Woke up this mornin' with an awful racket like two kids under the bed
fightin' with aluminum swords. Beam had busted on the carport and was
bangin' against the thin aluminum roofing panels. Tried patchin' it
together after Rita. Gonna hafta replace the whole carport.

Front yard covered with pine limbs all over 10". I've been thinkin'
'bout taking down the three pines in the front but just can't bring
myself to do it.

Got out the chipper, loppers, rakes etc. Up at 5:30 this mornin' and
put up the chipper about 7:00pm. (I'm old and crippled and have to take
a lotta coffee breaks. It takes me all night long to do what I used to
do all night long.) Have a pile of big stuff for the debris truck and a
big pile of pine mulch.

Kinda tore up the hibiscus and roses, but nothin' that won't grow back.
Only a cat 1 hurricane. Rearranged some outdoor furniture. About 10
or 12 big palm fronds down in the back yard. Nothin' like Rita, which
put 56 fronds on the ground. Rita was bad. Real bad.

South East Texas. Nederland. Bum and Wade Phillips. Tex and John
Ritter. Kevin Everett (close by in Port Arthur)(he might miss the
wheelchair).

Y'all take care. God bless.
--
Ted
I wasn't born in Texas but
I got back here as soon as I could


A metal's temper doesn't mean it is angry.

xPosTech wrote:

Woke up this mornin' with an awful racket like two kids under the bed
fightin' with aluminum swords. Beam had busted on the carport and was
bangin' against the thin aluminum roofing panels. Tried patchin' it
together after Rita. Gonna hafta replace the whole carport.

up here in NC we're in the middle of the worse drought in my
lifetime and according to the record keeping the worst on
record here since 1933.

http://www.wral.com/weather/
I've been tracking the remains of Humberto and hope this
Farm gets some rain from what's left of the storm. the
soybean crop is just about toast. I do believe it is
only by the grace of God Himself there is anything left
of the 2007 bean crop. if it rains here tomorrow it'd
be just like God to be right on time with exactly what
I need.


Front yard covered with pine limbs all over 10".

we got hit by a strange wind shear here about three
weeks ago and with over 25 acres of forest land I'm
still collecting the remains of hardwoods that were
converted into firewood.

I've been thinkin'
'bout taking down the three pines in the front but just can't bring
myself to do it.

I do tree removal as a side to my landscaping.

Got out the chipper, loppers, rakes etc. Up at 5:30 this mornin' and
put up the chipper about 7:00pm. (I'm old and crippled and have to take
a lotta coffee breaks.

after realizing how limbs over 4.5" are really firewood I
purchased a DR chipper. here are some pictures of the DR
I put on my webpage.
http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/t...anter/drc.html

It takes me all night long to do what I used to
do all night long.) Have a pile of big stuff for the debris truck and a
big pile of pine mulch.

I been using the DR to chip wild cherry. makes a beautiful
flower bed mulch and customers love it.



[....]

Y'all take care. God bless.
--
Ted
I wasn't born in Texas but
I got back here as soon as I could

A metal's temper doesn't mean it is angry.

that's right and when sharpening blades one needs to take
care the take the temper out of the metal.
http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/t...-workshop.html

God bless U2 Ted,
Jim

"Jim" wrote in message
...
xPosTech wrote:

Woke up this mornin' with an awful racket like two kids under the bed
fightin' with aluminum swords. Beam had busted on the carport and was
bangin' against the thin aluminum roofing panels. Tried patchin' it
together after Rita. Gonna hafta replace the whole carport.

up here in NC we're in the middle of the worse drought in my
lifetime and according to the record keeping the worst on
record here since 1933.

http://www.wral.com/weather/
I've been tracking the remains of Humberto and hope this
Farm gets some rain from what's left of the storm. the
soybean crop is just about toast. I do believe it is
only by the grace of God Himself there is anything left
of the 2007 bean crop. if it rains here tomorrow it'd
be just like God to be right on time with exactly what
I need.


Front yard covered with pine limbs all over 10".

we got hit by a strange wind shear here about three
weeks ago and with over 25 acres of forest land I'm
still collecting the remains of hardwoods that were
converted into firewood.

I've been thinkin'
'bout taking down the three pines in the front but just can't bring
myself to do it.

I do tree removal as a side to my landscaping.

Got out the chipper, loppers, rakes etc. Up at 5:30 this mornin' and
put up the chipper about 7:00pm. (I'm old and crippled and have to take
a lotta coffee breaks.

after realizing how limbs over 4.5" are really firewood I
purchased a DR chipper. here are some pictures of the DR
I put on my webpage.
http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/t...anter/drc.html

It takes me all night long to do what I used to
do all night long.) Have a pile of big stuff for the debris truck and a
big pile of pine mulch.

I been using the DR to chip wild cherry. makes a beautiful
flower bed mulch and customers love it.



[....]

Y'all take care. God bless.
--
Ted
I wasn't born in Texas but
I got back here as soon as I could

A metal's temper doesn't mean it is angry.

that's right and when sharpening blades one needs to take
care the take the temper out of the metal.
http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/t...-workshop.html

God bless U2 Ted,
Jim

Nice DR very nice

tll

"Jim" wrote in message
...
xPosTech wrote:

snip-

that's right and when sharpening blades one needs to take
care the take the temper out of the metal.
http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/t...-workshop.html

God bless U2 Ted,
Jim

Nice presentation on blade sharpening.

I bought a 6" bench grinder earlier this spring to sharpen my lawn mower
blade.
It was fairly easy on the first side, as in your illustration, ie right side
of the grinder.
(although I hadn't worked out a good solution to hold the angle as you have)
My grinder came with a wire brush on the left side.
When I went to sharpen the other side of the blade I...
I...
well I got confused as to how to go about it upside down.

Your grinder appears to have a finer wheel on the left side.
How do you handle sharpening the other side of the blade?

DS wrote:

Jim wrote:
xPosTech wrote:

snip-

that's right and when sharpening blades one needs to take
care the take the temper out of the metal.
http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/t...-workshop.html

God bless U2 Ted,
Jim

Nice presentation on blade sharpening.

thanks. back when I first got my digital camera and then
being set free from the cost of film I took lots of pictures
of most everything.

I can go into my picture folders and look at the dates of
the pictures and tell when equipment maintenance was done.
while looking at a picture of the 302 motor in the F150 I
noticed a vacuum line disconnected. went back out to the
truck and sure enough the picture did not lie, so I
reconnected the line.


I bought a 6" bench grinder earlier this spring to sharpen my lawn mower
blade.
It was fairly easy on the first side, as in your illustration, ie right side
of the grinder.
(although I hadn't worked out a good solution to hold the angle as you have)
My grinder came with a wire brush on the left side.

that wire brush comes in real handy for removing the
sticky buildup wild onions leave on a blade. every
spring it's always the same tough job of removing that
stuck on wild onion goo.

When I went to sharpen the other side of the blade I...
I...
well I got confused as to how to go about it upside down.

Your grinder appears to have a finer wheel on the left side.
How do you handle sharpening the other side of the blade?

both ends of the blade are sharpened on the right side
wheel of the grinder. with your grinder not running place
one cutting edge of a blade up next to the grinder wheel.
now lift the blade up and rotate the blade from it's center
mounting hole to simulate the same rotation the blade would
make while bolted to the spindle on the mower. after one
full rotation notice how the other cutting edge of the blade
is now just above the same right side grinder wheel.

Thanks so much for the reply.
I went right out to test it and it surely works.
I couldn't renact my earlier dilemma try as I could.
I don't know what I was thinking, then.

Thanks again,
DS

"Jim" wrote in message
...
DS wrote:

Jim wrote:
xPosTech wrote:

snip-

that's right and when sharpening blades one needs to take
care the take the temper out of the metal.
http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/t...-workshop.html

God bless U2 Ted,
Jim

Nice presentation on blade sharpening.

thanks. back when I first got my digital camera and then
being set free from the cost of film I took lots of pictures
of most everything.

I can go into my picture folders and look at the dates of
the pictures and tell when equipment maintenance was done.
while looking at a picture of the 302 motor in the F150 I
noticed a vacuum line disconnected. went back out to the
truck and sure enough the picture did not lie, so I
reconnected the line.


I bought a 6" bench grinder earlier this spring to sharpen my lawn mower
blade.
It was fairly easy on the first side, as in your illustration, ie right
side
of the grinder.
(although I hadn't worked out a good solution to hold the angle as you
have)
My grinder came with a wire brush on the left side.

that wire brush comes in real handy for removing the
sticky buildup wild onions leave on a blade. every
spring it's always the same tough job of removing that
stuck on wild onion goo.

When I went to sharpen the other side of the blade I...
I...
well I got confused as to how to go about it upside down.

Your grinder appears to have a finer wheel on the left side.
How do you handle sharpening the other side of the blade?

both ends of the blade are sharpened on the right side
wheel of the grinder. with your grinder not running place
one cutting edge of a blade up next to the grinder wheel.
now lift the blade up and rotate the blade from it's center
mounting hole to simulate the same rotation the blade would
make while bolted to the spindle on the mower. after one
full rotation notice how the other cutting edge of the blade
is now just above the same right side grinder wheel.

DS wrote:

Thanks so much for the reply.
I went right out to test it and it surely works.
I couldn't renact my earlier dilemma try as I could.
I don't know what I was thinking, then.

Thanks again,
DS

you are most welcome.

Jim said:

DS wrote:

Thanks so much for the reply.
I went right out to test it and it surely works.
I couldn't renact my earlier dilemma try as I could.
I don't know what I was thinking, then.

Thanks again,
DS

you are most welcome.

Shall we have tea and a biscuit, now? Indeed, we must!

=P

--

Eggs

A hen is an egg's way of making another egg.

Eggs Zachtly wrote:

Jim said:

[....]

you are most welcome.

Shall we have tea and a biscuit, now? Indeed, we must!

=P

got lemon to go with the facial?




--

Eggs

A hen is an egg's way of making another egg.