Duck
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I got it for spreading salt. It sucked at that job. So I left it outside for 16 years to punish it.
Duck Pond Redneckery
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Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
It could've been used to spread fertilizer but, now we have the internet for that.
Duck
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6 empty coffee mate creamer bottles and two scraps of polyethylene.
It would've been great to have when I built the greenhouse, because I had two different sizes of metric bolts, metric nuts, quarter inch American bolts and nuts, 10 mm & 7/16 sockets and wrenches to keep separate.
It would've been great to have when I built the greenhouse, because I had two different sizes of metric bolts, metric nuts, quarter inch American bolts and nuts, 10 mm & 7/16 sockets and wrenches to keep separate.
so...doh...now that you got that junk in those containers, you still don't have anyplace to put your nuts..????
Duck
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I made another one out of stuff from the yard.
The flat piece is black walnut wood from a limb that fell down last year.
The handle is a hollow piece of a thistle stalk. That shits as strong as bamboo when it dries out.
And the vertical pieces are from the mulberry tree.
The flat piece is black walnut wood from a limb that fell down last year.
The handle is a hollow piece of a thistle stalk. That shits as strong as bamboo when it dries out.
And the vertical pieces are from the mulberry tree.
Duck
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Bull thistle.
It's a weed you don't want to step on without shoes. Everyone has these in their yard.
That's what it looks like in the first year. But if you don't mow it, in the 2nd year it'll start growing a stalk. Gets about 3-4 feet tall.
There's a small lizard in the bottom picture.
That main stalk is hollow and kinda flexible when it's green but if you cut it & remove all the spikey stuff, after it dries out it's super lightweight and very strong.
Just like wood, you can cut it, sand it, drill it, glue it, etc.
It's a weed you don't want to step on without shoes. Everyone has these in their yard.
That's what it looks like in the first year. But if you don't mow it, in the 2nd year it'll start growing a stalk. Gets about 3-4 feet tall.
There's a small lizard in the bottom picture.
That main stalk is hollow and kinda flexible when it's green but if you cut it & remove all the spikey stuff, after it dries out it's super lightweight and very strong.
Just like wood, you can cut it, sand it, drill it, glue it, etc.
Fageol
Old acid hauler but not too caustic
Since I'm come from the era where there were only prokaryotes (I must have been the exception that made the rule), I never had to worry about getting snatched when I left the family cave. Of course bacteria and archaea were abundant then, so there was no less danger; it was just sneakier.
Fageol
Old acid hauler but not too caustic
The mulberry resemble the diamond willow that we have up this way.sa
That reminds me to get a bigger (like 8" set of dikes). I was going to get some of those Craftsman compound leverage ones from Lowes. They're better for removing nails and cutting that damn copper clad aluminum wire that supplies current all over this house in its own chaotic way. Well anyway, I got diverted by a wine tasting with my friend, Sierra, and my other friends Mike and Jane (Jane is a chemist and also a sommelier and she helped out the apprentice sommelier who led the tasting at Post 28). Sierra and I mostly BSd and drank. She told me that we had enough French wine so no French kissing. Damn!
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Duck
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This one is made from dead sticks I cut off of an osage orange tree.
Osage orange wood never rots. All of the horseapple trees I grew up building forts in, which were dead in the 1980's and nearly impossible to pound nails into, are still standing and they still have light twiggy branches on them, because the wood simply doesn't rot & fall off like on other trees.
It's twice as hard as white oak, and if you burn it as firewood, it's got the highest BTU rating of all species of trees native to North America.
Indians used to make their archery bows with it. A bow made from Osage orange wood could be traded for a horse & a blanket.
The trees are creepy looking & full of thorns though. And they drop those stupid monkey brain horseapple things everywhere. So you don't want one in your yard.
Osage orange wood never rots. All of the horseapple trees I grew up building forts in, which were dead in the 1980's and nearly impossible to pound nails into, are still standing and they still have light twiggy branches on them, because the wood simply doesn't rot & fall off like on other trees.
It's twice as hard as white oak, and if you burn it as firewood, it's got the highest BTU rating of all species of trees native to North America.
Indians used to make their archery bows with it. A bow made from Osage orange wood could be traded for a horse & a blanket.
The trees are creepy looking & full of thorns though. And they drop those stupid monkey brain horseapple things everywhere. So you don't want one in your yard.
Duck
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I was being extremely stupid when I went out searching the hedgerows 2 fields away from the Duck Pond in search of osage orange trees though.
Stupid because I brought the dog with me. I found a little grove of them by the creek, on the edge of a little forested area, and I didn't bring a gun.
This area is crawling with coyotes. And that's exactly where the damn things sleep in the daytime.
I had the dog on a 15 foot cable tethered to the 4 wheeler rack, so after I strapped down the dead sticks I cut, I unhooked the cable and walked the dog down the embankment to the creek so he can drink some water.
I walked right past a big sink hole and I saw brown fur in it. It was probably a coyote den.
I got the hell outta there.
Stupid because I brought the dog with me. I found a little grove of them by the creek, on the edge of a little forested area, and I didn't bring a gun.
This area is crawling with coyotes. And that's exactly where the damn things sleep in the daytime.
I had the dog on a 15 foot cable tethered to the 4 wheeler rack, so after I strapped down the dead sticks I cut, I unhooked the cable and walked the dog down the embankment to the creek so he can drink some water.
I walked right past a big sink hole and I saw brown fur in it. It was probably a coyote den.
I got the hell outta there.
Duck
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Macgyver my ass, more like....."Rube Goldberg"....
Christ @Duck , just put a frigging cable lock, from the bicycle section at wally-world on the damned thing....
you posted on December 14th, the "dog incident", and you posted the "fix" on December 21st...
took you THAT long to "Goldberg" that contraption, when a quick run to wally-world on your super-whizzer "GoldWing" could have been done in about an hour..???
what's infuriating, is that you did not post like 35,000 frigging pictures of your progress.....
dumbass...........
oh, Merry Christmas to you and Sarah.......
dumbass.............
Duck
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I don't know what "dog incident" you're yakkin about but this took me about 3 hours.
The latches on the dog jail are those stupid slide bolt thingies and they're a pain in the ass.
this from YOU....dumbass...I was being extremely stupid when I went out searching the hedgerows 2 fields away from the Duck Pond in search of osage orange trees though.
Stupid because I brought the dog with me. I found a little grove of them by the creek, on the edge of a little forested area, and I didn't bring a gun.
This area is crawling with coyotes. And that's exactly where the damn things sleep in the daytime.
I had the dog on a 15 foot cable tethered to the 4 wheeler rack, so after I strapped down the dead sticks I cut, I unhooked the cable and walked the dog down the embankment to the creek so he can drink some water.
I walked right past a big sink hole and I saw brown fur in it. It was probably a coyote den.
I got the hell outta there.
doh.......now do you know what da fook you said...?????
you got that old-timers memory loss, do ya..?????
dumb ass.....
and you didn't wish ME a MERRY CHRISTMAS....
dumb ass.
and it took you like 3 hours, but several days to post it...???
dumb ass.
Duck
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I know what I posted but what's that's got to do with the dog jail?
And I WOULD say merry Christmas but I already told the ghost of Christmas past to tell you that when he visits you.
Uncle Birchy
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That was too "cruel" even for the likes of @GAnthony ...
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