A light day today. Cleaned up the shop a bit, brought the cutoffs to a neighbour, took the trailer full of junk to the dump.

After that I took the wife out for a beautiful lunch of pickerel and perch at a place we like.

Simonny9 wrote:Hey! I am from Chicago,

Welcome to the forum.

Love my OMT. It doesn’t get used often, but sometimes it’s the only thing that will work in certain situations. I have never used the sanding attachments yet.

Boschmanbrian wrote:it started smoking and set off the smoke detector in the garage

Seemed like a good idea when you started, didn’t it…lol?

Doing the trim on the last vinyl window. What a PITA! This is the only one that I have to modify my method this way. So that makes 4 different ways I had to do the trim so all the windows look the same. Naturally, I cut one piece too short so had to remill one, a further PITA because it’s critical that the thickness of the boards on each layer…[Read more]

2 more windows trimmed on the outside today. Got an early start and slogged through it. I’m beat now, but there is only 1 more of the purchased windows to do and then the 2 I built. That’s it for the top floor.

theamcguy wrote:Seems like that glide is working out nice for you.

It was my first Bosch tool after lusting after it for years. I still love it.

Another day, another window. Good news is having the shop vac now being able to switch from machine to machine is a big improvement, particularly on the glide miter saw.

Mowed the front lawn. Did the string trimming. Went to town for groceries. Wife found a wardrobe online at Canadian Tire. Second trip into town to pick it up. Assembled it. Took 2 other ones downstairs to our rental rooms and installed the new one in our bedroom. I’m wiped!

MTRoads wrote:lumber pricing

The downward trend in pricing will likely hit a snag for a while. May even go up again. Seems the forest fires have made it impossible for mills to keep functioning and many have closed for a little while. At least that’s the situation I am reading about out west.

Boschmanbrian wrote:Finished the front , now I’m doing the back

Very nice!

Thanks for posting the link @GTokley . Not so great on the weather today so I hung around the shop for a bit until I got an idea. Did some electrical work that has been bugging me. Got 2 lights that were not working functioning again, 2 wires disconnected in the light box they fed from. That meant opening it up twice. The first time I got one…[Read more]

Sorted through some photos as I am going to get a guest on “Let’s Talk Shop with Russ” tonight on Russ Claridy’s You Tube channel. An update on the progress on the church build.

Rainy day here today, finally. I spent a few hours cleaning and moving things around the shop. Things still have to move around, but the shop isn’t complete yet, winter project. I also put an adaptor on the glide mitre so I can hook the shop vac to it. We’ll see how that works out.

Doobie wrote:I feel I’m getting too old for this type of sporaidic hard work.

I can relate to that. Sometimes stopping is the worst thing because it’s so hard to get back up and going again. Sometimes taking a break lasts a couple of days too.

Miamicuse wrote:Care to guess what it is for?

Looks like the probe they use to stick in the ground to find septic tanks.

Boschmanbrian wrote:good thing you didn’t buy a house with lots of windows

LOL! U got 2 done today. That makes 8 done and 5 to go. That will finish the exterior of the upper floor.

I’ll give you 3 guesses as to what I’m doing, and the first 2 don’t count…lol. Scorcher out there at 21 C. No breeze where I’m working and full sun.

Same old thing as my last posts. Another day, another window trimmed. This is getting repetative and boring…lol.

Boschmanbrian wrote:I was reading this the other day

That is interesting. Must be a pretty beefy unit to handle the torque.