[TheForge] Re: Beware the quiet welder

[Jerry Frost]

I don't know Mike, I'll pass it on to Deb and get back 
to you.

I imagine electric fencing works but doubt you need 
that much. We use ranch panel fencing with progressive 
openings. The bottom ones are too small for kids to get 
through but about 14" off the ground they go to 8" sq. 
It's 53" high x 16' long and pretty spendy now. Regular 
old 4-5' roll stock fencing should be plenty.

Like I say though I'll bcc: this to Deb. She'll 
straighten us both out. <grin>

I've always put the band on the wheels, then put it in 
the guides, then tightened it. Maybe I'll look at the 
instructions one of these days. Eh?

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.


From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>


>
>> 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
>
>