Yesterday's outside work was mostly cutting Box Elder and treating the cut stumps with herbicide. I was also cutting and pulling Asian Bittersweet vines out of trees. That was heavy work.
I acquired an impressive collection of stick-tight seeds while working outside.
Inside, Quicksilver helped me make tree-tubes to slide over young trees to protect them from the rabbits. I cut old newspapers, rolled them on a mandrel and ran a bead of glue along the edge of the paper before I finished rolling them. Quicksilver then applied the tape to hold the assembly together while the glue dried. Then she pulled the fragile tube off of the mandrel and put them on the pile to dry.
It should be obvious that these can only be used for unbranched whips, but it is much, much faster than wrapping them in-the-field.
One of the pages had the picture and obituary of Susan N., one of our family friends. She will be pleased that even after she left this valley-of-toil-and-tears that she can still do good work.
I also went to the gym and lifted.
There was a class going on. It had women. It had LOTS of women. The instructor, who was also a woman, was introducing them one-by-one to all of the types of equipment in the gym. The group assembled around the piece of equipment in question. The instructor demonstrated how to use it. Then each woman, in turn, used the equipment while the instructor coached them. Each woman did three "sets", each in their own turn, before the group moved on.
The equipment for arm curls is right next to the deadlift platform and the Japanese symbol or "Woman" looks a lot like a woman doing a curl.
I bought an anvil yesterday
I have to pick it up tomorrow. I bought it at an on-line auction and picking it up involves a modest road-trip.
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last two cheap battery connectors I bought were plated similarly.
ReplyDeleteHint: Don't tighten them too much, they snap.
I understand the gold plating on the terminal itself, as it is in the conductive path and corrosion impairs current flow.
DeletePlating the nut and bolt, not so much.
Kanji is a lot of fun to study. Once you pick up on the fundamental symbols, what they say about the Japanese thought process and concepts is interesting.
ReplyDeleteI posted the pics of Noisy and Women in Japanese on my Facebook page...now lets see what the replies look like. Hopefully I won't be sleeping on the couch. ( Either way I thought it amusing).
ReplyDeleteLiving on the edge buddy LoL
DeleteHow big an anvil?
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ReplyDelete18" length of railroad rail on a 32" tall pedestal.
Is the little Mini-Me anvil in the pic included
DeleteTo be fair, the ideogram for "noisy" is funny, but archaic.
ReplyDeleteERJ: I have been told I have big hands; Santa and his elves were quite amused when I tried to pick up my present with a one-handed overhand grip and the gift stayed on the floor while the wrapping paper went flying. Twelve inches of railroad rail is heavy. And useful. Enjoy your iron.
I have two, a 440 pound monster wrought iron English and a 135 pound English. Blacksmithing is fun.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy beating on that anvil!
ReplyDeleteHistorian@737:
ReplyDeleteWrought iron?? It isn't brittle? And 440 lbs, good gawd! I sold my anvil because: work/life/new baby/etc. Regret it.
Took a smithing class and rather enjoyed it. One student was exceptionally talented; he was a clock maker- not a fixer, a maker.
Wrought iron anvils are very sought out for their "bounce" quality. Due to the metal structure it has a certain spongeness quality and in later years they were layered with a harder steel on top to get that certain bounce quality when hammering.
DeleteSNfoilhat@1115:
DeleteHuh. Thank you for the information. I am obviously not a metallurgist.