When I was in Military school I took a couple of years of mechanical drafting and machine shop. I am far from a master machinest but there are lots of ways to measure stuff. Good enough for government work to hammer on it a couple of times till it fits. I purposely try to buy tape measures that have both standard AND metric on them. I flip back and forth between the two depending what measure of accuracy I need. I also work with machinest rulers and also surveys rulers. Mechanical drawings can be in hundreds per inch. Can also be in thousands. These are easy cause it is all zero to a hundred. Count on your toes and fingers. For the trailer I am putting new sides on there are four wood blocks that need to be VERY precise so the corners of the racks will be dead on square and even. Used my machinest 6 inch pocket rule to get this measurement. The wood block lenghth is 5-25. That is five inches then add 25/64 and you get the length I needed. Now I know 5 3/8 is just shy of that but measuring like this has served me very well. I have several of those three sided drafting rules but they are not too handy doing carpentry work. It is what ever floats your boat but I like the exactness of being able to devide something up in 100 sections verses 3/16 or 5/8 when if you look at a machinest rule and you see 12 or 20. One more crazy thing working with a vernier caliper and or digital calipers. Harbor freight has the digital that measures in all three. Just love it!!! Metric, standard thousands and fractions like 1/4 inch. Really cool. Did I confuse everyone now? ;) This is where the trailer stands today. Bright barn red paint on the plywood pannels and the racks will be treated wood 3 inch lath. Can't wait till it is done.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of Farm Machinery - by Joe Michaels. I am a mechanical engineer by profession, specializing in powerplant work. I worked as a machinist and engine erector, with time spent overseas. I have always had a love for machinery, and an appreciation for farming and farm machinery. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Not a place one would associate with farms or farm machinery. I credit my parents for instilling a lot of good values, a respect for learning, a knowledge of various skills and a little knowledge of farming in me, amo
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