Typical 'Snow Day' videos from the last storm.

 

Typical 'Snow Day' videos from the last storm.

Cool video. It looks like an old black & white until you notice the color of peoples' clothing.

 

Cool video. It looks like an old black & white until you notice the color of peoples' clothing.

A lot of the city is built in a still dense forest so when it snows the contrast is stark.

 

 

Challenge accepted

 

Below 80F all week. Medium cloudy. Time for winter chores in Florida.
Still a bit sweaty out there, but much better than "above 90F".

Need to play, "whack-a-tree" but the chain saw didn't show up yet.

 

Below 80F all week. Medium cloudy. Time for winter chores in Florida.
Still a bit sweaty out there, but much better than "above 90F".

Need to play, "whack-a-tree" but the chain saw didn't show up yet.

Is the wood from that tree good for any use?

 

Below 80F all week. Medium cloudy. Time for winter chores in Florida.
Still a bit sweaty out there, but much better than "above 90F".

We've had rain nearly every day for the last week here in the south. This is strange since we are in the middle of dry season.

 

Is the wood from that tree good for any use?

Lots of uses. You can lift it several times and build muscles, burn it once to make heat, give it to a neighbor so he can burn it, put 4 legs on a log and call it a chair, use them for a parking stop in your driveway, carve a face on it and call it art...

 

carve a face on it and call it art...

pardon me... but I cannot possibly imagine you carving wood for artistic purposes... or have you ever given it a try?

 

carving wood for artistic purposes... or have you ever given it a try?

I'm not an artistic guy, but I'm real good with crafts. Once I spent a year with an artist woman and I caught it by osmosis. At the end of a year I could draw the cover for a comic book, and it looked like real people.
When it comes to craftiness pushing the edge of art, I would be likely to make a piece of furniture and find somebody calling it art.
Trying to do art on purpose? Not likely.

 

I would be likely to make a piece of furniture and find somebody calling it art.

So you're a practical artist?... interesting... you sound like a civil engineer with a sensitive side...

 

I'm sure I've posted photos of my carpentry work.

 

Time to restock the booze and beer supplies.

http://www.kptv.com/link/492613/fox-12-weather-blog

• DURING THIS PERIOD, EAST PORTLAND OUT TO THE GORGE LIKELY REMAINS BELOW FREEZING
• If models are correct, 1-2″ ice could form on all exposed surfaces, doing tremendous damage to trees/powerlines that we haven’t seen in 20 years.

http://koin.com/2017/01/16/car-down-embakment-in-gresham-icy-roads-still-dangerous/

 

I'm sure I've posted photos of my carpentry work.

You probably have... but I've never seen them before... nice work, btw!

 

nice work, btw!

Thanks.
For me, carpentry is a lot easier than electronics, sheet metal, or fixing cars.
I can do 'em all, but slapping together a work bench comes as natural as teaching a 555 to be a metronome.
The difference is, I don't have to look things up to build the work bench. It's too easy.

 

@#12
What jig did you use to make that box joint? Do you have photos of it?

http://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/attachments/wood-003-jpg.118873/

 

I designed and made it. Just like you and I slap together a battery charger, I slap together woodworking jigs.

 

I designed and made it. Just like you and I slap together a battery charger, I slap together woodworking jigs.

Thanks, I knew you'd have a simple solution. I'm going to try that.
My first attempt will be with a router table instead of table saw. It router table doesn't work, I'll buy a used table saw.

 

I'll buy a used table saw.

That jig was designed for my table saw. I used 1/2 " aluminum box beam, split long-wise, to ride in the table saw grooves. Stingy side down or it will stick in the groove so bad! Candle wax for lube. Then an adjustable dado head. The slot has to be the same width as the distance the metal tooth is off center. (That means you don't have to be perfect, you just have to adjust the slot to match the prong.)