The following are a bunch of images from 2024 when I built 3 large tomato trellis projects. The tomatoes did fairly well hanging from the strings, and were single stemmed by removing all the suckers weekly. The tomatoes that were on the side of the barn where the walnut trees did no produce well at all…… Live and Learn. IE:
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This was done in 2023 …. just now uploading some images
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So, yes, I’m a bit lazy apparently getting this post up showing the deck completed…. but it did finally get done. Took way longer than I anticipated, but I think it was worth the wait. Figured I should at least show the final outcome of the thing….
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So it has been awhile since I put anything new on the blog, so with some spare time that I have during this whole virus thing, I thought I would share some of the shop updates that have been going on. Starting in 2020, along with the deck, and some other projects, I also started to insulate my shop. This
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2019-2021 progress so far. So in 2019, we put up a 28′ round pool. In 2020, the wife decided it’s deck building time. After alot of back and forth and deliberation, we decided to put the deck all the way around the pool in order to get the best use of the deck/pool/privacy the deck surround would provide. Several people
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A group of photos showing the building of a tilt out hickory trash bin.
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Sargent #409 Type 5 Smoothing Plane – Circa 1942-1950 So in this post, I’m going to show the restoration process of this Sargent hand plane. For brevity, most of the commentary will be in notations on the images. This is not an expensive plane by any means, but it was definitely a restorable plane, and I couldn’t just throw it
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So, it starts with finding a ton of hand planes that need restoring. After finding a huge lot of planes to restore, it’s sifting through what is actually “worth” restoring, not for reselling, but worth my time investment to bring them back to life. If I won’t use it, then it isn’t worth my time to mess with it. Many
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So I had made a cutting board for my mother back…oh lets say 40 odd years ago..in shop class, and she used it all the time, and it finally just gave up the ghost. So, when your mom wants a new cutting board, you make her a new cutting board…. It had to be fairly lightweight and she wanted it
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