wood hoarders

[tri4sale]

Embarrassing It's everywhere.

In that first picture my first thought was "OMG look at that huge snake!!!"

[scottp55]

Yep, Snake was carved for me from cypress root/hurricane deadfall in '98 by a chainsaw carver who lost his house and was staying at at some motel in Swansville,NC some friends at the time owned. He was behind on his bill so I bought a bunch of his stuff and made the check out to David and Kaye who owned the motel You should have seen his face!
It's lived in a maple in front yard "snaking"around the lower branches with a wind chime in his mouth--Always freaked people out at first(and then they loved it). It was originally the orange of some kind of weird stain. It actually deformed the maple, as the maple grew the center of snake wound up in the crotch of the tree and the moisture caused dry rot.
I'm going to refinish(always wanted to stick an apple in it's mouth), saw out rot, and have the tail entering something and the head sticking out!
Thought of my mailbox, but Mail Lady hates me enough as it is---so thought This Tree? 50' from back door
Good eye. Some of my "Junk" I should burn
Funny how some wood has a story.
Eugene, Spread Black Walnut sawdust where you don't want weeds and carpenter ants to go

[Burkhardt]

Embarrassing It's everywhere.

Don't feel bad, you should see my garage/shop. One fine day when I feel like cleaning up instead of working on something (or when I don't find anything anymore) I will post a pic.

This is a regular detached double garage and contains:
- The CNC (55x48")
- 2 work benches
- 2 drawer cabinets, about 70"x30"
- couple sheets of plywood and sheet metal
- oscillating belt sander and grinder on a cart
- 16/32" drum sander and 13" planer on a cart
- floor mounted drill press
- 20 gal compressor
- dust collector on trash can with casters
- 12" miter saw
- General wood lathe (12" swing x 40" work length)
- 14" band saw
- Refrigerator
- washer and dryer
- 2 large wall cabinets
- cart with MIG welder
- cart with turning tools and blanks

I thought for a long time I could not add more tools but I found a new nesting order and just added nice mid-size table saw with 57" x 32" footprint.

I still have a narrow path to the washing machine and refrigerator but you can imagine that all power tools are on casters because I have to move it out into the driveway to use (except the CNC). I don't have too much lumber for obvious reasons but most of that is now stored in my racecar trailer. I don't go much to the track anymore.

When I retire I will move from SoCal to a place where I can afford a real shop and make as much noise as I like.