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[Chicken Rustler]

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Hey cool! I like it!!! Good job CR!

NOPE these are from Mia_ I DID NOT MAKE THESE. But they look very nice I see it looks like we have some forge and anvil going on there What kind of forge Mia_ ?

 

[SadieSue]

WTH - Aren't these the same exact wooden shipping crates some of you bought a few months ago for $75? Looks like the seller realized he had a good thing going and decided to cash in on it big time, huh?

http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/for/2547999817.html

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Well first let me say a huge congrats. I am shocked that you would post here that it just be 4 of you. Don't you see you have just (as good as) rolled out the welcome mat.

you never know how many chickens may show up. As for Western and suit let me tell ya those just don't work together. Now if it were me it would be one of 2 things but I will just tell the western. Nice black Stetson (got that), New pair of wranglers, and a nice new western shirt in a R W B color and a new pair of nice boots. Done deal and simple. OK BTW the other would be new pair of riggin breaches, new guy lines to hold up the breaches and a new hickory and of course a new Stihl hat. I would probably even wipe the dirt off my boots or romeos.

 

[VelvettFog]

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That is exactly true. He found out we were making coops (seriously) and raised his prices.

Grrrr.

 

[Mia_]

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Hey cool! I like it!!! Good job CR!

NOPE these are from Mia_ I DID NOT MAKE THESE. But they look very nice I see it looks like we have some forge and anvil going on there What kind of forge Mia_ ?

Ummm. . . about 24"x14"x8"? gas (propane?) powered? The torch I used was oxy-acetylene. My mother tries to be "arty" and was taking a Saturday metal working class. Basically, you tell the instructor what you want to do and he teaches you how to make it. She hauled me to it and I got bored so I asked the instructor if I could make something. He thought it was a bit too complicated for a first project. He said I should do it in pieces rather than one long piece in case I screwed up one part. I said that the joins would look bad. The only thing he helped me with was cutting the square-stock, I had never used a band saw for metal that was about 12' long.

I am just glad I got the twist even for the toilet paper to roll nicely on. Getting the bottom flat was a pain. I got a bunch of, "Yer doin' it wrong!" type comments before I put the three 1/4 turns into the vertical part.

Anywho, I am glad you like it!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Cool! So did you need a wasp for the figs?

I have eggplants! They are small yet, but they are growing!

Wasps? What? What good do wasps do?

Figs have tiny, tiny flowers on the inside of a fleshy ovary; wild ones, and the most southerly of domestic ones, are fertilized by tiny, tiny wasps which can fit inside the opening at the end of the ovary. Modern culinary figs are mostly self-fruitful, though.

 

[anniesmom]

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OMG. Yes, those are the same ones. I missed out the first time. Bet they don't get nearly as many inquiries at that price!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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NOPE these are from Mia_ I DID NOT MAKE THESE. But they look very nice I see it looks like we have some forge and anvil going on there What kind of forge Mia_ ?

Ummm. . . about 24"x14"x8"? gas (propane?) powered? The torch I used was oxy-acetylene. My mother tries to be "arty" and was taking a Saturday metal working class. Basically, you tell the instructor what you want to do and he teaches you how to make it. She hauled me to it and I got bored so I asked the instructor if I could make something. He thought it was a bit too complicated for a first project. He said I should do it in pieces rather than one long piece in case I screwed up one part. I said that the joins would look bad. The only thing he helped me with was cutting the square-stock, I had never used a band saw for metal that was about 12' long.

I am just glad I got the twist even for the toilet paper to roll nicely on. Getting the bottom flat was a pain. I got a bunch of, "Yer doin' it wrong!" type comments before I put the three 1/4 turns into the vertical part.

Anywho, I am glad you like it!

Did the forge have 1 burner or 2. sounds like a "hot box". Do you have a place of your own to work.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Wasps? What? What good do wasps do?

Figs have tiny, tiny flowers on the inside of a fleshy ovary; wild ones, and the most southerly of domestic ones, are fertilized by tiny, tiny wasps which can fit inside the opening at the end of the ovary. Modern culinary figs are mostly self-fruitful, though.

These tiny wasps you are talking of sound very much like "Mason bees". They say that 1 mason will do the pollination of about 6000 honey's

 

[pettec63]

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Hey cool! I like it!!! Good job CR!

Let me try that again. CR wanted to see MY metal work.

oh sorry!

maybe I didn't read that right!! Good Job Mia!!