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The U.S. Geological Survey records information on worldwide earthquakes. There's an informative chart of quakes over the last 10 years, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_2018 The info — just within that 10-year period — shows the year 2015 to have been a high point of...

Those stacks, yeah... horrible.

Interesting, but tragic, news about Venezuela. The pictures definitely are sobering. I’m a Canadian citizen, living outside the U.S. I thought I’d comment just a touch on a foreign public issue (in this case, the Venezuela inflation) being covered or not. Our largest national TV/radio...

Very cool, Creal. I worked a little bit in a friend's local, small aluminum foundry (by "small" I mean a 2-storey building, about 1500 sq ft on the ground floor). He used templates for his molds that were made either of styrofoam or wood. His way would have been to pour the dang things. But...

When you complete your project, how about posting some pics of the mounted alternators... and maybe of you welding with the set-up, too?

4 alternators? One for charging your truck's battery, one to use for welding whenever you want to. What will the other two be for?

Crealcritter, you've chosen an interesting project. I've never done any AC welding myself — just DC. I started with oxy-acetylene (O/A) torch welding, because the torch system can also be used for heating/forming metal, cutting steel & iron, brazing, loosening rusted nuts & kingpins, etc. But...

Thanks for the compliments! :plbb

Side garden — our small garden — summer 2018. Carrots, onions & leeks, dill, flowers… pea vines already pulled out. Greenhouse slightly visible to the left.

Interesting. As far as I've seen, what's sold up here as "46-0-0" is urea, rather than ammonium nitrate. Synthetic urea, rather than animal excreted.

LOL. Yeah, that's me in the morning.

Great stuff! Thanks for all the pics. I was in Scotland once, traveling in rural areas. They had some old stone buildings (including castles) in villages. I remember seeing carvings... and also painted decorations on ceilings in castles — with very similar sorts of design work. I knew it...

:yuckyuck That was sweet, Bee. Thanks. I'll be sending the second one along!

I have a relative that we’re close to (personally, not in terms of geographic proximity). She’s living hundreds of miles away in the city, Vancouver area to be exact. After living in a nice apartment in a quiet suburb neighborhood for at least 10 years, she’s having to move. The apartment she...

I look forward to those pics. Your get-in-and-do-it habit is impressive, Bee. You sure don't lack for elbow grease! I'm with you there. And I just recalled that, years back, I started a thread (and bumped it a few times) about "learning styles"... Like directly from-from-a-person learning...

Great to hear about the projects. Has the picture-upload issue been solved? I'd love to see some of these projects! Good luck with all endeavors, folks.

No, shingles. There used to be a small commercial sawmill operation about a 40-minute drive from my place — and they split shakes using a machine that was a sort of variation on a power hammer. But while they were in business, I leaned toward saving money and split my own shakes using a fro &...

Yeah, Bee - those are cedar shingles on the little barn too. And I know you've always got fine & useful projects going. (Thanks for the complement about our place.) This is the first serious use I've given to my reclaimed pressure tank, one of my 2017 projects...

Yes, I'd been tuning-in to that thread now and again. A real worthy project. Just wanted to wheedle some spring project stories from others here too. I know this is a very active membership.

Got a spring project or a few? This is one of mine. I’ve just about completed putting a new roof on this little garden shed. I’m using cedar shingles — a local product. I took this pic at the end of a work session. The job will be finished tomorrow, I expect. Anyhow, started this thread to...