I am not sure if anyone has heard of Chaga before. It grows on birch trees. I never knew anything about it until a YouTuber I watch started talking it about. You can get your own in the wild or you can buy. I saw the other day they make Chaga Rum down in Newfoundland. Chaga is suppose be really good for…[Read more]

I decided to take it easy today. After dealing with heat all week. Just waited for the wife and the girls to get home from being away. Then we were off to my Aunt’s 80 th birthday party. It was nice party and she was happy to have her family there. I was glad the little hall had AC.

JimDaddyO wrote:Just had a whopper of a storm come through. The wind was so hard you could hardly hear the thunder. About 1/2 hour of fury and now it is getting calm again. Hopefully it’s clearing out the humidity.

Sounds like that storm is heading my way. Radar says it hit us around 11:30 pm.

smallerstick wrote:

Boschmanbrian wrote:

smallerstick wrote:
Time for a new, tamperproof garbage container! We had some visitors last night; 5 young raccoons, probably siblings tipped over the garbage and went to work on some chicken bones from our last BBQ. This wasn’t their first rodeo, they were entirely unconcerned that we were right t…

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smallerstick wrote:I got a box yesterday; a new Sharpening jig for the grinder to reshape the bevels on plane blades, chisels and lathe tools as well.

Looking forward to putting this to good use.

Congrats! I am sure that will be nice to have in the shop.

Doobie wrote:

GTokley wrote:

Doobie wrote:

GTokley wrote:

Doobie wrote:
Well, the power shaft arrived, but no tiller accesory or the bonus batteries and dual charger. That’s coming seperately apparently. Possibly direct from Makita.

Came with a shoulder strap @gtokley.

I sent a email off to customer service last night to see why I d…

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smallerstick wrote:In trying to bring some semblance of order to my new shop, it has become apparent that I need more storage. My next project will building top cabinets to accommodate all the bits and pieces that are cluttering nearly every work surface and a lot of the floor, too

I will be sourcing some pine and doing the same as my old shop,…

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cmeyer25 wrote:I sent in my redemption request almost a month ago now – on 6/24. I really hope they come soon!

Oh wow that has been awhile.

Doobie wrote:

cmeyer25 wrote:
I sent in my redemption request almost a month ago now – on 6/24. I really hope they come soon!

Another one. Seems more and more we’re in one of those periods where the r…

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Doobie wrote:

GTokley wrote:

Doobie wrote:

GTokley wrote:

Doobie wrote:

Miamicuse wrote:
Can you use the conventional roadway vibration rollers over steel slags?

I don’t know what conventional roadway vibration rollers are, what is that?

Is this it….

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_roller

The top picture is the most common one you…

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Doobie wrote:

GTokley wrote:
I came close to hitting a deer last night on my way to work. I had just left my place and was on the outskirts of town when this on coming truck blinked his headlights at me. From that point I kept looking down the highway thinking there was accident. Then out of the corner of my eye I saw a deer on the north bound…

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Heat warning here today. High of 31C. Chance of the thunderstorm later today.

Doobie wrote:

smallerstick wrote:
Got my new (old) table saw back together and running today and the little bar fridge put in under the counter. Gotta have the ice cold brown pops in the shop, you know. I know the importance of priorities.

Gradually getting closer to being organized.

You’re just rollin’ there Peter.

Yes, the brown pops mus…

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I came close to hitting a deer last night on my way to work. I had just left my place and was on the outskirts of town when this on coming truck blinked his headlights at me. From that point I kept looking down the highway thinking there was accident. Then out of the corner of my eye I saw a deer on the north bound shoulder of the highway getting…[Read more]

CB wrote:

DirtyWhiteBoy wrote:

RonW wrote:

DirtyWhiteBoy wrote:

Doobie wrote:
DO NOT PM ANY MODS.

Why not PM a mod and let them deal with it???

That’s what Chad had told me to do…

Doobie wants to be incharge of the BTP site now,, It’s his baby. Why let the mods their job when he can do it so much better lmao!!!
For all new spam just…

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roninohio wrote:Took a hard fall Wednesday . Took lots of screws and metal plates to fix the 2 broken bones I’m my arm.

Sorry to hear Ron! Get well soon!!

roninohio wrote:Thanks everyone. Some lady crashed her car into my truck and was just going to leave. She didn’t know I was in it! I jumped out of the truck to stop her but fell on my fac…

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Doobie wrote:

GTokley wrote:

Doobie wrote:

Miamicuse wrote:
Can you use the conventional roadway vibration rollers over steel slags?

I don’t know what conventional roadway vibration rollers are, what is that?

Is this it….

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_roller

The top picture is the most common one you will see on road jobs. There is…

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kurt@welkerhomes.com wrote:This dam was a huge engineering marvel. I remember reading about it in Engineering News Record. While a massive energy and flood control project, it displaced tens if not hundreds of thousands of people who lived in the areas that became the reservoir. There was also a frantic archeological search in the areas flooded…

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Doobie wrote:

GTokley wrote:

Doobie wrote:
Well, the power shaft arrived, but no tiller accesory or the bonus batteries and dual charger. That’s coming seperately apparently. Possibly direct from Makita.

Came with a shoulder strap @gtokley.

I sent a email off to customer service last night to see why I didn’t receive a shoulder strap wit…

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cmeyer25 wrote:

GTokley wrote:
This afternoon when I got to the end of my driveway I saw a Purolator truck coming down my street. I started to think that my 10 Glide was being delivered today. Then I watched the Purolator truck keep on driving down my street. This was alittle disappointing.

Oh no! I bet that felt sad :/ Hopefully it’s coming s…

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