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lol I saw the Nuge in 77, maybe that's why I'm deaf too. Couldn't have been those three big waukeshas that would bellar and backfire every time you started out of the hole with about 3 miles of pipe and spewing diesel smoke so thick you couldn't see five feet. A rig is a behemoth of energy, all steel and every part is pumping, turning, Electrified , moving, hot or oily, and slippery, pressurized with steam or 3000+psi mud. And built to drill holes 5 miles deep. And if your lucky you get to work derricks, 90 feet off the floor, latching pipe on a diving board 18" wide with only a safety belt tied to your ass. If you fall and are lucky enough dangle in mid air until someone can get up to pull you in. Oh, and possible poison gas or blowouts to think about while you work lol. Damn, that was fun times if you never thrown chain you missed out on one of life's biggest adrenaline rushes. '

now these are cool!!! Haven't seen one of these in years, in grade school art class, we had some that just had a straw and you blew through them to create the air pressure. Once upon a time, these were in almost all wood shops for shooting stains and such.

I haven't had relativly safe job since i was 14. I broke out in the oil patch at 18 and spent seven years working on rigs, back when heavy drug and alcohol use was almost a requisite for employment, then spent 30 years working in a prison maintenance shop, teaching dried out inmates how to hold a job. The last 15 years as the manager of an all-trades physical plant. I've seen my share of really stupid accidents in my life, some deadly, done a few myself, and luckily survived like Dwight by the grace of god. Really smart people are the worst at safety IMO because they are smart enough to know better but "it'll never happen to them", idiots come in a close second because they just won't do it, followed by the guys that have "done it all their lives that way". I've taught, reprimanded and worked with all of them lol. I could gross ya'all out with the gore, but i won't. Take the small, mundane safety equipment as seriously as the rest of your gear and equipment lest you be half blind and deaf at 66 like I am, its no fun saying huh all the time, makes you feel stupid. And yes, I said idiots lol

Those Rock!!!! you need my address?

you can also glue some leather on your clamps if they are putting out impressions.

Really nice work.

Also dont throw away the patterns or books they can be worth as much or more than the tools.

I agree thats a nice job indeed!!! I have picked up some good steel cheap at TS myself. Suggestions. if you were to use a belt sander on that sheath's stitched edge, it would be perfectly flat and would burnish beautifully. As well if you just glue it up before sewing, you won't need the clamps or the resulting marks. What i do if i need clamps i leave enough extra edge material that i can cut or sand off in the finishing.

I did just that, and it has taken over for a soup bowl that was used for holding our clippers and copper bracelets on the bookshelf. LOL it looks pretty cool there. Went to the mountains yesterday and managed to take a few pics, it was hotter than heck but we had a great time found some wild strawberries, caught a couple of brookies and had a couple cold ones , then went to the desert and grabbed some more clay.

thanks Fred!! from what i have read, good clay for pottery is hard to find here. I must have gotten real lucky or else no one has looked for it.

thought i would post my first successful pot. Nice kiln LOL. I made the small ones are a couple of test pots for the different clays I found, the large one is the first attempt at a real pot. it is kind of wonky but it didn't crack. I'm going to collect more of the good clay today and maybe a few fish, do some foraging, have a cold one in the mountains, Have a great day, friends !!!!!!🍺

Truthfully, all i know about DnD is what I've learned from watching Big Bang Theory lol.

The bull, of course belongs to a miserly evil dwarf king and is guarded by six fully armored dwarves, three whom are archers of highest rank, two berserker dwarves and a maji dwarf.

The ring from a bull's nose.

WOW, yeah, you did good, don't throw anything away, some leather books are worth hundreds of dollars, plus many of the patterns are not reproduced anymore and are valuable. That pattern set for bike bags is awesome. this older information is priceless!!

Well I'm glad he is on the mend and you have the help. Ahh, Mom's books!! I have my mom's as well, one of my favorites is Blue cheese dressing that she hand wrote, she wrote down alot of recipes so now i have my daughters re write them so we dont ruin the originals. Some are older than I am lol.

dang man, I sincerely hope you are feeling better and nothing bad is wrong. I am also truly sorry about your loss. I love my dogs I ve had several dogs over the years and loved them more than most people i know. and know how hard it is to lose your best friend.. Take care, friend, and get well!

nice tooling work indeed, i like a thumb hole. Put some locktite on those screws they come loose about two miles in.

wow that is nice!! Great looking stitching job imo.

Things are great here, she is well again and no holes anywhere to patch up lol. i'm wondering why they couldnt teach you to care for his dressings as you are so far from help? That is just crazy. They taught me then when my daughter went back in because of the fistula they had me teach two new nurses how to do the dressings. Today is the hottest day of the year so far it is 94, but my bbq lid thermometer setting in the sun reads well over 175 I could cook in it without any fuel. I fired my first real piece of pottery this morning made from clay I harvested in the wild. i am now the proud maker of an earthenware pot you couldn't sell for three bucks and only spent two weeks of my time and energy lol. But I've proved to myself it can be done and for little money, i can have another paying hobby. I think i'll make weird raku pot pipes and sell them over the border in communist Colorado lol. 🙂 The wife made chicken noodles yesterday, my grandmother's recipe, Pressure cooked gizzards and hearts, cooked till they melt in your mouth, and homemade noodles fresh not dried mmmmmmmmm......... You take care now and stay warm!!! Chuck

this reminds me of a story. My brother, father-in-law, and son were going to Canada on a once-in-a-lifetime trip. As they crossed the border everything became metric and the son, 20ish, seeing a speed limit sign in KPH asked him how long it would take to get to the lake , thinking he couldn't possibly know. George was stymied for a minute, but then realized he could use his speedometer to calculate because it was in mph and kph lol. His son never caught on to the trick the whole time.

lol I've done that!

pancakes are mostly used for folding knives, so dont need a welt. For a non folder make your welt thinner than the blade so there is some tension built in.

, acetylene cannon !!!! ☺️🍺🍺 life is good. Happy fourth Fred.

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