HEY! Gimme a break here. Just rolled out of the rack and haven't even had brekkie yet, never mind wandered out to the shop.
Did manage yesterday to finally finish cutting and lifting all the sod I needed to remove to gain the room I want to create a larger patio/paver stone outside work area in front of the garden garage doors. Next step is to acquire the pavers themselves and lay them in.
Before that can happen I have to finish my "other" project, that wheeler/dolly that I commented about earlier. Have all the sections of tube cut and scored some weld ells so the next step is to fit the tube and clean it up to accept being tacked and then fit it all together. Most of the joints are going to either get bushings or sleeves of the same material and thickness as the tube to increase the overall thickness at the weld joints for strength. This is a both a safety issue and a way to avoid burn through, the tube is only .060 wall whereas the fittings are .140 or heavier. The heat that the ells can soak up is a lot greater than what the tube will take, so making the tube "thicker" by adding a sleeve or bushing gives me an end run around the issue. Once I cut and fit the bushings, the outer tube gets drilled so that I can plug weld the inner material to the outer. Not gonna move, nevah again, no mo. Oh yeah, pictures...…………………(Sound of crickets and snoring) yeah, yeah, probably when I get enough of it tacked together so anyone taking a peek gets the general idea here.
No movement on the cribbing. I need the exterior work space to set up a production line to cut the wood for the rails and stiles. Problem is that the local Weatherheads just keep sniveling about snow and rain and cold and BLEAH!!! Ever time a dose of that sh** gets dumped on my parade it takes a day or two for the ground to thaw and then dry out so no interval between sh*t one and s!it two; it just keeps coming. Did manage to get the shop warm enough to turn off the heat for the season. see what that does to the gas bill. No plans to make the cuts in the shop; sawdust and welding sparks do NOT get along and I would purely hate to have to explain to the fire investigators and the insurance mooks that I was the author of my own misfortune here. They have no sense of humour; think it got stolen by a scanner.
Nick