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Some of these would make an awesome segmented bowl press.

Anything that would require clamping pressure from above and below would benefit from presses made with these pieces.

-- There is little that is simple when it comes to making a simple box.

make a wind mill, or possibly a very long centipede. Wait I have got it a giant cactus sculpture sorry I am not much help either way you should have fun re purposing the wood.

-- two men walk into a bar the third one ducks, which are you??

Maybe a couple of small out door tables with cup holder or a stool or two.

-- timothyee, Florida, http://www.theparacordpost.com

Square them up and see if they are big enough for anything useful ;-)

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0

You can make one go-cart with really really fat wheels. I also like the cactus and centipede ideas.

-- "hold fast to that which is good"

make gearwheels out of some of them
make a wooden bycicle
of the best make a disksander if you get a used elec.motor
r/c controlled hoover craft
drumsander
stacked flipout boxes by using 1½inch dovel
wheels for a bandsaw

I´m sure you can come up with something crazy for the last of them :-)

Dennis

You could put your bandsaw and ts on wheels.

-- Failure does not stop me, it makes me try harder..... because I'm crazy.

Make a huge drum for a GIGANTIC drum sander :)

-- Brian T. - Exact science is not an exact science

Thin cover on the top and make Lazy Susans.

-- Don't rollerskate in a buffalo herd

Those are great blanks for thien baffles

-- Crashn - the only thing I make more of than sawdust is mistakes

A WOODEN SLINKY!!!!

-- "there aren’t many hand tools as awe-inspiring as the #8 jointer. I mean, it just reeks of cast iron heft and hubris" - Smitty

Hey Marty, them there wheels looks pretty nice . Wished i had them , i know i could make something out of them!!

-- Willie, Stapleton, Al

My first thought upon seeing those was man you could make a really big drum sander (but someone beat me to that) the next thought was make Lazy Susans out of the nice ones (but again someone beat me to that as well) so Hmm what to do? I don’t know I’ll have to think about it some more.

-- --- Richard Jackson

glue some together for a wooden wheel barrow wheel.

Sander, Glue, Paint, Routed Lettering ==> Make 2012 Summer Olympic Games Commemorative Plaques; you could give them away to your local school as trophies for sporting events.

-- The Best Intentions Bring Undoubtabliy Something Less But Nontheless Something..."

Get some big wood closet rods and make some Wooden barbells.

-- Every step of any project should be considered your masterpiece if you want the finished product to reflect the quality of your work. http://www.FineArtBoxes.com

Or – If you like to go camping or have friends that do, you could sandwich sawdust and glue between them and use them as great fire starters – depending on the thickness of glue and sawdust they’d probably burn quite a while.

-- The Best Intentions Bring Undoubtabliy Something Less But Nontheless Something..."

shelves for plant stands, upholstered stool seats, target backers, two side by side with a few lengths of dowel would make an extension cord reel, endless possibilities there.

Like old pallets, those wire spools have some decent looking wood in them, but I wouldn’t run any of it thru any tools I care about. – lol

Are you sure that they would go to a landfill? Around here, wood goes to a shredder and gets made into compost.

-- Adversity doesn't build character...................it reveals it.

The very least is turn them into fire for warmth.

Ok guys, a couple of good ones, some of which I will use.

Katdaddy LMAO, if I do that I will get them back again in a few months.

JR fire starters I could see that…....hmmmmmm I’ll get back to you, Olympic rings well that is thinking outside the box

Jacob34 centipede, my daughter would like that

Williel, if you were not so far you could come over and take your pick

Greg wooden barbells, I stopped lifting weights because they were to heavy LMAO

David, I like the press idea, thanks for the link, that will use some of them up.

Oakwoodshop, like that, so does the wife and daughter.

Rdjack21 keep thinking your doing better than me.

Chrisstef, wooden slinky, I would need a bigger stair case.

Chrashn good but I already built a huge cyclon DC, ( check out my blog)

Howie, I do need two of them so that takes care of about 4

Ripthorn, I need more space in the shop for that.

Russel, I think that would raise the height too much, and I don’t like wearing ny Platform shoes in the shop, LOL

Dennis, wooden bicycle, too much of a chance for splinters

Brandon, my daughter likes that one too, but it will end up being wider than my van, or driveway for that matter.

Topomax, that will work for some, but then I will be stuck with same problem except square instead of round.

Timothy the whole family likes that one too, I can see a few of them going that way

NWI those are all good, need to run them all past the rest of the household, but I can see several of a few of them

Sawkerf, around here if it goes in the dumpster it ends up in a hole in the ground

Atomjack, some will go that way if I still have them when it gets cold again :)

Keep’em comin, I will use these up somehow. Busy season for my place is starting so there a good chance I will have a lot more soon.

Thanks.

-- Martin ....always count the number of fingers you have before, and after using the saw.

How about inventing an improved wheel?

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0

Hi Topomax, I think once you get it round there is not much room for improvement, LOL

-- Martin ....always count the number of fingers you have before, and after using the saw.

Katdaddy, you may be on to something.

-- John

Round Boxes and put vaneer on the out side. You can expand the hole on top of the box to make an inlay of another wood.

Arlin

-- It is always the right time, to do the right thing. Lovinghandsmemoryboxs.com

ok after thinking about it what about wooden moon hub caps? or put carpet on them and use them in your shop to stand on?

-- two men walk into a bar the third one ducks, which are you??

Put a few pepperoni’s on them and you have Little Caesars Pizza. Probably tastes the same as their’s anyway.

-- Failure does not stop me, it makes me try harder..... because I'm crazy.

Katdaddy, go stand in the corner.
Bill

-- bill@magraphics.us

Shop stools

Add a rope and make a swing for your daughter.

Stack a few with some dividers for shop storage bins.

-- The more I work with wood the more I recognize only God can make something as beautiful as a tree. I hope my humble attempts at this craft do justice by His masterpiece. -- Tim

How about being optimistic and making a really big fishing reel to catch really big fish. I once heard about a guy trolling the Kanawha river in W.Va for catfish using a steamboat. Hooked into one that towed him backwards for three days. He could probably used a bigger reel…........:-)

-- Don't rollerskate in a buffalo herd

I love your problem – well, maybe NOT the problem, but the way you’re going about solving it! Me too, if you’re not too far away, I’d come over and relieve some from you. Would that help solve the problem a little, Marty?

-- Paul - The sweetest sound in my shop, next to Mozart, is what a hand plane makes slicing a ribbon.

Thanks for taking me back to 1995 again Marty.

I had sub-contracted with an outfit that rebuilt the cable system in our community. When I saw all those spools I was told I could have all the spools that I wanted. Needless to say I took more than I should have home with me. I stripped them down as you have done. Saved the bolts and the T nuts and all the rounds. These came in handy for lots of projects. It helped that I could cut down the bolts to lengths I needed and retreaded them.

Since I had such an abundance I wasn’t concerned with waste, although nothing really was wasted. The cardboard tubes got flattened for the fire pit along with any scraps of wood, which was a lot as well. So no real waste there in my opinion.

I squared up the rounds and used the squares to do some panel glue ups for projects and made a lot of small projects from them. I made toys, bird & squirrel houses and feeders, small boxes, paper towel holders and shop jigs, the list of small projects goes on.

Hope this inspires your small project fever, if for no other reason but just to get out in the shop and piddledick around more often.

-- I don't make mistakes, I have great learning lessons, Greg

What if…
1) Rip some slats out of the 3/8 material for making crates.
2) Cut a pair (or more) of the circle into a fat “D” shape and connect the slats to make a storage crate or a bed for the cat! or whatever.

Looks like you have a lot of wood there and I am sure you can re configure it and get a lot of use out of it. Jealous just a little bit on this end. :-)

spray paint them all silver set them up in the neighbors yard and stage an invasion of the midget martians, or make a lot of clocks.

-- two men walk into a bar the third one ducks, which are you??

I’m. With you, can’t throw them away. Seen a couple LJ’s projects lately where they glued & pressed them together. Then cut something out of it. Just a thought.

-- Mother Nature created it, I just assemble it. - It's not ability that we often lack, but the patience to use our ability

I think they might be quite useful for making the wheels of Matias home made bandsaw http://woodgears.ca/bandsaw/homemade.html. You could use the first few to practise on making a bandsaw for yourself (if you don’t have one yet) and then make bandsaw wheels and sell them to fellow woodworkers who want to make their own bandsaws. You might even try his home made portable bandsaw saw mill http://woodgears.ca/bandmill/index.html.

-- Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching.

Thein Dust Separators?

-- "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain

Ok, lets see what we came up with.
Arlin, good I like that, that will eat up a few.

Russell, yes they would taste about the same, LOL
TrBlu, those are some good ideas
Howie, Believe it or not I like the big reel idea, my wife said I was nuts, but I may just make one and see what it looks like. I might need a telephone pole to use as the rod, and probably not too successful for fly fishing, LOL

Little Paw, the Garage is open come by anytime, :)
GregN, I knew someone else had to have been there before, I will use some of them from your suggestions.
MT Stringer, The crate idea is a good one, and I bet my cat would like the bed, I will at the very least use a few for his scratching post, beats him using my leg, LOL

Jacob34, I think you’ve gone off the deep end, were am I supposed to find little people that will let me paint them silver, although a clock or two could be in the future.
Monte, I like the idea of gluing them together, and cutting something out of it, I weill have to rescan some projects on here and see what I can come up with.
George SA, I toyed with the band saw idea, which might still happen but then I still have many rounds left. I wouldn’t sell them but I would give a few away as long as I knew they wouldn’t get thrown out.
Richard, I already had built a Cyclone DC completely out of wood check it out LINK, so I really cant use that, but very good thought.

I like the ways you guys are thinking, I just sold 85k worth of custom cable assemblies this week, so it looks like I got more of these coming once my manufacturing team, starts tearing through the cabling.

I thought about making them into all gears and covering a wall with them and then painting a mural over the whole thing, then turn one gear and the mural makes no sense till it comes back around to the right position. My wife hit me in the back of the head when I said that, once I regained consciousness, I thought better of it, LMAO

-- Martin ....always count the number of fingers you have before, and after using the saw.

being as dust collection is at the top of the forum (as it should be)...seems some might be big enough for separators

Glue them into a log and then saw boards out of them.

-- Bondo Gaposis

If you have a big enough lathe, glue stacks of them together for turning. Just a thought.

-- I'll grow up when ketchup bottle farts stop being funny.

I used about 22 today building an enormous scratching post for the cat, I will post the picture tomorrow. As for the latest suggestions:

teejk, I don’t really need a separator, my Cyclone takes care of that but I would be happy to give a few away to anyone that wants, but you have to come get’em

bondgaposis, that’s an awful lot of glue, I do like that though imagine the grain pattern, LOL

TedW, I wish I had a lathe that big,, heck I wish I had a lathe period :)

-- Martin ....always count the number of fingers you have before, and after using the saw.

Ok Marty…how about fishing pole racks? a large one at the bottom with a series of forstner bit holes around the perimeter to fit the butt end of the pole, then add a smaller one a few feet up (4×4 verticle connector) with small through-holes and slots to accept the upper end of the pole. To make it “premium”, cut a slot around the upper plate to accept standard screen spline (glued-in around the entire perimeter). Snip the spline at every upper hole slot to create rubber “fingers” to keep the poles in place. A few cheap casters on the bottom and you have a unit that you can spin around to pick your weapon of choice and will occupy a whole lot less space than lining them up.

I’ll send payment instructions for my royalty payments via PM.

teejk, I like the fishing pole idea, problem is I don’t fish, don’t get me wrong I will sit all day on a boat and drink beer LOL. I will take that suggestion and make at least one, my cousin is a serious fisherman, and could probably use at least 3 of them, his garage looks like a bait and tackle shop.

-- Martin ....always count the number of fingers you have before, and after using the saw.

Ok, I have used 19 of them and made a cat scratching post/I don’t know what you would call it! Here is 19, only 118 to go…

Overall the moist difficult part was attaching the rug. When we moved into our house, I wanted to carpet the bedrooms with good carpet since we have a little one, (no so little anymore, 8 now, OH MY G-D). We purchased the best carpet we could find and that stuff is thick and I went through about 7 utility knife blades. I also found 2 smalls craps of carpet when we first got married, man that stuff is like paper I used the little of that for the 4×4 posts. I font know if I will tackle the wheel barrel or the stools and tall table next.

Keep the ideas coming
:)

-- Martin ....always count the number of fingers you have before, and after using the saw.

Looks good, you can of course glue some together and make a few router bowls

-- two men walk into a bar the third one ducks, which are you??

start glueing them together. You might, just might have enough there for a Barney Rubble-mobile…..

Side frames, front and rear axels??? I’d save at least four, just for hubcaps…...

-- A Planer? I'M the planer, this is what I use

well Marty…you don’t need a fishing pole to sit in a boat and drink beer (in fact you don’t need a boat to drink beer for that matter).

and how many cats do you have anyway?

Marty good Idea with that catdingy
I don´t know if people buy them
but I see those in a lot of warehouses and petstores all have them
I don´t if its just a fetish for the store owner to have them
but there most be a market for them …. lol

Dennis

There’s also no reason they have to remain circles either. They could be cut and used for anything you would use a small cut of plywood for…... Small shop shelving, making jigs, etc. As circles, they would also make great targets for any kind of light ammo like air soft, paintballs, pellets, archery, or whatever. Good luck, looks like fun!

-- If it ain't broke, take it apart and find out why