There are boring activities that you need to do in life. Repetitive jobs like mowing the grass or painting a fence. You expect this but there is enough reward in the completion of a stretch or an portion of the yard that keeps you motivated.
Occasionally I have to do a job in the shop that reminds me why I went to University instead of working on a high paying assembly line.
I am building a deer fence/barrier around our little garden on the side of the house where we grow roses and tomatoes. I did not want a metal grid fence I wanted cedar to match the yard. So think of a frame with cedar dowels (except you cannot get Cedar dowels because it is too soft) So I am making my own cut down from boards. I cut them into 4 foot long shafts roughly 1 inch square (see picture one)
You cannot put square shafts into round holes in the frame so I have to round the ends to the diameter of the holes. For this I used my narrow sanding belt (see picture 2)
In the end I have 75 shafts with 150 ends (see picture 3)
This was 3 hours of tedious work that required attention to detail but was still boring. It was like working on an assembly line in China or India. Boy am I ever glad I went to University.
April 15, 2014
rbellis11