2018 POTD Thread Archive

[FOMOGO]

For 15 yrs I've been pulling a 5/8" logging chain across my bridge railings when we leave in the winter, or anything more than a few days the rest of the year, and while the mind is willing, the body is starting to complain. So, had a bunch of old drill pipe in several diameters, and as free is my favorite price, it became the material of choice for my new quick and dirty gate. I did get to use the mill for one of the miter cuts. Also replaced one of the mower wheels in the railing that got knocked out a few yrs ago, and added some steel rod tie ins to it and the other three. The wheels are made from some form of cast steel and I had originally brazed them in as they wouldn't take any kind of weld, but they would eventually crack at the wheel. A few pics of the process, and result. Nothing very pretty, but it is functional. I did stand by it for awhile, and practice saying "may I see your papers please" in a bad German accent. Cheers, Mike

 

[GoceKU]

I've been working little bit every day trying to get stuff done while my back gets better, today i did manage to get two things done. First was little painful but i did clean up my work bench, then i found an old plywood door and bolted couple of wheels on it to make a car creeper trolley. I've made it close to 30 years without one, working on concrete, on cardboard and styrofoam, but my back is no longer able to endure, is little bit higher than i like but the little Lada is high enough i should fit, i'll be back doing more rust repair on the little Niva just as my back heals.

 

[eugene13]

For 15 yrs I've been pulling a 5/8" logging chain across my bridge railings

You know how to build a gate, I love the grease zerks on the hinges.

 

[Superburban]

You know how to build a gate, I love the grease zerks on the hinges.

Agreed, great job.

 

[FOMOGO]

You know how to build a gate, I love the grease zerks on the hinges.

Agreed, great job.

Thanks for the kind words gentlemen. I would have liked to do something a little more elaborate, but I have several honey-do's to finish before we leave on Monday. The border gate will have to do for the foreseeable future, as there is a long list of higher priorities when we get back in the spring. Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving. Mike

 

[Ulma Doctor]

For 15 yrs I've been pulling a 5/8" logging chain across my bridge railings when we leave in the winter, or anything more than a few days the rest of the year, and while the mind is willing, the body is starting to complain. So, had a bunch of old drill pipe in several diameters, and as free is my favorite price, it became the material of choice for my new quick and dirty gate.

Nice work Mike.
you got a nice homestead there.
Happy Thanksgiving !

 

[SubtleHustle]

Finally got around to making a locking handle for my qctp, last night. I'm still quite the newb, but I think it came out alright. Haven't really got to use it on anything yet, but plan to after I get home from Thanksgiving with the family.

 

[dave_r_1]

Forgot to post this, but finished up the trailer boards and reinstalled the divider a couple days ago:



That ungainly looking thing attached to the divider is a bracket to hold my snow plow in place.

The thin piece of floorboard was a pain to make, as the initial cut was about 1 blade width too wide, and pounding it in would wreck the pain on that board and the two adjacent boards, so I shaved off a thin slice with a circular saw. It's not the easiest thing to do with a circular saw, as it was an overcast day making it harder to see the edge of the wood, and the piece was already pretty narrow, so the saw also was easy to tilt. Naturally, once I was about 90% done, I realized it would have been MUCH easier and more accurate to do the job with a table saw, just set the guide and go... But it turned out alright, there isn't much of a gap between any of the boards.

 

[Nogoingback]

Made A Funnel

My son and I reload pistol ammo on a Dillon press. When we weigh out powder, it's poured into the die through a plastic
funnel which came with the press. Since all the dies are stainless, I decided to make a matching stainless funnel. The
secondary reason was to procrastinate by spending time playing in the shop rather than cleaning the gutters.

 

[pdentrem]

Attached a hand plane handle and flat bar to a diamond stone for when we touch up our hot rolls on a rolling mill. I had the threaded rod extend through the flat bar to add as an anti rotation pin to go with the bolt. The user can remove the handle as a unit and flip the stone over to work on the other roll, just with the one bolt. The rod and the top nut are slotted to allow a flat blade screw driver for installation to the aluminum block that is fitted into the bottom of the handle.
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