Georgous fall weather to fly in…the farmers are rolling. Its nice to have all those emergency landing spots being cleared. I personally called each farmer in Illinois and asked if they could some how get out there and “get er done”
So far it looks like only the green machines are operating.
Stan
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so the rumors of your dissapearance were much exagerated..
thanks for the pics
Mike: Tell me about the rumors...my computer was in for repairs for 6 weeks...
Stan
Just to end the rumors....I am alive and still flying as much as ever. I could not be busier in my stairshop. Unbelievable amount of work on order......I may get back into posting some stair projects a little. I felt I was tooting my own horn a little too much...but was constantly being encouraged to post my projects..
Stan
stan .. here's another word of encouragement..
keep posting the pics.. stairs.. flying.. your kids... it's all goodMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Stan,I'll second Mike's request. I always enjoying seeing your work. Keep the pics coming.Glad to see you've been flying.Best,
Steve
I don't think you understand....we need those stair pictures, we need to know how you built them, we need to see the jigs, we need to know how busy you are (tradesmen like us are happy when they hear that a craftsman is busy, especially with all of the recession talk) You give us hope.
I don't look at your stair picture threads as "tooting your own horn". People like them, and we all learn from them.If you came in here and said "Everyone else is too stupid to build stairs like these" it would be a whole different ball game. But obviously you haven't done that.I particularly like the threads where you showed the process of building - Not just pictures of the finished product.
A man who finds it painful to smile should not open a shop. [Confucius]
Not to mix up threads and stuff.....Boss, in one of Stan's pictures, the harvesting is slightly skewed to the planting rows. I had always thought you pickem like you plantem. Any advantage to the way it's shown?
I second (or third, or fourth) for any stair picks. It's always a treat.
You only really need to line up on the rows for crops like corn and sunflowers where you would be using a row crop header (the attachement on the front of the combine which cuts the crop not the top of a window opening).
In Stan's photo it looks like soy beans (although it is hard to tell for sure in the pic) and with a straight cut header, so being lined up with the rows isn't as much of a concern.
I've attached a couple of photos of the two header types.
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The picture isn't terribly clear, so it's hard to tell for certain. But it looks like the guy is harvesting soybeans that are in narrow rows. (Maybe 15" apart or so)With a grain table, you can harvest going any direction you want to. It works a LITTLE better if you follow the rows, but not a lot. I'm taking a wild guess that this was in a wedge shaped field. The guy with the planter used one of the edges of the field as a guide when he started, and the guy with the combine used the other one.
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Boss: Thanks for the comments. I will start posting some stair build pictures again. I know that I have a lot to learn...so it always is a little uncomfortable posting so many stair projects.
BTW Boss....hope your private life is working out for the better.
Stan
Stan, keep on tooting!
I enjoy watching your stairs come together, and the flying pics too.
Nice day to be flying.
Stan, I posted to weeks ago asking where you disappeared to and some one deleted my post, I just wondered what happened because I missed seeing your posts on flying and the stairs.
I don't look at your stair picture threads as "tooting your own horn". People like them, and we all learn from them.
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Actually Stan your work like others inspires and sets a high watermark of quality and skill.
We all, no matter our level of skill, improve that skill by our association with other talented people. Even if there work isn't what we do there's this osmosis thing that motivates each of us to kick it up a notch.
So from one who appreciates your work thanks for motivating me to improve mine.
Keep the photo's coming!
Stan i must not have been around to see the stairs you posted, years ago i had a chance to work in a stair biz but did not, My stair skills were always weak as a company made stairs on houses we framed, Please post even the little tricks help, When i started we had no calculators and my bad math skills tripped me up I roughed up the numbers then fine tuned with dividers.