I have actually made progress on my snow cat. It looks like a cat now and actually runs.
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I have actually made progress on my snow cat. It looks like a cat now and actually runs.
That is awesome!!
I doubt I could ever do something like that. I still have a wooden P-51 that my grandfather and I started 10 years ago.
Major props on building that thing from scratch!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cross
Although for nine minutes, I was kind of expecting the construction of a super sick booter, complete with a successful back flip of a McConkey Huck Doll. Looks like the dry sand is kind of hard to form up though. Does the cat enough power to move around wet sand?
The cat has enough power to push the sand. The problem actually can be traction.
I would have built a kicker except the blade is rigged up to work right now. It is not the way it will actually be. So the blade has very little movement so I cannot do much with it.
So what are you using to control the blade height then? A servo, pneumatics, hydraulics?
Maybe a little weight added to help the traction problem?
Right now I just have a servo on the blade. It will eventually have full hydraulics.
I know more weight will help with traction. This will come as I finish things. Once I get all the hydraulics, lights, and working tiller I probably will not have to add much weight.
Interior updates on this never ending project that has appeared numerous times in this thread...
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Since this thread has been bumped I will post another project. This was my first commissioned piece of furniture and I just delivered it the other day. It's a 72x36x30 kitchen table that is build out of heart pine. Pretty nasty stuff to work with because of all the pitch and bug damage but it turned out well.
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Really nice table, I like it.
I've recently gotten into knife building.
This is my first, started from scratch, product.
Blade is M42 tool steel, handle is black canvass micarta.
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I first built this belt grinder to do the pointy work:
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this thread makes me painfully aware of my suck. My astronomical level of sausage-fingered suck. Nice work Skinny Kid. Any chance you could toss a ballpark cost for commissioning a table like that?
ditto... nice work Skinny Kid. It's hard to tell, but are those legs tapered?... very subtle or maybe camera angle.
Root, your stuff is way too classy... hardly belongs in the "shit" thread!
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Originally Posted by skinny_kid
Nice table....AWFUL fucking license plate.
A lot depends on the material and how complicated it is. I will go out and say that I was payed $750 for that table. I think they got a pretty good deal for how solid it is and for the fact that it is unique. The client already had the wood for me to use and because of that I ran into a long finishing process. I would have liked to get a little more but they are friends and I was happy to get my first commissioned piece.Quote:
Originally Posted by quienes?
The legs are tapered. They are 4x4 at the bottom and are 4x6 right under the table.Quote:
Originally Posted by BigDaddy
:the_finge:the_finge:the_fingeQuote:
Originally Posted by montanaskier
Really, most of this was shit my old man built w/ his own two hands.... I was there for a lot of it, though.
Everything used to look worse (much worse) than that rock wall. The grassy area by the dock used to be under water, depending on the time of year. Everything else was a ruin of broken concrete, fallen pilings, and slag. I don't have any digital 'before' pics.
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Thanks, this is the last house I will ever be big boy carpenter on!Quote:
Originally Posted by BigDaddy
Who wants to buy some tools?>?>?>?
I killed some time working not too long ago.
Owner provides big slabs of cherry and says "make me a ladder and I'll add some hand rails".
Slabs were so wide it only seemed natural to do this. Just put a guide on the router and followed the live edge with a 2 1/2" long staight bit.
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:D I'm almost there with you Root.Quote:
Originally Posted by RootSkier
Screaming deal.Quote:
Originally Posted by skinny_kid
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A 15' 8" Goat Island Skiff designed by the Australian Mik Storer. Okoume marine ply glued onto cedar framing, doug fir chinelogs and gunwales. Not one screw. All marine epoxy. 105 square foot sail-- balanced lug rig. Planing hull. Took about 10 months which includes a New Hampshire winter (garage too cold for glue) and many many days away from home. Not to mention the vertigo inducing learning curve. I went from ZERO woodworking experience to this (I ripped all my lumber with a cross-cut saw blade and used almost double the glue needed.) Many mistakes, not perfect, never finished, but done. A great hobby that is a nice break from athletic pursuits-- looking forward to many a happy day sailing and camp-cruising (finally! enough building already) but thinking about project two (aren't we all!?)
Hello and good skiing to all!
Very cool project. I like your ambition. I have been building furniture for a while and want to try my hand at a boat sometime. In the latest woodenboat magazine there is an article about a boat called the Rescue Minor that has a lot going for it. Not too hard to build, great fuel consumption, and draws 6". It also had a flat bottom so it beaches upright.
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Awesome slabs of wood and I like the way you went for an unusual hand hold. Very cool.
That's sick, I made myself a sweet machete last year and I'm making the nandle out of satinwood right now... Got any more of that M42 kicking around you'd like to get rid of?Quote:
Originally Posted by Roxtar
This is awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by Orphic Seth
very nice! any interest in making an 11" right handed sashimi knife (yanagi)? ;) im kinda shopping around for one, but it would be sick to have a one of a kind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roxtar
Veeeeeeeeeeeeery nice !!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by EarlyWood
A crappy cell phone before/after pic of my buddy Savage's circa 1888 Idaho Spring's CO place. On left the temp wall after the Jeep plowed thru the front of their home (that she lived with for over 2 years), on the right the rebuilt (from hand dug foundation thru primed exterior) bay window and far wall (obscured). I still need to remake 2 matching brackets and his wife will add its painted lady final paint coat.
http://www.timvw.com/whooohooo/savag...fore_after.jpg
^^^at least the jeep had good aim and didn't clean out a structural wall (from what I can see).
Well... good aim if you don't count running over Savage, nearly killing him necessitating a 2+ year hospital stay with 34 major operations (and counting), putting him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.Quote:
Originally Posted by krp8128
(Sorry, I know you had no way to know that. Just venting... Peace out.)
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Guy responsible got off light.
Until Mr. Vomit gets through with him.Quote:
Originally Posted by karpiel
2nd. So creative and just plain beautiful. (Now I want one!)Quote:
Originally Posted by OSECS
Boot Camp and 4 years of heavily supervised probation. Damn, this guy play in the NFL or something?Quote:
Originally Posted by karpiel
Also the 18.5M settlement sounds like a lot, until you realize that Savage's life will never be the same.
I sure wouldn't trade being able to walk, ride a bike, ski, run around, etc for any amount of money. (34 surgeries and counting, severe permanent disfigurement requiring a wheelchair, and the fact that Savage's has to endure what is likely to be excruciating amounts of physical and emotional pain for the rest of his life is not something that I'd wish on even my worst enemy)
Want to be careful to not divulge any confidences... but as I understand it Driver was out of the slammer with "time served" after boot camp, instead of the 7 years. Good news is he is now back in jail after missing 8 urine analysis awaiting a court date... and sometime in the next month will learn his fate. I'm hoping they'll reimpose the remainder of his sentence?
On the large monetary amount in lawsuit... neither the asshole driving, his buddy who gave him the keys, nor the buddies Dad whose car it was have any money, and they had only CO minimum $25,000 auto insurance... so Savage seeing another dime of it is honestly doubtful. And their insurance company is paying to appeal the award at this point, because there is a small chance with some fancy legal maneuvering and 2 or 3 more lawsuits over 2 or 3 more years (and even more of what little money Savages have), that the damages could be flipped onto insurance company. Which, if that happened, I suspect will then file bankruptcy... so, regards money... sounds nice and all, but not so much. :( :( :( :( :(
jeesus, sorry to open that can of worms, and +++vibes to all involved....
Back to the build stoke. Need to add a tad more glass and put the seats back. Black gelcoat, ash and mahogany gunwales.
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Good Karma Mock!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by mock vomit
Root if I win the lotto could I convince you to build one more?
That knife is sweet...I saw some custom knives the other day that I was told were made from leaf springs off a snowcat at Mammoth. They were sick. I might be more impressed by the belt grinder though :D
this was a fun project including kids, wife, friends and beer.
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wife put her artistic skills to work
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local cannon bode shoutout
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two right boots
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race action...second overall
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^^^is that iceman?
mock, so sorry to read about your friend.
Got this done in just over one day recently. Nothing too impressive. Put a door in the back bedroom and added a small patio so when I get drunk and pass out back there, I can piss off the deck.
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