survey stakes, $75 a dozen!

ShootingArts

ShootingArts

Smorg is giving St Peter the 7!
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These are some of the finest survey stakes I have ever used. 1x1x30" hard maple, most with high line count. These aren't pointed but I haven't had one crack or split yet hammering them in the ground with a four pound steel mallet.

These stakes were created by the United States Corp of Engineers so quality is assured! Aged eight years in a climate controlled environment then dipped in a carefully balanced mixture of million year old wetlands waters with just the right mixture of salt water, biodegradable fertilizer, and chemical additives mixed in. There are no finer survey stakes available at this price anywhere!

(also available in round)

Hu
 

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Don't need no stinkin' stakes.....
...but what do you want for the case? :lovies:
 
well I have owned some steak horses . . .

Jodacus said:
Got stakes....need a horse!!!!! Lol
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Back when I was in the racing game I did own some steak horses come to think about it. Those were some very high priced dog food. Nothing like happening to cut to "dogfood" in the dictionary and there is a picture of your last futurity baby!

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
Back when I was in the racing game I did own some steak horses come to think about it. Those were some very high priced dog food. Nothing like happening to cut to "dogfood" in the dictionary and there is a picture of your last futurity baby!

Hu
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Yep, but those "steak horses" are levels above the "gluers".

Before I'd part with those survey stakes, I'd check with the Smithsonian. :smile:

Jim
 
ShootingArts said:
Back when I was in the racing game I did own some steak horses come to think about it. Those were some very high priced dog food. Nothing like happening to cut to "dogfood" in the dictionary and there is a picture of your last futurity baby!

Hu
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Guy had a fast trotter....it would be leading until halfway up the home stretch....
....and then bear to the right and get beat every time.
The owner asked a fellow trainer what he should do...
The trainer said " Put some lead in his left ear."
The guy says "How do I do that?"
The trainer says "With a shotgun."
 
Does ya have any Tomato steaks Buddy?

Or are these dual purpose.

The way I'm playing lately, I might be able to come up with approx 20 good ones.

Hey, maybe I is the tomato steak and the cues are still good.
 
considered some full splice tomato stakes

Blue Hog ridr said:
Does ya have any Tomato steaks Buddy?

Or are these dual purpose.

The way I'm playing lately, I might be able to come up with approx 20 good ones.

Hey, maybe I is the tomato steak and the cues are still good.
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I considered some full splice tomato stakes, haven't gotten around to playing with that yet. Moved my bandsaw and jointer here but the shop isn't set up. No reason to consider cues, lost my entire river of wood including the exotic stuff. Been trading and giving away wood for a few years, my river is down to a small creek, more like a stagnant pond.

Hu
 
Strangely enuff Hu, the other repair man in town was at a Home Hardware one day. he was browsing and happened to find some one inch maple dowels in the bin.

Most times or always, the dowels that a hardware store sells, least around these parts are either Poplar or Oak.

He bought the few that they had left and turned them into shafts. Now, of course these wouldn't be AAA shafts but ya never know. Sometimes you might find a gem in a pile.

They weren't the best but they did look fairly decent. One can always find a use for a not so good piece of shaft wood. Plugs etc, and even a break shaft if the customer doesn't want to pay full price for a decent shaft. It might have a good grain to it but a few too many sugar marks, but good for a coring dowel.
 
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marinated these a couple days

Blue Hog ridr said:
Strangely enuff Hu, the other repair man in town was at a Home Hardware one day. he was browsing and happened to find some one inch maple dowels in the bin.

Most times or always, the dowels that a hardware store sells, least around these parts are either Poplar or Oak.

He bought the few that they had left and turned them into shafts. Now, of course these wouldn't be AAA shafts but ya never know. Sometimes you might find a gem in a pile.

They weren't the best but they did look fairly decent. One can always find a use for a not so good piece of shaft wood. Plugs etc, and even a break shaft if the customer doesn't want to pay full price for a decent shaft. It might have a good grain to it but a few too many sugar marks, but good for a coring dowel.
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Bad timing for me, I had moved my wood to my home while moving my shop. The house hadn't flooded in far more severe storms until the corp of engineers fixed the problems on the north and south shores by making a funnel with the west end open. The town I lived in is at the small end of that funnel. The house needed to be raised three feet from what was build elevation before the corp's games, over a hundred thousand that insurance didn't cover. Then flood insurance is going to run between $10,000 and $20,000 a year for a home that was worth about $100,000 before the value dropped out the bottom due to having flooded and needing mold remediation. Around two hundred thousand to fix a house that would then be worth a hundred thousand maybe, there is now an empty lot for sale there.

I lost all of my exotic wood, all that shaft wood warped surprisingly from just the end soaked, and I lost the computer that had thousands of dollars worth of proprietary software and coding on it to run my NC mill to do inlays or at least rough them in. The mill was safe, high and dry elsewhere.

While a handful of suppliers offer seasoned wood I'm not willing to consider wood I haven't had at least two years as ready to turn a shaft or cue out of. I have a hard time bringing myself to trust glues and adhesives for 30-50 years or longer too. Total up all of this and I won't be building any cues anytime soon if ever. I am turning native wood into ornamental stuff, or trying to while not busy with 43 other things on the farm or working helping my brother ready a building site around the corner.

Life in the not so fast lane!

Hu
 
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