@Spinartist you can send me all your wood and tools until the end of the hurricane season. I'll keep it all safe and dry up here in the mountains!
What did you do in your shop today?
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We keep a few old Kerosene lamps around for power outs (I always have 5 gallons of Kerosene on hand for the torpedo heater) and my generator is big enough to run the fridge/freezer in summer or the furnace and fridge in the winter but that's about it. Can't imagine planning for a storm like that.
Have 2 Coleman gas lanterns, 1 Propane, needed globes for 2 of them last year. Picked up a few more mantles too. Coleman gas cook stove, with propane conversion and adapter for the big bottle for that also. That one fixed coffee and breakfast during Matthew. Was pretty handy!
Picked up the adapter to fill the little bottles for the propane lantern. Tried to find Coleman white gas... Not to be found anywhere locally, not in Wally World anywhere within 60 miles, so they're gonna burn unleaded.
Picked up the adapter to fill the little bottles for the propane lantern. Tried to find Coleman white gas... Not to be found anywhere locally, not in Wally World anywhere within 60 miles, so they're gonna burn unleaded.
Lee, Rocky, all y'all Florida boys hunker down, stay safe and let us know you're Okay! Tony
Lee's gonna be back in Virginia before he finds a room, word we got from neighbor that works at the 911 call center here is, there are going to be NO rooms until you get to Tennessee. Everyone in south Florida is going to be evacuated, one coast or the other is going to be evacuated, possibility that BOTH coasts will be evacuated. There are folks from Texas and Louisiana that evacuated this way still over here. Storm is over 300 miles wide, they're talking about it making landfall around Tampa, and running straight up the I-75 corridor, possibly all the way to Atlanta. If it does that, the entire state of Georgia is in deep Sugar, Honey, Ice Tea too. Lee may be in the only safe spot in two states!
I'm far enough inland that the winds get slowed drastically, and out here in the woods; surrounded by trees, they tend to get the wind up overhead. They were talking sustained winds of 60 - 70 mph here, dependent upon where it makes landfall, and how it tracks, a little more/little less. We'll be out of power for awhile, we'll get lots of rain, and I'll have lots of branches to pick up, but it'll all be OK. I'm gonna ride it out here at the house, someone has to stay here and keep the generator going. May send the wife and MIL to north Mississippi, just so I don't have to worry with/about them, but my old man isn't going anywhere unless they drag him out of here kicking and screaming, so I got to stay here to babysit him.
I'm far enough inland that the winds get slowed drastically, and out here in the woods; surrounded by trees, they tend to get the wind up overhead. They were talking sustained winds of 60 - 70 mph here, dependent upon where it makes landfall, and how it tracks, a little more/little less. We'll be out of power for awhile, we'll get lots of rain, and I'll have lots of branches to pick up, but it'll all be OK. I'm gonna ride it out here at the house, someone has to stay here and keep the generator going. May send the wife and MIL to north Mississippi, just so I don't have to worry with/about them, but my old man isn't going anywhere unless they drag him out of here kicking and screaming, so I got to stay here to babysit him.
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Stay safe my friend. I will need youDid a 10 piece spindle job fer a lady in Louisiana referbing a crib fer her new grandbaby.
She sent me one to model after. Needs 6 but said to make 10.
Mahogany from Constantine's Wood Center. Turned free hand.
May be my last woodturning job fer a while.
I may be tied up with a dominatrix named IRMA fer few weeks. 185 MPH
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Latest update says hitting Miami at 145 ish MPH then coming through my stompin grounds. Hope it moves a bit east!!
Been prepping several clients & friends homes. Doing my stepson's home & my ex's. Another friends home. Then my apt with the left overs.
I have ex's shutters at my studio & a pile of metal shutters given to my when folks I know upgrades to accordion shutters.
Got a Weber table top grill, Coleman camp grill, candles, water, gas, generator, flash lights.
Hurricane Wilma came over our place with 115 mph winds back in 2005. Bad situation. 85% of stop lights in our county were gone.
Irma will be worse.
Been prepping several clients & friends homes. Doing my stepson's home & my ex's. Another friends home. Then my apt with the left overs.
I have ex's shutters at my studio & a pile of metal shutters given to my when folks I know upgrades to accordion shutters.
Got a Weber table top grill, Coleman camp grill, candles, water, gas, generator, flash lights.
Hurricane Wilma came over our place with 115 mph winds back in 2005. Bad situation. 85% of stop lights in our county were gone.
Irma will be worse.
Stay safe my friends! Hope you all make it through.
Damnitt Lee, don't be stupid, take cover when you need to! Tony
Damn, Stay safe all!!!
Take care over there Lee. This one is going to be ugly.
More casting, more turning, and doing boxes for the ones for my inventory.
What are the eye hooks for?
On the ends of the molds? They are for pulling out the plugs to get the cast tubes out. I'll shoot a picture tomorrow for you
Aha....interesting....
Only place I've ever been where they stencil the names of the streets on all the curbs! Boynton Beach, just a few miles north of Lee. Between Andrew, and Wilma, and one or two others they found it impossible to locate anything with all the street signs blown down. So they write the names of the streets on the curbs at all intersections, and stencil block numbers on them as well, so they can find things when they blow down again.
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That's Purdy!!
Are you going to put a ferrule on it?
Yep. I have to cut some pipe and shine it up....