General Upgrades & Ideas

[creekster]

I blame it on phone typing.

Glad you're ok. What are you going to do with all the wood?

[BigPiney]

Stay safe, bro. Looks like it must have whacked you upside the head, too; you're channeling grapevine.

I blame it on phone typing.

[mtnbiker]

Not an upgrade, but I am cutting down a 30' black locust tree whose roots are to close the patio that we converted to a bedroom for my daughter last year. Things have gone pretty well. I managed to get some webbing high in the tree and my wife belayed me as I worked on the really high branches. And then I would your that and lower the branches using ropes and we're about to good then down so as not to hit my house or the neighbors'.

Now just some big limbs to cut, which I was doing yesterday. Lowering one, I was standing behind the trunk when it caught on something and swing around the tree towards me. It ended up snacking the crap out of my arm. Luckily I was wearing my flannel as it protected me a bit. The force the blow did split my arm and I ended up having to get 4 stitches to close up my forearm.

Be careful out there. If the thing had had hit me elsewhere it could have killed me. That is some freaking heavy wood.

Stay safe, bro. Looks like it must have whacked you upside the head, too; you're channeling grapevine.

[BigPiney]

Not an upgrade, but I am cutting down a 30' black locust tree whose roots are to close the patio that we converted to a bedroom for my daughter last year. Things have gone pretty well. I managed to get some webbing high in the tree and my wife belayed me as I worked on the really high branches. And then I would your that and lower the branches using ropes and we're about to good then down so as not to hit my house or the neighbors'.

Now just some big limbs to cut, which I was doing yesterday. Lowering one, I was standing behind the trunk when it caught on something and swing around the tree towards me. It ended up snacking the crap out of my arm. Luckily I was wearing my flannel as it protected me a bit. The force the blow did split my arm and I ended up having to get 4 stitches to close up my forearm.

Be careful out there. If the thing had had hit me elsewhere it could have killed me. That is some freaking heavy wood.

[Brian]

First test.

[Brian]

Some soldering up of controls



The on-off-on switch is for up and down of the table, and the 4 toggle switches are to control each leg independently of I ever need to do that for leveling at a particular height. However, things seem to work pretty evenly, so perhaps overkill.




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[Moliere]

I’m not fully understanding how it will be stored above the table saw so post some pics when it’s done.

I’m jealous you know how to weld and do metal work.

[Bo Diddley]

Nicely done!

[Surfah]

Brian that's pretty cool. I wish I had a shop garage. It's one of my dreams.

[Brian]

It’s hard to explain without pictures of it done, but the table will be stored above the table saw. So, I’ve made the legs telescope, and added some linear actuators to raise and lower the table.

The table is upside down, and one actuator is test fit.




All 4 actuators raised to full height.



Each actuator has a working limit of 330 pounds. Which is more than enough for projects.




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[Brian]

Making a work bench that will double as a table saw out feed table.
And, to save on space I’m adding some robotics to it......

First step is to cut a bunch of metal.






Sorry to brag, but someone just jumped up a few tax brackets.

Weld it together.




And the frame is getting there...




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[Moliere]

Finished the floating shelves on the other side of that nook. These were much bigger at about 18x36 inches. I was a little nervous about them holding but so far so good. They seem strong.

[Brian]

A few weeks after it was completed and sitting in the kitchen my wife and I were unpleasantly woken up by a tremendous cracking sound.
I wondered if the cat knocked something over but couldn’t see it.
Later that night I saw a large crack in the table. I obviously didn’t climatize the wood enough.

No worries: just epoxied the crack, re-rsanded and sealed and it looks even better.
We never stained it because we liked the color of the wood as is. Just sealed it with a flat sealer we got from woodcraft.





While pulling out nails, one of them broke off. So, we left it in and just sanded it smooth. Gives it some nice character I think.



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[Brian]

I'm trying to figure out how you did the bread board ends. Were they just attached to the support underneath or did you secure them to the top? I want to do a table with bread board ends just to try it but I have no need for a table.

I used biscuits to attach the top board, and then put a larger board underneath that was notched to make room for the side rails and could be glued and screwed to the bottom of the table.



The bottom view is here:


And when taking that last photo I realized that I forgot to take off the black tape that sealed up the epoxy drips when filling all the voids.




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[Jeff Lebowski]

I’ve had most of the week off, which is bad news for my spending habits. I spent two full days turning the space above my garage into attic storage space. I’ve wanted to do this for a while but hadn’t ever had the time when the weather is right, until now.

Spent half a day framing out the space for the attic ladder and then installing it, which went swimmingly well.


Then I spent the rest of the first day rewiring a bunch of stuff to make it possible to lay down insulation (I’m eventually planning on climate controlling the garage) and a subfloor for storage. Lastly I installed a permanent light fixture.

The second was spent cutting, hauling and screwing down the subfloor. This part sucked and I’m glad it’s mostly over. I still want to build some shelving but that will wait. I also want to build a ladder to the upper attic, which you can get to right now if you can jump 9 feet.

Did the same thing a couple of years ago with our garage remodel. We love it.