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So there I am, sweating like a “Whore in church” trying to get my Rhino unstuck from a snow drift while trying to get out on the ice to slay some Perch. Well after about 3 hours of digging-pulling-tugging and such, we finally get her out. So I decide I’m too old for this sh1t…..I need a winch...

My grandpa used to say that, and it seems to be applying to me, with this damn “Carriage stop” project. Well, here we are, with a little “free time” and I decide that its time to conquer Mount “Carriage Stop”…. This will be my 3rd attempt……... This appears to be a fairly simple project that...

Get your mind out of the gutter…………...;) I left the trailer outside the other day, and well, true to form…………….It snowed like hell. Well I break out the shovel and about 2.6 seconds later, I say to myself…….”Hey dumbass, what “tool” do you have that would make this job easier???????" Enter...

I’m reasonably sure it’s an AI thing, but I thought it was kinda cool.

So my “calibration regimen" is basically non-existant……. I wish I could clim some "high ground" when it comes to calibrating my ‘precision tools’ , but alas, I can’t. But I just bought a new (actually brand new….not just “new to me” new)1-2 inch Mitutoyo micrometer, that they claim is accurate...

So there I am plowing out the kids, and I have to remove the “gravel shoes” for the plow…. Its set up like this….. Well for the 323,597th time the M_^%%%#$#@g stack of washers they gave me as “spacers” winds up like so….. It’s 300 degrees below zero, I cant find my gloves so my fingers...

If you want to destroy your enemies, what better way than to make it rain uncontrollably….in the middle of winter!!!! All I have to do is attach this “Rain Making Device” to the front of my truck, and PRESTO!!!!!! Instant rain for a week…………. I can also “tank their economy” ……All I have...

So I was taking my “new to me” rotary table down stairs to the shop, when the hub for the wheel on my Chi-Com HF hand truck cracked. Luckily it did so before I hit the stairs, but now I gotta replace/fix it. Now before we get started, I am FULLY AWARE that a replacement wheel is like 20 bucks...

So there it is……My Bridgport. It has been sitting there for a few weeks and now its really getting in the way. The garage is packed…..It’s cold as all hell out there, and I need to "light a fire” under my own ass…... First things first though. I gotta be able to move it from “place to place”...

EDIT: Although I did not write it out specifically, I turned the power/breaker on and off at the appropriate times to avoid electrocution, throughout this entire debacle….(y) So there I am lying in bed, all snuggly and warm, when I realize my nose is a little colder than normal. Hmmmm...

So here we are. I have a day off and decide to do a “fun project” instead of the 246,956 other things I should be doing. On my list, is a “easy” carriage stop that I would like to have/do/make. So it’s off to the scrap pile to root around for the material. I decide on this piece due to the...

So we have decided to get the “internet” at our place up north, and I have "reluctantly decided" to install a security/camera system. The main focus of this system is/was to monitor the temperature. I installed a “smart thermostat” about a year ago, and have tried to "cobble together” a...

OK fellas, I finally “stepped up to the plate” and bought a Bridgeport. I still have to get it in the basement, but when I do, I have to power it; So I am trying to “think ahead” a little and formulate a “plan of attack”. Like most people, I obviously have single phase power, so I am going to...

As Ted Nugent would so eloquently say……”Whack’em and stack’em” my friends. (y) Last week my wife unfortunately "filled her tag” using the mini-van. Man….3 deer strikes in 4 years is getting ridiculous…... The important part is that she has not been hurt. The guy that stopped to help her...

Welcome to the new show called…….”Name that Tool”…where you can win valuable prizes and vacations and stuff…..(NOT) Hi…..My name is Runs With Scissors, and I am a “Tool-Aholic”…. So the other day, I was sitting at my desk, and a Gravitational Vortex ripped the fabric of Space-Time (yes, it's...

Well I plumbed my plasma cutter for air when I first got it, and well……it worked. But the “black pipe connections” pipes leak a little…..(too much) My "tooling circumstances" have changed a wee bit, and I have to “re-plumb” it. I have also decided to plumb the rest of the shop with a series...

Well there I am working on the my Chi-Com mill, back story posted below. https://www.orangetractortalks.com/forums/threads/when-your-cheapness-catches-up-with-you-need-a-little-help-from-the-electronics-gurus.77082/ I am moving along quite well with the X and Y axis. Pretty simple and...

So I have this Mitutoyo indicator and the “tip” of it is at an angle. I recently saw a “Joe Pie” video where he seemed to just grab the tip and use his finger to just move the tip into a different direction. Before I try that to mine, (and sure as hell break it off or strip something out)...

Well as I was pricing out rear leaf springs for my truck, I noticed the shipping was going to be “stupid expensive”. Somewhere north of 365 bucks Since this joint is on my way to the cottage, I know exactly where it’s at. So I reason that I could "make a run” up there, and be back by mid...

Well there I am about a year’ish ago, sitting on my chair in the driveway, enjoy’ing a “Fat bottom Betty” cigar, looking at my truck from a rear view. Hmmmm???? It seems to be “listing port” a wee bit. I put this in my “memory bank” for future useage. Well the next time I put it in the air...