Just watched the video on that sharpener - man, that's slick. That'd be faster than what I have, which works well and all, but can be a bit awkward in the field unless you want to haul a stump vise around with you, which I never end up doing. It looks like you could set it up once for one side, roll the whole chain through, then once for the other side, and roll the chain around, and be done.
Can you set the raker height with it? That's the only thing I can do with that Pferd sharpener that is kind of a standout feature, IMO. It makes for a very evenly sharpened chain.
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Hilarious on the impaired hearing chronicles. My wife and I both hear ok, but we both tend to "YIP" dishes and glasses into shards with growing regularity. As long as you're looking for balance, you're winning.
Rakers need to be flat filed per usual. But you're right, with a new chain or one you've trained, it's super quick to run both sides through for a quick hone between refuels. Much easier on the wrists and hands than a round file.
Rakers need to be flat filed per usual. But you're right, with a new chain or one you've trained, it's super quick to run both sides through for a quick hone between refuels. Much easier on the wrists and hands than a round file.
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Work continues and the immediate goal of floating to mark the waterline is starting to feel really close.
Here's a shot of some of the last framing to go in under the deck. I wanted a 2x3 centerline support that would give me a good gluing surface as well as plenty of rigidity for the sole, which is only 3/8" (although it is marine fir which is pretty stiff).
Strap hangers for the 2x3s...
I went inside for lunch on Saturday where I found my mischievous kid only willing to consume peanut butter when not being monitored, for some reason. My wife had to look away for him to eat it. I found it really funny and took this picture.
After lunch, she brought him out to the garage and it was like somehow he grasped what I'd been doing all of a sudden. Recently he's been pointing at pictures of boats in books but I hadn't thought anything of it, I think he just hears me use the word "boat" a lot and he's on our big boat all the time but for whatever reason this day she brought him out to the garage and first he was just kind of shocked looking, but then he got really excited and wanted to get in. Which, since I'd placed the sole, was possible for the very first time. It's hard to express how excited he was, and I doubt he get that I'm building something, exactly...but I swear you could see this sort of light bulb in his head and he was just overjoyed about it. It was really wild.
He's also teething again which is ridicuous. He has everything but the second set of molars, and has since right around when he turned one, which is something like six months ahead of schedule. And now the second molars are coming in, also six months or more early. Absurd.
Anyway the sole is fitted but I still need to put cleats around the outside edges.
Now I'm going to go try to start doing that.
Oh, one more thing, which I mentioned a couple of months back:
Now why would I need that, do you figure, for an outboard-powered boat with a portable gas tank?
Here's a shot of some of the last framing to go in under the deck. I wanted a 2x3 centerline support that would give me a good gluing surface as well as plenty of rigidity for the sole, which is only 3/8" (although it is marine fir which is pretty stiff).
Strap hangers for the 2x3s...
I went inside for lunch on Saturday where I found my mischievous kid only willing to consume peanut butter when not being monitored, for some reason. My wife had to look away for him to eat it. I found it really funny and took this picture.
After lunch, she brought him out to the garage and it was like somehow he grasped what I'd been doing all of a sudden. Recently he's been pointing at pictures of boats in books but I hadn't thought anything of it, I think he just hears me use the word "boat" a lot and he's on our big boat all the time but for whatever reason this day she brought him out to the garage and first he was just kind of shocked looking, but then he got really excited and wanted to get in. Which, since I'd placed the sole, was possible for the very first time. It's hard to express how excited he was, and I doubt he get that I'm building something, exactly...but I swear you could see this sort of light bulb in his head and he was just overjoyed about it. It was really wild.
He's also teething again which is ridicuous. He has everything but the second set of molars, and has since right around when he turned one, which is something like six months ahead of schedule. And now the second molars are coming in, also six months or more early. Absurd.
Anyway the sole is fitted but I still need to put cleats around the outside edges.
Now I'm going to go try to start doing that.
Oh, one more thing, which I mentioned a couple of months back:
Now why would I need that, do you figure, for an outboard-powered boat with a portable gas tank?
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Hatch size mockup so I can for sure get the kicker in and out! My plan is to build a bracket that drops into place on some locator pins etc and screws down with Scotty downrigger bolts (because they're hand-tightened and very common here). If I need or want to use the kicker, I can pop it on the bracket inside the boat, then drop the bracket in place and go.
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Good planning!!! I like it!! Jeff
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Is the diesel fill for fuel for a heater?
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X2Is the diesel fill for fuel for a heater?
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Possible that you're going to transport diesel with that boat?
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All excellent guesses but not even close, I'm afraid!
There is a heater, but the tank will be a standalone unit. And several years of working underground around big diesel equipment left me with a chemical sensitivity to diesel that makes me puke if I smell it too strongly so as god is my witness, I will not volunteer to transport it for anyone.
But there is a reason!
There is a heater, but the tank will be a standalone unit. And several years of working underground around big diesel equipment left me with a chemical sensitivity to diesel that makes me puke if I smell it too strongly so as god is my witness, I will not volunteer to transport it for anyone.
But there is a reason!
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Because Reddik is your favorite action hero? Van _____.
By the way...that face on your son is priceless! Hope he loves boats that much when he's sporting a graying beard like you.
By the way...that face on your son is priceless! Hope he loves boats that much when he's sporting a graying beard like you.
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