Corona Virus Projects

[Irving]

Good work. Poop on the porch is the reason I had to get rid of my chickens.

[FoxtArt]

Anyone ever actually save money raising chickens vs. buying meat and eggs at the store?

Question 2: Anyone successfully gotten an AG exemption with chickens?

[Jamnanc]

Lol. The eggs have orange yolks, a slightly richer flavor, and are kind of fun to gather.

Stores wont be open after the zombies/hyperinflation start.

No, at sams club 5 dozen eggs is $7

[buffalobo]

Depends on the value you place on having your own food supply chain.

MSM report tonite about food supply chain issues and lengthening food lines in some places.

[newracer]

A good friend just got 30 chicks, Ill let them do the work and get fresh eggs.

[newracer]

Installed the new to me Warn Zeon 10s Platinum on the JK. Had to mod my bumper a little.

I got this bumper from TnT, it is one of the originals that was on one of there rigs. I had to drill some new mounting holes, others were close so I welded them in.



For some reason the hole for the fair lead was huge and off center.


Cut some plates to fill it in.








Just need to install the synthetic rope.


Everything is controlled from the wireless remote, even accessory lights.

[Irving]

Looks nice all cleaned up. Think I'm going to start working on getting my 2-stroke cleaned up to see if I can get it to run.

[Waldo1]

I am pretty useless when it comes to woodwork. Everything I put together looks like it was made out of unrefinished used pallets, regardless of the time or care I put into it. Metal is a much friendlier medium for me.

Yeah, pretty much anything I've ever tried to build as "furniture" ends up looking like something that Gilligan and the Skipper knocked together on the island.

[Great-Kazoo]

Yeah, pretty much anything I've ever tried to build as "furniture" ends up looking like something that Gilligan and the Skipper knocked together on the island.

I've honed my woodworking skills in to 2 categories.

toothpicks or door stops





OK i lied 3 categories.

#3 firewood

[JohnnyEgo]

Some more handwork to assemble the bottom drawer. It's made of 1/2" stock instead of 3/8", because I wanted it to be a little more stout due it's size. Those cards get heavy when packed into a drawer of this size. Problem is, with the added thickness, I'd have to cut the box joints deeper on the 3/8" setting, and they would look more rectangular than the box joints on all the other boxes. I could cut them on 1/2" spacing, and they would be square, but still a little bigger than all the other boxes. Instead, I cut a little ledge into each end, also known as a 'rabbet' in wood-working terms, 3/8" wide by 1/8" deep, across the ends of each board. The quick way would have been to cut them on the router, or on the table saw with a dado blade, but I'd have to nail the setting perfectly the first time, and I just wasn't feeling it that morning. So I used a rabbet block plane, followed by a router plane, to make each rabbet one sliver at a time:

First, marked out where each rabbet should go:


Then clamped a board adjacent to the marking line to serve as a fence for the rabbet plane. Back and forth a couple of times with the rabbet plane until I was roughly to depth.


Then my small router plane to clean up and make sure everything was level.


Repeat 7 more times


Check for fit. Fit is good. It's tighter than it appears. A little bit of 'spelching' or tear-out at the end of the board, where the unsupported wood grain tore before being cut makes the gap appear wider at the corner than it is through the rest of the joint. Will fill it with sawdust and glue later on to clean up the appearance.


Then over to the tablesaw to cut the box joints:


That fit fairly nicely. Three of the four came out about perfect. One back corner joint is tight under clamping pressure, but has enough warp to pull out the upper corner when not clamped. It will get clamped and glued in the appropriate position, and the glue bond will hold it in position, but that is asking a lot of the glue bond over the next 50 years. Not sure what I am going to do about it, if anything, but I have tossed around the idea of pinning that back joint with a pin nail for added strength.


About two hours worth of sweat and wood shavings. Not a bad time at all.


Slow progress: