Saturday, July 28, 2012
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Laptop Replacement and some good news
Remember me saying that I was having a ton of problems with my HP laptop?
Well Office Depot took it back, and gave me a instore credit!!!!!! Since I REALLY needed some kind of laptop/tablet, I got the Asus Transformer prime!!!!! I love this thing, the docking station turns it into a laptop, and when it isn't attached to the dock, its a tablet!!!!! cool huh?? I will try to upload some photo's of it some time.
So hopefully I can start back to blogging on a regular basis!!!!!!!
OH YEAH!!! I ALMOST FORGOT!!!!!! I have decided to go ahead and take my GED test. Last week I took the pretest, and I did 4 of the tests in about one half of an hour (they usually take 1 hour EACH) and they said that I made one of the highest scores they have seen in a long time. I only got 8 wrong out of a 130 question test Needless to say, I was happy. Just hope I do that good on the REAL TEST!!!!!!! I will keep yall up to date. wish me luck!!!!
Chase
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Saturday, June 9, 2012
I am still alive, but not my laptop
Hey yall,
Well I am sorry about not putting any new blog post's on for soooo long, but I have a good excuse....... Or should I say explanation?
As yall know, I have been having a lot of problems with my laptop, and finally it got to where it wouldn't even work at all. So this time I didn't send it to HP since my manufactuars warrenty was up, I had to send it in to the company that I bought my extended warrenty from. So this makes the third time I have had this laptop sent off for repairs. Around here its a joke that the repair center has the computer more than I do, and that's true for the past 3 months!!!!!!!! I still haven't gotten it back from it's last repair (I am typing this on a borrowed laptop.. a HP laptop grrr) I should get it back by the end of next week, so it will have been gone for repairs for 3 weeks this last time.
In the blacksmith shop, I have been working like CRAZY!!!!! Some time this next week, I am going to show some of my iron work to a local Log Home company, so keep your fingers crossed that I get some orders!!!! Also I purchased a bunch of metal to build myself a Tire hammer.
Now if your wondering what in the world a tire hammer is, I will tell you. A tire hammer is a electrical powered hammer that hammers out hot metal, I can controll the hammer speed and force by how I step on a small "pedal" at the base of the hammer. Now some folks say that this type of hammer isn't traditional, but power hammers have been aroud for quite a while, but the older ones were powered by steam.
The reason I am building this hammer is to help me hammer out some bigger metal, and with that said, it will save my right arm from carpel tunnel, or nerve damage.
Also we are about to sell the tractor, and are going to try to do all/most of our farming with the team. So with that being said, I fabricated a piece of horse drawn equipment that will allow me to pull a utility trailer, or pull pieces of equipment. Some time in the next 3 weeks I am going to need to restore a old horse draw mowing machine........ that will be uhhhhh fun.......
Hopefully it wont be so long till the next video blog post.
Well I am sorry about not putting any new blog post's on for soooo long, but I have a good excuse....... Or should I say explanation?
As yall know, I have been having a lot of problems with my laptop, and finally it got to where it wouldn't even work at all. So this time I didn't send it to HP since my manufactuars warrenty was up, I had to send it in to the company that I bought my extended warrenty from. So this makes the third time I have had this laptop sent off for repairs. Around here its a joke that the repair center has the computer more than I do, and that's true for the past 3 months!!!!!!!! I still haven't gotten it back from it's last repair (I am typing this on a borrowed laptop.. a HP laptop grrr) I should get it back by the end of next week, so it will have been gone for repairs for 3 weeks this last time.
In the blacksmith shop, I have been working like CRAZY!!!!! Some time this next week, I am going to show some of my iron work to a local Log Home company, so keep your fingers crossed that I get some orders!!!! Also I purchased a bunch of metal to build myself a Tire hammer.
Now if your wondering what in the world a tire hammer is, I will tell you. A tire hammer is a electrical powered hammer that hammers out hot metal, I can controll the hammer speed and force by how I step on a small "pedal" at the base of the hammer. Now some folks say that this type of hammer isn't traditional, but power hammers have been aroud for quite a while, but the older ones were powered by steam.
The reason I am building this hammer is to help me hammer out some bigger metal, and with that said, it will save my right arm from carpel tunnel, or nerve damage.
Also we are about to sell the tractor, and are going to try to do all/most of our farming with the team. So with that being said, I fabricated a piece of horse drawn equipment that will allow me to pull a utility trailer, or pull pieces of equipment. Some time in the next 3 weeks I am going to need to restore a old horse draw mowing machine........ that will be uhhhhh fun.......
Hopefully it wont be so long till the next video blog post.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Photo Shoot
After finishing the tree project around 3:00 today, I decided to call it a day, and play around with the camera, so here are some photo's I took.
Tree Project
Hey yall,
I know it has been a while since I have done a blog post, but it is because I have been busy, but instead of telling what all I have been doing, I will save that for the video blog I made today, just got to edit it later.
I will though show you the latest creation from the shop, I call it "Front Yard Swing", it stands about 3 feet tall, let me know what yall think.
I know it has been a while since I have done a blog post, but it is because I have been busy, but instead of telling what all I have been doing, I will save that for the video blog I made today, just got to edit it later.
I will though show you the latest creation from the shop, I call it "Front Yard Swing", it stands about 3 feet tall, let me know what yall think.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
What a Day
The other day was a wild one.
First I had to get up a 5:30, do chores, and then leave the house at 7:00 for Bowling Green. I had to be at the dentist's office a few minutes before 8:00.
I figured it would take me close to an hour to get from the house, to the dentist, but at that time of the morning, there was very little traffic. So I was there at 7:18, and there wasn't any one there yet, so I just sat around and waited. By this time I was getting hungry, for I didn't eat breakfast since I didn't want to get a bunch of food in my teeth, I didn't even get a single cup of coffee. :(
After waiting for about 45 minutes, I was finally in the chair getting the works, and after 20 minutes of intense cleaning, I was on my way back home. There was just on bad thing, after leaving, I had a tooth ache!!!!!!!!! I think it was from when the nurse did the flossing, it was a little ruff. OH well LOL
Before going home, I stopped by Minit-Mart for a health breakfast.
After getting the table put together, I finally fired up the forge!!!! Wanting to try some new products, so I made a leaf, and bird key fob.
During lunch I watched a youtube video on how t make a horse head, and I had the idea on using the horse head for a wall mounted hook.
So all in all it was a good day....... all except the tooth ache. LOL Today I worked on some "bigger" projects in the shop, but I don't have any photo's of it yet.
First I had to get up a 5:30, do chores, and then leave the house at 7:00 for Bowling Green. I had to be at the dentist's office a few minutes before 8:00.
I figured it would take me close to an hour to get from the house, to the dentist, but at that time of the morning, there was very little traffic. So I was there at 7:18, and there wasn't any one there yet, so I just sat around and waited. By this time I was getting hungry, for I didn't eat breakfast since I didn't want to get a bunch of food in my teeth, I didn't even get a single cup of coffee. :(
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| Waiting................. |
Before going home, I stopped by Minit-Mart for a health breakfast.
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| Pizza roll, with dipping sauce |
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| And a 44oz Pepsi, a breakfast fit for a king... or blacksmith :) |
Finally getting back home, I opened up the blacksmith shop for the day, and got to work. First off, I made my self a table to set some tools on next to the anvil.
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| This is the first horse head I have ever made!!! what do ya think? |
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| It now hangs in the office, in use for holding my blacksmithing apron. |
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