What We're Making

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I posted in wrong thread so I made a wood/log rack for cabin on the home place. Always wood pied by stove now it can bundle in this rack.

Nothing fancy and very crude but it will have a purpose and work fine. Some horse hames and I just oiled them up.
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^^ Very creative and nice work!
Agree. If that rope is necessary (structural), I'd find some horse reins (consistent with the hames) to use. Otherwise, very cool looking.
 
Agree. If that rope is necessary (structural), I'd find some horse reins (consistent with the hames) to use. Otherwise, very cool looking.
Yep, a little bit red neck with that rope. Lol Pretty crude know one will see but me a few family members, Thank God.

I got some twisted wire from corner fence posts that was twisted by some early settler when fence was installed 100 plus years ago, I plan on using it.
 
I got some twisted wire from corner fence posts that was twisted by some early settler when fence was installed 100 plus years ago, I plan on using it.
That would be cool. Less flex in the wire versus leather and would look appropriate to the piece. You have a good eye for the rustic look.
 
Added a pair if hose bibs in the wife's garden area. I could have gone with a splitter, but the price for another bib and a few inches of copper was cheaper (and would last longer) than a splitter. The idea is to have a convenient place to mount the electric timers. You can't tell from the picture, but those bibs are right below chest level. Right now, it's pretty low and far away from the thing being watered.

Copper pipe is $23 for a 10 footer nowadays, and I needed two. With the cutoff valve and fittings, I dropped another $100 on this aspect of the raised bed project. That $14 tomato just went up to $19 :)

But the step outside of the raised bed structure was "free" because the gravel came out of the creek bed, and the cement was left-over from an earlier project.

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Beautiful boat!
Thanks, a friend and I went to the Great Lakes Boat Building School in the UP of Michigan to build an 18' Noreastern row/sail boat replica using Old School techniques. The kit was a bunch of wood and we assembled the hull using small drilled holes and copper wire to tie the pieces together. Once assembled, we aligned everything and then used epoxy in each seam to glue it together. There was a lot of fab and finishing required. This took us about 10 days to build.

We hauled the semi-finished hull home to Texas and then finished the boat over the next few months.

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