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zzyzzogeton said:
Oh yeah.... we bend rather than break at that age. Of the many escapades I had growing up, the funniest/worst/most expensive was when I was in 5th grade and a friend of mine, Steven and I were racing our bikes back to school after lunch. Up ahead of us, a brand spanking new Cadillac slowed to nearly a stop to cross through a dip. We were racing rather hard, not really looking ahead while pedaling hard. Steven just missed the back end of the car. I didn't. I rear-ended that Caddy doing about 25 mph on a single-speed Western Flyer bike.

Results -
Me - bent wheel on my bike, a "scratch" on my noggin similar to MM, and several scrapes
Caddy - dented rear bumper, crunched in trunk, dented roof, broken wiper blades and a smashed in hood, detached hood ornament (made the skull cut).

And the woman's daughter (also in my class) was pissed at me for literally years.
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That is actually kind of hilarious. When I was 10-ish, I was playing tag with a group of friends, right after a giant ice storm. There was something like 4" of ice with snow on top. Anyway we were all using sticks or poles of some sort to keep ourselves upright, I was carrying a shovel (tip down) and we all got yelled at to put the sticks/poles/shovel down. Promptly after that I fell slid into the person I was trying to tag, and broke the ulna and radius in my arm, clean break across both bones.
 
Psyop said:
Well I got some sucker I mean guy that sent me one to treat like it was Cliff Stamps, I mean mine.
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What kinda lunatic would do such a thing? :confused:

IIRC you should be getting your grubby little paws on that pretty soon. Have fun!
 
james terrio said:
I completely understand. When my 9-yr-old went over the handlebars and a neighbor brought her home, the sight of her blood nearly gave me a heart attack. I've faced down some fairly weird/intense situations, but I was never that scared in my life. It must have been written all over my face, cuz my kid didn't start crying until she saw how spooked I was.

That situation got me kinda ticked at my Dad... he used to call me "Crash" when I was that age because I was always falling out of trees and wrecking my bike and whatnot. And yet he scolded me for calling her Crash... "That ain't nice. She's a girl." :rolleyes: ;)
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Hardest thing about being a parent, IMO, is knowing and then watching your kids get hurt - my eldest daughter fell out of the tree fort that I was (not quite finished) building for them and "eggshell fractured" her skull. Ambulance to the ER, she had a seizure going into the CAT scanner, was intubated and catheterized; another ambulance ride to the Medevac helipad at Pease and then the chopper ride with the both of us to Boston Children's - landing on the roof of Brigham Women's next door...when we finally got her in front of the ER docs at BCH, she took three stitches from a minor cut and up to the 5th floor we went. I slept right through the extubation later that night I was so exhausted. We were out of BCH in 5 days, and she's been fine ever since. I never want to go through that again...but I also don't want my kids to grow up being afraid of life; that tree fort has not been finished even though the highest off the ground is 8' - it's a walk-on on the other side. I survived many childhood injuries (none nearly so bad) but it's hard to watch your own kids fall off their bicycles. I still struggle with it. That's why I gave them their own knives for Christmas. Kinda draggin' myself by my own collar, and hope they don't cut off any fingers. I'm actually as impressed by MM's parents as I am (in retrospect) by my own. They had the intestinal fortitude to let me go out into the world and get hurt and learn how to deal, something that as a parent myself I wrestle with almost daily.

zzyzzogeton said:
Oh yeah.... we bend rather than break at that age. Of the many escapades I had growing up, the funniest/worst/most expensive was when I was in 5th grade and a friend of mine, Steven and I were racing our bikes back to school after lunch. Up ahead of us, a brand spanking new Cadillac slowed to nearly a stop to cross through a dip. We were racing rather hard, not really looking ahead while pedaling hard. Steven just missed the back end of the car. I didn't. I rear-ended that Caddy doing about 25 mph on a single-speed Western Flyer bike.

Results -
Me - bent wheel on my bike, a "scratch" on my noggin similar to MM, and several scrapes
Caddy - dented rear bumper, crunched in trunk, dented roof, broken wiper blades and a smashed in hood, detached hood ornament (made the skull cut).

And the woman's daughter (also in my class) was pissed at me for literally years.
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Crashed into the back of a mint '61 Chrysler in the late '70's; I was watching my mirror and the car speeding up behind me instead of for road furniture....luckily didn't damage the neighbor's vintage car, but wrecked my bike that had just had the fork replaced from an accident (involving inattention and a gravel filled pothole, my mom following behind me to make sure I knew where I was going -crashed right in front of her) a couple weeks prior. I've really cut down on bike accidents since then ;).
 
So, I keep watching these cooking shows. The ones like "Worse cook in america" and shows like that. I am thinking it might be fun to "sabotage" my cooking to get onto one of those shows. Not that I'm that fantastic of a cook, however I'm sure I can be "the most improved".
 
I feel like woody, talking to myself... :(

The longest, hardest thing in a man's life: having to wait from the time he hits the "start brew" till the coffee is brewed!
 
Chameleonbear said:
so basically you just cut a hole in the one board 15-18" up and it's just a straight cut not angled at all... and the second board you rip it 33" on either side... I can remember that. Oh, does it matter how wide you leave it when you rip it? Would 4.5" on each side be good or would that be taking too much off?

I was thinking what about you add a second hole about 6" from the bottom, and run a second board out for a foot rest...
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yes - you cut a rectangular hole in one board 1.5" tall by 5.5 or 6" wide.
you rip a strip off each side of the other 2x12 that's roughly 3" x 33".
the tighter the fit top to bottom, the closer to a 90 degree angle between seat and back when new -- this angle will "relax" over time, so building in a lot of slop is not the best of ideas. (my chair has a short bottom board and has been in use for 16 or so years - that's why it's so comfy.)
 
1066vik said:
come on over tomorrow - I'll supply the snow, bacon, and elmax.
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If I wasn't visiting my sister tomorrow, I may take you up on that offer. One of these days...

Mostly that was just a little friendly jab at James.:D
Every time he mentions Elmax, I have to say something. Can't help it.
 
1066vik said:
yes - you cut a rectangular hole in one board 1.5" tall by 5.5 or 6" wide.
you rip a strip off each side of the other 2x12 that's roughly 3" x 33".
the tighter the fit top to bottom, the closer to a 90 degree angle between seat and back when new -- this angle will "relax" over time, so building in a lot of slop is not the best of ideas. (my chair has a short bottom board and has been in use for 16 or so years - that's why it's so comfy.)
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One more question... Is maple a good choice of wood for this? Is there something that would be a better choice?
 
Just finished a Bushlore makeover for a friend. This one was really rough with a shitty grind and lousy handle. It's not a bad knife now.

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