Deltaville

Home sweet home. Found a little abandoned cabin in the woods. Simple pleasures are the keystone to economic independence. Waldon Pond Boatshop? The shop is minimal in design and construction. Reinforced plastic tarp over laminated pine frames. It survived two hurricanes.

Defying gravity, just a bit. A tree limb, a chainfall, and half a dozen barrels will move almost anything.

Drilling stern timbers.

City Boy plays farmer. When I first unloaded this ancient crank start tractor thing, it fell out of the truck and pinned me to the ground. I found a few plants that could survive my neglect. Chinese cabbage, mustard greens, kale, potatoes, onions... I also raised chickens, ducks, goats, rabbits, and a paranoid goose.

The mother of all bandsaws was built in 1899. I bought it in the machinery district in NYC. The price was "get it out of here". I powered it with a 6 hp gas engine. I've burned out 4 small gas engines on it so far. The thing will cut anything you can put on the table top up to 13" thick and 32" wide.

This is the first time I see my design in full scale. This home developed b&w pic's hazy style befits my fuzzy memory of the start of the project.

The thickness planer. Molded my decking. With a jig, it even cut the caulking seams. This machine made plenty of sawdust. Sawdust and a little dirty 30 motor oil will start a woodstove most effectively.

 

Jan Larsen took this picture. Tom at rest... I'm very good at it... I can tell I'm at rest because there's no sawdust in my beard.