Post up your weekend project!!

Good job for making money on the rediculous decorating trends that keep popping up. :beer:

Our style isn't the slightest bit country or rustic, so pallet furniture and tobacco baskets will never enter the house. Or anything with a carved pineapple.
 
Picked up my weekend project on Saturday.

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Fabrik8 said:
Good job for making money on the rediculous decorating trends that keep popping up. :beer:
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Back during the hurricane I had evacuee's from Charleston,Sanford and somewhere in AL come buy em.You cant go anywhere w a load that big w/o somebody stopping you or taking pictures of em goin down the interstate.Damnest thing I ever saw.I have about 160 on hand now and hope the trend doesn't go away anytime soon.
 
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My wife wanted a bench for the house to put just inside the garage entrance. I have never built anything out of wood other than nailing and screwing 2x4's etc together, so this was my first wood working project. I had absolutely no clue what I was doing. I actually thought I was going to go to Lowe's and buy some 2x whatever and build it. It did not take long before I realized that I needed real wood, and so I ended up at Wall Lumber up in Mayodan. Once I saw the state that raw lumber actually comes in, I almost left and bailed on the project, but I ended up coming home with some soft maple. I then proceeded to try and cut the stuff up with a circular saw because that is all that I had. It did not take long before I realized that I needed a table saw. I picked one up off Craigslist, figured out how to use it, and I was off and running. if I do anymore wood working, I will also buy a sliding compound miter saw. one of those would have really helped. Here is the final product.

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That's sweet. Ive got some more woodworking to do myself. Most of the time I like it, but sometimes, i wish i could just break out the welder and burn it together.

Too bad you arent closer. I picked up a sliding compound saw and know I need a table saw for the next project. Always good to have friends to swap/borrow tools with.
 
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My covered porch beginnings. Going to set bottom hand rail board and tie in tops and start getting the roof on. I think it's not too shabby for a carpenter that quit doing carpentry 10 year ago. Oh, those handrails are 4x4 with a corner notched out 2x2. About can't bring myself to reuse the pickets. Time to break out the bleach and scrub brush! "My dearest wife... I got a job for you... please.. you'll need your dish gloves..." lol.. took me as much time to tear out the old than to put all what I got up so far.
 
Time to make a mess! Moved all my shit off the wall to take down the paneling. Now I can easily add some wall outlets and insulate.


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Outlets and insulation complete! Going to run an air line down through the wall next and mount my hose reel.
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I added some Chinese D2s to the back of the trailer for reverse lights:

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And a second pair on the headboard for loading lights:
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I spent more money on wire and parts than I did on the lights:
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Also put some fancy wheels and new tires on her, so she'd feel pretty. Turns out I didn't have as many lug nuts as I thought.
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And added some foot hoops up front:
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And bought some dirt for my bride:
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Also, Christmas trees and 50% off shrubberies at Home Depot and pruned some trees and ate some turkey.
 
Got all of our maple trees banded for canker worms, which is a messy pain in the ass. Hopefully it works and our trees won't get completely defoliated again this year.

Also got my outdoor light mounting block painted and installed, caulked to the house, and put the light up too. Nothing like a perfect 1/16" border all around (well, maybe 3/32") to make me smile. Didn't cut the siding at all, that's a stepped cedar mounting block (I made a thread where I whine about making it).

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Packed up everything I own and moved it. Now I can't find anything.

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Went from this on Sat afternoon
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To this on Sun afternoon.
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GotWood said:
Now you gotta learn to lace floors back together!
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There used to be a closet there. I have some flooring that I'm removing from another area that I was going to "try" and use to fill in. The wife wants tile in the entry so if I screw it up.......
 
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Went from this on Sat afternoon
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To this on Sun afternoon.
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What do you do with old tobacco baskets? I mean, other than a bunch of people hang them on the wall... what are you doing with THAT MANY?
 
trailhugger said:
What do you do with old tobacco baskets? I mean, other than a bunch of people hang them on the wall... what are you doing with THAT MANY?
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Middle man,damn them people in FL,GA,SC and Iowa love them some backer baskets.Pinterest has made em internet famous,just ridin the wave until the trend changes,and hope I don't get caught w a bunch.Theyre better than Dana 60's ever were.
 
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