It was sunny and about 30* out today, a pretty nice day... SO, i managed to get "part 2" of the Ash work/reloading bench i'm building, done.
I decided to square up an OLD oak log i had lieing around, and put lengths of it under the top for the legs, so i took the tractor and grabbled the log out from behind some other logs i have here,
With it on the mill, i got started by taking thick slabs off it, as the outer surface of the log was rotted from the log laying around for a LONG time,
With the first slab off, i turned the log and took another thick slab,
And continued on around,
Until, i had the log squared up into a 18" square "cant",
So, i grabbled the cant up off the mill, and moved it to the back door on my house, then measureing off the length i wanted and chainsawed it off,
And with a helper, we stood it up and moved it into the basement,
With two blocks now moved into the basement and set into place, i nailed a 2"x12"- 27" long piece on top of each block to set the top pieces on. So, it's now time to move the top pieces down there too. The first piece was 4" thick and 12" wide,
The second piece of the top is, 3-1/2" thick and 18" wide,
The idea of two different thickness' of the top is, i wanted the back of the top to be "thicker", to elevate the things sitting on it, that way, it's much easier to get at them better. It also gives a 1/2" lip, so what ever gets pushed back on the bench hits the lip, and doesn't push the things already back there out of place. AND, the last reason the back board is thicker is, it has to support all of the shelves and the weight that's on them, as i will be pileing some pretty heavy things on those shelves, like lead bullets!
Anyway, i think the top looks GREAT!
SO, there will be some changes coming to those block/legs and there are shelves to build too, so stay tuned!
DM
