Hey Bill Just wanted to tell you that we enjoyed our visit at your place and meeting you and your family. Seems like you have a pretty great family, everyone...
James, om my mill, I have the saw operating on the rails between waist height and shoulder height, No bending, stooping, ect. An egronomics thing, I guess....
... down ... TJ, it was great to have you. Members, i saw a couple pieces of TJs work yesterday. This is not Dollar General, Wal mMart, or flea market work. I...
It was raining yesterday, so I went window shopping for materials per specifications for the procut mill. Much of it, I could not find specific local. But some...
Howdy Bill Is it flooding over there? The river under the bridge where we are working is so flooded, I had to go over the side and slide down a rope to our...
Today we got some cedar, one log would make a nice beam, the rest loike all cedar what ever you can get from it. I have a bit of cedar I am going to slab treat...
Bill, I don't know whether your guineas are exceptionally tame or whether mine were exceptionally wild. If yours are gentle because of some genetic mutation...
Bill, That's great but, if being tame is in the way they were raised I don't guess they have added value because of hereditary gentleness. I believe you also...
My fellow millers and Americans, if you wonder where our tax dollars are going, why you are not getting ahead, wonder no more. The answer is to get a...
I had/ still have some cedar, laying, some for 8 years, crooked, snarled, soft wood eaten by termites, grubs, and just plain rotted. Termoites do not scare...
Hi Bill, Have you tried "wet cutting"? That's running a small stream of water onto the end of your bar. I haven't yet, but I have read about it. Jeff...
Jeff, never tried that, I suppose the idea would be to cool the tip. What did it say was the advanatage? But it would slow my operation down , and make a mess...
... I went and gor a first hand look at this unit his morning. It is truely astounding, modren day equipement. In reality, I bought him home from the hospital...
In a nutshell, water is good for cooling and lubrication. It also helps with pitch buildup. I guess it doesn't make much of a mess....you don't have to set...
Jeff... We got 30-50 MPH winds and about 4 inches of rain on our mountain in NW Arkansas. It hit about 2:00 AM. We are pretty much straight north of Bill and...
Same thing here in NE Oklahoma except some gust got over 60 mph and managed to have a small limb knock a window out for me.. The 13 hours of rain sucked I...
... Thinking about the water cooling, I now find it interesting. Ike, lots of rain, and wind I guess. But we actually cut dwn a big dead pine, when the eue was...
... I am in Ozark County, Missouri, southeast of Springfield 90 miles. We got it starting at two-thirty. In four hours we got two inches of rain and enough...
Recently a discussion on axles. Funny you can change your brakes drive a vechile a million miles, but never look at it. And you can be left wondering why some,...
Bill: For the extendable tongue, look at the reach under a 4 wheel farm wagon running gear - one pipe slides inside the other, with evenly spaced holes in both...
The theory , buy a rear axle from a local scrap yard was good. Of course you are at the mercy of what comes through. Only 4 small cars local this week in...
Use to be if you drove a truck, there where three thingd that would get a man fired on the spot, cause him to have to catch a grey hound bus home. One was a...
Here at Poor Boy Construction, we make no prejudgments when hiring for a position. Recently there was an opunity to take on two indivuals, who came from a...
Rocketscientest is in the middle of a cut, all excited,the saw is pulling itseld, dud, thatis the way it is suppose to be. But I say, what, and he lets off the...
always put a couple of teaspoons of methylated spirits into the fuel tank every day of sawing. i have used a hundred machines over the years, still have 15...
Bill, I'm glad to see someone else using the glass jar method to look for water. I had water in the gas tank of a tractor once and drained it into a glass...
Yes, but hard to find glass any more with out buying, the old glass maso jar is worth its weight, I keep KOH water from my Hydrogen Gen in one, as I am still...