Shreck
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Where was your dog? That’s his job.This little guy got stuck trying to get into the trash can in the shop.
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I got it out & turned it loose in the field.
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gearjammer
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Duck
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The dog alerted me to it's presence.
Duck
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I was unable to blow ice out of the garden hoses, using the 155 psi air compressor. So I rolled them up and brought them into the shop to thaw out. Then I was able to take them back outside and blow them out.
A simple task. No exciting science or physics involved or anything. I should have taken a bunch of pictures for @GAnthony but my hands were filthy wet and muddy and frozen.
A simple task. No exciting science or physics involved or anything. I should have taken a bunch of pictures for @GAnthony but my hands were filthy wet and muddy and frozen.
Duck
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A squirrel left this for me right outside the shop door.
It's a black walnut shell. This is the approximate shape the squirrel left it. I just ran it on the belt sander a little bit.
These things start out green, then they fall and turn black. They make a ton of noise when I hit them with the mower.
It's a black walnut shell. This is the approximate shape the squirrel left it. I just ran it on the belt sander a little bit.
These things start out green, then they fall and turn black. They make a ton of noise when I hit them with the mower.
Duck
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I've got those too. Actually they're spruce but same thing pretty much. They're loud too.
But those walnuts, I was still working on that post when my phone f*ed up on me. Battery was crashing so I just hit "post" figuring I'd plug in the phone and edit it. But even when it was plugged in, it was only drawing 0.4 amps from the USB port and the battery was still crashing. I had to turn it totally off, and then it only charged at 0.8 amps. It usually pulls 1.37 amps.
Anyhow,.. the walnut..
When I held it up to the belt sander I expected it to quickly sand through it but no. It was like sanding a piece of dense hardwood.
The wood from the black walnut tree is really dense and strong. It's really good, strong, dense hardwood. The only reason I don't use it for outdoor stuff is it's perishable. Doesn't have the weathering capabilities of osage orange (my favorite wood) or white oak.
I'm thinking I can use black walnut shells as sandblasting media.
I hear silica sand, the best sandblasting media, is worse than asbestos to breathe.
Other media like glass beads is ridiculously expensive even at Harbor Freight.
But how do I separate the hard shell material from the nut meat?
Well, we've all seen the original 1971 Gene Wilder version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
The scene with the squirrels that sort the golden eggs.
I'll use squirrels as my employees like Willy Wonka.
First I need a dead squirrel so I can measure it's head.
Squirrels are rodents, and rodents can squeeze their whole bodies through any hole big enough for their skull to fit though.
Then I need to measure an average size walnut.
If I make a cage to fill with the walnuts, with an entry hole only big enough for the squirrels to get through without a walnut in it's mouth, the squirrels will not be able to take them out, but they'll be able to go in & eat them.
Eventually there should be nothing left in the cage but the shell material.
Then I'll need some way to crush them up into fine particles for sandblasting.
I could sell it by the pound. I've got three black walnut trees.
"Processed by live squirrels"
gearjammer
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or you could just buy walnut blasting media at around a buck a lb give or takeI've got those too. Actually they're spruce but same thing pretty much. They're loud too.
But those walnuts, I was still working on that post when my phone f*ed up on me. Battery was crashing so I just hit "post" figuring I'd plug in the phone and edit it. But even when it was plugged in, it was only drawing 0.4 amps from the USB port and the battery was still crashing. I had to turn it totally off, and then it only charged at 0.8 amps. It usually pulls 1.37 amps.
Anyhow,.. the walnut..
When I held it up to the belt sander I expected it to quickly sand through it but no. It was like sanding a piece of dense hardwood.
The wood from the black walnut tree is really dense and strong. It's really good, strong, dense hardwood. The only reason I don't use it for outdoor stuff is it's perishable. Doesn't have the weathering capabilities of osage orange (my favorite wood) or white oak.
I'm thinking I can use black walnut shells as sandblasting media.
I hear silica sand, the best sandblasting media, is worse than asbestos to breathe.
Other media like glass beads is ridiculously expensive even at Harbor Freight.
But how do I separate the hard shell material from the nut meat?
Well, we've all seen the original 1971 Gene Wilder version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
The scene with the squirrels that sort the golden eggs.
I'll use squirrels as my employees like Willy Wonka.
First I need a dead squirrel so I can measure it's head.
Squirrels are rodents, and rodents can squeeze their whole bodies through any hole big enough for their skull to fit though.
Then I need to measure an average size walnut.
If I make a cage to fill with the walnuts, with an entry hole only big enough for the squirrels to get through without a walnut in it's mouth, the squirrels will not be able to take them out, but they'll be able to go in & eat them.
Eventually there should be nothing left in the cage but the shell material.
Then I'll need some way to crush them up into fine particles for sandblasting.
I could sell it by the pound. I've got three black walnut trees.
"Processed by live squirrels"
Electric Chicken
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I need to get some of those so that when someone asks me what I'm doing I can say "blasting my nuts."
Duck
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I've never seen it around here.
gearjammer
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if you can't find it locally Amazon is your friend
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Bezos isn't.
Electric Chicken
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Duck
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I just watched some total f*n moron chase down a white dog and I think he killed it.
Dude was on a UTV. The dog was running circles around the UTV but instead of getting off & grabbing the dog, he just kept turning the UTV around.
I don't know who it was.
Normally the guy who chases dogs around with a UTV is Robbie, but unless he just upgraded, it wasn't his UTV. And his dogs are pit bulls. One gray, one brown. And when he left he went past Robbies without stopping.
But while he was chasing the dog around, I switched from my hoody to my warm coat, grabbed a hat and gloves and my ATV key. Took me about 30 seconds because it was all right here in the shop.
But before I could open the door to pull out the 4 wheeler, I looked out at the field and the dog was laying down in the dirt, not moving, and the UTV was circling around.
I stood & watched him get out of the UTV and pick up the dog and carry it to the road where a woman with a white crossover SUV thingy had stopped and was walking across the levee (I didn't see if that car was a Chevy).
Dude handed her the dog and she carried it to the car, limping, and then he went back to the UTV and left. They both went west. Slowly too.
Weird.
Nobody I know on this road has a white dog except me, and mine is right here.
I hope the dog is OK.
Dude was on a UTV. The dog was running circles around the UTV but instead of getting off & grabbing the dog, he just kept turning the UTV around.
I don't know who it was.
Normally the guy who chases dogs around with a UTV is Robbie, but unless he just upgraded, it wasn't his UTV. And his dogs are pit bulls. One gray, one brown. And when he left he went past Robbies without stopping.
But while he was chasing the dog around, I switched from my hoody to my warm coat, grabbed a hat and gloves and my ATV key. Took me about 30 seconds because it was all right here in the shop.
But before I could open the door to pull out the 4 wheeler, I looked out at the field and the dog was laying down in the dirt, not moving, and the UTV was circling around.
I stood & watched him get out of the UTV and pick up the dog and carry it to the road where a woman with a white crossover SUV thingy had stopped and was walking across the levee (I didn't see if that car was a Chevy).
Dude handed her the dog and she carried it to the car, limping, and then he went back to the UTV and left. They both went west. Slowly too.
Weird.
Nobody I know on this road has a white dog except me, and mine is right here.
I hope the dog is OK.
as long as you didn't take a shit, then wipe your ass with those dirty hands, you have no excuse to not go over board and take a gazillion pictures.
Duck
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My 105 gallon water bag fell off the pallet rack.
Supposedly it's less than 4 feet in length.
The pallet rack shelf is 4 feet wide.
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The valve end was overhanging the edge after it got low on water and flattened out. Then when all that was left was pooled up in the overhanging part, it just slid right off the rack.
I filled it with air to hold it puffed up so I can measure it for Styrofoam I'm putting under it, and clean the dust off of it. And of course, my damn dog peed on it while it was on the floor.
Anyway here's a full size desktop PC keyboard on it for scale.
I don't see how that's 105 gallons because it looks less volumous than the trash can in the shop, which is a 55 gallon water barrel with the top sawn off.
I guess I can math it out later, by the dimensions given, which are probably accurate. It's hard to measure an object this shape, but it looks about right. My half assed measurement was “32 x 40 plus room for the valve, fuck it 32 x 48"
It's a garden hose fitting for the drain. But I think the top is some kind of metric chopsticks thing. I'd like to be able to vent it up into the attic so the sulfur dioxide in the well water can get out & the water won't stink so much when I fill the dog s water bowl.
Supposedly it's less than 4 feet in length.
The pallet rack shelf is 4 feet wide.
Ad photo w/dimensions:
The valve end was overhanging the edge after it got low on water and flattened out. Then when all that was left was pooled up in the overhanging part, it just slid right off the rack.
I filled it with air to hold it puffed up so I can measure it for Styrofoam I'm putting under it, and clean the dust off of it. And of course, my damn dog peed on it while it was on the floor.
Anyway here's a full size desktop PC keyboard on it for scale.
I don't see how that's 105 gallons because it looks less volumous than the trash can in the shop, which is a 55 gallon water barrel with the top sawn off.
I guess I can math it out later, by the dimensions given, which are probably accurate. It's hard to measure an object this shape, but it looks about right. My half assed measurement was “32 x 40 plus room for the valve, fuck it 32 x 48"
It's a garden hose fitting for the drain. But I think the top is some kind of metric chopsticks thing. I'd like to be able to vent it up into the attic so the sulfur dioxide in the well water can get out & the water won't stink so much when I fill the dog s water bowl.
Duck
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Scraps of 2" polystyrene forming a nest:
Covered with a cheap harbor freight movers blanket, then heating pad.
Heating pad for germinating plants.
I sat on it in a hammock chair for a while. It's just barely tolerable. It gets pretty hot.
Heating pad has a sensor you're supposed to stick in the dirt so it can maintain the right temperature.
In Celsius
Heating pad is on a piece of sheet metal. The idea is the heating pad gets hot on both sides. So the sheet metal under it should wick the bottom heat out to where it extends beyond the heating pad, transferring it into the water bag.
More efficiency.
I used foil tape to tape the temperature sensor to a scrap of aluminum can metal to embiggen the sensing area so it'll respond quicker. Maybe. I dunno.
Heat isn't going to transfer very quickly through the heavy material the water bag is made of. So why not increase the conduction area?
Me just thinks it'll be a better temperature regulation that way.
I plan on maintaining 70°F so it won't freeze my hands when I wash them. That's it. No warmer than that.
And next time I go out I'm getting more harbor freight moving blankets to cover it.
Or maybe an old poly-woly-nylon piece of shit, "slide off the bunk when co-driver hits the brakes" type of sleeping bag.
Having a large thermal mass in the shop when the heat is turned off, will probably conduct more heat into the air than the heating pad can keep up with. So it's getting a couple of blankies.
Sarah couldn't figure out how I wasn't falling down like this.
Covered with a cheap harbor freight movers blanket, then heating pad.
Heating pad for germinating plants.
I sat on it in a hammock chair for a while. It's just barely tolerable. It gets pretty hot.
Heating pad has a sensor you're supposed to stick in the dirt so it can maintain the right temperature.
In Celsius
Heating pad is on a piece of sheet metal. The idea is the heating pad gets hot on both sides. So the sheet metal under it should wick the bottom heat out to where it extends beyond the heating pad, transferring it into the water bag.
More efficiency.
I used foil tape to tape the temperature sensor to a scrap of aluminum can metal to embiggen the sensing area so it'll respond quicker. Maybe. I dunno.
Heat isn't going to transfer very quickly through the heavy material the water bag is made of. So why not increase the conduction area?
Me just thinks it'll be a better temperature regulation that way.
I plan on maintaining 70°F so it won't freeze my hands when I wash them. That's it. No warmer than that.
And next time I go out I'm getting more harbor freight moving blankets to cover it.
Or maybe an old poly-woly-nylon piece of shit, "slide off the bunk when co-driver hits the brakes" type of sleeping bag.
Having a large thermal mass in the shop when the heat is turned off, will probably conduct more heat into the air than the heating pad can keep up with. So it's getting a couple of blankies.
Sarah couldn't figure out how I wasn't falling down like this.
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