What did you do today not on your truck...

[mr.mud1]

Originally Posted by special-K

Great added purpose. So, did you actually build it for her plantings or...?

I have a sloped spot in the high back corner of my lot that gets the late afternoon sun. That's where I'll set freshly painted parts to cook the paint. Hmmm... a greenhouse, ey?

We have an ag supply store in town with a greenhouse. Just as I was walking up to it an employee came out dragging a hose. I walked in there and my glasses steamed up immediately. Such humidity!

yes sir,a greenhouse for the boss.she had a piece of junk greenhouse last year we bought at a big box home improvement store,it was junk,made of thin little tubes,bolted together and a cheap tarp affair that attached with little bungee's.i was amazed the wind didn't blow it 1/2 way to Hong Kong?i promised her something better to work in,so if that's what she wants,i'll make it happen.she had started a bunch of things growing in trays,red solo cups,anything that would hold soil,in a bedroom we don't use.i told her we could hire the room for jungle safari's soon?not that bad,just poking fun at her.anyway now i think i need to get water out to it for her,it'll save dragging the hose from the house.she has 3 above ground boxes with strawberries growing in one,not sure about the other 2.if she feels she needs it,i'll till up some ground for her to work in,and if it all goes bust,i have a great paint booth and oven to paint and bake parts,all good.

[special-K]

You obviously take good care of your woman, as it should be. I'm just poking fun here. I think it's great that she has such interests. Gardening is good for the soul. You get the benefits of that in her. Also, you could always use heat that extra bedroom up for a paint curing room. Oh yeah, the paint odor. Not so good I guess

[mr.mud1]

Originally Posted by special-K

You obviously take good care of your woman, as it should be. I'm just poking fun here. I think it's great that she has such interests. Gardening is good for the soul. You get the benefits of that in her. Also, you could always use heat that extra bedroom up for a paint curing room. Oh yeah, the paint odor. Not so good I guess

yes sir,i have her spoiled rotten,more like the other way around??i never had it so good.she enjoys it,so that's good enough for me.i thought about using that room to dry paint but i remember the trouble i got in,when i cured the paint on my exhaust manifolds for the truck,in her oven.who knew an oven in the house would go to 600 degrees?as per the instructions on the paint can.she got home from work,smelled the paint,asked what i did,so i told her.she said"why would you do that" well i said,we have 2 stoves and they're both in the house?what's a fella to do?all the best.Greg

[FleetsidePaul]

I have so many projects. So today I drank 2 beers and took a nap.

[special-K]

Good day to get out early. Going to be a scorcher

[FleetsidePaul]

Very cool. (no pun intended) I could use one of those up here in the desert.

[72c20customcamper]

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

Very cool. (no pun intended) I could use one of those up here in the desert.

Works great you can use a bucket and the internal pump or hook it directly to a garden hose . I have the 4ah batteries and one will last 4 hours with the fan and pump running . Never timed the fan only but I'm sure it's at least double .

[yuccales]

Went to our local Armed Forces Day event. Nice turn out. Had the truck out with some flags. My wife wanted to buy a Marine Corps backpack. The Marine said you could win a backpack if you did 9 pull-ups. She laughed and said that ain't happening. He took off his hat and did the pull-ups for her. I thought that was darn nice. Future Marine here, this little guy banged off 5 pull-ups and had us all clapping. Was very nice to see tons of smiles, and a lot of respect shown our troops.

[72c20customcamper]

New calipers ,rotors and pads on all four corners of my Dodge . After working on this I can’t tell you how much of a pleasure it is working on the old rust free trucks . Every nut and bolt on the 68 last week came off without so much as a shot of PB Blaster . I had to use heat on this this and I still broke a couple of bolts . Glad they sell the units brackets and all .

[special-K]

I made a batch of carpenter bee traps

[BLAZERMAN]

Originally Posted by special-K

I made a batch of carpenter bee traps

That's a bunch of traps! Do you sell them or do you have a bee problem? My old neighbor down the road had carpenter bees in his porch rafters, they made the nicest holes all the way thru. I told him I needed a full set of them from 1/4" to 1/2"....he didn't think that was too funny. They did a lot of damage in a short amount of time.

[special-K]

These I kept simple. I thought about painting them up like people do bird houses. I think just simple is good enough

Originally Posted by BLAZERMAN

That's a bunch of traps! Do you sell them or do you have a bee problem? My old neighbor down the road had carpenter bees in his porch rafters, they made the nicest holes all the way thru. I told him I needed a full set of them from 1/4" to 1/2"....he didn't think that was too funny. They did a lot of damage in a short amount of time.

That's a dozen I made for a friend. I guess if you have the bees you have a problem and I have them. I made 6 up a few years ago, out of a 12-pack of jars. Last year I couldn't find the other 6 to finish up. But the 6 got me 36 bees last year. So far 26 this year. I had a lot of 4x4 cut-offs so I bought four dozen jars to make up, either sell or give friends. Last year I made up a bunch of the wood part but never drilled the holes. Yesterday I painted lids, so now I need to drill holes and put them together. I figure the lids will rust, so I used up left over paint. I just built a wheelchair ramp and have enough 4x4 chunks to make another 4 dozen.

[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by special-K

These I kept simple. I thought about painting them up like people do bird houses. I think just simple is good enough


That's a dozen I made for a friend. I guess if you have the bees you have a problem and I have them. I made 6 up a few years ago, out of a 12-pack of jars. Last year I couldn't find the other 6 to finish up. But the 6 got me 36 bees last year. So far 26 this year. I had a lot of 4x4 cut-offs so I bought four dozen jars to make up, either sell or give friends. Last year I made up a bunch of the wood part but never drilled the holes. Yesterday I painted lids, so now I need to drill holes and put them together. I figure the lids will rust, so I used up left over paint. I just built a wheelchair ramp and have enough 4x4 chunks to make another 4 dozen.

Very neat. I need to make some of these. I never saw these until this year. My in laws have a very nice wood swing set they got for the grand kids to play on. One of my sons heard a buzzing sound and it was coming from 2 1/2" holes in the legs. I exterminated them but none of us knew what they were. After some net searching they were for sure carpenter bees. They definitely are destructive and need to go.

On your trap, do you just drill one hole through the bottom for them to drop down into the jar?

[special-K]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

On your trap, do you just drill one hole through the bottom for them to drop down into the jar?

Yes, one 3/4" hole straight up the middle. Then a 1/2" hole drilled at about a 45* angle to meet with the 3/4" hole. I took a piece of 1" pipe and ground a beveled cutting edge to punch out the holes in the lid, then two screws to hold the lid to the 4x4. I use an eye-hook on the trap and hang from cup hooks.

These came up on YouYube and the guy drilled the 1/2" holes in all four sides. I considered that but I'm staying with just one. Mine are working that way and I'm not sure the other holes wouldn't serve as an escape hole. Mine are one way in, no way out.

It's funny, when I'd see a bee trapped I'd want to get it right out of there. Didn't want the others to see it was a trap. I was too hasty at first and a couple times the trapped bee escaped before I could stomp it. Then I started squirting water in there before opening. It seemed to occupy the bee enough to allow me to do the stomp. But... I have since noticed that having a bee in the trap seems to attract others. Leaving them in there has produced some bigger catches, up to twelve when I fist put them up this year. This was the earliest I put them up and that really seems to make a difference. Put them up before you start seeing them, at the first sign of Spring arriving.

They say put them up every 10', but I only had 6. I put two up on the one side of my 14' screen house and two up on my 24' front porch. My 10' woodshed has one in the middle on the open side. My 12' garage has one off to one side. I now have 6 more to put up. I hear them in my outhouse (mower shed) and my barn. Those are the only buildings with none, so they'll use some. I'll put one inside the garage as well, no roll-up door and they go after the framing. That's what they are doing in the mower shed, not outside. Same with inside the wood shed. So three will go inside those buildings. The other three I'll put on the barn, two outside and one in the shed side that is open.

[LT7A]

Originally Posted by BLAZERMAN

I told him I needed a full set of them from 1/4" to 1/2"....he didn't think that was too funny. They did a lot of damage in a short amount of time.

Made me laugh but I'm not the one with the damaged porch. So far we just have mud daubers here. Oddly enough, they have learned to nest in the passenger side door of my trucks. A little eerie that they figured that out.

[Getter-Done]

Originally Posted by special-K

I made a batch of carpenter bee traps

I have those all around my place. That I made.

Your's look Cooler

[mick53]

I needed to space the rubber bumpers away from the door/ramp on my car trailer. I bought aluminum ones to replace the plywood that came with it. They have a deeper side profile. I found a drop of 6061 3"X8" on ebay for $43. I had some stainless 3/8" acorn nuts from a light I made over the lathe and some 3/8"all-thread laying around so I put some green (forever) Loctite on them and made some bolts. I cut the 6061 into thirds and cleaned them up. Drilled and tapped the door and success. Thank you for your time.

[72c20customcamper]

Customer (my stepson) states strong smell of gas in car . Think I Found the problem

New tank and hardware coming Saturday

[LT7A]

Originally Posted by mick53

I needed to space the rubber bumpers away from the door/ramp on my car trailer. I bought aluminum ones to replace the plywood that came with it. They have a deeper side profile. I found a drop of 6061 3"X8" on ebay for $43. I had some stainless 3/8" acorn nuts from a light I made over the lathe and some 3/8"all-thread laying around so I put some green (forever) Loctite on them and made some bolts. I cut the 6061 into thirds and cleaned them up. Drilled and tapped the door and success. Thank you for your time.

Super clean work. And very resourceful. Both on the light and on the trailer. You are a detail guy and I can relate to that. A funny note is, on the picture of the back of your trailer, it took me a minute. Looked like the front of your garage had melted and then I figured out it was the reflection. Very clean, reflective. Thought I would mention, that I was surprised to learn that stainless is somewhat reactive as a dissimilar metal with aluminum. The funny thing is that mild steel is closer in composition (less reactive), but obviously rusts. If you need to put some type of steel in contact with aluminum, it's good to use galvanized. Thought I would mention it since those pieces would be out in the weather. They may be sleeved though, not sure if they are in direct contact with the aluminum. I'm not trying to be critical, your craftsmanship is outstanding.

[Low Elco]

Originally Posted by mick53

I needed to space the rubber bumpers away from the door/ramp on my car trailer. I bought aluminum ones to replace the plywood that came with it. They have a deeper side profile. I found a drop of 6061 3"X8" on ebay for $43. I had some stainless 3/8" acorn nuts from a light I made over the lathe and some 3/8"all-thread laying around so I put some green (forever) Loctite on them and made some bolts. I cut the 6061 into thirds and cleaned them up. Drilled and tapped the door and success. Thank you for your time.

I was gonna say, trailer, shmailer, look at that light! That's awesome!

[mick53]

Originally Posted by Low Elco

I was gonna say, trailer, shmailer, look at that light! That's awesome!

I made this out of scrap like most of my stuff. A customer bought me 24 duel 4' commercial LED lights for my shop and gave me this light too. If you look at the front you can see that I ran short of material and had to piece it together. I also made it so I can pull it down and shoot it sideways into the shop next to my lift.

[special-K]

He seems pretty well rooted in firewood production. He did all that work and still had time to log on.

Originally Posted by mick53

I made this out of scrap like most of my stuff. A customer bought me 24 duel 4' commercial LED lights for my shop and gave me this light too. If you look at the front you can see that I ran short of material and had to piece it together. I also made it so I can pull it down and shoot it sideways into the shop next to my lift.

You put a little thought into making that. Great to see! That light should win some sort of design contest. Innovative and well executed.

[72 tigger]

Quote- I made this out of scrap like most of my stuff. A customer bought me 24 duel 4' commercial LED lights for my shop and gave me this light too. If you look at the front you can see that I ran short of material and had to piece it together. I also made it so I can pull it down and shoot it sideways into the shop next to my lift.


Great craftsmanship! Trailer project is nice also

[LT7A]

Originally Posted by special-K

He seems pretty well rooted in firewood production. He did all that work and still had time to log on.

[72c20customcamper]

Originally Posted by special-K

He seems pretty well rooted in firewood production. He did all that work and still had time to log on.
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Good one Tim . I took a few measurements of the wood. Stacked there is 17 cord +/- a little . And 7 or 8 in piles still have a lot more to get . With fuel oil $6 bucks a gallon now I’m sure it’ll be more by winter.