce (Post 9029550)

Absolutely agree with that!

Originally Posted by Steeveedee (Post 9029634)

Pizza wasn't even invented in Italy. My claim to fame today was taking my wife in for a colonoscopy. No, really, at the hospital! :lol:

Originally Posted by 72 tigger (Post 9029600)

I know! Why is my life so boring?? :)