Scott NC Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 Sometimes those blue chips stick to your skin and burn till they cool off in the worst places. Just like sputterballs, slag, and scale. Oucheee, oucheee... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 Goatheads are a low growing plant that produce immense numbers of 2 thorned seeds, also called puncture weed out here. AKA as Natures little caltrops. the two thorns make them look like a goat's head. They will stick into tire tread, boot soles, dog paws. They are the reason that every door in my shop have a section of metal grating to scrub your shoes against to try to remove them outside of the house. You don't kneel on the ground out here either! As a bonus they grow from the seed such that if you try to weed them you get stuck grabbing the plant's base. Easiest method is to use a carpenter's claw hammer: slid the claws around the plant's base and pull up when it tightens to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 And I thought bindweed was bad.... It is indestructable. Benign compared to Goatheads though. You can keep them. There's a reason why cockroaches will someday rule the earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 We've got bindweed too; my previous Pastor was an organic farmer and preached a sermon about it one time I remember... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 I'd pay cash money to hear that sermon! We were organic too. Poor guy.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Foster Posted February 27, 2021 Author Share Posted February 27, 2021 4 hours ago, Nodebt said: Thomas, what are goats heads? In the middle of the night? A nasty sticker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Foster Posted February 27, 2021 Author Share Posted February 27, 2021 6 hours ago, Nodebt said: Slag makes short work out of toe jambs! Thanks for the photos. Nice. I'll look at them for a while before asking a dumb question or two. It appears to me it clamps to the ways. I have one my grandpa made himself, but it clamps in the compound rest. Again thanks for posting the pix. Yup, mounts to the compound with two 1/2” bolts. Chuck a mill cutter in the chuck and advance your compound forward and back the length you want the key way and towards the chuck till the desired depth. Works great but slow as heck. Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazz Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 Nice lathe. Is it a real M60? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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