Mystang's Homesteading Circus

[mystang89]

BEAUTIFUL! Well done. You're welcome to swing by here. I'll throw in lunch and dinner for you and yours.
I don't have a planer that size. I'll have to take a pic of what I have and post it. It may be that the tools aren't many for the jobs I'm using them for.

For the past few days I've been battling a real PITA. It's name is Bruce. First he tore down the door leading from his stall to the outside of the barn. Since I never use that door I sealed it up. Then he broke thought the wood of the door. I replaced the wood and used...."unconventional" means to deter him from doing that to the door again.
Next he broke the lock on the door to his stall from the inside of the barn. I replaced the lock and he did it again so I put a new locking system on the door.
Then he broke through the wall on the other side of the stall. Literally moved the wall or of his way. Broke the nails holding everything together. I replaced that wall and barricaded it.
Went out tonight and he was it. How? By moving the wall that his door is attached to so he had enough room to get out. I used more "unconventional" means to deter him and tomorrow will try to think of some manner of shoring up that wall before he breaks the 4x8 that it's anchored on.

I'mma shoot that ram lol.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

@Bruce you need to stop tearing out of your stall!!!

 

[mystang89]

LOL

I'll leave it to his wife to keep him reined in.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

LOL

I'll leave it to his wife to keep him reined in.

 

[greybeard]

Blade bevel up or bevel down? Initially smoothing up rough cuts, I've had better luck with bevel down.

Interesting, I've not heard of flipping the blade for working rough wood.

on most planes I've used, you don't ( & can't) just flip the blade. The plane itself is designed either for bevel up or bevel down blades.
Jack planes, block plane,scrub plane, jointer planes, smoothing planes, plow planes..each has it's own purpose. I wish I could afford a good quality plane of each type, but really good planes are hundreds of dollars new.

I've found yard and estate sales to be better and cheaper sources of wood working tools than flea markets. Flea markets nowadays have become pretty tech saavy and they know the value better than some old widow woman or millennial spawn or grandthug that is getting rid of the deceased patriarch's lifetime collection of quality tools.

 

[Mike CHS]

I got a many old 5 1/2 planes and more #4's than I can count for $20 at estate auctions.

 

[Bruce]

I have never been to your place and I refuse to take the blame for damage to the stall!!

 

[Bruce]

The picture is a cedar slab that I was working on for a friend and it didn't take but about 20 minutes.

Interesting piece of wood. What did it get made into?

 

[Mike CHS]

Interesting piece of wood. What did it get made into?

I never saw the finished project but they were using it as a retirement plaque for a Navy retirement to show duty stations. The retiree was going off the grid and had a log cabin for his retirement home.

 

[mystang89]

I don't know if it's because of rutt season or what but Bruce (Ram) has completely destroyed the barn. He broke through his door last night, (this is the 4th night in a row that he has escaped somehow,) then got into the ewes stall and then broke through the stall wall and door. I came in this morning to see all of them outside their stall lying together. The 2 two year old ewes along with the 5 month old ewe were laying there with my 3 rams. I wasn't really going to mate the two older ewes for another month or two and I didn't even know if I was going to mate the 5 month old ewe then. Now I don't know if any of them are mated and I'm especially worried about the 5 month old. I have "quarantined" Bruce for the moment but I think I'm going to put him together with the 2 older ewes now instead of waiting so I'll at least have an approximate idea of when to expect lambing.