The Daily Yardman Thread

[Boobala]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Roger,

I have watched this You Tube series from the start to the finish a few weeks ago. Lou builds a "simple wooden skiff" that is a piece of art but still a work boat. Enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C22Crc7XHoI

We ( me and who ever drags along with me) should be up your way mid June or so. I will call and give you updates so you can decide to lock up and run away or not. ;-)

Tom

Pretty interesting video Tom... BUT what should be a REALLY enticing story is when " TEXAS Tom Meets Maine "
First thing Tom ... you learn that YOUR hearing (that far North in the New-England states) changes ..REALLY
Example : THEY are saying: get off your high-horse and park the car. BUT ... YOU hear : Git uff yahhh haahh hassss
N paak tuhh caahhh...!! It's something in the sea-food they eat.... they have no idea what BBQ is !!! never heard of corn-bread or grits... or jerky !! (you better pack a LOT of jerky Tom !! ) They don't have horses in Maine either
they either walk or take a boat and WHATEVER you do ..... NEVER display the REBEL Flag and proclaim " The South Will Rise Again " Up that way ...punishment is gettin covered with tar and chicken feathers then run outa town
NAKED ..!! OH ..1 more thing.. better leave the "Stetson" behind ..up that way all the guys wear a "Pop-Eyes" cap
Theres plenty more but I think it's better you just experince these things ...( LOL )

 

[Boobala]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

When ya get a post like ... my so & so mower made a noise and now it wont start , it worked last week.


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...WELLLLLL ...????

 

[Pumper54]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Pretty interesting video Tom... BUT what should be a REALLY enticing story is when " TEXAS Tom Meets Maine "
First thing Tom ... you learn that YOUR hearing (that far North in the New-England states) changes ..REALLY
Example : THEY are saying: get off your high-horse and park the car. BUT ... YOU hear : Git uff yahhh haahh hassss
N paak tuhh caahhh...!! It's something in the sea-food they eat.... they have no idea what BBQ is !!! never heard of corn-bread or grits... or jerky !! (you better pack a LOT of jerky Tom !! ) They don't have horses in Maine either
they either walk or take a boat and WHATEVER you do ..... NEVER display the REBEL Flag and proclaim " The South Will Rise Again " Up that way ...punishment is gettin covered with tar and chicken feathers then run outa town
NAKED ..!! OH ..1 more thing.. better leave the "Stetson" behind ..up that way all the guys wear a "Pop-Eyes" cap
Theres plenty more but I think it's better you just experince these things ...( LOL )

Boo, thanks for the warnings but I have lived up north before. I can understand about 95% of what they say, sometimes I have to ask again when they speak to fast. I normally don't wear hats and know better then to bring up the War of Northern Aggression when up there. ;-) . I do understand that their "Black Flies" can give our "skeeters" a run for their money.
Tom

 

[Roger B]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

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Boo,

I 'think' the last sentence that says, "but for personal gain", was supposed to read "NOT" for personal gain...

Ya gotta have proof readers..

Rog

 

[Roger B]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Boo, thanks for the warnings but I have lived up north before. I can understand about 95% of what they say, sometimes I have to ask again when they speak to fast. I normally don't wear hats and know better then to bring up the War of Northern Aggression when up there. ;-) . I do understand that their "Black Flies" can give our "skeeters" a run for their money.
Tom

Tom,

You have nothing to be concerned about, 'cept maybe the blackflies, but only the big ones can keep up with motorcycle riders. S'long as you wear a helmet with a full face shield, (for them to bounce off from) you should be golden.. Speaking of which, have you ever had a honey bee fly into your open face helmet before? It's amazing how fast you can stop and remove a helmet under those conditions!

Fortunately Black Fly Season is short, only lasting for a few weeks, however, as they die off, the mosquitoes emerge and we have LARGE mosquitoes! We often hunt them with .410 shotguns! (Don't let anyone tell you you'll need a 12 gauge to dispatch them, it's not true.) People that say things like that are just sensationalists and separatists that try to scare people from coming up to Maine, you can easily kill even the largest mosquitoes with a .410 as long as you are a decent wing shot.

It won't matter what you wear either, we'll know you're "from away" as soon as we see you and certainly as soon as we hear you speak! "Foreigners" - (which is really one of our terms of endearment for "folks frum away") talk funny and usually stick out like a sore thumb.

Roger

 

[Roger B]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Roger,

I have watched this You Tube series from the start to the finish a few weeks ago. Lou builds a "simple wooden skiff" that is a piece of art but still a work boat. Enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C22Crc7XHoI Tom

Tom,

I watched 24 segments of this video yesterday and hope to finish it this morning..

One thing you learn from watching it just verifies the old saying: "It's awful hard to beat someone at their own game!" That old boy has skiff building down to a science! Anybody that can drive straight slotted screws with a power driver (OR a bit brace, for that matter!!) - without slipping off the heads and scarring up the wood work, is a PRO in anyone's book!

And as a collector of block planes, it was wonderful to watch a man make such good use of my favorite hand tools.. (See picture.)

Roger

 

[Roger B]

Wooden Skiff Building

Tom,

I finished the skiff building videos and enjoyed them all...

When I was a kid I had a wood "skiff" (which we called a "punt") that was built much in the same manner. The bottom was cross planked like the one in the video, but the wood used was cypress! Where on earth they got cypress wood in Maine back in the 1950's is beyond me, but that is what was used. I know that because at that time, my father worked at the boat yard where the punt was built.

The only other construction difference was the bottom had a continuous 'rocker' built into it, from stem to stern because it was a rowboat. Eventually, I added a second set of row locks for the forward thwart and a notch in the transom for a steering oar, (or for skulling, which is a method of propelling a small boat with just the action of a single oar). With two of my friends aboard, one fellow at each set of oars and the third on the steering oar we could make pretty good time and often rowed several miles off shore to the various islands of Casco Bay where I grew up.

When I got older, I bought a four horsepower Martin outboard and that made the punt move along at a pretty decent clip too.

As a youngster, I found it very instructional to hang around with those old boat builders and I enjoyed hearing that fellow on the video (even though he talks awful funny) using terminology I haven't heard used in decades.

There is currently a wooden boat being constructed in Bath, Maine which is a replica of the "Virginia", supposedly the first ship ever built here. https://mfship.org/

We can go visit her when you're here if you'd like, it's only a 15 minute drive from here.

Roger

 

[primerbulb120]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Now that we've gone over so many other subjects, it's time to complain about the weather again. :laughing:

Central FL is currently the worst drought area in the US. We need some rain! Does anybody have some to spare??

 

[Pumper54]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

Roger,

I have built two wooden boats before but nothing like that skiff Lou built, one was basically a square box and the other is a 14 ft Jon boat, build of plywood with pine chine logs and oak gunwales. Had a electric motor on it but that by the wayside many years ago. Built a set of oars and turned the shafts using a "redneck lath", drive a neavy nail into each end of the wood, hang them from a stout post and hit it with a belt sander. The work piece spins as you move up and down the length of it. Kinda makes things round. LOL. I cringed when I saw those planes sitting on the base but then figured you had the blades pull up. Seen many a plane blade broken or dulled by it getting set down on the base. Would love to see the ship and any boat yard you want to guide us to.

Tom

 

[Boobala]

Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild

NO ...NO ...NO... you guys have it all WRONG !!!
THESE ...ARE BOATS !!!