[TheForge] Re: Beware the quiet welder

[Mike Spencer]

> Outside of Using Roundup a couple years in a row it's 
> the ONLY way I know of to get rid of Devil's Club.

We have a weed called knapweed.  Pretty flowers, coarse leaves,
incredibly tough root crowns. Produces large numbers of seeds and the
root crowns emit a toxin into the soil that inhibits competition from
other plants.  Spreads rapidly, cows won't eat it, Roundup makes the
plants look wrinkly and ugly but doesn't kill them. If goats will eat
that and destroy it, I might actually consider keeping goats again.
How are goats with electric fencing?  Do you need 6 strands 8' high
for goats?  Or maybe pigs would be better.


ObSmithing:  My 4" bandsaw isn't a Jet but I believe that, at the time
I bought it over 20 years ago, someone was re-badging Jet and selling
them, in Canada in violation of some agreement or other.  It has the
roller bearing guides and bearings on wheels.  I've had no trouble
with it and have even made it do tricks like sawing the dovetail angle
in a chunk of steel that then became a LG bottom die.

Biggest pain: Put the blade in the guides, then try to get it onto
both wheels.  It pops out of the guides. You need 4 hands.  I guess
I'm just slow. It was only last year that I hit on using a couple of
plastic cable ties to hold the blade in the guides while I put it over
the wheels and got it tight.  Then just cut the ties off.  Duh.


- Mike