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I went out yesterday and got the snowblower going on the first 4 or 5 inches of snow, and this morning did another foot or so of snow, and the snow is still coming down. I got an Ego electric snowblower, their big self propelled one, last fall, and I'm glad I did. It works well and the...

Bentwings, I was recently looking for a wall chart of drill and tap sizes and equivalents and almost ordered one on eBay, but then discovered that the big Starrett wall chart, as well as the pocket card size version, are available FREE directly from Starrett. I ordered the wall chart and it...

This year we went to Pueblo, Colorado before Christmas and stayed 5 weeks with our son and grandson, then came home to Western Wisconsin where everything is cold and snow and ice covered. In Colorado we were outside in shirt sleeves on Christmas, and if it snowed, we hurried up and took the...

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My only grandson is only 7 but works with his dad when they make things like small bookshelves, sandbox, and repair RC cars that they both enjoy running. All three of my sons, the youngest of whom is 42, grew up with workshop access and the use of hand and power tools, including both...

I missed a Dumore sensitive drill at a garage sale by a minute. It was $15.

Over the last 50 years we lost more chickens to possums than to all other critters combined, so I don't think much of possums.

We're nearing the end of a month long vacation stay with a son and grandson in Pueblo Colorado and missed the recent snows etc back home in Wisconsin. Spent some time in Texas visiting museums and other attractions. Warm and sunny most of the time. I can see why some friends from Wisconsin spend...

Your location? Where you are would determine if someone could pick them up or not.

I grew up with wood heat and our homes (until the last year) have had wood heat. Insulation of the building reduces the amount of wood required and is one reason I was able to keep using wood heat into my 70s--that and lightweight electric chainsaws meant that both I and my wife could cut up...

I live in Wisconsin, east of Bentwings I suppose, and we had about 6 inches of heavy wet snow that was like wet cement, followed by another half a foot the next couple of days, and now it's below zero (Fahrenheit). We're spending the Christmas holidays in Pueblo, Colorado, with a son and...

I'm glad that at least some of the responders to my original remarks actually read what I wrote as my original question.

Our first seed catalog arrived in the mail a week or so ago, so I am already planning next year's garden. For many years we hosted a seed ordering group of friends so that we could pool our seed orders to cut down on the shipping costs on small orders, and to get a discount due to the total...

As I mentioned in my previous posts, these are NOT odd-leg calipers as defined by Webster's dictionary or as shown in the book that I mentioned at the beginning of this post. These are hermaphrodite calipers and they aren't what I am asking about.

When I use Google to search for "odd leg caliper" or "jenny caliper" all the images and available tools are actually hermaphrodite calipers, which is NOT the same thing. However, the dictionary definition appears to be describing what I am looking for.

That's what I was thinking of when I mentioned reworking common calipers.

I was recently reading through the book "The Modern Machinist" by John Usher, ca 1895, and came across a "odd-leg calipers" which looks like a real interesting tool, but I can find no mention of a tool with this name that is the same configuration as the tool mentioned in the book. The...

We grow our onions from seed. We're in Western Wisconsin, USA, about an hour east of Minneapolis/St Paul, MN. We've had consistently better luck with onions from seed than from sets, for one thing you can be more sure of the variety. We start them inside under lights in January or early...

I'm trying to remember details of a furnace I built when I was about 15 years old when experimenting with making alloys of copper etc for a science fair project. It involved a large truck brake drum from the salvage yard and using my mother's vacuum cleaner air output for an air source and used...

Thank you for all this interesting information!