Hide site, retirement site.

[TexasRedNeck]

So today, I got rid of the one little light fixture in the stairwell and added a canless LED gimbal and a second one.

 Then I got a small 26 inch cheap tool box from HF to put in the seacan to hold knife stuff, flashlight stuff and glock and AR parts.  Need to dig out a few more knives from storage







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[TexasRedNeck]

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[JR]

 

[TexasRedNeck]

Ok back to building the fireplace grate. #7 rebar support and #5 cross pieces.  Three sets of support cross braces/legs and 6 grate pieces.  Measures about 26 inches square.





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[Bigdave_185]

Looks fantastic!!  I need to do something for my big bowl, it struggles with air flow


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[TexasRedNeck]

It’s getting the workout so well see if its going to bend.




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[JR]

Very nice, I need a pit its cold now!

[Flyin6]

^^^^^ So nice!

I'm prioritizing one of those down on my farm for the springtime

[TexasRedNeck]

Aftermath. Looks solid still




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[Bigdave_185]

Fine job!! Well done! 

So did you get the fire roaring enough to make the rebar glow?


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[TexasRedNeck]

So its been a while since I’ve updated anything.

Bought two 36 inch culverts and put them in the wet weather creek and started hauling aggregate.

16 yards so far and still need at least 8-12 more.



First time ever having the tractor to the back half of the property.  Now I can get after some real trail maintenance.


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[TexasRedNeck]

And while I’m at it.  I found a very heavy duty piece of industrial cardboard for the top of the welding table






Don was right, cardboard works very well.

Now just need to get the mid 1940’s Wilton vice that I inherited from my grandfather mounted.

Shawn gave me some good ideas for getting it fully restored, which is on the list


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[TexasRedNeck]

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[JR]

Cardboard?

[stlaser]

Nice job Charles 


Have you float tested the tractor yet? 

[TexasRedNeck]

No but i got up on 3 wheels with a bucket full of rock going into a downhill turn….


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[Sammconn]

No but i got up on 3 wheels with a bucket full of rock going into a downhill turn….


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Sounds like a good time.
Be careful once you’re on two wheels…

More access equals a lot more work.
But tractor will make it all better.

[Flyin6]

And while I’m at it.  I found a very heavy duty piece of industrial cardboard for the top of the welding table






Don was right, cardboard works very well.

Now just need to get the mid 1940’s Wilton vice that I inherited from my grandfather mounted.

Shawn gave me some good ideas for getting it fully restored, which is on the list


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Looks like they compressed it too much, probably won't work very well...But you can always overlay with MDF...;-)

[TexasRedNeck]

Finally got to work on the engine stand.





Roughly finished.  Need a handle to rotate.  Maybe throw some paint on it and find a tray for the underside.  Trim the tails on the spindles and call it good enough. 


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[Flyin6]

Creative!

Nice work for a "white Collar guy"

Whoa!!!!!!!! ;-)

[TexasRedNeck]

Lol. Don’t tell anyone….about the white collar thing.  Don’t want to ruin my image and have my red neck card revoked.


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[Flyin6]

Lol. Don’t tell anyone….about the white collar thing.  Don’t want to ruin my image and have my red neck card revoked.


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Type "H" personality for sure
Actually a type "A"
Who has somehow learned to temper all that and fit into the type B world
Without losing sight of who you really are
And having retained all common sense
With the keen ability to sort (quickly) through the day to day BS
and make good decisions
Without numbskulls ever being aware they are being shown the door
While retaining all useful "Country-boy" skills
That you have honed over the years
In the shadows so as not to alarm the alarmists
and now
Find yourself very close to closing the loop
To where you:
Chuck the dress shoes and tie
and finally
Don your the cowboy boots
Which have never been far away
for the rest of your life.

You, sir, are the one who "fooled" all of them
Well done!

[BobbyB]

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If you decide you don't like that Surefire M951 hanging on the front of a rifle or taking up space in your toolbox, I'll give it a home. I used one on a few deployments and like them.
 
Just saying, I can help you out, since you'll be able to get a newer, fancier brighter light. 

[Flyin6]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Sounds like a sincere/good offer to help store the thing, Tex!

[TexasRedNeck]

Hmm. Maybe a few others you’d like.  I like my M4 Devastator with the LED conversion just as much. 


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[BobbyB]

Hmm. Maybe a few others you’d like.  I like my M4 Devastator with the LED conversion just as much. 


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I like stuff. But there's just something nostalgic about the M951.

[TexasRedNeck]

Yeah it’s pretty cool.

If I ever get rid of it you’ll be at the top of the list


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[BobbyB]

Yeah it’s pretty cool.

If I ever get rid of it you’ll be at the top of the list


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[TexasRedNeck]

18T of rip rap spread.  Now just some road base or fines to smooth the top.  it’s about a 12-13 foot wide area that’s safe to drive almost anything on.


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[Atkinsmatt]

About ready to use

[stlaser]

Nice 

I hauled another 30 yards of pit run today. Backside of shop is almost ready for top layer of 3/4-1” minus crushed.

[Flyin6]

18T of rip rap spread.  Now just some road base or fines to smooth the top.  it’s about a 12-13 foot wide area that’s safe to drive almost anything on.


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That looks good/solid
Concur, I would get on that with my track-steer in a second.
BTW, you need one of those...

[stlaser]

Everyone needs a skid steer…..

[Flyin6]

Everyone needs a skid steer…..

Just like your first Pick up truck. You soon realize you CANNOT do without one.

Maybe we should caution people NOT to buy one...

[stlaser]

Nah, I’m on my second. Probably be buried in this one!

[Flyin6]

Nah, I’m on my second. Probably be buried in this one!

I was digging in a grub pile that I had stacked up with my excavator, once, which collapsed on me inside the machine!
Be careful what you speak into your future... :-0

[stlaser]

Long story, but I almost lost a rented tracked skid loader in a big hole once. Was able to use bucket and push myself back away but it was pretty hairy for a good couple minutes. Fortunately, owning one and operating one on construction sites years earlier I was able to save it….


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[JR]

Yeah, my youngest thought the gehl could go anywhere being 4x4 (I had a moment or 2) and he got really stuck in soft soil. Took a few attemps, but he got out with the bucket.

Getting a tracked unit stuck take practice, big hole you said?

[Flyin6]

Yeah, my youngest thought the gehl could go anywhere being 4x4 (I had a moment or 2) and he got really stuck in soft soil. Took a few attemps, but he got out with the bucket.

Getting a tracked unit stuck take practice, big hole you said?

Tracked units on slippery stuff are useless. I first noticed it a century ago with my M60A1 tank. It was useless on snowy Germany roads. It took the frozen dirt beneath thin snow in the fields to give us any traction.
My SVL-95 and now my SVL-87 are 12,000 lb bobsleds on wet slopes. They always seem to want to slide downhill and will spiritually seek out mud holes, sink holes, well, any holes, really!

[stlaser]

Yeah, my youngest thought the gehl could go anywhere being 4x4 (I had a moment or 2) and he got really stuck in soft soil. Took a few attemps, but he got out with the bucket.

Getting a tracked unit stuck take practice, big hole you said?

Think quick sand, muddy water laden new fill. It’s was sketch, had I dropped it in that hole it would have needed large equipment to remove it…..

[JR]

Screw in studs for winter.

[TexasRedNeck]

So perhaps you guys might like my rednek engineering here.

Making a farm table for the outdoor kitchen and using white oak beams from the ranch that have been milled and drying for 4 years.

Of course some bowing and warping made them not sit flat when i put them on the base.  No one had a planer that could handle these so after much consideration, I built a slab flattening jig with some 2x4 square tubing that I was going to build another firewood rack.  Split a piece of 4x4 square tube, added ball rollers and connected those with angle for the router sled.  2 inch flattening bit and 4 passes later, I had taken 1/2 inch off in some places and nearly none in a few others and now it is perfectly flat.









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[Flyin6]

Now, that's kind of interesting.

So you just use a common router to mill that plank bit by bit. Hmmm, lots of labor but in the end you actually have a usable slab.

I like that

[Sammconn]

Now, that's kind of interesting.

So you just use a common router to mill that plank bit by bit. Hmmm, lots of labor but in the end you actually have a usable slab.

I like that

And could be CNC capable with a few more bits added to the sled.

Well done sir!

[JR]

Looks like it came out nice.

[Atkinsmatt]

Very nice work.

[stlaser]

Not too shabby for a rednek executive……. 

[TexasRedNeck]

Thanks guys.  Don, they sell these set ups (albeit a bit smaller) with linear bearings, stainless round railes and dust collection, but those were $800-$1000 and weren’t big enough for my use.  Basic idea is to use a 2 inch flat router bit at a fixed height and remove material above that height.

I have $16 in those cheap roller bearings from HF.

Design set up execution and take down in less than 8 hours.

If I was doing this more often I’d invest in some additional bits, which I may later as I have some wide red oak slabs that are about 28 inches wide and 6 ft long that have been drying for 4 years.  Haven’t decided what to with them yet, but I have proof of concept and can easily replicate as I kept the sled parts.  Just have to make new rails.


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[Sammconn]

These are similar to what one of my buddies has for his sled.
You’d need a pair of these and a pair of shorter ones for the cross slide.
These are working really well according to him and don’t break the bank.

https://www.amazon.com/Mssoomm-SBR12-98-43-SBR12UU-Bearing-Machine/dp/B08BJZVWKS/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?crid=1PNRYYN9FZJ2G&keywords=linear+rails+and+bearings+2500mm&qid=1704218793&sprefix=linear+rails+and+bearings%2Caps%2C369&sr=8-3

[TexasRedNeck]

And,poof! The slab flattening jig is now a fire wood rack.  Finished and prepped for POR15.




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