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Not The Wood, But The Woodworker

woodyoda — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:21:39 GMT

I’m sure allot of you male woodworkers know this problem….cracked hands. I don’t know if anyone else has a blog on this, but if anyone has some good ideas on help for this, I’m listening…...here’s the problem, after years of working with toxic chemicals, like mek, silicone and denatured alcohol….common to the glass trade, my hands crack every years, especially in the winter. If I have to wear latex gloves, it just gets worse….but i can’t handle wood with some oily junk on my hands…...got any ideas. The reason I said male woodworkers, is I’m sure the ladies never let their hands get to this state in the first place. Ladies, if you have any good ideas, you’ll find, you get to help, not just me but many of us guys. If your young to woodworking, start taking care of your hands now, don’t let them get as bad as mine.
Can you imagine your lady caressing you with dried out, cracked hands…....they feel the same way…......yoda

Crashing into 2009

woodyoda — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:41:43 GMT

A few weeks ago I had my blog about the walnut bouroughs, I was collecting from the walnut farmers around here. I had been in physical therapy for a previous injury, until Friday a couple days ago. Friday was my last visit, Saturday, going to dinner with my son…a DRUNK went across a few lanes to hit us head on. Cops said he had no insurance info, in his car…....glad I have uninsured motorist on my insurance. Looks like I’m going back to therapy…......son’s only got a sprained wrist and a few bruises, luckily…....nice way to start the new year. Yoda

Update on Free Wood

woodyoda — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:42:18 GMT

I said in an earlier blog, that I was going out to get root buroughs, from the farmers as they trim their orchards. So far I have about 12 buroughs all walnut….over a ton easily.Thankfully the farmer was kind enough to put them in the truck for me, with his tractor. We were loading some, while he was burning some. These farmers seem to be in a hurry to get rid of them. I could easily have 50 by now if they hadn’t burnt them.
While I was sawing of the roots, I found out my chain saw doesn’t have a guard over the manifold, you know those things REALLY get hot. I got 2 fingers they wont be able to fingerprint for about a month.
I also have an offer for two walnut trees that are 50 years old, but I don’t think my Toyota truck can handle the trunks. Got any ideas? yoda

Oh the Travestry!!!

woodyoda — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:04:14 GMT

I am in the just beginning stage of making my workshop….after many years of wandering the non-woodworking world. Yes, I have come to my senses, and am coming home. I decided to start doing my projects, with wood saved from the brink of certain destruction. In the area where I live, there are many many orchards…...walnut, almond, peach, cherry, apricot etc, etc. A regular smorges’board’ of woods and root buroughs. And this is the time of pruning, for next year. So I went driving the day before yesterday and discovered a whole orchard that was being taken out. About 50 acres worth of walnut. Many of the trees I couldn’t even get my arms around, laying down, knocked over by giant catapillers, must have been d100’s or something. Any way I went back there today to try to get some root buroughs and the whole orchard was reduced to a pile of sawdust! Not even a twig was left…....thousands of pieces of furniture, bowls, gun stocks, boxes and such. Anyway I drove alittle more and met a nice Pastor William Heinrich, and he had an orchard he had already pulled the walnut root buroughs out and said come by tomorrow and he’ll even load them in the truck for me. A hundred, if I want them, I’ll be there. Soon my projects will be starting.

P.S. I also found a root burough, like I’ve never seen before…about 2 1/2 feet around, seasoned…and I pushed it in my truck with one hand??? I’m going to stablize or plasticise it and I can’t wait to see how this unusual wood turns out. 12/11/08 Steven