What's your 'other' hobby?

[smokinbill1638]

Love my woodworking. This is a wall mount jewelry cabinet I designed and built for my wife.

 

[chp]

Fun to see this thread come back. I stay busy with a brand new grand daughter. I also take care of a few horses, dogs, and chickens. For years my biggest hobby has been rafting. Lots of multi day trips spending time in some of the most beautiful places.

 

[Smoking Audi]

RV camping, kayaking, shooting, car repairs.

 

[02ebz06]

I pretty much had to give up woodworking when we moved. 3-car garage down to 2-car.
Sold all the big stuff, just have the small power tools.
My prize item is my poker table I made.
Gonna have to get a very large coffin so I can take it with me when I go. Haha

 

[jcam222]

Cool thread. I see music mentioned a few times. Being recently retired I've almost pulled the trigger on an nice acoustic guitar a few times. In my teens through 20's I played around with one often. Also enjoyed doing some songwriting. No delusion of being a consummate pro but seems like a good time passer. I also enjoy computer gaming and am pondering pulling the trigger on a great deal rig with a 4090 card.

 

[fxsales1959]

When I was teenager, I wanted to play the guitar really bad. But growing up in a small town in SW Kansas, there were no music shops for a hundred miles.
Now that I'm in my sixties, I can play the guitar...................really bad!

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Guns, jeeps, boats, ATV's and campers. So I'm always broke.

 

[KBFlyer]

Canoeing, fishing and flying my drones which I use for photography.

 

[DemonPit]

Snowboarding, motorcycle racing (quit due to too many pucker moments on the circuit track), gardening (herb), and eating.

 

[fltsfshr]

Everything I do is a hobby. Fishing, sailing, cars, photography. I collect stuff.

 

[seenred]

Kinda cool to see this older thread come back - especially since I must have missed it first time around...

I reckon I have 2 hobbies I've always been pretty passionate about: Golf and welding/metalworking. Since I'm getting too old and arthritic to enjoy golf as much as I used to, I spend much more time on the welding and metalworking.

Here are a few projects I've built in the last 2 or 3 years:


Address number sign

Patio table and 2 footrests.

Curio table

And a few less decorative and more functional projects:

Welding cart.

Welding table/work bench

Angle grinder storage rack

I didn't build this utility trailer from the ground up...but I did build a new deck, rails, taillight brackets, and cargo hooks for it.

And my latest project - a reverse flow smoker. If you're interested, there's an entire build thread to that project here:

Red's 24x46 Reverse Flow Patio Build

Howdy SMF Brothers and Sisters! I started a RF patio smoker build several months ago...and kept meaning to start a build thread here. So I'm finally getting around to doing that! I started with this propane tank. It's 5/16" thick, and 24" diameter by almost 11 feet long. I plasma-cut the...

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I'd say the smoker project is approximately 95% complete

Not sure it's a hobby, but I'd include my grandkids as an important pastime.

Red

 

[mneeley490]

Not sure it's a hobby, but I'd include my grandkids as an important pastime.

Red

Nice. To my grandkids, I just seem to be that guy who tags along with Grandma Roxy.

 

[jcam222]

Canoeing, fishing and flying my drones which I use for photography.View attachment 675486View attachment 675493View attachment 675494View attachment 675495

Those pics are magnificent

 

[jkc64]

Just a couple of RC monster trucks.

 

[uncle eddie]

I love doing regenerative agriculture on my 123 acre farm.

• I do this by planting some serious blends of seed (pics). The goal is to increase the carbon content of the soil (sequestered carbon)...17,000,000 acres are now doing so.
• I am also working on increasing the size of my 6 acres of native Missouri prairie habitat pics below). Gobs of warm season grasses and wildflowers. I never knew there were that many species of bees!
• For forest management I do timber stand improvement, edge featuring, hack-n-squirt, etc.
• I also use prescribed fire on the entire property. Fire is an awesome tool!

Spring Blend

Fall Blend - left out the winter peas this year cuz of the drought

Spectacular!

We need rain ... bad!

 

[fltsfshr]

Where in Mo are you. Inlaws had a ranch just N of Mountain Grove. Now it's a wildlife sanctuary.

 

[uncle eddie]

Where in Mo are you. Inlaws had a ranch just N of Mountain Grove. Now it's a wildlife sanctuary.

Central Missouri - about 12 miles north of Columbia. Which is a little more than 3 hours north of Mountain Grove.

 

[fltsfshr]

Nice country.

 

[SmokinEdge]

Smoking and curing meats, but I also play with knives and rescale them, meaning I put beautiful wood handles on them. Most I just give away to friends and family, I keep some but most go out.

 

[philpom]

Photography, watch collecting, fishing, wood working, cooking, steins , shot glasses, pewter. I used to be heavy into RC. Mostly 1/4 and 1/5 scale off road.

Fun, for a few years there I was in to 4x4 nitro RC trucks T-MAXX mostly. It started to get very time consuming with all of the repairs and very expensive with all of the upgrades available. Fix something with a better part and something upstream would break next. Extremely fun hobby!

 

[fltsfshr]

Smoking and curing meats, but I also play with knives and rescale them, meaning I put beautiful wood handles on them. Most I just give away to friends and family, I keep some but most go out.

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Very nice. I like double edged skinner.