Weirdest, oddest object in your “area”...
03-19-20, 02:23 PM
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Weirdest, oddest object in your garage or shop area...
Not the best picture...difficult subject...I have a full picture layout somewhere of this guy...I moved him from eye level...
I have been re-ordering my garage, bike shop(s), work shop...I was getting ready to move some shelf detritus and became re-acquainted with my “Bike God” who looks over my garage and keeps me safe...definitely sets the standard for “Weirdest, oddest...”
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If you get some powder from those beetle holes, they can go on to infest the house framing and are hard to get rid of.
Here's mine:
Here's a few from the shop- shop:
Here's mine:
Here's a few from the shop- shop:
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Powderpost beetles dealt with many years ago...picking this up is akin to picking up a carbon bike...incredibly lighter than the mass would suggest...thanks for the concern, though...
03-20-20, 04:03 AM
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Oh , yeah...cool stuff...what is the square box thingie with the leather straps...
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I don’t have a garage or shop area.
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Home Made Garage Art
From a Paint Night date. We couldn't thriw them out, but wouldn't hang them inside our home. So...
03-20-20, 06:32 AM
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since my truck is "my area" lots of protection from the elements, zombies and Gremlins
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I do most of my bike work on sawhorses at whatever rental house I'm working on, but when doing tire changes or greasing hubs at home this Polka-Pig cast iron piggy bank holds the protective cardboard down
03-20-20, 09:28 AM
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The bull horn in the OP caused me to think of this...I guess the weirdest thing in "my area," the garage, is this set of antlers. A set of antlers isn't so weird, but I guess the way I came about them is. I'm not a hunter. But about five years ago, when I decided to clear an overgrown area at the back of our property that is bordered by woods, I came across the deer skeleton. That answered the question as to why there had been so much coyote activity back there for the past year. It was in a low-lying area where water from a drainage ditch will stand for a long time after a rain. I think the deer had come there to drink, got trapped when it's legs became impacted in the mud, and then the coyotes killed it. I hadn't seen it before because it was covered by the waist-high weeds. But by that time the skeleton was completely cleaned off. No flesh whatsoever. So I sawed the antlers off and mounted them myself. There they hang.
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It's a nail stripper- worn on the chest & a handful of roofing or shingle nails jiggle & fall into slots
where a line of them can be pulled out from the side. From before the age of nail guns,
but sidewall shingles still get hand nailed so that one might still get used.
The object in the other pic continues to stump all comers including me.
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03-20-20, 02:53 PM
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Antlers...
I’m looking for an Eldorado to mount these on!
The bull horn in the OP caused me to think of this...I guess the weirdest thing in "my area," the garage, is this set of antlers. A set of antlers isn't so weird, but I guess the way I came about them is. I'm not a hunter. But about five years ago, when I decided to clear an overgrown area at the back of our property that is bordered by woods, I came across the deer skeleton. That answered the question as to why there had been so much coyote activity back there for the past year. It was in a low-lying area where water from a drainage ditch will stand for a long time after a rain. I think the deer had come there to drink, got trapped when it's legs became impacted in the mud, and then the coyotes killed it. I hadn't seen it before because it was covered by the waist-high weeds. But by that time the skeleton was completely cleaned off. No flesh whatsoever. So I sawed the antlers off and mounted them myself. There they hang.
Dan
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It's a nail stripper- worn on the chest & a handful of roofing or shingle nails jiggle & fall into slots
where a line of them can be pulled out from the side. From before the age of nail guns,
but sidewall shingles still get hand nailed so that one might still get used.
The object in the other pic continues to stump all comers including me.
where a line of them can be pulled out from the side. From before the age of nail guns,
but sidewall shingles still get hand nailed so that one might still get used.
The object in the other pic continues to stump all comers including me.
03-20-20, 03:16 PM
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Dud 3 inch artillery shell repurposed to hold paper flowers my daughter made when she was in grade school.
