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From: "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: metal WORKING today
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 14:38:20 -0400
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"Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:100ibcs$2apib$1@dont-email.me...

On 5/20/2025 7:13 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
> I'd love to find a justifiably affordable tractor/loader/backhoe, even one 
> too small to be commercially practical, since I can hoist a boulder or log 
> beyond the capacity of any loader I could maneuver through my woods.

.... If you really want something like that I think you will have to actively
look for it.  I'm not dismissing serendipity, but the odds are longer
than they used to be. ...
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I've been passively looking and tire-kicking for a long time, it will keep. 
First I need to drill test holes or trenches in the hillside close behind 
the house to check for 'ledge' (solid rock) that would prevent excavating 
and putting a shed there. The simple answer may be to make a dirt bucket for 
the hydraulic loader I made for my Sears GT18 garden tractor, its snow 
bucket is too big and too flimsy, 0.050" stainless. It cleared the roadside 
snowbank and a front yard turn-around very well for several years before I 
retired and didn't need to get out early every morning.

The job I need to finish is cutting a metric internal thread in the adapter 
sleeve of rock drill rod, on a 60-year-old inch lathe with a non-standard 
metric conversion. I just finished an aluminum test piece and found the 
minimum compound infeed for a snug fit.

Then split next winter's firewood and complete and assemble the unfinished 
kit of heavy shed beams I cut last year on the sawmill. I found that a sharp 
bow saw guided between clamped-on 2x4 blocks cuts end joinery quickly, 
smoothly and precisely. Much of the wood will be stored as oversized 
framing.