Today, I had the need to make some stakes. Could not find want I really needed locally. So..... I thought I'd make some
First, when we were building the house that we now live we needed some tools to do the job. I had purchased, sometime in the lated 1990's or early 2000's (I forget) a 10" Craftsman Radial Arm Saw. I used in in our home in Irmo to makes some things, among them parts for various telescope mounts. I still have it.
While that saw was good for cutting lengths and also good for ripping boards, it was not really that portable (for use at the construction site area). So, I purchased a DeWalt Chop saw some time 2006 or 2007. I still have it.
What I did today was to make some stakes 8 ft long and about 1 1/2" wide. Used the DeWall to cut the one board to 8 ft. length and then the radial saw for ripping the boards.
The wood for the stakes...... when we were beginning the construction on this house, we purchased the land and then needed to clear some areas for the house and roads and finally for a "large" septic drain field.
The first area's cut resulted in the Pines being sent to the local lumber yards (some were rather large). On the second clearing event, the gentlemen doing the work offered to makes some "boards". We ended up with a couple of hundred pine boards, about 1" thick and 6" wide and generally 16 feet long. It was one of those boards I used to make the stakes. The are stored, stacked and separated with slim boards, above gourd and under some "extra" metal roofing.
Took about 20 minutes. The saw in the first picture is the Radial Arm saw and a Craftsman vacuum (older than the saw) used to try an control the saw's sawdust. The saw in the second picture is the Chop saw and the third picture is my wife using the Chop saw during construction.
Oh we also are using the boards for tables on the back porch and also for seats around the porch and especially around the fire pit (not used much in the last six months
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No pictures of the stakes but they are 8 feet long and 1 1/2" wide and are now in ground (well part of them) around a Gingko Biiloba (Favorite tree of my forestry professor at Clemson 1966-67 Dr Lehotsky). The tree needs some help.
Crafstman Radio Arm Saw, circa 1990? or so.
DeWalt "Chop" Saw
Then (wife 's first cut on Chop Saw Oct. 2008)
One of the tables on the enclosed porch.
