I had posted the "Good deal I got of 5 machetes from Sportsman's Guide...."
Well,.... they need sharpening .....
Brought out a couple of the machetes from the basement out to the garage shop..I don't like to do a lot of metal grinding in the area of my re-loading set up.
Going to start on a bolo and a version of the Woodsman pal with the brush hook.
The adventure started.....
Went to get my hand held grinders from storage cabinet .....Snowblower is blocking tool cabinet as it's parked by the door for easy exit....
Winter almost over.....so decided to get the SB out of my way.
To do that, I had to move DW car out... to get to the summer SB parking spot.....(most likely will snow now....LOL)
Car out, but 2 coolers still in the way ...DW needed them for cleaning and defrosting one of the freezers.
So went to put them back on the shelf....but the dog cages(2) stored up there next to that spot... had fallen over.
Couldn't stand them up and shove cooler in that spot unless I was up a bit....so grabbed my OSHA approved wooden chair to reach them.
Had to wait on DW to come and hold the cooler till I was ready to stand up the cages and slide the coolers.
Got that done with out any serious cussing...
I use these coolers all the time in the back and forth to "The Place"....and don't know why the dog cages tipped over(?)....so decided to bungee them up so as to not fall over every time I need them....I had taken the down and out them put then back 100 times...no problem(?)
To anchor bungee needed a eye screw .....but had to take down the bag of decoys down to get at a stud.
To make it easier to screw the eye bolt in ...got the 18 v battery drill box out ....and box of bits....battery almost dead...but enough to get a pilot hole started.
Went to my garage bungee stash...several had UV and were about to snap....sooooo into the back of the truck...get a new one out of the storage bag.
Couldn't reach that stud from the chair...bring in a step ladder.... after moving a 5 gal bucket of wheel weights (bullet stuff).
As long as I had the ladder there....added another screw eye for the decoy bag.
So... coolers back... cages bungeed up.... decoys back in place.....
Time for the Snowblower to be parked under that shelf.
As long as I was cleaning out the spot...got out shop vac....cleaned dirt and leaves that had blown in over the winter.
Parked the SB.......
So as long as the vac was out...did the rest of the floor on that half of the garage...setting rubber mats outside to dry off.
(bottom of the rubber mate gets damp
Pulled DW car back in.....then backed out the truck from the other side...to finish the other side of the floor.
Vac now full...emptied out in compost bin.
At this point I have everything done....JUST TO GET OUT THE HAND GRINDER........
Machetes on the bench, grinder on the bench...needs new metal grinding wheel.
Maybe tomorrow.....
Time for a nap......
Some days are like this ...seems more and more lately ?????
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