Woodcraft Ninjas

You were right. I was wrong. That pretty much sums it up.

“Oh, poison ivy doesn’t bother me.” – Dumb-dumb quote of the century by Jay Bates, April 8, 2024. Last summer, I got a bad case of poison ivy on all of my limbs. From my ankles to my knees. From my wrists to my armpits. On my ne…

I’m continuing to use the BaumaLight mulcher in various situations to not only see where it shines, but also to see where it can fill the role of Jack of All Trades. Can it cut grass? Technically, yes. But so can a sledgehammer, and you can expec…

I clamped a scissor jack to the sawmill frame to see how well it performs as a toe board. A toe board is essentially a jack that raises one end of a log so that the log can be milled with the center axis of the tree parallel with the travel of the saw …

I’m beginning to realize just how often the sawmill and my nearly endless supply of pine logs are the answer. I need to make level platforms to hold the lumber pallets when stacking lumber. Easy! Two beams for each station, leveled with whatever …