Good idea cliff... Then maybe I could change careers, get married and get some face time with that guy that does all of the crazy ass wood working on what the hell is that show Yankee wood shop or something.
My neighbors are so shell shocked from race cars they would probably welcome a sawmill operation. -----Original Message----- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 1:29 PM To: blindhandyman Subject: [BlindHandyMan] loft Dear Larry: I would suggest a five quarter oak tongue and groove floor would go nicely, and provide great strength. One way to save money would be to buy your own small saw-mill, there are some nice band-saw model, and the cost of oak logs is much less per thousand, than those boards found at home centers. In order to complete the project, you will need log handling vehicles and equipment to handle the logs. Once the boards are sawn and properly air dried, you will need a planer to take off the rough and to size the lumber more precisely. Now that you have all of this lovely equipment, you may want to saw a few house patterns for your buddies. I would be willing to bet that they would throw you one heck of a beer bust if you sawed a pattern for them, and you would have friends for life. By the way, those slabs and the pile of saw dust are recyclable items. If you have intolerant neighbors, you may want to consider methods of abating the noise of sawing, but neighbors who live a mile or more away, should have no problem, even without noise abatement measures. You may want to call on a specialty shop to have the tongue and groove edges applied, unless you want to go right ahead and buy a commercial grade router with bits sized and shaped to do the job. You may think these suggestions are a bit over the top, but have you ever walked across a solid oak floor with the above thickness. No bouncing and it will last a lifetime. Yours Truly, Clifford Wilson [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions >From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the following address for more information: http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws- users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach Infowest Spam Trap if this mail (ID 112628069) is spam: Spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=112628069&m=dff7 54e13da9&c=s Not spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=112628069&m=dff7 54e13da9&c=n Forget vote: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=112628069&m=dff7 54e13da9&c=f ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS
