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James Bradford

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Location: Salado, Texas

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posted 8 months ago

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This is an oddball on how to lift heavy items in and out of a pickup.

...a friend gave me this idea so I cant take credit, but I do use this trick now!

Its as simple as a pallet ramp ...1 pallet, then 2, then 3, then 4 stacked. Then you can manuvere from there to the bed of truck. I can get by with just 6 pallets in a pinch, buts its all easier if you have about 10.

Too fertilize my garden this year, i hauled in 13 barrels of lemon rinds, 12 bags of (leaves/grass/and hopefully viable pecans), and two truckloads of cedar mulch to dress up my working paths.

Not counting drive time, i have over 20 hrs invested in this project

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row row row your boat, gently down the stream
merrily merrily merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

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Note: Per the Wiki: "Any projects that are in the Food Prep and Preservation or Gardening realm do not count here in Oddball." and "The "Pro Factor": This is the number of hours it would take an expert to accomplish the task, with all the tools and materials in hand" so material handling for a garden does not meet the minimum criteria for the Oddball badge.

Jesse Lane

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posted 7 months ago

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I was asked to fix a cut off saw for a friend. It needed a new starter rope and spool. Also the spring popped out of place and needed rewound and put where it belonged.

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Jesse Lane

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posted 6 months ago

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My alternator went out on my way to work one morning fortunately, I made it to work. I tested alternator directly from the battery and it was not charging the way it’s supposed to. So I borrowed a guy‘s truck went and picked up a new alternator and attempted tempted to get it changed before the rain started.
First I unhooked the battery cable from the negative terminal. Then I removed the belt. I tried to remove the alternator without removing a bracket that was in front of it, but that didn’t work so I had to remove the bracket then unbolt the alternator. Afterwards I unhooked the wires and installed the new alternator.

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Cheryl Loomans

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posted 2 months ago

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We are starting to raise rabbits and needed a hutch for our first Bun, Susan. The entire project (except the wire mesh) was built from materials already on hand. Most of the wood is heat treated pallet wood that took apart a few years ago. The rest was 2 x 4s that were left over from odd projects over the years. The hardware was also from my stash.

I built a 2' x 4' hutch with an insulated "house". The insulation sheets were from years ago when we did stained glass and traveled to art shows - it's repurposed. To prevent the Bun from eating the insulation I placed boards on the inside and outside of the walls of the house sandwiching it in between.

I started the project after my daughter left for work, you should have seen the smile on her face when she got home!
Project took 9.5 hours total to build, another 1.5 hours to move and set up for its new occupant.

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"The winter will ask what we did all summer" - Henry David Thoreau

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Charmaine McPherson

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posted 1 month ago

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I think this qualifies as an oddball project. I was with a friend and her kids when her little girl told me how sad she was that her stuffed puppy toy was broken. She showed me the toy and I immediately volunteered to repair it. I’d done it before on my own kids toys.
I think I managed to make it look like new. She’s going to be so thrilled!

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Christopher Weeks

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Location: Carlton County, Minnesota, USA: 3b; Dfb; sandy loam; in the woods

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I build a couple of bottomless cedar planters/raised beds last spring to replace a row of plasticky grow-bags where I grow pole beans up our catio walls.

I selected these boards because they were at Home Depot on deep discount for being slightly warped. I ended up having to man-handle and overscrew them into shape, but it was totally worth it. I would rather they have been wider, for a deeper bed but you can't argue with 70% off.

I got five boards, so each planter/bed was made eight feet long and just over one foot wide. I chopped one board into eight ~1' lengths and used four as spacers and fastening points. I clamped them up to hold the short board in place for creating the pilot holes and holding them still and stable until the screws were in. And I just went down the line. Getting the last insert in place was the hardest bit, not rocket science.

This is the first one done:

And then they're both done:

Just to include a picture of them in place, I went and snapped one just now. I grew pole beans, beet greens, and potatoes this year, plus some black nightshade volunteered.

If it helps for judging, my best guess from the pictures' timestamps puts this job at just over 3 hours for me -- someone with a shop set up would have been faster.

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Charmaine McPherson

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I had thought to post this under the community badge, but I knew it probably wouldn’t meet the requirements for the ‘work party’ BB. So, I’m crossing my fingers for oddball points instead

Today, a group of us went to my grandparents house and their elderly neighbor (properties are conjoined) and we raked leaves for an hour and a half. There were 9 adults and 8 kids ranging from 4-14 helping us today.
Many of the helpers were related either to each other or myself.
We had about a dozen rakes, 3 tarps, a leaf blower and a lawn mower to help us today.

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Cheryl Loomans

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I built a rabbit hutch from pallet wood I had on hand and a couple of drop cuts that were laying around. My selection was getting low so it took extra time to layout boards of odd sizes and remove a few nails.

The hardware, hinges and latches, I already had - for I don't remember what reason. The 1/2" hardware cloth was the only purchase. I made the top flat so I can stack another hutch on top of it at a later date. That one will have a droppings tray.

I spent about 10 hours on the project over 2 days. It would have gone faster if I had purchased new lumber of normal sizes. The house walls are insulated with 2 layers of pink foam boards and 'finished' on the inside and outside so the rabbit can't get at the foam. The foam is repurposed from back when my hubs and I had a stained glass business and we traveled to shows with our glass.

There is no particle board or plywood anywhere in the build. The pallet wood was all heat treated and safe to use. No paints or stains were used.

I'm embarrass to say I did not remember posting the rabbit hutch the first time. I'm very sorry.

"The winter will ask what we did all summer" - Henry David Thoreau

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Note: Did you build two rabbit hutches? These pictures are the same as your prior rabbit hutch post

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