That Kiwi Bloke

Have been clicking on all the links and yes this gear is so much more. There ought to be an adaptor for my router. If not I might have to by into the Festool family.

sO I should buy it for a X-mass present to myself is what you all are saying. I have one of those cheapy dove tail jigs but the stumbling block i have on it is the guide collet that goes on the bottom of the router. It seems to be very make specific, and i don't have a portacable router. And to top that I have lost all the little xtra bits that came with the jig. I've had it years and only pulled it out last week to use it and discovered it was about as useful as a door stop. Leigh on the other hand seemed to be more router makes flexable. Well i'm hoping anyway that this is the case as i want to make some boxs and wooden chests. Because lets face it everyone loves a nice big chest.

I'm looking at buying a D4R Pro. . .what can you all tell me these if anything?

On the other hand I just discovered the saw stop the other day. Didn't know it was a complete saw, to be honest thought it was something that could be added to an existing saw. HOWEVER...your a complete idiot if you don't go into a work shop and don't treat any of the machines with anything but respect. And it only takes an instant single mistake for things to get completely FARKED. I can still see it now a year later like i just did it. If I'd had a saw stop my thumb might still be fully intact and not still giving me tingly burning sensations. Thumbs are full of nerves they say. The only thing stopping me buying one now after the fact for piece of mind is $$$. The moral of my story is don't use the panel saw in a stinking hot shed with sweaty hands. Hands that could slip off a shiny plastic push stick. Now if I had one of these saws and did screw things up again and lost out on a safety cartridge and blade. Small price to pay for a finger(s). Every time I go anywhere near that saw now I think about my thumb. But thats just me.

I'm seriously serious here. And I feel I have taken the fence , the gate AND the letter box. When the planetary quarantine has lifted I'm coming to America and I'm gonna hunt you down and buy you a beer. ? and the Tui Beer add would say.....Yeah Right! As stated earlier in my piece. The maximum size [at the time of that writing] for a building of any sort that didn't need a Building Consent was 10 square metres. I decided that to get what I wanted I could easily build myself a couple of 10sqm buildings to do the job of one building. Incidentally after this COVID thing...the NZ government decided that to speed up BC's they were going to increase the minimum size to 30sqm. Which means making a bush hut/shack/batch/crib/cabin so much better. I'm however committed to my two 10sqm mansions. The above mentioned size increase comes with a lot of fish hooks. Namely that the work still has to comply with the building code, has to be inspected by and signed off by a competent registered building practitioner type person etc...the building can't have plumbing, like a kitchen or shower or any other sort of stuff. So basically I'm going to break all the rules and do it my way. But I am going to build it to the NZ building code because I want the building to last and not fall over. Costs way to much to be stupid about it. I want it to be warm in the shitty cold windy wet winter and cool in the stupid hot and dry summer. Cribs can be about any size to be honest and frank. I'll see if i can get some more pictures of some typical kiwi examples. You know...I thought Ranch was something you sprinkled on your wabbit food. "So what the hell is a crib used for?" Its a Tiny house. . .for babies man. NO...its a tiny house for me. Small is beautiful. Imagine not having to walk a marathon to go from the kitchen to the dining room to the lounge to the bedroom. Modern house are so stupidly big these days, designed to have heaps of empty room that make you go out and buy crap you don't need to fill up all that space. Just look at my house, most of the rooms are full of junk i haven't used in years, that I don't want to get rid of in case I decide that I might use it. Don't need a big place down at the bush block. Just need a bench to cook my food at and place to sit down and eat it. Small spaces are more easily warmed up and easier to maintain. The Bedroom will be the same size, so just big enough for the bed and place to store some clothes and so forth. The bathroom will be outside in an enclosed area out of the wind. Composting toilet. Basic Gas water heater shower. Going to go shopping in RV / Marine shops for the smaller compact appliances. Going to have an old cast iron bath set up over a fire for those really shitty nights were getting boiled alive is preferable than turning to a block of ice when outside. Not that it gets that cold there. Not even sure if it has ever snowed in the area. Might be a bit too far north for that. Mount Taranaki which is a Volcanoe south of my place by a 100 k or so is covered in snow year round. And being out in the middle of no where I can easily spend my days there in my birthday suit letting it all hang out and not worry about scaring anyone with my ugly fat white body. ? . . . .

So I got another window in and put the final cladding on the e nd outside wall. Should stop the prevailing storm wind blowing moisture through the cracks in the plywood. I also moved some fire wood from down at the road end up to the main hut.

So I have been busy doing other stuff and haven't been on here in like a million years. So yeah to what Kevin said. Back in the day when [KBA]_TIODS and I a.k.a [KBA]_KIWI were playing that GAME. I was talking to this other bloke (from another clan) while we were murdering red dots. Well talking is probably not the precise word since back in those days it wasn't Discord or even Team Speak. But I think we chatted via in game text. But anyway. . . I was at the time playing with this other chap who lived in a city in some place called TEXAS. No idea what we ere talking about but I called him a PUNK. He immediately stopped talking to me, dropped me from the group and flew away. Landed his space ship in the nearest station and dropped out of game. SAY LIKE WHAT THE F?!?! Took him about a week to cool down enough to talk to me again. To me a punk is an English guy (UK) dressed in leathers, studs, and other facial jewellery, big pink Mohawk and a few assorted tats. A perfect example is Vivian off the English TV series "THE YOUNG ONES". So apparently a Texan Punk is whole different kettle of fish to the original English Punk Rocker or Punk for short, you probably have a better idea than I do. But he said I'd called him a Prison bum Monkey or something like that. It was then a rather interesting conversation on slang. Kind of like what we could have now now. It stuck in my mind like, back then until now. It was about then that I discovered that this particular chap was incredibly easy to offend. Like when I said he wasn't a real Southerner because he lived north of the equator and I was more of a Southerner than he because I lived on a Subtropical Island in the SOUTHERN Pacific Ocean way down SOUTH of the equator. Even further SOUHTER than Australia. I think that time he took the letter box as well as the fence. . .when he went away all grumpy puss. But anyway....all comments are in jest. Nothing is to be taken seriously unless you want to take it serious. If you do wish to then you can take it up with my press release representative. . . I think I read in some dictionary that Yankee was a New Yorker or something. Don't you guys have a footy team called the Yankees? Anyway Why don't we just play this one by ear.

Let me see if i can find some pictures of mountains I have stood on. . . . ? and have the evidence to prove it.

You know what? I have absolutely no idea what all you fellas are talking about? BAD Axe sounded like something that you used then decided it was for the bin since i didn't perform. Then all this other technical jargon has just gone straight over my head. whoooooosh...hmmmmm loook at that I C blue sky... But I do know what a sore is...i mean saw. But hang angle...erm....ahhhh..... The only hang angle I can think of is the angle of the dangle. But I'm pretty sure its not that. ? Sounds like its expensive and awesome whatever it is. . . .

Just got out of hospital, almost lost a leg and an arm, did loose a couple of fingers, and an assortment of skin and bone. This tool is awesome for plastic surgeons. And my testicles are here floating in a jar, so no i didn't loose them they are all nice and safe.

TO Date he hasn't used the bed yet. He said something about it being too heavy to move out of its present location in his fire wood barn [He is a firewood merchant, so has a lot of large drying sheds around his property]. SO WHY did he want me to build it out of the heaviest wood he could find then?

Yeah looks good. . . I'm assuming you did that mountain walk in a day? Speaking of volcanoes. . . we have a few down here. . .they can be visited and summit ed for day walks. A lot of them are still active and do a lot of smoking and occasionally pop their wads. I'm planning a trip down South In Feb next year, A buddy has some land that sits at the trail head of a pretty cool alpine loop that I want to go experience. I think its about a 5 day walk to get around. I'll take photos. No volcano's in the South Island only the North Island, since the North Island is a subduction zone. The South Island are two plates colliding hence the great ranges of mountains. And 68 is not too old to go walking mate. My dad is in his 80's and still gets out occasionally though he keeps saying he's over it. Keep up the good work. PS the water fall looks pretty cool.

OK gonna have to try this out see if what you say is true. . . Know where I can buy a dummy?

I just had to stop when I saw it and it just blew me away that someone would actually do something like that. I was thinking like WOW! ARE U $%#^ing NUTS. Not even a guard on it. Not sure how you'd chop your testicles off with this baby unless there's something your not telling the rest of us. Just make you think hmmmmmmmm. . . . .

Even I have been to the Badlands....Been there done that. ..Brought a T-Shirt even. But alas Kevin didn't have T - Shirts for sale back then, because I'm almost sure he might have forced me to buy one when I dropped in on him if he had. ..and damn thinking about that....that was like 6 years ago now. yikeesss. Slow to praise....but only takes an instant to condemn. Some cases of Covid-19 magically appeared in Auckland the other day so the POO is flying once more. Auckland is of course almost in lock down again. But for the rest of us we're sitting on a 2. Those pictures look like a couple of my civil engineering jobs where the erosion has got a little out of hand after a big rain storm has gone through. Looks like someone found their shirt. <-- This was added after all the rest as an EDIT... Edits are working...

WHO? I thought only birds tweeted...?!?

Hilarious....short sleeve shirts come from Haiti and the long sleeves shirts come from Ethiopia. BUT printed in the USA. Have I got that right?

Ahhh you mean. ..made in the USA from imported ingredients. ? Or perhaps its just the labels that come from somewhere else. . . . WELL I was rather pleasantly surprised with the 3 XL. ITS absolutely HUGE. I brought a couple of greasy wool jerseys years ago from a shop down in Dunedin that was selling imported goods from far flung places. The jerseys labels said something like this "Made in Nepal with wool imported from NZ" which cracked me up. So someone exported wool from NZ to Nepal where someone else bought the wool turned them into a bunch of sweaters and then exported them back to good OL NZ. Full round trip. Now all I have to do is get some photos of yours truly, wearing these fashion statements beside well known land marks here in the deep dark southern hemisphere. I should then be able to win the grand booby prize (whatever it may b) for the most southern worn garment. At this particular time in the world history with the lack of flights going any where. I'm pretty sure none of you will be able to go further south than this. Unless you have a forum user in Antarctica or from one of the horns of Africa or South AMERICA. Which reminds me Kevin. I won't be able to come see you as planned. . .and I'm not even sure when I will be able to get across the pond. Since at this time there are no commercial passenger flights or boat trips leaving our shores. And I think they said that unless i am able to leave (when they decide that we can leave) if I'm not away longer than 3 months I will be stuck with a massive quarantine bill when I get back. Quarantine is another 3 weeks or isolation. Would turn into a pretty big mission.

SO FAR SO GOOD. . . Sweet as bro. . .hang on a minute. . . . A. . .? ?. . . . . ????? Haetiti . . . Ethiopia ? ? are these real places in the US of A? I'm pretty sure the web site stated that these products are proudly made in the good old US of A. See . . . Am I missing something here?

On the other hand if I did it properly people might make the mistake that I actually know what I'm doing. I like gluing things together. Usually its my fingers, but occasionally I misfire and get some glue on the wood.

I'm also going to run a row of screws all round for looks. But to be honest I'm going to wing it. I've made a few of these doors now and haven't had a lot of problems with movement.

Batten glue up Then the other end Then started on the diagonals. But still need to trim this end. I did the glue up before I did that, hoping the xtra board will stop the tear out.

So when I was adding the roof ridge metal i found that it was starting to dip at one end as i went along so i came up with method to keep the whole thing at a standard height. And then they looked like this. . . And a shot from inside with the roof on and almost all the lower walls on. . . And from the outside with the roof and the walls but no doors or upper ends. The blue corrugated plastic was cheap and NASTY. Discovered it wasn't parallel. The ends were wider than the middle. Found out that what while I thought we'd we'd managed to get the main posts in their right places we were out slightly. All the little errors seemed to magnify as I went along. Little things definitly made bigger things. The trusses as i may have said earlier while vertical weren't at 90 degrees and or parallel with the ends. Definitely going to try something else the next time I build another one of these. Not even half way there yet, though its almost clad. Still have to cut the window vents out on the walls.

If my younger brother didn't have sprogletts, I'd have absolutely no idea what a pull up is. So what your saying is you put your big boy pants on stole your dads orbital and got stuck in to help him put together a kit set he brought from Wal-Mart? ?