Thread: Wood turning in Canada

Thats just to funny

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Bob

Giving Candians a ‘Bad Reputation’?

Personally I find this Very Creative! Take a look at the photo of the finished product!

Have you ever watched someone use a chainsaw to make sculptures? Not the safest thing in the world to do!!

For the life of me I can’t recall what my father called it, but many years ago when they would butcher hogs (hogs are swine that weigh over 200 lbs/those that weigh less are called pigs) they had to grind the meat (a lot of meat) to make sausage by hand. However someone came up with a way to attach a rod to the rear axle of a truck and to the grinder. They would simply have the grinder secured so that it was stationary and start the truck, allow it to idle and then put it in low gear.

The truck would idle at about 800 rpm and this allowed a nice speed for the grinder.

Safe? NO! Labor saving? YES!

I have to admit to using my car as a clamp numerous times in the past, before I had tools. I would either park on top of what I was laminating or use a bottle jack and put what I was laminating underneath the bottle jack.

I enjoyed the video. I admire the out of the box thinking.

A while back I went to a hammer-in and the man had a rolling mill that was hooked up to a car engine and transmission, it was a beast. I wish I would have taken pictures of it.

I am just glad they are stereotyping Canadians not Texans.

Charlie

Back in the day when I was 14 years old I worked after school at a machine shop (OSHA didn’t exist or at least we didn’t know about it).

The owner had a lathe that had a 72” ‘throw” that’s measured from the center of the chuck to the bed with clearance to spare.

It was powered by an electric motor and leather belt driven and the speeds were adjusted by a 5 speed truck transmission.

I saw him use it once; scared the hell out of me! He was turning the worn pivot arms on a bulldozer's hydraulic rams down. I’d made the bushing on a regular lathe.

Gotta love ingenuity!

Well Charlie, I have also used my vehicle, in another classic Canadian way, to take too much of a curve out of my hockey stick blade. Parking the car on the blade over night can do wonders for these illegal curves on hockey sticks.

worked in a saw mill once that had an old truck as the drive for the saw head. it was effective and inexpensive. the mil actually put out some well cut lumber, it just looked peculiar