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It has been a wonderful week weather wise and I have spent much of it in the shop. I managed to cut out and shape 11 knives this week and will heat treat the steel next week. Today I must remember to drill the handles for the pins before I heat treat. I write that statement in hopes I won't forget because if I do the drilling will be nearly impossible.

When I wasn't working on knives I turned a few snowmen for wifey to give as gifts.

Other than that about all I did was veg out since the wife was out of town until tomorrow.
 
I’m not feeling well this morning, but hopefully it will pass soon. My wife had been fighting something all week as well, seems to come and go. I’m hoping to get the sanding done this weekend on the guest cabin. I have more cleats to install in the tool cabinet, sanding ,staining, and finishing of those and the shelf. I also have new drawer glides to install, full extension glides.

I may pickup some conduit to bury for fiber from the shop to the house. The electric co-op was here this week marking to bury the fiber internet to the shop, said we should be connected within a month. The path to the shop is an easier install for them and where my daily office is anyway. I’ll move the main network equipment and Starlink (as our backup internet) once we’re on the fiber connection. That may sound complicated, but it’s going to simplify things overall. I currently have to run four battery backup units to keep things connected during a power blip. This should reduce that to two battery backups and only two circuits to power if we need to run on generator, vs four.

TLDR: Did I mention I wasn’t feeling well today? ;) My Chiefs won, by a toe, btw. :D
 
Heading out in about an hour for a day trip to Farmington NM, about 3 hours away. This week (and weekend) is their annual 4x4 Week. This afternoon and evening is the Offroad Downtown Takeover, essentially a street fair with people showing off their off-road vehicle builds. This weekend is also the World Extreme Rock Crawling Nationals (WE Rock), where pro rock crawlers compete by driving timed courses around and over boulder fields. Most of the drivers will also be at the Downtown Takeover doing meet & greets and displaying their rigs. I won't be going to any of the weekend rock crawling events because I'm not physically able to handle the hike from the parking area to the competition courses, but I want to go to the downtown event today to meet a few of the off-roaders I follow on YouTube. There are also a bunch of trail rides ranging from mild to extreme, but I'll be passing on those as well due to time constraints.

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The rest of the weekend will be a combination of house and yard chores, shop time, and sheer laziness. :D
Mike Stafford said:
...Today I must remember to drill the handles for the pins before I heat treat. I write that statement in hopes I won't forget because if I do the drilling will be nearly impossible...I feel ya.
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I feel ya. I drilled new holes in a pre-made cryo-hardened knife blank once. (With emphasis on the word "once".) I burned up four or five drill bits just to make three holes. :doh:
 
Vaughn McMillan said:
Heading out in about an hour for a day trip to Farmington NM, about 3 hours away. This week (and weekend) is their annual 4x4 Week. This afternoon and evening is the Offroad Downtown Takeover, essentially a street fair with people showing off their off-road vehicle builds. This weekend is also the World Extreme Rock Crawling Nationals (WE Rock), where pro rock crawlers compete by driving timed courses around and over boulder fields. Most of the drivers will also be at the Downtown Takeover doing meet & greets and displaying their rigs. I won't be going to any of the weekend rock crawling events because I'm not physically able to handle the hike from the parking area to the competition courses, but I want to go to the downtown event today to meet a few of the off-roaders I follow on YouTube. There are also a bunch of trail rides ranging from mild to extreme, but I'll be passing on those as well due to time constraints.

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Supercrawl-Rock-Crawling-World-Championship.jpg

The rest of the weekend will be a combination of house and yard chores, shop time, and sheer laziness. :D
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I have seen this type of off road 4WD stuff on TV and I am just amazed that a vehicle can do what these machines and operators do.

I had a 4WD Jeep for several years and I only used it on the beaches of the Outer Banks and in the infrequent snows we had. The sand was difficult to drive in if you didn't have the right head of steam. My instinct was to go in slowly until I learned that is when the "quicksand" will get you stuck for sure.

I can't imagine the amount of money these folks have invested in these vehicles.
 
my grandsons birthday sunday....my daughter is making a party strictly for kiddies, 930 am sunday morning at an indoor gymboree type place, where they can climb, jump, yell....kind of early for us, but we will be there. we are headed there tomorrow to help her out get ready, and have a cake just for us with him...the kid loves to celebrate his birthday...they had a party and dunkin donuts in school for him today. nothing else planned, just keep working in the shop, all odds and ends projects, maybe even see if that broken saw I got has a shot at working.
 
Mike Stafford said:
….I can't imagine the amount of money these folks have invested in these vehicles.
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Some of the rigs have big bucks tied up in them, but you might be surprised how little some of these guys spend. I just talked to one of the guys I follow on YouTube, and one of his rigs started with a Suzuki Samuri frame. The drive train is from a Toyota forklift (including the propane-fueled engine and hydraulics for the steering) and the axles are from a Dodge one-ton truck. All the parts were from salvage yards. He has won previous WE Rock competitions with this rig.

He’s also got a Chevy S-10 pickup with Ford one-ton axles. He built a custom suspension on leaf springs. Still using the factory drive train, although he re-geared it and added a doubler to the transfer case for ultra-low range gears. As I recall he’s running it on 42” tires. He built it for a budget off-road build challenge for around $10K and then won the off-road driving portion of the competition.
 
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