#3 I did something similar one time when out on my road bicycle about 20 years ago. It just started to rain as I approached the tracks and I headed across them at what I thought was the correct angle. Back wheel skidded out and folded up like a potato chip. I ended up in the road way with a car coming right at my head. Luckily the car was able to avoid me. Although I was prepared to walk home, a samaritan stopped and gave me a ride back to within a couple hundred yards of where I live. I was about 10 miles from home.
The red tree in #2 is most likely Bubinga or Sapele. Both are African woods known to still be found in such large sizes. The figure in the grain is called "quilting". It's actually a harmless deformity in the grain, and is quite common in Bubinga. Sapele, and Maple as compared to other species. It generally drives the cost of the lumber up by 20x-500x.
I did #7 over the top of a wheel chair, and broke my nose. My face was so busted up that my lips looked like I had purple lipstick on. I had seen an ENT guy years ago, to see if he could help with chronic migraines, and he told me that my nose had been broken before. It must have been from playing football in high school. I never knew it, I had a higher pain tolerance than I do now. Now, if I get a splinter in my finger, I want morphine. Of course, I can't get any, but I want some. pigpen51
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corymbia_opaca >>Corymbia opaca, also known as the desert bloodwood, is a species of tree that is endemic to northern Australia. It has rough bark on part or all of the trunk, lance-shaped leaves, club-shaped flower buds and urn-shaped fruit. Several part of this plant are used by Australian Aboriginal in traditional medicine.<<
#5. Anyone that can throw a cast net that well has my appreciation. I have a 10ft that I can barely throw. That's like a 20 or 30ft net and he did it beautiful.
#3 I did something similar one time when out on my road bicycle about 20 years ago. It just started to rain as I approached the tracks and I headed across them at what I thought was the correct angle. Back wheel skidded out and folded up like a potato chip. I ended up in the road way with a car coming right at my head. Luckily the car was able to avoid me. Although I was prepared to walk home, a samaritan stopped and gave me a ride back to within a couple hundred yards of where I live. I was about 10 miles from home.
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#2: What kind of wood is that?
ReplyDeleteI believe it is redheart.
Delete#2, Chinese army furniture factory?
ReplyDelete#2, the red tree... what is that?
ReplyDelete#9: Keeper!
ReplyDeleteThe red tree in #2 is most likely Bubinga or Sapele. Both are African woods known to still be found in such large sizes. The figure in the grain is called "quilting". It's actually a harmless deformity in the grain, and is quite common in Bubinga. Sapele, and Maple as compared to other species. It generally drives the cost of the lumber up by 20x-500x.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.dsfinishes.com/ds-blog/2018/5/11/the-bloodwood-tree Maybe?
ReplyDeleteI did #7 over the top of a wheel chair, and broke my nose. My face was so busted up that my lips looked like I had purple lipstick on.
ReplyDeleteI had seen an ENT guy years ago, to see if he could help with chronic migraines, and he told me that my nose had been broken before. It must have been from playing football in high school. I never knew it, I had a higher pain tolerance than I do now. Now, if I get a splinter in my finger, I want morphine. Of course, I can't get any, but I want some.
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Looks like bloodwood. Quilted bloodwood.
ReplyDeleteHad to look up #2.
ReplyDeleteDesert Bloodwood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corymbia_opaca
>>Corymbia opaca, also known as the desert bloodwood, is a species of tree that is endemic to northern Australia. It has rough bark on part or all of the trunk, lance-shaped leaves, club-shaped flower buds and urn-shaped fruit. Several part of this plant are used by Australian Aboriginal in traditional medicine.<<
I never even tried to hand plane across the grain. I guess it works if you have sharp knives>
DeleteI feel like a dummy for not trying it. Huh,..
Some species of Bloodwood is my guess.
ReplyDeleteAppears the tree is Blood Wood, a rare South American wood.
ReplyDeleteTeasing a dog like that is wrong.
ReplyDeleteYep.
DeleteNumber 3 has FUKed my left ankle since 1984. Life would have been so much different otherwise.
ReplyDelete#5. Anyone that can throw a cast net that well has my appreciation. I have a 10ft that I can barely throw. That's like a 20 or 30ft net and he did it beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI hate whales
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