current/finished projects

>>1202003
That's exactly what I did for a few years before using my current system.

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Building a dam at a local creek. First time working with concrete, will post pics as it progresses. Pic related - what I have so far

>>1202642
no concrete expert but I dont think it'll set right if it's in contact with the water directly. If it's possible in your situation, I would build a retaining wall out of sandbags and build the wall in the dry areas that it creates.

>>1202672
or even, finish your current damn, and then build a second wall on the outside of it as a reinforcement

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I think I remember that thread, im the fencingfag. Its clear you didnt listen because you dont have mesh.

Anyways I finished of cleaning up this axe head and making a new handle for it, just have to finish a sheath for it then its in to the truck toolbox to never be used again.

>>1202677
>because you dont have mesh

how would one electrify the mesh?

>>1202699
You dont you let the mesh stop shit, and if you still want to electrify it you use waratahs and run a top wire on andifferent strain to the mesh.

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I' just finished installing a new well tank, pvc, and RV water hookup connection. I have to build a shed around it to protect it now. Not sure how I want to do it just yet. I'd like to have the well shed in the back and maybe a small carport attached.

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Fixed my fence. Got bent by a falling limb. Interesting that the original fence is made out of 14ft long 1 3/8in tube with a 1/8 wall. The cheap shit they have now is just.. well, pic related.

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>>1202865
what the tree did to that original pipe.
Solution was to cut out the bent part, push it all along, then bodge in a new piece back where it can't be seen. End result looks like nothing much happened.

>>1202865
Yeah, the amount of items today that are thinner and the same price is terrible. I bought what was labeled as the same gauge welded wire fencing to replace the 25 year old fencing. When I had the old rusted fencing next to the brand new fencing, I noticed the wire on the rusted stuff was still thicker than the new stuff, even after knocking the rust off to bare metal. Turns out, they don't use decimal points and instead outright lie about the thickness. So something like 4mil isn't 4 millimeters. it is 0.004 of an inch. The 4mil is "4 thousands of an inch" which is only 0.1 millimeter. However, the company uses 4mm on the label when it is really only 4mil. Kind of really annoying when you order it and don't see it in person.

>>1202910
We have a fucking French Canadian try and pull that shit with us when he had some fence redone on the ranch some years back. He quoted us the materials price based on metric measurements and thought we wouldn't know the difference between the diameters of wire we told him we wanted and what he was actually going to buy because of the difference. We told the asshole why we needed the thicker gauge wire (sheep kept breaking sections of thinner wire fence) but he tried to scam us anyway. Just goes to show assholes hail from every nation.

>>1202673
That was actually exactly my plan. Initially we put down a bunch of dirt to have it up out of the water to pour the concrete. It is supported by two feet of rebar (one in each block) more than half of which is driven down into the clay creek bed. Phase two includes a supporting layer of blocks and concrete behind it and also a second layer going up and centered on top of the two lower sections in a kind of pyramid shape.

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>>1202910

That kind of sounds illegal. Millimeters and mills are completely different units. Mills is another way of saying thousands of an inch. Sometimes machine shops use mills, sometimes thou.

Anyway, personal project still moving slow, but at least now I have the strips glued down. Now I need to splice in power at a few different locations and do some cable management. After that only the programming is left.

>>1202923
>That kind of sounds illegal.

It is illegal. That is why they got reported to the Bureau of Consumer Protection.

https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/bureaus-offices/bureau-consumer-protection

>>1202003
Not much to show really. Bought a moped frame a while back to build into something.

Ideas right now are strip my john deere mower and put the big tires on it, or build a frame for my cooler and make a street legal trike.

>>1202642
Fuck yeah man. Sadly water is an underestimated force.

Dont be upset if it washes away. Its likely

>>1202673
Yeah anon. Or reroute the creek, give it a few days to dry, then start mixing concrete and throw river rocks on it. Build a nice big thick solid wall and not buy cinderblocks that way.

>>1202923
>Millimeters and mills are completely different units
'mill' is a popular short hand for millimeters leading to hilarious jokes by people i know who fabricate pcbs and make enclosures for them, if you ask for something in 'mill' they will make sure that is exactly what you get just to prove a point.

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>>1202672
>>1202945
Plebs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_concrete

>>1202722
do the chickens have large what?

I don't understand a word you just said

>>1202955
>popular shorthand for millimeter

Dear god I hope not. In engineering, mechanical anyway, a mill is assumed to be equal to one thousandth of an inch.

>>1203008
When your in a metric country nobody ever even entertains considering that you might possibly be hinting at an imperial measure as obscure as 'mills' for thou. Unless you happen to do pcb work with through hole packages that are all in imperial.

>>1203015
>Unless you happen to do pcb work with through hole packages that are all in imperial.

WHY THE FUCK DO WE STILL HAVE 2 SYSTEMS OF MEASURE?

>>1203107
Cuz the retards (aka 99% of the world) refuse to recognize American cultural & economic dominance and insist on using the fugged up metric system. Sad!
t. The burger
>anyone who confuses mil as an abbreviation for millimeter has gone full bore potato
Obviously is mm obviously

>>1203107
France alone used to have 6-7 systems of measurement. Which is why the invented and enforced metric.

>>1202955
>'mill' is a popular short hand for millimeters
No it's not. mil is short for milliinch and it always has been. I have *never*, not once in my industrial engineering life, heard someone say 'mil' when they meant millimeter.

>>1202003
i was i that thread. did you just connect to strands of wire to mains power?

>>1203875
oh god no, that would be some next level stupidity right there

the cord is going to a fence energizer, one side to the fence, the other to a ground rod

>>1202003
OP again

got my gravity drip bucket going and it seems to work pretty well

>>1202642

>Building a dam at a local creek.

What is the purpose of the dam? What is the intended height?

>>1202981
Googles "where to get volcanic ash in Kansas"

0 results found.

U know how much hydraukic cement is anon?

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Getting closer to finishing my woodworking bench project.

The legs are mahogany with mortise and tenon joints, but I needed through bolting for easy disassembly because I move often. After that's done, I'll finish sand and oil them and start work on a laminate hard maple top.

>>1203879
good on you for choosing a safer method, although you won't be eating charred rabbit tonight.

>>1204654
impressive

>>1204681
perhaps some roasted pheasant....several birds have gotten themselves killed by walking into it

I am planning on getting some fake snakes (I'd prefer real ones) to scare them off

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built this to hide my garbage cans, made from pallets and scraps i had laying around.

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Put up a bunch of cabinets in my office. I have a level. The guy who did the floor joists didn't. Pic related.

>>1204687
well done

>>1205045
is it just one floor, or the whole building?

>>1205052
> is it just one floor, or the whole building?
Just that one room. But given the ridiculously low rent I pay for it it's ok.

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Decided to give dovetails and inlay a go. No joke the inlay was twice as easy as the dovetails, and I made a table saw jig for the tails and pins. Huge PITA.

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definitely the cleanest joint of the 4.

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The inscription was CNC'ed obviously

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>>1205421
Sldo, didn't know there was worm holes until I routed into it, well after the inlay, not redoing that shit.

>>1205421

You do all that work with inlays and fuck up those miters? God damn you

>>1205423
I've got a digital angle finder and still couldn't get that miter saw to hold zero. I can't tell you how much wood I went through to get that far. I even ran out of cherry and had to make the bottoms out of walnut.

>>1205425

get a plane + shooting board mister

>>1205430
the floor piece was mitered too, can that be done with a shooting board?