Honeycow

I like the pattern!

I love love love auctions! I often get great deals on wood at local auctions. Most people see the pile as junk or too little to do anything with. But not I and neither would any of you. My biggest problem used to be hubby. He would roll his eyes but help me bring it home. These days he doesn't blink an eye, since he has seen what people like us can do with "scrap " wood. Great buy for you!

This really seemed to bother you..... Therapy perhaps?

I was wondering if anyone else out there is unhappy with the shipping charges with the Meisal catalog. I put together an order online because they give a 10% discount that way. I was very careful to stay below the next higher level of shipping. They base their shipping on dollar amount. They used the higher amount to charge shipping then took off the 10%. That amounted to a couple of bucks more. It was $12 for a clock fitup, 4 spindles, and a pattern! We pay less shipping for that ordering tractor parts! I would like to find some other place to get the clock fitup that I was ordering but I can't seem to find it anywhere. It is the 3.5" with an alarm on it. Connie Oh, by the way.... I emailed them with my concern through their 'contact us' link. NO response. It's been four days.

We have a dairy farm so the sawdust and shavings are not a problem. We use it for bedding for the animals. We can use all that I make easily. You might be interested to know that farmers and horse owners buy shavings by the bag. About 3x2x2 compacted for $4-5 bucks. Think bigger yet.... Many farmers buy it by the tractor trailer load. That will cost $1600-1800 bucks. Most of it comes out of Canada where there are mills that make things like pickets fences and stuff. For dairy cows it should be from kiln dried lumber. About ten years ago the price more than doubled when a lot of businesses used it for heat. There are quite a few chip burning plants in the area that use chips for electricity. Another example of one man junk is another's treasure.

How often do you have apply the lube?

Our neighbor had a huge burl sitting outside for a long time. I asked him one day what he was going to do with it. He said he had no plans, as he just thought it was cool. He gave it to me! I went over with a trailer and he had to load it with his backhoe, and it wasn't easy! I brought it back to the farm and put it in our sawdust building (we use sawdust to bed our animals with) because I knew it would dry nicely there. My honey wasn't to thrilled to help me unload it and find a place out of the way for it, but he knows by now that when it comes to wood there is no discussion to be had. Well, it dried up very very well. Too well in fact! I showed it to the old timer that hangs around the farm and owns the sawmill that he lets me use. He took out his jackknife and started poking around with it. Sad ending here folks. The whole thing was punky. He could easily have tunneled right through it with his knife. It obviously was so very heavy because it was saturated with water because it was rotting. I was very disappointed! I still have it and when the mill comes back here I'm going to slice it anyway to see if there is any good parts of it. Anyway, Dan, I hope you keep it under cover, high and dry when you get it!

This project made me take a second look! Real real unique.

May I suggest you visit toymakingplans.com and view the video about making a child friendly beeswax finish for the gift. I have made and used it for toys and other projects as well.

Hey.... Don't forget Myrtle Beach

Harry Peter and Ben Dover

Phil McCrackin

Love It!!!!

Isn't Steve Good awesome? He will be very proud of what you did with his pattern. It also is awesome!,

Fun.... Wish I could do even a little teeny bit of that.....