I tried that system and it was a complete failure. Followed the instructions carefully using an apple tree branch. When I checked it, I found white fungus at the peeled area of the branch and it was crawling with insects. I cleaned it and closed it up again, but the same thing happened. It never developed roots. Maybe others will have better luck!

George - WOO HOO! Now THAT'S a useful tool! We have one similar, but not quite as big and let me tell you, that cart gets some use! We load up garden tools, fencing, poles, mulch....you name it to haul where ever we need it. It really cuts down on how many times you have to stop to walk to the garage to get things. We even use it to harvest! Last year, Grand-daughter got to use her new skills driving the mower to haul the cart FULL of sugar baby watermelons. I've got a picture somewhere I should post of her proud smile looking back at the melons. Charlie - you're lucky your wife lets a 12-pointer on the wall. Got to admit, if DH got a 12 pointer - I'd probably half to concede. That's really quite an accomplishment! I don't understand women who won't cook the meat, but then...I know some aren't processed as carefully as my DH does it. To me, it tastes like the BEST corn-fed angus beef. Before he met me, though, he never had different cuts made. Now we have roast, cube steaks (they are the best chicken fries you've ever tasted) along with the back-strap and ground. Between the garden and the ususal 2 that he gets a season - we save a TON in grocery costs! Several years ago, I invested in a bow...so now we occassionally go out together but that's a LOT of work. I've never got a shot...which might be good because if Bambi's Momma ever looked me in the eye - I don't think I could release the arrow. Paula

I started ordering from Lee Valley when I did my kitchen over 6 yrs ago. I have the pull out beside my refrigerator, I also have the stainless measuring cups and spoons. I have the expandable drawer dividers, also the wall thing for hanging my pots and utensils behind my cook top. I have the danish dough whisk and the maslin pan ( mine has the lid..they no longer have the lid..it is the BEST pan you will ever ever cook in ) and the pie weights. I also have that microplane. The only things I got from them that were awful and a waste of money were the pink stretchy things to hold chickens to truss them..they break right away and also don't stay tight and a set of scissors that I got that were the Chinese supposed to be super sharp..ha..they went in the trash. Otherwise everything has been perfect. I may have to put together another order !!

lowspark--OT, but can you tell me what your counters are? They're lovely. Thanks! Sorry I'm just now answering this! But thank you!! They are Paradiso granite. I love them! A question for those of you who constructed a sleeve of wood around the perimeter of the box for the Lee Valley channels to attach to -- is that sleeve made of the same 1/4" lathe material? How did you make it come together, just glue it at the ends? It doesn't need to be held together. Everything just slips into the drawer and interconnects and fits. It's just a frame made from the wood strips. The LV brackets are pounded into those strips just the same as they are pounded into the divider strips in the middle of the drawer. As long as you measure and cut everything to fit, you don't need glue or any other kind of attachment. Did you make it or did your cabinet guy. Does this have a bottom or only the sides? I made it all. And I'm generally NOT handy. No bottom, just sides. So, what I did was put all my utensils in the drawer as I wanted them to be laid out. Then I measured everything and drew myself a picture. Measure the inside perimiter of the drawer. Measure how long each divider should be. Then I diagram this on paper, noting the length of each divider and the location of each bracket on the diagram. Note when measuring: keep in mind that the bracket itself has some thickness. So if you are going to nail a bracket into one strip of wood and the opposite strip, and slip the third strip into those brackets, if the strips of wood are say, 5" apart, your connecting strip is not going to be 5". It'll be something more like 5-7/8". I don't remember exactly. So do an experiment with your first cut before doing all the permanent cuts. Measure, cut, then see how far apart the border strips are compared to how long the connecting strip is. That'll tell you how much shorter to make the strips than the actual width. Then I count up what to cut. Make a list: 2 14", 2 12", 6 5.5", etc. Like that. Then I cut. Then I sand. Then I lay all the strips in the drawer just to make sure they were cut right. It's sort of a manual process: hold this strip here and this strip there and make sure the third strip fits where it's supposed to. It's a confirmation I cut everything right before going on to the next step. Then I stain & lacqueur. Staining and lacqueuring is extra and optional but I wanted to give it all a finished look. Then I go back to my diagram and see where each bracket needs to be on each piece of wood and measure and mark the wood with pencil. Then I pound in each bracket using a rubber mallet. Then I begin placing each strip of wood in the drawer. Start with the frame which, if you measured and cut correctly, will slip right into the drawer, meeting at the corners. Then the strips which connect to the frame go in by just slipping them into the divider channels. Then the strips that go into those strips, etc. Till all the strips of wood are in, all the brackets are occupied. So for me, the process takes a couple of hours of work on the first day to measure, cut and sand. Then I lay out all the strips and do the staining and lacqueuring which spans over 4 days as I do side one, let it dry, then do the flip side each for stain and lacqueur. Once everything is dry on the fifth day, I put it together inside the drawer as described above. Like I said, I'm not generally handy. This was somewhat labor intensive by MY standards but not really hard. The hardest part was measuring and remeasuring to make sure everything was cut right. I used a jigsaw to cut the wood strips because they are thin and don't need a heavy duty saw. I did them over time. For each drawer, I set aside a day of a weekend for the main work then did the wet stuff over the week and installed on the following weekend. Took me about two months before all the drawers were done since I didn't do them all at the same time or even on consecutive weekends. I will say that I'm thrilled with the results and it was worth the effort! The whole frame lifts up and can be removed for easy cleaning Yes, and if at some point in the future, I decide to reconfigure it, the drawer itself is intact with no holes or damage. That was important to me so the frame was a requirement. I was not going to pound a bunch of holes into these drawers I'd just gotten through shelling out thousands of dollars for! LOL