How Carpenters Draw Big Circles — Git-er-done! Workshop

If you want to draw big, accurate circles, this video is for you!

[seymourwrasse]

a worm bed, a compost bid, a outside work bench with a top built on it. the possibilities are endless. I'm like you, I would keep it if only for principle. I don't throw anything out. the second you do, you will need it next week

[RoyatAvalonFarms]

That cutoff piece of pipe might make a decent raised bed planter in your yard, either for flowers or herbs, etc. Just outside of the house maybe as a kitchen garden.

Maybe bury the base about 2 inches in ground then fill base with chunks of wood, then fill good compost on that. Kind of replicate a wood core growing bed.

Probably many other uses too.

[RoyatAvalonFarms]

As I was a Field Engineer/Surveyor before I learned carpentry, I always cut 1 foot on a tape instead of 1 inch. And that gets plenty of distance away from the tip also as 1 inch sometimes still gets a slight bend offset from the hook at the end of the tape. No chance of that at 1 foot. But it is a bit more excess of tape to pull out.

As I have experience in both fields, I often combine techniques and methods from both fields.

[sebastiancannavo]

I use them for raised beds in the garden.

[BelievingIsSeeing]

That pipe would make a nice no rot no stoop raised garden bed or 2 lower beds.

[gregorymacneil]

“Don’t Be a Slacker” is a very polite way of kicking yourself…..CS Osborne make great tools. Malco have dividers that are cheap, accurate, quick to set and very useful. Years ago I purchased a Starrett set of trammel points - they are too expensive to buy now! Great Video

[peterbarlow]

Your compass is sometimes called a loose leg divider. It may have come with a loose steel point that you could substitute for a short pencil. Still have my grand dads. Stanley trammel points nice find!

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"It went great in rehearsal!"

[martinpook]

Love the trammel points! I use a lath with a panel pin for a point but I generally use a ball point pen for marking out - the tip doesn't break off!

[zackh]

Make it into a set of chairs for you and the misses.

[peterbarlow]

Submerge the pipe and make an exterior grade lid for a root cellar!

[skyriverwalker]

That was awesome! And who was the dashing young man in the cameo appearance?

[dorothyfu]

Now, about that 'Don't be a Slacker'. You appear to me to be a very industrious sort of person, Herrick. When did you ever 'slack', I wonder? Did that sign really help? I say this because there are those who say our brain, our subconscious mind, doesn't register 'No' or 'Don't'. When you say 'Don't think of a green elephant', your brain sees, or envisions a green elephant... Or 'Don't Smoke', you think of a cigarette, and so on. The more you say 'No' or 'Don't', you tend to do it more. So they say to turn the negative into a positive. So the opposite of 'Don't be a Slacker' might be 'Be Dilligent', or just 'Git-er-done'. I often think of the many reasons people (me included) slack. 1. We don't know How to get the job done, 2. We are afraid of imperfection, and we are afraid of criticisms 3. We think it's too hard, and we don't like hard jobs, etc. I suppose when your income is at stake, slacking is not a problem, or when it comes to gardening, time waits for no one. It means crop or no crop. But yes, there are many things/ways we slack. This video was not perfect. Made me laugh, and I learned a few things. Done is better than Perfect.