The Daily Yardman Thread

Roger B said:

Clyde,

The creation of hunger aside, I want you to know that was one of the grandest efforts at explaining "life" (at least as far as those of us who are stuck in a lawnmower forum are concerned) that has ever been offered.. I thank you from the bottom of my heart and want you to know how much your work was appreciated.

Now, to try to calm Boo-Boo down from his concerns about the escalating number of viewers (readers) this thread seems to have accumulated while only attracting a rather nominal number of actual contributors, I will offer this: Boo, think back to your days in the Military, what did they always say about work parties? - - Simply put, it was - "Out of every ten men, two do all the work while the remaining eight sit on their thumbs." Of course that did not apply to the submarine service, because if everybody didn't do their job then our number of 'dives' would permanently exceed our number of 'surfaces' by one!! .. .. .. And as that was not an acceptable situation to the vast majority of us, we had a hard and fast rule about schitt-canning anyone who obviously wasn't up to our standards. . . . . (They were sent to 'Surface Craft" to become "Surface Pukes", where they could 'slack' alongside their fellow slackers..)

Basically that is what you are seeing here. The ten or twelve guys who comment on here are the men of value, out of the huge number of people who are evidently just reading it every day. All I can suggest is that you appreciate them for who they are and let all the others simply blow away in the wind like chaff.. As you know, on numerous occasions over the past months I have implored readers of this thread to please stop by long enough to make a comment. Those that have, have proven to be not only helpful to those in need of mechanical information and assistance, but men of good character who we have come to call 'friends'.. Let us celebrate them and hope that there are others out there who will follow in their foot steps.. The invitation is open... again...

Roger

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NorthBama said:

Great penmanship Roger

All I can say is Amen

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Roger B said:

Leather! ...... Any of you guys happen to include leather work in your repertoire'?

I'm hanging a nice little hatchet head for #1 Step-Son for his upcoming B-Day and I'd like to make a sheath for it. I need some heavy duty leather, (like 2.5-3mm thick) as well as associated hardware, like rivets and snaps.

I've already made a pattern for the sheath that will work great and I've ordered a handle, (hickory, from the House Handle Company in Cassville, MO) - (Hickory does not grow in Maine) but I'm not sure where to get leather like that. The best I've found are scraps like 'Hermann Oak leather', but man oh man, the stuff is dear! We've started looking for local leather shops, but todays a holiday, so I thought I'd ask you guys.

Thanks for any input,

Rog

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willys55 said:

Nana is 75 lbs and her breed is "Sheperd/Lurcher mix"

Ozwald is 68 lbs and a "Golden/Doodle"

Both well behaved but still act like little kids in the house when they cant go outside to play

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NorthBama said:

Hurricane Nate brought us some needed rain and it also brought the humidity up from the gulf. Its hot and humid today. I never complain about the weather:laughing:

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