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"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead." * Johnny Carson

We have a Mobile Dimension Saw Mill that sat on a floating barge 80 nautical miles from the Pacific Ocean for many years. The industrial VW engine is made from aluminum/magnesium and was very badly corroded being in the sea water air, I rebuilt another engine from parts from a '72 Bug engine...

How about adding your best working idea. Here is mine working with logs at our sawmill and getting tired of having the hard wood handle rot if left outdoors over the winter then break when used real hard. I came up with this. The aluminum ball bat fits tightly with some smacking then drill a...

8 words with 2 meanings... 1. THINGY (thing-ee) n Female... Any part under a car's hood. Male....... The strap fastener on a woman's bra. 2. VULNERABLE (vul-ne-ra-bel) adj. Female... Fully opening up one's self emotionally to another. Male....... Playing football...

Our daughter took her '01 Volvo V70 XC to a indy mechanic who told her that her turbo was damaged and would cost $1500+ to fix it. So in tears she called me. My son put it on a trailer and towed it 1,000kms to me, after scanning for the trouble codes the only problem was the Oxygen sensor- $200...

It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach. One human hair can support 6.6 pounds. The average man's penis is two times the length of his thumb. Human thighbones are stronger than concrete. A woman's heart beats faster than a man's. There are...

Two nicely dressed ladies happened to start up a conversation during an endless wait in the Los Angeles Airport. The first lady was an arrogant California woman married to a wealthy man. The second was a well-mannered, elderly woman from the South. When the conversation centered on whether...

Way back then I went to a Photography school in Santa Barbara California I had a good experience with a old guy I saw taking pictures on the beach. He was looking through the lens on his old range finder camera . I stopped and asked how are your pictures coming out? He said he could not see a...

For the best under $50 spent for my shop would have to be a Miners Light- Forehead light- Ebay with free shipping from China I am using the forehead light instead of turning on the overhead lights and I do have some amazing bright lights in the shop- I save a lot of money by using the Forehead...

I have so many useful items in my shop I'd have to say the Miller plasma torch is right up there. next would be the two post 10,000 lbs. hydraulic hoist I've lifted many things other than trucks and cars-It is very handy lifting our Kubota tractor for maintaining and greasing cheers Hank

I have a Phantom 3 pro and been building a quad drone from scratch for a winter project. Amazing machines. I suggest getting some Corrosion X for water protection if you fly over water like I do cheers Hank

In a remote part of the country, a strapping young farmhand was sent to the station to pick up the new school teacher who turned out to be an attractive young woman. On the way back to the farm she noticed a stallion mounting a mare. “How do they know when to do that?” she enquired. The...

I got them all but the Butch Wax threw me for a loop then I remembered my crew cut days Hank

Re: PTO U joint I found one at Douglas Lake equipment in Kamloops BC $50+ cdn cheers Hank

Hi Gang, I'm looking for a PTO U Joint 80mm across with caps on and 78mm across with the caps Off 25mm caps with internal C snap ring thanks Hank

A newlywed couple went on a cruise for their honeymoon, and found themselves shipwrecked on an island where a tribe of cannibals lived. The inhabitants were very welcoming, however. In fact, when they found out the couple had just been married, the cannibals threw a party! They toasted the...

Quote-How did you attach the chopper drum to the shaft so it turns? We used flange mounted pipe fittings with 4 SS screws in each end then drilled the shaft and used a nail to pin it to the shaft. you can see the head of the nail in the picture of the chopper. When I first built the machine I...

Thanks guys I should have added that drilling the 1,000 + 1/8" holes in the 316 stainless steel apple tub was the most work building it. Slow and steady pressure on the drill. Lots of 1/8" double ended bit later. We used a drill press and a log bolted to the drill table to support the SS tub and...

Skeets, In the top picture on the right side of the SS hopper there is a hunk of wood that I use to press the apples against the shredder. It doesn't self feed. A friend in U.K. uses a brand new electric brush chopper to grind his apples dropping one apple at a time, works for him but our...

In the late "70s I saw a set of plans for a cider press in the Canadian Harrowsmith magazine. They used hard wood possibly oak to build the cylinder that the mash would fall into. I basically copied the plans but used stainless steel to build most of it. The frame is made out of welded 4"...