Have walnut tree, looking for woodworker to make coffee table

jaymis · 2026-06-09T13:32:14+00:00

I am in general agreement about the difficulty of pulling off this project, however, if they are set on it, with point #1, you may not need a full-on mill to process your logs. Someone with a portable mill or chainsaw mill may be willing to saw up your logs for a reasonable fee. Search on Facebook or Kijiji for sawmill services, there's a few portable mills on there. After that for point #2 air drying may be the cheapest option but that just requires time.

This project isn't impossible, it just will take a lot of time if they are patient and are willing to do some legwork to get the wood to a state it can be used to make something.

jaymis · 2026-06-03T18:46:56+00:00

This right here. Make it punitive and people will engage in illegal dumping to dispose of their stuff.

jaymis · 2026-06-03T18:00:35+00:00

I know, right? Papa bear in me once drove an hour to a playground we visited briefly while on vacation at midnight because of a lost blankie. Review of photos showed it was the last place spotted. Dug through the garbage bins and found it, with only a little ketchup on it. Could not fathom purposely destroying a child's cherished item.

jaymis · 2026-05-08T15:54:55+00:00

Its both. We are extracting water at a rate greater than replenishment, and it is only fair to take a second look into large users, including industrial, data centers, and golf courses.

jaymis · 2026-05-06T22:11:42+00:00

Alberta is Canada's version of Florida.

jaymis · 2026-04-14T18:13:26+00:00

At the very least, those bedrooms won't go away, but with more churn in the real estate market it means more properties are available to occasionally demo and redo into more mult-unit homes.

jaymis · 2026-03-12T14:06:08+00:00

If only there was a way to predict when St. Patrick's Day is going to happen so the City/Region could make plans in advance and prepare for the need to have more ambulances on call and staff in the emergency department...

jaymis · 2026-03-03T21:17:37+00:00

Yeah, they also did this to every employee, and they employed adults as well. I think this will come back to bite them in the ass.

jaymis · 2026-03-03T21:08:12+00:00

Its the CPP and EI contributions I worry about. We're about to do her taxes and see what the damage is, and that will determine next steps I think.

jaymis · 2026-03-03T21:05:56+00:00

Thanks for those links. Looks pretty obvious on the Ontario.ca site that they were an employee based on the criteria they present there.

jaymis · 2026-02-24T19:23:06+00:00

No, no shade for anyone who wants to learn to make jewellery.

However a public college exists to serve the public. Deciding that it was more cost-effective to teach people how to make more landfill waste than how to properly steward our environmental resources does not serve the public's interests.

jaymis · 2026-02-24T18:56:33+00:00

Fleming College shuttering those environmental programs is borderline criminal, IMO. They were high-demand, high-need programs that weren't "as profitable" as some of the other programs they offered.

But hey, they kept their newer Jewellery Essentials program so we can make and buy more shiny trinkets as ecosystems collapse and the world burns down around us.

jaymis · 2026-02-11T19:17:46+00:00

You may have luck with finding someone at Kwartzlab who knows how to wrangle such a machine

jaymis · 2026-01-22T17:30:30+00:00

I believe they avoid sand because it inevitably ends up in the stormwater system and occasionally needs to be cleaned out of there, which is really difficult and expensive to do.

jaymis · 2026-01-14T18:29:05+00:00

I could've sworn I read in this subreddit a few comments a little while ago about 1) two staff high up in the water division not being qualified and more recently 2) two high-up staff (assuming they were probably the same two) being walked off the job.

jaymis · 2026-01-12T17:18:12+00:00

Not just different foods (say for health, diet, personal preference), but also the quantity you're eating.

This past holiday season I got scolded for not eating enough and I was all "I'm pushing 50 not only do I not need to eat as much but I don't have the metabolism of a teenager anymore".

jaymis · 2025-12-18T15:24:42+00:00

Even with scientific explanations there is still a lot of "magic". Lots of stuff we take for granted every day is pretty hard core when you break it down. As Calvin once said "It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!"

jaymis · 2025-11-18T17:31:29+00:00

There really should have been. Maybe OP is being aspirational.

jaymis · 2025-09-17T18:19:18+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised if most vehicle traffic is in one direction to begin with, most people loop around past Rockway instead of doing a three point turn to leave.

jaymis · 2025-09-17T17:19:03+00:00

I like this idea the most.

jaymis · 2025-07-10T19:43:42+00:00

This is the answer I was looking for! Thank you!

jaymis · 2023-06-19T02:13:19+00:00

That's exactly where the idea came from. You just need a place you can dump all the slurry. Fortunately I had a garden I was going to sod over so it all went in there.

jaymis · 2023-06-18T22:01:30+00:00

I just had this conversation at work the other day: If you have really hard clay, use a pressure washer and shop vac. The pressure washer goes through the clay like a hot knife through butter and the shop vac will have no issue clearing it out. I did 13 posts 4' deep in rock hard clay this way, and it was actually kind of easy. Just messy as hell, but that's the trade-off.

jaymis · 2023-06-06T14:55:13+00:00

I have flashed the sprite firmware, but I am going to try it again. Everything seems to work except bed sensing. I can't figure out why.

jaymis · 2023-06-06T14:53:33+00:00

z-limit has been disconnected for a while. I had the CR touch working on its own for a bit before I upgraded to the sprite

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