What size is your truck? 1, 3, 5, 10 20 yards? How large is your backhoe? What are you going to do with the dirt? Just move it around or off the island? Your...
No but I epoxied shot into a pocket in the frame of my scuba backpack to take weight off of my waist and distribute it along thr body axil length. It worked...
I'm looking after my son as he's mildly poorly and off school today. So we put on a 3/4 by 1 1/2 gunwale, or outwale as many of you would call it. It wasn't...
... Thanks Lew, love your sense of humor!! __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! ...
... Geez John, that sounds ideal. I'm near Annapolis, Maryland. Where do you think I could get some of those submarine docks from? THat is absolutely the...
... Okay, we heard earlier that a pick-up loaded is 25 tons. I think that'll be the biggest piece of equipment. A back-hoe is another must have piece. I have...
Finished painting the exterior. The definition of workboat finish. Tomorrow will flip and hopefully install bunks. In the water thursday, bunks or no tho. Will...
... They "demilitarize" all the gear they excess off. Of course, these are the same people who "demilitarized" the DMZ... -L ===== "Oh, a wiseguy, eh?" -Moe ...
... Feel better, Ewan. ... It is. I was a little bit impressed to see the Dove's shipwright using several clamps (as we call them) and a jack to induce the...
... Mesenteric adenitis, dontcha know. It's lymph glands in the stomach swelling because they're fighting an infection, which might be respiratory, or maybe a...
As usual, Lew, even your jokes may be useful for more than humor. While genetic engineering may not quite be the solution, with the shortage of apprpriate wood...
... Well then the joke is on the doctor, 'cuz the kid wasn't even around then. ;-) We're all sharing a gastric misery here too. They haven't shared a latin...
... Industrial bonzai? Well, why not indeed? But is there enough demand, he wonders aloud (virtually)... One catch is this: fast-growing species tend to be ...
If you start with a limb that's already a fwe inches in diameter you can create stress wood by, say, tying a rope 10 feet away from the trunk (or near the top...
... Doug fir is a conifer, of course, and yet famously strong for the weight. Ditto some other species. So on reflection, my remark about "fast growth is...
Yup, I've wrestled an epoxy slick gunwhale into place myself. Next time I'm going with a 1/2"x1-1/4" gunwhale and I'm going to adjust (trim) the hull side to...
I know that roots are traditionally used but is it because of strength? As for which breaks when they are on a tree, roots and limbs are exposed to very...
I think roots are stronger , cutting limbs is childs play , cutting roots is work & I'm not talking access to the timber . It may be because the whole root is...
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hello People, I just fall in love with those boats. I intend to buy the publication of Jim Cameron, showed below, and then try to make one of those boats (the...
Hackmatack or larch grows with roots splayed out at the base of the tree. The usual hackmatack knee would contain parts of both root and truck, I think. The...
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:52:27 -0700 (PDT) Lew Clayman writes:
>--- "Paul V." <admin@...> wrote:
>> Darn it, they are out of nuclear submarines this
>>...
I've wrestled an epoxy slick gunwhale into place myself........... Didn't someone in this group assemble the gunwhale (glue and screw) whilst the side was...
Without a doubt , trees with 'wet feet' are more rot resistant . Cypress or juniper are a good example . Hackmatack has long been sought as the best knee ...
I have built the boat I am finishing now by fitting the inner gunnel first whilst the side was still flat. It worked a treat but it may have been OK even if...
