Happy Birthday looseplucker !!!

[Stickbow Hunter]

I hope you have a great day John and get to take things a bit easier.

Jeff

[Nutgrass]

Have a good one

[Roadie]

I hope you is having a Great Day John and your family hasn't spoilt you to much. Cheers Roadie.

[looseplucker]

IT has been busy....thanks blokes. Might sneak a hunt in shortly.

[flyne]

Happy birthday mate
good luck on the hunt

[bigbob]

All the best L/p hope it was a memorable one, especially if you sneak in a hunt.

[jcm]

John Enjoy
Regards

John

[kerrille]

happy birthday john.

...nev...

[piggy]

Happy Birthday Mate, Hope you had a top day!

[Gringa Bows]

Happy Birthday John

[Guy Layton]

Hope you had a great day...

[jindydiver]

And glorious weather for it too, hope you took the day off

[hazard]

Have a good one LP i hope you kept out of mischeif


How did the festival go?

Hazard

[rodlonq]

Hope you had a good one John, all the best mate.

[looseplucker]

Hi Fellas

It was a pretty darned good day. Lots of messages and sledging from well wishers - lunch with my workmates and a very nice night out with the wife, kids and my Mum and Dad.

Weekend coming and I might just get into the workshop!

[Stickbow Hunter]

Sounds good all round mate!

Jeff

[ole_silver]

allmost missed ya,

glad ya had a great day John,

very best regards,

Steve...........

[hazard]

Hi Fellas

It was a pretty darned good day. Lots of messages and sledging from well wishers - lunch with my workmates and a very nice night out with the wife, kids and my Mum and Dad.

Weekend coming and I might just get into the workshop!

Ah yeah.......Consider yourself "Sledged"

Hazard

[Nephew]

Dunno how I missed this! Hope you had a goodn' John!

[looseplucker]

Thanks Chaps. It was fun. And, as for the weekend, it was an utter corker. I had the morning to myself on Saturday so I pottered around fixing punctures in kids bikes and a pair of binoculars that got 4wded back in Feb (came up pretty good too). Helped a mate cut down some scabby cherry trees and I did a bit of work on a horsebow that a mate wants as a display item in a Yurt that he built and we recorded an album in. I stuffed up the inner core on the form, creating hinges where no hinges ought be (thanks Daryl). Anyhow I put a bamboo back on the left hand limb and took out a wobble. Will do the RH one this evening:

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I made a handle for a little trowel that Little Miss Looseplucker wanted to use to grow stuff. I used a branch of osage. One of the things we planted was some osage seeds and some silverbeet and stuff. Anyhow, we also counted 8 pumpkins the size of pregnant soccer balls in the pumpkin patch (from the seeds of a big Qld Blue - oh, the irony! that Jindy gave Mrs Looseplucker last year):

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I then got another piece of a branch of osage and had a go at making a handle for a broken chainsaw file. It still works on the saw and I use it for the preliminary edge on knives, broadheads etc. The big orange handle took up too much space in the bum bag so I made a slimline. Mostly sapwood but with a nice pattern in that came up pretty good with a bit of interior woodstain and some oil:

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Then we went down to a jazz concert that was live to air on the ABC and had a lovely nap

[Stickbow Hunter]

A productive weekend indeed it seems.

Jeff

[hazard]

I then got another piece of a branch of osage and had a go at making a handle for a broken chainsaw file. It still works on the saw and I use it for the preliminary edge on knives, broadheads etc. The big orange handle took up too much space in the bum bag so I made a slimline. Mostly sapwood but with a nice pattern in that came up pretty good with a bit of interior woodstain and some oil:

You made good use of your time alright

But I am watching you from now on when you get your hands on a chainsaw, there is a bent gleam in your eye that could make a forrest nervous

Hazard

[rossy]

Happy b,day John........ Naaaaah get stuffed .
You still owe me , half a pouch of tabacoo
Hope you had a good one mate.

Dickie