and then there is an epiphany and all is made clear.
i have been trimming a house with about five and a half million doors and windows and each one has a head piece composed of three seperate parts.
i been cutting each to a specific length which is tedious at best, and matching lengths and cuts up before applying- then cutting return stock and scribing to fit.
hello- rough cut the head stock, shoot it together, cut it to length, bugger the trying to match up ends- fit the returns and time for each head has been halved…
i only had 4.75 million trimmed the slower way…
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.75 million done in half the time still deserves an attaboy !
carpenter in transition
Edited 4/23/2004 8:33 pm ET by TIM_KLINE
What I wouldn't give to get through a whole day without being reminded how dumb I am!!
Rich Beckman
Another day, another tool.
who you kidding?
rooftop ranches?
beckman and visionary...
's'all i'm sayin'.
You talkin Friday and trim??????
Duhhhhh
"My life is my practice"
Well, I pulled a good one today.
Buddy had a pallet of 100 1/2 inch celotex asphalt impregnated fiberboard he sold me cheap and let me use his flatbed truck to haul it. He loaded with forks.
I back it up under a tree limb at my place and had it all planned out with straps and a come-along. Just about had it when the discovery that the limb was half rotted.
Glad it was banded. Tomorrow got to stack it off the ground and cover.
I hate it when that happens.
Hey Rez
I am dumb enough to ask , what do you use the stuff for. Isn't this the stuff that used to be called "blackjack"? I used it once to protect waterproofed foundation walls from rough back filling.
I guess I'm dumb enough to hijack a thread. Sorry
Oh, it's that old wall covering they use to use underneath sidings. I see it still used in place of plywood or osb in some slamdunk condos and apartments being built. Corners are sheets of ply or osb and then this stuff on the studs in the bulk of the walls.
Actually I don't know what I'll use it for. A cheap shed maybe, yuckyuck. Figured if they use it for structure I could at least use it on a storage building to store itself in.
100 1/2inch 4x9sheets wrapped on a pallet for $100. Buddy gets hired to take overload freight off semis at an interstate weighscales to get them legal weight. Sometimes he gets stuck with stuff when it's not worth the trucking company to send a man back for it. Saw a load of nice planed oak once.
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Edited 4/24/2004 4:46 pm ET by rez
Central problem here is that your not lazy enough.
Old saying: 'If you want to know the easiest way of doing something give the job to a lazy man'
Not wanting to do the job gives that extra needed incentive to think hard about new techniques. I suspect you came up with the innovation when you got sufficiently frustrated and disenchanted to slow down and allow any latent laziness to come to bear. You stepped back from the normal, automatic, method to gain some perspective. A fresh look with new eyes sometimes pays off big.
Yeah, but you was getting paid by the hour. Now look what you went and did!
Al Mollitor, Sharon MA
Who Dares Wins.