Shop Time w/T.W. Friends. Rusty's art poll, see post #89179 and vote now for awesomeness.

Mmmmmmmmmmm, pumpkin pie!

 

@Fargo Taco here’s why the fluke is so good. It’s the only one that is able to grow legs and walk away!(3 times)

 

All put away so I know where to find it next time.

 

Oh to be that organized!

 

with extra whipped cream please

 

You really don't want to see the rest of the bench!

 

Kids both had a baseball game today and this kitten wondered up. It was so nice. Daughter played with it for 20 minutes then it went and laid down.

 

Cute kitten

 

Guy across the street has his mailbox mounted on an old plow tongue squeezed in a pipe vice.

 

Wings are on.

 

Bet he'd get mad if you painted it lime green

 

All I could think about was, man, I could use that pipe vice

 

Just put an I.O.U. there

 

Put these in sauce yesterday, just smoked them for an hour and 50 minutes. Yummy!!!

 

Here’s todays endeavor. Replacing the rear floor pan and torque box on the jeep. Man I’ll be happy when this thing is done.

 

That is an awfully useful piece of kit to be holding a mailbox.

I got one years ago at an auction.
The problem with them is that while awesome when in use they are huge and awkward to store.

 

Same problem.

I got tired of tripping over it and sold it for $15 in a garage sale.

I don't think I miss the pipe vice.

Any pipe work I do now, I just weld the pipe to the fab table and go from there.

 

Got my ladder stand up today, trimmed all the branches I needed to for shooting, then trimmed a huge pile in our "campground" area. I also threw a couple of planks across a little creek to get to my stand, and put a borrowed trail cam up. Yesterday I rust proofed the truck with cosmoline, and made a salt cellar? / dispenser thingy for the missus from a chunk of ash. I'm felling pretty productive.

 

I ran 1/2" & 3/4" black iron in the garage for compressed air, hand threaded all of it with a Rigid ratcheting hand threader -- in factories you always have a power threader, all that hand threading is an @$$ kicker.
Job would have been much less convenient without the tri-stand.

 

When I made my post, this exact scenario was in my mind.

I just tack welded the 3/4" black iron to the table and commenced to hand threading.

It only took me 2 tries to figure out what side the tacks needed to be placed, otherwise the torque from the die would bend back the tacks and break the pipe free from the table.