Shop starting to look like a Harry Potter scene...
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 8:34 am
I leave spiders alone outside but I stay at war with them in the shop. Not much makes a bigger mess than big cobwebs with added sawdust. 
I haven't gotten in much woodshop time this spring / summer and that includes cleaning. Diana's broken arm really put us behind a few months and all of the rain here in what has become the "Hoosier Rain Forest" this year has really held back much work too.
Mowing has been a big time demand with all of the rain and in some months it has rained so much here that not only is everything growing just silly but it has been hard to work in enough days where it was not raining, to be able to mow or do any outdoor work. Typically Diana does a lot of the mowing but couldn't much of this year. Like many things once you get behind, catching up is nearly impossible. In recent years we have mowed with a couple of 20+ HP 4' lawn tractors but a few weeks ago I bit the bullet and i bought a 27 HP 61" zero-turn to speed things up... It's helping but it is still raining a lot and I am still behind...
Most of my shop time has been in the farm shop this summer working on various vehicles. I absolutely must shift some time to the wood shop soon or I will need a machete to get through all of those big dusty webs.
First we are going to "bomb" the whole house (this sentence probably just triggered a homeland security investigation ) to get rid of many of the critters. I have never seen so many bugs both inside and out as this year. They have a new kind of bug-bomb out that does not require turning off all of the pilot lights or potential spark making items. I figure it is worth a try...
The humuggety has been so high this year that the AC has literally kept streaming water outside. I need to make provisions to drain it away a bit better.
I haven't gotten in much woodshop time this spring / summer and that includes cleaning. Diana's broken arm really put us behind a few months and all of the rain here in what has become the "Hoosier Rain Forest" this year has really held back much work too.
Mowing has been a big time demand with all of the rain and in some months it has rained so much here that not only is everything growing just silly but it has been hard to work in enough days where it was not raining, to be able to mow or do any outdoor work. Typically Diana does a lot of the mowing but couldn't much of this year. Like many things once you get behind, catching up is nearly impossible. In recent years we have mowed with a couple of 20+ HP 4' lawn tractors but a few weeks ago I bit the bullet and i bought a 27 HP 61" zero-turn to speed things up... It's helping but it is still raining a lot and I am still behind...
Most of my shop time has been in the farm shop this summer working on various vehicles. I absolutely must shift some time to the wood shop soon or I will need a machete to get through all of those big dusty webs.
First we are going to "bomb" the whole house (this sentence probably just triggered a homeland security investigation
) to get rid of many of the critters. I have never seen so many bugs both inside and out as this year. They have a new kind of bug-bomb out that does not require turning off all of the pilot lights or potential spark making items. I figure it is worth a try...The humuggety has been so high this year that the AC has literally kept streaming water outside. I need to make provisions to drain it away a bit better.