New granddaughter will be born in January, so I wanted to build a cradle for her that would become a family heirloom. I've got some nice figured walnut on the way from Iowa. I've needed a bisquit joiner for a while, so I decided to drive into Memphis and pick one up. While I was there, I saw that jacks were on sale. My old one has been shot for years. It would barely lift a car and you had to fool around with the handle to get it to release. But hey, it was only 30 years old and was used daily when I had my shop. I had been one jack off for years so I bought one of them too. I said all that just to say this. One the way home, I passed a new subdivision named Morning Wood and laughed so hard I about peed my pants.
:banghead3: Just the name of the subdivision would rule out living there for me....... What were they thinking?
LA maybe. But Memphis? You musta read it wrong. We need pictures. Hope it's not a retirement village. And you just had to type this in the same post------>I had been one jack off for years I forgot what this topic was about.
hand build a crib..??? thats pretty sweet ya grumpy ol thing ......Morning Wood ..............thats funny
I wonder how long it took them to get it up? Sometimes the permitting process can be very hard. I hope they can sell all the homes, competition in the real estate market can be very stiff these days. ..... Are the streets named Viagra way, Cialis road, etc?
"F" him if he can't take a joke. (Badda bumP!) BTW, FOX, all kidding aside (for the moment) I'll be looking forward to seeing pictures of the cradle, during the build and after.
I had a bunch of rough sawn pine left over from when I built my shop. They were the warped and cupped boards that I couldn't use. I spent the better part of today selectively cutting shorter boards from the warped ones. What a PITA. Thickness planed them all, then edge planed them, switched to table saw and fence cut them. Now I have an assortment of finished boards in various lengths and widths. Will have to glue them up and then cut to my pattern. This one is a trial run before I do the good walnut one. The wife decided she wanted one too to keep her Teddy Bears in. While I was out working, a truck pulls into the driveway. A blacktop outfit had just finished paving a church parking lot up the road and had almost a full truck left over. He said they normally get $2.50 a square foot, but would do it for $1.75. I knew enough to understand that the load was already paid for from the previous job and mine would be all gravy. He measured and shot me a price. I cut it in half and offered him and his partner each a new inline muzzleloader, scope, bullets, and powder. We haggled a bit but I didn't budge and they finally took my deal. I already had a good gravel base which they graded and laid the blacktop on. They lacked about 10 feet of doing the whole drive before the truck was empty, but they did a fantastic job. Some days things just go right.
So, we went from good morning wood to Asphalt ! Two years ago that happened to my buddy while we were at his place. Sadly the company layed it down thick but rolled it way too thin because they didn't have enough for the area they were putting it. This year there were dents from his car jack and some weeds poking through. Like you, he haggled and got a good deal anyway. He does leather tooling so the crew got billfolds, belts, etc.
Looks great! Last year I had a buddy bring me some free road base for the mud pit in front of my house, now it's all nice and packed....now I need a friendly asphalt guy to show up and make me a deal.
Not too friendly Tedy! But if you stay alert and watch for a crew working it's possible they will have extra at as good price.
