Bench is Over Half Finished

Breakfast and new as usual.

Yesterday, I took some of the things our of house four.  I wanted to take them to the shed, but it was to muddy.   I took them to the shed the first thing this morning because the mud was frozen.  There is a rope, chicken waterer, some large PVC caps, then a lot of lead drippers.  There was a couple of other things.

A little after breakfast, Shane called me and needed to shut off the water.  A water pipe broke and was running water all over.  The photo is taken later in the day shows where the pipe broke. They were in the process of fixing it.

Dusting is putting in  a union and several couplers.  They then took much of the injector and pipes apart to fix the leaks.

The photo above shows the legs of the new bench that I am building.  I made them a little long.  One is quite short.  I figured that it would the correct length.  

Carol had an appointment with her ophthalmologist at 11:20 this morning.   I stopped work on the bench and we drove to Fillmore.  While Carol was waiting, I went to Zions Bank where a deposited some money.  I also bought some glue at Ropers.   We came home and sloppy Joes made out of meat loaf.

I fasted a square piece of 1/2 plywood to the top of each leg.  I then fasted the plywood to the table base.  Then I put the door on top of that as pictured in the photo above.  It appears from the photo that the bottom of the legs are facing inward.  The table was to tall.  I took the legs of the table and cut them to the same length of the short leg.  

I fastened the legs back of with plywood fasten to the legs and table frame/  It is illustrated in the above photo.  The table was about 1/16 inch to tall.

I removed the legs again and cut off a little more than 1/16.   I removed the legs only.  The plywood remained attached to the frame.

I put it all back together.  It was just right.  The miter slider slid just barely above the bench top.  As before it would it the bench top and stop.

Here is the nearly finished bench.  Tomorrow, I am going to build two shelves for tool storage.  The sawhorses will be kept outside on the patio for awhile.


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Much Bench Progress

Another good day at the temple.  We had lunch before we went home.  On the way home we got gas and soft ice cream cone.  We were home by one.  I cleaned up the bench leg that I finished yesterday.

The large electric motor was on a small cart that had four casters.  I need three of them for the other three bench legs.  I put the motor on my cart with the small one and took it over to Richard Darnel.  I thought that he would come over and take a look at it.  He didn't come so I took it to him. His truck was there.  I left them.  I will call him and if he doesn't want them, I will give them to Robert.

I cut three caster blanks to receive the castors.  The slot to hold the blanks  were not the same size even as I tried hard to make them the same.   I remove some of the wood from the slot a rasp.  The piece fit perfectly.  I glued it in place.  I did the other two and both needed some shims.

I drilled a hole in the wood and screw in the caster.   They are finished.  I might be able to finish the bench tomorrow.

He is a piece that does not fit very well.   I glued one side and then glued some small shims into place.

I held to the piece with clamps so it would not spin.

I loaded up some stuff out of house two.  They are on the cart headed for the shed tomorrow.

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More Work on the New Bench

I wanted to get the legs put together on the new workbench.  I had to make a notch in each leg.  Each leg had two 2x4's.  I screwed one to the other one.  I can't make the notch when they are screwed together.  I took them apart.

It was hard to hold the wood to the fence and cut both sides of the notch.  I made a jig which you see in the above picture.  The jig out of a square piece of plywood.  I cut off one of the corners which left a space where I could hold with my right hand.   One the end opposite of the hand I attached a small board.  I can then clamp the leg to the jig and easily cut one side of the notch.  I turn the leg around and cut the other side of the notch.  The width has to match the size of the inserted board.  I made a lot of cuts to get it right.  I still didn't get it right, but I was close enough to make it work.  I spent most of the morning trying to get a perfect fit.  There were a couple where I got a perfect notch. 

I began to build the other legs.   I drilled six holes the first board.  I then counter sunked them.  Last I screwed them together.  I clamped the 2x4's to keep them from moving while I drilled in some screw.  I did the others the same way.

I drove to Fillmore to make a deposit, buy a few groceries, and get another drill bit.  I needed to screw in the caster bolt.   I made a hole in the piece of oak.  It was easy to screw in the caster.

The notch in the first leg was to wide.  When I glue it together I put in some shims.  The photo there is a large going under the notch.  I glued in a shim.   I left it for the night.   I will cut off the ends of the shims tomorrow.  


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Still Cleaning Garage

Removed two 55 gallon barells t  
I took two fifty-five gallon that were in the garage

to the shed.

Sander Stand Finished Twice

I was anxious to finish the twelve inch sander stand.  I went to the garage right after breakfast and a little news.  I had all the parts for the stand ready and some were screwed together.

The above photo shows clamping the parts together ready to drive in the screws.  I made several mistakes.  When I finished the stand would not sit straight.  I fixed that.  I started to hook the legs and skirt to the top.  At this point it was upside down.   But the sides were not the same  length and neither were not the same length.  I took much of it apart and fixed it.

Each leg had a small part around three inches long.   It had a diameter of about 1 1/2 inches both ways.  There is two screws in each part.  The caster on the left is on the outside edge of the leg, but the one on the right is on the inside of the leg.  I had to move it to the outside edge.

The above phot shows the same legs.  The caster are barely visible.

A bottom view is from the top.  It shows the caster again in the wrong place.  It shows the 2x4 trimmed on each side.  

The caster wood is clearly visible.  It is held to the trimmed 2x4 with two screws.

Again the caster on the right is in the wrong place.

Finally I got it all right.  I put a 2x4 under the top and one on the top and glamped them together.

With the top clamped to the legs I turned it right side up.  I then squared the top with legs and drove four screws into each leg.  It was easy to role around.   Finished at last, boy was I wrong

There was so much saw dust, sticks, and other things on the floor.  I couldn't roll the sander stand across the floor containing so much stuff.  I cleaned everything by the table saw and put most of it in the henhouse nests.  I then cleaned the space below the saw blade.  It was chuck full of sticks and saw dust.  I filled a tote up five times.

I dumped it on the compost pile where earlier I put leave, grass, and paper shreds.  The above photo shows what I had done.

A couple of big dog tracks in the snow on the way to the compost pile.

I finished and did a pretty good job, at least I thought I did.  Boy, was I wrong.  The twelve inch sander was really heavy.  It was on the floor.  I couldn't lift it out of the box.  What did I do.  It cut the box away.  I moved the stand next to the sander and was able to lift the edge of the sander onto the stand then moved it completely.  I rolled it part way and then I could steer it.  I got it over near the front of the table saw.  As the above pictures show the leg on right, the caster collapsed.  Oh no!!

The caster wood was made out of redwood.  That was a mistake that I made.  I noticed it, but I thought that it would hold the casters.  I took all of them off and replaced the with pieces of a fir 2x4.

The hole for the cast is drill in the end.  The caster is screw or twisted into the hole.  That part went quite easily.  I then drilled two holes through the side of the caster piece.

Here is the sander on the stand.  I plugged it in, turned it on and it worked.  I had to just the plate to a ninety degree.  

Towards the end of the afternoon I started to clean the garage.  The above photo shows the garage side door.  I moved threw some of the things in the garbage.  Some others I took out to the shed.  Others, I stacked and still others I put on the shelves to the left.

I spent some time with the hemp crew in house six.


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Twelve Inch Disk Sander

There was a another trace of snow during the night.  I pushed it off the driveway.  I later began work on the rolling sander table.  I worked on it most of the day.  Carol and I went to Fillmore for groceries.  When we got back I resumed work on the sander table.  I have on photo.

This is not a pretty picture , but I will use it to briefly explain something about it.  I made the four legs.  They are upside down on my table saw.   The casters are the black and silver looking objects at the top.  I made one and then we went to Fillmore.

The leg and castors are twenty seven inches long.  It warmed up some.  Carol wanted be to wash the car.  I drove to Fillmore again to the car wash.   I stopped at the State Bank twenty quarters.   I drove into the bay and didn't have to wait for anyone.  I drove to far in and it was a little difficult to clean the front bumper.  I finished and came straight home.  I could have got a picture of the dirty car and then the clean car, but I forgot.

On the patio there is a piece of plywood that came from the Garden Niche where we sold native plants for three or four years.  It was 3/4 about 27" x 30".  It was really wet.  I removed old rusty staples from both sides and then trimmed each side some.

I finished the four legs for the rolling sander table.  I cut some pieces of plywood for the table skirt and put two pairs of legs together.  It was time for supper.  I came in and watched the news and had supper.


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The First Day / 2020

 After breakfast and very little news we began to put away the Christmas tree and the Christmas ornaments. We were finished by ten.  We vacuumed and swept and then took a rest.

Not many photos, but a couple to remind me of what I did today.  We put all of the ornaments in their boxes and zip bags.  And then carefully put them in a large tote.

The tree went into a large box; the same box that they came in.  This box had the warning that two people should lift.  I ignored the warning and picket it up and carried it back to the garage.  I also, put the tote in the garage.

It snowed a little.  Yesterday, I got me a battery operated circular saw and a battery.  There was no charger with it.

I took a small Christmas gift to Richard Darnel.  He has be gone all week.

Birthday wishes from Ray and Maryanne, Richard, Robert, Lisa, and Elizabbeth.


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