Cold Ale - The Blokes' Thread!

[prendrelemick]

Just what I need - a decent peening hammer. Not to mention a planisher. I made the mistake of buying a peening jig because the old eyes are a bit dull, but there is no satisfaction using it. Anyway t'other day I had a go with an ordinary claw hammer and polished up a lump hammer for an anvil - and made a fair job of it.

That WD40 idea sounds good. oil tends to clag up the stone.

Do you have Bustards in Texas?

[prendrelemick]

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[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Just what I need - a decent peening hammer. Not to mention a planisher. I made the mistake of buying a peening jig because the old eyes are a bit dull, but there is no satisfaction using it. Anyway t'other day I had a go with an ordinary claw hammer and polished up a lump hammer for an anvil - and made a fair job of it.

That WD40 idea sounds good. oil tends to clag up the stone.

Do you have Bustards in Texas?

"Lump hammer"? I'll need help with that one.
What you see in the picture is from my father's sheet metal tools, used on many VW Beetle and Corvair Monza fenders.
The sharpening stone is one I picked up some where along the way. I once tried some 80 weight oil on the stone, normally used as cutting oil on the drill press, that really gummed up the grit.

As requested, here are two pictures of the new lassie, her name is Isis:






I had her sit by some wood I'm splitting with the new 10 lb sledge hammer and the ole family wedge. I figured anyone who cuts grass with a scythe, would appreciate a classical method of splitting wood.

[prendrelemick]

How many times have I thought, "If I had a long handle on this wedge it would be a very good thing," and never pursued the idea.

That's a grand looking dog, do I detect a bit of collie in there.



Don't lend me those heirlooms, I'm a terrible loser of hammers.

[The Atheist]

A Yorkshire sheep farmer, eh? I'm sure we have one of those around here.....

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/c...n-9582960.html

[prendrelemick]

Strange folk them North Yorkshire types.

We have a piece of genuine Tour de France art work in our meadows by a genuine artist. She created it by sowing different coloured grasses into the sward in April, it covers about 10 acres and can be viewed from le route of le Tour. I have no idea what it is supposed to be, when I asked her she said "It's totally abstract". I was jealous of my mate -Miles who has a nice picture of a man and his dog in his field, Miles was on telly the other day talking about it. Anyway mine is supposed to be curves and stripes but by last week no stripes had appeared , my original native grasses have smothered them. So last weekend the stripes were sprayed in with a liquid nitrogen rich fertilizer and a green dye. The dye was useless - green dye on green grass - I only knew it was there because the sheep had green legs after a running through it. The Nitrogen might be kicking in though, I thought I could see something this morning.

Jo, the artist, is a bit distraught because there is an "Interpretation board " by the viewing point across the valley showing what it is supposed to look like , with her name on it. She was planning to go up one night and obliterate it with spray paint (vandals would be blamed) " don"t worry" sez I " If there's a picture of what it's supposed to be like, people will stare and squint and think they can see it." True art is in the mind of the beholder.

[stlukesguild]

Finally! All three of us... myself, my wife, and my brother (who lives with us) are off tomorrow. We had the most fabulous burgers on the grill on Pretzel rolls with some absolutely magnificent Belgian Trappist ale. I'm on my third bottle... all the size of a wine bottle and just as strong (10-11% alcohol). Now we're listening to Willie Nelson full blast... to be followed by Elmore James and the Rolling Stones and finally a magnificent double chocolate stout with a dark chocolate bar and some chocolate cake. If we don't go into a diabetic coma, we'll all get up around 2 PM tomorrow. Thank God for spell check!!

[stlukesguild]

Shake Your Money Maker!!!!

[stlukesguild]

"Gimme Shelter"

Oh, a storm is threat'ning
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost your way
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
The floods is threat'ning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
I tell you love, sister, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away

[prendrelemick]

For me it's not the words but the WOWOWOWOWOW guitar on that track.

[The Atheist]

True art is in the mind of the beholder.

Yes indeed. As the payment of 2.6 million quid for an unmade bed showed.

[Pope of Eruke]

Shake Your Money Maker!!!!

LOVE Elmore James, that slide is so damn good...

[Sancho]

^I gotta gal, she lives up on a hill
Yeah, I gotta gal, she lives up on a hill

Shake it but don't break it, baby.

Yes, well, so anyway, I finally decided to do something about the tremendous pile of broken down junk I have out in the barn. Nope, I did not call Ed the salvage man - I resolved to start fixing stuff. So Monday I bought a mig welder from a guy down the street who needed some cash. Yeah baby, metal-inert-gas, wire feed, 250 volts, 200 amps (or two-oh-one, whatever it takes), arc welder. I inserted a 10 lb spool of wire, hooked up an 80 lb tank of argon/CO2 shielding gas, laid out a half-dozen implements that needed a bead burnt across them, and gassed up my generator, but then the trouble began. When I went to plug in the welder, the plug didn't fit.

No big whoop, sez I, I'll make it fit.

1st problem: the power receptacle on the generator has 4 holes, but the plug on the welder only has 3 prongs. In the parlance of the American National Electrical Manufacturers Association, I had to plug a NEMA 6-50P into a L14-30R. Hmm, what to do about the spare hole? I found a box of old power cords in the garage and decided to fashion a converter out of a heavy-duty power cord (30 amp) from a now-defunct clothes dryer. Green wire, red wire, white wire, and black wire.

So green is ground, red is hot, black is hot, and white is neutral (whatever that means). After much hemming and hawing, and racking my brain trying to remember a basic circuits course I took years ago, I just clipped that white bastard off.

Voila! Problem solved.

2nd problem: Feed speed, Dial-a-Volt, and Polarity. Trial and error worked here.

3rd problem: what to do about the sunburn.

As it turns out, I could've saved myself a lot of time if I'd'a visited the welder's forum on the web. It's set up just like this one (only with much more traffic) and all the things I had to figure out on my own were already laid out for me right there in the "general questions" area.

Yep.

Think I'll keep my eyes peeled for a 3-phase Heliarc Welder.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

.. Now we're listening to Willie Nelson full blast...

"Trappist ale take my mind
Don't let her mem'ry torture me..."

....1st problem: the power receptacle on the generator has 4 holes, but the plug on the welder only has 3 prongs. In the parlance of the American National Electrical Manufacturers Association, I had to plug a NEMA 6-50P into a L14-30R. Hmm, what to do about the spare hole? I found a box of old power cords in the garage and decided to fashion a converter out of a heavy-duty power cord (30 amp) from a now-defunct clothes dryer. Green wire, red wire, white wire, and black wire.

So green is ground, red is hot, black is hot, and white is neutral (whatever that means). After much hemming and hawing, and racking my brain trying to remember a basic circuits course I took years ago, I just clipped that white bastard off.

Voila! Problem solved.

A pair of jumper cables and electrical tape can sometimes get you around those confounded NEMA problems, but I wouldn't count on a pair of isotoner gloves when operating.

....That's a grand looking dog, do I detect a bit of collie in there...

Thanks, her bio from the shelter indicated "Collie mix". Who knows what the rest of her is.

Strange folk them North Yorkshire types.

We have a piece of genuine Tour de France art work in our meadows by a genuine artist. She created it by sowing different coloured grasses into the sward in April, it covers about 10 acres and can be viewed from le route of le Tour. I have no idea what it is supposed to be, when I asked her she said "It's totally abstract". I was jealous of my mate -Miles who has a nice picture of a man and his dog in his field, Miles was on telly the other day talking about it. Anyway mine is supposed to be curves and stripes but by last week no stripes had appeared , my original native grasses have smothered them. So last weekend the stripes were sprayed in with a liquid nitrogen rich fertilizer and a green dye. The dye was useless - green dye on green grass - I only knew it was there because the sheep had green legs after a running through it. The Nitrogen might be kicking in though, I thought I could see something this morning.

Jo, the artist, is a bit distraught because there is an "Interpretation board " by the viewing point across the valley showing what it is supposed to look like , with her name on it. She was planning to go up one night and obliterate it with spray paint (vandals would be blamed) " don"t worry" sez I " If there's a picture of what it's supposed to be like, people will stare and squint and think they can see it." True art is in the mind of the beholder.

Just right for an Austrian scythe!

[prendrelemick]

Yes, well, so anyway, I finally decided to do something about the tremendous pile of broken down junk I have out in the barn. Nope, I did not call Ed the salvage man - I resolved to start fixing stuff.

I have the same problem. I've decided to build a new barn.