I may have to give that a try, stringing a hacksaw backwards.

There was a guy who robbed a bank like that. He put an ad out in the paper for people to show up to a certain place dressed like construction workers, ostensibly for a flash mob. So he goes into the bank in a yellow shirt and hard hat, robs the bank, and what do the cops find dozens of milling around?

How’d the fence turn out, OP?

Happy fencing!

Conventional wisdom is to run the rails parallel to the surface rather than level with gravity:

Man, in the showerthoughts community I saw someone independently invent Roko’s Basilisk from the AI data center craze. They’re inventing the fucking verification can torment nexus.

Yeah I’m probably going to stick to push saws. The way I’m looking at it, you know how some people like water stones, some oil stones, some diamond plates, some slow grinders for sharpening chisels? You’ll find fans of each saying they tried the others and didn’t get good results? Well I think they’re all right. They did get bad results from one type and good results out of the other. They’re all viable methods of sharpening tools, and it comes down to what works best for the craftsman in question.

Similarly, I don’t think pull saws are for me. I still haven’t tried a Dozuki, I’m willing to give that a try, but…especially when ripping, the ergonomics of a Ryoba are wrong. I can’t get an angle where my arms work and you’re not pulling against the grain.

Something I do to avoid blow-out with through-holes like this is to drill a small hole in the center with a twist bit, switch to an appropriately sized forstner bit, drill partway through one side, flip the part over, and finish the hole from the other side. Two entry wounds, no exit wound.

A chicken tractor: For poultry in motion.

Let’s get the official moderator business out of the way first: Pictures of cats enjoying woodworking projects are welcome and encouraged in this community.

As for finishing recommendations, looks like yellow pine, maybe fir? For an outdoor project, the most protection you can give it is three coats of exterior latex house paint. If you want the wood grain to show, go with Thompson’s Waterseal or similar. No outdoor wooden furniture is eternal but with those coatings your enjoyment of your bench will be measured in decades.

That’s something I encountered working in rapid prototyping. Your brain can imagine things passing through each other. No, Inspector Gadget’s helicopter thing wouldn’t fit in his hat. Sorry.

This right here is why I still use FreeCAD.

Most of my actual design work is done in the spreadsheet workbench. If I had to, I could design furniture in LibreOffice Calc. But, I use the entire drafting process as a sanity check, to make sure I didn’t make any mistakes in order of operations.

Humpback whales are able to navigate exceptionally well and I don’t think science knows how.

Humpback whales travel by picking a direction and traveling in that direction. They can maintain a true course to within a degree of accuracy for hundreds of miles regardless of location on the planet, ocean currents, magnetic variation, day or night, though open empty ocean.

I know how to do that, but I need stuff the whales don’t have like visual reference to a solid surface, accurate charts, radio-based navaids, winds aloft forecasts, and/or gyroscopic instruments. Most of the time, most creatures either navigate by landmarks, some are able to navigate magnetically, some can home, ie they can sense a destination and point their noses at it and go that way, as forces such as winds, ocean currents, Coriolis force etc. push them off course they steer to keep the destination dead ahead, tracing a half-teardrop course.

But humpbacks can pick a direction and go perfectly straight. Somehow.

Keep it civil, please.

I think what you’ve got there is a threaded foot of some kind threaded into a very rusty T nut.

The way this would have been installed is, you drill the pilot hole the OD of the shank of the T nut, hammer the T nut into place, and then thread the foot in. I’ll bet if you’re in North America those threads will be 1/4-20.

I am a moderator for a community. I haven’t ever had to do any moderating because everyone in there has behaved reasonably.

I’ve been summoned a couple times. Was paid $12 for not being selected to the jury. I think you’re off the roster for awhile? They were about a decade apart.

My favorite of his was “apocalyptic dingleberry.”

Hmm, doesn’t seem to be a brand sold in my hemisphere; Search keeps wanting to correct me to Bosch?

Where’d you get the set?