Tazman1602
04-26-2013, 12:27 PM
Hey All. Now normally this isn't something I'd get real excited over but you'll have to see it to appreciate it. My brother in laws dad (his name is Art also...) is a great guy and a good friend and has helped me a lot over the years, as a result he has a standing invitation to come shoot at my range whenever it suits him.
Last fall we had to have a tree service take down a 150 year old white pine at my moms house because it was between the house and the powerlines, the first 16 feet of trunk was nice and straight so I got the boys to cut it into 9' lengths and bring them to my house where I proceeded to get out the chainsaw mill and mill me some boards. First cut I screwed up, meant to make a nice 2" thick slice but ended up making one side 2" wide and the other side 3" wide. Oh well, into the burn pile................except.............Art looked at it and asked what I was going to do with it. He's a lifelong woodworker and I knew he was after it for something so I asked if he wanted it and loaded it into his truck for him. Never gave it another thought.
About an hour ago, Art shows up at my door, I thought he wanted to go shooting but he said he was just here to deliver a bench for the shooting range.............what????? He had taken my screw up, gotten some cedar out of our swamp and made this AND delivered it. We just sat it out by the range which is getting a shed roof type cover built for it tomorrow.
I can't even BELIEVE how nice this thing is!!!! There ARE still good people out there, let me know what you think of what my buddy built for us!
Art
68526
685296852868527
Last fall we had to have a tree service take down a 150 year old white pine at my moms house because it was between the house and the powerlines, the first 16 feet of trunk was nice and straight so I got the boys to cut it into 9' lengths and bring them to my house where I proceeded to get out the chainsaw mill and mill me some boards. First cut I screwed up, meant to make a nice 2" thick slice but ended up making one side 2" wide and the other side 3" wide. Oh well, into the burn pile................except.............Art looked at it and asked what I was going to do with it. He's a lifelong woodworker and I knew he was after it for something so I asked if he wanted it and loaded it into his truck for him. Never gave it another thought.
About an hour ago, Art shows up at my door, I thought he wanted to go shooting but he said he was just here to deliver a bench for the shooting range.............what????? He had taken my screw up, gotten some cedar out of our swamp and made this AND delivered it. We just sat it out by the range which is getting a shed roof type cover built for it tomorrow.
I can't even BELIEVE how nice this thing is!!!! There ARE still good people out there, let me know what you think of what my buddy built for us!
Art
68526
685296852868527