2024 Archive - page 2

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

It's one of very few places in northern Wisconsin that I've seen speed bumps. Eight of them in less than two miles!

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

R74 really feels like the most remote of the Rustic Roads. The only other Rustic Road that compares, in my opinion, is R34 in Forest county, and R74 is the Rustic Road closest to it.

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

The 90° corners in the transition from the east-west path to Tigerton to the north-south path to Wittenberg are particularly fun. Evaluate each one carefully, though. Some are lazy sweepers, but others are sudden course corrections!

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024

I've been sitting at a desk to write and edit video more often recently. Time to make a stand to get my screen up to eye level.

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

I'll admit that I was rushing through Outagamie county a bit. It was October, though, and fall color was beginning to set it, so there were some gorgeous stands of trees.

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Monday, March 25, 2024

The dust collector never really liked the planer. So I built a chip separator. Version two started with a friend of mine calling to ask if I could use any of the large plastic drums the high school shop was throwing out.

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Thursday, March 21, 2024

The most obvious true thing is that no crosscut sled will be ideal for every task. But I was still looking for a general-purpose sled to handle a wider variety of cuts I make often.

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

If you ever needed a literal demonstration of the phrase, “The map is not the territory,” Winnebago county's Rustic Roads are it.

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Friday, March 15, 2024

My table saw is one of the most important tools in my shop. That makes it a little surprising that, until now, the accessories that I use with it have been, at best, hung on a nail or screw sticking out of the wall nearby.

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Just in case you were getting nervous about two videos in a row with completely paved Rustic Roads, this week I take you to Adams county, for two completely unpaved.

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