What non gun projects have you been doing?

[Kittitas George]

Two Dutch Ovens full of Buffalo Gulch Cowboy Beans!!!!
1/2 lbs. thick cut GOOD bacon
1 lbs. good hamburger
1 lbs Good Andouille Sausage
1 med. diced onion
garlic
2 15 oz cans kidney beans
1 15 oz can Pork and Beans
1 `15 oz can Butter beans (lima)
1 15 oz can pinto beans/ black beans
1 cup ketchup
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup molasses
1 Tbls Apple cider vinegar
1 Tbls liquid smoke
Salt and Pepper to taste
Fry the bacon till 1/2 done, brown the hamburger add the onion and cook till translucent (soft). Add the beans, with the liquid and other ingredients, stir well. Cut the sausage into 1/2" rounds and stir, cut the bacon into 2-3" pieces, place on top. Use a deep 10" or 12" Dutch oven. Cook 1 1/2 to 2 hours at 350 degrees. This can be cooked outside on coals or in the oven. Other beans or meat may be substituted, but you may have your life threatened. Makes 15 to 20 servings.
Desert;
10" Dutch Oven
3 lbs plus or minus (I use the berries from Costco)
Tapioca
12 oz 7Up (not diet)
Dry cake mix
Place berries in Dutch oven, mix in a tablespoon of tapioca, pour the cake mix on top evenly, pour the 7up over the cake mix as evenly as possible. Bake at 350, when it smells done it's done. If cooking with coals place more on top than the bottom so it will brown. If using charcoal birquettes use 7 on the bottom 13 on top. Served with ice cream, you will be the greatest chef ever!!!
Disclaimer; Taken to a pot luck, you will be told (in strong language) to bring these every time.

 

[jimmymac]

I recently bought a Prusa Mk4 3D printer kit to replace my older Mk3, which I gave to my son.
Building it yourself really gives an appreciation for how it works,and gives confidence that if I had to do repairs, I could.,but the old one never needed a repair.

box arrives.
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Assembly started

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Printer head and rails

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getting close to done

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Finished.

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Why buy a new one, when the old one still worked OK, that's easy, the new one has steppers with twice the number of steps, a new screen to control it and a bunch of other features. It's the newer better model, so I had to have it.
It works great, and my son is happy with my old printer, and is making good use of it.

That’s cool. I’d love to get into that.

 

[scasa]

I didn't get any gun projects lined up for last winter so I built some RC planes. I've always wanted to learn to fly them and far from being a master I can take off and land and the plane will fly again. I've totaled probably 8 or 9 but with dollar store foamboard , hot glue and tape I can have another one in a couple of hours .

Here is a piper cub and the flying cookie sheet

Here is a couple more almost ready to go. It's been fun and something different for a change.

 

[ebb]

Rebuilding ( removing rust, painting and beating back into shape) the bush hog I mow with. It was beat up pretty bad, wish i could blame it on someone other than me.

 

[joshb]

Rebuilding ( removing rust, painting and beating back into shape) the bush hog I mow with. It was beat up pretty bad, wish i could blame it on someone other than me.

Didn’t that last hurricane get a hold of it!??

 

[dryhumor]

I’ve put stands and/or wheels on all my shop tools, tool storage, and benches so I can dirty up the outside of my shop, rather than the inside. Plus, it allows me to congregate to free up space.

Also have been consolidating and thinning out “stuff” in my old shop after 30-40 years of accumulation. I’ve found all sorts of tools and things I haven’t seen for years…

Serviced my bush hog that’s been idle for a few years. It’s had an extremely hard life…. Sharpened the blades, disk sanded the drive shaft and cleaned up the PTO on the tractor. Changed the zerks on the U joints and greased. Topped the oil in the gearbox. Found a bearing failure on one of the yokes… mentioned it to a friend of mine. He asked how long I thought it would last. Ten or fifteen years I replied, if I keep it reasonably lubed. His reply was pretty straightforward.

“Hell, let the next guy worry about it”. He’s a few years older than I am, but I get his point.

 

[Big_Daddy]

why not save the weight of the batteries and pull power from the tow vehicle?

Weight is not a concern.
I like having the trailer as a self contained unit.
My other flatbed is set-up the same way.
It is just the way I like them.

 

[WSMNUT]

LS3 swap in my 66 Chevelle. It’s close to being done. I took it as far as my limited talents could go and it’s now at my buddy Jeff’s to finish the wiring. Colorblind folks and wiring don’t typically get along. I’m no exception to that rule!

 

[nakneker]

LS3 swap in my 66 Chevelle. It’s close to being done. I took it as far as my limited talents could go and it’s now at my buddy Jeff’s to finish the wiring. Colorblind folks and wiring don’t typically get along. I’m no exception to that rule!

Nice!

 

[jghoghunter]

LS3 swap in my 66 Chevelle. It’s close to being done. I took it as far as my limited talents could go and it’s now at my buddy Jeff’s to finish the wiring. Colorblind folks and wiring don’t typically get along. I’m no exception to that rule!

Nice, but I'm not color blind and I still don't get along with wiring!

 

[ebb]

No a bush hog is so low to the ground that it is pretty safe from hurricanes. It is a Woods 5 foot rotary mower and they are the worlds worst for rusting, and I tried to use some high tech S&W paint last time and it didn't stick good and got water between the original paint and my new S&W finish. I mow 10 acres west of Daytona that was planted years ago with oak trees so there would been a big shady hammock to grow ferns under. The ferns are used by florist in their arrangements. There are lots of trees and down limbs that get covered up in the ferns and when I mow its rough on the mower deck. Its got a roll over protector with a diamond plate roof that I caught on a tree limb and did a wheely so high I thought I was going to turn it over. One company that makes bush hogs hot dip them and they all should to it that way. I've got a big 6 foot Rhino and another 5 foot mower that need the deck metal replaced. People don't understand how bad the humidity is down here. A frame house with plywood siding will have the bottom 2 feet rotten in less 15 years and many in less than 10. My dads place in North GA has had no plywood replaced since it was built in the 1980s.

 

[ebb]

WSMNUT Nice

 

[Cecil S.]

I must get our "we shed" finished. Insulated and will have a 10000 but Mini split Heat and cooling system. this is for reloading and Mamas plants.

 

[V35]

Getting farm equipment ready to plant wheat, final spraying of the season, start getting house things prepped for winter, waging war on Armadillos and wild hogs, and still need to insulate and drywall my new reloading room I framed out in the back of my boat storage building.

 

[Old Navy]

LS3 swap in my 66 Chevelle. It’s close to being done. I took it as far as my limited talents could go and it’s now at my buddy Jeff’s to finish the wiring. Colorblind folks and wiring don’t typically get along. I’m no exception to that rule!

That be a 6.2? Right?

 

[jimmymac]

My main project is walking around the yard several times a day to get myself well enough to do some projects.

 

[cwood59]

Baling 2nd hay cutting, like 100ac being done. So far behind that we are having to get the first round out of the fields while we are doing the second cutting. Had a lot of rain this year. Went back to raining before we got the first one hauled out after rolling, by the time the ground would hold us up the grass was coming back and we didn't want to rut up the meadows. Just picking it up as we do the last one.... John View attachment 1479771

I hear ya. Down here in East Texas it's been dry. Real dry. We do square bales for our horses. I'm 64 and dad is 87. We are thinking about buying a lewd bar so we can relax. LOL....!!!!

 

[Ned Ludd]

Holy crap, you folks are INDUSTRIOUS! After reading this thread I feel like a total sloth.

 

[GaryL1959]

New tile and fixtures in 2 bathrooms, neither of which have a "normal" dimension in any direction, i.e. 8 feet, 3 inches, by 11 feet, 5 inches floor, 7 and a half foot ceilings...nothing fits, lol. Stripping wallpaper and painting in the rest of the house.
All interferring with My reloading / shooting / hunting / coyote trapping time.

 

[J.J. Coe]

One of this springs projects, kinda gun related but we'll call it a garage remodel.