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Rebel Wolf Online — Home Page

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By Dave, December 21, 2005 10:30 am

Rebel Wolf Online — Home Page

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pix of building up

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By Dave, December 19, 2005 9:12 pm

Building our dwelling will open in a new window. This is a long series of 130+ pictures. Will be adding to them as time and energy allows.

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Monday notes

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By Dave, December 19, 2005 2:44 pm

Got the window in on the north wall yesterday. Along with putting blueboard up along 8 feet of the second floor. Will still have to remove the window to put the siding on but for now this works a lot better than just plastic.

Spent the morning putting plastic down on the ground on the bottom floor and then putting carpet down on top of it. Tis a LOT warmer down there now too! Going to get the rest of the carpet out of the barn and bring in to finish the bathroom and to put down up here or in the kitchen one. If in the kitchen then will bring the carpet pieces from in there up here.

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Alabama County Map

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By Dave, December 15, 2005 10:43 am

Alabama County Map

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recycled storm door windows and other crap

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By Dave, December 15, 2005 9:27 am

got 3 of the windows installed into the aerie so far. Started with the east wall over my desk. Actually decided to put the desk there after the fact so really just started with the east wall north most corner.

Cut some .5 inch square strips of pine and pre-drilled them to accept screws. Then made a unit shaped like TT of 3 2×6’s cut to fit. set it into place and test fit a window pane (31×29.5) and adjusted the bottoms of the TT to the sides of the pane and screwed them to the cross 2×6 already in the wall. Affixed the top of the TT to the north east corner post and the upright support on the other side (all walls have 4 foot stud spacing, or somewhere thereabouts. This is NOT conventional construction…). Then put 4 of the .5 inch strips around the outermost edge of the inside of the opening and then put the first pane in. Another set of strips and then the inner pane and another set of strips and we have a window. Double pane at that. Stapled the plastic around on inside and out and done for now.

That was tuesday. Wednesday morn we moved my desk up here and I got to looking at the south wall. This is the one that overlooks the greenhouse metal roof. Decided on 4 on that wall.

Went to the pile and got the rest of the glass. have 10 pieces without getting into the other storm doors so can do 5 more windows. After much thinking and trying got two of them done. they lean in a bit at the top and that alone makes them look funky. Course then there is the paneling that I am using which is 2×6’s in whatever length works so…

Got the other 2 started and dark came on so halted for the evening. Place took the rain without a problem. Guess I finally got the ditching right.

Sitting here this am and started getting cold. The walls are still plastic and there is no insulation anywhere so this is understandable but still uncomfortable. So I got to thinking about the way that teepees are insulated with hanging inner walls of about any kind of cloth and decided to try it in here. One of the Coleman sleeping bags was in a pile in the corner so went down and got a 8 ft length of bamboo from the greenhouse/workshop and some cord, then raided the kitchen stash of clothes pins and with a couple of 3 inch sheet rock screws hung it from floor to where it reached with the top edge folded over and pined to the lining which is about 6 feet. Just right for killing the heat loss from the walls! Now to find the other 3 and hang them around the rest of the coldest areas. Going to get a load of blueboard, to cover the outside of the walls, soon but this will save some firewood till then.

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WEBPAGE of DENNIS HAVLENA – W8MI Mackinac Straits,MI

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By Dave, December 13, 2005 9:25 am

WEBPAGE of DENNIS HAVLENA – W8MI Mackinac Straits,
MI
Articles here include how-to-build simple
but nice sounding/playing folk instruments.

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This dude has some wicked cool make it yourself stuff. Wish I was more musical…

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staircase is done

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By Dave, December 12, 2005 2:02 pm

finally got the staircase to the new second floor done.

and the new greenhouse/conservatory.

among other things. got pix of some of it. will try to post some later. not up to typing yet. taken me way too long to get this much typed.

update — got the handrail up now. still got to put the top post in. Working on the last of the flooring for the second floor now. using 2×6’s and will overlay with rugs and such. feels firm. have had 6 people up there at one time already so guess it will hold… 😉

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Gadgets Â» The top 10 weirdest USB drives ever

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By Dave, December 10, 2005 11:11 am

Gadgets Â» The top 10 weirdest USB drives ever

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Via Steve. He likes the thumb drive. Not sure about the manufacturers or the ones that would buy this stuff… Especially the Barbie drive.

Toys N Gadgets

The Spudgun Technology Center – Details for the The SP9004

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By Dave, November 14, 2005 9:55 pm

The Spudgun Technology Center – Details for the The SP9004

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F***ing awsome!

Thanks Steve!

From his email:

Now THAT is a spudgun — oxygen/propane powered, all metal, laser-sighted, bolt action — this thing could take out DOORS. It’s BEAUTIFUL.

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left into yesterday

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By Dave, November 14, 2005 9:49 pm

not the origional title but as safari did a tits up on me after several pages of typing that is the best I can come up with.

spent the day working harder than I had to.

or according to some of the folks that I know. They just don’t understand the freedom that not having to use electricity gives.

Got a new auger yesterday. this one is about 2 feet long and an inch and three quarters in diameter. I now have 3 true augers. One is an inch and a quarter and about 20 inches long. Another is an inch and a half and is about 14 inches long. And now the new one.

Spent part of the day making a chair makers aze. Started out with a piece of lawnmower blade. This is a thick blade that is super hard that came off of Mark H’s folks riding mower.

Used the torch to cut the basic shape out. Then took the torch and put it in a vice and using vice grips to hold the metal aze blade blank heated it to a nice yellow heat. Then beat the hell out of it with a ball peen hammer on the ASO (anvil shaped object) that I use as a poor excuse for an anvil. Soon I hope…

More heating and beating.

Rinse and repeat. Several times.

And then after cooling a bit I used the hand grinder to shape the cutting edge a bit more and clean the torch splatter off. Back into the vice grips and to the bench grinder for some more clean up and shaping. Then a session with several files.

Cut an inch and a half piece of 1 inch black pipe and welded it to the blade to hold the handle. Then the final pre temper sharpening with files.

Lit the torch again and after heating the front half of the blade to a low red heat quinched it in 30 weight motor oil. A bit more clean up with the files and then heated just the edge to a blue tint and quinched. Super hard and sharp!

Used the shaving horse and cut a piece of privit to length and then peeled it for use as a handle. Drove it into place and then tried it out by making a bowl out of a cedar board that I split out of a round I cut out of a 8 to 10 year dead standing stump last week. Did a fine job. Will take me a while to figure the best way to use it but from what I have used so far it works great!

Will try to get some pix up soon on the shaving horse and some stools that I have made (and NO not that kind, Steve).

Later

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