What are you making or fixing this spring?

[CrealCritter]

Honey do today. You know when the wife says "oh honey". We've had this old milk can with it lid which is rusted closed for long time. She's painted it several times over the years. But she wanted to turn it into a end table.

She says I want a round wood top that I can paint so nothing good. I said how big around? She said 3" inches bigger than the lid. I'm like hu? Let.me go get my tape measure. So she decided on 16" diameter. 5 mins later I come out of the shop with a 16" diameter 3/4" thick plywood circle. She's all excited, then she looked at it and said it has a sharp edge, can you 'soften it up" I'm like hu? again, you mean round over the edge. She said yes that it's. So another 5 mins I come back out of the shop with a 16" diameter 3/4" thick plywood circle with a routed 1/4/" round over and she loves it.

But then I ask so how you gonna attach this piece of wood to that steel can? Hummm screws? I said Nah... How about some glue? Ok yeah then you won't have to drill holes in it. So I went back in the shop and grabbed a tube of PL300 and a caulk gun. I ran a thick bead around the lid centered and pushed the wood top into place and she loved it. But i'm still not seeing what she is seeing... Ok a old rusty milk can with a 16" diameter cicle of wood glue to it's lid.

I went to go work in the garden and when I come back up to the house, this is what I saw. Pretty cool i must say... She had the vision that I sure didn't... I'm no fashion bug that's for sure. Amazing what textured spray
paint did after my wife sprayed it to on.

 

[milkmansdaughter]

Just finishing our new chicken coop/garden shed: adding perches, shoring up the hardware cloth, starting DL...
I put the first hens in last night. I'll probably put them all in tonight.

 

[Joel_BC]

That looks good you two! I'm still busy with my mad shed restoration project (Joel: Restoring/rescuing a 100+ year old shed. Am I nuts?)

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.

 

[Joel_BC]

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...

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[CrealCritter]

I'm making a mess. On par for the year so far lol

Me too always making a mess! Spring/Summer/Winter/Fall - i don't need a special time of the year... I'm a equal opportunity mess maker.

 

[Joel_BC]

Cedar Shakes.- Awesome! Did you split them of log cookies by yourself also?

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 & mallet. What you're calling "log cookies" we call "shake blocks" over here.

But then at a certain point I tried re-roofing a small building with commercially made sawn shingles, and I like the result better, due to the smoothness & more uniform taper of the shingles.

 

[NH Homesteader]

My husband is converting an old meat bird tractor into a U shaped raised bed! Then he'll be building a new front deck

 

[milkmansdaughter]

Lol, @NH Homesteader, I read tractor, and kept thinking what is a meat bird tractor and how do you convert a TRACTOR to a raised bed.
Good thing I'm the only one home tonight. I'm too slow for good conversation after working outside today. Fluids, fluids, I think I need some...

 

[NH Homesteader]

Lol!! That would be a very poor use for a tractor!!

 

[milkmansdaughter]

@Beekissed i really like this. What a neat project! Perfect for little girls!